DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2117 Shasta County, California c1917 Lot# 2120 California Greenhorn Mine/ Shasta County, California/ Composite level Map/ Showing Geology/ Journal of Mines & Feb. 18 1929/ D.A. Group of six from Greenhorn Mountain Copper Mine: 1) Map of Geology Reports #1 (3) the Greenhorn Mountain Copper Mine Shasta County California. Compiled by E.H. Scott 517 1) Volume 34, No. 3, July, Crocker Bldg. S.F. “Original map made by scott - 1917 brought to date by Hanford” written in pencil under title block . Measures 42” x 30”, 1938 – Mineral Resources multi-colored, repaired by tape, upper right corner missing, poor condition. 2) Map of the Greenhorn Mountain Copper Mine Shasta of El Dorado Co. with County California. Compiled by E.H. Scott 517 Crocker Bldg. S.F. No date listed. “#4 Scottis map (duplicate) 4 underground-greenhorn table of Placer Mines & (no date)” written in pencil on reverse. Measures 42” x 30”, multi- colored, repaired by tape, lower right corner missing, poor condition. Prospects & 24”x 18” fold- 3) Greenhorn Mine/ Assay Plat Showing Sulphide Ore Development/ on 31/2, 4, 41/2, & 5 Levels. Compiled by Albert Hanford,/ 24 out map showing mining California St., San Francisco, California./ August, 1942. Measures 42” x 30”, repaired by tape, upper R/L corners missing, some tears and claims – (6” x 9” booklet, foxing, fair condition. 4) Greenhorn Mine/ Shasta County, California/ Composite level Map/ Showing Geology/ Feb. 18 1929/ D.A. Hall. “Ack. 76 pages) 2) Volume 37, No. 3, July, 1941 – Mineral Resources of Ans. File Refer Reconstruction Finance Corporation Rec’d Jan 30 1935 Self-Liquidation Division” stamped on reverse. Measures 42” x 30”, Nevada Co. with table of Quartz Mines & Prospects – (6” x 9” booklet, repaired by tape, upper corners missing, poor condition. 5) Greenhorn Mine/ Shasta County, California/ Composite level Map/ Showing 122 pages) 3) Volume 45, No. 1, January, 1949 – Mines & Mineral Geology/ Feb. 18 1929/ D.A. Hall. “orig.Hall - Howland map” written on reverse. Measures 47” x 28”, multi-colored, with foldlines and some Resources of Tuolumne Co. with 25” x 38” map showing Mining Claims water spots, otherwise good condition. 6) Assay Map/ Greenhorn Copper Mine/ Shasta Co., Calif/ No. 2 Level. No date or surveyor listed. & Prospects – Also in this Vol. is a report on the Quicksilver deposits of Measures 401/2” x 29”, some tears along edges, otherwise fair-good condition. Discovered in 1901, the mine was worked from 1910- the Oakville District in Napa Co. with 3 additional maps in pocket– (6” 16, when it was acquired by Greenhorn Mountain Copper Co., and in January 1919 was taken over by the Atascadero Copper Co., both x 9” booklet, 116 pages) Est. $120-240 HWAC# 132303 defunct. Group included 14 claims, 280 acres of agricultural land, and a total of 540 acres. Patented on Greenhorn mountain in the French Lot# 2121 California Gulch district, Shasta County, near French Gulch (Mines Handbook, Journal of Mines & 1931). Date: c1917 Country (if not USA): State: California City: Shasta Geology Reports #2 County Provenance: Fred Holabird Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 61246 (3) 1) Volume 43, No.1, January, 1947 – Mines & Mineral Re- sources of Lake Co. showing locations of Principal Mineral Deposits on 19” x 24” map – Also in this Volume is a report on the Mines & Minerals of San Benito Co. and 2 additional Maps of Quicksilver Mines in Kern Co. – (6”x9” Bkt., 75 pgs.). 2) Volume 48, No. 2, April 1952 – Mines & Mineral Resources of Yuba Co. – Also in this volume is a collection of Pictures and Statements on the Mineral Materials used in Building in Calif. Prior to 1850 – (6”x9” Booklet, 189 pages) 3) Volume 23, No. 2, April 1927 – Table of Quartz Mines & Prospects In Amador Co. – Also in this Volume is a Report on Solano County (6” x 9” booklet, 102 pages) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132305 Lot# 2118 Truckee, California Truckee, Boca Lot# 2122 California Journal of Dam, Mining Photo Album 1920’s-30’s Interesting photo album with lots of interesting Mines & Geology Reports #3 content. Album contains about 145 black and white photos from the 1920’s-1930’s. (3) 1) Volume 41, No. 1, Pictures of Truckee, the construction of Boca Dam, a group of fire photos, and lots of mining January 1945 – Quicksilver Deposits including American Flat and the Kennedy Mine in the mother lode. Also, photos of Herlong base, Pyramid Lake, the of Central San Benito & Northwestern copper mine at Ruth, Nevada and more. Some family photos as well. Many photographs are missing, so some pages have the corner holders Fresno Counties with 4 foldout maps but no photos. The album covers and binding are secure and in good shape. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129547 – (6”x9” booklet, 54 pages). 2) Lot# 2119 California 1948 Copper in Calif/ Volume 39, No. 4, October, 1943 – Bulletin 144/ Division of Mines (3) Part 1: Detailed reports of the Foothill Copper Belt – Mineral Resources of San Bernardino Co. with 21” x 36” map showing Part 2: Economics & treatment of ores – Part 3: Tabulation of copper properties to accompany Mines & Mineral Deposits & 7 additional foldout maps in pocket (6” economic mineral map (44”h x 38”w), of California No. 6 – (6” x 9” HB text has 9 plates x 9” booklet, 74 pages). 3) Volume 44, No.3, July, 1948 – Quicksilver & 429 pages-Separate 6 ¼”x 9 ¼” pocket has 61 plates Est. $120-200 HWAC# 132313 Deposits of the Guerneville District, Sonoma Co. with 8 maps in pocket for Mount Jackson & Great Eastern Mines – (6”x9” Bkt., 73 pgs.) Est. $140-250 HWAC# 132304 Lot# 2123 California Journal of Mines and Geology Publications (3) 1) Volume 31, No. 3, July, 1935 – Mines & Mineral Resources of Siskiyou Co. with 24”x 22”map showing location of principal Gold Mines. 2) Volume 33, No.2, April 1937 – Mines & Mineral Resources of Plumas Co. with 24”x 20”map showing Areal Geology & Locations of Principal Mines. 3) Volume 52, No.3, July, 1956 – Lode Gold Mines of the Alleg-hany-Downeville area in Sierra Co. – Nine (9) maps in pocket 19 Figures throughout. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 132302 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 99
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2124 California 1800s California Mining Lot# 2128 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1906 Documents (4) Lot of 4. 1) Handwritten Geology & Gold Deposits of the Cripple pay document dated 1897 regarding work Creek District U.S.G.S., PP 54, by Waldemar done on the Idaho Mine in Grass Valley, CA, & Frederick L. Ransom, 1906. 29 Plates (3 in signed by Joseph Goldsworthy. The Idaho was Pocket), 64 Figures – (8 ½” x 11 ½” HB, 516 situated on the south side of Wolf Creek, one Pgs.) Est. $400-500 HWAC# 132349 mile south of Grass Valley. According to an article in the 2/10/1882 issue of the Sacramento Daily Union, it was Lot# 2129 Denver, Colorado 1878 U. S. Mint of the “Richest Gold Mine in the World”. 2) Letter from A. Wartenweiler, Denver Assays Lot of two. Both 1878. Both to Mining Engineer, Metallurgist, Mills Building, San Francisco CA, dated City National Bank. Both signed by AS Webster. 1898, to Mrs. E. Trabucco, Bear Valley, for payment of material for the One for 52.39 ounces of gold for $821.43. The McCrellish Property (owned the Rising Hope Mine near Placerville), second for 16.77 ounces for $265.05. Would handsigned by Wartenweiler. 3) Check payable to the Anglo California have been used to make gold bars. Fred Holabird Bank in San Francisco, dated 1895, on the account of the Bullion & Collection Est. $200-600 HWAC# 108362 Exchange Bank, Carson City, NV. 4) Receipt for 3 ½ cords of wood dated Jan. 25, 1860. No location listed but item was found with other Lot# 2130 Leadville, Colorado 1880-1894 old California documents. Wood probably used for mining/mill work. Leadville Letter Regarding Cripple Creek Very light writing on blue paper. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132814 Mine Worker Strike Lot contains a letter written by the Leadville Attorneys Phelps & Lot# 2125 Castle Rock, Colorado Colorado Mining Pendery regarding a miners’ strike and how Prospectus With Mines at Castle Rock S.E. of Denver it’s affecting the local economy. The letter was Nice mining company prospectus from The American written on April 8, 1894 and is in excellent Rand Mining & Milling Company. The company was condition. Included is a nice stereo view of comparing itself to the famous South African Rand downtown Leadville and an itemized bill saying they had better prospects. Picture of execs at the written by J.V. Roby Steam and Gas Fitter. Please see photos for more “Entrance to the Tunnel” on the front cover. 12 pages of detail and condition. Est. $500-700 HWAC# 131617 information. The mine was 7 miles NE of Castle Rock and 25 miles SE of Denver. Writing on outside of back cover Lot# 2131 Leadville, Colorado 1865 doesn’t effect information inside. The compahy’s main Leadville Miners’ Union Campaign Ribbon backer was Prof. J.D. Caldon with experience in the mining industry A campaign or convention ribbon from dating back to the 1860’s. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 111850 the Cloud City Miners’ Union of Leadville, Colorado. The union was organized on May 9, Lot# 2126 Clear Creek County, Colorado Framed 1895, according to the ribbon. Even though Photo of Miner at Portal of Rockford Tunnel, there is slight damage to the piece, it’s still Clear Creek, Colorado Very nice framed photo rare and in nice enough condition to display. of a miner at the mine portal with his dog. The It measures 9”x 3” and comes in a display Rockford Tunnel was a mine located at Fall River, box. Please see photos for more detail and Colorado, in Clear Creek County. On the back condition. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 131614 it reads, “Bill Lewis, Owner, 1906”. The famous Donaldson mine on Trail Creek was to be reached via the Rockford Tunnel in 1905. In 1905, the tunnel was leased by the Banner Consolidated Mines Company. The mine had historically produced about $800,000 above the 500 foot level. The tunnel was to drain the workings down to the 600’ level for further production. The company was to build an immense concentrating mill on Clear Creek as soon as they were assured of adequate supply (Mining Investor, 1905). The photo measures about 8” x 9” and the fancy gold leaf frame measures 14” x 17”. Small pieces missing from top right and bottom right corners are hardly noticable. This is a great Colorado mining collectable. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129542 Lot# 2127 Cripple Creek, Colorado Elkton Mine Lot# 2132 Leadville, Grants Easement to Midland Terminal Rwy. Signed by Geo. Bernard Interesting, right of way Colorado 1900’s deed between the Elkton Mining & Milling Company and the Midland Terminal Railway granting the Leadville Tin Cup railway an easement on property at the mining company. It regarded a 12 foot wide strip of land & Container Two next to the coal bins of the Elkton mine for a 90 foot length. Also included a tract of land south of souvenir items from the coal bins. This legal document was prepared by Henry M. Blackmer, Attorney at Law, Colorado Springs. It is signed by Leadville, Colorado. Geo. Bernard as president. This document between the two parties was to facilitate a contract involving the Colorado Trading & Transfer First we have an Company. Three famous Cripple Creek companies and two notable individuals involved in this deed and document preparation and advertising piece, a tin signing. Dated 1902. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 111847 drinking cup handed out as a promotional item by Powell & Smith Real Estate, Mines, Insurance. Cup is 2”x 5” and looks brand new, with paper label inside. Second, we have a cylindrical bamboo wood container with lid. Box stands 4.5” and is about 2.5” wide at the mouth. There is a scene of Leadville ink stamped on the front. There are some wear marks, but no cracks or breaks. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 121708 100 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2133 Leadville, Lot# 2138 Colorado Colorado Bullion Assays (3) 1) Cripple Creek Sampling & Ore Co., Colorado 1910 Cripple Creek, Colorado For “Old Gold Mining Co., (Brentlinger Lease) – 11/17/1908. 2) Vintage Leadville The Taylor & Brunton Sampling Works Co., Aspen Colorado for The Mineral Farm (Agent Lunch Bucket & Clark Wheeler) – Sept. 26, 1894. 3) Selby Smelting & Lead Co., S.F., for The Bullion & Exchange Bank – May 13, 1902. Est. $100-150 Canteen Two really HWAC# 132408 great pieces from Lot# 2139 Colorado Century Copper Mining Co Articles of Incorporation, Colorado, 1900 Original articles of the mining town of incorporation dated 1900 for this Colorado miner signed by the three company officers: Boyer, King and Tallman. Leadville, Colorado. The document was signed in Arapahoe County, Colorado. There were 625,000 shares authorized at $1 per share. It First we have a appears that the company decided to change their state of incorporation to South Dakota in 1901, and that is miner’s lunch bucket reflected by this document. Large gold seal on the front. Typed pages showing the company’s authorized activities with exterior hooks and purposes. An interesting look into the legal matters of this mining company. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 129568 to hold miner’s candlesticks for a mood lit meal. Bucket measures 7”x Lot# 2140 Colorado Colorado Mining 10”. To wash down your lunch, we’ve also included a nice canteen that Bonds and Ephemera (8) Lot includes two bonds from Mono-Baltic Mining and Smelting measures about 9” in diameter. Both the lunch bucket and the canteen Company which operated at Ouray, Colorado issued in 1909. Some browning on center fold. are embossed with the “Western Hardware” logo. A couple of very Also a 91 Mines Company letterhead (Gilpin County miner), a one page letter datelined unique and collectable pieces for your mining keepsakes. Please see Red Mountain, 1900 regarding a mining claim in Corkscrew Gulch; a voucher from The Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway, photos for more detail and condition. Est. $500-700 HWAC# 121699 1906; and assay report from Cripple Creek Sampling and Ore Co. 1899, operated by Tutt and Penrose; a Ramsey C. Bogy Investments Lot# 2134 Colorado 1800’s-1900’s letterhead datelined Denver, 1896, regarding mining stock trades; and Very Rare United Mine Workers some coupons from a Denver & Rio Grande Western bond. Est. $200- Shaving Mug This is an extra rare and 350 HWAC# 111849 beautiful shaving mug from The United Mine Workers of the Colorado miners Lot# 2141 Colorado Colorado Mining Silver (Struck coal in 1896). The cup stands Spoon Group Lot of 4 different. 1) Large 4” and its rim is about 3.5”. It has the bronze gilt spoon, Colorado Springs, “Struck iconic UMW clasping hands, as well as It At Last,” figural handle. 6.5” long. 2) Mineral the crossed shovels and picks. There’s Palace, Pueblo, Colorado. Die struck bowl. Rare little paint wear on the gold gilding, building from the 1890s that housed Colorado but no cracks or chips. Cup is made in mineral specimens from the mining camps. 5.5” Germany. Please see photos for more 3) Two other spoons without engraved bowls, detail and condition. Est. $300-500 Colorado and mining imagery on handles. 4.5” HWAC# 121707 and 5.5” Est. $150-250 HWAC# 134005 Lot# 2135 Manitou, Colorado Three Birdseye Stereoviews of Manitou, Colorado c. 1880 Three nice stereos circa 1880 of views of Manitou, Colorado. The three views are all by different photographers: Gurnsey, Oldroyd and Stormer. Oldroyd operated out of Colorado Springs from 1873-1882. All three photos are from different angles and show different buildings and mountains. VF. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 111853 Lot# 2136 Colorado Rare Colorado Mining Lot# 2142 Colorado Two Choice Colorado RPC’s (2 count) Mrs. Cap Jack going prospecting Mining Silver Spoons Lot of 2 different with 2 mules(some paper adhered to rear). Well sterling spoons. 1) Gold Coin Mine, Victor, Colorado. 5” with engraved bowl showing mine dressed ladies at Lava Beds at Gypsum. Est. $40- building. 2) Mineral Palace, Pueblo, Colorado. 100 HWAC# 135375 5” with engraved bowl. The world famous Colorado Mineral Palace was considered one of the show places of the Lot# 2137 Colorado Colorado Assay Receipts West in 1890’s. Housing the largest collection of minerals and gems in the world, the Mineral Palace was built as a monument to Colorado’s (3) 1) Selby Smelting & Lead Co., S.F. – mineral wealth and industry. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 134004 Refining for the Bullion & Exchange Bank of Carson City – May 5th, 1902. 2) The Golden Lot# 2143 Colorado Colorado Mining Stock, Photos & Document, 1800’s (4) Nice group Cycle Mining Co., Colorado Springs, Colorado of Colorado material includes Vulcan Gold and Silver Mining Company stock dated 1880. The for Old Gold Mining Co., (Brentlinger, Agent) – company operated at Ouray, Colorado. Also, February 15th, 1909. 3) The Philadelphia Smelting & Refining Co., a nice birdseye view of Manitou, Colorado by Denver Colo. – for Mary McKinney Mining Co., Anaconda, Colorado – Gurnsey, c. 1880’s. Next, a cabinet card from Hook of the Hanging Bridge at Royal Gorge. March 20th 1900 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132409 Then, an 1895 mines report of the Fairview mine in the Cripple Creek district. The mine was owned by Anaconda Extension Mining Company. Everything is in very good to fine condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 111842 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 101
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2144 Middletown, Connecticut 1853 By Lot# 2150 Calumet, Michigan Laws Silver-Lead Mining Co. Very rare book Calumet & Hecla Coin Case by James Whitney, 1853 w/ litho inside front This unique little coin case cover. Area mined possibly as a early as 1700 made of copper features as granted by Gov. Winthrop 1661 . Worked by the mine buildings around Cornish miners in the early years as a possible Shaft No. 2 of the Calumet source of silver for early U.S. coinage. Map of Mine in the Copper Country the property is included. Fred Holabird Collection of Michigan’s Keweenaw Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 131470 Peninsula. The small copper box, about 1-1/4-inch square Lot# 2145 Idaho Archive of the Belshazzar and 3/4-inch thick, opens to Mine, Idaho Gold Mining Company, reveal a spring-loaded coin Placerville Idaho, 1920s. Archive of 150 or holder that can fit nickels, more documents circa 1926 to 1939 regarding pennies, and dimes. This almost all aspects of mind production at the could have been a souvenir Belshazzar mine. This mine processed high- of the Keweenaw National Historic Park in Calumet, Michigan. William grade gold silver in the late 1920s. The group Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 131923 includes important correspondence, shipping receipts to US smelting and refining in Salt Lot# 2151 Missouri Two Missouri Mining Lake City, internal letters about the possibility Photographs Lot of 2 different. 1) View of of theft in the hiring of a private detective, and much interesting 13 miners in front of buildings. Taken by correspondence. One shipment showed 2.38 ounces per ton gold and Wm. Weaver, Carl Junction, Missouri. Mine 15.6 ounces per ton silver in a shipment of 60,000 pounds sent to Salt not identified. Photo is 4.75 x 6.75” on 8 x 10” Lake City. They were paid $50.73 per ton, and it took them about 20 cardboard. Heavy wear to mount including chips, soiling, and foxing. days to mine this quantity. It appears company officers attempted to 2) View of 6 miners in front of mine building. Back is stamped “W.H. purchase equipment to do their own milling in the late 1920s. The Enos, Landscape & Mining Work Photographer, Underground Work a archive ends about the time of the great 1929 market crash. This Specialty, Joplin, MO.” Mine not identified. Photo is 4.75 x 6.75” on 8 archive also importantly has a report by Victoria Mitchell of the Idaho x 10” cardboard. Heavy wear to mount including chips, soiling, and geologic survey from 2008 describing in text the history of the mine foxing. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 134017 and the geology as well as many photographs accompanying the report. A very nice archive from an important Idaho mind active just Lot# 2152 Montana Anaconda Copper prior to the 1929 market crash. Est. $500-700 HWAC# 132775 Mining Company Underground Lamp Equipment Tag Brass, 34 x 40 mm, Lot# 2146 Idaho Idaho Mining Ephemera Lot of holed. Stamped: S / A. C. (M worn off) C. 6. 1) Sullivan Extension Mining Co. stock certificate. O. / 2249 / Lamp. Fred Holabird Collection Yreka District, Idaho Territory. Issued in 1888 for Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129312 1,00 shares. Pen cancelled. Very fine condition. 2) Three advertising covers: two different for Lot# 2153 Butte, Montana Butte & Red Horse Mining Co. (Harrison, ID, 1913) and Vicinity, Montana Mining Claims Map one for The Schiller (Idaho Springs, CO, 1896). Map is 29”x 36” on linen, folded into 3 ½” 3) CH Graves stereoview No. 4238. “Gold Mining x 7 ½ “ hard-cover binder. Est. $100-200 in Idaho.” Men working a sluice box outside of a HWAC# 132307 mine tunnel entrance. 4) One postcard showing hydraulic mining in Idaho (1908 Rigby). Est. $120-200 HWAC# 135364 Lot# 2147 Indiana Indiana - Illinois USGS Geologic Folio Group (10) Carlisle 1923; Colchester 1919; Ditney 1902; Danville 1900; Galena 1916; Gillespie 1926; Murphysboro 1912; New Athens 1921; Patoka 1904; Tallula 1913; Date: Country (if not USA): State: Indiana City: Provenance: Est. $300-600 HWAC# 112316 Lot# 2148 Indiana Indiana - Illinois USGS Lot# 2154 Butte, Montana 1912 Geology & Geologic Folio Group (9) Belleville 1915; Ore Deposits of the Butte District U.S.G.S., Colchester 1919; Danville 1900; Ditney 1902; PP 74, by Walter H. Weed – ( 9”x 11 ½” HB, 51 Galena 1916; Gillespie 1926; Murphysboro 1912; New Athens 1921; Tallula 1913; Date: Plates, (27 in Pocket), 262 pages) Est. $200- Country (if not USA): State: Indiana City: 300 HWAC# 132348 Provenance: Est. $250-350 HWAC# 112315 Lot# 2149 Kentucky Green Arrow Kentucky Coal Tin Advertising Sign Color tin advertising sign for Green Arrow Kentucky Coal, “America’s Finest Bituminous Coal.” Copyright 1929, by the C. Reiss Coal Company. Lower right corner is marked “Nelke New York.” Sign is 13.5 x 19.5” and has staining on the right side, as well as other wear. Please inspect photo. The C. Reiss Coal Company operated out of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. This sign may date to the 1930s. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 134046 102 May 2021
Lot# 2155 Troy, Montana Grouse Mountain DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Mining Co. Maps Troy, Montana This is a set of three mining maps of the Silver Grouse Lot# 2161 Goldfield, Nevada Downer Bros. Mining claims out of Troy, Montana. Two are Assayers and Mine Engineers Archive Small blue lines. Bimetallic mining. 1936 dates.C.H. archive of about 20 letters, documents and Barkdull. Date: Country (if not USA): State: three personal diary/ledgers with mine notes Montana City: Troy Provenance: Est. $350- from R.H. Downer, c1903-1912, plus one 1918 700 HWAC# 120605 letter. This group is of particular interest to mining geologists and engineers. One brother Lot# 2156 Bluestone, Nevada c1917 ran the assay business in Goldfield, and the Bluestone, Nevada Copper Concentrating other was a traveling consulting mine engineer. Thre three notebooks Plant and Furnace Panorama, 2 Feet Long record dozens of mine/property examinations in New Mexico, This mill was in operation for seven short Arizona, Mexico (the former all from 1903), California and Nevada months, but this photograph shows all of its glory! gThe Bluestone (this group c 1906-1912, and not complete). Underground workings mine is the oldest mine in the Yerington District, and may have been of many mines are sketched in the ledgers. The only down side is that worked as early as 1865. Before the turn of the century, the Bluestone the reader does not have the sample results to go with his notes on reportedly provided copper sulfates to the mines on the Comstock, each mine or prospect. The group also contains mine property reports which was used for amalgamation. Despite this, no production records on several properties, including the Nevada Tule, which was a mine exist with the State. In 1916, the Bluestone Mining and Smelting in Tule Canyon near Lida. In Nevada, Downer workded at Tonopah, Company built a 100-ton magnetic concentrating plant and furnace. Goldfield, Bullfrog and Rawhide in the very early discovery time of A 2½ mile spur was also built to connect the mine to the Nevada 1907 at Baloon Hill. In California he worked all around the mid-central Copper Belt Railroad in Mason. The mill only operated for seven Mother Lode at Grass Valley, Gold Lake, Round Lake etc. (report on months. Production in 1916 was estimated at 600 tons per day, and Nelson Point), and in the Shasa region from Yreka north and west into in 1917 at 1000 tons per day, which was shipped along the Nevada Trinity (Black Bear) and Sawyer’s Bar on the Salmon River. He also Copper Belt Railroad to the smelter at Thompson. During this time, sojourned down to San Bernardino County. Letters evolve around two an elaborate electric tramway system was used to transport ore from locations: Goldfield and the Lou Dillon property and Ouray, Colorado. the mine to the railroad spur. Before long, the mine declined, and in One Nevada telegram speaks of the Little Florence, a fabulously rich 1929 the spur line was abandoned.h [Nevada Expeditions] Photo claim in Goldfield. Est. $400-700 HWAC# 118167 measures 8h x 24h. High contrast and extremely nice. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $300-500 HWAC# 130120 Lot# 2162 Goldfield, Nevada 1907 Map of Goldfield, Lot# 2157 Dayton, Nevada 1918 Nevada - Pristine Map of Incorporation Papers for the Dayton Placer Goldfield, Nevada, 1907, by The Recovery Company The purpose was to Clason Map Co., publishers of conduct a general placer mining business in Advertising & Reference Maps, Utah and Nevada. Dayton stood for Dayton Denver, Colorado. Includes an Nevada? There were Dayton placers northwest extensive alphabetical list of of Dayton. Original incorporators were George mining companies along the left T. Hanson, John H. Leavell, George E. Ford, B. and right margins along with the Binnard and E.B. Critchlow. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130101 claim boundaries of the mining claims in and around the town Lot# 2158 Ely, Nevada 1907 “Ely and Her of Goldfield. All the colors are Mines”, 1907, Rare 9.5 x 12.5”, July 1, 1907. still bright and vibrant. This map is from one of the best collection of History of Ely camp, geology, etc. The booklet mining ephemera anywhere, and it has been professionally mounted answers questions like “What are the prices of in a pecan(?) frame and plexiglas, 27-1/2 x 21-1/2 inches. There is sleeping accommodations?” All in the effort to a minor half-inch tear along the top edge of the map, four old tape recruit new citizens. Four small photographs, marks along the left and right edges, and a quarter-inch circular stain two one page photographs, one double truck along the bottom edge that probably came from the metal clasp of the photograph, one small map and one two page envelope that once held this map when it was published. Other than mining map. A great deal of time is spent on mining with a look at that, you may never find another copy of this map available in better many mining companies: Butte & Ely, East Cumberland Ely, Ely Grand condition in your lifetime. It will be a prized display piece on whatever Central, Ely Rochelle, etc. 55 mining companies in all. 28 pages. Center wall you hang it. Est. $1500-3000 HWAC# 125062 pages are loose. Great White Pine Mining Resource! (W.D. Miles Collection) Est. $300-500 HWAC# 130068 Lot# 2163 Goldfield-Tonopah-Bullfrog, Nevada 1905 Atlas of Goldfield, Lot# 2159 Gold Hill, Nevada 1870-5 Gold Hill Mining Tonopah, and Bullfrog Mining Districts Ephemera Lot of 3. 1. Application for membership of Nevada, 1905 The quintessential in lodge 9 F. & A.M.. dated 1870 by Master Mason and compendium of Nevada mining from favorably accepted. Cond. F. 2. WoodVille Gold and Silver 1905, published by The W. H. Shearer Mining Co. assessment receipt #3 from H.H. Noble & Publishing Co. of San Francisco, Cal. Size Co. on shares issued Sept 1875. Signed by secretary, 3. is 5.75 x 8.75 inches. Includes three color Assessment receipt H.H. Nobel & Co. on stock of New maps of the Goldfield and Tonopah Mining Districts and the Goldfield York Mining Co. issued Oct 1875. Black border on blue Townsite. The Bullfrog Mining District Map is missing. The book paper. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 125504 begins with a “Descriptive Review of Southwestern Nevada,” then a directory of all Mining Companies operating in those districts, and Lot# 2160 Gold Hill, Nevada 1885 Miners ends with the State Mining Laws of Nevada. For some collectors, this is Union Book Gold Hill, Nev. Constitution By the historical holy grail of Nevada mining publications. This copy has Laws and order of Business. Miners Union all but one (Bullfrog) of the original pages and maps, some wear on of Gold Hill, Nev. dated 1885. 19 pages not the inside spine, minor crease tears on some maps. Goldfield map has including cover. In excellent condition. Very larger tear with a few square inches lost at one edge. Also included is a Rare, especially in this condition. Fred Holabird prospectus brochure for the Goldfield Mascot Mining Co. (4 x 9 inches) Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 131455 and another prospectus for The Forward Mining Development Co. of Goldfield and Bullfrog Nevada (4 x 9.125 inches), both in excellent condition. Est. $1500-2000 HWAC# 132531 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 103
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2164 Hamilton, Nevada 1904 Correspondence about mines in White Pine County Letters come from all over the United States: from Oregon to Pennsylvania, from Missouri to Massachusetts. 8 pieces. “Please give me any information you have on the Eagle Silver Mining Company.” Information on the Trench Gold and Silver Mining Company. Wanting to sell the Bold Mountain Mining Company land north of Warm Springs. Someone from San Francisco inquiring about their bonds. Those are the four we pulled out. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items in this collection range from fair to very nice. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 130018 Lot# 2165 Holbrook, Nevada Holbrook, Nevada Mine Document Collection 1906-1915 Silver Glance District, Douglas Co.- Collection of approximately 20 items, consisting of Location Notices, Receipts, Assay Certificates, etc. Est. $140-200 HWAC# 132308 Lot# 2166 Lander County, Antler Peak, Lot# 2168 McGill, Nevada 1907-08 Construction Photo Album of Nevada 1965 Geologic & Ore Deposit the McGill Concentrator and Smelter These two albums contain Maps for Antler Peak Quadrangle Group photographs and diazo copies of photographs of the construction of of 19 plates to accompany Geological Survey the concentrator and smelter by Nevada Copper Corporation from Professional Paper 459-B, Ore Deposits, Antler 1907 to 1908. This facility processed copper ores from the mines Peak Quadrangle, Nevada, Roberts and Arnold, around Ruth, just west of Ely, Nevada. The scale of the construction published in 1965. The Antler Peak Quadrangle recorded in these photos is amazing and includes construction of is located in Humboldt and Lander Counties, a high wooden trestle to bring ore to the top of the concentrator Nevada and includes Battle Mountain and parts of the Buffalo Valley building, the foundation and subsequent raising of the reverberatory and Reese River and Humboldt River valleys. Est. $80-120 HWAC# furnace smokestack, the installation of a hydro-electric powerhouse and so much more. One album includes eight-two, 8 x 10-inch, black 134025 and white photographs (and one blue & white diazo copy photo) that chronicle the construction of the McGill concentrator and smelter along with photos of the Ruth and Veteran mines. This includes three black and white negative panoramas of the Ruth townsite. The other album, labeled Chief Engineer’s Office, contains ninety-four, 7.5 x 10-inch, blue & white diazo copies of black and white photos, a few repeated from the first album, that have been annotated with handwritten and typed information. Almost every photo in both albums are labeled with their location and the direction of view. In 1932, Kennecott Copper Company acquired the McGill facility and operated it until declining grades at the Ruth mine and falling copper prices worldwide forced the closure of Kennecott’s entire McGill operations. The enormous site has since been demolished and cleared -- leaving bare ground between the remaining town of McGill and the Duck Creek Mountain Range -- and nothing but these photographs to memorialize the monumental work that was done there at the turn of the 20th century. Est. $5000-8000 HWAC# 132997 Lot# 2167 Manhattan, Nevada 1917 Manhattan Mining District Map - Pristine Manhattan Mining District, Nye County, Nevada. Compiles and Published by William K. Moran, E.M., Photo. Lith. Halpin Litho Co, S.F. This map is in such pristine condition as if it was mounted and framed on the day is was printed. There are no tears or water damage on this item, and the colors are bright and vibrant. It comes from a collector of the finest mining ephemera, and it has been professionally mounted and framed in oak and plexiglas. Dimensions are 38-1/4 x 32-3/4 inches. This will look spectacular on the wall of your home or office, or as a featured item in your museum. Est. $2000-4000 HWAC# 125061 104 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2169 McGill, Nevada Nevada Copper Co and Kennecott Copper Lot# 2170 McGill, Nevada Eastern Nevada Mining Collectibles w/Copper Splash from Records from McGill, Nevada A variety of ledgers, notebooks, McGill Smelter A collection of Western and mining memorabilia to get you started on a and documents of collection or to round out the one you already have. The highlight of the lot is the pair of copper splash pieces, historical, geological, 136 grams and 293 grams, from the Kennecott Copper Smelter in McGill, Nevada, which was first fired up in 1908 and then acquired and metallurgical by Kennecott in 1932. It processed copper ores from the nearby Ruth open-pit copper mines and elsewhere until the smelter was closed and noteworthiness demolished after the 1983 decline in ore grades and the drop in copper prices. Then you have an underground miner’s candlestick about 12.5 from the Nevada inches long. Next in the lot are nine empty blasting cap cans, two Prince Albert tobacco cans, and a Royal brand baking powder can. Finally, a Consolidated Copper 9.5 x 7-inch National Forest Boundary sign pierced by a bullet and still attached to the wood backing that was split by that same bullet. See Corporation (NCCC) photo for the details. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 132994 and Kennecott Lot# 2171 Nye County, Nevada Ophir Canon Mines Company (NV) Prospectus with Claim Copper Corporation Map This 23 page prospectus is fabulous. It has a six panel fold out showing the Ophir in the (KCC), which middle of Nevada. Seven photographs and 4 maps. Includes a claim map of the company’s purchased NCCC in properties located in the Millett mining district, Nye County, Nevada. Not only promotes this mine, but the 1932: 1) Large KCC history of the area - which is a great reference! Has original (very beat up) envelope. From Ralph R Landes of Austin, Nevada. Prospectus is 6 ledger book, 15 x 17 x 9” and in very nice condition. Map is nearly perfect! Circa 1906. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 111898 inches, recording Lot# 2172 Pioche, Nevada 1864 Earliest Known Pioche, Nevada monthly purchases of Area Mining Document Before there was a Picohe, Nevada there was precious metal-bearing fluxes and copper ore for the McGill smelter a Pioche, Utah Territory. So, although this says Utah Territory, it was actually very early Territorial Nevada. Southern Clark County would from January 1936 to December 1939. Each record includes the not become part of Nevada until May of 1866. Joseph Chamberlain was to receive 200’ of length and 1,000’ of width as described in the shipper (individuals and mining companies), wet pounds, assays, Meadow Valley District Record Book. Claim number 24 southward of discovery claim. Signed by recorder Stephen Sherwood. 5c Inland processing and other costs, freight charges, and mine royalties. Exchange stamp. Two vignettes: Native American and Placer. 4.5 x 8.5” Beautiful for the handwritten figures made in ink with no erasures. The claim was part of the Panacher Silver Lode in the Meadow Valley District. In the hard winter of 1863-64, an Indian agreed to show the 2) KCC ledger book, spine labeled CUSTOM LOTS (4) May 26, 1939 white settles of Meadow Valley were there was gold for consideration. In April of 1864 Stephen Sherwood and J. M. Vandermark headed the to May 3, 1940, and CUSTOM LOTS (5) May 2, 1940 to February 19, first expedition to Meadow Valley in search of gold and silver. The expedition was authorized by Gorege Cannan, Brigham Young’s right 1941. Records the origin of custom ore lots received from various hand man. [“History of Nevada” by Thompson & West] Est. $1000- 2000 HWAC# 130102 small miners including the Date of Receipt, Assay Date, Au, Ag, SiO2, Fe, CaO, Al2O3, S, and H20 values for that ore. These ledgers are a great chronicle of small mine production in Nevada and the Western US. 3) KCC ledger recording Molybdenum Plant Production at the McGill facility from Sep 20, 1940 to July 31, 1945. This provides a glimpse into the molybdenum supply during WWII when the US was using moly instead of tungsten in steel production. 4) Two, three-ring notebooks: Kennecott Minerals Company 1980-1984 Operating Plan and the 1981- 1985 Operating Plan. Each includes sections on financial, operational, and environmental issues. 5) Two 1944 contracts between KCC and Consolidated Coppermines Corporation regarding the ability of both companies to adequately mine their respective, separate holdings in the open-pit copper mine adjacent to Ruth, Nevada. These specifically relate to the Liberty Pit and the Veteran Pit. Basically the contracts describe how each company can mine without adversely affecting the other company’s ability to mine. 6) Undated NCCC diazo blue-line Property Map (claim map) of the Robinson Mining District at Ruth, Nevada. Hand drawn boundaries show locations of various waste rock dumps. Approx 55 x 27 inches, folded but in good condition. 7) A group of various NCCC and KCC correspondence, telegrams bound together with a Acco-type metal binder clip at the top. Subjects seem to center on refining contracts for the Steptoe smelter in McGill. 8) Two-page diazo blue-line chart comparing the mine and mill assays for the ore from the Veteran Mine. 9) presentation folder containing an artist’s hand-painted color rendering of the open-pit mines of the Robinson Mining District and a black and white aerial photograph of the Nevada Copper Division (KCC) reduction plant (mill and smelter) in McGill. 10) Correspondence regarding the difference in tonnage charges between ores from Consolidated Coppermines and those from Giroux. 11) A folder of four, 11x4-inch color photographs: one showing 12 freshly poured and unmarked gold ingots, and three images of the Bingham Canyon open-pit copper mine. 12) looseleaf ledgers recording copper produced at the Sunshine, Puritan, Keystone, and McGill precipitation plants in 1948. 13) Personal logbook of F.A. Lawrence, 3 x 5 inches, Aug 7, 1934, to July 1935. 14) Personal logbook of George Allen, KCC employee. Starts with notes on what to do when coming on shift and includes many figures and notes about the operations of the acid plant, which captured sulfur dioxide gas from the smelter furnace and converted it to sulfuric acid. Includes a detailed sketch of the acid plant process flow. 15) 1907 correspondence between NCCC Auditor H. J. Douglas and Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado requesting his assistance in appointing a new postmaster for the McGill Post Office, and further requesting that the name of that Post Office be changed from McGill to Smelter! Est. $3000-5000 HWAC# 133720 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 105
