"Marvels of the West" 2024 January Auction

Minox mini tripod and adapter (adapter in original box). Please see the story in Lot 3200

Manufactured in Riga, Latvia circa 1938, the VEF Riga has a three-element flat film plane lens. Rare purse type case. Reportedly taken off a German so

Manufactured in USSR circa 1941. Calibrated in meters. Kodak X and Minox Dokul film. (Serial number 10055).This is one of the rarest of all mini &q...

Made in Germany, in original box. Minox Viewer-cutter. The transparency viewer and slide cutter was first shown at Photokina in 1954. It cuts a singl

Nikoh Manufacturing Company of Japan introduced a butane gas lighter combined with a subminiature camera, using Minox cassettes. It was fitted with a

The original Minox camera made in Riga, Latvia, circa 1938, at the V.E.F. Building. In original leather case, with letter explaining the history: whe

Manufactured by Rollei-Werke, in West Germany. Camera is chrome with black leather trim body covering. The lens is a Carl Zeiss Tessar f/2.8, 25 mm. I

Manufactured by Riken Optical Co., Japan. Camera body is nickel, with partial black leather body covering. The lens is f/3.5 and has a lens cap. In a

Nice c. 1900 Miami Concentrator City booklet with foldout Miami, AZ area panorama, closed booklet is 5.25x7.25", front cover has a few nicks. M...

About 25 Carson City Wells Fargo checks, receipts and ephemera, c. 1897-1907. City: Canon City, State: California Canon City California

18x Downieville Documents including Newspapers, Bank Checks and Photographs: 1) 4x The Mountain Messenger Newspapers: #31 from Dec 15, 1888; #24 from

group of about 25-30 documents from various lodges around Dutch Flat, c 1880s-90s, that came from the Nicholls estate. City: Dutch Flat, State: Ca

Lot includes: 7x mining deeds. Six of the mining deeds are from in and around La Porte, Plumas County, California, the last is from Gibsonville, Sierr

Collection of memorabilia of famous banker Dixon Brabban, Lot of 21. He was born in London 1833, came over to California in 1849. Dixon Brabban was pa

Some extra rare photographs and 3x business cards from La Porte: 1) Photograph of the logging team in 1885, at Squier's sawmill near Whiskey, p...

5x Business Cards from the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company Ltd (San Francisco) out of La Porte: 1) 2x large cardboard business ...

Lot includes: 1x handwritten letter from G.G. Clough, on G.G. Clough Attorney at Law letterhead. Dated October 12, 1874. Includes envelope, postmarked

Big Collection of Cards & Souvenirs mostly from La Porte, CA: 1) Photograph of Nelle Costello Miguel and Annie Williams, framed portrait, measur...

5x documents out of Quincy/La Porte areas, including 2x photographs: 1) Copy of Photograph taken of a 4-horse stage coach with 4 passengers, in front

Merchandise License #388 issued to G.M. Davidson for $11.25 from Sierra County for 3 months on Jun 1, 1854 in Pine Grove. This allowed Davidson to sel

Various Documents out of Saw Pit Flat (Lot of 4), Plumas County including 2x Deeds, 1x Bill of Sale and 1x funeral remembrance card: 1) Deed from Jul

Handwritten Claim Deed, 2 pages, James Crawford selling his claim to Ezra Miller for $1000 on Dec 5, 1862. Signed by S.H. Alley. Crawford was mentione

Todd's Valley Gold Rush Correspondence, Ware Family, 1854-1856. Five letters from father john Ware of Spencerburg, Missouri to his sons and daug...

18 c. 1864-1938 California checks. Highlights include rare 1864 Central Pacific Railroad, 1891 California Street Cable Railroad with vignette, 2 1877

Rare 1871 California Campaign Songster 35pp booklet, 6.75x4.5", cover issues. Sutro Bath admission price card 5x3". Golden Gate Park phot...

Two leather bound minute books of Placer County district court records c. 1851-55. Contains motions, appeals and other court proceedings. 13x8.75&qu...

Rare 1891 The People's Theatre Program with lots of ads, 14pp, 1" tear on front cover and first page, 6x8.5". Issued Mariposa Con Gold...

A rare find indeed! Original ledger for Thos. Cole Jr. & Co. Bankers in Idaho City during the Idaho gold rush of the 1860s. Cole & Co. had t...

Letter written in 1845 from Laura Sanborn of Charles Town West Virginia to her cousin Mary Park Chapman of Benton, Missouri. The handwriting is pretty

About 50 early c. 1876-1910, mostly older, billheads and letterheads, some pictorial. Bozeman Milling, J Basinski, Benepe Elevator, Philip Dodson, W M

1879 Kinna and Jack's hardware and stove manual with stove illustrations. Unbound, pages have edge wear. Please inspect. City: Butte City, S...

1880 coverless ledger. Pencil on cover states, "Perhaps this might have to do with L Marks At Diamond City/CaB. Entries pertain to general good...

3 Great Falls locally printed vest pocket guides. Rare, undated and missing title page, business directory with advertisements. 1895 aqua and magenta

Assortment of mostly Helena banking ephemera. About 45 checks, c. 1860-88, some with imprinted and adhesive RN's. Unused 1880's Merchants Na...

13 L H Hershfield & Bro checks to Chinese merchants, payable in gold. City: Helena, State: Montana Helena Montana

c. 1901-13 livery stable record book, likely Virginia0 City, MT. Unnamed livery sold bits, saddles, spurs etc. 12x7". Wear on spine, covers, d...

c. 1867-73 personal business ledger including Chinese merchants. We are unsure of who it belonged to. You can figure it out! 12x7.5". Has gotte...

3 bundles of S R Buford of Virginia City, MT personal invoices etc. with original string ties. Likely 100+ papers in the 3 bundles. City: Virginia C

4 mostly rare Virginia City checks, c. 1860's-1875. Ben Franklin vignette and another with no vignette on Henry Elling Banking House, 2 differen...

Virginia City, MT unknown merchant ledger book, c. 1891-94. 12.5x8.5". City: Virginia City, State: Montana Virginia City Montana

15 advertising covers with contents, many pictorials, addressed to Montana, c. 1888-1927. Carriages, tents etc. State: Montana Montana

Unbound H B Bryant journal/day book starts in New York in 1859 then progresses to Virginia City, MT in 1878. 12x7.5". State: Montana Mon...

Hotel Broadwater 1890 letterhead and 1924 original ledger page. State: Montana Montana

1899 letter and cover from the Mitchell & Lewis Wagon Co. (Racine, Wisconsin) sent to S.R. Buford & Co. in Virginia City, Montana. Re: order...

6 c. 1890-1910 Montana advertising pocket books. Mitchell Wagon, Oliver Plows, Mutual Life Insurance, A Y Bayne Contractors, Deering Harvester. About

144 different Montana checks, c. 1870's-1940's. Helena, Butte, Virginia City, Wyola, Townsend, Philipsburg, Rexford, Poplar, Manhattan, Whit...

Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Official Telephone Directories, 1905 and 1906. State: Montana Montana

5 letter heads from rare Montana Towns, c. 1875-92. Nevada City, 2x Big Sandy, Frenchtown, Crow Creek with tear and stain. State: Montana Montan

About 25 mostly Montana pictorial letterheads and billheads, c. 1874-1910. Ceretan Milling, Rosebud Perfume, Good Luck Shoe and Clothing, Sheffield Sa

Early c. 1878-81 S R Buford, Virginia City merchant cash book. Entries include Henry Elling etc. 14x9.25", leather bound. Spine and boards have...