Holabird’s Western Americana BONANZA

DATED 1902-1927, lot of 8: 1) Shipping Order, White Pass & Yukon Route, (no date). 2) Freight Receipt, The Canadian Pacific Railway Company, dat...

Lot of 5: 1) Voucher, Santa Fe Pacific R/R Co., St Johns Arizona, 1899, #2620. 2) Voucher, Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Co., 1899, Winslow Arizona #2772.

Originated in San Francisco at the Mutual Biscuit Company. (Ames Collection) Date: 1907, 1909 City: Coulterville County:

Lot of 28. Includes Keeler, Lone Pine, Bishop, and Independence station statements, Bishop Disposition of "Freight Over," Bishop Short &qu...

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, TENINO, WASH. NUMISMATIC SCRIP, 1932-1933, 3 Ea.: This group consists of 3, 25c pieces, they number 2207,3658 & 65. Note on...

Group of 3 specific letters from the Office of the Idaho Midland Railway Co. , and (2) from a San Francisco gentleman (name illegible) to a Colonel Ju

Railway Club / 8 / Montpelier / Ida. Date: City: Montpelier County: Bear Lake State: ID

Large (15'"x30" time table, map, and advertising for the Michigan Central Railroad as a part of the Central Pacific Line. Date: Ci...

This was a three year railroad the used wooden rails, wheels, and horse power very likely used by 49ers on their way to California. The Independence a

1) Boston, Clinton, and Fitchburg Railroad, #137, for 8 shares, 1861, to Cyrus Gale Jr. Vignette of train and sailing ship. Large 25 cent revenue stam

4 Expense Bills for M. Rhime at Citrus Station dated 1901, 1885 letter from Citrus to Trennor Coffin of Carson signed by F. McIver. (Ames Collection)

BGRR (Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad) Memorandum dated 1926,3 BGRR Freight bills dated 1910 & 1915, cancelled check to BGRR from Goldfield Consolid...

Lot of 40. 1) Tonopah & Tidewater trip pass and bill head. 2) Tonopah and Goldfield 1926 pass, telegram, delivery receipts, bills of lading, let...

VTRR (Virginia & Truckee Railroad) statement signed by A G Meyers in 1913; voucher dated 1880; receipt dated 1884 for freight signed by C C Stev...

10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28. 31. 35, 36, 37, 39 (some duplicates) (Ames Collection) Date: 1910-1939 City: Count

Beautiful looking framed collection of V&T views. Frame shows a little wear that a little touch up stain will fix. Date: City:

Nicely framed nine tickets: Emigrant and first class passage from Reno to Virginia City, Central Pacific / V&T combined ticket. Tickets issued i...

Massive lot of 67. 1) Rare Station Agents Payroll for January 1887. Agents in 15 stations have signed this document. 2) Individual time sheets for sta

DATED 1905, LOT of 3: Three Stub Books from the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, each says first class local, all dated 1905, each are different. Date:

1864 fold out time table and map for the Erie Railway. Early document as the railway began in 1859. Jay Gould was president at the time of this time t

Lot of three. 1) Oregon Branch Pacific Railroad Company stock certificate. Unused. Circa 1860's. Vignette of steam train in mountains. 2) Two Sp...

1898 letter to Blaine County about tax issues. Also a corner cover from Boise Idaho dated 1924. Date: City: Salt Lake City Cou

From J Wagar to J. T. Morgan. About the Johnson case? Date: City: Salt Lake City County: Salt Lake State: UT

Nine pieces. All Union Pacific Railroad Company Express 1875 receipts from J. H. Pinchim(?) of Cheyenne to various recipients in Ogden, Omaha, Carlin,

Reading Railroad at the Riverbank Train Station. Plague says "May The Road Rise Up To Meet You.' Initials are L. S. C. and M. D. S. Date: ...

One of the nicest examples you will find! Complete and with glass insert intact. Bottom says "Brooks Patent, CPRR, August 6, 1967." This t...

1) Two tickets (unused) circa 1866 for passage from San Francisco, California to New York via Nicaragua. For those who have given up on finding gold!

Lot of 14. Six California Fast Freight Line 1875. From J. C. Meussdorffer, hat manufacturer from San Francisco. CPRR Express 1871 receipt to Lieutenan

Lot of 7. 1) View of Black Forest, Mount Hope, and Sierra Prieta, 35th parallel, topographical report. 2) Bivouac on January 28, 35th parallel, topogr

Lot of 9. 1) Western slope of main ridge of Cascade Mountains from Camp M, Cal & Oregon survey, geology. 2) Lassen Butte from vicinity of Camp 1...

Gold dredging in Fish River Prospectus. Includes many maps, diagrams, and pictures. Front cover has come loose. (Ames Collection) Date: 1907

Scene of Alaska Juneau Mill on handle. Date: City: Juneau County: Juneau State: AK

VALDEZ, ALASKA,CLAIM NOTICE DATED 1906: Hard Rock Quartz Claim , called the North Extension Ground Hog, located in the Valdez Mining District, Alaska,

AYPE. One half-penny coin in stick and one pennyweight coin. Date: 1909 City: County: State: AK

Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition. White Metal. Gold pan with 'Seattle' and pick and shovel on top with replica gold. Badge has pictures of Wi...