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2173 Pioche, Nevada 1860s Lot# 2177 Tonopah, Nevada Black Powder Tamper Tip Ask 1912 Tonopah Mining a blaster, you’ll get very careful District Map - Pristine instructions about how to pack This is a virtually pristine, blasting powder into a hand-drilled original copy of a map of the hole in the rock face of mine drift Tonopah Mining District, you are extending. To summarize, compiled and published by the powder charge goes into the hole William K. Moran, U.S. Mineral with a long fuse and a wad of packing Surveyor, in 1912. Photo material to make sure the charge stays Litho by Britton & Rey, San at the end of the drilled hole. To burn Francisco. Scale is approx. quickly and explosively, the powder 1000 feet per inch. It comes must be packed in there tightly, so from the personal collection you grab your tamping rod with this of one of the premier mining collectors in the world, and it has been 3.5-inch, brass tamper mounted at professionally mounted and framed in oak and plexiglas, ready to hang the end. The fuse is guided through in your home, office, or museum. Overall dimension are 40-7/8 x 32- the groove while you gently but firmly tamp the charge at the base of 1/4 inches. The map is completely intact with no tears along the folds the hole. Then, carefully remove the tamper so you don’t pull out the and only incidental water damage is evident along the outer edges and fuse. Clear the area, shout FIRE IN THE HOLE, light the fuse, and cover a 3/8-inch scuff on the far left in Section 29. It is doubtful that a better your ears. This brass tamper tip is stamped with PAT’D APR 12 1863 preserved specimen will ever be available on the market any time (not so sure about the last number), and a paper label is glued on that soon. Est. $2000-4000 HWAC# 125060 says BRASS POWDER TAMPER / PIOCHE NEVADA / [???] 1863. This was made of brass (or bronze) so that the metal would not create any Lot# 2178 Treasure Hill, Nevada 1926 sparks went struck on hard rock the way that a steel tool could. It is Treasure Hill / Lone Mountain, Esmeralda about 3.75 inches long and tapers from 1 inch diameter to about 0.8 County High Grade Strike Photographs inch. The narrow end (where it was mounted on the tamping rod) has Located in Esmeralda County, this set of six a 3/8-inch piece broken out . It weighs about 295 grams. See photo for photographs tells the story of Catteudal(?) details. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 132281 and the mine where he hit the high grade and afterwards went broke! Three show the mine Lot# 2174 Rawhide, Nevada Gold-Bearing in the mountainside (two are close-ups). One Slag, Rawhide, Nevada This is a piece of shows sacks of ore ready to ship with a man refractory material coated with a thin layer of and two children in front of them. One shows a miner (Hendel?) slag in which are incorporated small spherules striking a pick into underground rock. And one shows Lone Mountain of metallic gold and silver. The original collector from a distance. Comes with six pages of background information. attributes this specimen as coming from the Larger photos are 5.5 X 3.5”. From the personal collection of author Desert Queen Mill in Rawhide, Nevada. It is Hugh Shamberger. Photos identified by Shamberger on the front or the approx 110 x 90 x 45 mm. The Rawhide Mine back. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 130219 and Mill, and its eponymous townsite have essentially been scoured off the face of the earth by larger-scale Lot# 2179 Virginia CIty, Nevada 1905-09 mining operations. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 135357 Comstock PinBacks Lot of 2. 1. Comstock Carnival pin back Lady w/carnival har in Lot# 2175 Sweetwater, Nevada center. Dated 1905. 2. Comstock Golden Jubilee, Correspondence from a Nevada Miner Five Miner in center holding up rock. Dated 1909. letters, handwritten over several years at the Inside back ad for Walter N. Brunt Co S.F. Union turn of the 20th century, from a hard-rock seal. Both excellent condition, in protective covers. Rare Fred Holabird miner, Bert, working in the Sonoma Mine at Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 131456 Sweetwater, south of Yerington, Nevada, to Frank M. Duncan in Carson City and Reno, Lot# 2180 Virginia City, Nevada 1882 Nevada. The letters informally report on “Geology of the Comstock Lode and the the progress in the underground mining as well as the social news. Washoe District”, 1882 This is one of the first Della, perhaps Bert’s wife, adds a page in her own hand giving her works by the USGS written by George F Becker. perspective on life and chiding Pearl, perhaps Frank’s wife, not to be Includes Ophir Ravine Assay, Mount Rose a flirt. The set is an interesting view into the mining life in the early analysis, Clarence King information, Julia Mine, 1900s. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 133742 Justice Mine and a whole lot of scientific data! 422 pages. Four plates. Front cover has seen better days and front cover is coming detached. Lot# 2176 Tonapah, Nevada 1902 Booklet Pages are strongly attached and in very nice condition. (W.D. Miles on Tonapah “TONAPAH” published by The Collection) Est. $200-300 HWAC# 130072 Tonapah Bonanza press. Tells of the new mining camp discovered in 1900 by James L. Butler. In Lot# 2181 Virginia City, Nevada 1867- protective sleeve and like new condition. Fred 1891 Comstock Assay Ephemera Lot of 5. Holabird Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 131465 This is a nice group. 1) Two different assay memorandums for the Gold Hill Assay Office, WS James. 1889 and 1891. Both for deposits by the Justice Company. One is for one bar, the other two. 2) Two Ore Assay Reports for the Savage Mine, 1867. Lists results from the Devil’s Gate, Pioneer, Granite, Central, Atchison, Island, Santiago, and Empire State Mills. 3) Chollar and Potosi Assay Office. 1891 assay results for the Savage Mining Company. Date: 1867-1891 Country (if not USA): State: Nevada City: Virginia City Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 107995 106 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2182 Virginia City, Nevada 1867-1891 131464 Lot# 2187 Virginia CIty, Nevada 1871? The Comstock Assay Ephemera including Sutro 131770 Fabulous Riches of the Comstock Soft bound Lot of 4 different. 1) Very rare Sutro Tunnel booklet published by Comstock Quartz Mining Company Assay Office Memorandum. 1878. Co. Articles on the “new” found gold camps and Two assay results from quartz seams in the on the company. Rare and very good condition. tunnel. Signed by assayer E. Koch. Folds, toning. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $300-400 HWAC# 2) Gold Hill Assay Office memorandum. 1891. For deposit by the Washoe Mill. Signed by WS Lot# 2188 Virginia City, Nevada 1880 Virginia James as assayer. 3) Ore Assay Report for the Savage Mining Company, City 1880 Annual Mine Report This is the 1867. Lists results from numerous mills including the Santiago, Devil’s Annual Report of the Consolidated Virginia Gate, Central, Granite, and Empire State. 4) Chollar-Potosi Assay Office. Mining Company. This publication was sent out 1888. For deposit by the Hale & Norcross Mine. Date: 1867-1891 to stockholders, reporting the dividends for Country (if not USA): State: Nevada City: Virginia City Provenance: Ken the past years. This 24-page booklet is in good Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 107996 readable shape. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-300 HWAC# Lot# 2183 Virginia City, Nevada Con-Virginia Assay Office Memorandum, 1878 Report of Lot# 2189 Virginia City, Nevada Reports of bullion produced for the Con-Virginia Mine Operations (4) Misc. Comstock Companies received on January 7, 1878 from six different “Reports of Operations” (4): 1) Gould & Curry Comstock mills: The California, the Consolidated, Mining Co. – For Week Ending July 6, 1888 the Mariposa, the Sacramento, the Rhode Island, 2) Utah Consolidated Mining Co. – For Week and the Brunswick mills. This piece is x-Ford Ending 4/1/98. 3) Best & Belcher Mining Co. – For Week Ending Feb. sale, lot 3375, and sold for $2300. The piece is 12, 1892. 4) Savage Mining Co. – Daily Report for August 2, 1876. Est. very noteworthy because it shows shipments of $200-400 HWAC# 132410 bullion to the Con Virginia Assay office from the six different mills, each rendering silver-gold bullion of differing amounts, Lot# 2190 Virginia City, Nevada 1887 varying from 0435 fine gold to 0615 fine gold. The report does not Mackay and Fraser Autographed show the silver content, and here it is obvious the focus was on the Comstock Mining Document Certificate of gold content and the variation of a third could cause the apparent loss Declaration of Change in the List of Officers of up to $50,000 in a shipment such as this. This form is very rare, and of the Corporation of the Pacific Mill & the first seen by us except when it was for sale at the Ford sale in 2008. Mining Company. Signed by John W. Mackay, Est. $1000-1500 HWAC# 121717 as President and L.C. Fraser as Secretary. Date lined in San Francisco October 11, Lot# 2184 Virginia City, Nevada 1865 Four 1887. The Pacific Mill and Mining Company Different Bullion Assays for the Savage Mill - was originally incorporated in August 1877 with a story to tell All assayed by Van Wyck in May with W. S. O’Brien, J. G. Flood, James G. of 1865. The mills were the Central, Island, Union Fair, John Mackay, and Edward Barron as and DeLand. (Rarer mill located half way down trustees. This document establishes John Six Mile Canyon. 15 stamps. Named for owner. Mackay, George R. Wells, James E. Walsh, Idle by 1871.) Notice when these bars reached M. Sayle and C. O’Connor as the present Van Wyck they ranged from 360 to 1200 ounces. Board of Directors or Trustees, and John Mackay as President, George The Savage Mining Company probably sent splits Wells as Vice President, D.B. Duncan as Superintendent and L.C. Fraser of bullion from the same location in the mine to as Secretary. With this document, John Mackay is the only remaining different custom mills to see who was ‘honest’ and who was not. Here, Trustee out of the original 5. The Pacific Mill & Mining Company the Central is singled out with a very low gold(.016) and silver (.802) was established by the “Bonanza Firm” in the 1870s - a partnership amount. A more normal range would have been gold (.025 to .028) formed by Irish immigrants, John W. Mackay, James G. Fair, James C. and silver (.965 to .969). At this point the mine manager would cut Flood, and William S. O’Brien, men who later became known as the off shipments to the Central Mill. In another lot in this sale note the “Silver Kings” or “Bonanza Kings” of the Comstock. The Bonanza Firm Central’s silver and gold assays are also low. Date: 1865 Country (if challenged the broad control Ralston and Sharon exercised over the not USA): State: Nevada City: Virginia City Provenance: Fred Holabird Comstock Mines, backed by the Bank of California, by joining their Collection Fred Holabird Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 104539 finances in various stock operations and transactions, leading to the formation of a new group of mining corporations. These included Hale Lot# 2185 Virginia City, Nevada 1865 Van & Norcross, Gould & Curry, Consolidated Virginia, and others. In their Wyck Bullion Deposit from Piute Mine This campaign agains the “Comstock Bankers” the Bonanza Firm adopted is a deposit slip for 2436 ounces of bullion tactics similar to those Ralston, Sharon and the Bank of California made out to the Assay Office of Van Wyck & used the previous decade to gain control over the Comstock; The Co. by The Piute Mine. It’s date September 26, Bonanza Firm purchased all the major mine suppliers, and in 1877 1865 and is in very readable shape. Please see the group established an “independent” mill, the Pacific Mill and photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 131765 Mining Company, which was wholly owned by the “Bonanza Firm” and incorporated under the Laws of California. The company owned a Lot# 2186 Virginia City, Nevada 1865 Savage Mining number of other mills in the Comstock area including the Bacon Mill, Company Central Mill Assay Results by Van Wyck Brunswick Mill, California Mill, California Pan Mill, Consolidated Mill, (5) Lot of five. All for the Savage Mining Company. Mariposa Mill, Morgan Mill, Occidental Mill, Omega Mill, Rhode Island From May 3, 1865 to May 30, 1865. Largest bar was Mill, Trench Mill, and the Woodworth Mill/Ditch. Later, the Bonanza on May 8th. 1,465.5 ounces. $ 421.97 in gold and Firm successfully defended monopoly accusations and shareholders $1,681.33 in silver. Date: 1865 Country (if not USA): claims of fraud involving the Pacific Mill and Mining Company, by State: Nevada City: Virginia City Provenance: Fred arguing that their business practices represented “industry custom.” Holabird Collection Fred Holabird Collection Est. $300- Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 133756 500 HWAC# 104538 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 107
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2191 Nevada 1860’s Old English Map Lot# 2197 Nevada 1904 State of Nevada Showing Proposed Sutro Tunnel Unique suing New York & Nevada Copper Company map showing the proposed Sutro Tunnel and Postal History Group Lot of nine. All from printed in England. Because of the time period Norman Grey, attorney, Camden, New Jersey. of the map, several towns and landmarks bear All addressed to J. F. Miles, treasurer of Ely. All names that no longer apply to them, because with content about lawsuit. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $100-150 they became extinct or simply had their names HWAC# 130033 changed. An example of this would be Lake Tahoe, called Bigler or Tahoe, or Ormsby County, which no longer Lot# 2198 Nevada U.S.G.S. Nevada exists by that name, but has become part of the Carson City region. Professional Paper Reports U.S.G.S. Nevada Map measures 11”x 9” and framed, comes to 12”x 15”. Please see Professional Paper Reports 1) Geology of photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 121691 the Tonopah District, PP 42, 1905 – 24 Plates, 78 Figures – (9” x 12” HB, 287 Pages) 2) Lot# 2192 Nevada 1872 Adolph Sutro Before Geology & Ore Deposits of the Goodsprings House of Representatives on the Tunnel Quadrangle PP 162, 1931 – 40 Plates (6 in Bound booklet “Sutro Tunnel” w/miner in pocket), 55 Figures – (9” x 11 ½” SC, 171 pages) Est. $300-500 HWAC# gold print on cover. Testimony by Adolph 132347 Sutro before the House of Representatives April 22, 1872. This is his testimony on bill Lot# 2199 Nevada Nevada Mining Artifacts before Congress to aid the construction of the with Specific Nevada Ties Group of three Sutro Tunnel. 96 pages. This is in very good Nevada mining artifacts from the miles condition. Est. $100-120 HWAC# 129925 collection, each with a specific tie to a place. Circa 1940 blacklight used by Rob Salvi during Lot# 2193 Nevada 1923 “Mining Districts World War II to sort she light or at a mine near and Mineral Resources of Nevada” by Cherry Creek for the strategic metals program. Church Lincoln with original map 1) The Original Varney style minors candlestick definitive resource to mining districts and with melted candle found at Swingle’s barn in Leadville Nevada by mines and their production. 1922. Must have Jerry Gray circa 1965. Letter Orwood punch found at Bullionville up for any mining stock certificate collector or Condor Canyon. This punch appears to date from about 1860. Original Nevada history buff. 2) Uranium in the Northwest by Jarrard and beeswax minor scandal from underground at Eureka Nevada. Nice Moen. (W.D. Miles Collection) Est. $70-100 HWAC# 130078 group Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132902 Lot# 2194 Nevada 1864 “Crusoe’s Island, Lot# 2200 New Mexico Aztor mine, Los Sketches of Adventure in California and Cerrillos los district, New Mexico group. Washoe” by J. Ross Browne 1864. FIRST Group of three documents and one small ore EDITION. This book contains the first widespread specimen for the Aztec and other mines in the account of the Comstock. It was originally printed Los Cerrillos mining district Santa Fe County in Harper’s Weekly. Then it was edited and placed New Mexico. The best of the group is an original in book form. (W.D. Miles Collection) Est. $240- ink on linen map of the claim, the workings 500 HWAC# 130073 and important structures, dated 1898, approximately 14 x 24”. The two documents are a claim certificate for Lot# 2195 Nevada 1916-1922 Four Nevada 1891 for the as tour claim within the group and a proof of labor from Mining Publications 1) Mining Districts of 1904. Ore specimen is about 1 inch, and consists of copper bearing Nevada by Church Lincoln. The authoritative iron sulfides.. The very the map is very attractive. work on the production of Nevada mines until 1920. Can’t do without kind of book. 2) Notes Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132776 on Some Mining Districts in Eastern Nevada by Hill. Spruce Mountain District, Dolly Varden District, Ravenswood District, Atlanta District Lot# 2201 New York 1904 Engineering & and all of the big boys. Many districts war mentioned. 3) Genesis of the Mining Journal Published weekly out of New Ores at Tonopah, Nevada by Bastin & Laney. 4) And the classic Riley York, volume 78 July-December, 1904, bound Grannan’s Funeral (Rawhide). Special edition from the Golden Bank Club Casino in Reno. Fancy cover! Excellent condition. Est. $100-150 into 26 issues totaling 1,056 pages, with index. HWAC# 130051 Is hard bound and measures 10”x 12”. Please Lot# 2196 Nevada 1867-1889 Nevada Assay Ephemera Lot of 5. 1) Sheet from the Assay see photos for more detail and condition. Est. Office of the Eberhardt and Aurora Mining $150-200 HWAC# 131662 Company, 1878. Eberhardt City, Nevada. 13 x 8 .5” Ghost town. 2) Ore Assay Report sheet Lot# 2202 Ashland, Oregon 1924 Barron for the Savage Mine (Virginia City), 1867. 9.5 Mine Map Drawn by noted Surveyor Edw. C. x 7.5” 3) Chollar-Potosi Assay Office sheet, Uren, M.E. – Color map covers entire property, 1886, for deposit by Harry Berry. 4.75 x 8” 4) including all structures, a longitudinal section Large ledger sheet for ore deposited by the Manhattan Silver Mining of the mine & a cross section through the lower Company (Austin) to assayer John R. Murphy, April 1867. 14 x 17” 5) tunnel - Also shown is an assay chart and the Selby Smelting & Lead Co. assay receipt for deposit by the Bullion & claim itself, located within T.39 S – R.2E. Map Exchange Bank, 1889. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 113687 measures 30” x 22” Est. $150-250 HWAC# 132404 Lot# 2203 Gold Hill, Oregon c.1940s Oregon Dredging Photo Collection Four groups of real photos of the gold dredge at Gold Hill, Oregon, Aug. 1940. Photos start with construction of the dredge. 14 (3.5 x 5.5”), 1 (3 x 4 .25”), 8 (2.75 x 3.75”), 20 (2.5 x 3.5”). 40+ total. Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 134023 108 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2204 Dubois, Pennsylvania 1927 Lot# 2211 Tennessee Tennessee USGS Letterhead Coal Hill Mining and Pictures Geologic Folios (8) Louden 1896; McMinnville Lot of 20 plus. All in plastic covers and 1895 and a dupe; Pikeville 1895; Cleveland excellent condition. Correspondence of thanks for increas in shipment, phots sent out, reasons 1895; Columbia 1903; Greenville 1905 (no the mone wasn’t open on certain day, lobotomy shortages and other general business. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129894 cover); Wartburg 1897 Date: Country (if not USA): State: Tennessee City: Provenance: Est. $200-400 HWAC# 112310 Lot# 2205 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Lot# 2212 Utah Utah and Nevada Assay Geologic Folios (17) Group of 17 of the Office Goods and Samples 89305 Approx 20 27 issued folios for Pennsylvania, including envelopes of assay samples from UT and Nv, edge folios. Dates from c1902-c1930. small mercury jug, 2 crucibles and more Est. Includes:Accident 1908; Amity 1907; $100-150 HWAC# 135540 Barnesboto 1913; Claysville 1912; Ebensburg 1905; Eldersridge 1905; Elkland 1903; Foxburg Lot# 2213 Virginia Virginia USGS Geologic 1911; Gaines 1903; Indiana 1904; Johnstown Folios (12) Bristol 1899; Franklin 1896; 1910; Latrobe 1904; Mercersburg 1909; Rural 1905; Sewickley 1911; Fredricksburg 1894; Huntington 1900; Warren 1910; Waynesburg 1905. Most of these folios were made in Monterey 1899; Nomini 1896; Paw Paw 1912; the first decade of the USGS folio project. This group is mostly bound Piedmont 1896; Pocahontas 1896; St Marys in library protective bindings. (See Item Notes) Date: Country (if not 1906; Staunton 1894; Tazewell 1897; Date: USA): State: Pennsylvania City: Provenance: Est. $800-1600 HWAC# Country (if not USA): State: Virginia City: 110370 Provenance: Est. $420-700 HWAC# 112311 Lot# 2206 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Lot# 2214 Virginia Virginia- West Virginia USGS Geologic Folios (13) Accident 1908; USGS Geologic Folios (10) Buckhannon 1896; Barnesboro 1913; Elders 1905; Elkland 1903; Charleston 1901; Franklin 1896; Huntington Foxburg 1911; Gaines 1903; Indiana 1904; 1900; Kenova 1912; Monterey 1899; Johnstown 1910; Latrobe 1904; Mercersburg Pocahontas 1896; Raleigh 1902; Staunton 1909; Rural 1905; Warren 1910; Waynesburg 1894; Tazewell 1897 Date: Country (if not 1905. Date: Country (if not USA): State: USA): State: Virginia City: Provenance: Est. Pennsylvania City: Provenance: Est. $350-700 HWAC# 112313 $350-500 HWAC# 112312 Lot# 2207 Pennsylvania Three Coal Mining Lot# 2215 Virginia Welcome Nugget TC William Photographs Lot of 3 different. 1) Rock Tobacco Label TC Williams Co., Manufacturers, Virginia. Springs Coal Mine No. 1, taken by JE Stimson, Miner holding up nugget and exclaiming “Jack! Look at Cheyenne, Wyo., 1440. 8 x 10” photo on 9 x this!” On the boulder is printed: “As the Welcome Nugget 11” cardboard. Deep creases bottom right, Weighing 2217 oz Exceeds In Purity & Value, Any Lump some scuffs on photo surface. 2) Underground of Gold Ever Found, So This Brand Surpasses in Quality view of two miners operating a drill. “Mining Any Tobacco Made.” Approx. 13 x 6.5” Some toning. Est. Bituminous Coal, Pennsylvania. Stamped “The $80-120 HWAC# 134016 Philadelphia Museums” at bottom right. Reverse has printed text about coal mining. Photo is 7 x 9” on 9.5 x 12” board. Wear to board. Lot# 2216 Wenatchee, Washington Cannon 3) Same series as previous. This view is outside, titled “Coal Breaker, Gold Mine Collection Mementos from the Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.” Stamped “The Philadelphia Museums” at Cannon Underground Gold Mine of Asamera bottom right. Reverse has printed text about coal mining. Photo is 7 Minerals, Wenatchee, Washington. A framed x 9” on 9.5 x 12” board. Wear to board. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 134018 and matted 22 x 18 inch photograph from the 800-X level of a 8-Yard Load-Haul-Dump Lot# 2208 Pennsylvania Three Pennsylvania Loader filling an ore truck to haul gold ore to Coal Mining Souvenir Silver Spoons Lot of 3 the underground crusher. Three medallions we different marked sterling. 1) Fabulous Scranton believe to be gold plated silver, each one ounce, commemorating one spoon with engraved bowl and mining train million ounces of gold produced 1985-1992. Two coffee mugs from the scene running up the entire handle. WH Cannon Mine. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132143 Mortimer engraved on reverse. 6” long. 2) “Coal Breaker, Wilkes Barre, PA” Engraved bowl Lot# 2217 Washington Washington State and handle. 5” 3) “Coal Breaker, Scranton.” Engraved bowl and handle. Geology and Mining Resources book Engraved “Grace” on reverse. 5.5” Est. $200-300 HWAC# 134006 collection This is a collection of Geologic and Mining Resources books, periodicals, and maps Lot# 2209 Pennsylvania Two Pennsylvania for the state of Washington early 1900’s. Please Coal Mining Silver Spoons Lot of 2 different see the photos for details. Est. $200-500 marked Sterling. 1) Choice spoon for HWAC# 116851 Carbondale, with engraved bowl and “Farview” engraved on handle. Reverse is engraved “Sept. Lot# 2218 West Virginia 1918-1924 Glenn 4th, ‘91” Approx. 5.5” long. 2) Small die struck spoon for Wilkes Barre, White W. Virginia Mine Lot of 3. Report of the with initials engraved on handle. 4” long. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 134007 Board of Directors for stockholder 1924. Photo album ( fragile) Officer, Directors, Operating Lot# 2210 South Dakota South Dakota USGS officials f the E.E.White Coal Co. 1918 61 pages. Folios (10) Aberdeen 1909; Alexandria 1903; Contains small B/W photos of personal the Desmet 1904; Edgemont 1904; Huron 1904; mine, equipment, bldg’s, and town camps. Mitchell 1903 plus dupe; Orlichs 1902; Olivette Some are earmarked . A brief history of the 1903; Parker 1904; Date: Country (if not USA): Glen White town. Rare and a great piece of State: South Dakota City: Provenance: Est. history. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129893 $300-525 HWAC# 112300 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 109
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2219 Assorted Coal Mining Collectibles Lot# 2226 Four Different Mining Souvenir Lot of 4. 1) Miniature (1.25” long) miners’ boots Silver Spoons Lot of 4 different. 1) made out of compressed anthracite coal. 2) I Thermopolis, Wyoming, “The Start of a Mine”, Like Koppers Coke button. 2” diameter, some dies struck bowl showing miner and wince. staining. 3) Button for Pittston, Pittsburgh Coal 5.5” long. Handle has imagery on front and Co.’s Guaranteed Hard Coal. 0.75” diameter. 4) back. ELD. 2) Small spoon with engraved bowl, Aluminum tag for the The Vesta Coal Co. No. “Spokane Wash” Figural handle. 4” long. 3) 4 Mine Detonators. 2 x 2.5” Est. $150-200 Miner’s Log Cabin, with die struck bowl and HWAC# 134011 handle showing donkey and cabin. 4.5” long. 4) Montana spoon with engraved handle. 5.5” long. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 134008 Lot# 2220 Miscellaneous Mining Collectibles Lot of 5. 1) Unmarked oil wick Lot# 2227 Four Mining Related Souvenir lamp. Rusting and some holes. 2) Tin for TC Silver Spoons Lot of 4 different. 1) Pittsburg, Willams Co.’s Welcome Nugget tobacco. 3 x 2” Kansas, spoon with figural miner handle. 5.5” 3) Empty canister for Van Norman Tungsten long. 2) The Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, Carbide Lapping Compound. 4.5 x 2.5” 4) AHM Coal Mine hobby kit. Alabama. Die struck bowl and handle. 5.5” Unknown if all pieces present. 5) Replica box prop of 20 Mule Team long. 3) Gray & Dudley Hardware Co., Nashville, Powdered Borax. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 134026 Tennessee, “Finest Hd’w Store in the World.” Engraved bowl. 5.5” long. 4) Lake Louise, Lot# 2221 c1920 Color Lithograph Mining Canada spoon with color maple leaves on handle! 3.5” Est. $150-250 Posters (3) This lot consists of two different HWAC# 134009 pieces. The first is a 2 part poster, the panels are 26” x 40”, showing 5 miners with hard hats Lot# 2228 Four Different Oil Drilling and carbide lights and a man taking cash out Souvenir Silver Spoons Lot of 4 different. of a safe. Made by Globe Litho Co. New York, Measure 5 to 5.5” in length. All marked sterling. lower part damaged at left center edge. The All with engraved bowls showing oil wells. Second piece is a single panel, clearly related to the first, showing mine Includes: Gas Well, Idla, Kansas (Aug. 1903 violence, the bottom portion of this panel is not present, but it’s very engraved on reverse); Montpelier, Indiana; showy as is. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132478 Sistersville, West Virginia; and Chanute, Kansas. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 134003 Lot# 2222 European Mining Badges Lot of 6. 1) Three different from Poland. “Banyasz Lot# 2229 Three Pictorial Oil Drilling Szolgalati Erdemerem” Approx. 1.5” diameter. Silver Spoons Lot of 3 different. All approx. Cross-crossed mining picks. 2) Three different 5” long. All marked Sterling. Includes: Oil from Hungary. “Odznaka Za Deugoietnia Prace Well at Independence, Kansas; Martin No. 1 at W Gornictwie”1.25” medallions with hangers. Robinson, Illinois; and Oil Well at Bolivar, New Raised image of miner using drill. Est. $200- York. Two with images of oil wells gushing oil! 300 HWAC# 134000 Est. $150-200 HWAC# 134002 Lot# 2223 Mining Related Buttons & Badges Lot# 2230 Kennecott Copper and Asamera Lot of 4 different. 1) Badge for the United Mine Oil Collectibles Includes a dozen cigarette Workers of America, no hanger. Whitehead & lighters with Kennecott name and the ankh Hoag Co. Approx. 2 x 2” 2) Employee badge for logo: 8 Zippo, 3 Bentley, 1 Ronson (butane!); the Ohio Brass Co. with photo of employee. 1.5 Two ashtrays turned from 3.5-inch diameter, x 1.25” 3) Colorado seal on a small button for Sweet Caporal Cigarettes. solid copper cast rod (99.99% copper cast rod 0.75” diameter. 4) Hat badge with mining theme (crossed picks). Est. was made for wire-drawing foundries); there are two 1/2-inch slices of $80-120 HWAC# 134012 3.5-inch diameter copper rod; two 1/4-inch slices of 3-inch diameter rod; a cast acrylic paperweight with six pieces of dendritic copper Lot# 2224 United Mine Workers of America Watch growths from the electro-refinery (these are unwanted growths that Fobs Lot of 2 different. 1) “U.M.W. of A. / April 1st occur on the copper cathodes, and if not removed could short out / 1898 / Eight Hours.” The Whitehead & Hoag Co., the electro-refining cell); a 2-1/4-inch brass Kennecott paperweight; Newark, N.J. With leather strap. Approx. 1.75 x 1.5” 2) and a brass ankh with a brass K that made up the Kennecott logo; Brass fob, no strap. District 10 / U.M.W. / of / America three brass tie-tacs with the Kennecott logo; the lot also includes six / 8 Hours. Bastian Bros. Co., Rochester, NY. Approx. 1.5” ballpoint pens with the Asamera Oil logo and eleven Asamera Oil 2 x diameter. The UMW was founded in Columbus, Ohio, 2-inch stickers. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 132876 on January 25, 1890, with the merger of two old labor groups, the Knights of Labor Trade Assembly No. 135 Lot# 2231 1938 Mine Plant, A.I.M.E and the National Progressive Miners Union. Established Rocky Mountain Fund Series to develop mine safety; to improve mine workers’ independence from Benjamin Franklin Tillson – The the mine owners and the company store; and to provide miners with contents are arranged into three main collective bargaining power. An 8 hour workday was one of their sections: Surface, shaft & Underground achievements in 1898. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 134010 – Classic well-illustrated work on mine plant design includes hundreds of Lot# 2225 Western Federation of Miners drawings of equipment, implements Fob Triangular brass fob, 42 x 35 mm. Founded and plan views of various mineral in 1893, the organization was active in mining processing plant design features (8 strikes throughout the Western United States ½”x11” HB, 320 pages) Est. $200-400 and British Columbia. Their most violent HWAC# 132343 episodes were in the Cripple Creek District in 1903. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 129300 110 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2232 Mineral Resource Books (2) 1) Lot# 2238 1906 Copper Handbook Vol. VI U.S. Geological Survey by Charles D. Walcott- 1) The Cooper Handbook Volume VI- Stevens- Director. Mineral Resources of the United 1906. Front cover in tact. Various spots of wear. States-1902. Washington Printing Office 1904. Condition used. Page count: 1116. 66 pages of 2) U.S. Geological Survey J.W. Powell- Director, advertising. This includes a detailed list of copper Mineral Resources of the United States- Day mining companies. Great resource material for 1888. Washington Government Printing Office researching mining collectables. See photo. Ken 1890. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132417 Prag Collection Est. $240-300 HWAC# 132451 Lot# 2233 c1897 Mine Practices (Books) Lot# 2239 1900’s Chemistry & Mining Approx. 15 hardcover books. Rocky Mountain Books Collection of six hard bound books on Fund Series - A.I.M.E., Mine Plant (Illustrations, the subjects of mining and chemistry. Titles pp. 320); Handbook of Mining Details; I.C.S. include” the Handbook of Chemistry” by Lang, Reference Library; Tunneling; & much more. “Transactions of the American Institute of Est. $200-400 HWAC# 85863 Mining” and more. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $70-100 HWAC# Lot# 2234 1937 Mines Register 131964 1937 The 1937 Edition of Mines Register, Successor to The Mines Lot# 2240 Mining Handbooks (3) 1) “Principles Handbook. The book is 1,340 of Mining”, Valuation, Organization & Administration, by pages full of minerals and metals Herbert C. Hoover – Published by McGraw-Hill, N.Y., 1909 information for the entire United – (6 ¼” x 9” ¼” HB, 199 pages) 2) “Handbook of Mining States. The handwriting on the inside Details”, compiled from the Engineering & Mining Journal cover states that is an “Office Copy.” by the Editorial Staff, Published by McGraw-Hill, N.Y., 1912 Book is in excellent shape with strong – Well illustrated- (6” x 9” HB, 372 pages) 3) “Details of binding. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100- Practical Mining, compiled from the Engineering & Mining 200 HWAC# 121703 Journal by the Editorial Staff – Published by Mc Graw-Hill, N.Y., 1916 – Well Illustrated - (6” x 9’HB, 544 pages) Est. Lot# 2235 1918 Mining Engineer’s $300-500 HWAC# 131886 Handbook- Vol. 1, First Ed. Mining Engineer’s Handbook – Robert Peele, Editor-in-Chief Lot# 2241 1900’s Mining Lamps and Published by John Wiley & Sons, N.Y. – Vol. 1, First Ed., 1918 (4 ½” x 7”, Explosive Ads (7) Collection of seven print ads 16 sections in 1,225 pages) Est. $80-160 HWAC# 132301 from explosive powder companies and mining lamp manufacturers. Included is the Columbia Lot# 2236 1910s-1920s Youth Mining Powder Company, Atlas Powder Company, The Fiction Library This is an interesting library Giant Powder Company, Hercules Blasting Caps of 27 hardcover titles, all youth fiction that and three ads from Justrite Carbide Lamps and is mining adventure themed. Most different. Lanterns Company. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Titles include: Dave Porter in the Gold Fields Est. $150-300 HWAC# 131977 (Stratemeyer, 1914); The Girl of the Golden West (Belasco, 1911); Raw Gold (Hendryx, Lot# 2242 1913 Mining Manual (21st), 1943); Gold (White, 1913); A Young Miner (Alger, no date); The Young International Published by the Western Mining Miner (Alger, no date); The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska (Patchin, two Directory Co., Denver, Colorado, Embracing the editions incl. 1924); Digging for Gold (Alger, 1892); Two Boy Gold Principal Operating Metal Mines, Mills, Smelting Miners (Webster); Ruth Fielding in Alaska (Emerson, 1926); The & Refining Plants of the U.S., Canada & Mexico & Furnace of Gold (Mighels, 1910); The Racer Boys on the Prairies Coal Mines of the Western States – Lists the name, (Young, 1913);The Motor Boys Overland (Young, 1906); In a New address, manager or super intendent and product World (Alger, no date); The Young Engineers in Mexico (Hancock, for each business – (8 ½” x 11”, 326 pgs.) Est. 1913); The Motor Rangers’ Lost Mine (West, 1911); and many more. $300-500 HWAC# 132341 Please inspect! Condition is poor to fair. Perfect as a gift for your children, grandchildren, or the kid inside of all of us! Est. $150-300 Lot# 2243 Oil Company Ephemera HWAC# 134028 Collection Twenty-two pieces. 1) Large group of items. Fifteen annual reports for the Texon Lot# 2237 1906 Copper Handbook Oil & Land Company. 1941to 1945. Five each 1) The Cooper Handbook Volume VI- for Group 1, Group 2 and Texon Oil and Land. Stevens- 1906. Front cover cracked. Located in Kansas and Texas. 2) Quebec Oil Condition used. Page count: 1116. 66 Development Ltd. Prospectus. Charts, no photos. 3) Continental Oil. pages of advertising. Great resource prospectus. Full of charts, no photos. Annual reports from 1946, material for researching mining 47 and 48. 4) Central petroleum Company Band (very rough). 5) collectables. Ken Prag Collection Est. AND PERHAPS BEST OF ALL the 1929 Merchandising of Petroleum $200-300 HWAC# 132418 Products by R. H. Thomas. With ORIGINAL dust jacket in overall pretty darn good condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 131792 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 111
