December 2017 Premier Auction

Auction Details

This three day, 2,200 lot sale features items in numerous collecting categories including Native Americana, Firearms, Cowboy, Mining, Railroad & Express, Numismatics & Tokens, Postal History, Gaming, Bottles, and Military.

Highlights include:

*A big batch of Western trade tokens including a large Nevada collection.

*Coins, currency, and checks in our Numismatics section including a Ukiah bank note and a $20 gold piece.

*A Railroad section that includes a large number of Eastern Railroad Passes, including a Jay Gould autograph piece.

*Wells Fargo & Co. and American Express collectibles, including company archives.

*Mining stock certificates, photographs, books, and other ephemera.

*A large Postal History section featuring many hundreds of postcards, many real photo, as well as stamps and other philatelic ephemera.

*Gaming collectibles including an assortment of Nevada casino ashtrays

*A group of Antique Bottles including whiskey, bitters, medicines, and soda.

*A very large General Americana section featuring: a collection of presidential autographed letters, photographs & other ephemera; a large World's Fair & Expositions section full of stereoviews from the Prag Collection; jewelry; Western art; a huge Yosemite & Big Trees section; a big collection of San Francisco documents and early stereoviews; and U.S. documents, trade cards, business cards, and other ephemera.

*Our best Firearms selection to date with an 1869 Sharps Rifle, a rare Flintlock pistol, and rare antique ammunition. Our Firearms & Weaponry section also has Japanese katanas and Chinese swords.

*Military collectibles including a large Civil War section full of Confederate bonds, letters, photographs and more.

*Another world-class offering of Northwest and Southwest Native Americana featuring Nome Gold Rush ivory art and tools, baskets, kachinas, pottery, points, and much more!

*Our Cowboy section has postcards (including a Buffalo Bill collection), photographs, chaps, saddles, and saddle bags.

*A small selection of African and Western taxidermy for your office/den wall.

Full Auction Schedule

Day One, December 1st, 2017 (Lots 1000-1735)

Tokens (Geographic Sort) (1000-1118)

Numismatics (Lots 1119-1152)
Coins (1119-1128)
Checks (1129-1138)
Currency (1139-1146)
Medals & So-Called Dollars (1147-1152)

Railroadiana (Lots 1153-1292)
Passes (1153-1219)
Books (1220-1231)
Stocks & Other Ephemera (Geographic Sort) (1232-1292)

Wells Fargo & Other Express (Lots 1293-1322)
Wells Fargo (1293-1308)
American Express (1309-1313)
Other Express (1314-1322)

Mining (Lots 1323-1545)
Hard Goods: Candlesticks, Signs, Etc. (1323-1331)
Books (1332-1338)
Stocks & Other Ephemera (Geographic Sort) (1339-1545)

Postal History & Philatelic (Geographic Sort) (Lots 1546-1714)

Gaming (Lots 1715-1735)


Day Two, December 2nd, 2017 (Lots 2000-2750)

Bottles (Lots 2000-2043)

General Americana (Lots 2044-2700)
Jewelry (2044-2059)
Art (2060-2098)
Worlds Fairs & Expositions (2099-2130)
Political (2131-2152)
Geographic Sort (2153-2588)
Misc. Categories incl. Maps & Atlases, Black Americana, Fire, Ephemera (2589-2700)

Foreign Collectibles (Lots 2701-2750)

Day Three, December 3rd, 2017 (Lots 3000-3734)

Firearms & Weaponry (Lots 3000-3167)
Ephemera (3000-3007)
Ammunition (3008-3058)
Pistols & Revolvers (3059-3084)
Rifles & Shotguns (3085-3095)
Scabbards & Misc. (3096-3111)
Swords & Katanas (3112-3167)

Military & War Collectibles (Lots 3168-3231)
Revolutionary War & Civil War (3168-3219)
Spanish American War (3220-3223)
World Wars & Misc. (3224-3231)

