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Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC May 2018 Auction Americana, Railroad, Mining, & More LIVE AUCTION Monday - Thursday * May 7-10, 2018 Starting Time: 8am PDT each day PREVIEW Holabird Americana Collections Friday, May 4th, 9-5pm or By Appointment 775-851-1859 AUCTION LOCATION 3555 Airway Drive, Suite 309 Reno, Nevada 89511 LOT PICKUP After the sale Bid Live, Online, by Mail, Fax, or Phone www.FHWAC.com or call us at 775-851-1859

r CONSIGNING WITH r Holabird Western Americana Collections Why should you consign with Holabird Western Americana Collections? We combine the elements of historically researched descriptions, professional photography, artfully designed catalogs, and a team of specialists to consistently produce record prices. Consign your items to the experts and let us help you realize the most for your collections. We’ve sold many fantastic collections over the years and we’re always excited for more great material! Consign with us and enter into a lasting and beneficial partnership. What do you get when you consign with us? The Process: Holabird Live: Live internet auctions put your material in Appraisal & Inspection: We begin the process with an front of a larger audience than ever before. Our internet pres- informal inspection of your item(s). We can do this in person ence has opened up the market to a whole new generation or through photographs and descriptions, via email, fax, mail, of bidding. Not only do we offer live online bidding at no ad- or telephone. Once we have the opportunity to evaluate your ditional charge, but we also offer phone bidding and have live items, we will then provide you with a professional opinion agents readily available to secure bids on all platforms. Never of value. before has bidding in one of our auctions been so easy. Submit your photographs & descriptions to: Historically Researched Descriptions: Our team of re- search writers craft colorfully written historical descriptions Holabird’s Western Americana Collections that tell the stories behind the items we sell. Through these 3555 Airway Drive, Suite# 308 Reno, NV 89511 accurately written descriptions we paint a picture for the col- Email us at [email protected] lector and create a need and desire for your items. Call us toll free 844-HWAC-RNO (4922-766) or send us a fax 775-851-1834. Professional Photography: Colorful, vibrant, high resolu- tion photographs tell a story all their own. Our expert Consignment: Once we’ve determined that your material photographer will give your items the attention they need to is a good fit for us and one of our upcoming sales, we will make them look amazing both online and in print. discuss the perfect venue for your items and spend some time with you to go over reserves, estimates, and sellers com- Cataloguing: Full color, high quality, artfully designed mission. Our commission rates are highly competitive and all catalogs put your collections on the coffee tables of collec- inclusive. We have no photo or cataloging fees, no insurance tors worldwide. Our print catalogs are more than a just a fees, and no other hidden charges or gimmicks. catalogue of goods for sale, they’ve become historic reference works that our clients have come to know and love. Estimates & Value: We use decades of sound experience and judgment to assign estimates. We market extensively through Marketing: We market extensively to advanced collectors national advertising and participation in trade shows, and through online advertising, national print advertising, trade we find that most items sell for premium prices. There are, shows, and direct proprietary marketing among other public- however, unpredictable times when items sell for less than ity. We’re seasoned marketers so you can rest assured know- expected. This is usually balanced by items selling for pre- ing your material will get the recognition it deserves. miums. We cannot predict market prices or conditions and, ultimately, our buyers set the prices. Superior Customer Service: At Holabird’s Western Ameri- cana Collections, we pride ourselves in offering a high level Shipping & Transportation: There are many ways to get of customer service that you can count on. Our commitment your material to us for processing. You can arrange to bring to you is what sets us apart from the rest. You want someone your material directly into our Reno office, we can arrange to you can trust, and we are by your side every step of the way. pick up your collection, or you may ship your items to us. Our knowledgeable and friendly staff will help guide you through this simple process so you can see your hard- earned collections meet the right hands for the right prices. Contact our office for more information or for a consultation. Here at Holabird’s Western Americana Collections, we don’t only achieve record-breaking sales prices–we create legends.

Contents Day 1 (Mon, May 7th) Day 3 (Wed, May 9th) Native Americana 7 General Americana 154 Cowboy & Western 23 Mining 31 Day 2 (Tues, May 8th) Day 4 (Thurs, May 10th) Tokens 90 Railroadiana 226 Numismatic 107 Bargains & Dealer Specials 245 World’s Fairs & Expos 119 General Americana 245 Gaming 121 Mining 270 Bottles 124 Numismatics 283 Saloon 145 Tokens 288 Jewelry 150 Railroad 291 Postal 293 Holabird Western Americana Collections aka “HWAC” and “FHWAC” Holabird Western Americana Collections was founded ibles and numismatics. Under the leadership and direction of in 2012 and morphed into a new company in 2014 to Fred Holabird—and assisted by the hardworking Reno HWAC fill the needs of Americana collectors looking for rare office—we combine our efforts to bring you a unique piece of and unique collectibles below the minimum lot prices western American history in every item we sell and in every of most larger auction houses. The goal of the company catalog we publish. It is our goal to ensure our clients the most was to put the fun back in collecting and bring an array of accurate, detailed item descriptions and well-researched, his- noteworthy collectibles to Americana aficionados with all torically factual backgrounds. budgets. We specialize in buying, selling and appraising western The Holabird name in the title of the company draws Americana, numismatica (coins, ingots, banknotes), exonumia its roots from Fred Holabird, company advisor, co- (pioneer minor coinage/trade tokens), western antiquities, founder and the fun spirited auctioneer we’ve come to and railroad/mining goods. Our auctions typically feature know and love. Fred managed Holabird-Kagin Americana wide selections of coins, tokens, stocks certificates, docu- from 2006-2014 and headed up the production team that ments, photographs, assay certificates, postcards and other produced dozens of fixed price and auction catalogs with antiques and collectibles relating to western history, numis- sales in excess of 16 million. matics and mining, dating from c.1800 to c.1930. We hold sev- When Holabird-Kagin Americana closed the Reno eral Americana and numismatic auctions each year inclusive office in May 2014, Holabird’s Western Americana Col- of some of the greatest rarities extant, working personally lections expanded their operations into the former HKA with our clients to help them build significant collections. We building and are excited to now bring some of the best have become known for our well-researched histories on the and rarest collectibles at all price points to meet the mining companies, historical figures, and mining districts of needs of collectors everywhere. the items we sell. Here at Holabird’s Western Americana Col- HWAC is devoted to bringing collectors only the lections, we not only set record-breaking sales prices at our greatest Western Americana rarities, with an emphasis auctions, but we create legends. western Americana mining collectibles, gold rush collect-

Terms and Conditions into a computer that will bid live on your behalf at the auction. Absentee bids will compete live against other absentee bids, live Internet bidders, floor bidders and phone bidders. This is a Live Auction conducted by 9. INTERNET BIDDING: Both Absentee and Live Internet bidding Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC (HWAC). are available through our live auction networks. If you wish to bid LIVE via the Internet, you MUST pre-register. A live feed is generally 1. The placing of a bid shall constitute the bidder’s acceptance of accessible during the auction for those bidding via the Internet. these terms of sale. Online bidding remains open through the live auction, and online 2. BUYER’S PREMIUM & INSURANCE: There will be a 25% Buyer’s absentee bids may be placed anytime. Live bidding will open when Premium added to the sale price (hammer) of each lot. We accept cash, the auction starts. Internet bidding is offered as a convenience for checks, money orders or wire transfers, credit cards and PayPal. those who cannot attend the live sale. Please note that there may be 3. COINS, CURRENCY AND PRECIOUS METALS, Insurance. The buyer’s delays or interruptions in Internet connectivity that are beyond our commission for this section is 20.5%. Coins and currency shall be control. Attending the live auction or arranging for an agent is the defined as any regular Federal issue circulating coins and currency. most reliable way to secure your bids. Tokens are not considered coins. Precious metals shall be defined 10. NEW BIDDERS: Bidders unknown to us, who anticipate as ingots, silver or gold rounds, bullion items, gold nuggets. Mineral an expenditure in excess of $20,000, must provide commercial specimens are not considered under the precious metals category. references or a deposit of 25% of the amount to be bid in order for Commemorative items such as metals and ribbons are not considered the auction staff to execute bids. Deposits will be credited towards coins of precious metals. However, lots that consist entirely of gold or lots won and any balance will be refunded within 10 business silver of high purity, including commemorative metals, are considered days after the auction has concluded. New bidders will be given precious metals. Please contact our office if you need clarification on a a spending limit at their initial request to participate. In order specific lot. to increase this limit, you may be required to provide a letter of 4. SALES TAX: Sales tax will apply, according to Nevada State law, for any authorization from your bank in addition to providing references. items that ship to or are picked up in Washoe County, Nevada (8.265%) Please contact our office at any time if you have questions regarding unless a current, valid resale certificate is faxed to us at 775-851-1834 spending limits or references required to bid. before bids are placed. 11. AGENT BIDDING: There are numerous professional agents 5. SHIPPING & HANDLING: Shipping and Handling will be estimated available to assist you should you require this service. Please contact prior to invoicing, based on the size and weight of your purchase. All the office for a list or to arrange for representation on the floor shipping and handling is subject to a minimum charge of $19.00. If during the live auction. HWAC is not responsible for any acts or additional shipping and handling costs are required, the buyer will be omissions by agents acting on behalf of bidders at our auctions. re-invoiced for the balance due. Items are not shipped until the invoice BE ADVISED: Auction participation through the live Internet bidding is completely paid. Many buyers purchase a number of lots. Every effort site is not 100% foolproof. The technology for this process is always will be made to include all lots in a single shipping charge calculated to changing, and the operation of it and the corresponding Internet cover the weight and size of the package(s). NOTE: Some shipments (of connectivity issues are far beyond our control. Some folks have unusual size, dimension, or weight) may require special handling for attempted to use the live Internet bidding process as their primary which individual costs will be calculated and applied to the shipping method of bidding, and have been quite successful. Others have charge on the invoice. The buyer is responsible for arranging and paying failed completely. Depending upon your computer, server, host, and for shipment of large or special items. The customer is responsible for all other factors, Internet signals may be delayed, such that bids may shipping charges. Purchases will be shipped via our approved, insured not be received in time. We cannot be held responsible for these carriers: Federal Express or the US Postal Service. All items shipped delays, or for the lack of placed bids in a timely manner, or any Federal Express or USPS will be insured for the full value determined at other factors leading to unaccepted bids that are far beyond auction by HWAC, which is included in our buyer’s premium. Pick up is our control. Bidders should always have a backup plan for lots available from our Reno office the next business day after the auction. they highly desire. Live participation is best, followed by phone 6. LIVE (FLOOR) BIDDING: Please arrive a few minutes early to check in participation. We will not reopen lots for missed bids. and receive your bidding paddle. We will open lots with more than one bid at 12. RESERVES: Most of the lots in this auction are unreserved. Gold the current high absentee bid or 50% of the low estimate at the auctioneer’s is generally reserved at or near spot, though it could be slightly discretion. Please be sure to bid on the correct lots during the live auction. below spot. Our auction progress is at a rate of between 60 and 200 lots per hour. An item is not sold until the next lot is announced. (We cannot be responsible 13. BIDDING INCREMENTS: All bids must be submitted in U.S. for Internet bids that arrive late.) The auctioneer will identify the successful dollars and in whole dollar amounts only in the appropriate increments bidder by number and announce the winning bid amount. If you are not sure as outlined below. If you choose to submit bids in an increment not listed whether you won the lot or not, it is your responsibility to ask for clarification below, your bid will be rounded to the nearest increment and you will be immediately, prior to the start of the next auction lot. Auctioneer reserves expected to pay the amount to which the bid was rounded should your the right to reopen the lot in the case of an immediate dispute at the bid be the winning bid. If you have any questions about an appropriate actual time of the sale. bid amount, please call us. 7. TELEPHONE BIDDING: Telephone bidding requests MUST be scheduled prior to this auction. If you do not schedule in advance, and From: to: Increment: choose instead to call on the day of the auction to request a line for $1 $95 $5 bidding, you may find that we are unable to accommodate your request. $100 $190 $10 Please limit your telephone bids to items of value greater than $500, or to $200 $475 $25 a string of items with a similar total. $500 $1,450 $50 8. LIVE AUCTION ABSENTEE BIDDING: Mail or FAX Absentee bids for $1,500 $3,400 $100 the live auction MUST be received by 5pm Pacific Time the day before the auction. Bids accepted after the cutoff time will be represented live only $3,500 $9,750 $250 if an agent is available and will not be considered absentee or given first $10,000 $30,000 $500 priority as such. It is your responsibility to submit all lot numbers and bid $30,000 up $1000 amounts accurately. Absentee bids MUST be equal to at least 50% of the low estimate if an estimate is provided. Bids on “No Lots” or “Withdrawn” Lots are considered no-bids. Bids made in amounts that do not conform to the bid increment table in item 8 below will be automatically rounded up or down by the computer, or rounded to the nearest proper bid increment at the discretion of the auctioneer. Absentee bids are entered 4 Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC

14. BID REDUCTION: All winning absentee bids will be reduced, if by HWAC. A defaulting bidder agrees to pay for the reasonable costs necessary, to the next bidding increment up from the last competing of resale (including a 10% seller’s commission, if consigned to an bid, as long as the minimum bid requirement has been met. For auction conducted by HWAC). The defaulting bidder is liable to pay any example, if you submit an absentee bid of $1000 and the next highest difference between his or her total original invoice for the lot(s), plus competing bid is $250, then you will win the lot for $275. any applicable interest, and the net proceeds for the lot(s) if sold at 15. BID INFORMATION: Collectors often ask in advance the price private sale or the subsequent hammer price of the lot(s) less the 10% level of a particular lot. We will give out the current competitive seller’s commissions, if sold at an HWAC auction. If HWAC refers any high absentee bid until we close the day before the live auction. You invoice to an attorney for collection, the bidder agrees to pay attorney’s may also view absentee bids online at www.holabirdamericana.com. fees, court costs, and other collection costs incurred by HWAC. Any While we try to update the absentee bids as often as necessary, bids bidder who fails to follow the terms of payment will be reported to received close to the bidding deadline might not be reflected online, iCollector and may be barred from participating in future Holabird and we disclaim any responsibility for any bids made in reliance upon Western Americana auctions. inaccuracies on our website, which may be beyond our control. We 23. CONDITION: We strongly recommend that you attend the live do not own any of the live Internet bidding platforms, and thus many preview to see lots in their entirety. Conditions are not always noted, aspects of the Internet technology are out of our control. and large lots may not be itemized due to catalog restraints. For 16. BID CANCELLATION: If you wish to cancel or change a bid after questions, detailed information, or additional images of any lot please you have submitted your bids to us due to an error, you MUST PHONE contact our office at 775-851-1859. Bidders are responsible for us to advise us of this. Bid cancellations through mail, email, or faxes understanding the condition of items. Conditions noted are subjective, are not advisable. Errors are easy to make. Please call us if you have and may differ in the opinion of different people or collectors. any questions on this. 24. RETURN POLICY: All items are guaranteed to be authentic unless 17. All stock certificates, checks, warrants, and other financial otherwise noted. If authenticity is challenged, please call our office for documents sold herein are sold as antiquities, and have no financial, assistance. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. You may only return any piece securities, or public trading value whatsoever. that was significantly inaccurately described by calling our office 18. We reserve the right to reject any bid we feel is not made in good within 10 days of receipt of item(s) and notifying us of the error faith. and reason for return. We do not refund postage or insurance. 19. INVOICING: Shipping charges will be added to all invoices. Please call us if you require a more specific condition report. Any Invoices are mailed or emailed within two business days after the items that are returned must be returned in the exact, unaltered close of all portions of the sale. Within 15 calendar days of receipt condition. When we receive your bids we will assume you have read of invoice, payment is due in full to Holabird Western Americana the description in the catalog, viewed the image of the item, have Collections, 3555 Airway Dr., #308, Reno, NV 89511. LATE FEES MAY contacted us regarding any questions you may have on any lot and/ BE ADDED IF PAYMENT ARRANGEMENTS ARE NOT MADE WITHIN or have previewed the lot in person. THOSE 15 DAYS. Sales tax will be added to all sales picked-up after the 25. This sale is being held under the laws of the State of Nevada. auction or shipped to Nevada addresses, according to Nevada State 26. HWAC shall not be held responsible for any problem due to law, unless a resale certificate is provided. the bidder’s failure to follow the rules, terms and conditions of 20. PAYMENT: We accept Visa, Master Card, American Express, this sale, or any failure to bid due to the loss of the online auction Discover, Money Order/Cashier’s Check, Personal Check or PayPal. process provided by any of the online auction networks; or missed Customers wishing to pay by check or money order MUST contact bids, changed bids or cancelled due the bidder’s failure to follow our office for an invoice total before sending payment All returned the proper bidding procedure outlined herein. checks are subject to a $25 fee. Cash received in amounts greater than 27. By placing a bid or otherwise participating in the auction, $10,000 is subject to the filing of IRS form 8300, as required by law. Bidder accepts these Terms and Conditions, and specifically agrees 21. SHIPPING & HANDLING: Shipping and Handling cannot be to the dispute resolution provided herein. estimated prior to invoicing, based on the size and weight of your 28. HWAC shall not be responsible for consequential damages, purchase. All invoices are subject to a minimum shipping and incidental damages, compensatory damages, or any other damages handling charge of $19.00. If additional shipping and handling costs arising or claimed to be arising from the auction on any lot. Bidder’s are required, the buyer will be re-invoiced for the balance due. Items sole remedy for any proven act or omission shall be rescission of sale are not shipped until the invoice is completely paid. Many buyers and refund of the amount paid by Bidder. purchase a number of lots. Every effort will be made to include all lots 29. Any claim, dispute, or controversy in connection with, relating to in a single shipping charge calculated to cover the weight and size of and/or arising out of the Auction, participation in the Auction, award the package(s). NOTE: Some shipments (of unusual size, dimension, of lots, damages of claims to lots, descriptions, condition reports, or weight) may require special handling for which individual costs will provenance, estimates, return and warranty rights, any interpretation be calculated and applied to the shipping charge on the invoice. The of these Terms and Conditions, any alleged verbal modification of buyer is responsible for arranging and paying for shipment of large these Terms and Conditions and/or any purported settlement shall be or special items. The customer is responsible for all shipping charges. exclusively heard by, and the parties consent to exclusive in personal Purchases will be shipped via our approved, insured carriers: Federal jurisdiction of, the Superior Court of Washoe County, Nevada. THE Express or the US Postal Service. All items shipped Federal Express or PARTIES EXPRESSLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY. Any USPS will be insured for the full value determined at auction by HWAC, claim must be brought within one (1) year of the auction from which which is included in our buyer’s premium. Pick up is available from the claim arose or the claim is waived. In every case, the prevailing our Reno office the next business day after the auction. party shall be entitled to an award of its attorney’s fees and costs. 22. NON-PAYMENT: HWAC reserves the right to cancel any invoice not paid in full within 15 days. A cancelled invoice does not relieve the bidder from their obligation to pay seller fees and buyer’s premiums compensating HWAC for its services in conducting the auction. Interest shall run on all outstanding balances at the highest rate permitted by law. HWAC shall have a lien against the merchandise purchased by the bidder, and any other of bidder’s property then held by HWAC or its affiliates, to secure payment of the invoice, and with respect thereto HWAC shall have all the rights of a secured creditor under the Nevada Commercial Code, including but not limited to the right of sale. HWAC may sell the lot(s) securing the invoice to any under bidders in the auction that the lot(s) appeared, or at subsequent private or public sale, or relist the lot(s) in a future auction conducted Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 5

Meet the Team Fred Holabird has been ac- Grant Peterson joined the Hola- Paul Williams is our soft tive in the mining industry for bird team in 2014. He completed spoken, fabulous joke telling more than 25 years. He began his undergraduate education at UC alternate auctioneer. Paul also his career as a mineral explora- Davis and a graduate education at describes and researches items tion geologist, and quickly moved University of Nevada, Reno. His pre- for auction. Paul loves good food into a position as Mine Geologist vious experience includes teaching and wine and an occasional poker at a producing gold mine. Always writing at the university level in game. He is also a well-known interested in the historical side of Reno, Lake Tahoe, and Colorado. numismatist and former presid- the mining business, Holabird has invested in min- Grant works as a researcher, de- net of the Reno Coin Club. His ing related documents and books for many years. At scriber, and editor for our catalogs long, successful career in air traf- one point, he headed a large-scale business dealing and publications, as well as helping with marketing and fic control made him well-equiped for the stress of in collectible Americana, culminating with the mar- auctioneering. He currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, FHWAC! keting of the Atocha treasure at Caesar’s Palace. and acts as an agent for the company. He also travels to Fred is well published in both technical as well Reno to help run each auction. as hobby related mining and western publications. He has been responsible for discovery and produc- tion at two Nevada gold mines, also overseeing their Ethan Carpenter grew up in Katrina Lasko is our graphic operations. Since running his last gold mine (which Sutter Creek California and came designer. She also writes descrip- also involved the cleanup of extensive mercury tail- to Reno to study at the University tions, does photography, and ings and cyanide left by former operators), he has of Nevada. He majors in Public exhibits. She is an contempory been involved in a lengthy EPA-related mine and mill Health. Ethan assists Uwe and our artist and uses unusual, often site cleanup in Colorado. team in the photography depart- recycled, materials in addition to Part of his current work involves consulting to ment. traditional paint. Her work often crosses between painting and many sectors of the mining business. Recently, he drawing and sculpture. When not consulted for the Treasure of the SS Central America, in the studio she likes walking and exploring new a ship that sunk in 1857 with tons of gold on board. places and things. The ship has been recovered and was the subject of a Discovery Channel documentary. Glenn Bienstock has a back- ground in collecting, sales and most recently worked in insur- ance claims. As a child he col- Barbara Wilson returns to Uwe Nikoley is our pho- lected stamps and coins. He the Holabird team after taking tographer and imaging expert. has a collection of early stereo time off following the birth of her With an academic background in era classical vinyl records from third child. With more than a de- electrical engineering, Uwe has the Golden Age of recording. cade of experience in graphic de- brought the latest technological His other hobbies include the sign and publishing, Barbara as- advancements and efficiency to appreciation of fine wines and sists the team with catalog layout, his position at HWAC. His long cooking. flyers, brochures and designing hours, dedication, perfectionism, advertising material. She enjoys and determination have been an the creative and historical enviornment of FHWAC. invaluable asset and continue to improve the quality of our catalogs. Randolph Haumann has Joe Elcano is an advocate for been an active collector since a the importance of history to the child. Minerals, stamps, coins, world we live in today. A former butterflies you name it. He ac- educator for 36 years, he under- cidentally fell into bottle collect- stands the importance of bringing ing in 1963, and was an avid dig- that history to life. As he likes to ger and dealer for 46 years. Now say, “It is all about the story!” Born specializing in better bottles and raised in Reno, he is a serious Randolph brings his knowledge Nevada history buff and collects and expertise to the Holabird anything from Nevada with a story! He has chosen to Americana team. work with the fine people at Holabird Western Ameri- cana in his retirement for the excitement of learning new things and finding new stories!