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2244 Rare Mining Publication attached Lot# 2250 Englehard, Handy & Harman to World War II gFederal Aids for War Silver Commemoratives A set of three acrylic Mineral Productionh by the War Production embedments: one unidentified with a 1.5-inch Board. This relates to an act that gave strategic branch of dendritic silver, total dimensions of 1 metals production a boost with Federal dollars. x 2 x 0.25 inches; the second labeled with the It was designed to allow for mining and Handy & Harman logo and a 0.75 x 0.75 inch purchase of strategic metals – Chromium, magnesium, etc. 9 x piece of dendritic silver, overall dimensions of 3 x 2.5 x 1.5; third is 6h. 42 pages. 1943. Excellent condition. Act was finally repealed by identified with the Englehard logo and embeds a 1971 Eisenhower President Carter. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 130137 dollar coin, with a 3-inch diameter by about 1.5 inch tall overall dimension. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 132288 Lot# 2245 Vintage B&W Photos of Western Mining Areas (8) Eight 8” x 10” black and Lot# 2251 Fool’s Gold, white photos. Includes AZ, ID, UT and ND. Bronze Sculpture by Gary Mostly older buildings and the Eby Stamp Mill. Prazen Original bronze Est. $60-200 HWAC# 49510 sculpture by industrial sculptor Gary Prazen, Fool’s Lot# 2246 Two Mine Signs DANGER and Gold III depicts a grizzled CYANIDE 108247 Two mine signs, smaller prospector and his trusty DANGER sign is 10x7-inches, and the larger burro beside a small stream CYANIDE sign is approximately 24x26-inches. See celebrating the discovery of photo for lettering and condition details. Est. $150- a shiny trophy. Gary Prazen 250 HWAC# 135530 (b?-d2016) made his first sculpture in 1980 of the late Lot# 2247 History of the Explosives John Wayne. His designs soon Industry in America, Rare Mining Reference focused on various industries, Book History of the Explosives Industry in particularly mining, oil, and America by Van Gelder and Schlatter, copyright gas. He formed Original 1927. Although, this is a later day reprint of this Creations, Inc in 1980, and classic reference, it still is extremely rare. This the company still provides is the pre-eminant reference for the explosives commemorative and award and powder industry in America dating back to the colonial days in sculptures including the National Mining Association’s Sentinels of America. All of the famous companies are here including Giant Powder, Safety. This Fool’s Gold III was presented to the consignor’s father, Judson, DuPont, Atlas, Hercules, and California Powder Works. The William Mayrsohn at the Cannon Mine by Asamera Minerals (US) Inc. inventors are highlighted including Alfred Nobel and Judson, along It is number 90 of a limited edition of 200 (according to the Original with the consolidations of the industry and underhanded business Creation’s website). It is 15 x 10 x 7 inches and weighs 11.6 pounds. strategies. Dupont was especially ruthless, as they bought most of William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 132437 the floating shares in Vigorit Powder Company in the open market, just to shut it down to escape competition. The various explosions the See other statutes also on day 1! Giant Powder Company endured at their different Bay Area locations is fascinating reading. They finally had to move to the east bay to get Lot# 2252 Group of Mining Collectibles away from the dense population. This is great information you will Enameled steel CAGE BELL sign, 1.5 x 6 inches, not find elsewhere. This huge book is 1132 pages including the index. unknown mine; wire silver encased in acrylic Any powder company you can think of is listed and discussed in this commemorative for N.Y. & Honduras Rosario Mining Co.; small resin book. Nice, tightly bound hardbound copy. A little smudging on the figurine of a prospector and his gold pan, ~3 x 3.5 x 6 inches; 11- page edges, otherwise VF. A search of the online book sites showed no inch diameter steel gold pan; 14-inch diameter steel gold pan; Four copies of this available, other than a higher priced first edition. Very crucibles, 0.8-inch diameter up to 3-inch diameter; two mill balls, one rare. Est. $240-400 HWAC# 129548 new and 2-inch diameter, the other used and 2.5-inch oblate spheroid; 36 lead balls, in container marked 0.825 [inches in diameter], 2-1/4 Lot# 2248 1927-50 Allis-Chalmers ounce round ball; two business card holders from Independent Mining Stockholders Reports Lot of 16. From Consultants, Inc. Tucson, Arizona; two ~4 x 3.25 x 1 inch beveled slabs 1927-1950 filled with ad and information of rock; one small slab of jasper-like rock, ~3.5 x 2 x 0.25 inches; and on the different mining and equipment a framed pen-and-ink drawing of the Crystal Mill on the Crystal River manufacturedm contract w/ AFL-CIO. Nice in Gunnison County, Colorado. Quite a start on your mining display. “Bombs fo Tokyo” ad 1943 issue. Excellent William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 132884 cond.. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 129896 Lot# 2253 Miners Jewelry Group This is an Lot# 2249 Mining Pay Roll Ledgers (3) assemblage of various mining-related jewelry 1) Mizpah Extension Co., of Tonopah – items. So, here we go: a keychain with a brass Statement showing Receipts & Disbursements mallet fob; two tie tacks with the crossed for week, N.D. 2) Richmond Hill Mining¸ Milling mallets mining symbol, one marked NWMA & Leasing Co. Aspen, Col. Month of August 1920. (probably the Northwest Mining Association); Printed by W.H. Kistler Stationary Co., Denver. 3) another key ring with a brass hard hat fob; three Hecla Consolidated Mining Co. – Pay-Roll of Men tie tacks with a diamond drill bit (highlighted Employed In the Mining Dept. for the Month of May with gold!); a tie tack and cufflink set featuring 1890. dendritic silver in a navy blue presentation box; and a antiqued silver- toned necklace with an arrowhead pendant containing a small copper Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132317 disk, reminiscent of the Anaconda logo. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 132282 112 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2254 Mining Collectibles, Buckles Lot# 2259 Stove Pipe Boot Collection, c1870s This is a choice and Model Ingot Brass ingot modeled after a collection of four pair of very historical Stove Pipe style boots “made 14.583 troy ounce, 999.9 Fine Gold Ingot from for drovers, prospectors and shooters.” It is from the Pierce Powell RefineMet International Company. Actually Collection of Virginia City, Nevada and was never on public display. weighs 11.07 troy ounces, approx 3.8 x 1.9 x 0.5 inches; Brass belt buckle from the AMAX “Manufactured and Warranted/ J. W. Reynolds/ California Trade” Sleeper Mine outside of Winnemucca, Nevada. punched into the leather with gilt lettering fillin in an oval on both Sleeper was operated by AMAX Gold and produced 1.66 million boots near the top of the shin section. In a search of newspapers.com ounces of gold and 2.3 million ounces of silver from 1986 to 1996. It is and California Digital Newspapers, we found absolutely nothing about currently owned by Paramount Gold. One story about the name is that this company, either in original advertisements or otherwise. c1870- the deposit was considered a “sleeper,” yielding far more value than 1880 expected; The second brass buckle commemorates “those dedicated men and women who chose this rugged and often solitary way of life” “California/ Home Made/ Warranted”. The same comment as above in the mining endeavors. It is model B-10 by the Arroyo Grande Buckle applies. This cartouche is also an oval punched into the leather, gilt Co, Grover City, California. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100-200 lettered, near the top of the shin section. c1870-1880 HWAC# 132519 “The (pic of solid star) Boot”. The Star Boot appears to be a brand Lot# 2255 Mining Grab Bag - Something name apparently coming out of Kansas. This is a one line cartouche, for Anyone Look Sharp, have some fun -- we gilt lettered, also near the top of the shin section. Advertisements have a packet of common-issue mining stocks for Star boots were found from 1870 to the late 1880s, pretty much from Phelps Dodge, Kennecott, O.K. Silver mostly in Kansas. One of the Star Boot stores was run by the Reynolds M&M Co., Ely Consolidated Copper Co., Utah- Brothers, but we could not determine if that was a coincidence with Apex Mining Co., Cardiff M&M Co., Lucky the California boots above. McUranium Corp., Utah Copper Corp., Western Venture Corp., several unissued U-Kan Uranium and Oil Co., Niagara “Fogg, Houghton & Cooldige/ S. Weymouth, Mass.” Oval cartouche, gilt Mining & Smelting Co., Desert Gold Mining Co., Texas Eagle Producing lettered, placed near the top of the shin section. This is an 1870s boot, and Refining Co., U.S. Metallic Magnesium Co., Gila Copper Sulfide Co., sold out of Boston. and a bonus: a Standard & Poor’s Instant Stock Commission Calculator (rotating cardboard wheel gizmo). But wait! Yes, there is more... USGS A few comments are warranted. We were completely unable to Index Maps for Arizona and Pennsylvania/New Jersey, and a 1943 find actual historical refernces to vintage nineteenth century boot USGS Topo of the Galiuro Mts (one range east of Tucson’s Catalina collections. It is entirely possible that remaining “signed” boots from Range) in folded but pristine condition; an unused 1998 Kennecott this classic period of western prospecting and growth of our country weekly calendar diary (be ready for 2026 with the same day/dates); are so rare that few still exist. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Various documents and publications on the recovery of molybdenum Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $2000-4000 HWAC# 122821 at the McGill smelter and improvements therein; COOL: a compendium of content on carbide lamp collecting (including the orphaned base of also see lot #3032 for more historic boots a carbide lamp); a small collection of clippings about various mines; Four pin-back buttons: 2-inch 2004 Mining Antique Collectors Dinner Lot# 2260 Assay Weight Set Lot of 4 different in Tucson, 2-inch 2006 Mining Antique Collectors Show, two 3/4- brass weights. Includes 8oz (2.25” diameter), inch Arizona Small Mine Operators Association pins; 3 x 6-inch brass 4oz (1.75”), 2oz (1.25”), and 1oz (1”). No inclinometer promoting the Hendrik Mfg Co in Carbondale, PA; and makers mark. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 134051 the three-inch-thick US Dept of the Interior EIS document for a 345kV Transmission line from Falcon to Gonder (very roughly Carlin to Ely, Lot# 2261 Couronne Balancing Nevada). I told you it was a grab bag. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 133727 Gold Scale Couronne balancing scale. Choice condition with Lot# 2256 Mining Minutiae Two small original label intact, instructions crucibles, 31 mm in diameter; tape measure in French. Intricate box (circa from Kennecott Copper; equipment tag from 1830s?), with sliding weight holder La Luz mine; American Smelting and Refining and cupped weights. Size: 7 1/2 x Company keychain 1974. William Mayrsohn 2 1/4 inches. Great little gold scale Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 132141 with cut steel beam, original brass pans and cording. Est. $300-400 Lot# 2257 Silver in Three HWAC# 131218 Varieties Three glass tubes of silver: Silver Crystals, 4.5 oz. troy, from U.S. Metals Refining Co. Carteret, New Jersey; Hecla Mining pure silver, glass vial weighs 7 grams; native silver vial weighs 7 grams. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 132140 Lot# 2258 Bucket of Tins, Dupont Meter, Minerals and More Wheeling Galvanized bucket with 3 carbide tins, Phillips 66 oil can, Dupont Galvanometer in leather case, white metal cannister, 7 mineral specimens, electric head lamp Est. $50-90 HWAC# 135333 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 113
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2262 Uranium Scintillometer Lot# 2267 Patented Geometrics 1977 Model GR-310 Portable Gamma Ray Spectrometer with Manual and Wireform Miner’s transportation case. Foam on inside cover of case is deteriorating. Should be in working Candlesticks - 3 Three order. These spectrometers are exactly what were used in the late 1970s during the 2nd underground miner’s major Uranium exploration “Boom” until the Three-Mile Island Tragedy. These are run by classic D-cell batteries. Est. $200-400 candlesticks made by HWAC# 119718 twisting thick iron wire Lot# 2263 San Francisco, California 01-04-1902 00:00:00 F.W. Braun around different shaped Ore Crusher This is an ore crusher manufactured by F.W. Braun of Los forms. This was a quick Angeles and San Francisco. It is the Simplex model, patented on in and easy way to make April 1902. There are several loose parts that come with the device. It functional candlesticks measures 17”x 18” and is very heavy so you might want to consider local with minimal forging in a pickup for this item. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 131708 blacksmith’s shop. These three vary in length from 8 to 10 to 11 inches, Lot# 2264 Copper and Brass Ashtrays from and 1.5 to 3 to 3.5 inches tall. Unknown manufacturer or locale. William Kennecott Days You like Copper? Here is nearly 40 pounds of copper and brass fashioned Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132874 into three circular ashtrays that range in size from about 7.5 inches to 10.5 inches along with Lot# 2268 Miner’s Candlestick, Gun Stick a 4.5-inch diameter copper ring. The copper Type Miner’s Candlestick, patented design, ashtrays were formed from thick disks cut unusual for the loop being vertical instead from large-diameter copper cast rods, so they of perpendicular to the candle, resembling show the beautiful radial crystal patterns as the copper cooled from a pistol. Dimensions are approx. 8 x 3.5 x 2 the outside inward. These were labeled by the collector as coming inches without the candle. No markings found. from Kennecott. If you don’t smoke, they will serve well as doorstops William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $150-250 in a hurricane. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-400 HWAC# 132881 HWAC# 132527 Lot# 2265 Copper Dendrite Lot# 2269 Miner’s Candlesticks - 3 Jewelry - 8 pcs Copper is One relatively new and two old miner’s refined in electrolytic tanks that candlesticks. Longest is the new, shiny steel use electricity to move copper version at around 13.5 x 1.5 x 3 inches. The ions from a thick copper anode others are 12.75 x 2 x 3.75 inches and 10 x (poured into a mold at the 2 x 3.5 inches. No markings found on any of smelter), through an aqueous them, but all are in ready-to-use condition the next time you want to solution of sulfuric acid and mine underground like they did in the Victorian Age. William Mayrsohn copper sulfate, and plate them Collection Est. $260-350 HWAC# 132539 onto a thin, pure copper cathode. In certain circumstances, the Lot# 2270 Varney Underground Miners copper ions moving through the Candlesticks - 4 Four, nearly new, practically solution will create an undesirable fresh-out-of-the-box underground miners’ dendritic growth on the edge of candlesticks made by Varney. In their essential the cathode instead of plating onto book A Collector’s Guide to Antique Miners’ the flat surface. These growths can look like branched corals or even Candlesticks, Wilson and Bobrick describe the Varney as being the plant-like, and they can become a beautiful nuisance in the refining most commonly collected miner’s candlestick. It was given the name of process. Here is a collection of five tie tacks, two tie bars, and one its inventor, Nathan E. Varney, in the late 1800s. Further they show that cufflink made from these electrolytic copper dendrites. One tie tack is one reason for its popularity and wide distribution may have been that missing its keeper. See photo for details. These can clean up nicely in Mining Science magazine gave a Varney candlestick away with every an immersive copper cleaning solution. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. one-year subscription, new or renewal. The Varney brand was one $150-200 HWAC# 131922 of the most widely used until safe and reliable underground electric lighting made them obsolete. These four are essentially identical at Lot# 2266 Mine Lamp Jewelry - 6 pcs Six ~10.5 x 2 x 3 inches. Given that the points are still relatively sharp, pieces of jewelry in the shape of underground these have seen little use. The name VARNEY is clearly visible on the miners lamps: three lapel pins with dangling, spike of each one. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# one-inch mine safety lamps, two branded by 132875 PWH Material Handling; one tie tack pin with a miniature carbide lamp in Sterling silver; and Lot# 2271 Three Miner’s Candlesticks Lot two key fobs with a miniature brass versions of 3 different. 1) Varney style, unmarked, 9.75”. of a carbide lamp, one with shiny brass finish, the other in antiqued 2) Blacksmith “Ideal” style, unmarked, 8.5”. 3) finish. Wear your underground mining heritage with pride. William Unmarked, 9.75”. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134015 Mayrsohn Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 131924 Lot# 2272 Candle Mold, 6 Chamber Mold for making 0.7-inch diameter wax candles, up to 10.5 inches long. Magnetic, appears to be made of galvanized steel. Overall dimensions are 7 x 3 x 11 with the handle. No apparent damage, so you could start your own candle-making business! William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 132526 114 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining / Equipment Lot# 2273 German Iron Oil Lamp, a.k.a. Lot# 2278 Cripple Creek, Colorado Justrite Miner’s Frog Lamp This type of 19th century oil lamp Lamp, Victor Gold Mining Co, Cripple Creek, Colorado was originally used in German Ruhr Valley coal Justrite No. 12 acetylene lantern with bullseye lens. 4.25 mines. They were hand fashioned from iron and diameter base, about 9 inches tall. Lens diameter is about became known as frog lamps, perhaps because 1.9 inches. Nickel-plated with some tarnished spots and of their shape. The flat, vertical surface behind a few small dents in the base. Stamped under the glass the flame held a polished reflector to direct light is JUSTRITE / PAT APLD FOR. Glass cylinder and the to a desired location. The reflector of of this bullseye lens are uncracked. William Mayrsohn Collection lamp has crossed hammers and HENRY BOKER Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 132378 engraved on the shiny brass. Henry Boker was a manufacture of mining equipment based in New York and Mexico. Lot# 2279 Duluth, Minnesota 1902 Brilliant The base is about 3.25 inches in diameter, about 4.25 inches long, and Search Light Co. Carbide Lamp Brilliant Search 1.25 inches thick. (credits to Rubylane.com and Wilson and Bobrink Light miner’s lamp made by R C Kruschke of Duluth, for some description details) William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 Minnesota. About 6 x 3 x 3 inches. Brass body HWAC# 132389 originally painted black. This was a carbide lamp that held water in the upper chamber which dripped Lot# 2274 mid-1800s German Iron Oil into the lower chamber where pellets of calcium Lamps, a.k.a. Frog Lamps This is a pair of carbide were stored. The chemical reaction released 19th century oil lamps originally used in acetylene gas, which was ignited at the small spout German Ruhr Valley coal mines. These were on the side and burned with an intense white flame. hand fashioned from iron and became known William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132381 as frog lamps, perhaps because of their shape. The flat, vertical surface behind the flame held a polished reflector to Lot# 2280 Brooklyn, New York Wolf’s Cap direct light to a desired location. The reflector of one of these lamps Lamp, Miner’s Carbide Lamp Self-described as has the crossed hammers and GLUCK AUF (GOOD LUCK) engraved on WOLF’S CAP LAMP on the top with MADE IN USA the shiny brass. The other lamp is missing the polished reflector. Each beneath it. The bottom of the carbide cylinder is base is about 3.25 inches in diameter, about 4.25 inches long, and 1.25 embossed with WOLF SAFETY LAMP COMPANY inches thick. (credit to Rubylane.com for some description details) OF AMERICA, INC. / BROOKLYN / NEW YORK William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 132388 / PAT PENDING. Bright nickel construction, still shiny. About 2-inch diameter base, 2.5- Lot# 2275 Carbide Lamps - 2, from Rosario inch diameter reflector, 3.75 inches tall. Lower Mine in Honduras Two miner’s brass carbide canister easily unscrews, valve lever works lamps, the larger is marked ITP -- It’s Trouble smoothly, no flint in the striker. Beautiful piece of mining history for Free on the bottom, and the smaller is marked your use or display. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# JUSTRITE on the top. The ITP lamp can be 132384 mounted on a helmet by folding the two brass loops forward to expose the hook, or held by Lot# 2281 Arrow Brand Carbine Lamp hand by folding the loops together to make Miner’s helmet lamp manufactured by Arrow. a handhold. It is 2.25 inches in diameter and Matte-finish brass construction. Base is about about six inches tall with a 3.5-inch diameter reflector. A Rosario Mine 2 inches in diameter, overall about 3.75 inches brass tag has been attached to the hanger at the top of this lamp. The tall. Base unscrews smoothly and sparker still Justrite lamp has lost its mounting mechanism. It is 2.125 inches in has a working flint. Reflector is about 2-3/8 diameter, about 4 inches tall, and has a 2.5-inch diameter reflector. inch diameter. Looks to be in good working The bottom of this lamp has a handwritten label identifying it as from order. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-300 the Rosario Mine, San Juancito, Honduras (same location). William HWAC# 132383 Mayrsohn Collection Est. $160-250 HWAC# 132420 Lot# 2282 Candlestick Carbide Lamps - 3 Lot# 2276 Manchester, Wells Single Torch Three carbide miner’s lamps mounted on Lamp, No. 5B The Wells Single Torch Lamp, steel candlesticks -- an idea so clever it was No. 5B was a single-wick, cast-iron lamp by the patented. One lamp has a handwritten label A.C. Wells & Co. of Manchester, England. It was indicating it was from Virginia City, Montana, designed to be unbreakable and burn heavy and another shows it is from the Rosario Mine oils, petroleum, and liquid paraffin. The base near San Juacito, Honduras. That one is a Justrite lamp, and the other has a capacity of one pint. It is approx 8.5 x 5.25 two are Guy’s Dropper brand lamps. All lamps are about two inches x 6 inches, and it weighs about four pounds! in diameter and four inches tall. the steel candlesticks are all around William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132380 9 inches long. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $450-600 HWAC# 132871 Lot# 2277 Carbide Lamps from Lot# 2283 Carbide Miner’s Lamps, Large Britain and Spain Three carbide - 3 Three large underground miner’s carbide miner’s lamps, one made in Britain lamps, all by Justrite, all brass, two plated. All labeled on the bottom as a Gilbert have 4-inch reflectors (one is really shiny!), Lamp by the Victor Co. (about 3 and bodies about three inches in diameter and inches in diameter and 7 inches tall), six inches tall without the handle. See photo for one made by Fisma in Spain and held condition details. Bottom of the lamp with the together with a clamp mechanism shiny reflector has a handwritten sticker with EL MOCHITO MINE / (about 3.5 inches in diameter and 10 Santa Barbara Prov / HONDURAS CA (that does not mean California!). inches tall), and a third of unknown The unplated lamp has a handwritten label on the bottom that reads origin (about 3.5 inches in diameter Mina Huautla / Tiro Sanfransisco / Morelos Mexico. William Mayrsohn and 9 inches tall. No reflectors with these -- the acetylene flame came Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 132432 from a spout at the top of the lamp. See photo for design and condition details. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132436 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 115
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining / Equipment Lot# 2284 Cast Iron Oil Lamps for Lot# 2290 Koehler 209 Mine Lamps - 4 Four Underground Miners - 3 Three cast iron oil Koehler Permissible Model 209 Mine Lamps, lamps used in underground mines. Each has a one in brass and three in aluminum. One of the distinctive rooster-shaped key that opens the aluminum ones has a Peabody Coal Company lamp for refilling with lamp oil. Each lamp is sticker on the top and sides. Oddly, this one about 4.5 inches in diameter and 1.5 inches has been reassembled with the upper cover thick, and the hanger without the hook stands installed upside down. All four are in great about six inches tall. See photos for condition condition with working strikers and are worthy additions to your and design details. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# mining collection. See photo for condition details. Overall dimensions 132434 are approx. 3-3/4 inches in diameter and 10 inches tall. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 131917 Lot# 2285 Dewar Brand Carbide Miner’s Lamps - 3 Three underground miner’s lamps. Lot# 2291 Large Carbide Signal Lamps - 3 Two nickel, one brass. All three read ITP LAMP Three large carbide signal lamps: Largest has DEWAR MFG CO. BROOKLYN, N.Y. U.S.A. at the a 5-inch clear lens (cracked, the base is about top rim of the carbide canister. Each is about 6 inches in diameter, and it stands about 10.5 9.5 inches tall, 3 inches in diameter, with 3.5- inches tall to the top of the handle. Second has inch diameter reflectors. All three in well-used a 4-inch convex lens to focus the beam, the condition. The ITP meant It’s Trouble Proof, which is just what you base is about 6 inches in diameter, and it stands about 10.5 inches tall wanted in the underground. All pieces appear to be present. See photo to the top of the handle. Third has a about a 3.5-inch diameter clear for specific condition details. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 lens (cracked down the middle and along the top right), the canister HWAC# 132430 is about 3.5 inches in diameter and it stands about 10.5 inches tall. A nice display collection. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $600-800 Lot# 2286 Guy’s Dropper Carbide Lamp and HWAC# 132429 Flask Guy’s Dropper branded carbide lamp, intact with some minor dents in the bottom, Lot# 2292 Large-Reflector Carbide Lamps - approx. 3.75 x 2.375 x 2.5. Also same brand 2 Two carbide miner’s lamps: Larger is made tin carbide flask, embossed on both sides, by Justrite, three inches in diameter, about 8.5 with screw on top -- quite rare, approx. 7 x 3.5 inches tall, with a 7.25-inch diameter reflector x 2 inches. Lamp base reads MANUF’D BY / (sparker is missing). Second is made by Guy’s SHANKLIN MFG CO. / SPRINGFIELD, ILL / U.S.A. Dropper, approx. 2 inches in diameter, about William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 5 inches tall, with a 7-inch diameter reflector. 132379 Both lamps have endured full service and bear the memories of being bumped and dropped a time or two. Definitely full of character and Lot# 2287 Justrice Miner’s Carbide Lamp charm. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 132431 Group - 7 pcs A group of seven underground miner’s lamps made by Justrite. Various sizes Lot# 2293 Mine Supervisor’s Carbide Lamps from several small, hardhat-mounted to a - 4 Four mine supervisor carbide lamps: Three larger handheld model. See photo for relative of them are about three inches in diameter and sizes and condition details. This lot also nine inches tall, with about 4-inch diameter includes a 4.5 x 3.5 x 1 inch Justrite carbide can that the miner would reflectors, hangers on top, and handles on the wear on his belt to keep carbide handy to refill his lamp. The can is back. One of these is in nearly new condition shaped like a personal liquor flask, and the curved top panel slides and made in Mexico. The smallest of the four lamps is an ACME brand out to open it. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $240-400 HWAC# 132433 with a 3-inch reflector. All but the Mexican lamp have seen some action bear the wear from their hard work. See photo for condition details. Lot# 2288 Justrite Brass Carbide Lamp - William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132435 Great Condition This is a Justrite carbide lamp made of brass with a bright shiny 2.5-inch Lot# 2294 Miner’s Carbide Lamps - 3 reflector. This describer could not unscrew AutoLite, 1 Dewar, 1 SafeSport Five Miner’s the carbide canister, and the drip valve is Carbide Lamps including three AutoLite (one stuck in one position. The overall appearance in its original box even!), 1 made by Dewar Mfg is excellent. No patent date is found at the top Co, and the fifth says on the bottom MADE IN where is says MADE / JUSTRITE / IN USA / HONG KONG EXPRESSLY FOR / SAFESPORT MFG. CO / DENVER COLO. TRADEMARK. Two-inch diameter canister and All are well used with stories to tell if we could hear them. Reflector 4-inch overall height. Beautiful display piece. sizes range between about 2.5 to 4 inches in diameter, and the lamps William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $160-250 HWAC# 132385 are between 3.5 and 4 inches tall. Box is 4 x 3.375 x 4.5 inches and in good condition. Get AutoLite -- They’re Finer says the Miner. William Lot# 2289 Justrite Horizontal Carbide Mayrsohn Collection Est. $240-400 HWAC# 132424 Lamp - Rare Justrite horizontal design carbide lamp. Upper cylinder diameter Lot# 2295 Miner’s Carbide Lamps - 3 is 2.5 inches, lower canister diameter JustRite, 1 Unknown Four carbide lamps is also 2.5 inches. Reflector is 3 inches use on miner’s helmets in underground in diameter. Overall height is 6 inches. mining. Three are labeled JUSTRITE and one Brass construction still shiny with is unmarked as far as this describer can tell. some spots of corrosion. Lower canister Based on their condition, they all would have great mining stories to still unscrews smoothly. Embossed on tell. Perhaps you can get them to tell you. All four are two inches in the upper cylinder JUSTRITE / PAT. diameter, three are about four inches tall, and one has a nice shiny DEC.17,1901 / PAT. MAY 7,1901 / 2-inch diameter reflector. The others aren’t so shiny anymore. The OTHERS PENDING William Mayrsohn larger lamp has retractable handles so it can be carried by hand Collection Est. $180-250 HWAC# 132382 instead of only being mounted on a hardhat. Nice display pieces. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 132532 116 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining / Equipment Lot# 2296 Wolf Safety Miner’s Lamps - 2 Two Lot# 2301 Shiny Brass Carbide Lamp, Possibly Wolf miner’s safety lamps, used in underground of Foreign Design Beautiful, shiny brass carbide mines that may have explosive components in the lamp with no manufacturer’s markings or patent air such as coal dust or methane. The flame was date. Gorgeous condition with all working parts enclosed in a glass cylinder topped by a fine mesh present. Interesting double reflector design. chimney. Early designs failed because of the fragility Larger reflector is 4-inches in diameter, base is 2.5 of the fine mesh, which then allowed the lamp flame inches in diameter, and the whole lamp is about 6 to ignite explosive gasses. The Wolf design protected inches tall. Splendid display item. William Mayrsohn the interior mesh with a rugged exterior chimney. Collection Est. $160-250 HWAC# 132386 The larger of these two has a front nameplate with WOLF SAFETY LAMP CO / OF AMERICA INC / NEW YORK in a brass Lot# 2302 Miner’s Teapot Lamps - 3 Three oval attached to the base. This lamp is about 3.5 inches in diameter miner’s teapot lamps that were filled with oil and almost 12 inches tall. A handwritten label inside the bottom of and burned a thick wick, and mounted with the the base indicates it came from the Sullivan Gold Mine in Val d’Or hook onto a miner’s helmet. Largest is about (Valley of Gold) Quebec, which operated from the 1930s until 1968. 1.75 inches in diameter and 3.5 inches tall. The other lamp has THE WOLF SAFETY LAMP Co(Wm MAURICE) Ltd Next one is about 1.6 inches in diameter and SHEFFIELD engraved along the brass ring at the base. The back of this 3 inches tall. Third one is 1.6 inches in diameter and about 3 inches lamp is stamped A23, and a small brass plaque at the top is stamped tall. Be very glad you never had to go underground with one of these 1984. This lamp is about 3.5 inches in diameter and about 8 inches as your only lighting. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# tall. Both are beautiful display pieces. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. 132421 $300-400 HWAC# 132422 Lot# 2303 Unusual heal lamps - 2 This is Lot# 2297 Wolf Safety Miner’s Lamps - 2 Two a pair of old headlamps unlike others in the underground safety lamps made by Wolf Safety consignment. Each has a large convex lens Lamp Co of America, and the contract couldn’t with a hinged cover, what appears to be a be more dramatic. The larger lamp, approx. 3.25 spud connection for an external supply of fuel inches in diameter and about 8 inches at the (acetylene from carbide?), an open chimney top of the bail, held a sizable reservoir of fuel at the top, and a leather strap to hold it on the helmet or your head. and burned a large flame from the spout at the Larger lamp is about 4 inches in diameter and 5 inches tall. Smaller is front. It has a sharp hook that could be driven about 3.5 inches in diameter and 4.5 inches tall. Some unique designs into a crevice to hang the lamp in the work for your mine lamp collection. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100- area. The smaller lamp was fueled by carbide 300 HWAC# 132425 and mounted onto the front of the miner’s helmet. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 132427 Lot# 2304 Mining Artifact Group Group of about 20 mining artifacts. Three carbide Lot# 2298 Wolf Safety Oil Lamps Lamps. One superintendent carbide. One - Nearly Matched Pair Two pocket carbide 10. Two calcium carbide tends. Wolf Type FS Mine Safety Lamps, Safe sport carbide lamp new in box. Premier Clanny style, fuel by lamp oil. Both carbide lamp new in box. Minors candlestick made by Nevada craft are ruggedly made for rough use gilded Virginia City circa 1969. Hercules fuse crimper. Galvanometer. in underground mining. One is Nice mining artifact group. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 132900 engraved around the base WOLF SAFETY LAMP CO (WM MAURICE) Lot# 2305 Mining Artifact Group (4) Double LTD SHEFFIELD / WOLF TYPE FS. rimmed miner’s hard hat with carbide lamp The other lamp is unengraved. attachment, maker label torn out, c 1910-20. Explosive vapors can accumulate Miners Lunch box in aluminum. pair of mining underground and be ignited by a related cuff links. San Francisco California die miner’s open-flame lamp or candle. struck sterling silver spoon, a typical souvenir Safety lamps worked by preventing the lamp flame from being in of San Francisco for anyone- a miner or tourist. direct contact with the outside air by enclosing the lamp in glass and a Est. $100-200 HWAC# 122820 fine metal gauze chimney. These gauze chimneys are fragile and easily compromised, so the Wolf Lamp protects the fine gauze within the Lot# 2306 British Columbia 1898 Kaslo & Slocan sturdy metal tapered cylinder at the top. Each lamp is about 3.5 inches Railway Annual Pass (Canadian Mining RR) Pass in diameter and 8.25 inches tall without the hook at the top. Quite no. 4, issued for 1898 to HA Jackson, traveling agent the conversation starter, and here you can get two of them. William for Great Northern Railway Company. Preprinted Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-400 HWAC# 132428 signature of the president. Black and red print on tan cardstock. Countersigned on reverse by Robert Lot# 2299 Three Oil Wick Mining Lamps Irving and Jackson. Some paper loss on reverse. This Lot of 3 different. Two are unmarked; one is line was a narrow-gauge railway between Kaslo, marked C. George, Hazleton, PA, Patent May 26 Slocan, and the mining community of Sandon in the 08. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 134013 Kootenay region of British Columbia between 1895 and 1955. After silver was discovered near Sandon in 1891, the Great Lot# 2300 Unusual Husson Oil Wick Mining Northern Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway sought to build a Lamp Copper spout and rod but what makes line out to the mines. The Kaslo & Slocan Railway competed with the this unusual is an attachment device on the CPR’s Nakusp and Slocan for the ore from the mines. On December base for a custom miner’s candlestick. Bottom: 16, 1895, crews from the Kaslo and Slocan demolished the station the Husson Miners Lamp / Pat 11 17 03 / No. 6 / CPR had just built on land disputed between the two railways. Both The Knippenberg / Mfg Co / Oshkosh Wis. Est. railways competed with building spurs to service mines in order to $150-200 HWAC# 134014 obtain ore traffic destined for the other railway. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 134084 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 117
