Wigwam Auction--March 2019

Lot of 2. Stereo view is of Gurnsey's Rocky Mountain Views. Published at Colorado Springs, Colorado. Pike's Peak Ave. Scene on the Line f th...

Over 80 postcards. 4 RPC- 3 Early, 67 Early PC, c.1906-10 various publishers, 9 Post 1940 PC's. ( Prag Collection) Date: City/County: Gard...

Compliments of Glenarm Hotel with many pictorial ads. Cover is taped on, foxing, rear cover missing Date: City/County: State: Colorado

Rare whiskey billhead from Denver, CO. Torn, poor condition. No date. Sold as is. Date: City/County: State: Colorado

6 pages of invoices from Watts Ranch, Kirk, CO with pictorial black horse. Pages were stapled at top. Date: 1916 City/County: State: Colorado

Very nice, collection of photos of the history of Woodstock, Canada ( 1834-1901). . The town was named by Admiral Vansittart. The photos show everythi

Compliments of Keystone Watch Case Co., a souvenir fob from the World's Columbian Exposition of Chicago, 1893. Salvatore Falcone Collection. D...

Here we have two giant , old style insurance ledgers, 16 3/4" tall x 12" in size. Item # 1 of 2: The Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society....

Double truck multi color map of railroad and counties of Maine. Pp. 6&7, slight tears in fold. 23.25" x 17.25". Single page, multi col...

Single, multi color map of Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. 12.5"x15.25"; single, multi color map of Plan of Baltimore. 12.5"x15.25...

1)Maryland, Delaware & D.C., Engraved by Rand, McNally & Co. with color by Lithography, 1885, 21" x 14.5"; 2) Maryland, Delaware &...

1934 b/w CCC panorama photo, Virginia, MN. Outside group photo with 4 rows of men. 8x29" with 1" tears on both ends. Date: 1934 City/Cou...

Here we have a lone survivor, of many years of use. Its been around the block, several times. Published by R.L. Polk. It is in very poor condition. Th

1 single, multi color map of County Map of the States of Iowa and Missouri. 1 single, multi color map of St. Louis. Pg. 47 & 48. 15.25"x12....

Very nice collection of personal photos , letters and stamped envelopes going to different people, in different places, in Missouri. Also the letters

Chromolitho panorama of Butte, MT. 34x5.5". Rolled with some edge wear. Date: City/County: Butte State: Montana

3 unlisted Helena, MT checks with color correct brown RN's. First National Bank 1874, LH Hirschfield 1881, 2 differtent Date: 1874-1881 City/C...

Sepia toned photograph of the European Hotel, Spruce Street, Missoula. 17" x 16.75", matted and framed (no glass) 18.5" x 22.5"....

2 photos of Chinese railroad workers on hand cars. 24x32" Date: City/County: State: Montana

C. early 20th century glass slides. Sentinle Butte, a church, tornado damage Wessington Springs, Bad Lands, town gathering, valley of James River, Jam

Advertising cards-color pictorial Clark's ONT Spool Cotton, pictorial Trower Bros Live Stock Brokers-foxing and chip. Pictorial check from MT tr...

Unissued Dell Live Stock stock, Musselshell Cattle Co check 1898, North Moccasin Livestock stock 1908 Date: City/County: State: Montana

Map of the territory of Montana to accompany the report of the Surveyor General, 1872. no author. This is a copy of the map mounted on linen, that cam

Approx 20 Montana RN checks. First National Bank of Helena, LH Hershfield, Merchants National Bank etc Date: 1975-1883 City/County: State: Montan

Rare Passenger & Express Line Waybill. Marshall & Goff's Passenger & Express Line. "All Baggage at the Risk of Owners" Feb...

5.5x8.5" color woodblock print of Austin, NV Date: City/County: Austin State: Nevada

Second dividend of 10 shares for f$50.00. Signed by president WS Gage and secretary MA Sawtelle. Austin was one of the major mining centers in Nevada

Billheads from Eureka Daily and Weekly Sentinel 1881-83, letter to CW Hinchcliff asking for a political favor, Austin and Eureka city street photo pri

Copy of a cyanotype of the Columbus Consolidated Hoisting Works as identified on the back. 5 x 7". Shamberger did not use this photograph in hi...

88 Wells Fargo & co's Express checks from Carson, NV. 1 torn in half Date: 1897 City/County: Carson State: Nevada

Item # 1 of 4: Reno-Carnival (au) / Motif: Old time prospector with a hat and beard. Mouth open, and only 1 tooth !! / With side by side , exploding f

Nevada governors mansion, 5x7", 2 corner chips. Mounted Capital building 5x7" Date: c1890's City/County: Carson City State: Nevada

Executed on the first day of Nevada Statehood, November 1, 1864.. Stephen Haydon of Carson City was selling Charles Laird of Sonoma right-of-way (or a

This collection contains Bernice(1), Victor(1), Stillwater(1), Wonder(3), Hercules(22), Fairview(22), Leeteville (1) Eastgate(4), Hazen(6), Fallon(43)

The 1894 triple murder committed by a jealous husband named Robert Logan had the Nevada newspapers abuzz. He would Dan Lovelock who ran a stage from L

Nice pictorial letterhead. Death Valley Curly, "Area Vice President of the Western Nevada Mining Council." Signed by Roscoe Wright - Death...