1) Monte Cristo Mine #159. 2) Miami Copper Co. #903. 3) NCC Company Ray Mines / Ray Plant #589. 4) I. C. C. Co. # 1130. 5) Giroux Con. Mines Co. #471,

Dated 1881, Bodie. On onion skin. Lists ten mines and the assay results. Little Chief is the best. The White Mountains are in the southwestern part of

Prospectus of United Randolph Mining and Milling located in Tonopah, NV. (Ames Collection) Date: City: Randsburg County:

Lot of 2: 1) Ore Sample Bag from Cutter & Moseley, San Francisco, bag has some issues, small holes on the front & back, some staining, and t...

Cards show Dredge No. 129 (platinum). Owned by Goodnews Bay Mining Company in Alaska. Date: City: San Francisco County: Sa

4.69 ounces of gold valued at $88.80. John 'Johnnie' Young was a leading citizen of Taylorsville. He was a merchant, rancher, and hotel man....

Mining cost sheets, for equipment to start up the Surcease Mine, Butte County, Cal., 6 pages of items, including labor costs for Underground Equipment

1800'S: Risdon Iron and Locomotive Works, San Francisco, Mining Machinery Catalogue, 1800's (missing front and back cover). Great pictures a...

#285 fro the Scales Placer Mining Company. Date: City: County: Sierra State: CA

1919 independent(?) report of this mining company 22 miles from Porterville in Kern County. Date: 1919 City: County: Kern

Drawn by H. C. Kenyon (who was married in Breckenridge in 1888) at a scale of 500 feet = 1 inch. Drawn on fragile paper. One is completely in tact, bu

MINING CLAIM, MINE IMPROVEMENT PAPERS FOR HENRY WHITE (3), AND THE PHOTO PART OF A  STERO VIEW, DATED 1893-1898, Claim located on Turkey Creek ...

Organized in 1896. Western Federation of Miners / Silver City / Miners Union / No. 66 / Silver City, Idaho / Org. Aug 8, 1896. Blue ribbon with two at

Lot of 5: Maps vary in size largest measures 18 1/2" to only 9 1/4" in length, they show the following areas.1) Pine Creek Coeur D' Al...

Miner on handle with "Struck it Rich." "Houghton" engraved in bowl. Copper. Demitasse. Date: City: County: Houghton

1) Calumet & Heccla Mining Co. #100. Tam(arack Mine). Brass, Round. 39mm. 2) Calumet & Heccla Mining Co. # 464. H. Brass. Round. 39mm. 3) Lu...

Two different Anaconda Mine scenes in the bowl. Date: City: Butte County: Silver Bow State: MT

All have mining scene in bowl. All sterling silver. One has initials E. A. engraved on reverse. All different. Date: 1909 City: Butte

1) Mining scene in bowl. Anaconda Mine. Full size. 2) Washoe Smelter in bowl. Full size. Date: City: Butte County: Silver

1) Anaconda, Arrowhead, Brass. 2) 'Richest Hill in the World,' Butte, Brass. 3) Kennecott, Nevada Mines Division, Liberty Pit, Brass, Nevada...

First three are N. J. Zinc Co. and last three are New Jersey Zinc Co. 1) #1038, brass, round. 2) #1253, brass round. 3) #1122, brass, round. 4) # 2674

100,000 shares ready for sale at 15 cents per share. Next to the Rogers Goldfield Lease. The company may have not have done well, but this piece looks

41 pages chalk full of mining memorabilia! Prospectuses Goldfield Bulldog 1905, Forward Mining Development 1905, Goldfield Mascot 1905, and Forward Mi

Here is a 2" binder full of documents relating to the Goldfield Deep Mines. It is your chance to own quite a collection from one Goldfield Mini...

Goldfield employee check tag. Brass. Round. 34mm. # 262. Date: City: Goldfield County: Esmeralda State: NV

Metal plate. Wheece is mention as early as August of 1901 as a prominent lease holder in Tonopah in the Reno newspapers! (Ames Collection) Date: c190

From the Savage Mine. Done by a Savage assayer. Bullion is shipped to the Atlantic, Nevada, and Ogden mills. Over 7,000 ounces shipped on May 21st. Ni

Own a piece of the fabulous Comstock mining days with these high grade mineral specimens. They were found by a night watchman when he opened an old na

Own a piece of the fabulous Comstock mining days with these high grade mineral specimens. They were found by a night watchman when he opened an old na

Lot of Stocks. 157 total, dated from 1935-1944. As low as 12 shares and as high as 10,000 shares. A number of different Vice Presidents signing the

DATED 1870: This Indenture was written and incorporated in England. It was officially recorded in the book of Mortgages, at Washoe County, Nevada. It

Radium water from the Bungalow Hotel in Claremore, Oklahoma. No water, just jug. 1/2 pint. Date: City: Claremore County:

DATED, 1912-1919, LOT of 2: 1) Colonial Rock Drill Steel Book, Pittsburg, Pa., 32 pages, nice photos of manufacturing drill steels. 2) Temple-Ingersol

Three samples assay at $51.24 to $180.87. Signed by John McVicker. Date: 1890 City: Salt Lake City County: State

Lot of ten. Includes Harewood Mine, Davis Coal & Coke, Miller Coal, and Shady Springs Coal of West Virginia. Pennsylvania mines include Falcon M...

