"Fall Frontier Fortunes" Numismatics & Americana Timed Auction (2025 September)

This is the first time we've seen this. Adorable! "Los Angeles in a Nutshell." Opens to 50 views in an accordion fold! Unknown publish...

Lot of 10. Includes: booklet, "Ye Planry" Bungalows, 1908, 96pp. with house illustrations and layouts; two 1910s ink blotter displays; Pas...

Hard Cover helmet, from 1958 Los Angeles. Formed leather, with inside straps (need repairs) ^ Date: 1958 Country (if not USA): State: California

White King D wall mounted hand soap dispenser. This is a rarity. White King D was also known as a laundry detergent in the 1950s and I wasn't aw...

Hardcover with dust jacket. This volume is part of the Brand Books series produced by the Los Angeles Corral of The Westerners-a historical society de

Very rare letterhead to go with the very rare token. Grover House, Col. F.M. Rickey Proprietor. Markleeville, 1906. "Good Bar Connected With Th...

Vintage poster advertising the 55ft. deluxe fishing cruiser Irvinetta which leaves from Mike's Landing, Morro Bay. 13.5 x 10.5" Large stain...

Lot of 4. 1. 1936-37 Calif, Hunting License, metal badge w/license and duck stamp. 2. Two vintage "Good For Live Bait" tickets from Paci...

Casting reel by William Mills & Sons #4. Made by Julius Von Hoffe of NY.. Brass w/hard rubber , no line. Stamped on reel "William Mills &...

Shakespeare Casting reel node 1918 w/leather case, Reel appears in good condition with casting line approx.. 100 yards. There is no rust and appears

Group of 3 advertising pieces from Alpha Hardware of Nevada City. Includes 2 thermometers mounted on wood. First is 10" by 4", second is 1...

Lot of 2 two volumes of "The Environs of Oakland (Calif). Books are in decent condition, with some minor bump damage. ^ Date: 1609-1909 Count...

Lot of 2. 1) Blue Gold-Rush era billhead, dateline Sacramento 1857. Billed to Forest Hill merchants Hardy & Kennedy for mining supplies includin...

Hunting camp picture, reportedly based near Sacramento, CA, c1900. 12x10" photo mounted on 13x11" backing piece. Right edge has a hole abo...

Rare. Report of the Citizens' Health Committee and An Account of Its Work. CA Murdock & Co., San Francisco. 313pp. Hardcover. 8.5 x 6.5"...

Lot of 2 different. 1) Report of the Water Supply System of the Spring Valley Water Company, San Francisco, by HM Chittenden and AO Powell. 1912. 42pp

Original engraved view titled "San Francisco" by WL Ormsby, c.1855. 5.5 x 9" Has 4pp. of accompanying text titled "San Francisco...

Founded in 1875, the Native Sons of the Golden West is a fraternal organization dedicated to historic preservation of the state's historic struc...

Lot of 4. 1-3) Three are documents related to the estate of Henry Dreschfeld, who is listed in the 1865 SF directory as a notary public, money and re

This is an 1864 bill of lading for a shipment of machinery from San Francisco to Portland. The Brother Jonathan sank off the coast of California in 18

A 1910 map of the waterfront of San Francisco. This piece measures 17"x 44" and was done by Assistant State Engineer Ralph Barker. It cove...

There are over 80 cabinet card photos in this group and all from San Francisco photography studios. All photos are portraits taken between 1880 and 18

A nice 5"x 7" photo of a crowd of San Franciscans looking out at the Presidio military buildings. The photo is dated February 22, 1888 and...

Brass curved printing stamper with S. F. F. G. related to a San Francisco manufacturing process with an unknown significance. 4.25x11". ^ Date:...

1886 San Joaquin Valley map by California State Engineering Dept. Scale 1" to 3 miles. 20x34.5". Margins are trimmed, 2 edge chips, 4"...

Lot of 26. Three covers " Commercial Hotel, The Potter, The Arlington Hotels. 23 stereopticon slides of " Mission and it's gardens...

A copy of 'History of Santa Clara County, California, with Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County who have been Identi...

Lot of 4. 1) Before the White Man Came by Charles S. Graves, 1934 hardcover signed by the author. 99 pp. Rare. Inscribed to Charles Pendleton. 2) Rhym

Group of 3 books related to Stanford University, published 1992-2000. Lot contains the Stanford U. Libraries & Academic Information Resources Qu...

One foot cubic archive filled with personal papers, photographs, and documents relating to the Templeton family, most notably Eugene Crittenden &quo...

Very rare. Dateline Truckee, Nov. 27th, 1872. Received of Dr. Curless a package of $150 sent to Justin Gates of Sacramento. Signed by Dooly. 3.25 x ...

Lot of 4 different Yosemite stereoviews: two by E&HT Anthony & Co., two by C. Bierstadt. Views include: upper bench view from SW, Mariposa T...

A copy of 'The Alps of the King-Kern Divide' by David Starr Jordan, a short (21 page) book written in 1907 to educate readers on the basic f...

Lot of 31. Group includes: 1) Healdsburg. Three CDVs from NR Davidson (2) and Andrew Price (1). 2) Visalia: one photo from Geo. E. Dean. 3) San Franci

This is a lot of newspapers describing the earthquake in Long Beach, Ca. in 1933 and another earthquake in Los Angeles in 1994, and the Bay Area earth

Lot of 5. Newspapers : The San Diego Union, Redwood City Tribune and The Oregonian. Coverage of Amelia Earhart and also the seaplane Hawaii Clipper m

Lot of 5. Various Calif. vintage newspapers of 1953. Articles on Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, King Edward and Wally Simpson. All in protectiv

Collection of over 30 Bay Area, California, newspapers, one with a headline about President John F. Kennedy's assassination, but mostly about 9-...

Vintage broadside advertising a dance, but showing a photo of Howard Hughes at the controls of his Spruce Goose, the "A" section of the St...

John G. Bullock rose from a humble beginning, working as a boy of eleven in a grocery store to the Presidency of Bullock's retail stores of Sout...

Lot of 11. Colorado: six stereoviews of Veta Pass, two by Gurnsey, two by Chamberlain, one by FA Nim, and one unlabeled. Rare, early stereoviews of Co

A collection of ephemera from California and Nevada. including a 1957 report on earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area, a brochure about the Amargo

Bound 1901 California and Sketches of the Southwest by Wm. Bristol. Water damage throughout, please inspect. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State:

Lot of 7 . 1. Six photos -14 x 11"- by Bob Bryant photographer for S.F. Examiner (1936-41). 2. Book by Southern Pacific Co. "The Road Of ...

Lot of 12. Includes: rare Caswell & Ellis, Los Angeles, 1874 with RN-D; 1879 Los Angeles Pico House receipt; 1868 Pacific Bank, San Francisco ch...

IOOF Golden Jubilee Celebration invitation, San Francisco cover-poor shape, 1894 Santa Clara HS commencement invitation. Unissued 1860's Porter ...

c. 1904 California Moline Plow catalog with prices and many plow illustrations. 216pp plus index. Some red ink bleed on page edges in front, light wat

Lot of 9. Includes: 5 postcards (Main Street, Watsonville; Big Trees, Santa Cruz; Carmel Mission, Monterey; Santa Clara Street, San Jose; and San Carl

Graduation diplomas from three institutions, including the University of Montana, University of California and Yale University. Two are board mounted,

1882 California artistic teaching diploma in broken 22x17" frame. Light water stain lower center. Please inspect. ^ Date: Country (if not USA...