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THE GOLDEN WEST AUCTIONS

Auction CurrencyUSD Auction LocationEach session will be held at different locations, Sacramento, California, 95815, United States In Person PreviewA live preview will be available for each session before the live auction. A PRIVATE PREVIEW CAN ...

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The Golden West Sale encompasses three sessions of auctions covering some of the most important historical western material from the Gold Rush periods of California, Nevada and Colorado. The material has been assembled from many of the great western collections, as well as original material handed down within Gold Rush families, held intact for over 100 years.
Session A of the Golden West Sale encompasses the annual WESTS (Western States Token Society) token auction. This year the highlight is clearly and unarguably the finest Western Indian Trader, Fort & Territorial collection ever assembled at public auction. The more than 500 lot sale contains dozens of R9 and R10 tokens, many of which have not seen the light of day in at least four decades. Some ephemera also is included from Indian Trader sites. Indian Trader tokens are an important form of money exchanged between Indians and Anglos in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Trading Posts were a way of life in the isolated outposts of the western plains and mountains, swapping furs, rugs, coats and other items for food stuffs and equipment. There has never been a sale of this magnitude and importance. The end of this sale will include a comprehensive collection of Naval tokens never before offered and with NO ESTIMATES or MINIMUM BID REQUIREMENTS, as this offering will set the pricing precedent for naval tokens.
Session B encompasses many of the popular collecting categories. It includes a strong photograph collection of American saloon interiors, saloon ephemera and Gold Rush region saloon tokens, also known as Pioneer Minor Coinage. Part of the saloon section includes a large collection of the ultra-rare Good-for mirrors, one of the rarest forms of money, many with pictorial representations of the fabulous “gay-90’s” saloon girls, as well as advertising mirrors. This is the largest mirror offering since the Rosa sale of 1988. Most of the mirrors are so rare that only one to three specimens of each are known. The session will be rounded out by a collection of So-called dollars and Hibler Kappen related material, $50 slug facsimiles, Chopmarked coins, Golden Gate International Exposition Medals and more. Much of this section is from the well-known Bill Weber Collection.
Session C The highlight of the sale is certainly the newly discovered Washington Nugget, a nearly 100 ounce nugget (and several others) found in an unmined section of the Omega-Malakoff Tertiary Channel in February, 2010 that made national news. The nuggets are accompanied by two large original nineteenth-century bullion scales (Christian Becker, New York; Henry Troemner, Philadelphia), It is accompanied in the sale by some masterful original Gold Rush art, inclusive of a spectacular and early rendition of a miner, several broadsides- a miner in lithographic form, panoramic views of mining communities, a number of original Currier & Ives prints of the Gold Rush and Salt Lake City, stage coach pieces, and the Alaska 1893 Yukon/Alaska Miners Union Banner.
A massive Gold Rush banking collection covers the 1850’s through 1860’s in California and Nevada, with what is probably the largest Gold Rush period banking collection ever offered publicly. It contains more than 100 different Bills of Exchange, a form of the first circulating currency on the West Coast. A wonderful and large collection of Gold Rush banking documents augments this fine collection, along with original leather gold pokes and money belts.
Some of the highlights of the Gold Rush Collection are documents from the original 1910 San Francisco sale of the estate of James King of William, documents signed by Adolph Sutro, California coiner F. D. Kohler, and others. A very rare letter book from Nevada mining and railroad magnate Hume Yerington from the mid-1860’s contains incredible information about his life prior to his railroad successes.
A large collection of US Mint ephemera is included, including rare bullion receipts, photographs, lithograph, gold coin and other coin bank bags, as well as rare Carson City gold and silver coins. Accompanying the Mint ephemera is a section of California Counters and rare California Gold Rush tokens.
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Willow Springs,AZ - Babbitt & McAdams Token :271 - Willow Springs,AZ - Babbitt & McAdams Token :
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Obverse: Babbitt & McAdams / Willow / Springs; reverse: Good For / $1.00 /In Merchandise At Retail. Sq, Al,25mm, R10. Extremely fine condition.
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
Sold to a****r for (1,100.00 + 192.50BP) = 1,292.50
 
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Willow Springs,AZ - Babbitt & McAdams Token :272 - Willow Springs,AZ - Babbitt & McAdams Token :
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Obverse: Babbitt & McAdams / Willow / Springs; reverse: Good For 25 / c /In Merchandise At Retail. Tri, Al,33mm, R10. Very fine condition.
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
Sold to a****r for (1,400.00 + 245.00BP) = 1,645.00
 
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Willow Springs,AZ - Babbitt & McAdams Token :273 - Willow Springs,AZ - Babbitt & McAdams Token :
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Obverse: Babbitt & McAdams / Willow / Springs; reverse: Good For 50 / c /In Merchandise At Retail. Oct, Al,29mm, R10. About uncirculated conditi...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
Sold to a****r for (1,700.00 + 297.50BP) = 1,997.50
 
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Winslow,AZ - Navajo County - 1897-1912 - Navajo Territorial Token :274 - Winslow,AZ - Navajo County - 1897-1912 - Navajo Territorial Token :
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Second one known, both in very poor condition. This one is clipped, originally 28mm, scalloped. Obverse: The Navajo / Winslow, A.T.; reverse: pictoria
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Start Price : 300.00 | Estimate : 600.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Winslow,AZ - Navajo County - Richardson Brothers Token :275 - Winslow,AZ - Navajo County - Richardson Brothers Token :
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Obverse: Richardson Brothers / General / Mdse. / Winslow, Ariz.; reverse: Good For / 25c / In Trade Only. Al,28mm,R10. Extremely fine condition.
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Estimate : 300.00 - 600.00
Sold to 1***3 for (500.00 + 87.50BP) = 587.50
 
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Wolf Post,AZ - Wolf Post Token :276 - Wolf Post,AZ - Wolf Post Token :
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Obverse: Babbitt & McAdams / Wolf Post; Good For / 10 / In Merchandise At Retail. Al, 25mm, R10. Extremely fine condition.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
Sold to 2**3 for (3,300.00 + 577.50BP) = 3,877.50
 
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Alcatraz Island,CA - C1890 - Post Exchange Token : 5c - 5151599-047277 - Alcatraz Island,CA - C1890 - Post Exchange Token : 5c - 5151599-047
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Obverse: Post / Exchange / Alcatraz / Island; reverse: 5.
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
Sold to 9***6 for (350.00 + 61.25BP) = 411.25
 
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Alcatraz Island,CA - c1895 - Post Exchange Token : 10c -278 - Alcatraz Island,CA - c1895 - Post Exchange Token : 10c -
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Obverse: Post Exchange / Alcatraz / Island, Cal.; reverse: Good For / 10c / In / Merchandise. Rare.
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Estimate : 500.00 - 800.00
Sold to 9***6 for (750.00 + 131.25BP) = 881.25
 
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Alcatraz Island,CA - C1890 - Post Exchange Token : 50c - 5151599-048279 - Alcatraz Island,CA - C1890 - Post Exchange Token : 50c - 5151599-048
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Obverse: Post Exchange / Alcatraz / Island, Cal.; reverse: Good For / 50c / In / Merchandise.
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
Sold to A*******e for (500.00 + 87.50BP) = 587.50
 
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Alcatraz Island,CA - San Francisco - Post Exchange Token : 50c -280 - Alcatraz Island,CA - San Francisco - Post Exchange Token : 50c -
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Obverse: Post Exchange /Alcatraz / Island, Cal.; reverse: Good For / 50c / In /Merchandise. Very good condition, some staining on obverse.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
Sold to 4***6 for (550.00 + 96.25BP) = 646.25
 
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