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1000 , Arizona Tohoho Lot# 1006 , California c1900’s O’odham Basket Small Tohono Yurok or Hupa Vintage Basket This O’odum basket. 6.5” diameter, 1” vintage basket is from Yurok or Hupa deep. Willow, w/ devil’s claw. Est. area. 4.5” h x 7” diameter, spruce root $120-180 HWAC# 35463 with bear grass. Triangle, step design. Excellent condition. Robert Fulton Collection. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 58869 Lot# 1001 , California c1890’s Vintage Hupa Basket This Hupa Lot# 1007 , Oregon Rare Vintage Klamath Hat Basket Soft-sided Klamath basket is 5.5” high x 8” diameter, hat has an unusual shape; baskets of and soft sided. Repeating designs of stepped and stacked parallelograms this form are more typically found in the intersected by a woven band. great basin made by Washoe and Paiute Excellent condition. Robert Fulton weavers. 7” h x 6.5” diameter. Excellent Collection. Est. $400-700 HWAC# condition, a real prize! Robert Fulton 58867 Collection. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 58873 Lot# 1002 , California c1940’s Vintage Hupa Hat Basket Beautiful Lot# 1008 , Oregon c1890’s Vintage antique ceremonial Indian basket Tutuni Basket Possibly Tututni, because hat. y3.5” h x 6” diameter, excellent of the crossed warp rim, from Southern condition. Bands, triangle and cross Oregon. 6” h x 6” diameter, spruce root, designs. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 58871 bear grass. Geometric shaped designs. Excellent condition for its age. From the collection of Robert Fulton, former president of the University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 58866 Lot# 1003 , California c1890’s Vintage Karuk Ceremonial Hat Karuk ceremonial hat basket. Zig zag Lot# 1009 , Panama Wounaan banded designs. Some rim damage. / Panamanian Basket Beautiful 4” h x 6.5” diameter, good condition. design of butterflies and insects Robert Fulton Collection. Est. $300- and birds. 7” diameter x 5.5” high. 600 HWAC# 58872 The Wounaan Indians of the Darien Rainforest in Panama, are believed, to be the finest weavers in the world. Lot# 1004 , California c1900’s Vintage Using the Chunga palm and other plant materials, they make utilitarian Klamath/Modoc Basket Vintage baskets, ceremonial pieces, masks, banded Klamath/Modoc basket, 6” h and the most beautiful and intricate x 6” diameter. A bit misshapen (soft basketry depicting plants and animals, fish and flowers, insects and sided), but in excellent condition. geometric patterns. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61550 Robert Fulton Collection. Est. $400- 800 HWAC# 58870 Lot# 1010 , Two Colored Northeastern Basket Duo 1) Vintage Northeastern bi-colored splint ash and sweetgrass Micmac lidded sewing basket. Lid is a bit faded. 5” high x 10” diameter. Very Lot# 1005 , California c1880’s Vintage good condition. 2) Antique bi-colored Step Design Yurok Basket Yurok basket splint ash and sweetgrass two- with step design with wing-like forms on handled carrier basket. 10.25” high edge of steps. 6” h x 6” diameter, spruce x 14” wide, 5” deep. Also very good root and bear grass. Excellent condition. condition. Another great pair. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 56802 Robert Fulton Collection. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 58868 Lot# 1011 , 1900’s Two Splint Ash Micmac Lidded Baskets 1) Vintage Northeastern tri-colored splint ash Micmac lidded sewing basket. 4” high x 8” diameter. Excellent condition. 2) Antique splint ash and sweetgrass lidded two-handled yarn basket. 7.5” high x 6” diameter. Also very good condition. A great pair. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 56801 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 7

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1012 , Vintage Pine Needle Baskets Lot# 1019 Wickenburg, Arizona c1950’s Bolo by Three vintage pine needle baskets--1) Vic Cedarstaff Vintage sterling silver engraved hot pad, beaded rim, good condition. 6” bolo set with turquoise stone, was crafted by diameter. 2) small basket with lid, pine Arizona silversmith Vic Cedarstaff. Black leather needle with pink dyed willow. Good with sterling silver tips and details. In the 1940s, condition, 4” diameter. 3) Small lidded pine Victor Cedarstaff of Wickenburg, Ariz., claimed needle basket with three feet, 2.5” h x 3.75” to have invented the bolo, and in the ‘50s, he diameter. Est. $80-160 HWAC# 50744 patented his design. Legend has it he was out riding his horse one day when he dropped his cowboy hat in the mud. Afraid he would get his silver-trimmed hatband dirty, he slung it around his neck, prompting a pal to comment “nice tie you Lot# 1013 , Ink Bottle w/ Woven got there, Vic,” and inspiring him to create the bolo. Covering (Possibly Paiute) Very Est. $300-500 HWAC# 61524 old ink bottle, woven over. Weaving Lot# 1020 Wickenburg, Arizona c1950’s Vic is worn on top edge. 2” high x 1.75” square. Possibly Paiute made, no design, plant fiber, pitch. Est. $60-150 HWAC# 40350 Cedarstaff Silver Bolo This vintage sterling silver bolo tie, set with turquoise stone, was exquisitely Lot# 1014 , Mexico Vintage Water Jug crafted by Arizona silversmith Vic Cedarstaff. Black leather with sterling silver tips and details. Vintage water jug, small--4” x 3.5” diameter. In the 1940s, Victor Cedarstaff of Wickenburg, Appears ancient, however we cannot discern its age ior exact origin. Est. $50-100 HWAC# Ariz., claimed to have invented the bolo, and in the 50739 ‘50s, he patented his design. Legend has it he was out riding his horse one day when he dropped his cowboy hat in the mud. Afraid he would get his silver-trimmed hatband dirty, he slung it around his neck, prompting a pal to comment “nice tie you got there, Vic,” and inspiring him to create the bolo. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 61523 Lot# 1021 Wickenburg, Arizona c1950’s Vintage Lot# 1015 , Mexico Bowl Signed “Felix Ortiz” Silver Bolo by Vic Cedarstaff Sterling silver bolo Mata Ortiz Indian Pottery, Casas Grande, Mexico. tie, engraved and die cut, was made by Arizona Large bowl signed Felix Ortiz, however, not the silversmith Vic Cedarstaff. Black leather with real Felix Ortiz who was known for starting this sterling silver tips and details. In the 1940s, Victor pottery movement. Strange looking figure painted Cedarstaff of Wickenburg, Ariz., claimed to have on inside of bowl. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 51046 invented the bolo, and in the ‘50s, he patented his design. Legend has it he was out riding his horse one day when he dropped his cowboy hat in the mud. Afraid he would get his silver-trimmed hatband dirty, he slung it around his neck, prompting a pal to comment “nice tie you got there, Vic,” and inspiring him to create the bolo. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 61525 Lot# 1016 , Mexico Mexican pots Blackware bowl, 3.25” h x 8.25” Lot# 1022 Zuni, New Mexico Owl diameter. Rounded base. Est. $50- Bolo by Dennis & Nancy Edaakie 100 HWAC# 49464 This vintage bolo with an owl design is set with turquoise, coral, onyx, and mother of pearl. Dennis was born Lot# 1017 , Colorful Pot by Isabel on January 24, 1931 in Zuni, New Mexico of the Parrot clan. Nancy was Sandoval A pretty and colorful pot born on February 4, 1937 in Zuni, from the village of Mata Ortiz in New Mexico of the Frog clan. Known the Casa Grandes region. Signed as “Birdman” and “Ladybird”. They by Isabel Sandoval. Mouth is 5.5”, are among the “Old Masters” of the pot is 6.5” x 11”. Est. $200-300 fine art of stone-to-stone inlay. Their HWAC# 62453 exquisite workmanship with not only precious gemstones but with gold and silver as well is among the best Lot# 1018 , Pottery by Lupe Soto of all time. Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 61526 1 large Olla signed by Lupe Soto of he Lot# 1023 Zuni, New Mexico Two Mata Ortiz Village of the Casa Grandes Vintage Silver Inlay Bolo Ties Region. The top of the pot is thumb 1) Silver Eagle Dancer set with nail pattern, the pot design is a snake turquoise, mother of pearl, and oyster & lizards motif. Approx. 14” x 14”. Is shell. Tiny chip on head of figure. 2) approx. 6.5” at mouth opening. Rich Sunface inlaid with turquoise, oyster brown color with several different shell, onyx, and white stone. Tips textures . 1 small chip under mouth are also inlaid with the same image. opening of .25”. (Potter Collection) Pieces are unsigned. Est. $100-200 Est. $350-450 HWAC# 63404 HWAC# 61527 8 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1024 , Arizona/New Lot# 1030 , Coral Watch Cuff Mexico Squash Blossom Navajo made sterling watch cuff with Necklace Beautiful squash 60 pieces of nice red coral. Cuff at blossom necklace is all center is 2” wide, has nice silver rope handmade and is very old. style trim, watch is in working order. The sterling silver has an Est. $350-450 HWAC# 62039 even rich natural patina. 12 squash blossoms and 8 more stones on nava. Natural Lone Mountain turquoise stones with Lot# 1031 , Desert Scrimshaw by matrix are set in smooth Jama 2 bolos & 3 pairs of earrings are bezels and are all secure. all made by Jama who was a Papago artist/student studying & working at the DeGrazia Studio in Tucson, Lot# 1025 , Mexico Two Arizona. The studio & her work was silver and Turquoise Rings featured in several issues of Arizona and Pendant/Pin .925 silver Highways in the 1960’s; original tags pendant/pin, sun god, set on both bolo pieces, the work is very collectible today. Est. $200-300 w/ turquoise chips, 1.75” HWAC# 62049 diameter. One silver ring, oval w/ turquoise chips, 1.25” x .5”, Lot# 1032 , Jasper Bracelet size 5. Men’s ring, silver, set w/ (Bumble Bee) This beautiful piece turquoise chips, .5” wide, size of Bumble Bee Jasper is set into a 9, but cut. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 48047 sterling flower & leaf design. Center of bracelet approx. 1 ½” tall, signed LT. Est. $280-380 HWAC# 62040 Lot# 1026 , Beaded Collar Neck Piece Beautiful blue & white beaded collar neck piece circa early 50’s, in great condition, securing clasp in place. Beaded width is 3.5“. Est. $50---$100 Est. $50-100 Lot# 1033 , Koshari Clown Kachina Necklace Set HWAC# 62052 This is a signed piece by Bev Estate of Zuni Pueblo,NM, chain, danglers & trim work are all sterling silver. Great attention to detail work & color on this piece. Matching earrings complete the set . 1.5” x 1” bottom large stone, Lot# 1027 , Beaded Medallions (1 Pair) Beautiful set. Est. $380-480 HWAC# 62059 Beaded Medallions, circa 1960’s Native American beaded neck drops with Thunderbird designed medallions, great condition, top to bottom measures about 17”. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 62054 Lot# 1034 , Multi Stone Necklace Navajo multi-stone necklace on sterling chain. 18 stones, approx. 5mm x 4mm. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 62062 Lot# 1028 , Beaded Neck Drops (3) Circa 1960’s beaded neck drops, 2 with thunderbird & arrows motif & one with a diamond & flower pattern, all with fringed bottoms. Est. $80- 100 HWAC# 62053 Lot# 1035 , Native American Silver/Turquoise Jewelry Lot Lot# 1029 , Boulder Turquoise Seven pieces Native American Bracelet Beautiful Nevada mined silver turquoise jewelry. Some with Boulder Turquoise bracelet set in bear claws or faux claws. Buckles, sterling silver. Navajo made and brooch, broken necklace, wristband, signed J.Nelson, stone is 1 ½ ” tall and two pieces of a watch band. Please slightly over 1” wide with colors of inspect. Some pieces signed. This is light green to a range of light to dark a great jeweler’s lot. There are two brown highlights. Est. $330-430 beautiful belt buckles: one sterling, HWAC# 62037 unsigned, but slightly broken claw, the other is not silver. The wrist band is a beauty, with slightly loose claw. The 2 watch band pieces are beauties. Nice group. Est. $800- 1000 HWAC# 58250 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 9

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1036 , Arizona/New Mexico Lot# 1043 , Navajo Watch Bracelet Vintage Navajo Turquoise Watch with Turquoise Excellent silver Bracelet Turquoise Petit Point watch bracelet with four cabs of turquoise. bracelet. Navajo made, no signature. Heavy sterling, 101 grams. Set to fit a 5-7/8” inside measurement. Old watch. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 59835 silver and turquoise in very good condition. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 40612 Lot# 1044 , Vintage Navajo Lot# 1037 , Navajo Bracelet This Bracelet 7 nicely matched turquoise bracelet has 7 stones either onyx stones, approx. 15mm x 10mm, set or jet in a sterling silver setting & a into this vintage Navajo bracelet, signed piece by Navajo, Pat Yazzie a piece is signed with initials DC. Est. benchsmith for Woodard’s Trading Post of Gallup New Mexico. Est. $230-330 HWAC# 62044 $180-280 HWAC# 62041 Lot# 1038 , Navajo Jewelry Group Eight pieces: three silver Lot# 1045, Vintage Navajo bracelets (62g); silver belt buckle Turquoise Bracelet This vintage with turquoise cabachon; silver 3 stone bracelet may have been with turquoise bolo tie; silver with fashioned by an artist using the silver turquoise belt buckle; silver with pieces & stones that were available to turquoise 2 part watch band; two him at the time. Feather accent pieces part ladies watch band, turquoise, red are set between the stones, quality coral and black stone. Est. $150-300 heavy silver used. Stones are 18mm x HWAC# 59836 11mm. Well matched in color & size. Est. $180-250 HWAC# 62046 Lot# 1039, Navajo Necklace, Mini Squash Blossom Navajo Mini Squash Blossom. Turquoise mini Lot# 1046, Neck Drop Medallions Approx. 44mm sized squash blossom with matching round, 2 smaller beaded Thunderbird motif beaded earrings. This contemporary Navajo neck drop medallions. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 62051 piece is about 18” and provides the look without the weight or size of a full scale squash necklace. Necklace has 13 stones approx,40mm, earrings are approx. 40mm stones. This is signed with a single G. Est. $280-380 HWAC# 62035 Lot# 1040, Navajo Turquoise Bracelet Great single Turquoise stone looks to be of Persian origin Lot# 1047 , set in a twisted rope style setting Plains Indian with beautiful silver work on either Hair Drop This side. Contemporary piece signed is an American & made by Navajo, Dean Sandoval . Est. $180-280 HWAC# 62047 Indian hair drop that measures about 8’ in length. Lot# 1041 , Navajo Turquoise Squash It is adorned Blossom Necklace Full size Navajo Squash with German Blossom necklace with 13 nicely matched silver conchos, porcupine quill turquoise stones, possibly of the Bisbee Mine in Arizona. Beautiful piece. Est. $750-950 HWAC# accents, leather 62064 and horsehair extension. This appears to be from the early 20th century and is in immaculate condition. Est. $1150-2000 HWAC# 56644 Lot# 1048 , Silver & Lapis Bracelet Beautiful Navajo, 3 stone lapis Lot# 1042 , Navajo Vintage bracelet set in sterling silver. Each approx. 13mm square stones. This Bracelets (2) 1 bracelet has 3 is a signed piece by W. Johnson mother of pearl oval cut stones (possibly William). Est. $300-380 approx 10mm ,flanked by a small HWAC# 62034 silver flower on each side & the other a turquoise bracelet possibly of the Fred Harvey Era with 6 stones approx 10mm round, & arrows on both ends. Est. $100-180 HWAC# 62043 10 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1049 , Silver and Pearl Squash Lot# 1055 , Turquoise Necklace Beautiful Blossom Necklace Georgeous silver 6 strand turquoise, bundled necklace with squash blossom necklace with ten 0.5 x coral spacers with brass drop pendant set 0.75” mother of pearl cabachons along the with turquoise & spiny oyster. 15” strands & necklace with three more in a triangular 4.5” pendant with 1.5” length turquoise stone form off the center bottom. Excellent .5” stone on top. Signed piece. Est. $300-400 condition. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 59834 HWAC# 62058 Lot# 1056 , Turquoise Necklace Beautiful turquoise drop pendant necklace completely Lot# 1050 , Silver Navajo Cuff trimmed out in sterling silver & signed by Navajo Gorgeous heavy sterling silver Navajo Mark Yazzie. Est. $250-350 HWAC# 62060 cuff depicting 1 perched eagle & 1 in flight. This exquisite piece measures 2” wide a nicely trimmed border & finished off at the ends of the cuff as well. This is a signed piece by known silversmith Delgarito. Est. $400-500 HWAC# 62038 Lot# 1051 , Sterling Lot# 1057 , Two Vintage Bead Silver Concho Belt Necklaces Two multi-colored Sterling Silver Concho trade bead necklaces. Each is Belt, 12 silver conchos approximately 18” long. Est. $140- plus the belt buckle 240 HWAC# 58859 make up this great belt which is a signed piece by Navajo Marcella James of Gallup, New Mexico. Length is 36” & conchos measure at 1 ½” x 2”. Est. $450-550 HWAC# 62056 Lot# 1052 , Sterling Silver Squash Blossom Set (Necklace & Earrings) Lot# 1058 , Vintage Cowrie Beautiful Navajo squash blossom necklace Shell Necklace and Bag of Shells set by Marcella James of Gallup,NM. This Cowrie Shell Necklace with a flower signed piece is showcased by the great shaped pendant. Also included: bag engraving on the silver & matched color of approximately 100 cowrie shells. of the turquoise stones with matching Est. $80-160 HWAC# 58860 earrings. Est. $450-550 HWAC# 62061 Lot# 1059 , Vintage Horse Tooth Necklace Dramatic horse tooth tribal necklace, 23 horse teeth Lot# 1053 , Sterling Silver in a woven cord. 6 of the teeth are partially broken. 24” in length (cord end to end ). Most teeth are about Turquoise Bracelet Navajo sterling 1.75” x .5”. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 58858 silver double row turquoise bracelet. Stone count is 10, approx. 6 mm each. Est. $50-150 HWAC# 62045 Lot# 1054 , Three Vintage Trade Bead Necklaces 1) blue and white, Lot# 1060 , Vintage Hummingbird 30” long; 2) yellow with blue and rd Necklace Set This vintage stripes,24” long; 3) green and white Hummingbird necklace and earring small beads, 24” long. Est. $120-200 set (clip on earrings) was made by HWAC# 58861 Zuni Silversmith, Edward Leekity who has signed the piece. The inlays are Abalone shell, turquoise & what looks to be spiny oyster. Est. $330- 430 HWAC# 62042 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 11