Ingot made of Bismouth from the Comibel Funbitela. Comibulis Bolivia's sate-owned mining company. 141.1 grams. Date: City: Co

1) Paperweight. Ivory tusk with small gold pan, log cabin, and four gold nuggets. J. J. Elliott maker. Whitehorse. 2) Dawson pin. Crossed pick and sho

Two carbide belt lamps. One inscribed 'Guys Dropper.' (Ames Collection) Date: City: County: State:

EARLY example, perhaps as old at 1890. Photo on spoon is of a miner picking at rock with the legend, Shipping Ore.' Miner stands on top of spoon...

1) Woolley Collery tag. #3623. 2) Hibbing, Minnesota Commercial Club badge. Photo of Mahoning-Hull-Rust Mine. Largest open pit in the world. 3) Stick

1) D. C. McNaughton Metal Mine Insp. Badge from Colorado. 2) 16th annual encampment Department of Colo. Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1936. 3) 1959 Oregon

Safety First! Keep those oily rags in cans -no fire in here! Authentic, old, and rusty! Date: City: County: Sta

1) Napkin Ring, Rainier National Park (Washington). 2) Dog, Prospect Point, Niagara Falls (New York). 3) Dog, Seawall and Boulevard. Galveston, Texas.

1) A. Z. CO. (American Zinc Company). Young Mine. Brass. Octagonal. #47. Jefferson County, Tennessee. 2) Climax M(molybdenum) Co. # 1418.Marked 2881 o

1) West Virginia. Bethlehem Mines Corporation. Kayrod Division. #118122. Coal Mine. Brass. 2) West Virginia. Bethlehem Mines Corporation. Preston Divi

Lot of three. 1) Metal and Non-Metallic Mining Catalog. 1941. 2) Keystone Coal Buyers Manual. 1953. 3) Mine and Plant Costs. Compiled by Engineering...

Lot of 2. Mining Gas Testing kit and mask kit for gases. 1) wood cased/ metal bound Kit measures 7.25" x 3.5" x 9.5", with a belt clo...

Volume 2,Number 1. 1880. Articles on Congressman Daggett of Nevada and mining, a railroad to Candelaria, and snippets from Bodie. (Ames Collection) D

Bishop Creek Times, Volume 1, Number 1, 1881. This may truly be the last of the first newspaper printed by this publisher. The Inyo Register (named ch

Volume VII, Number 85, 1882. Lots of advertising on the front page (saloons, banks, hotels, breweries, etc.)! Newspapers are notoriously hard to keep

Volume III, Number 15, 1880. Mostly advertisements on the first page. There is a list of the mines through a series of short 'pay-day' notic...

January 29, 1882. Mono County advertisements, editorial on the 'Irish Question,' and lots of mining related material. (Ames Collection) Dat...

Volume 1, Number 31, 1879. Article on the conditions at Bodie. "the camp is overrun with good mechanics" "hundreds of good men ready ...

December 9, 1878. Front page full of advertisements and Pacific Coast News: Chow Yow of Bodie was hung for murder of Ah Pow, Mrs. Shrumm (who killed h

Volume IV, Number 11, 1879. Includes story of Muckallamy (Mokelumne?) Hill. Plenty of advertisers on the first page. This would make a great wall deco

Volume II, Number 39, 1882. The most interesting article is about dry district prospectors. Tells of the hardships of prospectors that live and work i

Volume II, Number 52, 1907. Are you tired of watching all the depressing news on television? Wouldn't it be nice to live in the good ol' day...

ALASKA EPHEMERA LOT, 1902-1911, LOT OF 4: Letterhead, Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Skagway, Alaska, dated 1902. 2) Bill , To the White Pass & Yu...

Location Notice form establishes claim to area of Latouche Island in Prince William Sound Mining District, Alaska. Discovered July 15, 1897 and locate

This is no 'cruise ship' vacation. Early descriptions of all points in the area, make this a wonderful historical piece. All black and white...

On Saddle Mountain Mining Company letterhead, 1907-1908. Three notes concerning payments on lots in Kings Highway. Signed by J.W Myers and B. Goodwin.

BISBEE ARIZONA EPHEMERA GROUP DATED 1924-1925: Letter from the Apache Powder Company, Bisbee, Ariz., dated 1924. 2) Letter from the Apache Powder Com

The letter is addressed to J.I. Throckmorton, Esq., Attorney at Law in Columbus, Ohio and is signed by a woman whose name appears to be Mrs. G.Blakely

Handwritten letter sheet by Jerry Lucy claiming a 600 foot x 1500 foot section of land for mining purposes in the Dos Cabezas mining district, Cochise

This fascinating lots includes two hefty bound stacks of prescriptions written in the early 1900s in Douglas, Arizona. This archive consist of approxi