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Transportation / Railroads Lot# 2307 Arizona 1906 Arizona & New Mexico Lot# 2313 Colorado 1902-1928 Colorado Railway Annual Pass No. 124, issued in 1906 Railroad Pass Group Lot of 6 different. to CH Eaton of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Includes: Forth Worth & Denver City Railway Co. Railway. Printed signature of the vice president (1902); Colorado Midland Railway Company Alex. Veitch. “Good Also on Lordsburg & Hachita (1910); Colorado & Southern Railway Co. R.R.” (printed on reverse). Endorsed. Lines extend (1914, 1920, 1928); and Forth Worth & Denver from Hachita, N. Mexico, northwesterly to Clifton, City Railway Co./The Wichita Valley Railway Arizona, and from Lordsburg and Hachita Junction, Co. (1915). Please inspect. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 134085 N.Mex., to Lordsburg, N. Mexico. Est. $70-100 HWAC# 134098 Lot# 2314 Colorado 1911-1959 Colorado Railroad Passes - 6 Six RR passes from Lot# 2308 Arizona 1916, 1924 Colorado: Midland Valley RR Co, 1930, No Arizona-New Mexico Railroad A3831, issued to Ed H. Barnes; Midland Passes Plus Bonus Three railroad Terminal Railway, 1931, No A2753, issued to passes: 1) The Arizona & New Mexico Elmer Mitchell; Midland Terminal Railway, 1938-1939, No 8, issued Railway Company, 1916, No 520, to Mrs. J.A. Carruthers, wife of Gen’l Atty; Denver and Rio Grande issued to Mrs B Malone and Miss Western RR Co, 1959, No A80, issued to F.O. Divisek; Colorado Springs Nora Malone; 2) Arizona Eastern & Cripple Creek District RY Co, 1911, No A2879, issued to Paul Y. Railroad, 1924, No 548 issued to Mr. Waters; Colorado & Southern RY Co, 1915, No C1655, issued to J.S. C. Feltham. 3) Arkansas & Louisiana Jones. Date: 1911-1959 Country (if not USA): State: Colorado City: Missouri Railway Company, 1933._ Provenance: Est. $160-300 HWAC# 135524 Est. $50-200 HWAC# 135523 Lot# 2315 Atlanta, Georgia 1874 Atlanta & Lot# 2309 Arkansas 1882-1916 Arkansas Richmond Air-line Railway Co. Annual Pass Railroad Pass Collection Lot of 8 different. No. 591, issued in 1874 to Charles B. Sanford, Includes: Iron Mountain & Helena Railroad BRLS. Signed by Engineer/Superintendent (1882); Hot Springs Railroad (1898); Eureka Page. Black print with gold underprint design. Springs Railway (1890); Arkansas Southern Printed by Hosford & Sons.Organized in 1870. Railroad Co. (1903); Arkansas, Louisiana & Combined the Georgia Air Line Railroad and Gulf Railway (1910); Arkansas & Louisiana the Air Line Railroad in South Carolina. Later became part of the Midland Railway (1916); Arkansas & Gulf Railroad (1912); and Ashley Southern Railway. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 134101 Drew & Northern Railway (1914). Please inspect. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 134097 Lot# 2316 Chicago, Illinois 1887-1919 Chicago Railroad Pass Collection Lot of 9 Lot# 2310 California 1903-1927 California different. Includes: Chicago, Rock Island & Railroad Pass Group Lot of 4 passes. 1) Pacific Railway (two different: 1887 w/ three California Northwestern Railway Company. vignettes, and 1890); Chicago, Rock Island & 1903. Lessee of the San Francisco & North Gulf Railway (1912); Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pacific Railway Company. 2) Holton Inter- Paul Railway (three different: 1888, 1895, and Urban Railway Company. Two passes, issued 1919); Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. (1889); and Chicago in 1913 and 1917. Ran from El Centro to Great Western Railway (two different: 1905 and 1906, both with leaf Holtville, Imperial County, California. 3) California Western Railroad vignettes). Please inspect. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 134093 and Navigation Company, “The Redwood Route.” Pass issued in 1927. Please inspect. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 134091 Lot# 2317 1889-1926 Chicago, Northern Midwestern US Railroad Passes - 9 Nine RR Lot# 2311 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1914 passes: Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad Co. RY, 1890, No X3082, issued to J.S. Koslowsky; Annual Pass No. A1931, issued for 1914 Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RY, to Mr. LB Valla, C.A. for Southern Pacific 1889, No 2157, issued to A.H. Pike; Chicago, Company. Printed signature of the president. St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RY, 1900, No Countersigned by AS Gill. Signed on the reverse X3082, issued to H.F. Whitcomb; Chicago & North-Western RY, 1897, by Valla. Good over: Florence & Cripple Creek No 9752, issued to Jno. E. Stearns; Chicago and North-Western RR; Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway; Canon City & Railway, 1895, No 8426, issued to T.G. Mitchell; Chicago, Burlington & Cripple Creek RR; and Golden Circle RR. Some stains on the reverse. Quincy RR Co, 1911, No 5887, issued to R.F. Locke; Chicago, Burlington Est. $80-120 HWAC# 134083 & Quincy, 1918, No 858, issued to Mrs. A.C. Ridgway; Chicago Great Western Railway, 1907, No 1675, issued to W.B. Bevill; Chicago and Lot# 2312 Denver, Colorado 1910-1931 Eastern Illinois Railway Company, 1926, No C2301. Date: 1889-1926 Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Passes Lot Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Est. $300-600 HWAC# of 4. Includes: Denver & Rio Grande Railroad 126672 System (1910); Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Co. and Rio Grande Southern Railroad Co. Lot# 2318 Kentucky 1883-1898 Three (1912, 1917); and Denver & Rio Grande Different Kentucky Railroad Passes Lot of 3 Western Railroad Co. (1931). Please inspect. different. 1) Chattaroi Railway. No. 240, issued Est. $120-200 HWAC# 134086 in 1883 to Wm. H. Galzmer. Signed by general manager Chas. Rockwell. Operated 1873-1888. 2) Kentucky & South Atlantic Railway. No. 209, issued in 1885 to Richard Smith. Signed by supt. Harper. 3) Licking Valley Railway Company. No. 56, issued in 1898 to RH England. Signed by general manger Eaton. Please inspect. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 134094 118 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Transportation / Railroads Lot# 2319 Massachusetts 1869 Connecticut Lot# 2325 Oregon 1898-1918 Pacific River Rail Road Annual Pass Gorgeous, early Northwest Railroad Pass Group (Oregon color pass. Issued to WC Pierreport, president of & Washington) Lot of 4 different. Includes: Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad, for 1) Great Northern Railway (1898, “Good Only 1869. Signed by acting superintendent J. Mulligan. Reverse has conditions printed in green. Front has on Cascade Division”: Willmar & Sioux Falls print and vignette in brown showing locomotive Ry; Duluth, Waterntown & Pacific Ry; Seattle crossing a bridge. Printed by Milton Bradley & & Montana RR; Fairhaven & Southern RR; Co. Lith. Located along the Connecticut River in western Massachusetts, this rail line was formed in and New Westminster Souther Ry); 2) Corvallis & Eastern Railroad 1845 from the merger of two unfinished railroads, the Northampton and Springfield Railroad and the Greenfield and Northampton Railroad. Company (1912); 3) Independence & Monmouth Railway Co. (1915); Its main line ran from Springfield to East Northfield, Massachusetts. Acquired by the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1893. Est. $100-200 and 4) Bellingham & Northern Railway Co. (1918). Please inspect. Est. HWAC# 134088 $80-150 HWAC# 134090 Lot# 2320 Michigan 1905 Lot# 2326 Cornwall, Pennsylvania 1899 and Detroit & Mackinac Railway 1905 Two Different Pictorial Cornwall Pass No. 713, issued to DW Railroad Passes Lot of 2 different. 1) Cornwall Kaufman, vice president of & Lebanon Railroad. Pass no. 398, issued in the Maniatique, Marquette & 1899 to Charles M Warner, vice president of the Northern Railway, for 1905. Holly River Railroad Co. Signed by the president Signed by JD Hawks, president and general supt. Reverse has conditions. Very and general manager. Black attractive pass on cardstock with vignette of the print on light green cardstock Lebanon Station (in Lebanon County, PA). 2) with raised green vignette of a Cornwall Railroad Company. Pass no. 58, issued turtle! Reverse has conditions. Some soiling. This railway, known as in 1905 to DK Kaufman, vice president on the Manistique, Marquette the “Turtle Line,” ran from Bay City north to Cheboygan from 1894 to & Northern Signed by the president. Black print on yellow cardstock, 1992. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 134082 vignette of a locomotive in the background. Ran from West Lebanon to Mount Hope, PA. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 134089 Lot# 2321 Kansas City, Missouri 1895-1923 Kansas City Railroad Passes Lot of 4 different. Lot# 2327 Pennsylvania 1881-1915 Illinois Includes: Kansas City, Osceola & Southern and Pennsylvania Railroad Pass Group Lot of Railway Co. (1895); Kansas City & Memphis 5 different. Includes: Cairo & St. Louis Railroad Railway and Bridge Co. (1904 w/ bridge (1881); Lackawanna & Pittsburgh Railroad Co. vignette); Kansas City-Western Railway Co. (1885); Centralia & Chester Railroad (1899); (1917); and Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield Big Level & Kinzua Railroad Co. (1907); and Cairo, Truman & Southern Railway Co. (1923). Please inspect. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 134104 Railroad Co. (1915). Please inspect. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 134100 Lot# 2322 New York 1892 Buffalo, Rochester Lot# 2328 Texas 1915-1933 Southern & Pittsburgh Railway Co. Annual Pass Nice Railroad Passes: Texas and Louisiana Lot color pictorial pass. No. 731, issued for 1892 of 10 different. Includes: Dayton-Goose Creek to IC Shertleff, attorney for Montpelier & Railway Co. (1926); El Paso & Southwestern Wells River RR. Signed by the vice president. (1924); Franklin & Abbeville Railway Co. Printed on blue cardstock with a nice vignette (1926); Galveston-Houston Electric Railway of a locomotive passing by a depot. This line Co. (1933); Gulf Coast Lines. International- operated in New York and Pennsylvania from 1885-1932. It was Great Northern Railroad Co. (1930); Gulf preceded by the Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad. Its successor was Coast Lines (1924); Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 134087 Railway (1918); Louisiana Southern Railway Co. (1926); Louisiana & North West (1915); and Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company Lot# 2323 Cleveland, Ohio 1888, 1893 Cleveland, (1916). Please inspect. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 134103 Akron & Columbus Railway Pass Pair Lot of 2 different. “Mt. Vernon Route.” 1) No. 863, issued Lot# 2329 1914-1921 Western US Railroad to EA Bond in 1888. Signed by the president. Blue Pass Group (Idaho, Montana, Utah) Lot of 4. print on cardstock. Vignettes of Cathedral Pass, 1) Butte-Anaconda & Pacific Railway Company. Cuyahoga Falls, and Highbridge & Glens. 2) No. 1914. 2) Idaho Southern Railroad Company / 795, issued to Frank Baker in 1893. Signed by the Milner & North Side Railroad Company. 1914. president. Vignette portrait of Columbus. Glue 3) Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company. residue on reverse. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 134095 “Salt Lake Route.” 1918 and 1921. Est. $80- Lot# 2324 Ohio 1881-1889 Four Nice 1880s 120 HWAC# 134096 Ohio Railroad Passes Lot of 4 different. 1) Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Lot# 2330 1895-1920 Atchison, Topeka Railway. 1881. Good on the Cincinnati & & Santa Fe Railroad Pass Group Lot of 4 Indianapolis, Indianapolis & La Fayette, La different. “Santa Fe Route.” Passes issued for Fayette & Kankakee, Fairland & Martinsville, and Harrison Branch. 2) Columbus & Eastern 1895, 1900, 1914, and 1920. The 1914 pass Railroad. 1888. Pictorial yellow pass with locomotive vignette. 3) Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railway. 1889. Three also lists the Southern Kansas Railway of Texas vignettes. Reverse lists divisions of the road. 4) Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling railroad. 1889. Red font on cardstock. Est. $150-200 HWAC# and The Pecos & Northern Texas Railway. Est. 134092 $60-100 HWAC# 134102 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 119
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Transportation / Railroads Lot# 2331 1878-1923 Midwest US Railroad Lot# 2336 Grand Canyon, Arizona 1909 Very Pass Group Lot of 7 different. Includes: Rare Fred Harvey Grand Canyon Santa Fe Burlington & Missouri River Rail Road in RR Booklet Booklet issued by Fred Harvey Nebraska / & Nebraska Railway (1878); Inter- and the Santa Fe Railroad to promote the Tovar State Consolidated Rapid Transit Railway Hotel, Harvey House Restaurants and travel Company (1892, Missouri); Joplin & Pittsburg on the Santa Fe Railroad. Book is dated 1909 and has photos showing Railway Co. (1914); Anthony & Northern various views of the hotel and surrounding areas. Binding is a little Railway Co. (1919, Kansas); Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern iffy on this softcover 5”x 8” publication. Please see photos for more Railroad (1914); Clinton, Davenport & Muscatine Railway Co. (1918); detail and condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# and Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway (1923). Please inspect. Est. $140-200 HWAC# 134099 131988 Lot# 2332 1893-1942 Miscellaneous US Lot# 2337 Yuma, Arizona 1878 Central Railroad Pass Collection Lot of 13 different. Pacific Bills of Lading for Arizona (6) Includes: Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Six bills of lading issued by the Central Railroad (1893); De Queen & Eastern Railroad Pacific Railroad. Parcels appear to be Co. (1912); Central Railway Co. of Arkansas headed for Yuma and consist of items (1913); Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway like blankets, candles, oil cloth, brooms, Co. (1920); El Dorado & Wesson Railway Co. medical supplies and more. Not saying (1942); Gould Southwestern Railway (1917); that these supplies were going to the Graysonia, Nashville & Ashdown Railroad state prison (Which opened in 1876), (1931); Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad but odds are, some of these items found (1904); Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway (1906); Illinois their way to the institution. Documents Southern Railway (1907); Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis are very readable, looking like they Railway (1912); Dayton Toledo & Chicago Railway/ White Sulphur could have been issued yesterday. Springs & Yellowstone Park Railway (1919); and United States Railroad Please see photos for more detail and Administration (1919). Please inspect. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 134105 condition. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 131773 Lot# 2333 1892-1895 Railroad Passes - 4, 1892- Lot# 2338 Arizona c1900 Brotherhood of 1895 Four railroad passes from the 1890s, displayed Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, Copper with historical context. 1) Fitchburg Railroad, 1892, Queen Lodge Copper Queen Lodge, No. 799. number 2039, issued to Frank Priest and signed by Possibly for the Arizona and Southwest or Arizona John Adams. 2) Fitchburg Railroad, 1893, number and Southeast. Two vignette: one foremen and one 634, issued to D. W. Jordan and signed by John Adams. engineer in a steam locomotive. Very colorful. Near 3) Naugatuck Railroad, 1885, not numbered, issued to Gila Bend according to the White Pine newspapers. C. J. Ives and signed by G. M. Beach. 4) New Haven and 3.5x5”. Has seen better days, but a great piece! (W. D. Derby railroad, 1886, number 183, issued to Samuel Miles Collection) Est. $50-60 HWAC# 131837 L. Smith. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 133642 Lot# 2339 Grass Valley, California 1900’s Lot# 2334 Union Pacific Railway Company Nevada County Narrow Gauge RR Photos & Annual Pass, 1889 Ornate annual railroad pass Ephemera Incredible collection celebrating from the Union Pacific Railway Co. issued to Mr. the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad G.S. Russell, Car Tracer, B.C. R. & N. Railway. A little “Never Come, Never Go.” Included are freight wear on the left edge (view photos). Signed by the bills, passes, photos, both scenic and of railway’s General Manager. Rare. Est. $200-400 locomotives and even a letter of reference from HWAC# 129550 an employee looking to work elsewhere. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 122852 Lot# 2335 Alaska Maps of Lot# 2340 Lake Tahoe, California Lake Tahoe the Alaska Railroad This Line (railroad), Overland Route Pamphlet Southern Pacific Railroad. 10 pages. Each page is a set of four maps of the has five photographs of stops between Salt Lake City and Oakland. All with descriptions. Alaskan Railroad surveyed Tahoe and region gets a good look! (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 131838 between 1898-1933 Lot# 2341 Lake Tahoe, California c1880 published in 1940. Scale is Carson & Tahoe Narrow Gauge, No. 3 Photo Photo of the Carson and Tahoe Lumber & 250 by the USGS. Map 26 Fluming Company’s narrow gauge 2-6-0, no.3. Photo taken near Bijou, California at Matanuska Coal Field to the J. H. Martin Camp at the southern end of Lake Tahoe. The Baldwin Locomotive Works Yanek Fork, 38 in. X 40 in.; built this model in 1877. The engine was sold to the Lake Tahoe Railway & Transportation Seward to Matanuska Coal Company in 1899. Photo is very faded, 8.5” x 7”. Nicely framed, 13.5” x 16.5”. Est. $250-700 HWAC# 63868 Field, ragged left edge with paper loss; map 601, scale at 250, Reconnaissance map of Chitina quad. Copper River Region, very good condition; map of Mount Wrangell District, scale 1 in. = 10 miles, 22 in. X 24 in. has pin holes on folded edge. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Alaska City: Provenance: Est. $300-450 HWAC# 121150 120 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Transportation / Railroads Lot# 2342 Shasta Springs, California Fabulous Lot# 2347 Massachusetts Boston & Maine Photo of Train at the Shasta Springs Depot Railroad Lantern & One Other Boston & Maine This is a great find for railroad buffs and history embossed clear globe lantern. Made by Dressel collectors. High contrast photo of a freight train Mfg, NY, with additional tag on the side “D & H at the station. Sharp details! Shasta Springs Co.” No cracks. Lot includes a standard hand- was a popular summer resort during the late held lantern, Deitz D-Lite No. 2 in green with 19th and early 20th centuries on the Upper original globe. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 125238 Sacramento River in northern California. It was located just north of the town of Dunsmuir, and just north of Upper Lot# 2348 Minnesota Jim Deneen Train Soda Springs along the Siskiyou Trail. The resort was on the main line Prints with Stamps Four train prints from of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and natural springs on the property original Deneen paintings: All framed, 18” x were the original sources of the water and beverages that became 22”. The Broadway Limited, The Southwestern known as the Shasta brand of soft drinks. Photo by Waters. Number Limited, the capitol Limited, and The Alton 441. Framed 7 x 9h. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# Limited. Jim Deneen (1930-2012) Date: 130115 Country (if not USA): State: Minnesota City: Provenance: Est. $200-300 HWAC# 121242 Lot# 2343 California 1853 Explorations in California of Railroad Routes by Lt. Lot# 2349 Eureka, Nevada 1871 Eureka Nevada Williamson, 1853 This is a very, very early Railway Ephemera Framed display featuring work on creating a Southern transcontinental nine punched tickets from the Eureka Nevada railroad route. In the early 1850fs three routes Railway, a baggage check and a freight bill. It’s were under consideration from the United nicely displayed in a mounting and frame that States Government for a transcontinental measures 19”x 15” and is ready to hang. Please route: southern (this route), central (the final see photos for more detail and condition. Est. route chosen) and northern. There was a great $200-300 HWAC# 121692 deal of interest in a Southern route, which would soon lose its support with the threat of a Southern succession. Fold out maps are attached Lot# 2350 Virginia City, Nevada Virginia & and in good condition. Plates for plant identification also intact. Plates Truckee Railroad Ephemera Collection Lot with sketches of the route are priceless: Los Angeles when hardly a of seventeen office paperwork forms from village, Tejon Pass, the Great Basin, ancient lakes. Some discoloration the Virginia and Truckee Railroad. Baggage with age. Binding is starting to separate, but all pages are firmly tag, Sunday excursion ticket; Payroll Voucher; attached. 1853 / 1855. Approved by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. Station Agent’s Draft Check; Report of Animals Would this have changed the Civil War, if this route were chosen??? Killed or Injured. None of the forms are filled Est. $340-400 HWAC# 130133 out, all blank. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 132090 Lot# 2344 California 1857-1950’s Railroad Lot# 2351 Virginia City, Nevada Virginia Photos and Ephemera From Early Calif Lot & Truckee Railroad & Carson Lumber of 24. Three photos of train rails/buildings, Telegraph Memos A pile of about 40 Eleven Blank baggage tickets Sierra Railway of handwritten telegrams concerning the Calif., Five Eureka and Palisade RR expense bills Virginia & Truckee railroads need for lumber. 1887-92, one expense bill Portland Steamer Henry Yerington, Abe Curry and many other Central 1851, one Boston and Nashua Railroad local personalities involved. Also telegrams corp expense 1857, one V&T RR waybill 1879, concerning the Carson Lumber Company. Est. $120-200 HWAC# one AT&SF ticket w/envelope 1951 and time table 1955. Very good 132089 condition. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 129905 Lot# 2352 Virginia City, Nevada Virginia & Lot# 2345 Chicago, Illinois 1934 Railroad Truckee Railroad Telegraph Memos A large Periodical - The Santa Fe Magazine July pile of pencil written telegraph messages from 1934 Railroad news periodical, The Santa Fe Carson dating from 1885 through 1901. Most Magazine, July 1934. Vol. 28, No. 8, “A monthly written in pencil, some ink, one typewritten. publication devoted to the interests of the Many concerning E. B. Yerington. Sent to Reno, employes (sic) of the Santa Fe Railway System: San Francisco, Moundhouse and other places. to others, $2.00 per annum.” Ninety six pages Est. $150-250 HWAC# 132088 of articles, photographs and advertisements devoted to the railroad, published by the Railway Exchange, Chicago. Lot# 2353 Virginia City, Nevada 1900’s V&T 7” x 10”, good condition with some wear. Est. $40-60 HWAC# 126994 Railroad Monkey Wrench This is a monkey wrench from the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Lot# 2346 Dodge City, Kansas 1890 Dodge Wrench measures about 12” and is still in good City CRIP Railway Wax Sealer This is a wax working order. It’s made of metal with a wood sealer from The Chicago, Rock Island, Pacific handle that appears to be in good shape, considering its age. The Railway’s Dodge City, Kansas agent. Wood initials V&T RR are stamped on the handle. Please see photos for more handle has some finish missing, but stamp is detail and condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 110179 in very decent shape. The depot that this came from was moved and replaced by a Santa Fe RR structure in 1894, complete with a Harvey House Restaurant. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 131978 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 121
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Transportation / Railroads Lot# 2354 Virginia City, Nevada Virginia & Lot# 2359 Wisconsin 1910 The Bucyrus Co., Truckee Railroad Poster by the Railroadians So. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1910 Catalog of America This lot contains two (2) posters for -Railway Equipment Steam Shovels - The the Virginia and Truckee Railroad “Route to the Bucyrus Co., so. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1910 Comstock” serving Reno-Carson City-Virginia City. This mustard colored poster depicts a miner Catalog Manufacturer’s of Steam Shovels, waving to the engineer of the train. C. 1940’s. 19 in. X 12in. Some water damage to lover edge of both Railway Cranes, Locomotive Pile-Drivers, copies. Please se photos for details. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Rotary snowplows & all types of Dredges (10” Memorabilia Est. $100-200 HWAC# 133785 x 8” 120 well illustrated pages) Est. $110-200 Lot# 2355 Candelaria, Nevada Candeleria Mill Furnace Part Pattern, c. 1880 Wood HWAC# 135389 pattern from the Virginia and Truckee Railroad foundry operation is Carson City. This foundry Lot# 2360 1914-47 Railroad Letterheads made parts for public and private railroads, from Midwest to Southern Lot of 29. Shipping mines & mills throughout Nevada and Eastern receipts, letters regarding shipments (w/ California from the 1870’s through circa 1910. maps of RR) from Illinois Central Railroad, This is approx. 24” in diameter and 4” thick. Youngstown and Southern railway, Denver and These patterns were sold off about 1970 when the building sold. It Rio Grande RR, The Baltimore and Ohio RR was later demolished and the stones to Napa for a winery. Est. $200- Co to name a few. Majority are in protective 400 HWAC# 125139 sleeves and in excellent condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129892 Lot# 2356 Verdi, Nevada Verdi Lumber Co Lot# 2361 Lionel Train Instruction Book Pattern Block This is a wooden pattern block Collection, 1926-1969 (30) Impressive for a split pulley that would have been used at collection of three notebook volumes, 30 the Virginia and Truckee Rail Road foundry to pieces, of original Lionel train instruction cast a new iron pulley wheel. A sawtooth picture booklets. The inventory: 1929, 1932 (2 diff), hanger has been attached to the back side for 1935, 36, 37, 1938 (3 diff), 39, 40, 41 (2 diff), mounting on a wall. This wooden disk is 12 1946, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 (2 diff), 52, 53, 54 (2 inches in diameter and 2 inches thick. The Verdi diff), 55, 56, 58, 59, 60 (2 diff). Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 131750 Lumber Company began in the late 1800s as the underground mines of the Comstock were Lot# 2362 Great Southern & Western in high demand for timber to use as square-set timbering, building RW Iron Sign Cast iron sign from the Great construction, and fuel for trains and stationary engines. Just as the Southern & Western Railway (GS&WR) NOTICE mines were beginning to wind down, the Central Pacific Railroad sign against trespassing. The fine is listed as “forty shillings for each was pushing westward over the Sierra Nevada mountains, with high such offence.” So, stay off the tracks, lads! The GS&WR operated in demands for ties and lumber for bridges. The Verdi Lumber Company Ireland from 1844 to 1924 and grew from both construction and developed its own railway system west of Verdi to haul cut logs down mergers with smaller lines. In its later years, the railway was the from the eastern slopes of the Sierra to their sawmill in Verdi. The largest railway network in Ireland with about 1.800 km of track. In death knell of the company was a 1926 fire that destroyed the sawmill 1924, the line was merged many other lines within Ireland to become and other buildings, causing the company to dissolve in 1927. Read The Great Southern Railways. These were further combined in 1945 more about the interesting history and influence of this company in to create the Irish State Transport Company which was nationalized a 2007 article online by Robert Whalley. See photos for details. Est. in 1950. The railways now operate as Irish Rail. They are still heavily $200-400 HWAC# 125204 in use. Sign is about 15.25 x 10.75 x 0.25 inches and weighs about 8.8 pounds. Letters are well formed and undamaged, but the surface has a Lot# 2357 New York New York patina of rust. There are four mounting holes, one in each corner. See Embossed Railroad Lanterns (2) photo for condition details. All ABOARD! Est. $300-500 HWAC# 133729 A matched pair of New York railroad lanterns for different parts of the Lot# 2363 Southern Pacific Lines railroad system. Both Dietz Vesta Literature Material (2) 1) S o u t h e r n models, New York. NYCS New York Pacific Sacramento Shops Documentation Central System embossed on top in the Project by the Historic American Engineering metal, and the globe is embossed NYC Record for the California State Railroad Lines. red, 10.5” tall. 2) NY NH & H (D Museum– Contains Drawings for Site Plans hand punched in next to the embossed (9), Blacksmith Shop (5), Boiler Shop (5), H) New York New Haven and Hartford Car Machine Shop (7), Car Shop No. 3 (4), railroad embossed in the metal on the Erecting Shop (9), Paint Shop (5), Planing top. The globe is embossed with NYCS. red, 10.5” tall. Both very good Mill (8), Pitless Transfer Table (1) – (17” x to fine condition. Appears t be original paint. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 11”sheets w/spiral Binding). 2)Divisions & 125237 Related Maps (27) Lot# 2358 Oregon Map of the State of Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132390 Oregon 1904 Rail Road Map Published by The Title Guarantee & Trust Co. Compiled by Lot# 2364 1987 Southern Pacific Railroad Huber / Maxwell Civil Engineers. Measures Steam Locomotive Compendium Book, Approximately 28” x 42”. Some damage to top Plus Comes with Compendium Companion right corner, worn discolored edges. Otherwise Addition. Published by Diebert & Strapac in good condition. Est. $280-800 HWAC# 117746 1987. Catalogs all the known steam locomotives operated by Southern Pacific Railroad. 8.5 x 11” 426 pages. Dust Jacket, laminated. Very Good Condition. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 122288 122 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Transportation / Steamship/Marine Lot# 2365 California Maritime Publications Lot# 2371 Ford Motor Company Wrench and Brass Token One brass token, ~34mm, (2) 1) A Souvenir of the Anchor Line Ford logo over a shield on the obverse, stylized V8 design on the reverse with THIRTY YEARS Agents Excursion on the Steamer “California – / OF PROGRESS around the circumference. Also a Ford-branded, curved crescent wrench 1872 – (10” x 13” HB with gorgeous, illustrated 15/16th-inch open end and 5/8th-inch box end, ~9.75 inches long. Est. $70-150 HWAC# 133735 Cover in Gold tint and foldout map of routes & Lot# 2372 1929-1938 Complete History of connections – 113 pages) 2) T r a v e l the Building of the Bay Bridge (5) Designed and Constructed by the Dept. of Public Works Catalog for “The Alaska Line”, Alaska Steamship of the State of California for the California Toll Bridge Authority (each 8 ½ x 11” SC report Co., Seattle, Wash. “Sailing Sheltered Seas to the Land of the Midnight is teaming with amazing content, including accounting, contracts, engineering, plans, Sun” (7 ½ “X 10 ½” booklet, profusely illustrated, 40 pages) –1933 photos, maps and every imaginable statistic, many in fold-out form – in exceptional condition) (Truly a Unique Est. $160-250 HWAC# 132311 Piece of Work) Est. $300-600 HWAC# 132345 Lot# 2366 Hansen Bearing Board and Lot# 2373 Durant Motor Cars Sales Pocket Pelorus Manufactured by Kelvin & Literature and Consolidated Financial Wilfrid D. White Co., nautical instruments, of Statement for 1927 This is a cache of a large dealership poster depicting all of the models Boston and New York. Housed in a beautiful wooden case, (25 1/2 x 12 of autos. produced by Durant Motors including the Rugby truck line. William Durant was head x 4 “) appears all in original condition. A pelorus is not a compass but of General Motors before being fired, twice, and starting the Durant Automobile line to compete an instrument used to measure a bearing at sea relative to the ship’s head-to-head with GM. The lot includes the dealership poster, and both 1927 and 1928 financial statements. axis, also known as a “dumb compass.” The instrument was named for Automotive history in fine condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 132935 a fellow named Pelorus, said to have been the pilot for Hannibal, circa Lot# 2374 Harrah’s 1971 World Classic Car Festival in Japan 203 BC. Sold by Northwest Instrument Co. of Seattle, Washington, it Company Scrapbook In March, 1971, Harrah’s partnered with a Japanese firm to host an antique car festival, the likes of which the appears to date from the early 20th century. Wilfrid O. White (1878- world had never 1955) was a native of Australia who studied with Lord Kelvin in seen. With thirty Glasgow before settling in Boston in 1902 and establishing the firm of of Harrah’s Kelvin & Wilfrid O. White in 1919. The firm became Wilfrid O. White & most important Sons, Inc. in 1950. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 109346 cars worth an estimated $1 Lot# 2367 Vintage Nautical Maps Rolled in a tube million at the are three nautical maps: 1) Admiralty Inlet and time, the exhibit Puget Sound, 1948, 40 x 32 inches; 2) Cape Flattery created a festival to Dixon Entrance (British Columbia coastline), of car lovers that 1918; 3) Admiralty Inlet and Puget Sound, 1947. has never been Suitable for framing. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 109347 equaled. It was estimated in the Lot# 2368 1895 Marine History of the Pacific Press at the time Northwest by Lewis & Dryden Reprinted that over one by Antiquarian Press, LTD, N.Y. – (Original million people Printing,- 1895) – Edition limited to 750 visited the multi-day event. Harrah himself commented: “Classic cars copies – An illustrated review of the growth are the epitome of today’s gigantic automobile industry – and even & development of the Maritime Industry, from more, they are valuable evidence of an era when man and machine the the advent of the earliest navigators to the beautifully harmonized.” (Harrah, 3/15/1971) 20” x 25” x 3” thick present time, with sketches & portraits of well-known marine men – scrapbook of this world-class antique automobile event in Japan in (9” x 13” HB, 494 pages) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132350 March, 1971. This record of the event was made specifically by and for Harrah’s, possibly specifically for Bill Harrah himself. For this Lot# 2369 Detroit, Michigan 1930 The Packard event nearly fifty years ago, Harrah’s sent 30 key automobiles out Magazine Automobile Company Publication of its collection to Japan, including the world-famous 1931 Bugatti 1930 ”The Packard Magazine,” a 20-page periodical Royale, the clear star of the collection and unquestionable one of the devoted to news, photographs and advertisements most artistically beautiful automobiles ever made. Fancy pamphlets, about the Packard automobile, copyright 1930, broadsides and promotional materials were made, each of which is published by the Packard Motor Car Company, within this archive. A press clipping service was used both in the USA Detroit, Michigan, Winter 1930, Vol. 9, No. 2. Cover and Japan, and those clippings are present. The group also includes features colorful painting by Manning deV. Lee, dozens of 8 x 10 and 11 x 14” black & white quality photographs of “Heroes’ Carnival. 8.5” x 11”. In very good condition the event, and of the auto moving/packing process. Approximately with little wear. Est. $60-80 HWAC# 126995 100 pages in this large format folio are used (front and back of 50 +/- pages). This archive is unique, deserving of any automobile collection Lot# 2370 Detroit, Michigan 1900’s Vintage or entity. Est. $2000-5000 HWAC# 119027 Ford Model T Radiator Frame & Tire Pump A Ford Model T radiator frame by Peerless and a Ford brand hand tire pump. The frame will save you a trip to pick-n-pull and the pump (made of brass) would make a great decoration. Please see photos for more detail and condition. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $100-200 HWAC# 110166 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 123