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1061 , Vintage Native Lot# 1067 Navajo, Arizona Very American Bracelet This Native Old Navajo Rug This old Navajo rug American Bracelet has a center piece measures 63” by 45”. Colors (red, of a ceremonial dancer inlaid onto brown grey, off-white) are faded and a piece of gold lip, mother-of-pearl rug is stained. This rug is in poor with sterling leaf trim on both sides. condition. It is worn on one end and Flanked by a single turquoise stone one side and has holes in those areas. on each side. Approx. 36mm x 26mm, Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61542 on center stone; 12mm x 8mm on side stones. Est. $330-430 HWAC# 62048 Lot# 1068 Navajo, Arizona Vintage Lot# 1062 , Vintage Trade Bead Navajo Rug This old Navajo rug Necklace This vintage Native measures 72” by 35”. Ganado--Red American trade bead double strand Mesa motif. This rug is in poor necklace has green oval feather condition. It is worn on one end beads and Padre Beads in green and and one side and has holes in those black. (Padre Beads are a variety of areas--probably rodent damage. The wound glass trade beads originally wool has a nice soft feel, but needs imported across the world especially cleaning. Est. $130-260 HWAC# to Africa and the Americas by Spanish 61539 Missionaries, Monks, Friars and Traders who used them as a form of currency.) Great vintage piece. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 58857 Lot# 1069 Navajo, Arizona Vintage Navajo Saddle Blanket This old Lot# 1063 , Zuni Bola Nice Zuni inlaid Brahma Bull Bola on Navajo saddle blanket measures 24” sterling with silver tips. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 62055 by 24”. Ganado. This rug is in very used condition. Red, black, crkeam. Edges worn, and one hole. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 61547 Lot# 1070 Navajo, Arizona Vintage Yeibechei Rug This old Navajo rug Lot# 1064 , Zuni Turquoise Necklace measures 79” by 43”. Yeibechei motif. Elegant contemporary Zuni Turquoise This rug is in fair condition. It has a needlepoint necklace. Beautiful wing motif tear/hole on one end. Brown, yellow, design 80mm length, dropping down into cream, black, pink. The wool has a another winged pendant piece, approx nice soft feel. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 80mm length x 80mm wide, with 3 silver 61546 danglers. Piece is signed with a single Y. Est. $480-600 HWAC# 62036 Lot# 1071 Navajo, Arizona Vintage Ganado This old Navajo rug measures 67” by 42”. Ganado. This Lot# 1065 Navajo, Arizona Antique rug is in fair condition. Red dye change about 1/3 way throught Burntwater Navajo Rug This old weaving. It is worn on both end Navajo rug measures 56” by 37”. This and one corner. Staining from red rug is in poor condition. It is worn color into white Est. $150-250 on both ends and in other areas. Staining, bleeding. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61545 HWAC# 61544 Lot# 1072 Navajo, Arizona Worn Ganado Rug This old Navajo rug measures 51” by 38”. Ganado style. This rug is in very poor condition. It Lot# 1066 Navajo, Arizona Antique has been cut off on one end and has a large burn hole. It is worn on all Navajo Rug This old Navajo rug edges. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 61541 measures 56” by 36”. Black, brown, tan, cream colors, serrated diamond design. This rug is in poor condition. Corners are worn and one end is also very worn. Small amount of staining. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61543 12 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1073 Chimayo, New Mexico Lot# 1079 , Montana Agnes c.1950 Vintage Chimayo Rug Kenmille Beaded Gauntlet Gloves Collectible, rare, Chimayo Rug, New, beaded pair beautiful gauntlet circa.1950, excellent condition, gloves by Agnes Kenmille. Abstract Saltillo. Rug measures 71” by 44”. feather design in green, white, black, This rug is in fair condition. Worn on orange, turquoise. Men’s size. these one corner and ends. Small hole. The gloves go perfectly with the beaded wool has a nice soft feel. Est. $150- vest by Kenmille. Est. $250-400 250 HWAC# 61548 HWAC# 56828 Lot# 1074 , Native Style Rug Older Lot# 1080 , Montana Beaded Native American style rug with Handbag by Agnes Kenmille fringe. 65” x 31”. Some areas of fringe Beautiful new white buckskin are loose, some bleeding of red dye. handbag by Agnes Kenmille. Beaded Est. $100-200 HWAC# 32133 on both sides in metallic red, violet, green, white, yellow and black. Bag is lined with a drawstring closure. Fringed sides and bottom. Est. $230- Lot# 1075 Navajo Reservation, Arizona Small Unfinished Weaving 350 HWAC# 56832 Nice design, similar to Two Grey Hills Lot# 1081 , Montana Beaded coloring, black border, cross design. Moccasins by Agnes Kenmille New Weaving is still in frame. It was women’s beaded moccasins by Agnes purchased on the Navajo reservation Kenmille. These buckskin moccasins in the 1950’s or 1960’s. Size of frame are beautifully beaded and have ankle is 17.5” x 14”. Weaving is about 3” fringe. Est. $180-300 HWAC# 56830 into being worked. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 57863 Lot# 1076 , Idaho Five Viola Morris Corn Husk Bags Five Viola Morris Lot# 1082 , Montana Beaded corn husk bags woven with geometric Vest by Agnes Kenmille yarn designs: 1).8.25” x 9”; 2) 6” x 6”, Beautiful new men’s vest buckskin handle; 3) 10.25” x 4”, made to (large size) feather design hang on wall, two pockets; 4) Zippered on front and back. Deerskin, coin purse2.5” x 3.75”; 5) tiny, 2.5” x 2”, lined with cotton. Deer horn fold over bag, buckskin handle. All have buttons. Agnes “Oshanee” different designs on each side Beautifully Kenmille, Salish beadworker made. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 56823 and regalia maker (2003 NEA National Heritage Fellow,) Ronan, MT. Although Kenmille Lot# 1077 , Elk Hide (Hair On) has spent most of her life on the Flathead Reservation in northwestern Montana, she is now known worldwide for her skills in beadwork, This is a hair on elk hide that is in hide tanning, and leatherwork. Born to Salish parents, and married beautiful condition. It measures into Kootenai families, Kenmille speaks the three languages of the 6’x 4”(24 square feet) and is nicely Flathead Reservation - Salish, Kootenai, and English. She has taught tanned. A beautiful robe for re- enactors or rug for the home. Est. hide tanning and beadwork for more than a decade at Salish Kotenai $275-350 HWAC# 56439 College, and she offers instruction in the Salish language at the tribal high school, Two Eagle River School. Est. $600-900 HWAC# 56829 Lot# 1083 Nixon, Nevada Lot# 1078 , Idaho Two Paiute Ceremonial Beaded Sided Designs, Viola Belt, Wristbands and Morris Vintage Plateau Headbands Paiute beaded Nez Perce beaded bag by belt, wristbands and Viola Morris. Incredible headbands. Two different beaded bag, tiny beads, shell sets of beaded bands for wampum beads handle. ceremonial dances. 1) Roses designs on both Incredible belt, geometric side and different on each design, with beaded strips and side, one side also has US beaded fringe hanging from it. flags. Bag is in very good Perfect condition, 26” waist. condition, but has a small Included is a headband that worn place on one side of matches the belt, deer skin ties. 2) Geometric designed headband/ the opening. 7.75” x 6”. Viola Morris was a very well known Nez Perce belt, 23.5” long, 1-5/8” wide. Two beaded fringed wristbands in same beader. Est. $500-700 HWAC# 52164 design. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 52165 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 13

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1084 , Northern Plains Lot# 1090 , Plains Indian child’s beaded Pow Wow Dress Beautiful belt set Plains Indian child’s beaded belt set. white buckskin Pow Wow These 3 beaded sets were attached to a belt. dress. Beaded--orange, green, The largest being Approx 25mm x 100mm. & yellow, black) both sides the 2 smaller ones are 13mm x 100mm. Est. and fringed. New condition. $250-350 HWAC# 62057 Incredible! Est. $1000-3000 HWAC# 56835 Lot# 1091 , Northern Plains Beaded Belt Newer beaded belt, 36” long, not including ties. Great condition, geometric design. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 49466 Lot# 1085 Hawthorne, Beaded and Lot# 1092 , American Fringed Holster This is a handmade Indian Ceremonial Neck beaded and fringed holster. It Drape This is an incredible measures 10”x 4” and is adorned piece of Native Americana, with blue and white seed beads. that measures 57”x 6” and Made of buckskin, this piece has is intricately beaded in an seen some wear, but is still in decent American Flag pattern. condition. Also included is a leather It has a buckskin and tie holder, with a Native chief printed trade cloth backing.there is one small bad patch in beads, but hardly on it and “Kingston Canada”. Est. noticeable. A very elegant piece for your next pow-wow. Est. $800- $50-100 HWAC# 56638 1200 HWAC# 56619 Lot# 1086 , Beaded Pouch (Plains Indians) From Lot# 1093 , American Indian Child the Plains Indians a small round beaded pouch, Shirts This lot includes a child’s trade beaded circular pattern encasing a dark blue beaded cloth sewn shirt, adorned with puka cross with bead work on the flap. Approx 90mm x shells It is obviously a contemporary 90mm. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 62050 garment, made for pow-wow. It measures 15”x 17” and is in near new condition. Also included is a handmade buckskin fringed dress. it measures 28”x 16” and is in very nice condition. Also a more contemporary piece. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 56625 Lot# 1087 , 3 Cradleboards, and Lot# 1094 , American Beaded Belt 1) very small baby Indian War Shirt sized cradleboard, deerskin and Handmade American beaded, with willow. 16” x 7”, could Indian War Shirt. made be just for decor. 2) Small non-native from Buckskin. this shirt is cradleboard, tartan plaid w/rawhide trimmed around the collar strap, on wood board 13.5” . 3) with trade cloth. There tiny doll sized native cradleboard, is also a oblong patch of 6.5”. also included: Beaded rawhide trade cloth that has a nice leather strip, (for belt?). Floral and colorful seed bead pattern attached. The shirt appears to be old, beading, intact. 25” x 2”. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 49457 with some minor wear. this is a nice find for any collector of Native American artifacts. Est. $800-1000 HWAC# 56617 Lot# 1088 , American Indian Cradleboard This is a handmade Lot# 1095 , Trade Cloth War Shirt This is a cradle board. It is made from trade deep blue trade cloth American Indian Shirt, cloth, lace, leather and beads. It ready for pow wow. This garment has 20” measures 30”x 12” and is in very nice condition. Est. $150-300 fringed sleeves, is about 30” from collar to tail HWAC# 56641 and about 20” across the shoulders. There are nice seed bead designs on shoulders, as well as the neckline. Shirt is in very nice condition Lot# 1089 , Northwest Coast and appears to be a contemporary work. Leather Bag Northwest Coast leather Est. $100-200 HWAC# 56627 bag with bead work, 11” tall, 5” wide, 60’s-70’s. Est. $80-130 HWAC# 62063 14 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1096 , Native American Lot# 1101 , Strike-A-Light Beaded Bag Plains Indians Beaded Deerskin Shirt Native Strike-a-Light, nice traditional pattern with tightly woven American beaded deerskin shirt. bead work and tin cones, probably circa 70’s, originally Almost new, probably made for Pow used to carry firing starting pieces and sometime fetish Wow dances. Men’s size. Beautifully pieces. Sadly, once Native Americans were place on made and beaded with small fur hides reservations the bags were used to keep & store their (rabbit) hanging from beaded area. ration tickets. Est. $200-280 HWAC# 62033 Est. $1200-1800 HWAC# 48567 Lot# 1102 , Ceremonial Dance Set Loom beaded Southwest Fancy Dance Regalia, over the shoulder piece and belt sash,center piece of belt sash has an Indian mounted on his horse with a lance. This traditional outfit has seen used in ceremonial dances. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 62030 Lot# 1097 , Pair of Fur Booties, Possibly Inuit Fur booties possibly of Lot# 1103 , Native American Inuit origin and appears to be rabbit Beaded Arm Bands A pair of fur. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 571430 American Indian ceremonial arm bands.Both measure 12”x 3” and a sewn on a buckskin base. Matching set, ready for pow-wow. Est. $300- 500 HWAC# 56622 Lot# 1104 , South American Stone Beads This is a collection of 17 Lot# 1098 , Modern Beading, hand carved stone beads from South America. Beads measure between Mukluk Style Moccasins Modern 1/2” to 1”.They are a beautiful beading, mukluk style moccasins. combination of earth tones, ready to Beading is in great condition, some string, or just to display. In very nice wear on moccasins. Cloth-lined and condition. Est. $50-90 HWAC# 56661 cloth outsides above the leather with a leather and beaded band Lot# 1105 , Vintage Native American at top. 10.5” long. Est. $100-200 Chaps Vintage Native American chaps, HWAC# 49476 buckskin pants. Good condition.32” long. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 48568 Lot# 1099 , Beaded Bag Great little floral motif brown tanned beaded bag with fringe. Looks to be one of the woodland Indian tribes, measures 11”x5 ½”. Est. $40-60 HWAC# 62032 Lot# 1106 , Nevada Group of Native American Tools Lot includes tools- -scrapers, sinkers, ax heads, cobbles, drill, and projectile points of chert, Lot# 1100 , Strike-A-Light Beaded Bag Plains granite, slate, quartz and more. This Indians Strike-a-Light. Beautiful traditional pattern with group cantains about 43 tools and tightly woven bead work and tin cones. Probably circa about 10 points. Other stones or 70’s, originally used to carry firing starting pieces & artifacts are included in this lot. Est. sometimes fetish pieces. Sadly, once Native Americans $200-400 HWAC# 61556 were placed on reservations the bags were used to keep and store their ration tickets. Est. $200-280 Lot# 1107 , Native American Hide HWAC# 62031 Scraper A large Native American hide scraper, probably chert, with one rounded ends; the large flat stone shows areas of having been fashioned by flaking, and the edges sharpened for hand-held use. It measures . 9.25” x 3” x 1”. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 33126 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 15

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1108 , Nevada Nevada Points-- Lot# 1113 , Pacific Northwest Various Counties Lot includes: Northern New Perce Beaded War Club Paiute; Washo; Persing County; Story Native American stone war County. Nicely mounted in wood, glassed club. Beaded, wood, sinew case, 24” x 20. Lot includes obsidian, chert, wrapped handle. 22.5” length. agate, carnelian, flint, quartzite, and more. Stone head attached with Also included, book--”The Two Worlds of sinew. Hand carved stone the Washo, An Indian Tribe of California makes this piece a truly unique and Nevada” by James F. Downs. Robert specimen. Est. $400-700 Fulton Collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# HWAC# 52761 58875 Lot# 1114 , American Indian War Lot# 1109 , Nevada Vintage Washo Points Lot Club This is an American Indian war includes points, awls, and scrapers of obsidian, club that is handmade and measures chert, agate, carnelian, flint, quartzite, and 21” long. It is adorned with feathers more. Beautifully mounted on red felt in wood and a trade bead and claw loop on the glassed case. 24” x 20”. Robert Fulton Collection. handle. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 56401 Washoe, or Washo as most of the people prefer, was derived from Wa she shu. After contact with colonists, many things in Washoe history have been changed or altered including the Lot# 1115 , Beaded War Club 23” tribal name. It is estimated that the traditional hand beaded war club, with vintage Washoe population was more or less 3,000, but feel and look (late 19th Century. it is difficult to know. To understand the Washoe Large stone head, trade cloth woven you need to understand the environment in wrist loop and a fur adornment on which they live. Washoe have always been a part of the land and the head. Great addition to any Native environment, so every aspect of their lives is influenced by the land. peoples collection. . Est. $300-500 The Washoe believe the land, language and people are connected and HWAC# 56406 are intrinsically intertwined. Lot also includes book--”Ghost Dance Winter and Other Tales of the Frontier” by Sally Zanjani. Est. $300- 600 HWAC# 58877 Lot# 1116 , Native American War Club This is a 21” war club with a fur Lot# 1110 , Nevada Washo Points Washo adornment at the neck. It measures points from the Winnemucca lake bed. Lot 21” long and is wrapped in rawhide. includes carnelian, obsidian, chert, and Attractive decorative collectible. Est. others. Nicely designed display on red felt in $200-300 HWAC# 56403 wood glassed case, 24” x 20”. Robert Fulton Collection. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 58879 Lot# 1117 , Native American War Club/Hawk This is a Native American war club/hawk. It has a stone head, wrapped in fur, feather adornments and trade yarn wrapped handle. A major weapon that should make a great addition to any Lot# 1111 , Mounted Points from American Indian collection. There is a newer leather thong attached Various States Pieces are mounted in a for display purposes. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 56404 case, 24” x 20”. Lot includes obsidian, chert, Lot# 1118 , Arrow Point and Bone agate, carnelian, flint,quartzite, and more Arrow point slips into split piece of from: Washo or Paiute, Douglas County, bone in display box. Est. $50-100 NV; Nye County, NV; Washo, Carnelian Bay, HWAC# 61553 CA; Miwok, el Dorado County, CA; Iowa; Arkansas; Idaho; Kentucky; and Trade Beads. Lot also includes one tomahawk stone and a book--”Journal of California and Great Lot# 1119 , Leather Ben Pearson Basin Anthropology”, published by Malki Quiver with 5 Arrows 16.5” leather Museum, Inc., Morongo Indian Reservation, quiver with 5 arrows and mostly Banning, CA. All nicely mounted on red felt. intact feathers Est. $80-120 HWAC# Glass is missing on this case. Robert Fulton Collection. Est. $300-500 63315 HWAC# 58874 Lot# 1120 , Woodland Period Lot# 1112 , Northern Plains Plains Figural Stone Axe Head Full bi- Vintage Stone War Club Native groove stone axe head. Bi-faced. American Plains stone war club, Perhaps Northern Coast. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 38003 rounded rock, shaped and attached to wood handle, deerskin wrapped. Very heavy, rock--5” x 3.5” total length 27”. This club has gained a deep rich patina, and has almost fossilized, due to its great age. Est. $350-600 HWAC# 58852 16 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1121 , Alaska Inuit Marble Lot# 1125 , Arctic Regions Standing Sculpture of Eskimo Stunning Inuit Seal Sculpture Soapstone or serpentine sculpture of an Eskimo--driving a sled. sculpture of a standing seal is simply carved Signed on the bottom by artist. Several with etched flippers and eyes. Nice color small bruises. 10” x 8.5” x 3.5”. The variations, 7.25” x 3.5” x 6.5”. Signed, but sculpture is made out of a gorgeous black unreadable. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 50552 marble stone imported from Northern Quebec. Est. $800-2000 HWAC# 50815 Lot# 1126 , Arctic Regions Stylized Inuit Sculpture This fabulous Inuit sculpture is soapstone or serpentine. Leaning forward, arms behind his back, the man Lot# 1122 , Arctic Regions Canada has a frowning face. Sculpture is unsigned, stylized by the artist. 11” x 9” x 6.5”. Goose Inuit Sculpture Elegant, Est. $1000-3000 HWAC# 50546 graceful Inuit sculpture of Canada Goose in sleeping position. Unsigned, 6.25” x 7” x 5”. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 50566 Lot# 1127 , Alabaster Polar Bear Sculpture Alabaster sculpture of Lot# 1123 , Arctic Regions c.1980 polar bear on ice flow. Signed on Eskimo Battling Polar Bear, Lucassie bottom: Montgomery. 5.5” x 10” x Echalook Impressive sculpture of 5.5”. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61522 an Eskimo battling a ferocious bear. Sculpture attributed to Inuit artist, Lucassie Echalook who was born in 1942. Missing spear in this mortal battle. Several small bruises in the tail area. 11” x 7” x 9”. Echalook’s sculpture is usually a solid mass with few open spaces; his Lot# 1128 , California 1990 “Chief’s narrative scenes are compact, as if part Blanket” Bronze Statue Beautiful of a single form. “An unusual feature fine art limited edition sculpture by of his sculpture is that he often aligns Legends USA mixed media artist C. A. details, such as hands or faces, along Pardell. Bronze, Pewter. Mixed semi- the foreground edge, and his figures’ precious metals medias, tiny piece of anatomical features are distorted turquoise inlaid. 5.25” h x 8” w x 66” into angular planes that converge d. The Old American West has been abruptly, creating an effect that implies depicted in every imaginable art form movement” (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1997). Moreover, by legions of artists, but very few can Echalook’s faces can often be distinguished by their “almond-shaped combine realism with romanticism eyes, broad noses, and wide mouths”. His sculptures are highly- in quite the same way as Christopher polished, except for their bases. Est. $1000-1500 HWAC# 50571 Pardell does in sculpture. All of his works are remarkably accurate, both in the physical characteristics of his subjects and in their historical context, while the aesthetic quality Lot# 1124 , Arctic Regions Laughing and technical execution are nothing short of impeccable. Influenced Man Holding His Pants On, Sak Kannuk by the work of renowned sculptors Russell, Remington and Rodin, Delightful soapstone sculpture of laughing Pardell wanted to pursue his passion for realism. Signed by the artist. man holding his pants on with one hand and Est. $180-350 HWAC# 33106 holding a small wooden club with the other Lot# 1129 , Two Native American hand. Deftly carved, charming, signed Sak Kunnuk. 15” x 7” x 4.5”. Zacharias Kunuk Painted Gourds 1) Tezi Tunka carved (Kannuk), “Zack or Sak,” video maker, sculptor and painted gourd. Roadrunner (born at Kaupivik, Nunavut, 1957). An design. Pine needle rim. 6.5” h x 8” diameter. Beautiful piece. Signed by internationally acclaimed media maker, Kunuk the artist. 2) Contemporary gourd, has played a crucial role in the redefinition of carved and painted by Cheryln ethnographic filmmaking in Canada and has Bennett. Painted with Kachina and been at the forefront of the Inuit’s innovative Shalako figures, w/ leather, beads, use of broadcast technology. After building a feathers and other embellishments. reputation as a soapstone carver, he turned 13” h x 11.5” diameter. Incredible! Please see photographs. Est. $150- to video in the early 1980s when he bought a 300 HWAC# 49468 small-format camera during a trip to an Inuit art gallery in Montréal. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 50840 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 17

