Western Frontiers Auction (October 2022)

Rare doctors black pill container bag. Full of glass containers for pills with cork tops. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance

Collection of medicine bottles, jars, assorted drug store items, and medical tools. Examples include a bottle of liver salt, an inkwell from Tombstone

Collection of antique medical equipment. Includes a galvanic body belt, a bleeding pan, a book of Berbecker's non-corrosive surgeons' needle...

Group of antique medical equipment. Includes three boxes of bandages, two bars of soap (one in original packaging) two medical vial cases with glass v

4 19th century medical kits in wood cases. Surgeon's amputation set with bone saw, tourniquet and assorted instruments, 16x19". Eye surgery...

Early 20th century Rheotome medical device, used for electrical stimulation, likely quackery. Wood case 4.5x8.75x5.25". Date: Country (if no...

Ear trumpet that would have been used by a deaf or hard of hearing person as an early hearing aid. Ear trumpets were used as hearing aids into the ear

Unusual wooden press from the 19th century. No manufacturer markings are visible, possibly handmade by an individual. Wooden pressing plate with metal

Pair of rare, antique whisk brooms, c. 1880-1900. Whisk brooms were mostly used for dusting furniture or clothing. Each of these brooms is approx. 3.5

1 sided Bucking Bronco Roundup Coal metal sign. Bucking bronco center logo. 13.5x19.5". Colors faded, some rust and corner dogears. Date: Co...

Curved rectangular aluminum De Laval Cream Separators and Milkers sign. 5x27". Some signs of use. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Cit...

A) Cardboard advertisement for Dr. Lynas' Hair Grower and Toilet Cream. Orange letters on a black background. 13.5 x 10 inches. B) Cardboard ad...

Three slave items including an ankle shackle and branding iron. It is unknown if these are originals or reproductions. The other item is a Manilla or

This lot contains five (5) different styles of handcuffs or personal restraint devices. There is the Argus "Iron Claw" type 4 made in Chic...

Police hand lantern with trace of original green paint. Double crown top and 2 handles. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Set of two 18k gold plated pens by Pierre Cardin with original box. Cardin was an Italian-French fashion designer known for his avant-garde style. The

This is a vintage pocket knife with pencil on a chain. Engraved "FRL". The chain is a twisted rope design, a button hole t-bar and two gol...

Name tag with clasp for J. Earl Cavanaugh Dean, Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral. It is likely all of these items belonged to him. Cross patch with pi

12 cruise ship menus, mostly Sitmar Cruises, c. 1950's to 80's. 3 are South Pacific covers with blank menu pages. SS Mariposa information ki...

1) Railroad Terminal Map of Chicago - 1895 - with inset of downtown & index to railroads and depots - (27 1/2" x 21 1/2"); 2) Michigan...

This lot contains frontier shirts that cover the colonial period, fur trade period, frontier old western periods. There are two pair of buckskin pants

3 framed "Gun Show" fantasy vests as would be used in the 1960's-70's. We offer these as educational examples. Each is a fantasy, ...

17 Harpers Weekly wood cut prints, 7 other woodcut prints from other period papers. c. 1870's to 1880's. Date: Country (if not USA): ...

About a 7" stack of old newspapers, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Examiner, Morning Union, Yank, Stars and Stripes. Presidential headlines and ...

Two 8mm film reels in dustproof cans manufactured by Goldberg Bros. in Denver, Colorado. Both cans are contained in their original boxes. The content

Kodak Aero-Ektar, 178mm, F 2.5 lens, perhaps for a projector or enlarger. Marked Alpha Syncromatic. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City:

Miscellaneous Logging & Lumbering Publications (6): 1) "This Fascinating Lumber Business" by Stanley F. Horn Publ by The Bobbs-Merrill...

Early Newspaper Articles & Illustrations on Lumber: 1) The Youths Companion (cover), February 27, 1913 "A Vermont Logging Camp", (6 Il...

Original 11x14" print of lumbermen by c. Kinsey, St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

General Advertiser 1808, Philadelphia. 1971 LA quake in The Valley News and LA Times, 1974 LA Times on Watergate, Reno Gazette Journal Mapes implosion

Thin red quilt with paisley pattern. About 72x77". Edge wear and signs of use. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

4 machine made trade blankets, about 80x68". Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Cameron Charles Holloway Coll...

Vintage red paisley quilt. About 62x78". Some edge wear and small tears. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

1859 Palmer's Vegetate Lotion pamphlet 4pp. These products appear to predate the Palmer's emerald green bottles of the 1870"s. 11.5x8.5...

