Auction Details
Highlights of the sale include:
1. A new discovery of an early, c 1876-7 photo of the Earp family with all of the Earp brothers and their father Nicholas.
2. The Ken and Rosemary Roberts miners candlestick collection containing some of the finest miners candlesticks ever made
3. The best saloon section we’ve ever had – including a fantastic collection of embossed saloon bottles put away for 40 years
4. The largest (by far!) antique American silver ingot, nearly 500 ounces – from Denver!
5. “Discovery” ingots from collections all over America
6. Western mining broadsides, lithographs and maps – the best selection of rarities ever offered at one time.
7. Western Art – five spectacular oil paintings in the style of Russell in oversized mural format by Franz Trevors, from the Palace Club, Reno, 1943-4.
8. Gaming – rare early slot machine (1910), chip collections, antique equipment and broadsides
9. Bawdy & Brothel- rare Mustang Ranch “gold card”, ultra rare early brothel tokens highlighted by the Goldfield “rooster”
10. Western broadsides – the best ever seen at auction – Tahoe, Virginia City, Reno, Pioneer societies, brewery advertising and more
11. Gold and gold ore specimens from major collections
12. Nevada Railroad Collection- The fantastic Jacobitz Collection of lamps, locks, keys, photographs and documents. Perhaps the best collection ever assembled!
13. Humboldt Soda Works Archive from Winnemucca. An original collection of hundreds of original etched and silk screened seltzer bottles for the back bars in saloons dating from c1890 to 1919 (Prohibition) and another batch that post-dates Prohibition.
14. Mining and Assay catalog collection
15. Major World’s Fair ephemera & So Called Dollars collections
16. Original hoard of Morgan Dollars from a Reno Casino in the early days and a $50 Augustus Humbert Pioneer gold piece.
17. Rare western tokens. The best of the best.
Invoicing and lot pick up will NOT be available at the live auction.
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321Mining Share Assessment 2012aug - General AmericanaHolabird-Kagin Americana
1873 receipt from Eclipse, Winters & Plato Consolidated Gold Hill Mining Co. One of the original comstock companies. - Jacobitz Collection -60211
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
Sold to p********n for 119.50
326Philatelic Book Group 2012aug - General AmericanaHolabird-Kagin Americana
Lot of 4 philatelic reference publications. Includes a hardbound copy of American Stampless Cover Catalogue, Volume I and a softbound copy of Volume I
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
Sold to i*****l for 149.38
327Pioneer Maps 2012aug - General AmericanaHolabird-Kagin Americana
Lot of 3: 1) map of California, with inset of the City of San Francisco published by J.H. Colton of New York, entered according to Act of Congress in
Estimate : 500.00 - 1,000.00
Sold to 9***3 for 358.50