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Philatelic Covers - USA Lot# 2375 Cuba, California c1904 Six Lot# 2381 Carson City, Nevada 1904 Carson California Postal History Covers: 4 Cuba, City Postal History Group Lot of twenty-one. 1 Doyle and 1 Nevada City Four Cuba 1904 All with corner advertising. Includes W. C. Cuba covers. All with contents. “The shearers Gallagher of the Senate Chambers and Ormsby are here 27 of them” is the first line in the Lodge # 4 of the A. O. U. W. Also a M. Badt of first correspondence we opened. Cuba, also Wells letterhead. Content with most . One is Iceland, is a former settlement in Nevada a copy of act to combine White Pine offices, County, California, located between Boca and etc. Other political information. (W. D. Miles the Nevada state line. The region is situated by the Truckee River, 9 mi Collection) Items in this collection range from fair to very nice. Est. from Truckee. One Doyle post card. One Wells Fargo Nevada City cover. $150-200 HWAC# 130031 (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $120-200 HWAC# 130010 Lot# 2382 Cherry Creek, Nevada c1904 Lot# 2376 Fresno, California 1875 Fresno Cherry Creek Postal History Group with County Cover with Wells Fargo Label Wells content 13 covers and 13 contents. One is a Fargo Express stamped cover, not through 1902 letter with a charge of $2.50 and $1.00 for regular mail. Was most likely carried and what seems to be mining related equipment. delivered via stagecoach. It is in decent Who knows what else awaits as we did not condition for its age, with a few nicks and tears. read all of them. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items Addressed to Visalia in Fresno County. Handwritten 1875 date. Est. in this collection range from fair to very nice. Est. $150-200 HWAC# $80-200 HWAC# 135484 130022 Lot# 2377 Los Angeles, California F.W. Braun Lot# 2383 Cherry Creek, Nevada 1904 & Co. Wholesale Druggists Advertising Cover Letter from the Treasury Department for Rare advertising cover with American Flag front Reparations for Helping the Indians with postmarked Los Angeles with one cent stamp Smallpox 1) In 1901 the White Pine County attached.. From F. W. Braun & Co., Wholesale helped the Native American population Druggists, Los Angeles. Reverse: Crescent / Malt through a bout with small pox. The U. S. / Whiskey / Absolutely Pure / For Family and Government is agreeing to pay $769.67. The Medicinal Use. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $60- letter is actually addressed to the Treasurer of 100 HWAC# 129304 White Pine County at Cherrycreek. Spelled wrong. And the treasurer was in Ely? 2) Photo of Indian with Smallpox at Cherry Creek in 1890 Lot# 2378 Los Angeles, (per description on back). 5.5 x 6.5”. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $100- California 1900’s Vintage 200 HWAC# 130020 Los Angeles Hotel Covers (4) Group of four early 20th Lot# 2384 Cradlebaugh, Nevada R-9 century covers with Los Cradlebaugh used as a Received Cancel on Angeles hotels letterhead. Back of Cover October 7, 1895. Earliest known Cradlebaugh cancel according to the survey of Included are The Auditorium Nevada postal history by Gamett & Nelson. Hotel, The Hollenbeck Hotel, Hotel Nadeau and the Hotel Hillcrest Opened roughly into strike, but strike is nice (With a nice vignette of Angels’ Flight). A nice group. Please see photos and strong. Addressed to L(eonline) Lewis for more detail and condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127617 of Cradlebaugh. Leoline was the sister of Judge John Cradlebaugh, namesake of the town. The Cradlebaugh post office was open from Lot# 2379 San Francisco, California 1864 Old April 10, 1895 to September 26, 1896. It was open a second time San Francisco Philatelic Ephemera A vintage from August 22, 1898 to December 9, 1899. One of the greatest fair group of items from early San Francisco. Lot amusement rides ever invented, the Ferris Wheel, owes its creation includes a freight bill from Wells, Fargo & to Cradlebaugh, Nevada and a water wheel on the Carson River. Two Company marked “Slow” as in by wagon. Also, Genoa covers: 1902 cover and 1891 return receipt with a rarer Rec’d a letter or bill, handwritten on Levi Strauss & cancel. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 130089 Company and dated 1883, a advertisement cover from The Baldwin Hotel, which was Lot# 2385 Ely, Nevada 1904 Ely Billheads destroyed by fire in 1898 and later replaced by the Flood Building. and Covers Thirty-nine pieces. Billheads Last, but not least, we have a 5”x 8” cabinet card of a very crowded include McGill & Newman Butchers (as in Market Street, San Francisco in the late 1800’s. McGill, Nevada) two Different, W. B. Graham General Merchandise four different, J. F. Miles Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-400 county treasurer three different, Ely Livery HWAC# 131625 Company, Neman & Moorman butchers. NICE colorful red Pabst corner on Wm. Hayes cc. (W. Lot# 2380 Ortigalito, California D. Miles Collection) Items in this collection range from fair to very nice. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 130017 Postal History Letter Lot# 2386 Ely, Nevada 1904 Ely Treasurer’s Postmarked Ortigalito, Cal. Requests of the Bank of California for $500 in Half Dollars Includes two requests for $500 This is a letter postmarked from n half dollars and a receipt for sending them to J. F. Miles County Treasurer. Two Bank of Ortigalito, Cal. dated April 1. Only California corner advertising covers included. Also a cute business card for W. S. Lammon 1876 to 1877. 2 3/4 in. X 4 in. of the San Pablo Office of the American Bank. “Today’s Pennies are Tomorrow’s Dollars.” (W. and a Washington 3 cent stamp. D. Miles Collection) Est. $70-100 HWAC# 130034 Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132495 124 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Philatelic Covers - USA Lot# 2387 Esmeralda County, Nevada Lot# 2393 Comstock, Nevada Comstock 1885-1918 Three interesting Esmeralda Postal History Collection Lot of nine. 1) Covers: Columbia, Candelaria, Goldfield 1) Virginia City, N. T. U. S. postal strike on a Wells Candelaria (strong) and Silver Peak (weak) Fargo envelope. Killer is a weak rectangle? 2) Virginia City, N. T. with cancels on Return Receipt. VERY Strong pinwheel cancel. 3) Virginia City. 1866 early statehood. Addressed to Columbus strike on reverse. 1895. Two R-4 Mrs. Susan Coffin. Her father is the namesake of Coffin’s Grove, Iowa 4) and one R-5. 2) 1918 Goldfield cover with a Virginia City, c1870. 5) Virginia City, c1870. 6) Gold Hill c1875. Blue. 7) Pioneer Drug Co. corner advertising. 3) Columbia 1912 with contents. Gold Hill 1965. 8) Gold Hill c1870. 9) Gold Hill c1878. Blue. Est. $80- “The Consolidated are having troubles of their ore. Too much copper 160 HWAC# 130092 they say in the rock in the deepest workings is only going $8.00 a ton and they can’t touch it in their mill. They are shipping out about 100 Lot# 2394 Washoe City, Nevada 1864-`865 tons a day….” Est. $50-100 HWAC# 130090 Four Washoe City and one Carson City Double Circle Postmark on Covers (Some Lot# 2388 Hamilton & Austin, Nevada c1905 Territorial) Four Washoe City. Two with hand Hamilton postal covers with content Great written dates of 1864 and two with dates Hamilton Ghost Town Photo and Austin RPC of 1865. All are double ring and rated and Lot of 6. Four 1904/06 covers from Hamilton to R-7 by Gamett and Nelson. One Carson City B. F. Miles, county tax collector. All with content. with a three cent stamp and a ‘Due 6’ stamp. “I only own one property!” All with names of Territorial, 1864. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items senders. One photograph of a Hamilton as a in this collection range from fair to very nice. Est. $200-400 HWAC# ghost town taken by John W. Walker, Electric 130011 Studio, Ely. Extremely interesting! 1926 postcard of Austin in the snow. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items in this Lot# 2395 Wells & Elko, Nevada 1904 Elko collection range from fair to very nice. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 130007 & Wells Advertising cc’s with Contents, Postal History One Wells, Nevada with M. Lot# 2389 Humboldt County, Nevada Badt cc. Cover is soiled. Billhead from M. Badt Humboldt County Postal History Group Lot & Co. General Merchandise. Three Henderson of six. 1) Dun Glen extremely strong cancel. R-5. Banking cc’s with billheads. All for school This piece has been placed inside an envelope vouchers: Ruby Valley, Cold Creek and Dewey. that is not related to the cancel. Still it is a very July 1904. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $50-80 nice 1870’s example. 2) 1905 strong Unionville. HWAC# 130016 3) Very Strong 1913 Amos. 4) Weaker 1908 Mill City on cost card. 5) Extremely Strong 1910 Lot# 2396 Nevada Collection of Postal History Imlay on a post card. ) Oregon and Nevada Denio stamped January 1, addressed to the White Pine Treasurer, 1957 postal card. Oregon stamped A. M. and Nevada P. M. as the post 1904-1906 Lot of 21. 18 covers with content. office moved across the border on this date. Est. $50-75 HWAC# 130091 17 covers have corner advertising. Includes the Washington Post with a pay up demand. Lot# 2390 Rawhide, Nevada 1908, 1909 The enclosed return envelope was never used. Four Strong Double Ring Rawhide, Nevada Beautiful Montgomery Ward, Chicago cover. Cancels One cover and three postcards. New York Life, Emporium and Golden Rule Bazaar of San Francisco, Rawhide’s rise to mining glory was almost as Weinstock & Lubin of Sacramento with large advertisement papers, quick and amazing as its decline. Within two National Cloak & Suit of New York, Wasserman, Kaufman & Co. of years 2,000 called this mining camp home. A Sacramento, Mount St. Sepulchre of Washington D. C. (Brookland fire in 1909 destroyed most of the town and Station), etc. Plenty of nice billheads. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items with the excitement of the mines quickly waning, the town quickly lost in this collection range from fair to very nice. Est. $100-200 HWAC# many of its citizens. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 130088 130021 Lot# 2391 Silver City & Carson City, Nevada 1906 Silver City & Carson City Covers and Content Three covers: two 1906 strong Silver City and one 1904 Carson City wit State Treasurer cc. Letter with it says, “…if the District Attorney and all of the judges are not after the mine we ought to get the matter fixed up without much trouble.” “I am beginning to think we are up against a bad gang.…” “ I hear the railway will be in Ely by July 1st.” Three Silver City letters also. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# 130019 Lot# 2392 Treasure City, Nevada 1870’s Lot# 2397 Nevada Nevada Postal History Group Forty covers from Treasure City, Nevada Wells Fargo Cancel rural Nevada including Carson City, Cherrycreek, Ely, Eureka, Genoa, addressed to Donner Party Survivor James Midas, Pioche, Skelton, Steptoe, Tonopah, Tybo, Wells, Oleander, CA, Reed Blue Wells Fargo Cancel. Reed was one Denver, CO, Buffalo, NY, Gervais, OR, Garrison, UT, and Ibapah, UT. of the leaders of the Donner Party wagon train. Most are from 1904, earliest is 1894, latest is 1906. Some covers have letters still inside. Lot includes 6 Registry Return Receipts. Est. $200- He was thrown off of the train when he beat a 400 HWAC# 133744 drover for beating his weakened animals. He led the relief effort to save his family. Reed would return to Nevada and had mining interests at Treasure City. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 130013 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 125
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Philatelic Covers - USA Lot# 2398 Nevada c1891-1906 Lot# 2403 Nevada 1904 Three Nevada Nevada Postal History Collection, Railroad Cancelled Covers – one with Iconic c1904-1908 Lot of 27. Includes R-6 Full Cover Riverside Hotel sketch on back 1904 Tippet with contents. 1891 Ely 1) Ogden & San Francisco. 1904. On Riverside double circle (front). Two different letterhead with contents. Joseph Grandelmeyer and very early Steptoe, 1904 and asks help in getting taxes paid. Contents, “three 1906. 1893 Aurum with target killer, weeks ago I asked you to dispose of my scrip Two manuscript Schellbourne 1893 for what you could get for it. 2) Reno & Va. City. front and 1897, 1905 Shoshone. Two 1904. 3) Butte &S. L. City. 1905. Railroad cancels tend to be weak, but different Ione City. Wells double circle these are all quite nice. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $60-90 HWAC# with M. Badt & Co, corner cover. Also 130012 Currant, Wells with The Herald corner cover, Butler, Reno & Va. City, Toana, Strawberry, Hamilton, Arthur, Skelton R-4, Lund, Beowawe, etc. Lot# 2404 Las Vegas, New All of these on covers. But the most intriguing piece is an extremely Mexico 1877 Las Vegas N.M. strong Baker, Nevada cancel. 1911 on a unique post card. It measures Canceled Cover & Letter A a rare 2.5 x 6”. “Will leave hear today for Big Wash. Expect to be in nice twice canceled cover from Shoshone on the 22nd. Reverse is a photograph of true desert scenery! Las Vegas in the New Mexico Very early second period. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items in this Territory. The handwritten collection range from fair to very nice. Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 130008 letter is from a sister to her brother, extolling the virtues Lot# 2399 Nevada c1904 Nevada Postal of the nearby hot spring. The History Collection, Number 2 Lot of 24. handwriting is very clear Includes a sharp looking 1905 Aurum with and sharp as are the two content (wants his $6 for working the election). cancelations on the cover. Please see photos for more detail and Has a Schellbourne and Cherry Creek cancel on condition. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 131641 back. Steptoe covers with contents. Ely with Chas. A. Walker corner cover, Osceola post card, Lot# 2405 Utah Utah Postal History Sheridan post card R-3,1904 Tippet return Collection Lot of twelve. Most with corner Receipt R-6, Also Cherry Creek, Ely double circle, Berlin, etc. One sharp advertising; McCormick & Co. Salt Lake, J. looking King Brothers, Range Horses and Mules with running horse Snowcroft of Ogden, Alma D. Chambers Ogden. vignette, Hutchinson, Kansas. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items in this Six have contents with some billheads; for collection range from fair to very nice. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items example one has fabric swabs and a letter size in this collection range from fair to very nice. Est. $200-400 HWAC# broadside advertisement. One addressed to J.F. Miles at Cherry Creek. 130048 (W. D. Miles Collection) Items in this collection range from fair to very nice. Some postcards have black paper remnant on reverse from old Lot# 2400 Nevada 1904-1919 Nevada Postal album. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 130030 History Group 3 All on cards / postcards. Includes Waterloo (R-6). Unique and unusual Lot# 2406 1914-1928 Saturday Evening Post faded RPC on front of men working a mine. Also Covers (2) 1914 & 1928 Two original covers Sheridan, Steptoe, Preston, Hawthorne, Currie, from The Saturday Evening Post: August 22, Osceola, Tuscarora, Berlin and Schellbourne. 1914 edition, with Frank Xavier Leyendecker Others on government cards: Carson City, 2 different Eureka, Ely, illustration of a boy and a horse drinking from Tippett (R-6), Preston, Cold Creek(R-4), Hamilton, Wells, Cherry a fountain; and June 16, 1928 edition, with Creek. Very Nice White Pine News reverse on an Ely card. (W. D. Miles circus elephant, performers and clowns in Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 130015 a colorful painting by illustrator, Jackson. Both have full-page color advertisements on the reverse. 9.5” x 13.5”. 1914 cover has been Lot# 2401 Nevada 1865-1886 Nevada Wells mended with tape. Both are in very good condition and ready for Fargo Covers Lot of eight. 1) Austin N. T. to framing. Est. $60-80 HWAC# 126998 James Reed, Donner Party survivor. 2) Washoe City N. T. To Mrs. Ann North – assuredly from Lot# 2407 1932 Saturday Evening Post her husband Surveyor General of the Nevada Leyendecker “New Year’s Baby” Cover 1932 Territory. 3) Treasure City. Sent to James Reed’s Original cover from The Saturday Evening Post, ranch manager insane Jose and assuredly sent by him. 4) Pioche. Sent Jan. 2, 1932 edition, with New Year’s Baby colorful to Shea Boquveraz, agent for Teakettle Whiskey. 5) Elko. Addressed illustration by J.C. Leyendecker. Vol. 204, No. 27, 9.5” to James Reed at Hamilton. 6) Carson City paste up to Mrs. North. 7) x 13.5” features angel baby atop the earth with flying Virginia City express. 8) Eureka Wells Fargo envelope went through machines spinning around it. Excellent condition normal mails. Strong 1886 Eureka double ring corner advertising. (W. with very little signs of wear. Est. $40-60 HWAC# D. Miles Collection) Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 130014 126996 Lot# 2402 Nevada 938-1955 Nevada First Lot# 2408 1840, 1862 Two early English Flight and Aeronautical Covers Lot of five. covers with letters Both sent to George 1) New Ely Post Office pictorial corner, 1938. Everard at Cunningham, Luzern County, 2) Ely Airport Dedication, 1939. 3) 1939 “Via Air Mail.” 4) United Air Lines Air Mail. 1955. Pennsylvania. 1) 1840 letter from sister Susan Celebrating the Pony Express with Pony Express rider pictorial. Contents include a very Bold. Tells George her husband makes a guinea nice “Copper Country” advertising 8 page color brochure with photographs. And an “Ely is now served by United Air a week as a porter for a shop. Stampless! Stamp Lines” ad. 5) 1940 black & White RPC of U. S. Air Mail, Elko, Nev. with air mail plane photograph. Issued. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $100- ‘Paid.’ Very nice. 2) 1862 letter from niece 150 HWAC# 130032 telling George of Susan’s death. Mourning envelope and letter. Est. $50-70 HWAC# 131790 126 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Philatelic Covers - USA Lot# 2409 1900’s Postal History Lot# 2416 California Hot Springs, California Archive Collection A nice collection of California Hot Springs Postcard Collection stamps, albums. stamp books and more. 24 historical postcards of this Tulare resort. More stamps, canceled and unused then All but 3 are real photo postcards. Postmarks can be described here. There are two range from about 1910-1940. Ken Prag Collection Minkus three inch albums loaded with Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125879 stamps. Books include two 1964 stamp catalogs, a child’s first stamp album, Lot# 2417 Camp Callan, California Postal with several stamps, a “Round the History Postcard from Camp Callan, World” stamp album, return receipts on California in 1942 This is a postcard registered mail from the early 1900’s. postmarked from Camp Callan, California All this comes in a vintage suitcase, suitable for travel (After the lining in 1942. An unlisted Postal Office not is fixed. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200- listed in Williams or Frickstad’s. Salvatore 400 HWAC# 121698 Falcone Collection Est. $200-1000 HWAC# 132497 Lot# 2410 1858-1888 Early Postal History and Letter Collection Lot of eleven. Includes Lot# 2418 Camp Roberts, California 1944 an 1888 Viola, Idaho with stamp “letter Postcards from Camp Roberts A soldier at returned to the office of carrier.” 1879 Melrose, Camp Roberts named Everett Farris wrote Maine manuscript. 1858 Collinsville ‘FREE’ to his family in San Bernardino, California, manuscript. Ohmsted Michigan, Hamilton using post cards produced by the base that New York, Sodus Centre New York, etc. Some had scenes of the facilities and activities. duplicated locations. Also a letter of agreement Here are ten of those post cards, each with a different scene of camp to transfer saloon/hotel form father to son. Philadelphia. 1887. life. Three are blank, but the other seven give short glimpses of a Translation included. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 131789 soldier’s life and times. These images have special historic value now, since Camp Roberts has been demolishing many of the barracks and Lot# 2411 Wells Fargo Ephemera Group features pictured on them as part of on-going modernization and (5) Five pieces from Wells Fargo includes two environmental remediation projects. Est. $100-120 HWAC# 109208 express labels, a check datelined San Francisco, 1863, a freight waybill and a photo negative of two Wells Fargo men. A nice grouping. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 118658 Lot# 2412 Wells Fargo Franked Full Face Lot# 2419 Fresno, California 1900’s Fifty Advertising Covers (3) Three full face Fresno, California RPC’s A unique group advertising covers: Meussdorffer & Bro, of RPC’s featuring the agricultural and very Marysville; Kullman & Armer, San Francisco; hot California town of Fresno. Besides birds Englebright & Mayrisch Bros., San Francisco- eye views of downton and surrounding area, front piece only. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 135518 there are also photos of the San Joaquin Light & Power Bldg, The Court House, The Fresno Lot# 2413 California 1855-1864 Great Group County Old People’s Home and many more. of Wells Fargo Collection Envelopes - Gold Please see photos for more detail and condition. Date: 1900’s Country Rush All seem to have issues collecting fees? (if not USA): State: California City: Fresno Provenance: Ken Prag 1) San Francisco to Baltimore with steamship Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126484 vignette. 1855. “WILL NOT PAY.” 2) Folsom to Clarksville with steamship vignette. “CANNOT Lot# 2420 Fresno, California 1906-1950’s COLLECT”. 3) Commission envelope. 1863. Fresno Depot, Hotel and Bank Postcards-65 RETURN. 4) Columbia. 1858. Only $10 paid A nice collection of primarily color postcards of to date. 5) Includes a sent envelope. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 various buildings and railroad depots in Fresno. HWAC# 123473 Included are cards featuring the interior of the New Sequoia Hotel, The SP Depot, The Santa Lot# 2414 Pacific Union Express and Wells Fe Depot, Hotel Californian, The City Motel Fargo Express Letters These are two letters, and many more. Some are used, some are blank. Please see photos for one carried by Pacific Union Express and the more detail and condition. Date: 1906-1950’s Country (if not USA): other is Wells Fargo Express mail. Pacific Union State: California City: Fresno Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $300- would eventually be bought by WF. The Wells Fargo letter is marked 600 HWAC# 126486 San Jose and the receiver stamp is in reverse. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 132503 Lot# 2421 Fresno, California 1900’s Fresno Postcard Collection This a collection of 77 Lot# 2415 Alma, California 1909 Alma RPC’s and Mitchell style postcards. highlighting Real Photo Postcard Real photo post card the Central California town of Fresno. Included of the Bridge Across Los Gatos Creek, Alma, are about a dozen black & white RPC’s (1905- California, postmarked 1909. This card is 1910) with the rest being colored painted or rare because Alma is underwater today. It lies photo images. beneath the waters of the Lexington Reservoir above Los Gatos. Fred Holabird Collection Est. While there are several beautiful “birds eye” views of buildings and $50-100 HWAC# 129329 thoroughfares, agriculture a and outlying scenes are also depicted. A beautiful and varied set that’s in very good condition. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 125445 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 127
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 2422 Fresno, California 1900’s Fresno Lot# 2429 Monterey, California 1880-1926 Street Scene Postcards-50 This large Hotel Del Monte Photos’s and RPC Lot lot collection includes lithos and RPC’s of the of 38. 1. 32 RPC, color and b/w.. Del Monte, “Raisin Capital” Fresno, California. Street Cal. (Monterey).Some w/white borders and scenes of the downtown area span the 20th some no borders. Various locations around century, from earlier black and white to color the Del Monte Hotel grounds and different lithos from the 1950’s These are in good shape, angles of the hotel. Mostly exterior, two interior, gardens and pool. some blank, some used. Please see photos for Some have writing and cancelled stamps from San Jose, Pacific Grove, more detail and condition. Date: 1900’s Country (if not USA): State: San Francisco, Del Monte. One stamp has not been cancelled. 2. Five California City: Fresno Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 professional photography b/w (sephia) photos. 5x8” and 8x10”. One HWAC# 126485 is marked “Original photo 1880 used for post cards.”. 3. Letterhead (blank page).from the hotel, dateline Monterey, Cal, 189_. All items are Lot# 2423 Greenville, California Greenville in protective covers and VG to exc. condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Real Photo Postcards Lot of three real photo Est. $200-300 HWAC# 120347 postcards of Greenville: Homer Lake, Indian Valley and Main Street. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 129330 Lot# 2424 Hanford, California Hanford Lot# 2430 Palo Alto, California 1898-1906 Postcard Collection About 150 postcards. Stanford University Before and After Mostly c1905-15 printed cards. Hanford began Earthquake Pioneer Cards (15) Fifteen in 1877 when the Southern Pacific went from postcards, mostly pioneer era, of Stanford Goshen to Coalinga. Started out as a Chinese University in Palo Alto, Calif., before and after Sheepherder’s camp. Through the years several the earthquake, April 18, 1906. Postcards are fires devastated the area. Ken Prag Collection Est. mostly RPCs, c1898-1906, first advertising the $500-1000 HWAC# 125912 university, then depicting various views of the ruins. Some are canceled with stamps, dated from 1899-1905. Date: 1898-1906 Country (if not Lot# 2425 Lake Tahoe, California Lake Tahoe USA): State: California City: Palo Alto Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Postcard Collection Lot of 35. Black & White Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 125746 RPC’s of two bear cubs, Tahoe Tavern and Truckee in snow, and Donner Lake. Color Lot# 2431 San Diego, California Postcards postcard by Tavern Studios of a meadow, Cave from the San Diego American Exposition Rock, steamers, 4 early railroad, early canyon of 1935 This is a collection of postcards of on way to Tahoe, casino, etc. (W. D. Miles the American Exposition of 1935 in San Diego, Collection) Items in this collection range from fair to very nice. Some California. Just over 100 postcards, most are postcards have black paper remnant on reverse from old album. Est. lithograph prints with some dups. It was a $120-200 HWAC# 130029 different time in America. Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City: San Diego Lot# 2426 Lake Tahoe, California Lake Tahoe Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Real Photo Postcards Lot of four vintage real Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 125608 photo post cards of Lake Tahoe: Brockway, undivided back; two views of Glenbrook,with Lot# 2432 San Fancisco, California Golden steamship docking, divided back,hand colored Gate Park Real Photograph Postcard by Edward H. Mitchell ; 1939 Union Oil Collection This large collection of about 100 Company view of Emerald Bay. Fred Holabird real photo postcards + about 10 vintage and Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 129327 antique cards gives a tour of San Francisco’s beautiful Golden Gate Park, it’s monuments, art Lot# 2427 Modesto, California 1900’s pieces, wildlife, and greenery. Date: Country (if Modesto California Buildings & Landmarks not USA): State: California City: San Fancisco A nice array of 80 of RPC’s and other postcards Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $900-1500 HWAC# 126582 showing images of the Central California town of Modesto. Cards include The Modesto Lot# 2433 San Francisco, California Bay Area Creamery, McHenry Library, Modesto High National Bank Postcards ~ 24 Beautiful School, the mission style Presbyterian Church, postcards of the exteriors and a few interiors The Dry Creek Bridge and too many more to of splendid bank buildings in and around San list. Some are blank, some not. Please see photos for more detail and Francisco. There are 21 B&W with RPCs and 3 condition. Date: 1900’s Country (if not USA): State: California City: color with chromoliths. You can bank on this Modesto Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 126503 deal. Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City: San Francisco Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 Lot# 2428 Modesto, California 1900-1930 HWAC# 126874 Modesto Mostly RPC’s Over 100 mostly RPC’s from the Stanislaus County town of Modesto. Lot# 2434 San Francisco, California Pan There are scenes of the surrounding area, as Pacific 1915 Expo Post Card Collection A well as downtown scenes that include the large collection of about 150 cards including Presbyterian Church, Modesto Creamery, one or more of the rare folding cards of Modesto Gas Works, H Street Grammar School the famous 1915 PPIE in San Francisco. All and many more. This town was to be after vintage, various publishers. Date: Country (if Bank of California executive William C. Ralston, but he was too humble not USA): State: California City: San Francisco and declined the honor. The Mexican referred to him as being a very Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 modest man, thus Modesto was adopted as he name of the town. HWAC# 127051 Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 125825 128 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Ephemera Lot# 2435 San Francisco, California Pan-Pacific Lot# 2442 San Francisco, California San Expo. RPC This is a rare RPC of the Pan-Pacific Expo. of Francisco Postcard Group - ~50 A set of about 1915 showing the booth where you bought a “Camera 50 postcards from the turn of the 20th century Permit” to take photos. These two guys don’t look that with scenes and buildings of San Francisco. tough. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# Includes City Hall, Palace Hotel, Mechanics 132954 Fountain, Market Street, Hall of Justice, Appraiser’s Building, Hotel Fairmont, the Post Lot# 2436 San Francisco, California Portola Office, St. Francis Hotel, Ferry Building, The Old Mint (Granite Lady), Festival Postcard Collection Approx 120 New Flood Building, Newspaper Row, construction and completion of very colorful postcards from the Ken Prag the Mission Grammar School, and more. A few post-1922 earthquake- Collection featuring the Portola Festival, which and-fire images. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 131820 began in October of 1909 as a way to promote the rebirth of the city three years after the Lot# 2443 San Francisco, California San devastating earthquake. The festival honors Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Postcard Don Gaspar de Portola, the first European to discover San Francisco Collection Lot of 91 real photo postcards of the Bay. These are some of the most colorful postcards ever to come out San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, completed of California. All are in plastic sleeves. See photo for a representative in 1937. Some from the World’s Fair of 1939, sampling. Ken Prag Collection Est. $1200-1800 HWAC# 125843 some color. Mostly unused, post marks from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City: San Francisco Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 124734 Lot# 2437 San Francisco, California 1942 Regal Lot# 2444 San Francisco, California 1900’s Amber Brewing Company Advertising Postcard Shipping Line Advertising Postcards A with Great World War II Content These two great collection of 35 advertising postcards postcards were par advertising and part contest. for various shipping lines. Cards includeThe They were looking for a name for their victory United State Lines. Cunard Lines, Anchor Line, bottle. Winner gets a $500 war bond. The two .two The Belfast Steamship Company, Leyland Line names submitted on these cards were ‘Quality and more. Some of the cards are blank, others Beauty Regal’ and ‘Jap Destroyer’ [WOW]. Fronts are used. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Date: 1900’s are covered in Red 1c, 3c, 10c and 30c red postage Country (if not USA): State: California City: San Francisco Provenance: stamps. Unique and interesting. Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 126528 Est. $50-100 HWAC# 131817 Lot# 2445 Sebastopol, California 1907 RPC Lot# 2438 San Francisco, California San Sebastopol Baseball Group photo of the team and Francisco Celebration Postcards Lot of 15 - a personal note. Postmarked 1907 Sebastopol Cal. 13 RPC’s. 1) Naval Parade on May 8, 1903. Lot And Aurora Ore., 1c stamp. In protective sleeve. Ken of five. Four B&W RPC’s. 2) Two presidential Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 131454 parades; RPC of Roosevelts 1930’s and Taft. 3) Lot# 2446 Selma, California 1900’s RPC’s Two Tetrazini B&W RPC’s. 4) Three B&W Verdi From Selma California Selma, California is known for raisins and not one of these 58 Day. 5) Two 1911 Christmas Eve concert RPC’s. RPC’s show any evidence of that. What they do show is The East and West Side Grammar 6) 1909 parade B&W RPC by C. Lind. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 Schools, various street scenes and workers drying peaches (not grapes), and a more HWAC# 131823 contemporary coffee shop. Nice group, even if they don’t have pictures of raisins. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Lot# 2439 San Francisco, California San Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 125818 Francisco Earthquake and Fire Post Card Collection: Rieder, Cardinell & Co. Lot of Lot# 2447 Stockton, 68 real photo postcards published by Rieder, California Stockton Postcard Collection About 100-150 Cardinell & Co. mostly unused. Date: Country (if postcards covering all date ranges c1905-1980. Buildings, not USA): State: California City: San Francisco street scenes, and outlying areas. Ken Prag Collection Est. Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 $300-600 HWAC# 125876 HWAC# 124735 Lot# 2440 San Francisco, California San Francisco Mega Postcard Collection A massive collection of about 150 vintage and antique postcards featuring the many landmarks of 20th century San Francisco, California. Includes one double-length postcard, embroidered San Francisco ephemera, and many other unique pieces. Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City: San Francisco Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $700-1500 HWAC# 126576 Lot# 2441 San Francisco, California San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge Construction Post Card Collection Lot of 53 real photo post cards celebrating the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Work started in 1933 and was completed in 1937. It cost $75 million to build and is 4 1/4 miles long. Also included are three tickets “Good For One Trip of Vehicle Described on Cover of this Ticket” Jan. 1938. Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City: San Francisco Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 124730 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 129