Native Americana (Lots 3232-3593)
Alaska incl. Ivory (3232-3307)
Art (3308-3320)
Baskets (3321-3331)
Beadwork (3332-3347)
Rugs & Weavings (3348-3353)
Jewelry (3354-3359)
Kachinas (3360-3385)
Points & Stone Artifacts incl. a Large Georgia Collection (3386-3409)
Pottery (3410-3588)
Ephemera (3589-3593)

Cowboy (Lots 3594-3724)
Ephemera (3594-3626)
Chaps (3627-3666)
Saddle Bags (3667-3685)
Saddles (3686-3718)
Spurs & Misc. (3719-3724)


Taxidermy (Lots 3725-3734)





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County Maps of  Virginia/West Virginia, Kentucky/Tennessee/North Carolina2571County Maps of Virginia/West Virginia, Kentucky/Tennessee/North Carolina
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1) County Map of Virginia/West Virginia, single page, multi color lithograph entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867, page #31. 11.5&q...
Start Price : 75.00 | Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Groveland Improvement Co. Stock Certificates (21) (Dungeness, Washington)2572Groveland Improvement Co. Stock Certificates (21) (Dungeness, Washington)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
21 unissued pictorial certs. Office and place of business in Dungeness, Washington. Date: c.1890s Location: Dungeness, Washington HWAC # 544
Estimate : 50.00 - 80.00
Sold to s********K for 43.75
Kirkland, Washington 1922 Telephone Directory2573Kirkland, Washington 1922 Telephone Directory
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Paperbound 12pp, Kirkland, WA telephone directory April 1922, 7.75" x 5.5". Date: Location: Kirkland, Washington HWAC # 54339
Estimate : 50.00 - 100.00
Sold to 8********l.. for 31.25
50 Unissued Nat'l Deposit & Security Co. Certificates (Seattle, Washington)257450 Unissued Nat'l Deposit & Security Co. Certificates (Seattle, Washington)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
50 Unissued National Deposit & Security Co. Certificates. Home Office, Seattle. Collateral Trust Fund Certificates, $1200. Date: 1930's ...
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to s********K for 75.00
1910 Tacoma/Seattle Washington Telephone Book25751910 Tacoma/Seattle Washington Telephone Book
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Paper bound with detached front over 164 pp plus out of area info. Sept. 1910. Pink business directory section. 10.25" x 7.25". Date: ...
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to 8********l.. for 200.00
Tacoma, Washington 1916 Telephone Directory2576Tacoma, Washington 1916 Telephone Directory
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Paper bound Sept. 1916 Tacoma WA telephone directory. 264 pp plus 32 pp of other exchanges info. 9.75" x 6.5". Some water stains in front,...
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to 6*****b for 125.00
Tacoma, Washington Telephone Directory 19072577Tacoma, Washington Telephone Directory 1907
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Paper bound Tacoma, WA telephone directory from Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. 140pp 9" x 6". Date: Location: Tacoma, Washing...
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to 6*****b for 187.50
Northern Pacific, Yakima and Kittitas Irrigation Co. Stock Certificate, 18942578Northern Pacific, Yakima and Kittitas Irrigation Co. Stock Certificate, 1894
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Rare certificate I/U 1894, #66, 34 shares. 6" x 9.75". Owned by Northern Pacific Railroad. They constructed the 60 mile long Sunnyside Ca...
Start Price : 50.00 | Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Washington and Oregon Trade Cards2579Washington and Oregon Trade Cards
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 15. Includes: 8 Oregon (mostly Portland) and 7 Seattle, Washington Territory trade cards. Date: c. 1880-1890 Location: Washington HWA
Estimate : 80.00 - 150.00
Sold to 9***6 for 50.00
Maps of Washington & Oregon2580Maps of Washington & Oregon
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1) U.S. Coast Survey map of Yaquina River Entrance, Oregon 26.5" x 21". 2) U.S. Coast Survey, Columbia River, Sheet No. 1 (1870), tear in ...
Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00