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Holabird-Kagin Americana
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THE GOLDEN WEST AUCTIONS
THE GOLDEN WEST AUCTIONS
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USD
Auction Location
Each session will be held at different locations
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Sacramento
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California
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95815
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United States
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The auction for session C will be held at the Sacramento Convention Center 1400 J Street 95814 Roo...
Auction Details
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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CA - Wells Fargo & Co. Counterfeit Collection :
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Three elaborate Wells Fargo Express counterfeit pieces, perhaps made about or in the 1960's. 1) The classic Wells Fargo medal from 1902. This me...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 400.00 - 800.00
Sold to 2***4 for
(225.00 + 39.38BP) =
264.38
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2452 -
Amador City,CA - c1880's - Keystone Gold Mining Co. Documents :
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Lot of 23. Vouchers for salaries, wood, freight, etc. Issued throughout the 1880's. Covers a significant number of years of records signed by Su...
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Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
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Auburn,CA - Placer County - 1857 - Placer County Juror's Receipts :
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Lot of two Gold Rush period documents issued to Mat Finley and William Finley, both dated 1857, and signed by the Clerk of the District Court Mitchell
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Start Price : 50.00 | Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
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2454 -
Bodie,CA - Mono County - April 14, 1881 - Union Consolidated Mining Company of New York Stock :
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Bodie District. Incorporated in New York in 1880. Cert. #118, issued to H.A. Dickenson in 1881 for 1000 shares. Signed by President Nat. B. Freeman, a
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
Sold to i*****l for
(325.00 + 56.88BP) =
381.88
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Bunker Hill,CA - Amador County - c1905-1915 - Bunker Hill Saloon Token : G.F. 1 Dr -
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G. F. Pasquetti was the proprietor of the saloon. Obverse side has Bunker Hill Saloon, six sided star punched in the middle. Reverse side good for o
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 350.00 - 600.00
Sold to 9***7 for
(175.00 + 30.63BP) =
205.63
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2456 -
Calaveras County,CA - 1852-1898 - Mother Lode Stock Certificates (Central) :
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Lot of five items. 1) California Dredging and Mining Co., incorporated April 27, 1877. Certificate No. 96, issued to B. Hedge, Trustee (endorsed on re
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to 8***8 for
(150.00 + 26.25BP) =
176.25
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2457 -
Citrus,CA - Inyo County - New York and Inyo Copper Company Stock Certificate :
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Citrus. Inyo County. Incorporated under the laws of the Territory of Arizona. Approximately 8.5 x 15". Black print on crème paper with bro...
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Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
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2458 -
Coloma,CA - c1860s-1900 - James Marshall Glass Plate Negative :
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Portrait collodian process glass plate of the significantly misunderstood Sutter Mill partner/employee who's finding of gold during the building...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 750.00 - 1,000.00
Sold to 9****k for
(1,500.00 + 262.50BP) =
1,762.50
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2459 -
Downieville,CA - Sierra County - Lamping Express Collection :
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Unusual group of four different Lamping Express and Banking House Documents. The lot has a legal sized unused franked cover with 6 cent stamp
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Start Price : 125.00 | Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
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2460 -
El Dorado,CA - 1859, 1867 - El Dorado County Documents :
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Lot of two. 1) Stock: River Road Company. Issued to JR Kiefer Aug. 31, 1867 for $117.50 paid to tollkeeper of River Road Co. Signed by Ornate border p
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 350.00 - 700.00
Sold to 8***8 for
(150.00 + 26.25BP) =
176.25
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Forest Hill,CA - Placer County - 23 March 1856 - Gold Rush Letter :
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From Matthew Maus to his brother David D. Maus Esq. in Danville Pennsylvania. Blue, lined lettersheet torn from the rest of the sheet. One page fro
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Sold to 8*****B for
(200.00 + 35.00BP) =
235.00
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2462 -
Forest Hill,CA - 1878 - Wells Fargo & Co. Gold Dust Purchase Card :
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Very rare gold dust purchased card where the Wells Fargo office at Forest Hill bought from A. Clark 2 ounces 9 dwts of gold dust. A. H. Cowden was the
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 600.00 - 1,200.00
Sold to p********n for
(550.00 + 96.25BP) =
646.25
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2463 -
Grass Valley,CA - c1902 - Empire Mine Photographs :
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Lot of three. 1) Small photo of exterior of Empire Mine Bourn Mansion with drive leading to ivy covered stone façade. Built by Willis Polk enti...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Sold to R*****n for
(150.00 + 26.25BP) =
176.25
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2464 -
Inyo County,CA - April 21, 1864 - Patagonia Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock :
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Inyo District. Incorporated in 1863. Cert. #157, issued to William Linz for 5 shares. Signed by Lewis Peck, president, and N.G. French, secretary. Vig
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,500.00
Sold to i*****l for
(800.00 + 140.00BP) =
940.00
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Inyo County,CA - March 9, 1864 - St. Lawrence Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock :
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Inyo District. Incorporated in 1863. Cert. #170, issued to E.P. Billings for 22 shares. Signed only by secretary W. H. Darain? Vignette at upper left
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
Sold to i*****l for
(850.00 + 148.75BP) =
998.75
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Inyo County,CA - October 26, 1863 - St. Lawrence Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock :
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Inyo Mining District. Incorporated September 22, 1863. Cert. #100, issued to H.L. Hopkins for 5 shares. Signed by president Benj. Dore and secretary W
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 700.00 - 1,200.00
Sold to i*****l for
(450.00 + 78.75BP) =
528.75
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Jackson,CA - Amador County - February 12, 1858 - Oregon Territory Bill of Sale :
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Rare. February 12, 1858 Bill of Sale for a house and lot in the California Gold Country. It is signed by J.D. Page who is selling his home to Samuel
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold to 8***8 for
(180.00 + 31.50BP) =
211.50
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Jackson Creek,CA - Calaveras County - 1 September 1850 - Gold Rush Letter :
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lifornia. Crème, lined, lettersheet paper. Measures 7.25" x 9." Remnants remaining of the original red wax sealant. Some yellowin...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,500.00
Sold to 9***2 for
(950.00 + 166.25BP) =
1,116.25
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Lemoore,CA - 1905/1919 - Wells Fargo & Co. Receipt Books :
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Lot of two. 1) Receipt book from F.F. Foster, Wells Fargo Agent at Lemoore, Visalia and Coalinga, with this stamp on the front cover. Typical Wells F
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
Sold to R*****n for
(100.00 + 17.50BP) =
117.50
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Lincoln,CA - Placer County - November 1, 1863 - Thirty-One Union Gold & Silver Copper Mining Company
Holabird-Kagin Americana
Garden Bar District. Incorporated in 1863. Cert. #173, issued to W.L. Hart in 1863 for 25 shares. Signed by J.C. Crosby, president, and John Barnes, s
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 500.00 - 900.00
Sold to 8***8 for
(325.00 + 56.88BP) =
381.88
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