About 30 RN checks, Greene, NY. Boston, MA. Columbia, PA. New York. Helena and Butte, MT. Columbus, OH. Portland, OR. Silver City, NM. Prescott, AZ.

About 30 RN checks, c. 1873-1889. Greene, NY. Helena and Butte, MT. Townsend, MA. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

About 35 checks with good eye appeal. Ardmore Coca Cola. New Brunswick, NJ. New York. Richmond, VA. Wataga, IL. Olney, OK. Dixmont, PA. Holbrook, AZ.

About 60 nice checks, not the usual stuff. Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Portland, Grass Valley and Shaniko, OR. El Reno, OK. Clarita

22 Western checks. Trinidad, Co. Silver City, ID. Bisbee, AZ. Blackfoot, ID. Helena, MT. Denver, CO. Shanika, OR. and more. c. 1867-1923. Date: Cou

Original wood stereoviewer and 3 views-cowboy on horse, boy and dog at a stream, Arizona ranchers. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: P

This lot has four photos carried by loved ones. Two daguerreotypes of an older woman, a well dresses man barley visible; and two tintype photos, one c

Lot of over 100 vintage 1880s trade cards with Victorian art work. Theatres, shoemakers, sewing machine companies, dry goods stores, furniture stores.

36 trade cards and advertising items-Oysters, Hire's Root Beer, Hair Pins, Arbuckle Coffee, Milwaukee Harvester, Sherman's Mocha and Java, B...

Lot of about 20 vintage trade cards for shoes, cotton, medicine, tea/coffee, shoe polish, butter, thread, sarsaparilla, tobacco, etc. Very artistic. V

True West, a magazine about the history of the American West. This lot is comprised of two large boxes containing about 175+ issues published between

Rare US Deputy Marshall receipt for capture of Frank McNeary in 1895, signed by deputy. 4x8.5". Date: Country (if not USA): State: City:...

11 US Product labels or flat packages, various sizes. Morning-Tap Cigar, Blue Bonnet tobacco, sardines, Dr. Bonker's Bitters-toning, 2x Governme...

Brown vintage black powder container with some white crust on bottom. Cork with leather tether. c. 1880's. 12.5x6". Date: Country (if no...

Vintage drinking gourd with cork as would be used as a canteen. c. 1900-20. Rope carry handle. 11x7". Date: Country (if not USA): State: ...

Detailed mechanical drawing of unknown device 15.5x28" with stain. EG Rideout watch brochure The Navigator or Mariners Guide 1905, Lloyd Hatha...

Collection of about 35 vintage magazines including National Geographic Magazine, Popular Mechanics Magazine, Mechanix Illustrated, Life, the Saturday

"Harrison" gold plated pin without pin back. .5x2". Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Lot of 2. 1) This folded letter is stampless and stamped "FREE" from Philadelphia, Penn. from Charles Keassing along with 5"important...

Rare Abraham Lincoln cloth breast badge in frame. For President/Abraham Lincoln,/Of Illinois/For Vice President,/Hannibal Hamlin/Of Maine. 4x2.5&quo...

Abraham Lincoln pinback button by Cammall Badge, Boston. 1 3/8". Bonus Patriotic pin with flag. Date: Country (if not USA): State: ...

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CDV of President James A. Garfield. Garfield was president from March 4 to September 19, 1881, before he was assassinated. This CDV is 2.5 x 4.25 inch

Benjamin Harrison presidential campaign ribbon from 1888. White ribbon with the image of Harrison in the center. Ben. Harrison. / Our Next/ President/

Suite of six different buttons and badges from William Jennings Bryan's presidential campaign. Bryan ran for president as a Democrat three times...

Rare 1884 ribbon with 2 photo jugate of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan. They were defeated by Grover Cleveland. 5.25x2.5". Paper note adher...

Grover Cleveland campaign ribbon. Red, white, and blue ribbon attached to an eagle pin. Cleveland was president from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893

6 McKinley buttons, 1 ribbon, 1 vote card, 1 buckle? Pins .75-1.75". Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Suite of seven different buttons, badges, and ribbons from Theodore Roosevelt's presidential campaign. Some interesting pieces include a Progres...

1902 Third Annual Encampment of the Spanish American War Veteran Luncheon in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt, Indianapolis, September 23, 1902,

Rare Theodore Roosevelt For President.1904 button. TR on a horse in uniform. 1.25" with .5" cracked edge behind Roosevelt. Date: Countr...

Very rare Theodore Roosevelt Anaconda/Butte ribbon with upper portrait and lower Anaconda smelter. Made by Whitehead and Hoag, Newark, NJ. About 4.7...