This Collection includes: Wood Camp Incline(1), Sheridan(2), Holbrook(1), Genoa(4), Gardnerville(9), Mason Valley(1), Minden(9) for a total of 27. A s

This collection includes San Jacinto(1), Tecoma(1), Toano(1), Charleston(1), Skelton or Jiggs(1), Currant(1), Cobre(2), Deeth(1), Carlin(2), Fairlawn(

Approx 12 Empire City, NV short letters, mostly from Smyth & Morris, Mill and Mining Supplies. 1 undated cover Date: c1889-93 City/County: Em...

1884 satisfaction of mortgage in Esmeralda County, NV to Isaac Morse to AJ Rhodes Date: 1884 City/County: Esmeralda County State: Nevada

This collection includes: Buckley(2), Coryville(1), Columbia(3), Garfield(1), Blair(1), Silver Peak(1), Goldfield(7) for a total of 16 pieces. Include

This collection includes Palisade(2), Buckhorn(1), Mineral Hill(2), Beowawe(2), Eureka(2) for a total of 10 pieces. Includes 1870 Charles Sutherland g

One photograph (3.6 x 6") is pre-1917 as the hotel is still standing. The other photograph is post-1917. Both show New Nevada Hills and Old Fai...

Framed print of Fernley Depot by Loni Kowalski, 12/100. Frame 16x25" Date: City/County: Fernley State: Nevada

1) c1925 panorama showing Gilbert townsite location in the far distance. Also identified on the map is the Last Hope, Black Mammoth with Gold on Surfa

Lot of 4. 1) 1881 Commencement Program for the Gold Hill High School, held at the Miners' Union Hall. The school had a great motto: "Mind: ...

20 postcards of the Goldfield Hotel—The Most Elegantly Equipped Hotel between San Francisco and Denver. 9 different views, 11 duplicates. Different pu

Rare photographic letterhead from the heyday of Goldfield, Nevada. Pictured is the Western Gas Engine Company, located at 419 Columbia St. in Goldfiel

9 postcards of Main Street, Goldfield, NV with views of Hotel Esmeralda on left Date: City/County: Goldfield State: Nevada

This Collection includes: Brown's Station(1), National(1), Seven Troughs(1), Winnemucca(5) for a total of 7. They are a Desert Salt Works (with ...

This Collection includes: Birch Creek (1), Austin (14) and Battle Mountain (4) for a total of 19. Billheads are PS Jensen sheep raiser from Birch Cre

Located in Esmeralda County, this set of six photographs tells the story of Catteudal(?) and the mine where he hit the high grade and afterwards went

This collection includes: Sutro(1), Sweetwater(2), Silver City(2), Rawhide(1), Rosedale(1), Rockland(1), Ludwig(2), Pine Grove(2), Mound House(1), Del

If James Cain brought this mining camp back to life, George Wingfield put it back on the map. James Cain astutely sold his mining claims to W. Leste

1909. Addressed to Mrs. William Merten. From her husband William (most probably). Merten was a placer miner in Manhattan and this was most likely his

c1910. 7 x 15 x 11". The company ran the smelter in McGill from 1906 to 1914 when the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company absorbed them. The com...

This beautiful 12 x 17" official document is written in exquisite hand writing is for Wilhelm Dangberg. He is a cousin to the famous Dangberg f...

This Collection includes: Schurz(1), Walker River(1), Sodaville(10), Candelaria(2), OMCO(1), Fletcher(1), Mina(3), Luning(3), Hawthorne(7), Broken Hil

Lot of five photos. c1912. Largest is postcard size. All courtesy of Norman C Brundage.1) One clearly shows the wires for an aerial tramway. 2) Note

This Collection includes: Manhattan(1), Pioneer(3), Tybo(1), Morey(1), Butler(1), Beatty(5), Round Mountain(1), Rhyolite(1), Tonopah(40) for a total o

This Collection includes: Brunswick(1), Empire City (2), Carson City (30). Virginia City(3) for a total of 36. Includes 1865 HC Kirk druggist from Vir

This Collection includes: Lower Rochester(1), Rye Patch(1), Lovelock(19) for a total of 21. Samples are Nevada Packard Mines (the firm of Frietag &a...

Framed and signed William Moore print of a duststorm at Pyramid Lake, NV. Inscribed on lower mat. 66/700. Print 11x23", frame 19x30". Da...

A group of antiques from the Jerome Ayer ranch in Reno, which was located on Alameda, now North Wells. This group of antiques appears to date from the

On his twenty-fifth birthday, February 23, 1935, Harold Smith Sr. opened a tiny gambling club in Reno, Nevada. He had come to “the biggest little city

Reno, NV Centennial poster. Approx 21" x 22". 3 horses in front of Reno skyline and Sierra Nevada Mountains. Small tack holes in 4 corners...