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 2448 Stockton, California 1852- Lot# 2453 California 1910-1918 Banks RPCs 1940s Stockton, Cal. Greeting RPCs Litho from Northern California (11) Eleven RPCs Postcards Ephemera (37) Lot of 37 Stockton, of Northern California banks, c1910-1918. Cal. greetings RPCs and litho postcards, plus Includes three exceptional canceled with ephemera, c1852-1940s. Includes: 20 canceled stamps, from Oroville (First National Bank), postcards, most with stamps, with cancels Eureka (Humboldt National Bank Bldg.) and dated 1888-1948 (mostly 1888-1915), with 10 Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz County National Bank). The rest are blank, with blank or with some writing; three 1852 receipts Charity Lodge club more from Eureka, Santa Cruz, Healdsburg, Solvang, Palo Alto, Lodi dues; and three advertising cards. Date: 1852-1940s Country (if not and Dixon. Date: 1910-1918 Country (if not USA): State: California USA): State: California City: Stockton Provenance: Ken Prag Collection City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127344 HWAC# 125733 Lot# 2449 Turlock, California Lot# 2454 California California (and other Turlock Postcard Collection states) Advertising Postcards - Some quite Major collection of this interesting Lot of 15. Four featuring ladies: important central California Bell Tell, Sun Maid, Dotty Dunn Hat and Dinah’s town. About 200 cards, about Shack (with African America lady). Two bridge 40% real photo postcards and advertising cards, Columbia Steel with a photo 60% vintage c1905-10 cards. of San Two Disney character cards: Mickey Includes town views, street and Tinker Bell. Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Charles E. Graebe scenes, outlying areas, and jeweler advertising the Golden Gate. Merry Widow Hat with actual major buildings. Probably feathers, Moore’s Lozenges for colds. Chester Vermont hot dog tea pot, the only chance you’ll get Steve’s Cheese from Wisconsin, Motel Six, Goodwill. Ken Prag Collection at a major collection of this Est. $70-120 HWAC# 131819 nature. Ken Prag Collection Est. $700-1500 HWAC# 125875 Lot# 2455 Colorado Colorado Postcard Lot# 2450 Vallejo, California 1900’s Mare Assortment Approx 150 generic Colorado Island Vintage RPC’s A vintage group of about postcards, modern, some RPC’s and chromolitho 55 RPC’s from Mare Island Naval Shipyard Est. $150-250 HWAC# 135565 in Vallejo, California. Established in 1852 as the first Naval installation of the West Lot# 2456 Indianapolis, Indiana c. early 1900’s Coast, Mare Island was key to protecting San Indiana Postcards Approx. 40 postcards of Francisco and the Bay Area during WWII. It Indiana include: Rome City; Auburn; First was decommissioned in 1996. These show the Spiritualist Temple; View in Glen Miller, history of the yard through its history, featuring several buildings on Richmond, Ind. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 135457 the base as well as ships that went there for repairs in both World Wars. There is also a Mare Island pin back included in this lot. A very nostalgic and historic collection. Some used, some blank. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Date: 1900’s Country (if not USA): State: California City: Vallejo Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 126467 Lot# 2451 California Postcards from Lot# 2457 Battle Creek, Michigan RPC of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties, Battle Creek, Mi. Centennial Parade This is a California This is a collection of postcards lot of 7 RPCs from Battle Creek, Mi. celebrating depicting big trees and other landmarks in the centennial on Oct. 5, 1931. All cards are in both Humboldt and Mendocino Counties very good condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection in Northern California. There are over 250 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132948 postcards and many are RPCs. Please see the photos for details. Date: Country (if not USA): Lot# 2458 Battle Creek, Michigan RPC of State: California City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-1000 Cyclone Damage in Battle Creek, Michigan HWAC# 125624 1917 This is a collection of eight RPCs depicting damage to property in Battle Creek on June Lot# 2452 California Large California 6, 1917 due to a cyclone. Street addresses Postcard Collection Lot of 46. Our favorite provided. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $120- is a rare Alexander Grunwaldt who walked 200 HWAC# 132956 around the world from San Francisco to San Francisco. Has folds. Ten RPC’s including three Lot# 2459 Nebraska Postcard Bolinas, California (about 13 miles north of Collection of Minden, Nebraska San Francisco; the community is known for Pioneer Life This is a postcard its reclusive residents. It is only accessible via collection of pioneer life depicting unmarked roads; any road sign along State Route 1 that points the way progress of Nebraska in the 1830’s into town has been torn down by local residents.), Sierra views, Deer in about forty-five cards. Salvatore Creek Lodge, etc. Color postcards include “Race through the Clouds” Falcone Collection Est. $100-1500 roller coaster at Venice, ferry boat, Chinese, missions, oldest house at HWAC# 132949 Monterey, Golden Gate Park, 1935 Fresno State College, and a lemon of a tree. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items in this collection range from fair to very nice. Some postcards have black paper remnant on reverse from old album. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130028 130 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 2460 Austin, Nevada Austin Real Photo Lot# 2466 Ely, Nevada Five Fabulous Ely, Postcards Lot of two real photo postcards of Nevada Black & White RPC Circus Postcards Austin, Nevada. Birdseye view, 1903, postmarked These are rare. Self printed by Wyele. Shiners Parade. It is definitely an Ely parade as the 1949; and Main Street when it still had boulders Ely Post Office is clearly visible in three of the postcards. A rare and great find! (W. D. Miles in the road. Used in the Holabird bottle book. Fred Collection) Items in this collection range from Holabird Collection Est. $50-80 HWAC# 129324 fair to very nice. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 130036 Lot# 2461 Carson City, Lot# 2467 Ely, Nevada Four Early Ely, Nevada Nevada 1900’s Carson City Railroad Black & White RPC’s 1) Small engine Postcard Collection About pulling ore cars. Photographer was John W. 65 postcards showing Walker of Ely. 2) Railroad Days at Ely with well images of the smallest dressed attendees. 3-4) Two 4-6-2 (it seems) state capitol in the United steam engines. Some issues – see photograph. States, Carson City, Nevada. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130035 Cards show the capitol building, the state supreme Lot# 2468 Ely, Nevada 1909 New York to Paris court building, the federal RPC’s of the French Car while stopped in Ely, building and several cards Nevada Extra rare! We have seen the Thomas featuring the Bowers Mansion, located just a short drive out of town. flyer in Nevada, but not the French car. Lot of two Cards are colorful, historical and would be a great addition to any – both same. One has black paper on back from old domestic philatelic collection. Please see photos for more detail and binder. Arrived in Ely on March 29, 1909. There description. Date: 1900’s Country (if not USA): State: Nevada City: were three French cars. This one looks like the De Carson City Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# Dion-Bouton car. The car and the race had created 125457 quite a stir! The American Thomas Flyer would eventually be declared the winner. (W. D. Miles Lot# 2462 Carson City, Nevada Carson City Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130046 Real Photo Postcards and Postal Cover Lot of six postcards and one postal cover used by Lot# 2469 Ely, Nevada Thirteen Black & Holabird in the Bottle Books. Three real photo White Ely RPC’s Includes a very interesting postcards: Nevada State Prison, Carson City railroad crossing (Walkers Electric Studio) and Post Office, N. Carson Street. Colored litho the April 5, 1927 “Badger Puller, One Day Only.” cards of the view looking west and Main Street, Four town overviews – two early. Also just with the Mint building. Embossed card of the capitol building. Postal finished second post office and county court cover postmarked 1922 from the Carson Brewing Company to the house. The Geyser Ranch is also here. Houses Nevada Industrial Commission. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $70-100 and Scenery too. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items in this collection range HWAC# 129323 from fair to very nice. Some postcards have black paper remnant on reverse from old album. Est. $240-400 HWAC# 130037 Lot# 2463 Ely, Nevada Ely Black & White RPC’s and Photo of a 1920 Parade Lot of Lot# 2470 Lehman Caves, Nevada Lehman 13. Wagon, mules, mountain men, sailors, Caves Black & White RPC Group Lot of 6. dignitaries, floats, cowboys and panning for 2 duplicates. The Inscription Room, a major gold. Real Nevada! Two duplicates. Many cards stalactite by John W. Walker, cavern view, and taken from photo book and paper still attached eight small cavern views on one postcard. In to back. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items in this excellent condition. (W. D. Miles Collection) collection range from fair to very nice. Some Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130045 postcards have black paper remnant on reverse from old album. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 130039 Lot# 2471 McGill, Nevada Four McGill, Nevada Black & White RPC’s 1) c1940’s main Lot# 2464 Ely, Nevada Ely, Nevada Color street: JC Penny, McGill Café, McGill Laundry, Postcard Group Lot of eleven. Includes rare Nash Storage and a Saloon. 2) Fancy three story views like the Veteran shaft. Also, nice early McGill brick building. 3-4) Two photos of the Lincoln Highway (which contrary to popular dynamiting of the large stack at McGill. (W. D. perception went through Ely and not Elko Miles Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 130038 where I-80 is today) and Aultman Street in Ely. The rest are five different (7 all together) cards Lot# 2472 Minden & Carson City, Nevada of Monte Nevada Hot Springs. (W. D. Miles Carson City and Minden Area Postcards Collection) Items in this collection range from fair to very nice. Some including RPC’s Lot of twenty. Seven RPC’s: postcards have black paper remnant Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130025 rare interior of state prison showing work yard by W. X. Osborn photographer, Rawhide. Also Lot# 2465 Ely, Nevada 1913, 1922 Ely, Nevada V&T wood burner engine, extremely old Sierra Flood Black & White RPCs Lot of three. 1) 5th Nevada lumber engine, Sierra from Minden, Street, August 30, 1913. Sidewalks are dry – entering Minden, etc. Two leather postcards the street isn’t. 2) Altman River – it isn’t a street addressed to Carson City, one with a Carson City received cancel. Color any more. August 2, 1922. 3) Unidentified postcards include oldest house in Nevada, school, sheep, orphan’s flood. Two gentlemen wading down the street. home, street view, church, etc. One has a Cobre & Ely railroad cancel. Has remnants of black paper on back from an (W. D. Miles Collection) Items in this collection range from fair to very album. However, a privately created and probably unique view? Very nice. Some postcards have black paper remnant on reverse from old nice group. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130043 album. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130027 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 131
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 2473 Rawhide, Lot# 2479 Nevada Twenty-three (mostly Nevada 1908 Spectacular RPC’s) of the Nevada desert. 18 black and Rawhide Overview Black white RPC’s. many rattlesnakes, but deer, & White RPC April 28, 1908 coyote and hare make an appearance. Cowboy photograph. Osborn was the and horse resting on hill side. Ten team / three photographer. Looking west. wagon group crossing desert. Wagons that Photo is so good you can work and some that are broken (J. W. Walker photo). Five color: Valley actually read writing on the of Fire and Artesian Well in Las Vegas. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items in buildings, Budweiser, Java this collection range from fair to very nice. Some postcards have black Grill, brokers. Bent corners paper remnant on reverse from old album. Est. $100-150 HWAC# and two notches on top. 130040 From 1906 to 1908 the population of Rawhide went for hardly any to nearly 7,000. In five months the buildings in this picture would Lot# 2480 Nevada 1900’s Vintage have been smoldering wrecks. Between the devastating fire and the Nevada American Indian final realization that the there really wasn’t much gold here, the town Postcards A nice collection of 52 rapidly declines. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $200-500 HWAC# 130047 American Indian postcards. Some are from the 50’s and show Indian Lot# 2474 Reno & Virginia City, Nevada Reno outfits, the inventor of the Cherokee and Virginia City Postcard Group Lot of 24. alphabet, Sitting Bull, General Two RPC’s: aviation meet in Reno on July 4, Custer and even an Indian themed 1912 (creases, but rare early aviation card) and restaurant in Colorado. A nice variety. Some are used, some blank. Calico Hills. Three early Virginia City 1900’s Please see photos for more detail and condition. Date: 1900’s Country color cards: birds eye view of city with mines (if not USA): State: Nevada City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. and mills, approach to Virginia City dotted with $250-400 HWAC# 126460 mines, and general view of Virginia City. Reno cards include the University, trolley, bridge, Lot# 2481 White Mountains, New Hampshire Pyramid Lake, large steam engines, streets, Truckee River and dam, White Mountains, NH Postcards Approx 29 etc. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items in this collection range from fair to New Hampshire White Mountain postcards of very nice. Some postcards have black paper remnant on reverse from this resort area. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 135456 old album. Est. $110-150 HWAC# 130026 Lot# 2475 Ruth, Nevada Ruth Copper Pit Lot# 2482 New Hampshire Postcards from Black & White RPC’s Seven RPC’s. Includes New Hampshire This is a collection of about loading ore on train, tracks around the pit, etc. 24 postcards of New Hampshire vacation Seven different views. Overall very nice photos. spots between 1920’s-1940’s. Salvatore Falcone One had remnants of binder paper on back. Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 132943 One color postcard. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 130042 Lot# 2483 New York 1900’s Philip Boileu Postcard Collection-95 A Lot# 2476 Star Pointer & Kimberly, Nevada beautiful collection of 95 postcards Star Pointer & Kimberly Black & White based on the paintings of Canadian RPC’s 1) Rare C. D. Gallagher scene of Star born Philip Boileu (1864-1917). Pointer large building. Looks like a barracks. Boileu, whose mother was the Star Pointer is more commonly known as Ruth. daughter of noted United States 2) Kimberly company barracks with head frame in background. Nice Senator Thomas Hart Benton, condition. Rare! (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130044 studied in Italy and gained fame later when he became the go to Lot# 2477 Wells, Nevada Wells, Nevada / portrait artist for eastern high Angel Lagoon Postcard Hoard of J. B. Miles society. These beautifully colored of Ely Early colored postcards of the snow, postcards all have lady and grass and flowers of Angel Lagoon. 1,500’ in children subjects. Some are used, elevation. In the Clover Mountains near Wells, some blank. Please see photos for Nevada. Approximately 80 cards. (W. D. Miles more detail. Date: 1900’s Country (if not USA): State: New York City: Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 130023 Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-800 HWAC# 126504 Lot# 2478 Nevada Nevada Postcard Lot# 2484 Portland, Oregon Portland Rose Collection – Approximately 50 Cards in All Festival Postcards Lot of 5. 1908 2nd festival. Includes Four RPC’s: view of Nevada from plane Also 1911, 1913, 1914. 1921 City of Roses. Ken by Walker of Ely, etc. 2) Black and white card of Prag Collection Est. $50-70 HWAC# 131824 a lazy afternoon in Cherry Creek. Five sketch cards mostly of a cowboy and his horse. Las Vegas fold out group. Color Goldfield overview, Nelson Mill and Dumps in Mountain City, Upper Bridge Street in Winnemucca, preliminary work on Lamoille Valley electric plant. Color RPC’s of a prospector and his burro. Two Eureka druggist sheets. A few out of state cards. (W. D. Miles Collection) Items in this collection range from fair to very nice. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 130024 132 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 2485 Salem, Oregon 1800’s Salem Lot# 2493 Black History - Thanksgiving Oregon Fire Company RPC An RPC of Engine Vintage PCs Collection of 14 cards, c 1908, all Company #2 from Salem, Oregon. It shows the but 2 are Thansgiving. Includes high quality fire crew posing with there horses and fire art, some in the style of Wentsch, some by wagons, in front of the firehouse. Card is unused Taggert. Choice. Date: Country (if not USA): and the photo on the front, pristine. Please see State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127098 Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 129787 Lot# 2494 Black History - Watermelon Lot# 2486 Oregon 1900’s Northwest Humor Theme PCs Group of about 40 vintage Postcard Collection Nice collection of RPC’s (most c 1908) postcards with the watermelon and litho postcards showing images of Oregon theme in a humorous mode. I’ve always and Washington. Photos include the Chamber thought it was amusing that a Black theme was of Commerce Building in Portland, a Columbia omnipresent, since this was exactly my life as River Jetty, Mt Rainier National Park, Cannon a kid - my face put in a slab of watermelon. I Beach, Oregon and many more. Publisher think all us kids were just like this! (fh) Date: Country (if not USA): include C.T. American Art, J.K. Gill Company, State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. Lowman & Hanford and others. Very colorful, $340-700 HWAC# 127100 very scenic. About 80 percent are from Oregon. Please see photos for more detail and condition. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Lot# 2495 Civil War Postcards & Covers Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $300-500 HWAC# 125438 Including 4 Tucks (7) Beautiful and colorful Civil War themed postcards and covers. These Lot# 2487 Pittsburgh, Philadelphia are in excellent condition. Includes 4 very Pittsburgh, PA and Embossed Postcard nice Tuck postcards involving the Continental Collection Approx 250 postcards, some Army, Betsy Ross, the Battle of Bunker Hill embossed, holidays, animals, numerous and Washington’s home at Mt. Vernon. Also, a Pittsburgh, PA and more Est. $260-400 HWAC# postcard with July 4 Greetings, a woman sewing and American flag, 101788 and a Civil War patriotic cover showing Fredericksburg, VA. Est. $120- 200 HWAC# 111885 Lot# 2488 Lead, South Dakota Birds-eye Lot# 2496 1901-1940s Composers, View Panoramic Real Photo Postcard of Orchestras and Bands RPCs and Litho Lead, South Dakota ”Home of the Homestake Postcards (80) Eighty RPCs and litho Gold Mining Co. Lead, S.D.” Photo by Lease. Not postcards featuring great composers, mailed. Reverse has pen writing: “Looking down the gulch towards conductors, orchestras, band leaders and our home, which is at the end.” 3.5 x 11.25” Creased corners, some musical performances from the U.S. and around soiling. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 134067 the world, c1901-1940s. Postcards depict everyone from George Frederick Handel to Freddy Martin. Includes 15 Lot# 2489 Vermont RPCs of Vermont international cancels with stamps, the rest blank or with some writing. Landmarks This is a collection of about 30 Date: 1901-1940s Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken RPCs of known landmarks in the state of Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 127306 Vermont. C. 1920’s. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 132939 Lot# 2497 1900’s-1950’s Early 1900’s Greeting Cards (120) An album of animated Lot# 2490 Advertising Postcards Approx and artistic greeting postcards from all over 100 advertising postcards-Hershey Chocolate, the West and parts beyond. Cards are colorful Westinghouse, Tupperware, Amway and more. and in some cases, amusing. Most have all been Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# used. Please see photos for more detail and 104971 condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 131989 Lot# 2491 American Wildlife Resources Lot# 2498 Ten Commandments in Post Postcards 1939 This is complete set of wildlife Cards They’re all here, ten commandments in cards published in 1939 depicting American die cut art post cards. Colorized in very good wildlife. All are in very good condition. Salvatore condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $80- Falcone Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 132951 100 HWAC# 132952 Lot# 2492 Bizarre Postcard Collection Lot Lot# 2499 Space Program Postcards of 33 miscellaneous vintage postcards with 1960’s-1970’s This lot contains about 100 strange subjects. A candle entitled “The Light RPCs of the early 1960’s -1970’d space of Other Days.” A leather card with a swastika. program in the USA. Many national heroes are 1910 Admission Day Festival San Francisco. depicted. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $150- Lobster King Harry Hackney with his Lobster 300 HWAC# 132941 Waitresses on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Many German cards with artistic scenes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 132063 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 133
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 2500 Oil and Mining Postcards Approx Lot# 2509 New Years Day Vintage 15 mining and oil postcards with several RPC’s Celebratory Post Cards About 300 vintage Est. $30-50 HWAC# 135467 cards celebrating the New Years. Publishers include Winsch (the most famous post card Lot# 2501 Post Office Postcards Collection artist), Tuck, German publishers of embossed This is a collection postcards depicting cards, and others. The Tuck and Winsch cards Post Offices around the United States. A are, as usual, a cut or two above the rest in letter Carrier’s dream. The smallest PO is in quality. A few are date cards. Artists include Harper and others. Date: Grimshawes, N.C. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken $150-200 HWAC# 132944 Prag Collection Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 127052 Lot# 2502 Hand-Drawn Art Postcards Lot# 2510 Easter Postcard Collection - No ~50 Approx 50 postcards with hand-drawn Bunnies A collection of about 85 antique and designs in graphite pencil, colored pencil, and vintage Easter celebration postcards. This watercolor. Wide range of creative and artistic collection features chicks, eggs, hens, angels, skill represented. Two are hand drawn on thin lambs, and springtime flowers - does not plywood. Date: Country (if not USA): State: include any eater bunnies. Unique cards in this City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $500- collection include an “Easter Blessings” pull out 1000 HWAC# 125866 slide card, an “Easter Greetings” velvet chick postcard, and many embossed cards. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Lot# 2503 Hitler Related RARE Post Cards City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 126601 (6) and U.S. Navy WWII Cover WWII Group of 6 Hitler themed post cards - Very Rare! and Lot# 2511 1940’s Military RPC’s (10) RPC’s 1 U.S. Navy Cover postmarked Oct 6 1943. “The showing WWII US Army Air Force bombers. Axis Rats Don’t Like Our Sting”. 4 Postcards Please see photos for details and condition. are printed by Graphic Post Card Co. and 2 are Est. $100-200 HWAC# 131671 Hilborn Novelty Adv. both in N.Y. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 133758 Lot# 2512 Group of Patriotic Postcards (5) Lot# 2504 Logging Train Postcards (21) Lot Lot of 5 includes “Admiral Dewey and Victory”, of 21 Logging Postcards. Lot includes some “Memorial Day Souvenir”, “Defend Your chromolithograph and linen. 5 are black and Country”, and two of William Jennings Bryan. white the remaining 16 are color. Est. $120- Est. $60-100 HWAC# 111886 200 HWAC# 132353 Lot# 2513 1900-1945 Patriotic U.S. Flag Lot# 2505 Lumber Docks and Booms RPCs and Litho Postcards (100) One Postcards (16) Lumber Docks and Booms hundred RPCs and Litho patriotic postcards Postcards are from various locations across featuring the American flag, from various the U.S. 12 Cards are color and 4 are black U.S. states, c1900-1945. States include North and white. Most cars are chromolithographs. Dakota, Utah, Colorado, Washington, D.C., Please see photo for more details. Est. $80- Washington, Wisconsin, California, Illinois, etc. 100 HWAC# 132358 Tuck’s Post Card, leather post cards, many canceled with stamps, and blank postcards are included. Colorful depictions of the Old Glory in Lot# 2506 Lumber Mill Postcards (17) This many U.S. settings. Date: 1900-1945 Country (if not USA): State: City: lot of Lumber Mill postcards has 17 postcards. Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-1000 8 RPCs and 9 chromolithographs. This lot HWAC# 125723 features the Saw Mill and Mill pond in Hobart Mills, California. RPCs are of various mills Lot# 2514 Phonograph-Related Post Card across the U.S. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132357 Collection Approx. 80 post cards from the Ken Prag Collection with the common theme of Lot# 2507 Lumber Mill Postcards (28) Lot recording sound for home playback. Included of Lumber Mill Postcards, 28, all color. Shows are postcards of Victrolas, Victor Talking various lumber mills throughout the U.S. Most Machines, photographs of phonographs, chromolithographs. Est. $140-250 HWAC# photographs of Thomas Edison, and the factories where the machines 132354 were made. All in plastic sleeves. See photos for representative examples. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 125841 Lot# 2508 Lumber Mill Postcards w/ Overhead Views Lot of 8 Lumber Mill Lot# 2515 1904-1910 President Taft in postcard. All 8 are overhead shots of the mills. Public RPCs (21) Twenty-one RPCs featuring There are 8 RPCs, 2 EKC, 4 Kodak, and two the 27th president, William Howard Taft, in unknown. Most of lot includes locations in public, from the U.S. and France, c1904-1910. California: Weed, Westwood, Susanville, and Includes six canceled from California, Montana, Chico. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 132356 Washington, D.C., and France, with stamps, the rest blank. Some of the blank ones have original written descriptions of the photos. Date: 1904-1910 Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 127321 134 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 2516 1909-1915 President Taft on the Lot# 2522 1950-70’s Presidential Postcards Election Trail RPCs (59) A large assortment and Romney Lot of 7 Envelopes containing of 59 views of President Taft on the election postcards. 1. Two Romney Postcards, one is trail, and following the election traveling signed and postmarked 1962. 2. Five color throughout the U.S., with cancel dates 1909- postcards of Pres. Carter in various poses. 3. 1915. Fourteen are canceled with stamps, the Fourteen color and one B/W of Pres. Nixon, rest blank or with some writing. Some rare home and family . None postmarked 4. Pres. such as “first night flight.” Date: 1909-1915 Country (if not USA): State: Kennedy :Thirty-six, three postmarked 1964-65. Portraits, grave, City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000- home, parade route. 5. Pres. Eisenhower, fourteen cards, three 2000 HWAC# 127329 postmarked 1953-63: hone, White House and portraits. 6. Pres. Johnson, two: ranch and portrait. 7. Pres. Reagan. Four: family, cabinet Lot# 2517 1908-1909 President Taft meeting, with Sadat. In protective sleeves and excellent condition. Ken Portraits RPCs (39) Lot of 39 RPCs of Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 131453 President Taft portraits, from the U.S., c1908- 09. Fifteen are canceled with stamps, from Lot# 2523 Victorian Style Announcement different U.S. states, the rest blank or with Postcards Lot of 25 postcards, mostly some writing. Both pre- and post-election announcement cards for baby arrival or photos. Date: 1908-1909 Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: invitations. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 127327 HWAC# 132064 Lot# 2518 1907-1911 Taft for President Lot# 2524 Restaurant Advertising Postcards RPCs and Litho Postcards (17) Seventeen from Around the Country This is a collection pre- and post-election RPCs and litho postcards of 50 RPCs depicting restaurants from around of William H. Taft, from the U.S., c1907-1911. the USA. New York, Chicago, Largo, Hollywood. President Taft’s portrait is featured in frames, Great photos for remodeling ideas. Salvatore with litho backgrounds. One features President Falcone Collection Est. $100-250 HWAC# 132950 Teddy Roosevelt and William McKinley as well. Nine are canceled in various U.S. cities, with stamps, the rest blank Lot# 2525 RPC of Lady Liberty reproduced by or with some writing. Date: 1907-1911 Country (if not USA): State: J. Mallamace of San Jose, California This is a post City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 card of Lady Liberty reproduced by Immigrant J. HWAC# 127328 Mallamace in 1942. Very good condition RPC. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-120 HWAC# 132953 Lot# 2519 1909-1911 Taft RPCs of Crowds and Parades (10) Ten RPCs of President Lot# 2526 RPC of Real People, Fashion, William H. Taft at parades and events in various Homes 1900’s This group of photos are of U.S. states, c1909-1911. A blank RPC is of Taft at real people, fashions and homesteads between Redlands, Calif., Oct. 12, 1909. Others include: 1900-1920’s. About 30 RPC in all. Salvatore Taft at Juarez, Mexico; in Decatur, Ill., Feb. 11, Falcone Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 132947 1911; in Beverly, Mass., postdated Sept. 6, 1910; at his inauguration in Washington, D.C., March, 4, 1909; and more. Three are canceled Lot# 2527 RPCs 0f 1910 Farm and Family with stamps and the rest blank. Date: 1909-1911 Country (if not USA): Life This is a collection of RPCs addressed to State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. Elizabeth Kirsch in Lawrence, Indiana C. 1910. $500-1000 HWAC# 125721 Any living relative needs these RPCs depicting the homestead and school, etc. Salvatore Falcone Lot# 2520 1908-1909 Taft-Sherman Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 132955 Bryan-Kern Election Postcards (22) Lot of 22 William H. Taft-James S. Sherman, and Lot# 2528 1900’s World Wide Postcard William J. Bryan-John W. Kern RPCs from the Group Grab bag lot. Early 1900’s postcards. U.S. presidential election of 1908. Seven are Two binders full of various postcards. About canceled, six with stamps, the rest blank or 400 total postcards in this lot. Some cards with some writing. Some feature the running are mint, some are used with stamps. Cards mates, while others have photos of the opponents, Taft and Bryan. are mostly linen and chromolithograph. Very Date: 1908-1909 Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken few RPCs, less than 10. Est. $200-400 HWAC# Prag Collection Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 127326 132415 Lot# 2521 Teddy Roosevelt Postcard Lot# 2529 Hawaii Hawaiian Stamp Collection Collection (10) Ten postcards depicting A nice collection of early stamps about 20 Roosevelt, his family, or his homes. Roosevelt pieces. 3 versions of what appears to be A17, in served as the 26th president of the United States Carmine. A20, A25, A19, A14, and more. There from 1901 to 1909. A few are postmarked from was an attempt by our collector to get as much 1906 to 1912. Average condition. View photos as possible of the pre-1900 material. Salvatore for closeup. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Falcone Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 132978 City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 135526 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 135