Lot of four different political ribbons. Three ribbons are related to Theodore Roosevelt's Pacific Northwest Tourin 1903. One of the stops on th...

The Rough Riders by Roosevelt, from the library of Henry Hayes, MD, Hilo, Hawaii. 1900, 236pp plus appendices. Oliver Cromwell by Roosevelt, from the

Ribbon and token from the presidential campaign of Alton B. Parker. Parker was a judge who served on the New York Supreme Court and the New York Court

Silver Bow/Helena/Sept. 17th 1908 red ribbon 9x2.5" with William Taft chromolitho button. Whitehead and Hoag, Newark, NJ embossed on rear, 4&qu...

Rare button from the presidential campaign of John A. Johnson. Johnson was the 16th governor of Minnesota from 1905 to 1909. In 1908, he tried to win

Leather fob with an image of Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. This fob is approx. 5 inches long.

Herbert Hoover campaign pieces, mostly from the 1928 presidential election. Hoover defeated Al Smith in this election. These campaign pieces include a

Two rare Al Smith presidential campaign fobs. Smith was the governor of New York between 1923 and 1928. In 1928, he was the Democratic nominee for pre

2 different Al Smith buttons, about .75". Metal oval plaque 3.5x5.5". Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Franklin Roosevelt signed Navy Department letter as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1918. Letter relates to Eyes for the Navy program in which citize

Presidential campaign pieces from Franklin D. Roosevelt and his opponents. Includes about 22 Roosevelt buttons, six Landon-Knox buttons (his opponent

Autographed photograph of J. Edgar Hoover. It is signed, "To Judith E. O'Neill, best wishes, J. Edgar Hoover. 6/21/48." Hoover was the...

9 1948 Dewey presidential buttons. He was defeated by Truman. .75-1.5". Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Framed invitation to John F. Kennedy/LBJ inauguration on January 20, 1961. Frame 12x9" with lower right water stain. Senator John Kennedy Chris...

About 20 John F Kennedy presidential buttons. Some reversing reflector type. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

About 20 Lyndon Johnson and Humphrey buttons and 1 ribbon. Some are reversing reflectors. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance

About 30 Ike, Goldwater, Agnew and Ford buttons etc. Unusual Goldwater rainbow blanket 7.5x3.5". Ike matchbook and 1972 uncirculated dollar. D...

Collection of 9 Bill Clinton presidential campaign buttons from 1992 and 1996. Plus, Bill Clinton's autograph on a piece of stationery from the ...

Group of campaign pieces from four different presidents. This group includes two campaign buttons for Woodrow Wilson, seven buttons and two fobs for W

Group of campaign pieces from four different presidential candidate campaigns. Includes eight pieces for Adlai Stevenson II, four buttons for Harry Tr

4 national Presidential convention badges. Republican 1972, 1980. GOP Inauguration 1953. Montana Democratic 1944 ribbon only. Date: Country (if not

About 27 presidential pins, some funny ones including Reagan, Nixon. Also Ike sunglass, Shriver, Udhe, MacArthur and more Date: Country (if not USA

Lot of ten tickets to presidential political conventions: 1920 Republican, Chicago (torn corner); 1936 Democratic, Philadelphia, at Franklin Field; 19

About 30 modern presidential buttons. Obama, Gore, McCain, Mondale, Perot, Jackson and more. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provena

About 30 Republican presidential pins, c. 1960-2000. Nixon, Reagan, Bush. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Silver Bow Delegate, Republican Convention, Helena 1900. 9.5". McKinley. Water staining on ribbons. Date: Country (if not USA): State:...

Aqua, Carter For Congress ribbon with crossed staff(fraternal) and pic axe. 7x2.5". Date: Country (if not USA): State: Montana City: Pr...

About 30 Montana political buttons. Cooney, Baucus, Keenan, Renne etc. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Montana City: Provenance:

About 30 Democrat themed buttons. Dukakis, Hillary, McGovern, Carter, Mondale etc. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

This beautiful letter was written to Naval Surgeon George Clymer aboard the USS Cyane in 1842, signed by his wife Mary. The letter is folded and seale

This map made in 1848 is based on the survey by H. Ehrenberg copied by Lieut. W. H. Warner. It describes the movements of both U.S. troops and Mexican

This sketch depict the operations of General Worth on Sept. 8th, 1847 at El Molino Del Rey (The King's Mill) outside Mexico City. Measuring 15 i...

This postal cover has a likeness of Col. Geary twenty-eighth regiment P.V. He had colorful career as a officer in the Mexican-American war where he r

A little known General of the Mexican-American War- John Love. This postal cover is post stamped from Fort Leavenworth, Mo. with a ten cent postal fee