Lot of three. 1) A rare San Jacinto datelined billhead for the Sparks Harrell company, Dated 1907. 2) A nice horse pictorial billhead from James Bain

10 dug bullets at Emigrant Trail near Stagecoach, NV. 4 balls, 6 conical. Date: City/County: Stagecoach State: Nevada

1) Fort Carlin! Ever Heard of It? Official executive document from December 11, 1874. It is a proposal for a bill from William W. Belknap to the House

Early! c1910. One of the most important, and yet least recognized, group of people in the formation of Nevada were the surveyors. But the surveyor we

The Daily Times of San Bernardino, CA with follow up on Virginia City, NV fire. Poor condition, sold as is Date: 1870 City/County: Virginia City St

This survey done by county surveyor E. L. Mason is a description of a plot of land made for E. W. Keyes. This 145.52 acre survey starts from corner of

This 1876 letter is sent from Mr. Vanderbilt of the Fort Edward Institution and he wants to know about the eyeless fish found at 127 degrees in the de

Eugene Griswold owned a mercantile store at the height of Wadsworth. These pages represent a booming business just before the Southern Pacific moved a

This collection includes: Pyramid (1), Verdi (1), White's Canon (1), Wadsworth (3) and Reno (62) for a total of 68 pieces. A sample includes Pyr...

c1935. 10 x 3". Lot of three. All have notes from Jim Perkins. Photos by Frank Horton. Horton also worked at Diamondfield and Unionville. 1) 25...

This Collection includes: Tybo(1), Tippett(1), Ruth(1), Seligman(1), McGill(1), Ely(2) for a total of 7. They are an 1873 Streitberger groceries, Tipp

Very rare, 4 First National Bank of Winemucca, NV memos signed by George Nixon. Nixon was an important Nevada banker, businessman and mining figure. H

This Chinese silk kimono is heavily hand embroidered with metallic threads. The dragon designs are exquisite and incredibly intricate. The borders of

Here it comes, straight out of the western frontier, the real deal. The wire that won the west. 19 3/4" long, and well used and weathered. Pate...

Great collection of BoloTies. Items #1-#3 of 13: One pewter style long horn, and a sliver and copper cow head ( Like the kind you find at a poison wat

Lot of 5. Two must-have "geographical dictionaries" to look up long-forgotten camps in California and Nevada: 1) California Place Names (...

Undated but NUMBER 5 issued. Blue Wells Fargo & Co check #5 to SC Galloher, signed by Nevada Territory Governor James W Nye. Oval Wells Fargo, C...

Humbolt County 1905 by Bragg, assorted old Lovelock ephemera, Lovelock ledger journals from Anker family c.1919 and 1918. They appear to have had a tu

Interesting map showing Pyramid Lake, Walker Lake, Humboldt River, Hastings Road. After the start of the gold rush survey was made to look for best ra

Approx 10 Tonopah Club numbered tickets, McCulloch's Mens Clothing pictorial card, 1981-82 Tonopah etc telephone directory, approx 30 Tonopah bi...

1915 Walker Lake Bulletin, 1922 Mining Topics, 1916 Review Miner Date: City/County: State: Nevada

Items #1-3 of 12 : Here we have 3 really great books, about the ghost town of Bodie, California. Great pictures and the complete history of that town.

1905 note signed by Zeb Kendall-2" tear, 1904 check signed by Brougher, 1947 Getchell Mine stock signed by Wingfield Date: City/County: St...

Item # 1 of 9: A delivery note from the Reese River Reveille( 1863 ). Item # 2 of 9: A bill of $12.50 from the Eureka daily Sentinel ( 1871( Torn righ

4 RPC's-Genoa, Virginia City, Elko Date: City/County: State: Nevada

Rare Nevada Locales. 4x3" b/w Aurora photo of a man and dog in snow, 1905 Carson City letter. Stocks-Leviathon Mine, Roberts-Buena Vista Mines,...

10 Seat of Government of Nevada's Controller's Office State Controller's Warrant. Vignettes of miner's working, state house and ...

Approx 50 Nevada ephemera items. Mostly small hand written prescriptions from FJ Schneider and City Drug in Eureka, Date: City/County: State: N

Agency of the Bank of California 1872 Signed by James Fair with imprinted RN stamp, Paxton & Co overprint on DB Immel & Co 1882 signed by Br...

Palace Hotel, Reno, NV letterhead signed by CC Powning 1884. John Fitzgerald business manager. Folds and lower toning Date: City/County: Reno Stat

Three early ledgers from the Berry family of Pittsfield, New Hampshire. The Berrys ran a large hardware and general store (including foods) for more t

1) New Hampshire & Vermont, hand colored by Cowperthwait, 1850, beautiful color, good condition, shows counties & towns 14" x 17";...

1) New Jersey by Counties with Railroads, Geo. Cram presents cartography & color by Lithography, double truck, 1883. 14.5" x 22"; 2)Jo...

Alabama Gold and Copper MC, issued to DM Goodrich on Dec. 12, 1899 for certificate 55, 200 shares at Jarilla New Mexico. Uncancelled. Sheriff PAt Garr