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1130 , Turtle Shell with Lot# 1136 , Native American Embossed Shaker 15.5” x 6.75” turtle shell with Framed Art A very pretty embossed metal elongated neck and head. Shaker art in a style we have not seen before. material is inside shell. Possible A Native American woman is depicted snapping turtle. Est. $300-600 standing next to her horse in a field HWAC# 49904 surrounded by Aspen like trees. Work is signed only as Richard. Art is 14.5” x 17.5”, pretty brown frame 27” x 23”. Est. $400- Lot# 1131 Carson City, Nevada 1967 800 HWAC# 63320 Painting: Winnowing the Harvest Winnowing the Harvest Woosie George, Paiute, Stillwater, Nevada. Acrylic painting by Delores Bennett. Lot# 1137 , 1908 Savage by Frederick Remington Framed, 29” x 35”. Est. $500-750 HWAC# 43427 Reproduction of bronze sculpture, ‘’Savage” by Frederick Remington. 9.5” x 4.75” x 5”. Mounted on marble base. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 49730 Lot# 1132 , Bev Doolittle, Two Bears of the Blackfeet Print Nicely framed 12” x 7.5” print in 21.5” x 20.5” brown frame. Est. $70- 100 HWAC# 63316 Lot# 1138 , Warrior on Pinto Print by Spencer Asah A beautiful print of a painting by Kiowa artist Spencer Asah (1906-1954), also known as “Little Boy”. Warrior on Pinto, signed “Asah” in lower left, the owner’s personal ink. Colorful matted and framed print measures Lot# 1133 , Calling the Buffalo 18”x 12” and is ready to hang. Est. $100-200 Framed Prints by Bev Doolittle HWAC# 56639 Two 7.25” x 8.5” side by side prints of a Native American holding a skull above a rock outcropping. Brown frame 16” x 26”. Est. $70-100 HWAC# 63319 Lot# 1139 , WH Jackson, Detroit Lithograph This is a colorful Lot# 1134 , Last Warrior Print by J.D. portrait from Detroit Litho entitled Ute Chief Savera and Family. It’s a Challenger Vivid print of a Native American beautiful rendering and is in near warrior in face paint and beaded wear. Print new condition. Matted and framed, 7.75” x 7.75”, brown frame 20.5” x 16.5”. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 63317 measures 16”x 13”. Ready to hang. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 56643 Lot# 1140 , Arizona Arizona Native American Atrraction Brochures and Postcards Assortment of 6 Native American and Maiden Rock Lot# 1135 , M Weakley Painting of Sharp postcards with 2 RPC’s and 2 souvenir Nose Sharp Nose was an Arapahoe. Done postcards packets, most interesting by Mark Weakley, San Antonio, 1960’s. Est. is chromlitho uniformed US Apache $100-400 HWAC# 48801 Scouts. “Indian Symbols” pamphlet with symbols and translation-stains on front. 1917 Apache Trail of Arizona Southern Pacific booklet. 1974 Pima Indian Drummer Boy illustrated booklet. 1962 Tuzigot National Monument pamphlet. Montezuma Castle National Monument pamphlet. Typed and stapled 1920’s Indian Country road guide. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61761 View High Resolution Images, Register, Place Bids, See Current Opening Bids Visit the online catalog at FHWAC.com 18 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1141 , California Wintun Lot# 1144 , Indian Territory Tribe, Yolo County Artifacts 1888 Indian Territory Cover Wintun artifacts: net weights, to the Chief of the Cherokee fish hooks, Gorges, whistles, Nation Cover from Dr. B.F. scrapers, awls. Lot includes chert, Fortner (?) of Vinita, Indian bone, stone. Great collection of Territory to Hon. Joel B. Mayes, tools. Mounted on red Feld in Chief of the Cherokee Nation, wood glassed case. Robert Fulton Tahlequa, Ind. Terr. Envelope Collection. Est. $600-1000 HWAC# has October 1888 Vinita cancel. Mayes served as the Chief from 58878 January 1888 to December 1891. He was born in Cartersville, Georgia 1833. He served in the Civil War for the Confederacy and rose to captain and assistant quartermaster of the 2nd Regiment of Cherokee Mounted Volunteers. On July 13, 1864, General E. K. Smith appointed Mayes major, brigade quartermaster and paymaster of the First Indian Brigade under Principal Chief and Confederate General Stand Watie, where he served until war’s end. Mayes became chieftain of the Cherokee Nation on the Downing ticket, defeating Rabbit Bunch of the Lot# 1142 , California Wintun, National party. The controversial election caused Congress to create a Yolo County Artifacts Artifacts federal court for Indian Territory which undermined the tribal courts. include: fossilized bone fragment; Mayes was elected to a second term but died after a brief illness at awls; plummets; game pieces; the age of 58. Cover is opened roughly on the right side. Brown 10 rare California acorn atlatl spurs cent and green 2 cent stamps attached. 4 x 8.75” (Potter Collection) (attached to an atlatl, the spear Est. $150-300 HWAC# 59116 thrower. It would attach to make the hook to hold the spear. these are only found in California.); Lot# 1145 , Nevada Three Native quartz crystals; charm stones; shell American Items - Including Fire strands; planting tools; and more. Sticks 1) Fire Stock. 4.5”. Round. Robert Fulton Collection. Charcoal from staring fire still visible. 2) Fire Stick? Long. 7”. Fire residue Wintun, “person.” The Wintun seems present. 3) Round. 2”. We will people consisted of three rely on our experts to help us with subgroups: Patwin (Southern); this one. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 47300 River and Hill Nomlaki (Central); Lot# 1146 , South Dakota Cabinet and Wintu (Northern). Wintuns traditionally lived west of the Card of Sitting Bull’s Cabin Plus Sacramento River, from the valley to the Coast Range. Today most One Other Photograph Lot of 2. 1) Wintuns live on reservations and rancherias in Colusa, Glenn, Yolo, Cabinet card of Sitting Bull’s Cabin Mendocino, and Shasta Counties. The eighteenth-century population at Standing Rock, South Dakota of Wintuns was roughly 15,000, including perhaps 2,000 Nomlaki. In .c.1890. Shows 6 men, some armed, 1990, 147 Indians lived on the four Wintun rancherias, and more lived posing outside of log cabin. “Sitting off-reservation. Also, Wintuns were among 656 Indians who lived on Bull’s Cabin” is processed into the two other shared reservations. The enrolled membership figures were photograph (though difficult to read). 2,244 Wintu, 332 Nomlaki, and no Patwin. History In aboriginal times, Photographer is not readable. Sitting Bull was a Lakota leader who the Wintuns consisted of nine major groups within the three main had visions of Custer’s army before the Battle of Little Big Horn. He subgroups. Some Nomlakis encountered the Spanish as early as 1808, went on to perform in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. He was killed in although in general the Nomlaki were outside the sphere of Spanish 1890 by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation influence. By 1800, Patwins were being taken by force to the missions. during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared Wintus first met non-natives in 1826, when the Jedediah Smith and that he would join the Ghost Dance movement. 2) E.G. Cummings, Peter Ogden expeditions entered the region. Malaria epidemics killed Lewiston, Idaho cabinet card of Native American woman in studio. roughly 75 percent of Wintuns in the early 1830s. Severe smallpox Reverse identifies her as Tom Hart’s wife. Weak contrast and heavy epidemics followed in 1837. By the mid-nineteenth century, most soiling. (Potter Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 60188 of their land had been stolen. Ranchers’ cattle and sheep destroyed their main food sources. Miners polluted the fresh water. Then came Lot# 1147 , 5 Different Native the massacres. Captain John C. Fremont killed 175 Wintu and Yana American Photos c. 1950’s 8” x 10” in 1846; in 1850, whites gave a “friendship” feast with poisoned food, killing 100 Wintu. In 1851, 300 Indians died. Est. $300-600 black and white photos depicting HWAC# 58876 several tepees in a camping area (this photo has some light water spots), 3 photos of Native Americans Lot# 1143 Salmon City, Idaho c1890 in ceremonial dress. 3 Native Photograph of Indian at Salmon American men conversing and a 6.5” City Salmon City, commonly just x 10” photo of Native Americans called Salmon, was laid out in 1867. in ceremonial dress. Photos were taken by Montana author and Photograph is 3.25 x 3.25”. Frame 5 photographer Donald E. Miller. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 50257 x 5”. Hardware and Millinery store can be seen. Great contrast! From Register, Bid, the personal collection of Hugh Shamberger. Most Photos identified & view opening bids at by/for Hugh on the front or the back. FHWAC.com Est. $200-400 HWAC# 49964 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 19

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1148 , February 5, 1887 Native Lot# 1152 , Photogravure American Encounter Illustration by Roland W. Reed Roland from Harper’s Weekly Titled W. Reed (1864-1934). “Suspicious Guests” this illustration Original photogravure-- shows an American Indian man in The Wood Gatherer, Hopi. conversation with a group of white Gravure Eng. Co. MPLS. 9” settlers on a snowy day. In the x 13”, matted and framed distance two native people can be 17.25” x20.25”. Roland (Royal seen on horseback. This illustration Jr.) W. Reed, an American was featured in the February 5th, artist and photographer, was 1887 edition of Harper’s Weekly. It part of an early 20th century measures approximately 21.25” x 15.75.” (Potter Collection) Est. $60- group of photographers 100 HWAC# 63231 of Native Americans known as pictorialists. Lot# 1149 , Native American Pictorialists were influenced by the late 19th Century art movement, Group Two vintage collectible photo Impressionism, and their photography was characterized by an lithography printing plates. Positive emphasis on lighting and focus. Rather than record an image as it images of Indians. Also in this group was, pictorialists were more interested in re-creating an image as are two small metal statues of they thought it might have been. Part artist and part scientist, they kachina dancers; each is 5’ high on endeavored to have their re-creations reflect not only the highest wood stands. Est. $50-100 HWAC# artistic value, but unquestioned ethnological accuracy as well. At the beginning of the 20th century a number of pictorialists, noticing the extremely deleterious impact of reservation life on Native Americans, wanted to recreate in photographs the Indian’s life and ways as they had been in better times, rather than record how it had actually become. (from Wikipedia) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 56851 Lot# 1153 , Two Mounted Lot# 1150 Studio Photographs of a , Minoan Art Native American, c.1880s and Archaeology No photographer or location with 10 Photos identified. Cabinet card sized 6 pages from Art photographs (5.5 x 4” on 7 x 5” and Archaeology mount) possibly of the same possibly May-June Native American man. He is 1934, A Minoan Gold dressed in traditional clothing. Treasure. 10.75” x In one of the photographs 7.75”. 10 black and he is posing with a bow and white photos of arrow. Medium contrast. One Minoan art on thick photograph has a missing upper left corner. (Potter Collection) Est. matting. The Gold $200-400 HWAC# 60183 Treasure of Sigsig, Ecuador, leaflets of Lot# 1154 , Varied Native the Museum of the American Lot Varied Native American Indian, American lot includes: Tea drip Heye Foundation 1924. 16 pages on heavy stock with 3 color plates spoon, beaded pin with tiny and several art drawings. 9.5” x 13”. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 52816 moccasins, tiny papoose on frame, tiny sterling gun and holster, tiny Lot# 1151 , Native American storyteller in plastic, Kokopelli pin, 2 carved antler pieces, painted bird Photo Reprints by Curtis (5) 5 b/w pin, stamped bracelet with turquoise approx 12” x 9” of Native American stones, tiny beaded figure, Est. $50-80 HWAC# 49441 scenes. Nez Perce Baby, Waiting in the Forest-Cheyenne(stained), A Family Lot# 1155 , Vintage Photo of Native Group-Noatak, Kotsuis and Hohhuq- American This vintage photo of a Native Nakoaktok(stained), Quilcene Boy. American warrior has a not written on the Est. $60-120 HWAC# 60801 back to the framed piece: Photo, T. M. Swen. We can find no reference to a photographer by this name. Framed 9.5” x 7.5”. Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 58863 Zoom in and see close up detail and High Resolution Images of ALL LOTS available online at FHWAC.com 20 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1156 , Nevada In the Shadow Lot# 1160 , Cherokee Cookbook, of Fox Peak In the Shadow of Fox Myths and Medicine Books (4) Peak, and Ethnography of the Cattail Cherokee Cookbook by Ulmer. Indian Eater. Northern Paiute People of Recipes by Gibbons. Cooking Wild Stillwater Marsh. By Catherine Game by Almand. Earth Medicine-Earth Fowler. Cultural Resources Series Foods by Weiner. (Al Adams Gold Rush Number 5. US Department of the Memorabilia Collection) Est. $80-100 Interior 1992. Hardbound, 264 pages, HWAC# 56113 well illustrated. The book discusses every aspect of the archaeology and anthropology of this Native American group complete with photos of artifacts and baskets. A must-have reference for the Nevada historian. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 571516 Lot# 1161 , Cherokee Footprints Books (2) 1) Hardback, Cherokee Lot# 1157 , Footprints by Walker, Volume 1, Washington D. C. 1893 178 pp. Privately printed 1988; 2) Paperback, Cherokee Footprints... Annual Report Volume 2 by Walker, pictures, drawings, 216 pp. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 55105 of the Bureau of Ethnology Lot# 1162 , Cherokee language Annual Report Book Group (11) 5 booklets CWY of the Bureau OhZPPOA (sic). Sequoyah Father of of Ethnology, the Cherokee Alphabetby Petersen. 1888-89 by The Georgia Historical Quareterly Fall J. W. Powell, 1989. Sequoyah and the Cherokee Director. To the Alphabet by Cwiklik. Cherokee Secretary of the Words with pictures by Chiltoskey. Smithsonian IAWf ICWY IAfBI ISGI?VI (sic). 2 sets Institution. of typed booklets of conversatonal Contains Cherokee by Walker. (Al Adams Gold “Picture-Writing Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $120-150 HWAC# 55774 of the American Indians” by Lot# 1163 , Misc. Cherokee Garrick Mallery Ephemera, Books, VHS Tapes (1831-1894). Hardback and paperback books, “An opulence of VHS tapes is telling about the illustrations, it is a nobel testimony to the tireless industry, ingenious Cherokee Nation, The Story of New research, and power of philosophical comparison of its writer, Echota. Book of Etowah Papers by illustrations, color and b/w full plates.” Washington, Government Moorehead; Sam Houston with the Printing Office, 1893. Brown linen hardbound with gold engraved Cherokee, 1820-1833 by Gregory; Native American, 822 pp, 11.5” x 8”. Robert Fulton Collection, signed Map of The Battle of Pickett’s Mill. by Fulton, 1894. Used, good condition. This publication is an incredible May 27, 1864, 31”x 24”. (Al Adams resource for anyone. Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 61279 Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $120-200 HWAC# 55113 Lot# 1158 , Cherokee Biographies Books (7) 1) The Last Cherokee Warriors, paperback, by Steele; 2) The Last Cherokee Warriors, paperback, by Steele; 3) Cherokee Editor The Writings of Elias Boudinot, paperback; 4) John Lot# 1164 , c1925-1956 Older Ross Cherokee Chief, hardback, by Cherokee Related Papers Moulton; 5) White Path”A Cherokee Papers relating to Explorations Chief”, paperback, by Elaine Jordan, and at Etowah Indian Mounds Near signed by Author; 6) A Trumpet of Our Cartersville, Georgia; Ocmulgee Own, hardback, by John Rollin Ridge; 7) National Monument, Georgia Cherokee Planters in Georgia 1832-1838 with many pictures; Indian by Shadburn, hardback. (Al Adams Gold Treaties and Cessions (sic) Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $70-120 HWAC# 54277 compiled by Alex M. Hitz; and many more! (Al Adams Gold Lot# 1159 , Cherokee Biography Rush Memorabilia Collection) Group (6) John Ross Cherokee Chief Est. $100-200 HWAC# 55111 by Moulton. Unhallowed Intrusion , A History of Cherokee Families in Lot# 1165 , Tribes of the Southern Forsyth County, GA by Shadburn. Woodlands and Cherokee Images Eequoyah’s Gift by Klausner. Georgia’s Books Hardcovers. Tribes of the Indian Heritage by White. Sketches Southern Woodlands by Time Life Books, 1994 175pp. Cherokee of Some of the First Settlers of Upper Images by Walker, 1988 163pp. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Georgia, of the Cherokees and the Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# 55759 Author by Gilmer. Cherokee Cavaliers by Parins. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $200- 300 HWAC# 55767 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 21