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Stamps - USA Lot# 2530 Large collection Scott National Lot# 2536 United States Stamp Collection Postal Album 1977 This is a nice collection of This includes a group of three albums. 1.) American stamps. Stamps have been carefully United States Album by Dansco copyright 1959: placed in clear black protective sleeves and nice collection of early US, lacking in high denominations, through are not hinged in the book. The album starts perhaps the 1920s. The collector attempted to get many varieties with Scott 6 on up, where the collector has of specific issues, mint stamps are unhinged and contained within tried to collect a number of varieties such as protective sleeves. Includes postal dues, special delivery, and air mail, Scott 15, 33, and 35 of the early series nearly though lacking in the rarities. Total count easily in the high hundreds. all are cancelled including 36 (poorly centered.) Higher denomination 2.) American Album by Minkus 1972: US album mostly cancelled stamps include number 78, 120 and 121, 155, 154, 153, 166, 165, 191, until after about 1915, very few early issues of any denomination. 190, 229, 242, 241. An attempt was made to complete all varieties of after 1915 mostly mint in protective sleeves, unhinged, though little the various series though key issues are lacking. This book is for the attempt at completion. The airmail section is nice with mint examples purist because of the wide variety contained. Hundreds of stamps if prior to 1930 without the Grafs. Total count hundreds. 3.) American not over a thousand! Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# Album by Scott 1935. Sparsely filled album mostly containing series 131598 heavily raided, total count low hundreds. 4.) The remainder consists of pages from privately constructed albums, pages of publicly published Lot# 2531 1979 Postmasters of America albums, and stock pages and blocks. Includes Revenue stamps, tax “Official History of the United States In Mint stamps, with a count in the high hundreds. Lastly is a US Duck and Stamps” 200 U.S. Postage Stamps issued in Hunting Stamp album with California duck stamps and Federal duck mint condition and mounted on presentation stamps. About 30. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# cards bearing original works of art created 131597 exclusively for this Collection – Album is Navy Blue with Gold Lettering and is 10” x 15” Lot# 2537 US Revenue Stamp Collection (64/15,000) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132352 Revenue stamp collection removed from an early album. This collection is a bonus for Lot# 2532 1973 Seven Plates from the any revenue stamp collector. Includes Federal Department of the Treasury on Stamp and state revenue stamps, telegraph stamps, Releases 1) Souvenir of the gmonumental postage due stamps, etc. The collector has effort that saw the United States five times attempted to acquire varieties across the break its earth bonds and explore the face of the board. The collection is absent the great rarities moon.h Interplex New York, 1973. 2) Block such as the Persian rug but there are excellent of stamps taken from the original engraving rarities here. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 131599 prepared for the 25c Trans-Pacific Airmail stamp of 1935. Stamp Expo, San Francisco, 1973. 3-7) Engraving of Lot# 2538 Internal Revenue Distilled this block from the 1893 Columbian Series. Complex, Chicago, 1973. Spirits Tax Stamps This is a collection of five Est. $70-150 HWAC# 130145 (5) internal revenue tax stamps, issued 1933, for the districts of Kentucky (3), Pennsylvania Lot# 2533 1979 U. S. DOI Duck Stamps Yearly (1), and Maryland (1). Prohibition officially Collection with Signed Duck Stamp Painting ended Dec. 5, 1933. Salvatore Falcone Collection Nicely framed 62 Department of Interior Duck Est. $200-500 HWAC# 132496 Stamps starting in 1934. This one is unsigned, and it has a small fold in upper right. Most stamps are Lot# 2539 North African Stamp Collection signed. Other unsigned stamps include (but not A nice collection from several books, generally limited to) 1939, 1942, 1945, 1951, 1958, 1961, pre WWII. Ethiopia: about 20. Cape Verde: etc. Signatures are on some stamps are faded, but less than 20. Cameroons: about 30. Equatorial we have tried to err on the side of caution. Stamps Africa: about 40 Ghana: modern material are in nice condition. Painting is a 1979 Harry including stock page. maybe 100 stamps. Ifni: Adamson titled, Corner Pocket - Painted Tail and Cinnamon Teal. mostly modern about 50. Ivory Coast: less than Number 295 of 850. Signed on bottom. We have priced this well below 20. Liberia: modern perhaps 50, and older perhaps 30. Volta: modern suggested values. 35 x 44 inches Est. $700-1500 HWAC# 135590 less than 10. Mauritania: less than 20. Morocco: less than 20. Niger: less than 20. Nigeria: less than 10. Senegal: less than 20. Somali: less Lot# 2534 U. S. Stamp Lot Large lot of than 20. Sudan: less than 5. Togo: less than 20. Tunis: less than 20. stamped envelope & postcards with some used Upper Volta: less than 10. Eritrea: about 20. Dahomey: about 10. covers about 200 pieces; lot of US modern Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132969 commemoratives in kit form; group of US sheets including airmail and regular postage Lot# 2540 South African Stamp Collection. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 135587 A nice collection from several books, generally pre WWII. About 16 countries in all Lot# 2535 U. S. Stamp Postcards (6) 6 represented in this lot. Burundi: 2 modern postcards featuring US stamps from the circa stamp sheets 1970s. Congo: about 30. Gabon: 1900 regular mail series. 5 are by Zieber and 8 Kenya/Uganda: less than 20. Malawi: 2 1 by Staerck. Choice collectibles for any US modern sheets 1970s. Malagasi: less than 20. stamp collector. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 135520 Madagascar: about 20 pre WWII. Mauritius: about 20. Mozambique: about 30. Reunion: about 30. Rhodesia: less than 20. South Africa: maybe 30-40. Transvaal: about 10. Transkei: about 12 modern . St Helena: 6 modern. Saar & St Christopher: less than 20. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132970 136 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Stamps - Worldwide Lot# 2541 Southern African Countries Lot# 2548 Canadian Stamp Collection A nice Stamp Collection Burundi, 3 album pages collection of varying stamp sheets from several with samples; Transvaal, about 20 album books, generally pre WWII. Canada: several pages and 4 stock pages, about 500 stamps; hundred New Foundland: about 40 St Pierre Congo, about 10 album pages with samples; and Miqueton: about 20-30. St Thomas and Madagascar, samples; Uganda area, 1 stock Prince Island: about a dozen Salvatore Falcone page about 50 stamps; South Africa 1 stock pages 75 stamps; Rwanda, Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132976 4 stock pages about 200 stamps; Mozambique 2 stock pages about 100 stamps; British South Africa etc 1 stock page about 40 stamps. Est. Lot# 2549 Collection of Canadian Stamps $60-300 HWAC# 135425 The majority of this group is an approximate 60 page binder album of Canadian stamps in Lot# 2542 Northwestern African Countries mint condition in black sleeves. The group general starts with the Stamp Collection Cape Verde, examples issue of 1897 onward. The majority of the early period stamps through only. Cameroon, about 5 album pages with about 1930 are of lower denominations and include coil stamps. The samples. Morocco, 1 stock sheet with about 50 collection includes special deliveries, special issues. 1Beginning in stamps. Dahomey, about 10 album pages with the 930s the collector has begun to accumulate higher denomination many samples. Nigeria, 1 stock page about stamps. The collection itself may number several hundred stamps. 40 stamps. Niger, about 3 album pages, numerous examples. British Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 131591 Guina, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast, 1 stock page about 30 stamps. Est. $60-300 HWAC# 135415 Lot# 2550 Caribbean Area Postage Stamps Collection Dominica, issues 1923-47 one mint, Lot# 2543 Austrian stamp Collection This issues 1970 one mint, issues 1970-1971 one is a collection of Austrian stamps: Danzig, one mint. Porto Rico four loose stamps. Cayman large stock sheet approx. 100 stamps at least Islands issues 1937-49 one mint, issues 1968- half mint. Austria 7 large stock sheets about 69 two mint, issues 1969-70 six mint. Cuba, 400 plus stamps perhaps 60 % canceled plus two large stock sheets approx. 140 stamps loose stamps. Beyern, three large stock sheets 15 % mint, issues 1914-33 one stamp, issues 1931-48 one stamp, about 150 stamps about 40 % mint. Baveria, 12 stamps one is mint. issues 1937-39 three stamps one mint, issues 1942-45 one stamp, Est. $60-300 HWAC# 135419 issues 1937-43 three stamps, issues 1951-52 two stamps, issues 1953-55 one stamp. Bahamas, issues 1921-52 one stamp, issues 1971 Lot# 2544 Australia and Colonies Stamp two stamps. Jamaica, one large stock sheet approx. 60 stamps 10% Collection Scott album for Australia and mint. Dominican Republic, one large stock sheet approx. 40 stamps Colonies is the majority of this collection. Mint 25% mint. Sarawak, Sierra Leone, N.S. Whales, St. Helena, St. Lucia, St. unhinged stamps in protective black sleeves and after the 1930s is Vincent, one large stock sheet approx. 60 stamps 20% mint. Est. $60- nearly complete. The collection also includes album pages from other 300 HWAC# 135422 collectors that does include some of the early material such as that from Victoria, New South Whales, Queensland etc. Overall there are Lot# 2551 Caribbean Region Stamp hundreds of stamps, too many to count! Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. Collection Collection of about 10 different $200-400 HWAC# 131595 countries in the Caribbean region from different collector albums, generally collected Lot# 2545 Belgium Stamp Collection before WWII. Puerto Rico: mostly pre 1920 Belgium stamps: Occupation stamps 1914- about 20 stamps. Bahamas and Barbados: 1915 22 stamps 50% mint. Belgium including small collection of early material and a bit of the Congo approx. 400 stamps about 15 % more modern material, perhaps 30 stamps. Antiqua: modern perhaps mint on 9 large stock sheets plus 6 bags of 15 stamps. Cayman: limited maybe 5 early stamps. Haiti: limited, less loose stamps. Est. $60-200 HWAC# 135416 than 10 stamps. Jamaica: about 25 stamps. Cuba: about 40 stamps a nice beginners collection. Grenada: less than 5 older pieces and Lot# 2546 British America & Colonies several stock pages perhaps several more pages of more modern Stamp Collection Scott British America material. Dominican Republic: limited perhaps less than 25. Salvatore Album, copyright, 1976, about 3” thick plus Falcone Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 132964 approx. a dozen other British colonies with pages removed from older albums. This album Lot# 2552 Central American Stamp is perhaps 20 percent full of mint stamps Collection 8 countries represented. The lot unhinged in protective sleeves. Hundreds of consists like other lots in this sale of stamp stamps overall. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. album pages from various collections, generally $300-600 HWAC# 132982 all collected before WWII. Costa Rica: small collection of early material 1870s-1900 plus Lot# 2547 British Channel Islands Collection a small collection of more modern material. Composite of three different collections. Two Perhaps 50 stamps. El Salvador and Salvador: of the collections are in White Ace Historical larger collection of early and modern material. Early material is Albums (published 1972), the remainder are removed from several generally mint and hinged, nice collection of several hundred stamps. Scott albums or stock pages. The largest collection, about 40 pages, Guatemala: A small varied collection similar to the last but only about are all mint stamps unhinged in black sleeves, nearly complete. The 50 stamps. Guadeloupe: small collection generally 1920s about 25 secondary collection also contains unhinged mint stamps in black stamps. Honduras: small collection similar to others. One of the sleeves, about 30 pages. The Scott pages number about 30. Stamp collections has mint material from 1890s hinged about 100 stamps. count is easily about several hundred stamps! Salvatore Falcone Collection Mexico: several hundred stamps c1863- WWII and a second match of Est. $300-500 HWAC# 131593 more modern mint condition. Nice group includes a few special issues. Some of the early material here is in mint condition hinged. Nicaragua: Very similar description to the last lot, a nice selection! Panama: very small collection of early material and perhaps 100 or more modern mint stamps. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 132962 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 137
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Stamps - Worldwide Lot# 2553 Chinese Stamp Collection China, Lot# 2559 Greece, Italy, and Surrounding 6 large stock sheets approx. 250 stamps, issues Region Stamp Collection Greece: nice 1949 four stamps mint, issues 1950-51 four beginner collection c1870-1940 perhaps 100 stamps mint, 12 bages loose stamps. Hong stamps plus one stock page of more modern Kong, four large stock sheets approx. 240 material. Italy: varied collection including one stamps 10% mint. Unwatermarked 1882 two nice group of early material. supplemented stamps, 1885-1893 12 stamps, watermarked by some post WWII issues. Several hundred stamps. Montenegro: 1904-1911 seven stamps, watermarked 1941 eight stamps, 1935 nice collection, about 50 stamps. Monaco: small collection about 20 Silver Jubilee four, 1937 four stamps. Est. $60-30 HWAC# 135420 stamps. Malta: less than 10. San Marino: less than 10. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 132966 Lot# 2554 Chinese Stamp Collection A nice collection of varying stamp sheets from several Lot# 2560 Iraq Region Countries Stamp books, generally pre WWII. China: about 20 Collection Iraq, 1 stock page about 50 stamps. stamps. Shangai: about 10. Mongolia: 2 modern Syria 1 page plus singles about 50 stamps. stamp sheets 1974. Mongolia: 6. Manchukuo: 4. Bahrain, 3 stock pages about 120 stamps; Macao: less than 15 Indo: about 20-30 stamps. Afgan 1 page about 50 stamps. Est. $60-200 Hong Kong: about 10. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# HWAC# 135424 132972 Lot# 2555 France, Spain, and Portugal Area Lot# 2561 Japanese Stamp Collection A very Stamp Collection Collection from France, large collection of varying stamp sheets from Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and some French several books modern and pre WWII. Includes Colonies. Spain: fairly decent collection, mid about 150 Japan Postal Issue pages from the range, several hundred stamps, includes 5 1960’s and 70’s. Also includes several album stock pages of more modern mint material. pages of earlier 1900s stamps. Hundreds of Portugal: small amount of early pieces perhaps stamps in all included in this nice collection! 25-50 supplemented by 30 or more in modern mint condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# Belgium: nice collection of early material, with an attempt made for some completion. Several hundred stamps. France: fairly nice 132973 collection through about 1930 with later editions lacking in the very early issues. Several hundred stamps. French Colonies: perhaps 100 Lot# 2562 Middle East Region Stamp stamps not counted. Azores: less than 25. Andorra: 2 sheets modern. Collection A nice collection of varying stamp Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132965 sheets from several books, generally pre WWII. Lot# 2556 Germanic and Slavic Counties Turkey: perhaps 50-75 stamps. Palestine: Stamp Collection Large selection of stamps from various albums generally prior to WWII. maybe 20 Israel: about a dozen older and 20- Bavaria: nice selection, perhaps 50. Austria: possibly up to 200 stamps mostly mint. 30 more modern stamps. Lebanon: 3. Saudi Danzig: less than 30. Saxony: less than 10 stamps. Württemberg: about 20. Yugoslavia: Arabia: 2. Persia: about 50 Dubai: less than 10 about 50 stamps. Czech: nice collection perhaps 200 stamps. Latvia: Less than 20. Serbia: less than 20. Bosnia: less than 20. Fiume: about Afganistan: 58 Egypt: maybe 75+ stamps Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. 30. Manenwerder: 1 stamp. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $400-800 $200-400 HWAC# 132975 HWAC# 132968 Lot# 2563 New Zealand Collection New Lot# 2557 Germany Stamp Collection Two Zealand and Colonies in an album. Mint albums and many pages from other albums. unhinged stamps in protective sleeves. Mostly The two albums are both Scott Specialty complete after 1935. Also includes pages from albums for Germany. 1.) 100-150 single pages other collections including a number of older all numbered, all mint and hinged, from 693 stamps, and private issues such as Railway through B189. 2.) Printed Scott specialty album Newspaper stamps. Overall hundreds of stamps! Salvatore Falcone about 100 pages fairly complete including Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 131596 strips and some mint stamps unhinged in sleeves. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $260-450 HWAC# 132960 Lot# 2564 North Lot# 2558 Great Britain and Ireland Stamp Central Europe Collection Scott album plus portions of other collections. 1975 Scott Album: A classic large Stamp Collection 3.5” thick album unpaginated probably 200 pages, nearly full of post 1930 issues in mint in protective sleeves unhinged. The group also Collection of contains a number of removed pages from other albums inclusive of stock pages, and many of the British territories such as Malta, Gibraltar, album pages from and Ireland. Early issues are restricted to the pages remained from early albums. Thousands of stamps c1860-1980. Worth your physical numerous different preview. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 132981 collector albums from varying dates, generally collected before 1950. Romania: a nice selection inclusive of pre-1900 material. Lacking in more modern material, about 200 stamps. Hungary: a nice selection of pre- 1900 material includes a good selection through the 1920s and 30s. Perhaps 300 stamps. Bulgaria: relatively small selection of about 100 stamps c1880-1930. Poland: selection of about 200 stamps, generally about 1915-1935. Estonia: Small selection around WWI perhaps only 5 or so stamps. Please inspect this lot. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 132839 138 May 2021
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Stamps - Worldwide Lot# 2565 Northeastern Europe Stamp Lot# 2570 South Pacific Stamp Collection A Collection 9 different countries represented collection of varying stamp pages from several here, consisting of single stamps on album books, includes modern as well as pre WWII. Fiji pages from a number of different collection. Islands: 2 Island: less than 15. Gilbert Islands: Collected before WWII. Netherlands: a cross about 50. New Guinea: 1 New Calédonie: about section collection, c1870s through WWII 40 Samoa: less than 10 Tonga: 3 modern stamp generally. A few modern stamps. perhaps 200 sheets 1970s Tuvalu/Polynesia: about 50 Tunisia: about 20 Wallis stamps. Finland: large selection c1870 through approx. the Korean & Futuna Islands: about 20 Gold Coast: less than5. Salvatore Falcone war. Contains many singles 1931 on mint unhinged in plastics sleeves. Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132971 Several hundred stamps including stock page of more common stamps. An effort was made to complete the early portion of this Lot# 2571 Southeast Asian Stamp Collection collection. Sweden: Another varied collection from the 1870s onward A nice collection of varying stamp sheets from including many early denominations of the early series. Perhaps 200 several books, generally pre WWII. Siam: about stamps. This group also moves into mint specimens of modern stamps. 20 Malaya: about 20 Corea/Korea: about 20 This is another collection where the collector has made an attempt India: about 50-75 Ceylon: about 20 North to complete early issues. Norway: A similar collection to the others Borneo: About a dozen North Ingermanland: beginning in the 1870s although nowhere near as filled out. Stock less than 10 Nyassa: about 20. Phillipines: pages of new and used stamps. Denmark: A small collection similar maybe about 50. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. to others c1970 through WWII plus a stock page of more modern $200-400 HWAC# 132974 issues. Perhaps 150 stamps less thorough than the others in this lot. Greenland: Stock page of about a dozen mint more modern stamps. Lot# 2572 Spain and Nearby Countries United Kingdom: A last minute addition of a UK 1991 duck stamp, Stamp Collections Spain, 3 stock pages about mint condition. Frimerki Island: two used singles. Upper Silesia: about 150 stamps; Portugal about 10 stock pages a dozen singles. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 132961 perhaps 400 stamps. Switzerland 3 pages about 70 stamps; Monaco, 2 stamp pages about Lot# 2566 Nyasaland Protectorate Stamp 100 stamps. Est. $60-200 HWAC# 135423 Collection About 10 album pages, nice collectio, mostly mint please see photo. Est. Lot# 2573 Swiss & Austria Area Stamp $60-200 HWAC# 135421 Collection A nice collection of varying stamp sheets from several books, generally pre WWII. Lot# 2567 Romania Stamp Collection 10 Liechtenstein: about 50. Luxenburg: about 50. stock pages, about 500 stamps. Nice collection. Switzerland: about 30-50 Helvetia: about 30 Est. $60-200 HWAC# 135418 older stamps plus a few modern stamp sheets containing another 30 or so modern stamps. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132977 Lot# 2568 Russia Stamp Collection Includes Lot# 2574 Turkey Stamp Collection About 6 Ukraine, Lithuania, south Russia, Prussia. stock pages about 300 stamps. Turkish Calicos, Russia: nice collection of material through 4 stock pages about 100 stamps. Est. $60-300 about WWII about 200 stamps. Prussia: less HWAC# 135417 than 20. White Russia: less than 20. South Russia: Less than 0. Ukraine: nice group about Lot# 2575 United Nations and United 50 mostly mint. Central Lithuania: 2 groups Universal Postal Union Stamp Collections less than 50 stamps. Georgia: less than 20. Salvatore Falcone Collection United Nations: approximately 40 album Est. $100-300 HWAC# 132967 pages single sided of mint stamps, unhinged in black sleeves, 1951 through c1970s. Perhaps 100 or more stamps. Universal Postal Lot# 2569 South American Stamp Union: In alphabetical order, mint stamps, unhinged in black sleeves, Collection 12 countries represented here. this collection on Centennial Universal Commemorative union pages These are mostly album pages from various appears to be complete for what it was. Approx. 60 pages with easily collector albums before 1945, some containing more than 200 stamps. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# mint modern stamps as noted. Argentina: 131592 nice collection of early material, though only from one collector album instead of two as Lot# 2576 A huge Accumulation of Foreign we’ve seen with central America and Europe. About 100 modern Stamps! Giant selection of foreign stamps mint stamps and about 50 older stamps. Bolivia: 100 modern stamps, c1860-1980. Two specialty series green a selection 1860s and 1890s from two different albums perhaps 40 albums, possibly Scott. The first is French Colonies, and Scandinavian stamps. Brazil: a nice collection of some of the early material, perhaps and Finland. The French album with about 200 pages is perhaps 10% 150 stamps. No modern material with this group. Chile: Similar to the full but contains a number of very early 1850-70 issues. Most of the last lot with nice selections of older material. perhaps 200 stamps plus colonies in the back are empty. The second Finland/Scandinavian about 10 modern commemorative sheets c1960s and 70s. Columbia: volume is 1.5” thick with perhaps 100 pages, about 40% full, also Medium sized collection including several states, about 150 stamps. containing some early 1870-1880 issues. Another third album is a Curacao: only a couple of stamps. Ecuador: medium collection stock album of modern stamps on stock pages unused from around again of early material supplemented by modern singles. Still a nice the world. Including Columbia, Chili, Finland, Australia, probably 500+ group. Perhaps 200 stamps. Falklands: about 30 stamps of regular stamps. Another group are album pages prior WWII of small countries. issues c1920s and 30s. Paraguay: a limited number of early stamps, Perhaps 200 stamps. The last portion are stock pages envelopes of accompanied by several stock pages of modern mint condition stamps stamps of a wide variety of dates, many mint and unused, envelopes of and commemorative issues. Peru: medium collection of early to mid stamps from various mail order stamp houses and so forth. Thousands period stamps 50 pieces plus several dozen modern stamp pages all of stamps. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 132983 mint. Uruguay: a limited number of early stamps perhaps 25 plus 3 stock pages of more modern material. Venezuela: limited early stamps perhaps 25 plus a much larger selection of more modern material all mint. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 132963 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 139
DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Philatelic - Postal History / Stamps - Worldwide Lot# 2577 Specialty Stamp Collections Two specialty stamp collections. The first is a Europa postal issues c1974 forward. All mint unhinged stamps in protective black sleeves, including some sheets. About 40 pages, perhaps 200 stamps. The second is World Wildlife Fund Stamp Collection, 1984 in a special album with special postal issues and proofs. About 30 pages in an album with protective sleeves. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 131594 Lot# 2578 Two Early International Stamp Albums c1860-1900 International postage and stamp album, 19th century. 9.5x12” 2” thick. Bogert and Derbin. Manuscript Register, Bid, inside front cover & view opening bids at Thomas Mitchel FHWAC.com Philatelist 1908. The High Resolution Images of ALL LOTS album is unpaginated available online at with perhaps 300 FHWAC.com pages. Nearly every Zoom in and see close up detail page has stamps and if we had to guess there’s more than 10 per High Resolution page. Includes regular issues, special issues, revenues, it’s difficult to Images of ALL LOTS estimate the percentage of mint stamps, maybe 30 percent. All are available online at hinged. The second volume is a Modern Postage album by Scott 1917 FHWAC.com with broken binding. A similar description to the prior holds true, though the volume of stamps is much lower. Some of the countries with few stamps in the first group gave a dozen or more in the second group. Again thousands of stamps easily worth detailed scrutiny. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 132980 Lot# 2579 Scott International Postage Album, Two Monster Volumes! Copyright 1955. This is the classic dark blue 2 volume set, about 4” thick by Scott. Our collector in this case has made an attempt to collect early stamps around the world. This collector was advanced, well illustrated by adhering minor color varying in stamps by hinge under the standard color. This takes place in almost every country particularly in 1900-1920 period. It is clear this collection is primarily pre WWII, and it is a serious collection. Our collector got typical mint condition stamps from German states so commonly acquired during WWII. There are thousands of stamps, mostly used, but many in mint, though these are hinged. Each volume has thousands of stamps. This is way past a beginners collection and is worthy of your preview! On an initial scan no great rarities are present, though it is unquestionable there may be some contained. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 132979 140 May 2021
DAY 3 Saturday, May 15 Firearms-Weapons Lot# 3000 Utah Copper Range Cannon This 20-pound, solid copper Lot# 3003 1863 Model 1863 cannon comes with stories of how Bill Mayrsohn had the cannon made Sharps Carbine This is a mid- from an ingot of Copper Range (Michigan) copper . Mayrsohn worked production Model 1863 Sharps for Copper Range from 1980-1984 as a marketing manager. After carbine S/N C,778 about 1864 moving to Nevada about 1985, Mayrsohn liked to fire it in the Nevada manufacture in.52 caliber. The desert from time to time with black powder and lead balls (abandoned rifle has the customary 22 in. cars were a favorite target, so we’re told). The barrel is 16-1/2 inches barrel on a straight breech long from the muzzle to the button on the breech and approx 2-3/4 design. The left side of the inches in diameter with a 0.9-inch bore. The cannon rests on a custom- receiver is marked “C. Sharps’ Pat. Sept. 12th, 1848”, the right side is made wooden carriage with four wooden wheels. A touch hole is just marked “C. Sharps PAT, Oct. 5th, 1852”. The serial number is stamped forward of the base ring. See photos for details of design and condition. on the tang as “C,778” appropriate for the 1863 model. A total of Overall size of the assembly is approx. 16 x 7-1/4 x 7 inches. William 60,000 model ‘63 carbines were made; starting with S/N 71,235 Mayrsohn Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 131916 (reference Sellers, 1978. p. 84). This gun has some unique features that speak of its history. The hammer appears to be original to the gun Lot# 3001 Stevens Single Shot Shotgun in however, it has been milled out on the back side. This machining does 12 ga. This J. Stevens single-shot shotgun is not correspond to any known tape priming mechanism but may be an marked “Springfield manufactured by J. Stevens early attempt to lighten the hammer and deduce lock-time. The sling Arms Company Chicopee Falls, Mass. USA” . ring bar is missing the ring. This model has the improved sling-ring “Proof Tested 12 ga. 2 3/4 in. Chambered”. bar where the rear screw also secured the lock-plate. Apparently, the Other proof marks are found such as “+” on the right side of the frame Yank issued this carbine found it necessary to disassemble the sling and a “W” followed by a “square M” on the underside of the barrel. bar and remove the ring to keep it quite. It’s possible that he was not This gun has a soft patination and some casehardening still visible. cavalry but infantry. The walnut butt-stock is also original to the gun The gun wears no serial number indicating a pre-1964 manufacture. and the metal to wood fit is exceptional. The butt-plate fits beautifully Also, there is an original walnut stock with 3/4 in. recoil pad indicating and is relief cut for a patchbox that it never had. The military contracts a pre-1948 manufacture. The barrel is 30 in. no rib with a brass front were rushed to completion where man-power was scarce as most bead, bored Modified with a bright bore. The ejector works briskly, eligible men either volunteered or conscripted to serve. Remaining the action feels crisp and on-face upon lock-up. It is without a trigger- men were pressed to work 10 hour days and (apparently) many parts guard. This gun has provenance from the J. M. Davis Firearms Museum left over from the model 1859 were used to complete the model of Claremore, Oklahoma with tag JMDAVIS 4472. The stock shows 1863 where the butt-stock also fit the ‘63 locks but now without the handling wear normal for about 80 years of age. This gun will require patchbox. The rear sight is a Lawrence model 1859 scaled to 700 yds.; an FFL or C and R exchange, additional shipping charges apply. No appropriate for this serial number range. The bore of the gun has light attempt has been made to fire this firearm to confirm its mechanical minor pitting. The fore-stock is original but has damage in the area integrity. Nor should this gun be fired without the examination by a of the rear retaining screw. A qualified gunsmith would be needed to qualified gunsmith. No sales to New York City, New Jersey, California, replace missing wood in this area to save the originality of the piece. or Hawaii. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 133791 The trigger guard mounted safety works properly. Ordinance Dept. inspector’s mark “EAW” (E. A. Williams) is found on the sling bar flat. Lot# 3002 Model 1841 Mississippi Rifle The gun also exhibits interesting identification worth researching; the Reproduction by Antonio Zoli/ Navy Arms number “32” is stamped on the breach at the alignment mark, possibly This is a NIB Model 1841 “Mississippi rifle” an assembly number; the letter “H” is stamped on the left side of the made by Antonio Zoli and imported by Navy butt-stock that may have identified the owner at some point. Condition Arms S/N 26573. This is a reproduction black of this firearm is very good with light patination throughout. This gun powder rifle of an 1841 pattern rifle made at is an antique and no attempt has been made to fire this gun to confirm the Harpers Ferry Arsenal. It got the nickname “Mississippi” rifle its mechanical integrity. Nor should this gun be fired without the after Jefferson Davis outfitted his Mississippi volunteers with them for examination by a qualified gunsmith. Any attempt to fire an antique the Mexican-American War. This one is .58 cal. with a 33.5 in. barrel gun is at the risk of the owner and not consistent with the value if the and is 49 in. overall length. The gun is in its original box, shipping firearm. There may be additional shipping and handling charges. No container, and cosmoline coated plastic bag, NIB ! It even includes the sales to New York City, New Jersey, California, and Hawaii. Est. $1500- warranty papers written in Italian. This gun has not been fired and no 2500 HWAC# 135301 attempt has been made to do so. No sales to New York City, New Jersey, California, and Hawaii. This is a non-FFL reproduction gun; additional Lot# 3004 Model 1888 Commission shipping charges may apply. C. 1978. Est. $1000-1600 HWAC# 135300 Rifle/ Gewehr 88 This is a Gewhr 88 rifle otherwise known as a Commission rifle made at the Amberg, Germany arsenal, S/N 8808 marked Amberg 1891 S, chambered for 7.92X57 ( 8mm X57mm) black powder ammunition. The “S” stamp indicates that it will take ammunition up to .324 in. diam. The rifle is unaltered and stamped for the Regiment assigned: B.15 R.4 29. The rifle appears to be in original state with the mid- barrel band marked for the last two digits of the serial number. The cleaning rod is present, bayonet lug, two barrel bands, sling swivels top and bottom, ladder design rear sight. Condition is very good with bluing remaining on the barrel sleeve and magazine well and the bore is clean without pitting. The design is clearly Mauser but interestingly a number of arsenals built this rifle but not Mauser. The production run began in 1888 through 1899, this one built in 1891. A must-have for original European gun collectors. This gun is an antique, proofed for black powder only, and no attempt has been made to fire this gun to confirm its mechanical integrity. Nor should this gun be fired without the examination by a qualified gunsmith. Any attempt to fire and antique gun is a the rick of the owner and not consistent with the value of the firearm. No FFL required. No sales to New York City, California, and Hawaii. Additional shipping charges may apply. 49 in. or 125 cm. Est. $800-1000 HWAC# 129680 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 141
DAY 3 Saturday, May 15 Firearms-Weapons Lot# 3005 Pair of Denix Pirate Flintlock Pistols Lot# 3007 Virginia City, Nevada Virginia City This is a pair of replica non-working flintlock pirate Dug-Up Guns This lot has two small caliber pistols made by Denix of Spain. This is a very detailed dig-up guns of small caliber. The first gun is design with lions head and lanyard ring butt-cap. 14 about 6 in. long heavily encrusted with rust and no grips, sheathed in. OAL. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 135345 spur trigger, maker unknown about .22 cal. The second dig-up gun is about 5in. long heavily encrusted with rust and no grips, sheathed Lot# 3006 Bacon Mfg. Co. First model Navy Revolver Serial #1 This spur trigger, maker unknown about .22 cal. Both guns are totally un- Bacon Revolver is SERIAL # 1, FIRST NAVY MODEL 1. Distinguishing serviceable and believed to be carry guns or “muff” guns by ladies. The term “muff” comes from the hand warming real-fur muff tubes worn features are: the bored by ladies fashionable in the 1870s-1900s. Also in this cache is a toy through cylinder with gun about 3 1/2 in. long of cast iron marked “cowboy” on one side and a thumb wheel brake, “made in USA” on the other. There is a cameo broach about 1 1/4 in. 7 1/2 in. octagon in diameter with stick pin. The last treasure in this lot is a button with barrel, chambered for the “Great Seal of the State of Nevada” embossed on the face, in pieces. .38 cal. rimfire, 5 land All are finds from the Comstock era of Virginia City, Nevada. No sales rifling, scroll engraved to New York City, New Jersey, California, and Hawaii. No FFL required. frame, single line Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129682 address “Bacon Mfg. Co. Norwich, Conn”, Lot# 3008 Two Dug-up Revolvers These are two piece walnut two dug-up revolvers from the Black Powder grips, dovetailed front era. A) is a 5-shot marked U.S. Revolver Co. that sight, a sheathed spur has the hammer missing, chambered in .32 cal, trigger, single action, black powder with a 2-1/2 in round barrel. and articulating provenance of the J.M. Davis Arms Museum, arbor. An all numbers Oklahoma JDM #8778; and the other B) is a black powder rimfire .22 matching gun with serial number 1 in early metal stamp font on the cal, 10-shot, maker unknown, that is frozen and non-working, on a 3 barrel bottom, arbor, back of cylinder, and inside grip frame left side. inch barrel, silver plated, provenance also from the J.D. Davis Arms The bore is dirty but not pitted and appears to never have been fired Museum, Ok. JMD #8774. This gun has a swept-back hammer similar or cleaned. The single action is non-functional. This revolver must to the Colt Bisley design. It also has a unique gas port on the barrel have been the show piece for Thomas Bacon, a machinist and firearms just forward of the cylinder; possibly to reduce recoil when held in manufacturer. (Early on as Plant Superintendent for the Manhattan a delicate hand or as a lady’s gun. The trigger guard and grips are Firearms Company in 1858.) The cylinder has a patent date removed missing. Please photos for condition and design details. No sales to by a blunt nosed tool, presumably to remove any evidence to Smith California, New York City, New Jersey, or Hawaii. Est. $100-200 HWAC# & Wesson patent owner of the Rollin White design for the bore- 135302 through cylinder (patent #12648 April 3, 1855). Mr. Bacon had to be fully aware of the patent litigation between Samuel Colt vs. the Lot# 3009 Arizona Holster by Felipe J. Villaescusa Massachusetts Arms Co. of 1851. The thumb wheel at the back of the of Tucson, Arizona Territory This is a right handed cylinder on this gun is described as a cylinder lock; another way to loop holster for a large frame Colt Single Action Army lock the cylinder for safety without infringing on outstanding patents. (SAA) or similar framed revolver with a 4 1/2 in. barrel. Possibly the only thing that protects the inventor from litigation The maker is Felipe J. Villaescusa of Tucson, Arizona from the Rollin White patent, or preventing the hammer falling on a while still a Territory about 1980-1899. His saddlery loaded cylinder by accident. THIS REVOLVER DESERVES ITS PLACE IN shop was on the corner of Meyer Street and Jackson FIREARMS HISTORY. The bore-through cylinder idea was hatched by Streets. Mr. Villaescusa was an astute businessman by Rollin White as a contract employee at Colt. He used (presumably) two moving his saddlery shop next to the blacksmith shop. refused cylinders from the Colt parts bin to define the bore-though His business expanded to include other leather goods technique in the 1850’s. He approached Sam Colt to buy his patent including holsters. This one is very well made with a liner to protect and was promptly fired by Sam Colt. The date was December 1854. the finish of the gun, it has flower pattern leather tooling, the loop strap Imagine using Colt refuse parts bought and paid for by Sam Colt and is flat rivetted, all of this border-stitched by machine. There are two then using his time to develop a patent. By today’s standards, any small holes at the top of the holster for a leather loop strap to secure product or idea worth patenting is property of the employer. Sam Colt the gun hammer that is now missing. The Felipe J. Villaescusa leather then, blinded by anger, fired Rollin White and would be the the most stamp is presented in two places; a cartouche on the holster and a regretful experience of his life. This set-back would tie-up the bore- two line on the strap. The initials “AG” are hand carved into the loop through cylinder technique for another 15 years when Colt finally strap. The overall condition of the holster is very good with most of the comes out with the New Model Single Action Army in 1873 behind cloth stitching missing but may be restored with some craftsmanship. Smith & Wesson. THIS REVOLVER IS A PRODUCT OF THAT PATENT This holster can be restored to its former glory and reused for cowboy WAR. The barrel shows spots of oxidation, the frame shows wear of action shooting or similar activity. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 129683 a revolver consistent with its age of 160 years. Built about 1862 by Bacon Manufacturing Co. There is thought to be less than 1000 model Lot# 3010 Basket Weave Belt and Holster #1 revolvers with several variations known. This gun is an antique and for mid-frame Smith & Wesson Revolver no attempt has been made to fire this gun to confirm its mechanical This is a lot with a black leather basket weave integrity. Nor should this gun be fired without the examination by a holster and belt. The holster is by Safariland qualified gunsmith. Any attempt to fire an antique gun is at the risk of and fits a right hand mount for a mid-frame the owner and not consistent with the value of the firearm. No sales Smith & Wesson revolver with a 3 1/2 in. barrel to New York City, New Jersey, California, or Hawaii. (Reference : The marked SST. The belt is made by Safety Speed History of the Colt Revolver, Haven and Belden, 1978, ps. 82,84, 132, Holster, size 34. It is re-enforced leather for the 336, 541. The Story of the Colt Revolver, Edwards, 1957, p. *274. Colt right side. Also is a bullet wallet made by F.M. Pitt Co. in black basket Firearms from 1836, Serven, 1954, p. 161) . Est. $3000-6000 HWAC# weave leather; a handcuff holster made by Bianchi in black. Finally a 129679 pair of aviator sunglasses made by Welch Co. marked U.S. Property as military issue. Please see photos for details. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 129688 142 May 2021