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Native Americana Lot# 1166 , Indian Peace Medals in Lot# 1171 , Trail of Tears Related American History, Book Paperback Books (5) 1) Cherokee Legends and the book with pictures of medals with Native Trail of Tears, paperback, by Underwood; Americans that won them. Includes George 2) The Cherokee Removal, paperback, by Washington, President medal of 1793; the Perdue and Green; 3) Cherokee Tragedy, Thomas Jefferson Medals; James Buchanan The Story of of the Ridge Family and of Medals, just to name a few. 174 pp, 10” the Decimation of a People; hardback, by x 8”. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Thurman Wilkins; 4) Cherokee Removal Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 55104 Before and After, paperback; 4) Trail of Tears The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle, hardback, pp. 397. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Lot# 1167 , Native Americans at War Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 54278 Books (5) Bury My Heart at Wounded Lot# 1172 , Native American Knee by Brown. Rebel Georgia by History Library About 10 books Boney. Joe Brown’s Army by Bragg. on Native American history for Lakota Noon by Michno. Crimson the advanced student. Perhaps and Sabre, A Confederate Record of the best is the Navajo language, a Forsyth County, Georgia by Shadburn. publication of the education division (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $70-100 HWAC# 55752 of the US Indian service from 1969. Also includes the Apache Kid, the Dispossessed, the Fox in the Whirlwind, Son of the Morning Star, Eyewitnesses to the Indian wars of 1865 to 1890, the Indian frontier, Pageant in the Wilderness. A nice Lot# 1168 , Money of the group, some of these are virtually new and unopened. wEst. $120-150 American Indians by Taxay Money HWAC# 62132 of the American Indians and other primitive currencies of the Americas by Taxay. 158pp. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 55763 Lot# 1169 , Native American History Library (14) A collection of 14 Native American publications. The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow. American Indian Civil Rights Handbook. Blackfeet Indians of RETURN POLICY Glacier National Park. Pine Top Fox by Croy. Geronimo, The Man. His Time, His Place by Debo. American Indian All items are guaranteed to be authentic Medicine by Vogel. Native American Wisdom by Cleary. Indians of the unless otherwise noted. If authenticity Plains by Drucker. A Treasury of American Indian Herbs by Scully. is challenged, please call our office for Sun Circles and Human Hands by Fundabark. North American Indians assistance. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. �ou may by Taylor. Southwestern Indian Ceremonials by Bahti. Excavations at Toe Ta’a by Steen. The Plains Indians by Taylor. VHS tape Dances with only return any piece that was significantly Wolves. Answers to Questions about the American Indian pamphlet. inaccurately described by calling our (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# office within 10 days of receipt of item(s) 56129 and notifying us of the error and reason Lot# 1170 , 1930 Railroad-Indian for return. We do not refund postage or Pioneer Prints Book (1) Railroad- insurance. PLEASE CALL US IF YOU REQUIRE Indian and Pioneer Prints by Currier and Ives, compiled by Fred J. Peters. A MORE SPECIFIC CONDITION REPORT OR ADDITIONAL PHOTOS. Any items that are Hardback book, second volume of a series of publication on Currier returned must be returned in the exact, and Ives prints. 106 pp. Beautifully illustrated, black and white of Indian prints; American Railroad Scene; unaltered condition. When we receive The Buffalo Chase; Capturing a Wild Horse; to mention a few.11” x 8.5”. your bids we will assume you have read the (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 54279 description in the catalog, viewed the image of the item, have contacted us regarding any questions you may have on any lot and/or have previewed the lot in person. 22 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Cowboy Lot# 1173 , Buermann Lot# 1178 , L&M Double Star Steel Silver Marked Mounted Silver Spurs Double Bit & Spur Set Buermann Mounted Silver Spurs By L&M. Star Steel silver marked Beautiful Double Mounted Silver bit & spur set.Listed Spurs by Denny Lytle and James in their #35 catalog as Mower, father and son-in-law Panama Bit and Cowboy partnership. Spurs each have 6 Spurs. Mouth is 5” wide inlaid mother of pearl spots on the & length of bit is 6 ½” heel bands, shanks have a crescent from top of bridle rings to moon shape dropping onto 3’ 45 bottom of bit with a nice point rowells. Spurs have a very original set of rein chains attached. Spurs have 1 ½” 20 point rowells. nice pair of floral tooled leather This set is in near mint condition and well marked. Est. $450-550 straps. L&M Spurs are highly HWAC# 62021 sought after by bit and spurs collectors across the country. Lot# 1174 , Crockett Bit Vintage Silver Overlaid Crockett bit, Vintage silver overlaid bit with 5” Est. $2000-2800 HWAC# 62017 mouth and 7” tall from top of bridle rings to base of bit,.Crockett mark is on underside of mouth. Lot# 1179 , Longhorn Motif Spurs with Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62015 Clover Style Rowels Pair of Longhorn motif spurs with clover style rowels ,silver bars on shank and engraved buttons. Longhorn is brass with copper rope trim, leathers have floral pattern, spurs are marked with RM on 1 side & 96 for year made on the other side. Spurs were made by Richard Molica a ferrier in Santa Rosa, Lot# 1175 , Crockett Silver Overlaid Bull CA Est. $350-450 HWAC# 62019 Riding Style Spurs Nice pair of vintage Crockett silver overlaid bull riding style spurs. Crockett stamped on lower edge of heel band near shank. Buttons, heel bands and shank tips are all silver Lot# 1180 , Kelly Spurs Pair of Kelly overlaid. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 62024 Spurs with Peanut Pattern, silver overlay on stainless steel. Spurs have Kelly mark at rear of heel band under swinging button hangers. Est. $300-375 HWAC# 62016 Lot# 1176 , Engraved Stainless Steel Spurs Nicely engraved pair of stainless spurs. Slightly curved shanks for cutting horse riding. Engraving wraps around both sides of each spur spurs, 5 point star buttons on one side, heavy leathers with JB brand or initials carved in. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 62443 Lot# 1181 , North & Judd Spurs Pair of North & Judd Calvary style spurs with original bluing. Nice Anchor marks. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62025 Lot# 1177, Gene Rogers Spurs Gene Rogers double mounted silver, brass and copper spurs. Gene Rogers of Golden, Colorado Lot# 1182 , Silver Overlaid Bit & a 2013 Hall of Spur set by Joe Stanbro of Claremore, Fame recipient, OK Very nice silver overlaid bit & National Bit, Spur & spur set by Joe Stanbro of Claremore, Saddle Collector’s Oklahoma. Texas style curb bit mouth Association, These is 5” wide and 6 1/4” from top of bridle spurs are tri-colored rings to base of bit, both pieces are well with silver, brass & copper. They are double mounted with different marked. Joe is well known for building patterns on each side (hearts on one side & a boxed in diamond gear for the working cowboy/cowgirl. pattern with twisted brass bar on the other) rowells are 2 ½” with 5 Est. $475-575 HWAC# 62018 point stars. Spurs feature a Cheyene Split heel band where the straps attach with a silver button on the bottom & a heart on the top. Floral pattern straps were also done by Gene, these spurs have never been used & would be a great addition for any collector. Est. $1500-2000 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 23

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Cowboy Lot# 1183 , Silver Overlaid Spurs These spurs are Lot# 1189 , Antique Silver Visalia-style overlaid with engraved silver disc in graduated sizes, S-cheek snaffle bit This is an antique snaffle bit the heel band and rowell pin covers are also overlaid with silver concho decoration and a silver wrap with silver, the spurs are marked with PSJR and Burke spiral on the cheek piece. The mouth is 4 3/4 in. #2. Est. $380-475 HWAC# 62440 and the cheek is 8 in. in length. The mouth has a cricket roller fitting on sweet iron and the silver concho and triangle inlays have a flower pattern engraving with a chicken walk boarder. The large S-style cheeks feature inlaid silver bands and domed silver conchos typical of 20th century Visalia-style California bits. All original, including slobber chains, and in very fine condition with minor wear. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 56238 Lot# 1184 , Silver Overlaid Spurs These spurs have silver overlaid bars on the heel Lot# 1190 , Antique Snaffle Bit with bands with native American type engraved Silver Spade Heart Shaped Cheekpiece markings and unique silver capped buttons This is an antique snaffle bit likely of with native style markings as well. Shanks are Mexican or Californian origin with sweet Bianchi style bottle openers with silver at the iron frame and a copper wrapped side tips over 16 point rowells, spurs are marked Tony 7 inside the heel bands. Est. $450-600 rails. This bit features a blued-steel low HWAC# 62442 spade mouthpiece with a steel cricket and copper-wrapped side rails in a five- inch mouth. The large engraved silver heart cheeks and domed silver conchos are reminiscent of California bits but the quality suffers. Several pieces are Lot# 1185 , Silver Overlaid Spurs Pair missing from the silver overlays, and of silver spot overlaid bull riding spurs. general wear is evident overall, but all pieces are original including the Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62445 slobber chains. The dimensions are 5 in. mouth and 7 in. cheek. The side plate has a large 2 1/2 in. silver concho and the side frame has a heart shaped silver inlay over iron; all engraved and the concho has a chicken walk boarder. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 56239 Lot# 1191 , D.L. (Don) Moe Silver Inlaid Spade Bit Don originally was known as a saddle maker in the Paso Robles area of California however he did branch out to also include the building of some bits and spurs marking them with two connected V’s for Lot# 1186 , Silver Spurs Silver overlaid on Vintage Vaquero. This is a fancy inlaid floral stainless spurs. Silver button with crescent and leaf silver pattern on a spade bit. Inside moon motif on heel bands. Strap buttons are mouth measures at 5 ¼” and about 7 ½” from engraved as well as the covers on the 14 point top of bridle rings to inside of lip bar. Est. rowels. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 62023 $750-950 HWAC# 62444 Lot# 1192 , Early Bird Pattern cheek horse bit This 19th C. hooded- port half-breed bit, possibly an early Buermann product, features silver Lot# 1187 , Silver Spurs by Joe Hernandez adorned loose cheeks with a copper Nice pair of silver spurs by Joe Hernandez of Spur hood over a copper cricket in a five- Ranch in King City ,California. The silver work by inch mouth, with several copper Joe was done on a pair of Jeremiah Watt spurs bands inlet into the mouthpiece. Most blanks. Est. $350-450 HWAC# 62022 of the silver decorations are missing, and few items are modern replacements, but this is still an unusual style of 19th Century bit. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 56241 Lot# 1193 , Jeremiah Watt Spade Bit on Headstall Jeremiah Watt made stainless engraved spade bit on a nice Lot# 1188 , Vintage Cast Iron leather headstall with trim pieces by Jeremiah. Bit has a Rustic Spurs Vintage cast iron 5 point star on the cheek and rustic spurs with embossed leather straps. Est. $300-600 the top of the spade is also HWAC# 42073 engraved. Mouth is 5” and from the top of the bridle rings to the lip bar measures 8”. Accompanied by a nice set of rein chains. Est. $450-600 HWAC# 62439 24 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Cowboy Lot# 1194 , Mexican Made Silver Bit Silver Lot# 1200 , Snaffle Bit in Pistol inlaid with some piercing of a floral pattern on the Motif Great little snaffle bit in pistol cheeks and nice floral buttons. This is somewhat motif. Floral pattern silver overlaid of a Mullens style mouth piece at 5” wide, nice with small blue gem stone. Mouth is inlay work on lip bar with great patina on the 5 ¼ “ & 6 ¼ “ from top of bridle rings silver, about 8” from top of bridle rings to base of to bottom of bit. Marked Griff on lip bar. Est. $350-425 HWAC# 62014 inside of both cheeks. Est. $225-325 HWAC# 62027 Lot# 1201 , Silver Overlaid Bit with Vintage Headstall and Reins Silver overlaid bit with vintage headstall and reins. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 62451 Lot# 1195 , Ornate Pistol Bit Silver overlaid pistol bit with nice detail including pistols on each side. Lip bar has buffalo head in center with arrows flanking each side, bit is marked with an RM in the center of a horse shoe and the number 234 below. Mouth is 5” and about 7 ½ ” from top of bridle rings to center of curved lip bar. Cool looking item. Est. $350-450 HWAC# 62441 Lot# 1202 , Utah Collection of Horse Bits & 1 Pair of Child’s Chaps Stainless Horse Bits. This collection Lot# 1196 , Renalde Bit with Headstall and Reins of horse bits was salvaged prior to Beautiful Renalde silver inlaid bit with Champion the dams on the Snake River in Utah headstall and romel reins. Mouth is 5 “ and from top & Idaho before water was backed up of bridle rings to bottom of bit is 8” Est. $480-575 in 1950’s & 1960’s. 1 pair of child’s HWAC# 62450 chaps 22” length. Good condition. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 59657 Lot# 1203 , Heavy braided bullwhip This is a heavy braided leather bullwhip, some ten feet seven inches in length. The bottom 24 inches is a large square braid Lot# 1197 , Silver Bit and Headstall Nice silver inlaid tapering to a round braid and bit with Mullen style 5” mouth. Headstall has nice buckles, eventually to a a single strand. The conchos and brow-band trim piece. Est. $330-425 square handle, which appears to be HWAC# 62452 bone is broken. Overall an unusual early-day bullwhip. Only a truly experienced teamster would need and build a bullwhip of this size. Now is your chance to control the unruly neighbor’s dog. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 56243 Lot# 1204 Shakopee, Minnesota Western Leather Cuffs Western leather cuffs with 5 pt star design in silver studs. Center of star has Lot# 1198 , Silver Bit with Herring Bone Pattern raised button with golden eagle and shield. new, never worn. Dark brown Silver Bit, Vintage herring bone pattern. Silver inlaid bit leather, beautiful. John Clark, maker, with unique mouth piece. Bit has a CW mark in script Shakopee, MN. Est. $150-250 HWAC# style on both ends of the 5” mouth. Est. $350-450 HWAC# 62026 41456 Lot# 1205 , Bolo Ties Collection, 21 Ties 14 stone cabachon bolos-3 banded agate, 1 tiger eye, 4 agates, 1 petrified wood, 1 jet and more. Pretty group. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 61343 Lot# 1199 , Silver mounted Arizona-style horse bit This bit is attributed to the famed August Lot# 1206 , Embroided Guanlets Buermann, because the maker’s Vintage pair of embroidered Native mark is illegible. The bit features American Gauntlets with rose and an elongated half-breed port with a leaf pattern. Blue and green stitching above fingers, cuff opening at copper cricket in a five- inch wide 8” and 13 ½ “ in length. No tears or holes, toning consistent with use. mouth. All silver decorations are Est. $175-275 HWAC# 62430 present, and the slobber chains are original, but overall wear and modest corrosion is evident. This is a decent collectible example of a scarce Buermann bit. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 56240 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 25

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Cowboy Lot# 1207 , Ladies Riding Gloves Lot# 1213 , Buffalo Bill Early pair of ladies leather riding/ Stereoview Buffalo Bill was buggy gloves, smaller size and 12” perhaps the most famous Wild West in length with no tears or holes. performer. This view is labeled Est. $50-75 HWAC# 62431 as “2. Indian camp. Buffalo Bill combination” and shows a group of men at a fence with a tent in the background. No photographer listed. Small crease on upper left, does not detract from view. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 53215 Lot# 1214 , United States 1890 Die Lot# 1208 , Pair of Gauntlets Cuts of Buffalo Bill Wild West Show (1) 1 Die Cut of Deadwood Coach Leather. Tan and dark brown. This is Frontier Scene, 6” x 4.5”, beautiful a small pair and will not come close condition in a protective cover. Est. to fitting the describers hand. Left $100-200 HWAC# 59301 and right hands are coming apart at the seam and needs to be resown. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 60975 Lot# 1215 , United States 1890 Die Cuts of Lot# 1209 , Two Great Western Buffalo Bill Wild West Show (2) Die Cuts, Paper Money Guaranty, Cowboys With Rifle Frontier Hats 1) Resistol, hand creased, self- Scene 6” x 4.25”; Deadwood Coach Frontier Scene formed. Miles City Saddlery Co., Miles 6” x 4.6”. This is our best pair. Beautiful condition City, Montana. Brown, beaver, new in protective covers, vivid colors. Est. $240-300 looking very good condition, size HWAC# 57576 “20”. 2) Serratelli Hat Company, over 100 years of tradition, made in USA., Black felt, size 7.75. Good condition. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 57841 Lot# 1210 , Vintage Acme Boots Nice pair of vintage Acme Cowboy boots. Brown with red and white inlays, heels and soles still Lot# 1216 , 1906 good for wearing or just a great pair for a Pawnee Bill’s colorful display at the home or ranch. Size Historic Wild West not visible but look to be about 12 to 13’s. Poster Pawnee Est. $100-175 HWAC# 62435 Bill’s Historic Wild West Poster, 30” x 40”, mounted on linen. “Captain Keller’s Wonderful Zouave Girls Direct Lot# 1211 , Vintage Goding Cowboy from England...” Poster is in Boots Almost mint pair of vintage Goding excellent condition Cowboy Boots. From the logo inside pull- with bright, ups to the soles almost no wear at all, the vibrant colors. soles still show case the original Goding After courting for logo with the bucking horse still very visible. About size 9 ½ to 10. Est. $100- two years, Lillie married May Manning in 1886, a petite Quaker from 200 HWAC# 62434 Pennsylvania. She was younger than he, a graduate of Smith College, and the daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia physician. Her parents objected at first to their refined young daughter marrying a cowboy, but eventually they agreed to the union. In 1888, the Lillies launched their own Wild West show, which they called “Pawnee Bill’s Historic Wild West”. May starred in the show as the “Champion Girl Horseback Lot# 1212 , Vintage Silk Rodeo Shot of the West.” Their first season was a financial disaster. They re- Scarf Beautiful full size silk rodeo organized as a smaller operation called “Pawnee Bill’s Historical Wild scarf with teepees on border trim,” West Indian Museum and Encampment Show.” That show was popular Let’ r Buck” motif with yellow and financially successful. In 1907, Lillie hired performers from a background, 1950’s—1960’s. Est. variety of backgrounds. The show included Mexican cowboys, Pawnee, $80-120 HWAC# 62432 Japanese performers, and Arab jugglers. The ensemble debuted as “Pawnee Bill’s Great Far East Show.”[Wikipedia]. Copyright and printing by The Strobridge Litho Co., Cincinatti & New York. A short while later, Pawnee Bill combined shows with Buffalo Bill. The end of the “Buffalo Bill era” was about 1912, as the audience interest waned and the original performers all got older. This is a choice example from a well known New York Collection that once housed more than 50 original Buffalo Bill posters. Est. $7000-12000 HWAC# 58865 26 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Cowboy Lot# 1217 , Lot# 1222 Los Angeles, California Lorne 1909 Buffalo Greene Award Lorne Greene Award, purchased Bill - Pawnee from the estate of Loren Greene. 16 ½” x 24” Bill 1909 mounted award from International Footprint Poster Original Association Chapter 2 Los Angeles, Great Buffalo Bill- collectible for any Lorne Greene or Bonanza Pawnee Bill fan. Mounted to a brown wood backing with poster mounted clear coat. 5 thumbtack holes in certificate. on linen. 30” x Est. $200-300 HWAC# 62454 40”. “Pawnee Bill’s Great Far East combined with Buffalo Lot# 1223 Santa Barbara, California Bill’s Wild West”. Rancheros Visitadores Collection “Mons. Alfredo Two Roster books (1937 & 1940), Rossi’s Marvelous Musical Elephants”. Copyrighted and printed by The two bolo slides (a sombrero and Strobridge Litho Co., Cincinnati & New York. Gordon William Lillie one fashioned from a white metal (1860 – 1942), known professionally as Pawnee Bill, was an American token), a bronze token, and seven showman and performer who specialized in Wild West shows and was leather ID badges for Vic Sickinger, known for his short partnership with Buffalo Bill. Bright and vibrant movie sound man. The Rancheros colors, from a well-known New York Collection that was once home Visitadores or the “Visiting Ranchers” to more than 50 original Buffalo Bill posters. This is a choice example is a social club that meets on ranch of the high quality promotion posters put our for Buffalo Bill’s shows. land in Santa Barbara and embarks Est. $8000-15000 HWAC# 58864 northward on a 60-mile journey across the countryside after receiving a blessing at the Santa Ynez Mission. The exclusive, male-only club Lot# 1218 Hollywood, California 1957 has included such dignitaries as Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope, Gene Autry Raiders of Old California Movie Poster and Walt Disney. The Rancheros, which includes clubs from several This is a three sheet movie poster (41”x states and members from several countries, meet every year in Santa 81”) for the 1957 Wetsern Raiders of Ynez Valley the first Saturday of May to ride and camp. Est. $200-400 Old California, starring Jim Davis, Faron HWAC# 61070 Young and Marty Robbins. Due to it’s large size, it’s in two pieces, but can be easily Lot# 1224 , California The Ranch reconstructed on a large poster board. Boys Autograph Trio Three There are few small tears in border, but all autographs from The Ranch Boys on in all a very vibrant.and colorful piece of old 2” x 2.75” paper slips affixed to an Hollywood. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 56600 autograph book page. Jack Ross, Joe “Curley” Bradley and Hubert “Shorty” Lot# 1219 Hollywood, California 1953 Carson formed a Western singing trio in Calif. in 1934. They later moved to Stampede Movie Poster This is a three sheet Chicago and signed a contract with movie poster (41”x 81”) for the 1953 western NBC. They were famous for playing Stampede. Poster is in two pieces, but can easily songs such as Ragtime Cowboy Joe, be affixed to solid backing. Some small tears on When the Sun Goes Down Again and Streets of Laredo. Est. $200-300 border, but very colorful. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 56602 HWAC# 571411 Lot# 1225 , California Bronze Plaques with Western & Cowboy Themes (3) Beautiful bronze plaques by Tom Lot# 1220 Hollywood, California 1943 The Knapp. 1) Traveling Hotel, Leather Burners Movie Poster This is a three 9.5” x 9.5” 2) Cattle Drive sheet movie poster (41”x 81”) for the 1943 9.5” x 9.5” 3) Indian Girl 9.5” x 9.5”This artist was born in Gillette, western, The Leather Burners, starring Andy Wyoming in 1925. His wife is artist, Dorothy Bell Knapp. “ He is Clyde, Jay Kirby and William Boyd as Hopalong intensely interested in the contemporary Indian and strives for ever- Cassidy. Poster is is two halves, but can easily be fresh way to depict the dignity and culture of the present-day Indian reconstructed on a solid backing. No small tears and Westerner. Of this commitment, he said: “There’s a Western art visible and colors are vibrant. Hoppy was a very fad in progress, and things that happened 100 years ago are currently popular character back in the day and later went being re-examined for use as subject matter. I feel that this is largely on to star in his own TV show. Est. $100-300 wasted effort, After all, such artists are trying to breathe life into HWAC# 56601 something they didn’t actually experience.” Additional shipping may apply due to weight. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 59302 Lot# 1221 , Hopalong Cassidy Pocket Knife Black side panels with Lot# 1226 Denver, Colorado Hopalong Cassidy on a white horse Original Snyder Saddlery Catalog holding up a pistol.3 blades, 3.5”. The O. J. Snyder Saddlery, 1535 Est. $50-90 HWAC# 61855 Larimer St. Denver, Colo. Catalog No. 26. Snyder-Built Saddles are the Best. 9.75” x 7”. Great illustrations. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 41942 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 27

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Cowboy Lot# 1227 Deer Lodge, Montana Lot# 1233 , Washington 1920s Deer Lodge Prison Quirt This is a Washington Rodeo Real beautiful hand hitched horsehair Photo Postcards Lot of 15. horse quirt made at the prison in Walla Walla, Ellensburg, and Deer Lodge, Montana. Length is 30”. Toppenish. None were postally Deer Lodge is well known for its used. No duplicates. Riders prisoner made horsehair items which such as Roy Hunter, Wynn are highly valued and collected Vickerman, Donnie Snyder, pieces Est. $300-450 HWAC# 62433 Dan Clark, Pinkey Gist, and Hugh Clark. A few have the photographer identified as Marcell in Portland. General Lot# 1228 , Montana 1884 Old condition is good. Est. $200- LU Cow Camp Photograph 600 HWAC# 25343 An L.A. Huffman 1884 photo of the Old LU Bar Cow Camp. Photo measures 18’x 9” (25”x Lot# 1234 Cheyenne, Wyoming 1919 15” framed and matted).A Photos of Ranching in Wyoming beautiful photo graph in near Ten photos of cattle and sheeping new condition. Est. $100-200 ranching in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1919. A rattlesnake poses for one of the pictures. Photos are 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 52416 Lot# 1229 Omaha, Nebraska 1888 Omaha Lot# 1235 , Cowboy Daguerreotype Two Barb Wire Company Letterhead Letter to P. cowboys or ranch hands strutting their stuff. Basche & Co. of Baker City Oregon explaining 3.25 x 2.25”. Nice contrast. Est. $200-400 price increase. Letter has neat vignette of HWAC# 60976 eagle on bail of wire. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 52018 Lot# 1230 Reno, Nevada Framed Lot# 1236 , Tintype of a Cowboy and His 1983 Reno Rodeo Poster Framed Rifle Tin type of a cowboy posing with his poster in wood frame. Frame rifle next to a cast iron railing. Est. $150-250 measures 29.5” x 24”. RENO RODEO/ WILDEST, RICHEST RODEO HWAC# 62457 IN THE WEST/ JUNE 17-26, 1983. Signed by artist Gene Stewart, 75/1000. Depicts a rider on a bucking bronc. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 50226 Lot# 1231 Reno, Nevada 1985 Reno Rodeo Poster Unframed poster. RENO RODEO/ WILDEST RICHEST RODEO IN THE WEST/JUNE 25-30, 1985. Depicts a cowboy sitting on a hay bale laughing with a young boy. Signed by artist Lot# 1237 , Tintype Photo of a Rancher/ Martha Jane Spurlock. 75/1000. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 50229 Farmer Dressed in a white Shirt and knee high boots. Housed in a paper mount. Some foxing on reverse.Person is unidentified. Est. $40-80 HWAC# 46919 Lot# 1232 Pendleton, Oregon Pendleton Rodeo Bronc Busting RPC’s (18) 18 RPC’s Lot# 1238 , c1910 Dead Outlaw featuring Buck Lucas, Hugh Strickland, On Display Photo Approx 6” x 8.25” Tommy Sutton, Chris mounted photo of a dead outlaw roped to a board and put on display in front of a drug store. He is the Neiting, Yakima second man from the left and he is lashed to a board, his face very Canutt, Opal Croeder, dark. The sixth man from the left has his arms crossed and is the only Dave White, Norman armed man. Sore sign reads ‘We Carry Ellet Kendall Shoe Co’s Shield Cowen, Loren, Braden Brand Shoes” A wagon in front is probably destined to carry off the Gerkin, Bob Askins, body. No women in the street but some are peering out a window. Frank Smith and more. Mostly removed from an album with black backings. Est. $240-400 Photo taken after 1901 when Ellet Shoes bought out Kendall Co and HWAC# 57212 renamed it Ellet Kendall Shoe Co. Note damage to missing bottom and edges and right toning. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 59765 28 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Cowboy Lot# 1239 , RPC of Sheriff, Deputy Lot# 1245 , Pioneer Photographs and Birt Taylor Birt Taylor was Lot of three: 1) Tintype photo of two sentenced to hang. Postmarked Western pioneers dressed in their best Minden, NE and back reads “this was clothes, boots and wide brimmed hats. taken just as they came out of the Holed at the top, circa 1880s, 2 1/2 x 3 jail. He is to hang Sept. 17, we are 1/2 inches. 2) Tintype photo of pioneer well write soon”. He was executed on in hat, vest and boots, taken outside the Jan. 28, 1910 for the murder of Pearl barn. 3 1/4 x 4 inches. 3) Cabinet card Taylor, his sister inlaw. Addressed of two pioneers in boots and hats, circa to Mrs. Taylor, probably a relative of the convict. Birt may actually be 1890s. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Est. $200- smiling! Est. $100-200 HWAC# 59764 300 HWAC# 52418 Lot# 1240 , Outlaw Emmett Lot# 1246 , Choice Wild West Dalton Collection RPC of Emmett Related Cigar Labels Lot of Dalton c.1920 Promo photo on five different. Included: General horseback and armed to promote Custer (Aver & Co.); Gettysburg his silent films. RPC of 1st National Commanders (Globe Litho Co.); Bank and raid on bankc. 1960’s, Famous Generals (incl US Grant, Coffeyville Historical Society. Color Sheridan, Sherman, and others); illustrated postcard of Condon Bank Monarch (feat. a buffalo) (F.M. Howell of Coffeyville, KS, 1 of 2 banks the & Co.); and Mt. Rushmore. All are in very good to excellent condition. Daltons tried to rob in 1892. Business stationary of Emmett daltonfor (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $220-400 HWAC# his real estate and construction company, he was known to live in 58464 Hollywood from 1932-1937. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 59763 Lot# 1247 , Copy of Remington’s Bronco Lot# 1241 , Small Daguerreotype of Cowboy or Plain Citizen Dressed as a Buster Copy of Remington’s Bronco Buster. Appears to be cast aluminum, 9.5” x 7” x 3”. Cowboy This Daguerreotype looks like a pose Artist unknown. The original “Bronco Buster” from a cowboy ‘wanna be.’ Rifle, six shooters, is a sculpture made of bronze copyrighted in and knife are all present. 3.75 x 2.5”. Bottom 1895 by American artist Frederic Remington. corners have been cut. Top right corner is bent. Studio photograph. Est. $200-400 It portrays a rugged Western frontier cowboy character fighting to stay aboard a rearing, plunging bronco, with a stirrup swinging free, a quirt in one hand and a fistful of mane and reins in the other. It was the first and remains the most popular of all of Remington’s sculptures. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 57834 Lot# 1242 , Hunting Related Lot# 1248 , Cowboy “OOPS” Postcards Lot off nine. Three RPC’s: Tintypes (2) A seated man with fur at his feet and 2 men with a rifle. Est. 1) Pendleton Drug Company “Missed $60-90 HWAC# 57273 his steer”. 1922 2) “Pancho Villa tossed by Brama Bull”. 3) Rider going over his bucking Bronc’s head. Pendleton Round up. Photo by Waible Patton. One leather card of man on ground and horse bucking away. “Just Landed in San Francisco”. Lot# 1243 , Wild West Show Cowboy Color postcards continue the bucking Photo Large albumen photo of a Wild West theme. Two Larson and one Ridgley Calendar Company of Great Falls. Show Cowboy with holstered revolver, Est. $50-100 HWAC# 51490 belt, cowboy cuffs and hat. Photo made Lot# 1249 , Cowboy Americana by Sommer of Philadelphia. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 Lot of four pieces of Old West inches, trimmed to fit an oval frame. Circa early 1900s. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 52417 Americana: 1) Real photo postcard of a cowboy in shotgun chaps, Id’d as “Harry.” Unused, The CYKO stamp box indicates the card was made between 1904 and the 1920s. 2) Cabinet card photo trimmed to fit an oval frame. Man holding his hat has knee high boots on. Photo taken by Jackson of Waco, Texas c. 1870s. 3) Cabinet card of two men, one in a suit and one in work Lot# 1244 , Cool Wild West Show clothes, posing by horse on their ranch. Id’d as “Ray, Floyd Laverty.” Horse has on 1870s stock saddle. 4) 1894 Missouri Livery Stable letter Photo B/W photo by Holloway of about selling a wagon to settle a bill owed, signed by owner of the Philadelphia of 4 cowboys on horses, livery stable. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 52414 a stagecoach and a big tent. 3.5” x 4.75” photo on mat board. Tack hole Lot# 1250 , Cowboy Bookends on mat and upper left wear mark. Vintage sirocco wood western Est. $150-300 HWAC# 62477 themed bookends “ Surrounding the Wagons” Indian on horseback firing at wagons, no chips or breaks. Approx 4.25” x 5.25”. Est. $40-60 HWAC# 62438 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 29

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Cowboy Lot# 1251 , Vintage Cowboy Lot# 1258 , c1885+ American Bookends Vintage bookends with Saddlery Billheads and rider on bucking horse, copper over Letterheads Approx 30+ letterheads wood.4.25” x 5.25”. Est. $50-80 and billheads, many pictorial and HWAC# 62437 mostly from NY, saddlery related. (Potter Collection) Est. $300-500 Lot# 1252 , Cowboy Life Booklet HWAC# 59715 with Illustrations Rare red covered booklet with 12 b/w illustrations of cowboy activities including the mess wagon, branding on the prairie Lot# 1259 , c1883-1998 Horse hitting the breeze, riding a yearling, hereford calves, roping a pony, Shoer Billhead Collection Approx throwing a calf and more. 5” x 6”. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 53638 50 varied billheads many are pictorial with horse images. Mostly form New Lot# 1253 , 2002 Cowboy Poetry & York. (Potter Collection) Est. $250- Music Festival Framed Poster COWBOY 500 HWAC# 59728 POETRY & MUSIC FESTIVAL / MARCH 20-34, 2002 / MELODY RANCH MOTION PICTURE STUDIO / SANTA CLARITA CALIFORNIA. Poster is approx 24” x 17.5”, Lot# 1260 , c1875-1895 Horse brown frame 27.5” x 21.5”. Est. $200-300 Stable Billheads (Approx 15) Various old stable billheads, almost all with pictorial horses (Potter Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 59726 Lot# 1254 , 1953 Cowboy Salesman’s Sample Calendar From the Devere collection out of Texas. Devere at one time had one of the largest Lot# 1261 , Livery and Feed Stable Cabinet collections of western posters/calendars in the Card Measuring 4 1/4 x 6 1/2, a photo of men country having started out when he was about and horses in front of G.W. Huggins Livery and 12 years old. This is a great piece from 1959, Feed Stable. Believed to be Oklahoma circa and would have been an example to solicit for 1900. Has some damage. On back is “Fay Gear.” orders. The art work is titled The Foundling Est. $100-200 HWAC# 48952 by Norm Saunders and is in great condition. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62428 Lot# 1255 , 1959 Cowboy Salesman’s Sample Calendar Another piece from the Devere Collection, this one is titled True Lot# 1262 , c1883-1927 Livestock, Friends, a 1953 Salesman’s Sample Calendar. Outfitters Billheads and Letter January 1959. Night scene of a cowboy on his Head Approx 20 billheads, many horse. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62429 pictorial and 1 letterhead. All livestock related. (Potter Collection) Est. $100-300 HWAC# 59727 Lot# 1256 , Cowgirl Electric Clock Vintage electric cowgirl clock 1950’s—1960’s. Clock works, base Lot# 1263 , Matted Tough is 9 ½” by 3 ½ “ and 7” tall. White Tracking Print by Anthony polished stone on base and upright. Sinclair 2 deputies on horses Est. $100-175 HWAC# 62436 are tracking in a snowy wooded scene. Print approx 18” x 22”, matt 24” x 27”. Est. $60-100 Lot# 1257 , Indian Horse Decorations Two 14 inch long leather thongs with brass decorations. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 49528 30 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1264 , Old West Ephemera Three issues Lot# 1273 , I-T-P Carbide Lamps of “Frontier Times,” September, October and Brass and nickel plated Wolf lamps. November 1927. Original 1912 “Buffalo Bill Condition 8. Est. $100-250 HWAC# Stories” magazine. Devoted to Far West Life of 46466 Pawnee Bill and Buffalo Bill. Complete issue but cover is starting to chip. Good candidate for framing. Also 1907 Wild West Carnival card of “Biggest Indian in World, Weight 450 lbs. Written on the back “Omer Cook from D. T. Stathem, Sep. 5, 1907 Los Angeles, Cal.” 3 1/2 x Lot# 1274 , Hundreds of Parts 5 1/2 inches. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 52421 from a Makeshift Justrite Carbide Repair Kit The kit we got these parts Lot# 1265 , Miner’s Candlestick from was a big plastic box which we Miners candlestick. 9 inches long. chose to leave at the collectors house Well constructed miners candlestick and instead have bagged each of the with a unique rib at the center separate compartments in a separate through the entire handle. Rare. No bag. Please inspect. Est. $120-200 makers name. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62160 HWAC# 46416 Lot# 1266 , Miner’s Candlestick Lot# 1275 , Carbide, Empty Boxes Miners candlestick. 11 inch long, for Autolite Lamps Collection well-made miners candlestick. No of eight empty boxes for Autolite name, high-quality construction Est. carbide lamps and other Autolite $100-200 HWAC# 62161 accessories. Nice collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 46438 Lot# 1267 , Miner’s Candlestick Miners candlestick. 11 inches. Small handle, well-made, no name on the stick. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 62162 Lot# 1276 , Two Unusual Underground Mine Lighting Lot# 1268 , Miner’s Candlestick Devices The first is probably a grease Early style miners candlestick, 8 lamp, 6” x 4” x 4” with an unusual inches long, no hook, blacksmith hanging device. The second is a constructed and unusual. hanging candle holder, with a flat Est. $80-120 HWAC# 62164 plate for the embedded candle. Both are unusual and rare. Probably 19th century. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 45969 Lot# 1269 , Miner’s Candlestick Holder Antique miner’s iron candlestick holder. 10” long. Lot# 1277 , Two Four Prong Est. $80-120 HWAC# 61537 to Grease Lamps 19th century, from the Great American Mining Collection. These were probably used in South America or Europe. Little is Lot# 1270 , Miner’s Candlesticks known of their use. Est. $200-400 (2) Two Varney style minors HWAC# 45967 candlesticks, well rusted. From the Hawthorne Nevada area. Est. $100- 250 HWAC# 62163 Lot# 1278 , Two Frog Lamps Both lamps have a large heart as the screw- on device instead of a rooster. Each has Lot# 1271 , Miner’s Candlesticks a blacksmith created handle about 12 (5) Group of five miners candlesticks, inches long. A nice collectible pair. Est. all probably made by different $200-400 HWAC# 45965 manufacturers. None marked. They range from 8 1/2 inches long to 10.5”. Est. $240-400 HWAC# 62165 Lot# 1279 , Two Incomplete Frog Lot# 1272 , Miners hat with Lamps Both of these lamps are incomplete, lacking the top chamber carbide lamp Original cloth miners devices. One comes with a note that it had for underground mining with an was found by noted mineralogist Peter auto light attached. Used average condition, from Hawthorne Nevada Bancroft about 1973 in the Emilia mine collection. Est. $100-250 HWAC# 61179 near Santa Rosalia, Baja California. An interesting pair with good provenance. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 45966 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 31

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1280 , Fantastic Lot# 1282 Dortmund Mini Stainless Santa Cruz, Steel Oil Lamp and Anton Oil California Wick Lamp Stunning looking c1890’s stainless steel Davy style miners California lamp dated 1929. Etched V. D . V. Powder G. / Dortmund / 1929. Appears Works Poster to be a presentation piece and California never lit. 6” tall. 7.75” with top Powder Works ring. A must for any mining was the first lamp collection. George Anton American oil wick lamp, Monongayleha explosive City, Washington Co, PA. Est. powder $200-400 HWAC# 62108 manufacturing company west of the Rocky Lot# 1281 , Mountains. Nickel Coated When the Blasting Cap outbreak Tins (33) of the Civil Approx 33 nickel War cut off coated California supplies of Cap Co. blasting gunpowder cap tins.Silver to California’s appearing finish. mining and These make nice road-building desk holders for paper clip and other small items. Est. $300-500 industries, HWAC# 61833 a local manufacturer was needed. Originally located near Santa Cruz, California, the company was incorporated in 1861 and began manufacturing gunpowder in May 1864. For 50 years, it was a major employer in the county, employing between 150 and 275 men. The powder works was located on a flat adjacent to the San Lorenzo River, three miles upstream of Santa Cruz. RETURN POLICY End of Santa Cruz Operations Explosive powder manufacturing was an extremely dangerous All items are guaranteed to be authentic unless endeavor at the time, and uncontrolled explosions were frequent. otherwise noted. If authenticity is challenged, The great explosion of 1898 started in the smokeless powder plant please call our office for assistance. ALL SALES at 5:15 PM on April 26. Santa Cruz was rocked by a series of heavy explosions which killed 13 men at the powder works and injured 25 ARE FINAL. You may only return any piece more. Windows were broken in Santa Cruz, and flaming debris fell on that was significantly inaccurately described Mission Hill. Many buildings used to house company employees were set afire and a community effort was required by residents of Santa by calling our office within 10 days of receipt Cruz to prevent fires from reaching powder magazines closer to the of item(s) and notifying us of the error and city. reason for return. We do not refund postage or insurance. PLEASE CALL US IF YOU REQUIRE The explosion caused apprehension among Santa Cruz residents about the safety of operating the powder works so close to the city. A MORE SPECIFIC CONDITION REPORT OR Santa Cruz County closed the powder works school and required ADDITIONAL PHOTOS. Any items that are powder works employee housing facilities to be vacated. California Powder Works became a DuPont subsidiary in 1903, and operated returned must be returned in the exact, under the DuPont name after 1906. Powder works wharf demolition unaltered condition. When we receive your bids begun in 1883 was completed before construction of the Neptune we will assume you have read the description in Casino at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in 1904. DuPont control the catalog, viewed the image of the item, have of explosives manufacturing in the United States caused federal anti-trust action in 1912 requiring DuPont to distribute assets into contacted us regarding any questions you may three firms. Manufacture of blasting explosives was assigned to Atlas have on any lot and/or have previewed the lot in Powder Company. California Powder Works double-base smokeless person. powder patents were assigned to Hercules Powder Company’s consolidated smokeless powder manufacturing facility at Kenvil, New Jersey. DuPont retained manufacture of black powder and single base smokeless powders including the powder being manufactured for the United States Navy. When the Panama Canal simplified transport to the Pacific Fleet, DuPont consolidated production facilities in New Jersey and terminated operations at Santa Cruz in 1914. Powder mill facilities were dismantled, and the property was sold in 1924. The two mansions occupied by powder works superintendents were abandoned and razed in the 1930s. Est. $12000-18000 HWAC# 61520 32 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1283 , 1934 Blasters’ Handbook Hardcover Lot# 1286 , Kerr-Addison Gold Mines from Canadian Industries LTD. Describing practical Shaft Sign Two part sign, white enamel methods of using explosives for various purposes. with black lettering. Upper sign is 14 x 24 191pp. Est. $50-70 HWAC# 62177 inches, with six grommet holes for hanging. “Signals for No. 3 Shaft” Emergency signals followed by level signals to the 1500 foot level. Lower sign is 14 x 10 inches and has signals from the 1600 level to the 2800 foot level. The Kerr-Addison Mine was located in McGarry Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada. Development of the property began in 1907 but did not go into Lot# 1284 , Warning full production until 1938. In 1987 Golden Dangerous Cargo Sign Shield Resources bought the property from Kerr-Addison. The mine closed down in Black lettering on white 1996. Total production was about 10.5 enamel, 36 x 24. “Warning million ounces of gold. / Dangerous Cargo / No Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 46809 Visitors / No Smoking / No Open Lights.” Est. $400- 1000 HWAC# 46813 Lot# 1285 , Ropes Shaft Signal Sign White enamel Lot# 1287 , Emergency Signal Sign with black lettering. 14 x 20 White enamel with red lettering, 19 inches. Listing Command x 12 inches. Four grommet holes for Bells and Call Bells (for hanging. “Emergency Signal / 9 Bells station identification). / followed by the / Level Signal.” A gold mine north of Est. $200-400 HWAC# 46808 Ishpeming. In 1881, former druggist, postmaster, and school board member Lot# 1288 , “Examine Your Julius Ropes discovered Working Place” Sign Large metal gold among the serpentine sign. Green and black on white, on rocks north of the town metal. “Be careful examine your of Ishpeming, which working place well before starting prompted him to form the work.” 14 x 20”. No location data. the Ropes Gold and Silver Excellent condition. Est. $100-200 Company to exploit that HWAC# 43945 discovery. Mining and stamp-milling operations began in earnest in 1883 Lot# 1289 , Standard Signals Sign White with the sinking of the enameled with blue printing, from the Curry shaft and continued Districts of Thunder Bay and Rainy River: until financial troubles the code of signals required by The Ontario forced closure of the mine in 1897. Fifteen levels had been developed Mining Act. Levels 1 through 20 listed. 13 x to 813 feet depth. $645,792 worth of gold (period values) was shipped 20 inches. Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 45475 during this period, extracted by the mercury amalgamation process and gravity separation. Mining resumed in 1983 and closed in 1991. The only profitable gold mine in Michigan’s history. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 46807 Zoom in and see close up detail Lot# 1290 , Miner’s Individual High Resolution Scale with Weights Small field scale with weights. Tin says “Miner’s Images of ALL LOTS improved gold scale / [picture of eagle] / Manufactured expressly for available online at California. Comes with four weights (1/2 ounce to 2 ounces). Not original to tin. Box measures 3 x 7”. Est. FHWAC.com $400-800 HWAC# 60979 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 33