DAY 3 Saturday, May 15 Firearms-Weapons Lot# 3011 “Descriptive Catalogue Lot# 3018 Rappier Sword with Scabbard California Powder Works” EXTRA RARE 43” polished white metal rappier sword with Mining, Sporting and Hercules Powder! Information on Cabinet Gunpowder, Eureka sheath.Stamped China stainless Est. $70-120 Gunpowder, California Sporting Duck, Pacific Rifle Gunpowder. Quail Shooting, Sea & River HWAC# 135591 Shooting Gunpowder, etc. Contains original paste in labels. 30 pages. (W.D. Miles Collection) Lot# 3019 Knights of Pythias Uniformed Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 130074 Rank Sword and Belt Knights of Pythias Uniformed Rank Sword and Belt, c1890-1900. Lot# 3012 1889 Francis Bannerman Guns, Red leather belt with unique ornate silver Swords, Cannons, Equipments, Military chain, silver buckle “UR”. Sword with metal sheath is the typical FCB Goods Catalogue Rare! Original Catalogue of sword with UR emblem on hilt. The fancily engraved sword faces do Guns, Swords, Cannons, Equipments, Military not have the individual’s name filled in. It was actually much rarer for Goods, &c. For Sale By Francis Bannerman. a person’s name to be engraved on these swords, and we’ve handled Office, 1114 Butler Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 27 many. The Uniformed Rank notation is clearly symbolic of the Parade pages Date: 1889 Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Est. unit of teh Knights of the Pythias, who held grand annual functions $200-350 HWAC# 110688 around the country with massive parades. Made by Lilly & Co. of Columbus, OH. The belts are rather rare, as are the buckles. Every Lot# 3013 A History of Browning Guns major city in America had a K of P lodge, and formed an important From 1831 Autographed This is a copy of part in taking care of our “own” before the days of Social Security. Est. “A History of Browning Guns from 1831” by $400-700 HWAC# 118168 J.M. Browning and S. Browning Co. copyright 1942. This copy is sixty pages of Browning Lot# 3020 Lakonia sword with Sheath This history from Johnathon, to John Moses, and is a lakonia sword with horn grips. The overall later Mathew Sandefur Browning. Autographed by Val and Marriner length is 22 in. with a 16.5 in. blade. The blade Browning. Sound binding, light foxing, good condition. Est. $100-300 is made with fullers on both sides and held HWAC# 132504 together with unique style rivets. The sheath is covered in a thin leather over wood. Condition Lot# 3014 c1930s Colt’s Revolver Club Hand is good, age unknown. Salvatore Falcone Collection Book How to Organize and Conduct a Revolver Est. $500-700 HWAC# 108707 Club, Compiled and Distributed for the Promotion of Better Marksmanship and in the interest of Lot# 3021 Battle Creek, Michigan 1864 Better Citizenship. Published by Colt’s Patent Fire Volunteer County Loan for the Township Arms Mfg. Company (Fire Arms Division) Hartford, of Battle Creek - Civil War (#1) RARE Connecticut, U.S.A. Printed in U.S.A. Inscribed on (Unique!) Michigan, Calhoun County, Battle cover page with name and date: 8 /15/32. 56 pages Creek Civil War Loan. We believe this is one of with illustrations, photographs, diagrams, range three known. This is 11 for $200 to Charles B plans, colt models and parts and more. Cover intact, Ward. Purchased October 1, 1864. There was a all pages present, very good condition. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 132252 Charles B Ward from Battle Creek who fought with Company B of the 44th Infantry. Mustered out as a sergeant. Lot# 3015 8mm X57mm Star-Line Signed by supervisor William Harris and township clerk TW Case. ammunition This is a group of 10 rounds Large 50c ‘Orig. process’ George Washington stamp. (rare?). This bond of 8mm X 57mm FMJ ammo, also known as would have been used to help the Union cause in the Civil War. Interest 8mm (7.92mm) Mauser. Made by Star-Line was paid in full February 1, 1866 and February 1, 1867. Came to us in (logo present) marked 2 50 X Star-Line logo. three pieces. Pieced together with museum quality tape. Est. $200- These are smokeless rounds. These bullets fit 300 HWAC# 105933 European made Mausers proofed for smokeless powder only. Rimless, bullet diam. is .324 in/ 8.16mm, case length 2.241 in./ 56.77mm, Lot# 3022 Battle Creek, overall length is 3.158 in./ 80.23 mm. Additional shipping charges Michigan 1964 Volunteer apply. No sales to New York City, California, and Hawaii. (ref. The County Loan for the Handloader’s Manual of Cartridge Conversions, Donnelly, 2002, p. Township of Battle Creek 882). Est. $100-300 HWAC# 129681 - Civil War (#2) RARE (Unique!) Michigan, Calhoun Lot# 3016 Mace Ax & Ax /Opium Pipe Combination 105465 Medevil replica County, Battle Creek Civil War weapons / 2 items: The opium pipe & ax combination is approx 19” length has 3 Loan. We believe this is one of diamond designs with brass center beading, wood handle with black leather grip. Bottom three known. This is 9 for $100 has nipple for the end of the opium pipe. Ax head is opposite the opium pipe bowl. Made in China. Please inspect photo. Mace is 19” length, to Peter Dubois. Purchased the blade has 5 pewter type blades with leather strapping hand grip. Saddle eye loop at end of wood handle. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 135310 August 1, 1864. Peter Dubois Lot# 3017 Pakistani Stainless Steel Full was an old pioneer settler of Scimitar with Scabbard 48” stainless steel full Scimitar with brown wood grip and scabbard Battle Creek. He came to South Date: Country (if not USA): Pakistan State: City: Battle Creek from Greenfield, Saratoga county in May 1836 and settled Provenance: Est. $80-110 HWAC# 135592 on the fine lands which he has since cultivated. Signed by supervisor William Harris and township clerk TW Case. 10c blue ‘For Exchange’ George Washington stamp. This bond would have been used to help the Union cause in the Civil War. Reverse says paid in full January 4, 1868. Also interest was paid in full on February 1, 1865, February 1, 1866 and February 1, 1867.Has major tears in borders around the loan. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 105932 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 143
DAY 3 Saturday, May 15 Military / Civil War Lot# 3023 Battle Creek, Michigan 1865 Lot# 3029 1861 The Great Naval and Volunteer County Loan for the Township of Military Expeditions, Battle of Port Royal Battle Creek - Civil War (#3) RARE (Unique!) Civil Wat Lot of 4. New York Herald and New Michigan, Calhoun County, Battle Creek Civil Times 1. Framed and well preserved is The War Loan. We believe this is one of three New York Herald Nov. 6, 1862 article titled known. This is lucky 13 for $100 to Amasa S “The Great Naval and Military Expedition”. Clark. Purchased February 1, 1865. Signed by supervisor William Harris and township clerk Regarding one of the earliest amphibious TW Case. 25c Entry of Goods revenue stamp. This bond would have been used to help the Union cause in the Civil War. Reverse says paid operations of the Civil War with the US Navy and US Army, The page in full January 11, 1868. Also interest was paid in full on February 1, contains articles of information regarding the fleet’s movement and 1866 and February 1, 1867. Est. $500-1500 HWAC# 105931 delays. Two large maps showing Bulls Bay and points of occupation by union forces. Second Map of South Carolina coast and Port Royal. Framed and glass covered. Lot# 3024 1858 ”Abstract of Infantry 2. Hardcover folder titled New York Times and dated Nov. 8. 1861 in Tactics”, 1858 Pre-Civil war tactics book. gold lettering. News of rebel activity, chase for the Sumter and article Published by the Department of War. Starting on The Battle of Port Royal. Three Maps : progressive from North with the formation of the Regiment, Marching Carolina to Port Royal. to Front, Marching to Flank, Determining the Line, March in Column, etc. (W.D. Miles 3. New York Times Nov 12, 1861. (Hard Cover folder). Article and Collection) Est. $120-200 HWAC# 130071 Map on Speculation and certainty of Beaufort and Port Royal as Neal targets. Article on the sinking of the Albatross supply ship loaded with Lot# 3025 25 Civil War Prints These come horse and supplies. 15,000 rebel troops near Winchester. from a German book on America’s Civil War. Condition is very rough. Prints include A. 4. Nov. 14,1861. New York Times hardcover. Article and map of the Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Union and Confederate Battle of Port Royal engagement, troops arriving and more. Est. $240- generals, “Contrabands coming into camp – 400 HWAC# 122128 African Americans seem to be seeking shelter by Stafford, bombardment of Fort Sumpter, Lot# 3030 Confederate News and Southern ships of the era, Colt weapons, Lee & Grant, etc. Papers 1860’s This is a lot of nineteen (19) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 131801 newspaper groupings from the South during and after the Civil War. Papers are from Lot# 3026 1861, 1862 28 Civil War Editions of the Richmond, Virginia 1861; Norfolk, Virginia, New York Times, Excellent Condition, All with New Orleans 1862, Atlanta, Petersburg, Va. Maps, All Professionally Protected in Hardboard 1862, 1863, 1865, 1869; Houston 1864; St. Louis 1863. All issues in Folders! These cover the early years of the war. All good to very good condition. History as it was written and by who are mounted in excellent condition and mounted in writes it. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 125075 hard board folders with gilt title and date. 17 x 23”. MUSEUM QUALITY. These are meant to last forever! Lot# 3031 Civil War request for Although there is no report on Gettysburg, Bull compensation group, 1870s Group of Run or Shiloh; there is a great deal of reporting on about 25 separate applications to the US the beginning of the war and lesser known battles Commissioner of claims office in Washington around the entire country. Find reports on Kentucky and Missouri, the DC. This group was handled by Attorney evacuation of Lexington, Battle of Balls Bluff, railroads, Fort Pickens, William H back out of Alexandria Virginia, and Accomac and Potomac, Kanawha Valley, operations in South Carolina, involves claims from people in Georgia, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina eastern Tennessee, capture of New Orleans, Fredericksburg, Naval and other places. The claims range from something as simple as the strength, General Sherman on the Savannah River, etc. Est. $280-420 Union army taking a horse from a ranch to much more complicated HWAC# 130220 claims such as timber cutting on some timber land for wood needed for the Union army. Also includes claims for poor health as a result of Lot# 3027 New York Herald news cover Civil War and disease. Very interesting and historical group. Salvatore stories of the Civil War 1864 This is a lot Falcone Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 132756 of about 30 cover issues of the New York Herald from Jan. 1 to June 30, 1864. Feb. 12 Lot# 3032 Civil War states “Sherman’s army captures the Railroad Stove Pipe Boots Center of South Carolina without a serious Two pair of unmarked engagement.” March 4 “Sheridan’s destruction of Rebel roads and stove pipe boots that supplies.” “Rebel loss fully two thousand”. Professionally mounted in appear to pre-date very good condition. Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 108718 the classic 1870s cartouched boots. The Lot# 3028 New York Herald news cover first pair appear to be stories of the Civil War late 1864 This is a vintage and original lot of about 29 cover stories of the progress Civil War stove pipe of the Civil War from July to Dec. 31, 1864 in boots with striped the New York Herald. Headlines from Sept. 4 “ cloth pullups from the Sherman’s Flank Movement” on Atlanta with inside. The stripes are a map. October 9’s headline “The Defense of Richmond” depicted in pink (may have been red) with white and blue thread on the outside. a map. All are professionally mounted in very good condition. Est. One boot has “T.S.xx” in old brown ink. About 17” tall. The second pair $600-1200 HWAC# 108719 is a bit newer, with leather pullups extending from outside and inside.. one strap on one boot is broken. About 18” tall. These are heavy duty, perhaps military. from the Pierce Powell Collection, Virginia City, Nevada. There is a collection of four pairs of different stove pipe boots in the mining section of this catalog. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $1000-1500 HWAC# 122822 144 May 2021
DAY 3 Saturday, May 15 Mining Lot# 3033 1863 Letter Regarding “Butternuts” Personal letter during the Civil War regarding ‘butternuts” (those sympathetic to the south), Dated Nov. 1863. B/W photo of union uniform. Very good condition. Est. $70- 100 HWAC# 131457 Lot# 3032b Stove Pipe Boot Collection, c1870s This is a choice Lot# 3034 1860’s Civil War Documents & collection of four pair of very historical Stove Pipe style boots “made Photos Includes 12 Civil War era documents for drovers, prospectors and shooters.” It is from the Pierce Powell & photos, including a death notice for Union Collection of Virginia City, Nevada and was never on public display. soldier James Shuff in 1865, leave papers “Manufactured and Warranted/ J. W. Reynolds/ California Trade” for another soldier, the written report of a punched into the leather with gilt lettering fillin in an oval on both skirmish, the post mortem of a child in 1865 boots near the top of the shin section. In a search of newspapers.com and several copied maps of various battles and California Digital Newspapers, we found absolutely nothing about like the Battle of Franklin. If you are a Civil this company, either in original advertisements or otherwise. c1870- War buff or enactor, this lot’s for you. Documents are ingot condition. 1880 “California/ Home Made/ Warranted”. The same comment as Researched and typed documents translate the hard to read letters. above applies. This cartouche is also an oval punched into the leather, Est. $100-200 HWAC# 135409 gilt lettered, near the top of the shin section. c1870-1880 “The (pic of solid star) Boot”. The Star Boot appears to be a brand name apparently Lot# 3035 1860’s Civil War Theft report, coming out of Kansas. This is a one line cartouche, gilt lettered, also near the top of the shin section. Advertisements for Star boots were Envelopes & Token Lot of 5. Three small found from 1870 to the late 1880s, pretty much mostly in Kansas. One of the Star Boot stores was run by the Reynolds Brothers, but evelope’s w/color vignettes of seated Liberty, we could not determine if that was a coincidence with the California Eagle fighting snake w/American flags and boots above. “Fogg, Houghton & Cooldige/ S. Weymouth, Mass.” Oval Defender. One patriotic token Liberty obverse cartouche, gilt lettered, placed near the top of the shin section. This is an 1870s boot, sold out of Boston. A few comments are warranted. 1863, Army & Navy reverse.Property theft We were completely unable to find actual historical refernces to report State of Indiana filed Sept 1865. All in vintage nineteenth century boot collections. It is entirely possible VG or better. Est. $120-150 HWAC# 135517 that remaining “signed” boots from this classic period of western prospecting and growth of our country are so rare that few still Lot# 3036 Two CDV’s of Union Soldiers Two exist. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western cdv’s of Union Soldiers. The one standing is Memorabilia Est. $2000-4000 HWAC# 122821 from G.H. Loomis, Boston. The second is from Guay’s Photo Gallery, New Orleans. No other identification given regarding the soldier’s identities. Good condition. John Reynolds Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 118310 Lot# 3037 c1890-1910 Civil War Books (4 Books) War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; United States War Department, Series 1 Volume 20, Volume 46, Series 3 Volume 5, and Reminiscences of the Civil War by John Brown Gordon 1904 The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $100-170 HWAC# 108251 Zoom in and see Lot# 3038 1863 Phelps & Watson’s close up detail Historical and Military Map of the Border High Resolution and Southern States 5 color map, attached to Images of ALL LOTS board with plexi glass screwed on top through the edges, damage along edges. This rare map has key cities highlighted in red and blue dots which may represent Confederate and Union strongholds. A list of the battles of the War is in a box at lower right, shows railroad lines, forts, various towns. Very rare. 36” x 25”. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 132479 available online at Lot# 3039 1899-1916 Spain-US War . Settling of Mexico and RPC’s Lot of 9. 1. Two FHWAC.com books by Charles Morris:” War With Spain” (1899) U.S. war with Spain, cause, time period this is an illustrated book w/ world map back cover, 498 pages. (Binding is loose). “The Story of Mexico” the settleingof Mexico from Montezuma unit today-1914. 400 pages. 2. Seven RPC all but one with white border. Photos of U.S. Soldiers in camp, U.S. detachment scouting for Poncho Villa, Drivinf the Mexican soldiers across Rio Grande, picture of mMexican soldiers, graphic photo of dead civilians. Six are written from U.S. Soldier to his father, postmarked 1916. Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 131479 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 145
DAY 3 Saturday, May 15 Military Lot# 3040 Spanish-American War Brigadier General’s Lot# 3046 1945 1945 Soldiers Archive of Medal This medal was worn by the Brigadier General of Time in Europe after WWII Go where this the Spanish-American War in either Cuba or the Philippine American soldier went, see what he saw. 1) Islands. No. 2345. The medal includes a single star denoting Flandern (Flanders) hard cover book of the the Brigadier General rank. Only six men have been awarded people and landscape. 76 pages. Large black this position for this war. Est. $240-400 HWAC# 132229 and white photographs on 70. 2) Mutterspiegel works of art on every other page. Over 100 Lot# 3041 Eddie Rickenbacker Autograph Letter pages. 3) Large colored map of the dates of the dated December 17, 1968 signed by World War war. 16 x 40”. 4) 5 large colored maps of the movement of five different One flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, in response to companies of 344th Engineer Regiment. 20 x 20”. 6-10) Additional a letter of commendation for his autobiography. maps. 19 x 24” street map of Nancy. 25 x 36” road map of Germany. Rickenbacker had 26 aviator kills in World War One Street map of Napoli. compliments of the American Red Cross. Map and had a long career as head of Eastern Air Lines. of Roma. Also Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich, April 1946 Salute, Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# Glanzpuntte der Arder (3). The last area all 14 x 11”. (W. D. Miles 132084 Collection) Est. $200-300 HWAC# 130100 Lot# 3042 1916 London Saturday Review Lot# 3047 Alabama 1943-44 Book on Flight Publication 1916 with World War I Articles The Training School During WWII Booklet Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and showing the US Air Force Pre-Flight School in Art, a British newspaper published June 24, 1916, Alabama. Classes shown are from 1983 and with World War I articles, and “The Irish Question.” 1944, 32-pages. Also comes with six color No. 3,165-Vol. 121, 22 pages (numbered pages postcards. Please see photos for more detail 597 to 618), with supplement. Contents listed and condition. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 131675 on the front include: Notes of the Week, Leading Articles, Middle Articles, Verse, Correspondence, Lot# 3048 1942 1942 Air News Yearbook Reviews and Literary Supplement. Leading articles (First Edition) First edition, edited by Phillip are: The Loss of Government, The Counter-attack in Economic War, Andrews and published by Dell, Sloan & Pearce, The Minister for War, Lord Derby’s Tribute, and The Great War: N.Y. - Discusses the Design & Operation of U.S. Appreciation. 9” x 13.5”. Newspaper opens like a book, has original Combat Aircraft - Contains 375 photographs of staples at spine, pages intact, some yellowing and minor wear along the current combat and training aircraft, and edges. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 129732 their descriptions for all Allied & Axis countries - (12” x 9” HB, 264 pages.) Est. $60-120 HWAC# 131688 Lot# 3043 Two Pinbacks from WWI This is Lot# 3049 1940’s Armed Services Ensignia a lot of two small pinbacks from WWI. Liberty Guide Book (4) Military insignia guide Loan date 1917. Please see photo for details. booklets (4) Please see photos for more detail Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# and condition. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 131670 132861 Lot# 3044 1917 World War I Fancy Photograph Lot# 3050 1940’s Army Air Corp Bomber Pants This of Private in U. S. Machine Gun Battalion is a pair of WWII era bomber pants in size 34. The label gPrivate Eldred H. Barker; Company C; 132nd states that they are A-11A and Property of U.S. Army U. S. Machine Gun Battalion; Enlisted October 4, Air Force. The lining is intact, but there is some moth 1917.h The 132nd arrived in France late, but damage on the cuffs. Please see photos for more detail was involved with some of the heaviest trench and condition. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 131413 to trench fighting and some lost their lives to gas attacks. They were involved in the Meuse-Argonne Lot# 3051 Army Camp Robinson Silk Table Offensive. (W. D. Miles Collection) Est. $100-150 Coth This lot has a silk table cloth from Camp HWAC# 130121 Robinson, Arkansas and a pennant flag of Army Camp McCord Field, Washington. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $60- Lot# 3045 French WW1 Anti- 100 HWAC# 132862 German Poster by Abel Faivre, c1918 Wonderful original Lot# 3052 Army Career memorabilia This lot poster mounted and framed, contains WW2 ration books, a photo of a Civil 35 x 48” of Allied flags over a War artillery officer, VFW encampment medals bowed submissive Kaiser with a 1920’s-1930’s, Veteran wool hats, a book “No broken sword. “L’Emprunt de la Easy Days” by Keeney and Bulter, an 8X 10 Liberation” (Loan for Freedom). photo of a proud California Military Academy Printed by Maquert, Gr. Paris. The student, a box of used vintage 1940s-1950s poster was ostensibly used to help knives. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $80-160 HWAC# 132863 raise money for the war effort against Germany. French painter Abel Faivre (1867-1954), born in Lyon in central France, was well educated in French art schools, and was a prolific painter. He made a living during WW1 making anti-war propaganda posters for the French. This may be his most famous poster. Generally very fine. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 125043 146 May 2021
DAY 3 Saturday, May 15 Military / WWII Lot# 3053 1940’s Army-Navy Insignia Lot# 3060 1936-1945 U.S. WWII Ship Guides (7) Four booklets published during Building Publications (3) 1) Calship Log, a WW!! that are insignia guides for both the army record of the achievements of the employees of the California Shipbuilding Corp., Victory and the navy They measure 3.50”x 6.25.” Please Edition, September 7, 1945 - Includes Pictorical & Factual Summary of the Construction of see photos for more detail and condition. Est. 467 vessels for the U.S. Maritime Commission $50-100 HWAC# 131669 during WWII - (9” x 12” Booklet, 32 pages.) Lot# 3054 1946 Booklet on 8th Air Force 2) Calship Log, January 11, 1945 - California Shipbuilding Corp., in Europe Two books for US Air Force. “The Wilmington, Ca. - 4 years and 400 ships for Victory, souvenir edition of 8th Air Force Sees England,” a picture book our company publication commemorating the 4th anniversary of the designed for servicemen stationed in England ground breaking of our Shipyard and the delivery of our 400th ship (9” during WWII, 76-pages. x 12” booklet, 46 pages.) “Target Germany,” The Air Force’s official story 3) Artist Stanley Wood’s reproduced painting in the November 1936 of the 8th Bomber Command’s first year over Europe. 120-pages. issue of Fortune Magazine entitled “At Newport News, Men are Dwarfs: Please see photos for more detail and condition. This is the Bow of the Aircraft Carrier Enterprise” - {age os 11” x 14”.) Est. $80-160 HWAC# 131682 Est. $70-140 HWAC# 131674 Lot# 3061 1942-1947 War Time Need & Lot# 3055 Military Autographed Photos Use of Steel in Manufacturing Weapons This lot contains photos of: Admiral A.A. Burke Publications (2) 1) “Steel Horizons”, Published of WW2 and Korean War; Admiral James L. by Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., Pittsvurg, Pa., Holloway 111 released 1974; Colonel Paul L. 1942 - Covers the importance of successful Freeman of WW2 and Korea 1948; General Earl scrap and salvage methods and the industries Wheeler Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff during involved - (11” x 14” SC, 22 pages.) Vietnam also WW2. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 132847 2) “Democracy’s Air Arsenal”, 1947 - the story of the warplane production records of the seven aircraft co.’s comprising The Aircraft Lot# 3056 Real Photos of WWII U.S. War Production Council, being Boeing, Consolidated Vultee, Douglas, Combat & Training Aircraft (4) Lockheed Lockheed, North American, Northrup and Ryan - (9” x 12” HB, 208 P-38 Lightning Fighter (22” x 18” W) - North pages.) Est. $60-120 HWAC# 131683 American B-25 Mitchell Bomber (24” W x 20” H) - North American AT-6A Trainers (2) - 20” H Lot# 3062 WWII and Vietnam Medals and x 24” W.) Est. $240-350 HWAC# 131689 Pins This lot of five (5) medals includes the: WW2 Son in Service pin in sterling silver; the Lot# 3057 1942 U.S. Army WWII America Campaign badge 1941-1945; WW2 Photographic Collection Booklet “Citadels of Democracy” Camps & Plants for Men Merchant marine pin in Sterling silver; the rare & Munitions - A record of six months of Japanese Pilot Training Medal 1940; and the toil & sweat - to triumph over tremendous Vietnam Cross of Gallantry medal with a large problems, handicaps and the forces of nature - in achieving completion of the greatest army palm pin back. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132228 building program of all time - 1942 - Wonderful photographic collection of this amazing great - (13” x 10” booklet, 45 Lot# 3063 1940’s World War II Metal pages.) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 131681 Detector This is a vintage World War II metal detector. The case holding the unit measures Lot# 3058 U.S. Navy and Army Airforce 28”x 15”x 9” and stenciled SNL 044175 100- WWII Aircraft Prints (5) 1) Boeing B-29 Fire 200. This is incomplete but still will make a Bombing Tokyo after dark; 2) Douglas A-26 great conversation piece. Please see photos Invaders in Formation; 3) Boeing B-17 Flying for more detail and condition. Est. $100-200 Fortress on Bombing Mission; 4) Douglas DBD Dauntlas attacking Japanese War Ships; 5) Curtiss SB2C Helldivers on HWAC# 131612 Torpedo Attack. (Note: #’s 1, 2, & 3 are 13” x 16” overall - #’s 4 & 5 are 15 1/2” x 19” overall, and all 5 are matted on foamboard.) Est. $150- Lot# 3064 WWII Propaganda & Occupation 250 HWAC# 131693 Currency Lot of five pieces of Japanese currency in centavos and pesos; two black Lot# 3059 1941 U.S. War Department and white snapshots; Japanese propaganda Basic Field Manuals - 1941 (5) FM 21- map of shipping lanes and military activity, in 30 Conventional Signs, Military Symbols & Japanese. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 132080 Abbreviations - FM 21-50 Military Courtesy & Discipline - FM 21-100 Soldier’s Handbook - Lot# 3065 WW II Posters This lot contains two FM 22-5 Infantry Drill Regulations - FM 31-20 war posters. The first is a G.I. boarding a ship titled: Jungle Warfare - (All manuals are 4 1/2” x 7 1/2’, “Till We Meet Again”, 22 in. X 28 in. The second well illustrated, and in good condition.) Est. poster is a poster to reclaim tin cans titled: “Official $50-100 HWAC# 131684 Tin Can Salvage Depot, Deposit your prepared cans HERE, War Production Board” 21 in. X 25 in. Heavy staining on the later poster. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 133782 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 147
DAY 3 Saturday, May 15 Military / WWII Lot# 3066 1942 WWII AF Training Station Lot# 3072 1942-43 WWII Maps and Atlas (4) Booklets One features Air Depot Training 1) The Milwaukee Journal Book of War Maps, Station, Albuquerque, New Mexico-activated 1942 - 25 Maps Cover the entire Globe - (10 1/2” 1942. This book is hardcover, embossed x 15” booklet, 15 pages.) 2) The Premier World 9”x 12” 103-pages. Next is a book about the Map, published by Geographic, N.Y>, C-1943 - USAF Officer Candidate School, Miami Beach, Exquisitely colored, prominent boundaries with Fla,Embossed hardcopy 95-pages. Please see 300 flags of the warring Nations to show Army & photos for more detail and condition. Est. $80-160 HWAC# 131680 Navy Movements - (11” x 9” multifold, 2-sided map, opens overall to 42” x 32”.) 3) The New Matthews- Lot# 3067 1940’s WWII Air Station Northrup Global Atlas of the World at War, 1943 - Informational Booklets Military training Contains global maps that show you it’s scope, geo-political maps that station booklets and postcard folios for: 1. reveal its background and military action maps that trace all major Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Tx. Instruction military movements - (10” x 14” SC. 49 pages.) 4) The United Nations in flying boats, bombers, and fighter planes. War Atlas, 1942 - Contains 35 maps (10” x 13 1/2” SC, 30 pages.) Est. Made up of 18 postcards in folio and one lone $100-150 HWAC# 131686 postcard. 2. Postcards showing Barksdale Field in Shreveport, La. the world’s largest airport at 22,000 acres. Made Lot# 3073 1941-1946 WWII Pictorial History up of 18postcards, plus one separate WWII card. 3. Langley Field, Va. Books (7) 1) World Progress, The Standard a picture book of the base. 32-pages, includes three WWII era color Quarterly review (Set of 4) An Alphabetically postcards. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $70- Arranged Digest Covering All Lines of Human 140 HWAC# 131677 Endeavor - October, 1941 - January, 1946. 2) Pictorial History of the Second World War (Set Lot# 3068 1940’s WWII Armed Forces of 2) - Publ. By Wm. H. Wise & Co., N.Y., Volumes Recruiting Publications A group of WWII 3 and 4, 1945-46 - A photographic record of all theaters of action era military info and recruitment publications chronologically arranged - (7” x 10” HB, each vol. 505 pages.) 3) Life’s including “Aviation Cadet Training for the Army Picture History of World War II, by Time Inc., N.Y. (11” x 14” HB, 368 Air Forces,” 24-pages, America On Guard” by pages) - Note damage to rear upper right corner which does not affect Rand McNally, 64-pages, “What Kind of Job the content. Est. $70-140 HWAC# 131685 Can I Get in the Navy?’, :Build & Fighty with the Seabees” 28-pages, “Our Armed Forces” Lot# 3074 1943 WWII Related Maps & 130-pages and “Who’s Who in Uniform” 57-pages. Est. $70-140 Gazetteers (5) First is The United Nations’ HWAC# 131678 Atlas-1943, Contains gazetteers for the United & Axis nations.There are combat aircraft Lot# 3069 1945 WWII Army/Navy comparison charts, financial information and Information Publications (4) Military war production charts. The 7”x 10” booklet informational publications include: “All Hands” unfolds to 13”x 9.5”. Next are “Victory War Maps by the Bureau of Naval Personnel Bulletin-June of the Pacific and the Orient,”mCovers China 1945, “Victory in Europe.” “Naval Aviation and Japan combat area. Booklet unfolds to News”(2)-Issues from March1, 1944 & Oct. 26”x 20”. Esso Oil Company war map. Features 1945. “Army Talks for the 8th Air Force.” Pacific Theatre. Measures 32”x 22” Two sided. “World Atlas & History Volume 1, No. 1article “Stars Over the Reich.” of WWII-57-pages. Please see photos for more detail and condition. “Our Armed Forces.” Published by Infantry Est. $80-160 HWAC# 131679 Journal, 1943. Please see photos for detail and condition. Est. $70- 140 HWAC# 131673 Lot# 3075 1995-2011 WWII U.S. & Allied Combat Aircraft Calendars (6) 1) “Ghost Lot# 3070 1940’s WWII Flight School Warbirds” (2), by Sparta Graphics, Los Training Booklets 1.Keesler Field, Biloxi, Alamitos, Ca., 1995 & 1996 - Each day of each Ms, Course for airplane mechanics, July, month contains notes of a significant event in 1942, 20 pages. Includes four postcards. the annals of aviation - (11” x 17”); 2) “WWII 2.Hancock College of Aeronautics, Santa Aviation 2001 Calendar featuring the artwork Maria, CA. Booklet-23-pages. 3.Sheppard Field, of R.G. Smith (12” x 12”); 3) “Air to Air Warbirds”, 2011 Calendar - Wichita Falls, TX. Training for aircraft and Photography by Paul Bowen - (15” x 18”); 4) “Ghosts” 92), publ. by glider mechanics. 34-pages. Includes three Ghosts, San Francisco, Ca., 1999 & 2011 - Makes mention of significant postcards.4. Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Al. Pre-flight training school WWII events for each appropriate date - (14” x 20”) - (nice for framing). 24-pages. Includes one RPC. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 131676 Est. $70-140 HWAC# 131694 Lot# 3071 1930’s-1940’s WWII Foreign Lot# 3076 1943-44 WWII U.S. Army-Navy Currency Lot of 41pieces of currency from Recognition Publications (4) 1) “Warplane around the world. Bills all appear to be from Spotter’s Manual”, published by National around WWII. Countries issuing the currency Aeronautics Council, 1943 - (5 1/4” x 7 1/4”, 63 include Russia, The Netherlands, North Korea, pages.) 2) “U.S. Army-Navy Journal of Recognition” Vietnam, Luxembourg, Germany, China and (3), Published by U.S. War & Navy Departments as more. Of particular interest are the Japanese a training aid in identifying enemy weapons of war Pesos issued in the Philippines during their occupation of the country - Issues 7-9, March-May, 1944 - (9” x 13”, 50 pages from 1942-1944 and the Guldens issued by the Japanese during their each.) Est. $80-160 HWAC# 131687 occupation of The Dutch East Indies during the same time period. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 131701 148 May 2021
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