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1291 , Small Lot# 1297 , Nevada Crucible Weight Set inside Collection from Nevada Ghost Original California Towns Fred Holabird exclaimed, “ Gold Scale Tin 11 This is a collection I never thought I’d see”. A fine collection of assay weights ranging from crucibles collected from around Nevada, and a few from Montana 1/2 Pennyweight to 100 and Arizona. The collector was careful to put a note in many of the grams. Almost complete. crucibles where they were found. These places include Tonopah, Rye Box lid says “Miners Patch, Pactolus, Phonolite, Bruner, Columbus, Bovard, and a number Improved Gold Scale of other classic Nevada mining camps. The collection consists of / [picture of eagle / approximately 46 crucibles. 39 crucibles are classic bone ash crucibles Manufactured expressly made by several different crucible manufactures with several different for California.” Est. $400- shapes and sizes. These crucibles were generally used for 1/4 to 1 800 HWAC# 60978 assay ton samples. Additionally there are seven larger crucibles, 4.5 to 6 inches in diameter, that were used for larger samples, such as 5 to 10 assay ton samples, or even some of the larger crucibles used for small Lot# 1292 , Four Golden Conical bullion pours. This is a really neat group. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 62171 Slag Ingot Molds All are heavy metal Lot# 1298 , Gold Detection Device and painted gold. Largest measures 20”. Impress your friends! Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 48442 Gold detection device. 12 x 16”, wood constructed with hand crank. Brass Lot# 1293 , Assay Ingot Mold label says “patent January 8, 1895, other patents pending. PP Cuplin, inventor and manufacturer, West Bend Iowa USA”. Not much is known One small gold ingot mold for about this rare device. Patent records indicate this device was made to approximately 20 ounce ingot, no “separate precious metals from sand and gravel.” Very unusual device. makers name. Also includes two other assayers tools, a tong and a 12 button unit. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 61157 It has two trays underneath for water, and an interesting series of copper strips on the side. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 61170 Lot# 1294 , Large Assay Cast Iron Lot# 1299 , c1900 Gold Testing Mortar and Pestle Large cast-iron Device (Quack!) Hall’s Magnetic mortar and pestle. 9 inches tall 10 Mineral Rod. If you read this 1/2 inches diameter at the top. Comes with two pestles for beating advertisement, you would and crushing rock. This large size cast-iron mortar and pestle was a want to buy one too. And all of critically important tool for the early prospector as he could put his the testimonials on back are rock specimens in here, pulverize them, then pan the crushed rock to look for native gold or metals. This is a choice specimen. Est. $300- unbelievable. (Of course they do not 600 HWAC# 611546 list any names?) But our resident mining geologist (Fred) questions the Lot# 1295 , Colorado 1800s Colorado validity of such a device! QUACK! Two Mining Mortar and Pestle A black pieces of paper. 1) Ad with picture and testimonials on reverse. 6.25 iron mining mortar and pestle. It was x 6”. 2) Price list for this and other equipment from P&M Agency of used by a man named John B. Smith Reading, Pennsylvania. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62206 who prospected in Colorado and Kansas Lot# 1300 , c1900 Gold Testing and passed this tool down the family Device (Quack!): Number 2 line. Mortar and pestles were used by Spanish Dip Needles. If you read miners to crush ore containing samples this advertisement, you would and extract the ore from within. This want to buy one too. And all of one seems to be in good shape with the testimonials on back are most of the coloring remaining. The top unbelievable. (Of course they do not measures 4.25 inches in diameter and it is 4 inches tall. Est. $100-200 HWAC# list any names?) But our resident 49158 mining geologist (Fred) questions the validity of such a device! QUACK! Two Lot# 1296 , c1900-1930 Large pieces of paper. 1) Ad with picture and testimonials on reverse. 6.25 Assay Crucible Tongs (2) Two large x 6”. 2) Price list for this and other equipment from P&M Agency of assay crucible tongs for the furnace Reading, Pennsylvania. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62207 room. These two choice pieces were probably used in one of Nevada’s Lot# 1301 , Gold Testing Device (Quack!): many important producing mines. Both approximately 56 inches tall. Number 3 Gold & Silver Chronometer. If you read One is a slightly smaller tong set up for a 100 to 500 ounce crucible this advertisement, you would want to buy one and the second one is a larger set of tongs which may have been too. But our resident mining geologist (Fred) operated by two people or operated using a fulcrum, as it grabbed the questions the validity of such a device! QUACK! larger crucibles that are usually 500 ounce plus. Both appear early circa 1900 to 1930. Rare to find these. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 61158 Ad with picture. 10 x 6.5”. From P&M Agency of Palmyra, Pennsylvania. One long horizontal rip. Other smaller rips and tears. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 62208 View High Resolution Images, Register, Place Bids, See Current Opening Bids Visit the online catalog at FHWAC.com 34 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1302 , c1941 Bronze Miner; Lot# 1308 , Assorted Mining Brass Miner; Miner’s Face Carved Equipment Miscellaneous mining in Rock Bronze miner standing equipment. Two kerosene lamps, on bronze base reading Sentinel of two miners hardhats, copper gold Safety III METH, by Gary Prezen? pan, Justrite carbide lamp parts, with wooden pedestal. Slight and a very unusual hanging miners marring on wood pedestal. 12” x candlestick. The hardhats probably 3”. Miner’s profile appearing to be date from the 1920’s through carved from obsidian.3.5” x 3.5”. the 1940’s. Nice group of mining Brass miner leaning on shovel collectibles. Est. $200-250 HWAC# carrying a miner’s lamp. 8.25” x 3”. 62170 Est. $150-300 HWAC# 52545 Lot# 1309 , California Gem Duplex II Refractometer Gem Duplex II Refractometer in original box with cover and manual. Great condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61530 Lot# 1303 , Presentation Copper Ingot 5.5” x 4.25” x 1/16” copper presentation ingot. Silver Bell Mining, L.L.C./ Solvent Extraction/ Electrowinning/ Plant Dedication/ ASARCO Incorporated/ Mitsui & Co., Ltd./ July 16, 1997. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 50316 Lot# 1310 , New York Vintage Illuminator Polariscope Vintage 1st model of the Illuminator Polariscope from the Geological Institute of America. Complete in original box, with pamphlet and dust cover. Excellent condition. A polariscope is one of the most important tools for a gemologist. Lot# 1304 , c1900-1920 Five Also known as a polarimeter, this Geologist Picks and Hammers device can show the optic character Group of five geologists picks and of a gemstone and determine whether hammers. Three of these picks are typical geologist pics. Two are for it is isotropic or anisotropic. This hard rock, one for soft rock. Two have very old handles, possibly turn- information can help scientists or gem of-the-century, circa 1900 to 1920. The other two are what we call hobbyists identify the gemstone or mineral. Est. $100-200 HWAC# “single jacks”, and were used to break large rocks. Both are probably 61529 from circa 1900 to 1920. One was clearly found underground as Lot# 1311 Green River, Wyoming the handle is almost disintegrated but retained here because of its originality. This is a choice group of geologist collectibles. Est. $100- Diplomystus Fossil This fossil 200 HWAC# 61154 is millions of years old. 7.5” x 5” Diplomystus is an extinct genus Lot# 1305 , Hammerhead of freshwater clupeomorph fish Collection Nine cast-iron distantly related to modern-day hammerheads of different designs extant herrings, alewives, and and two small hammerheads. This is an eclectic group and bears sardines. The genus was first named inspection. Makers marks can be found on a number of the pieces and described by Edward Drinker some of which were heavily used and probably discarded underground Cope in 1877. The Green River in a mine. Most probably date to 1900 to 1930. Also includes three Formation is the remnant of a large lake whose mud would eventually large picks used for underground or surface prospecting. One pick is be transformed into soft calcite-bearing shale. Est. $130-250 HWAC# marked with a classic Washoe punch. A nice mining group Est. $200- 61551 300 HWAC# 61155 Lot# 1312 , Wyoming Green River Lot# 1306 , North Pickaxe This Fish Fossil The fish is extremely pickaxe is engraved “North.’ It is detailed with dark preservation 15.5”. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 49073 typical of the the 18 inch layer. It is centered on a unbroken 14” x 25” slab of shale. This fsh fossil, probably found in Wyoming (probably Green River Formation). Nicely framed, 18” x 28.5”. These fish lived in the Early Lot# 1307 , ‘C. P. M.Co.’ Eocene (50 million years ago). Today the wonderfully preserved fossils Pick Axe This pick and of Priscacara and other Fossil Lake fauna are collected in several chisel axe is 15.25” long. private quarries around Kemmerer, Wyoming. The best preserved fish A handmade ‘T’ is etched fossils come from the coveted 18 inch layer. This layer is collected at into the axe. Location is night under high-powered lights allowing the faint signs of fish under unknown - probably from the surface to be more easily observed. These “ghosted” fish then must Nevada. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 49070 go through many hours of manual preparation to remove the overlying rock and reveal the Green River fauna in all of it’s glory. Est. $500- 1000 HWAC# 57839 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 35

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1313 , Baby Lot# 1317 Nome, Alaska Placer MIning Stingray Fossil in Alaska Cabinet Cards Although not Baby Stingray fossil. identified these two mounted photos seem Image size: 6.5” to be from the Anvil Creek, Nome area. Both x 4.25”, framed: show placer mining and placer miners. 18.5” x 16”. This is Contrast is good. Largest photo measures probably from Green 4.5 x 7.75”. THis is a ncie pair. Anvil Creek River formation, the was the site of the 1898 gold discovery that upper 3/4 of the area triggered the Nome gold rush. Est. $200- contained many fish 300 HWAC# 62218 fossils. The bottom contained petroleum rich layers. Est. Lot# 1318 Aztec District, Arizona $1000-3000 HWAC# Aztec Gold and Silver Mining 43852 Company Stock Certificate Number 297 for 100 shares to M Wallace(?) Lot# 1314 , Diplomystus Dantatis in 1877. Signed by CA Poage and CS Benedict. It was incorporated in Fossil Oil shale fossil (not chalk unit), Pennsylvania on May 16, 1877 for the Swastern, Wy. Approx. 55 million mining and reduction of gold and silver and other minerals and for the years old. 7” x 10.75”. Fish image is purpose of buying and selling the same and for the purpose of dealing well defined. Est. $100-300 HWAC# in bullion. Outside of a brief listing of mining companies incorporated 49227 in 1877 by the Engineering and Mining Journal, we found nothing else about this company. The Aztrec District was organized in 1869, but the productiveness of the district has been minimal. (Laguna Collection) Est. $150-300 HWAC# 62953 Lot# 1315 Eagle River, Alaska 1903 Eagle River Mining Company Stock Lot# 1319 Bisbee, Warren, Arizona Five Certificate Number 102 for 1 share Warren District Stock Certificates 1) to CHS Jackson in 1903. Early. Signed Eureka Mining. 1909. NUMBER 4 for by secretary JJ Cobb and president 10,000 shares. To Kiemeier(?). 2) Quincy EY Mallary. Two dark marks on left & Arizona. NUMBER 5 for 15 shares. border. Vertical folds are heavy, but 1903. 3) Copper Glance., 1903. 4) Eureka no rips or tears. Otherwise, no other Mines Consolidated. 1910. Large rips condition issues. Incorporated in at bottom folds. 5) Chief Consolidated Macon, Georgia in Includes three 1910. (Laguna Collection) Est. $100- vignettes: two underground mining 200 HWAC# 62973 and one country scene. The Eagle River Mining Company was a hard rock gold mining enterprise operating in Eagle River, Alaska, with its main office in Macon, Georgia. Officers of the company were: President Lot# 1320 Cerro-Colorado Mining E. Y. Mallory, Vice President E. J. Willingham, Second Vice President District, Arizona 1876 Cerro- and resident representative C. D. Mallary, Superintendent B. L. Thane, Colorado Mill & Mining Company and Assistant Superintendent J. R. Whipple. [University of Alaska Stock Certificate EARLY No. 25, 500 Anchorage Consortium Library] Around this time, the Daily Alaska shares to TM McEntee, trustee in Dispatch stated, gThe ore at the Eagle River property is said to be 1876. Signed by secretary CP Voisard the richest in Alaska.h When the mine started up, Paddy OfNeil and president TM McEntee. Fabulous became the mine foreman. He hired 25 men to work inside the mine vignette of the Cerro-Colorado mining and another 25 for the mill and support buildings. [thealaskalife.com; site! Good condition. Horizontal and vertical folds. Incorporated Sept. Uncovering Amalga] (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 56962 29, 1876. Light foxing on right. The silver mines of the Cerro-Colorado Mining district in Santa Cruz County have attracted the attention of miners who worked the narrow quartz veins in sedimentary volcanic Lot# 1316 Klondike, Alaska 1898 Klondike “Magic Lantern” rocks for several hundred years. 55 miles southwest of Tucson among Broadside for Carson CIty, Nevada the rolling grasslands along Arivaca Road between Amado and Arivaca, the Cerro-Colorado Mine is classified as one of the earliest mining Lecture Gorgeous framed broadside advertising “All About Alaska operations after the Gadsden Purchase of 1854. Known for its high- and the Klondike Gold Fields,” “A Grand Illustrated Klondike Lecture grade surface silver it was worked by Charles D. Poston and Herman Entertainment” featuring “50 Magnificent Views projected from the Ehrenberg from San Francisco, the former acquired $100,000 in cash Magic Lantern.” Event took place February 14th, 1898 in Carson to invest in 80 mining claims near the old Tumacacori Mission and City, Nevada. Adults 25 cent, children 10 cents. “A most interesting the Santa Rita Mountains to the east. The mine entrance, or adit, was and instructive lecture will be given, describing the frozen Northern protected by a walled fortification that included a lookout tower used Country, Its People, Their Methods of Living, the Newly Discovered to protect the workings. Poston, managing agent, operated a quasi- Gold Fields, Their Fabulous Wealth, How to Reach Them, a Description government circulating his own paper currency, “boletos,” consisting of the Different Routes, the Expense of the Trip, etc.” Drawing of a of animal depictions on cardboard that was redeemable in silver prospector panning for gold. Printed by Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago. bars. He referred to his operation as a ‘community in a perfect state Condition: 4” long rubbing bottom left corner, otherwise very good of nature.’ Located in the foothills of the Cerro Colorado Mountains, condition. Framed: 26.5” x 20”. This poster was meant to entertain and the mine early on produced $5,000 to $8,000 of silver per ton. Ore inspire. This lecture was shown in Carson City on February 14, 1898 was transported by wagon to Guaymas, Sonora, and later shipped by [Reno newspapers]. Did anyone attending this lecture find their way to schooner to San Francisco paying over 50 percent dividend. Some ore the Alaska Gold Fields? Prospecting in Nevada was at a low and many was also shipped by wagon over the Santa Fe Trail to Kansas City as miners, prospectors and investors found their way to the Klondike. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 24515 a sample to eastern investors of the potential mineral wealth found in Arizona. [Arizona Daily Star, November 6, 2016] Est. $200-400 HWAC# 60673 36 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1321 Cochise, Charleston, Lot# 1326 Francis Mining District, Arizona Deed Arizona Pittsburg Arizona for the Bay State and Hard Up Mines, 1899 Gold & Copper Company Stock Three page typed deed for this mine, complete with Certificate No. 36, 17,500 to Mary a properly cancelled $10 revenue stamp (R176) A McCook (wife of Willis F McCook) and the signatures of the three owners. Est. $60- in Tombstone in 1900. Signed by 80 HWAC# 62936 H Fisher and SAD Upton. Excellent condition. Three small stains are mar this fine looking piece. In the Charleston area. The Charleston area was most famous for their mills as they had a strong water source. Many of the mines in the Tombstone area used those mills. Charleston, believe it or not, was considered rougher than Tombstone. (Laguna Lot# 1327 Gold Road, Arizona Gold Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62957 Road, AZ Postcards and a Stock 3 postcards of Gold Road mine and a Lot# 1322 Cochise, Dragoon, 1912 Gold Road Mines certificate. Arizona Four Dragoon District Est. $80-100 HWAC# 61814 Stock Certificates 1) Copper Crown of Arizona. 1900, Nice condition. 2) Manzoro. 1904, no.106, 500 shares. 3) Old Terrible Mining Company. No. 630, 100 shares. Unique looking Lot# 1328 Graham, Arizona Four stock certificate for a unique name. Different Graham County Stock Very nice condition. 4) Golden Queen Certificates 1) Unissued Gila River Mining and Milling. No. 289, 500 Mining Company of New Orleans. shares. 1895. Excellent condition. Excellent condition. Mayflower (Laguna Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62974 District. c1860. Page 89 in Garbani. One page description is included. Lot# 1323 Cochise, Johnson, Arizona 2) Grand Arizona Copper Company. Two Johnson District, Arizona 1910. Ash Springs District. Ash Stock Certificates 1) Black Prince Springs is now a ghost town. 3) Copper Company. No. 1150, 75 shares Cordillera Mining Company. 1908. Page 88 in Garbani. 4) Beta Grande to Jessie H Van Wicklin in 1906. Copper Mining Company. 20,00 shares in 1909 to WW Brookner. San Signed by W Robinson and Robert Carlos District. W. W. Brookner built a two-story building on Broad N Bell. Eight patented claims on 147 Street and opened it as a large general merchandise store in 1910 acres. In 1915 it had a two-compartment shaft which had reached in Globe. It was constructed in the Modern Commercial style. Mr. copper oxides. Top left slight rough tear from book and bottom right Brookner leased the building to various businesses during his term as cover has been torn. Otherwise in fine condition. 2) Empire Copper the Gila County Treasurer. (Laguna Collection) Est. $90-120 HWAC# Mining and Smelting Company. VERY EARLY no. 9, 500 shares to Ruth 62950 Madden in 1908. Signed by R Francis and Julius A Ward. Pinholes in Lot# 1329 Graham, Clifton, Arizona upper part of stock. Light folds. Otherwise very crisp and clean with unusual design where seal was applied! (Laguna Collection) Est. $60- Stevens Copper and New England 100 HWAC# 62959 and Clifton Copper Company Stocks 1) Stevens Copper Company. Number 276 for 1000 shares to Lot# 1324 Cochise, San Simon, Henry Setzer in 1903. Stub indicates Arizona Two San Simon District this was an exchange for certificate Mining Stock Certificates 1) Arizona #11. Signed by Thomas Taylor and Success Mining Company. No. 92, Fred Hunt. No edge, corner, color 500 shares to William Stout, 1908. or pinhole issues! Vignette of a Signed by BJ Hickman and Adolph miner taking a break and smoking a pipe. The Stevens owned 39 Woldtzen(?). Nice condition: small rips at fold edges, one small hole claims located 2 miles from Metcalf. The company shipped a little where the seal was applied. Eight claims in Arizona and two claims ore in 1906, but by the end of the year it was idle. 2-3) New England in Goldfield, Nevada were formally controlled by the Apache Chief. & Clifton Copper Company. Number 610 in green safety print for 4 By 1910 the company was idle and presumed dead. 2) Empire State shares signed by Pippin. In English and French. Number 1602 in tan Gold Mining Company. No. 211, 1000 shares to Philip D Miller, 1902. with pink underprint. More common 1907 certificate to Lee Higginson Signed by Frederick Anglim and Mansfield Shelley. This company may & Company. Signed by CE Pippen and E Rollins Morse. This company have been connected to the Empire State Mine or Clare Mine near San was a merger fo the New England and Clifton companies. From 1906 Simon. [Garbani] (Laguna Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# 62958 to 1909 the company averaged 1,000,000 pounds of copper, 12,000 ounces of silver and 60 ounces of gold per year. {Garbani] (Laguna Lot# 1325 Coconino, Francis, Collection) Est. $60-90 HWAC# 62971 Arizona Val Verdi Copper Company Ltd. Stock Certificate No. 814, 2 shares to Charles E Almy, 1899. Register, Bid, Signed by GM Fennell and GS Upston(?). Excellent stock certificate. & view opening bids at This company owned the mine in Francis, a smelter that processed the FHWAC.com BLue Bell mine in Copper Basin, the townsite of Val Verdi short railroad, water company, electric company, etc. [Garbani] (Laguna Collection) Est. $150-300 HWAC# 62963 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 37

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1330 Graham, Morenci, Lot# 1334 Maricopa County, Arizona Four Mining Stock Arizona Six Different Maricopa Certificates from the County Stock Certificates 1) Morenci Mining District Phoenix Gold Mining Company. 1) Polaris Mining & Milling 1897. Page 101 in Garbani. Pristine! Company. 1902. Pair of 10c 2) Hassayampa Mining and document stamps. This Development (‘Developing’ crossed company had 40 claims, 4 out and ‘Development’ stamped shafts and 2 tunnels. Page over.) Company. 1903. Wickenburg. Early number 36. 3) White Tanks 92 in Garbani. 2) Shannon Mining Corporation. 5,000 shares. 1904. Copper Handbook states this Copper Company. 1909. In company was unsuccessful even though they had a smelter and blast 1905 this company employed furnace. 4) Buckhorn-Kearns Consolidated Gold Mining and Reduction 500 men and had 43 claims. In 1904 they produced nearly 12 million Company. Located at Superstition. 5) VERY EARLY number 11. pounds of copper. Page 92 in Garbani. 3) Morenci Copper Company. Maricopa Mica Mining Company. 10,000 shares! Issued to president 1899. Presumed dead by 1905. Page 90 in Garbani. 4) Markeen Copper McClelland by president McClelland. J.J. McClelland was a liquor Company. These four stocks are from fine to extremely fine. (Laguna salesman who came to Tombstone, A.T. in the early 1880s. He became Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 62951 a influential businessman in Tombstone and died there in 1913. 6) Goldfields Syndicated Mining Company. Page 99 in Garbani. (Laguna Lot# 1331 Jerome, Arizona Collection) Est. $120-200 HWAC# 62947 Verde Combination Copper Stock- Jerome, AZ “Miner Lot# 1335 Maricopa, Cave Creek District, Arizona Four Cave Creek Drinking A Cup of Joe” Great District Stock Certificates 1-2) vignette on this Arizona mining Consecutively numbered Phoenix stock. A miner drinking a cup Mining Company stocks. 1887. No of coffee in the foreground. issues except fading through the Sitting on a log with his shovel ‘Arizona’ on one stock. In 1892 and pan beside him. We don’t Rothwell reported that the company recall seeing this vignette had finally settled its plans and before on a mining certificate. was finally erecting a mill. Page 101 in Garbani. 3) Kentucky-Arizona The Verde Combination Copper Company. 1906. Successor to Kentucky-Arizona Consolidated Copper Company was located at Jerome, Arizona. The company had 33 in 1905. Ore shipments were always low grade. Page 95 in Garbani. claims, 550 acres, 15 patented in the Verde district, Arizona. In 1917, 4) Grand Traverse and Arizona Mining Company. 1904. In 1906 the the company had a new shaft of 700’, connecting with the Mescal company was in high gear with assays at 5% to 35% copper, 8 to tunnel, but no workable ore body had yet been reached (1918 Mines 12 ounces silver, and $8 to $120 gold. Page 95 in Garbani. (Laguna Handbook). Nice engraved certificate from Republic Bank Note Co. The Collection) Est. $120-200 HWAC# 62948 certificate is EF. Uncancelled. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 51264 Lot# 1336 Lot# 1332 Lowell, Arizona Maricopa, Lowell, Arizona Postcards Vulture, Arizona Lot of six. One (Calumet Six Mining Arizona Junction Shaft) is Stocks from hand colored. Others are the Famous black and white: Irish Mag Vulture Shaft of the Calumet & District 1) Arizona, main street Lowell Red, green and with buggies and a man on gray Angel crutches, main streetLowell Consolidated with buggies and a man on a horse, Multiple view of three mines, Mining mines of the Bonanza Circle. All are unused. (Laguna Collection) Est. Company. $60-100 HWAC# 62270 Bright, colorful and striking. Bright red seal and stamp (Territory of Arizona). 1903. Page 103 in Garbani. 2) Different Angel Consolidated. Lot# 1333 Maricopa County, Plainer, but still has the bright red seal. 1903. 3) Olentangy Mining Arizona 1910 Relief Gold Mining and Milling Company. 1907. Page 104 in Garbani. 4) Vulture Mountain Company Cert. #963, issued Mining Company. 1895. 5-6) Central Arizona Mining Company. 1880 in 1910 to H Stanley Bristol for and 1881. Discovered by Henry Wickenburg in 1863. In 1879 the 5 shares. Signed by William G. Central Arizona was formed to work the Vulture mine and quickly Leland as president and secretary built an 80 stamp mil. At the 300 foot level the ore body was last and James Holdery(?). This later the mine closed in 1888. It is reported to have produced $2,000,000 stock certificate has lost George during its operation. Page 103 in Garbani. Overall these six are in nice A.Treadwell’s name as president condition and worth a good look. (Laguna Collection) Est. $400-800 (found on earlier stocks). The HWAC# 62949 George A. Treadwell MC was a scam, so this stock certificate was probably also a scam. However, Lot# 1337 Meyer, Arizona Arizona a one page advertisement for the Relief doesn’t look anything like a Smelting Co. Brass Tool Check scam. Especially with Professor Treadwell, a well known geologist ARIZONA SMELTING CO brass tool and metallurgist of Phoenix, testifying to the great profits soon to be check #188 with manufacturerfs stamp L. A. Rubber Stamp Co. had. This ad must have appeared in newspapers around the states. Octagonal with hole at top. Company operated at Meyer AZ (near Company offices were listed as Phoenix. Inc. in West Virginia. Very Prescott) from 1905 to 1907. Tag dates from same period. Est. $150- attractive certificate with a nice vignette of a miner holding his pick 200 HWAC# 571912 over his shoulder. Green rays emanating from the bottom. VF. Unc Est. $70-150 HWAC# 57432 38 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1338 Mohave, Colorado, Arizona Lot# 1342 Myers Mining District, Two Colorado District Mining Stock Pima, Arizona 1881 Mineral Bed Certificates 1) The Central El Dorado Consolidated Mining Company Gold Mining Company. In French and of Arizona Stock Certificate Nice English, so heavily invested in France. colorful 1881 stock certificate. Number 3143 in 1910. All 20 coupons Number 154 for 400 shares to WW still attached. Striking stock certificate. Thompson. Signed by treasurer No apparent issues at all! 2) Arizona William J Turner and president Jacob Independence Consolidated Gold & Silver H Hitschler. Rough edges on top. Mining Company. Unissued. Excellent One vertical fold. Pink ‘MBCMCo’. Condition. Located in El Dorado Canyon; Underground mining vignette. BV Bivins was the superintendent, Independence Ledge, Oro Fino Ledge, [Arizona Weekly Citizen, April 3, 1881] Est. $120-180 HWAC# 60678 and Joe Porter. 186-. Main offices in Los Angeles. Mill vignette. Incorporated in 1863. This mine was mentioned Lot# 1343 Oatman, Arizona 4 in the mining journals of the mid-1860’s. Once the superintendent Oatman AZ Mining Stock H. R. Porter arrived in San Francisco with a gold bar weighing 100 Certificates Oatman Gold Mining pounds. That, however, still did not change the negative regard for this and Milling Company, issued 1927 district! (Laguna Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# 62944 to J. Heard #2645 1000 shares and signed by president. Oatman- Lot# 1339 Mohave, Golconda, Combination Mining Company, issued Arizona Two Golconda District 1922 to W. Ridenour #1830 1000 Stock Certificates 1) Golconda shares and signed by president. Consolidated Gold Mines Company. Oatman Standard Mining and Milling Number 4179 for 200 shares to Company, issued 1916 to Geo. Buseh # 122 1000 shares and signed by Edward O Douglas in 1906. Issued in president. Oatman North Star Mines Co., issued in 1916 to president Pendleton, Oregon. Not listed in the A. Parsons #526 1000 shares and signed by president A. Parsons. Est. Copper of Mines Handbook. 2) Golconda Mines Company. Number 91 $70-120 HWAC# 52270 for 5,000 shares in 1908 to EA Williamson. Signed by WW Hunt and H Gray. Also not listed in Mines or Copper Handbook. Overall these two Lot# 1344 Pima County, Arizona Arizona are in nice condition: two small tears, vertical folds, very light staining Butte Mining Company and Arizona at folds. (Laguna Collection) Est. $50-80 HWAC# 62946 Prosperity Gold Mines Company Stock Certificate Pima District, Pima County. 1) Lot# 1340 Mohave, Kingman, Arizona Butte. Unissued. Incorporated in Arizona Three Striking Kingman Ohio and datelined Sandusky, Ohio. Number District Stock Certificates 1) A most 896. Slight fading on right, otherwise colorful and attractive Santa Ana in very fine condition. 188-. 2) Arizona Mining Company Certificate. Number Prosperity. Number 584 for 150 shares to 1263 for one share (‘Founders Share’ AJ Lutz. Signed by Smith and Tonkin(?). Two has been overstamped by a ‘One.) in attached purple 5c revenue stamps. 1902. 1898 to Jacques Montheirs. Signed (Laguna Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# by Charles Metcalf and Delamar. 62271 Printed in San Francisco by Crocker. Bluish gray border on yellow cert. Lot# 1345 Pima County, Arizona Ornate red, white and blue shield. 1883 Arizona Peerless Silver No apparent issues! 2) Green certificate number 43 for the Berkeley Mining Company Stock Certificate Exploration and Development Company. For 500 shares in 1907 issued Incorporated in Kansas in 1882 and to E Chapman Smith. Signed by Smith and Charles B Lewis. Printed issued in 1883 to Henry Hamilton by Gilbert Jones of L. A. Two small tears at top folds. Garbani puts this for 4 shares. Number 64. Signed by in Kingman. 3) Grand Consolidated Development Company. Green BF Simpson & CH Ward. Two mining cert. number 30 for 20,000 shares to George W Kincaid. Signed by vignettes and Lady Liberty in center. John F. Fircha nd George W Brown. 1906. Incorporated in Oakland. Not cancelled. Light stains at folds. Early number. Two vertical folds, top right dog ear, removed from This company is clearly trying to book unevenly. But in great condition from stock border to border! ride the coattails of the Peerless Mine at Quijotoa. THe company The company also had property in Cerbat that assayed at 70% lead, was worthless and probably never produced a ton. With a Nevada 12 ounces silver and $11.00 gold. It was presumed dead by 1910 connection, Mackay and Fair showed considerable interest here. by Copper Handbook in 1910. (Laguna Collection) Est. $100-150 (Laguna Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 62272 HWAC# 62945 Lot# 1346 Pima County, Arizona Girard Gold & Silver Mining Lot# 1341 Myers Mining District, Pima, Arizona 1883 Burro Burro Company Stock Certificate Number Mining Company Stock Certificate 4138 for 100 shares to J Bell Austin Scarce. Number 485 for 100 shares in 1883. Signed by EF Stick and to Thomas S Cox. Signed by secretary William A (?). Large size. Large Charles Craig and president Albert vignette of well-known American Minilt(?). Foxing top middle. Two financier Stephen Girard at top left. vertical folds. Small underground This vignette displays the only known mining vignette of miners filling ore likeness of Girard displaying the eye bucket. Organized in 1881 as The injury he suffered while a child as Silver King Gold & Silver Mining during his life he insisted all portraits to be done omitting this injury.. Company. The name was changed in 1882 to The Burro Burro Mining A second vignette of underground mining. Three light vertical folds. Company”. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 60679 No edge, corner, color or pinhole issues. By 1910 the stocks were declared valueless and for some years by the United States Investor. (Laguna Collection) Est. $200-500 HWAC# 62955 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 39

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1347 Pima County, Arizona The Penn Mining Company Stock Lot# 1351 Pima, Empire, Arizona Certificate 1881. Number 24 for Total Wreck Mining 2000 shares to John Sailer. Signed & Milling Company by JE Soule and John F Stoer(?). Stock Certificate Underground mining scene and 1883. Number 830 vignette of William Penn himself. for 500 shares to Clearly states located in Pima COunty, John Harvey. Signed Arizona Territory. by John McMillan and JM Requa. Small rips at fold edges. In nice condition. Not cancelled. (Laguna Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# Pick and shovel 62278 mining vignette. Faded brown seal. Otherwise no edge, corner, color or pinhole issues. The name of Lot# 1348 Pima County, Arizona 1881 Orion Silver Mining Company the Total Wreck mine is rooted in the origins of the mine’s original founders. It is believed that one founders, J.T Dillon, remarked “well Stock Certificate Number 3017 the mineral foundation is a total wreck” and the name stuck. The mine for 100 shares issued to CB Keen in and its operations spawned the town around it, which had a post 1881. Signed by secretary B Hart office and 4 saloons. The mine’s founders were Walter Vale, and J.T. and president Hamilton Disston. Dillon, and was noted for its rich silver production in its heyday. Black Vignette on left is of a winch and borders and a central vignette of exploring miners. By 1884 the mines wundergound miners. Very nice in the area had produced $500,000 in silver. In the 1890’s mining condition. Two pinholes and slight declined steeply and by the early 1900’s it was fast fading into history. bend at upper right corner. Main office in Philadelphia. Mine is in A nice, rare Arizona stock certificate with a great story! (Laguna the Santa Rita and Patagonia mountains of Pima County. The Orion started with sharing offices with the Tombstone Gold & Silver Mill and Collection) Est. $400-800 HWAC# 62279 Mining Company. The Tombstone people quickly moved to separate Lot# 1352 Pima, from the Orion which they did not think much of the Orion property Gunsight, Arizona - as a matter of fact they thought it was a “no good mining property.” Gunsight Mining [Tombstone, A. T.: A History of Early Mining, Milling, and Mayhem” by Company Stock Shillingberg] Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60676 Certificate Number Lot# 1349 Pima, Amole, Arizona 301 for 40 shares to Three Amole District, Arizona Elizabeth W Harper Mining Stock Certificates 1) in 1883. Signed by Catalina Mining Company. 1909. George M Matthurst Number 348 for 10,00 shares to and JB Baker. One Henry Atwater. Comes with an small hoe where interesting “Waiver of Tax Imposed seal was applied. No by the Inheritance Tax Law of the edge, corner or color State of Arizona” foy Mr. Atwater. issues. QUITE NICE! This mine was located at the north end of the Ajo 2) Old Pueblo Copper Company. Mountains. The district was protected the the 1860’s, but it wasn’t 1906. Number 393 for 500 shares to Hamer Santee(?). Signed by W until this mine began operations that the district actually produced. Haynes and Alexander Rossi. This company held the Old Pueblo Mine The Gunsight was the major producer when high-grade silver ore consisting of nine claims. 3) The Arizona Copper Mining Company. was discovered. [Grabani] One of the all time great names! (Laguna 1886. Number 56 for 5000 shares to RK McGrath. Signed by CA Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 62967 Schnake and D Kling. (Laguna Collection) Est. $200-250 HWAC# 62943 Lot# 1353 Pima, Mineral Hill, Arizona Copper Emperor Mining Lot# 1350 Pima, Arivaca, Company Stock Certificate #135, Arizona c1875 Salero Mining issued at New York to Geo. J. Weuck & Manufacturing Company for 25 shares. Inc. in New York. Uncancelled. Vignette top center of Signed by president Albert Welles a stagecoach in rugged terrain in and secretary J.L. Douglass. We Sonoran desert and at left portrait are unsure of the location of this of Henry Wells, of Wells-Fargo company’s property. Tenney (1929, & Co. and the American Express p. 263), reporting on Pima County, Co.,the first president of the Salero. mentions that the Emperor Copper Company was reorganized to No. 2135. Unused. Very nice Condition. One of the earliest mining exploit the copper deposits of Mineral Hill in 1882 after completion companies organized to exploit Arizona’s mineral wealth. Organized of the railroad. The company had begun development of the deposits by William Wrightson of the Cincinnati Enquirer, but such notables and planned to erect a smelter, but when the price of copper slumped as H. C. Grosvenor, an English mining engineer, Gilbert Hopkins, in 1884, they abandoned all work on the property. Whether this is mineralogist and engineer, Raphael Pumpelly, geologist, engineer, the same as the Copper Emperor is not clear. The difference in names author and later professor at Harvard, were associated with the could be as simple as Tenny mis-transcribing the name properly, company. Headquartered in Tubac from 1858-1861 (Hinton, 1878, p. which he did several times. Unc. VF. One small nick on bottom right 197). Worked by the Spanish and Mexicans before 1800, as one of the and seal has holes where heavily punched. No discoloration or other first mines on record in Arizona. Located on the Arivaca Ranch, which corner or edge issues. No folds. (Laguna Collection) Est. $150-250 contained a number of good silver mines worked since at least 1750. HWAC# 62274 An excellent discussion of the early mining period is given in both Bancroft’s History of Arizona (1889) and by James Officer in History of Mining in Arizona Volume II and John Lacy in Volume I. (Laguna Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 62273 40 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1354 Pima, Myers, Arizona Lot# 1358 Pima, Twin Buttes, The Burro Burro Mining Company Arizona Chesterfield Copper Stock Certificate Incorporated in Company Stock Certificates Lot of 1881 in New Jersey as the Silver King two. 1) 1907. Number 4101 for 600 Gold and Silver Mining Co.; changed shares to William Randall. Signed the name in 1882 to Burro Burro. by CE Harvey & HM Brown. Three Certificate number 701 issued to WF mining vignettes. Nicer condition of Springer for 1000 shares in 1883. the two. 2) Same as one, but number 142 for 1000 shares to Samuel Signed by President Albert Merritt Laird. Signed by William Lloyd and CW Savery. Nice condition: three and Treasurer Chas. Craige. No edge, small holes and heavy vertical folds. The mines included the Tiger and corner, color, or fold issues. Two small pinholes Printed by Theo. Crown King. Silver-Lead ore. Within five miles of Twin Buttes County. Leonhardt & Sons, Phila. Small vignette top center of two miners The Western Investors Review in 1907 reported “Late reports on working underground. Uncancelled. Black border and print on Chesterfield Copper have just opened a rich silver and lead ore body white paper.8 x 10. Tenney (1927, p. 123) reports that this mine was feet wide which averages, according to assays this office, at just $59.01 acquired by a Philadelphia company in 1883 under the management The cost of mining shipment and treatment is $13.56 per ton leaving of C. R. Craige. A small smelter was built, but was shutdown due to a very good profit copper body has not yet been reached.” (Laguna faulty construction after making only one run. It appears unlikely Collection) Est. $50-80 HWAC# 62940 that the company recovered, or if it did, made little production from the property. The Arizona Bureau of Mines reported in 1974 that the Lot# 1359 Pinal County, Arizona Gunsight mine was the only major producer of metal from the district. Copper Butte Mines Stock (Laguna Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 62941 Certificate Issued 1907 to William Smith # 1751 100 shares, signed by Lot# 1355 Pima, Oro Blanco, Arizona president Roberts. 8.75” x 11.75”. Orion Silver Mining Company Stock Pinal County, AZ. Est. $60-90 HWAC# Certificate Number 2832 for 500 52367 shares to Charles Whitman in 1881. Signed by BF Hart and Hamilton Distton. Cut unevenly, but no edge, corner, color or pinhole issues. The Lot# 1360 Pinal, Pioneer, Arizona company had decent ores and built Essex Mining Company Stock a mill which ran intermittently for lack of water. Disston as the son Certificate Number 44 for 100 of a millionaire saw manufacturer in Philadelphia. He would make a shares to trustee PS Swain in 1879. dramatic purchase of 4,000,000 acres of Florida swampland for 25c Signed by AW Blair and EB Booth. No and acre. He would turn this into buildable land. [Grabani] (Laguna edge, corner or color issues.Bancroft Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 63000 lithographer. This mine was located next to the famous Silver King Mine. Lot# 1356 Pima, at the time of this certificate it was Patagonia, Arizona mentioned that there were other mines in the district which assayed The Santa Cruz form $100 to $500 - among them was the Essex. [Grabani] (Laguna Silver Mining Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 62968 Company Stock Certificate 1880. Lot# 1361 Pinal, Pioneer, Arizona Number 89 for 100 Hastings Consolidated Gold & shares to trustee Silver Mining Company Stock WA Hamlin. Signed Certificates Lot of four. Numbers by Walter A Hamlin 82 and 83 are still attached. This and HH Honore(?) would make a nice framed piece. Also Jr. Shovel and pick numbers 86 and 87. All issued to ES mining vignette in Bolles for 500 shares in 1882. No upper left and dog edge, corner or color issues on any of the stocks. The town of Superior on bottom center. Nude winged angel on bottom right. Two pinholes, was laid out here in 1900. (Laguna Collection) Est. $280-400 HWAC# otherwise in amazing condition. This company was most probably 62969 located in the Patagonia Mountains as they share the same officers as the Patagonia Mining Company. We were unable to locate any specific Lot# 1362 Pioneer District, Pinal information on this company. (Laguna Collection) Est. $300-600 County, Arizona 1887 Silver Queen HWAC# 62277 Mining Company Stock Certificate Location printed on certificate: Pioneer District, Pinal Co., Arizona Lot# 1357 Pima, Santo Domingo, Territory. Inc in New York. No. 892, Arizona Southern Arizona Mining & Milling Company Stock issued for 100 shares to IL Gensler on March 7th, 1887. Signed by president Certificate Number 93 for 100 Nelson Morris and secretary P.S. shares in 1881 to trustee ML Earle. Swan. Not cancelled. Underground Signed by ML Earle and William mining vignette. Folds., other light wear. 7. 5 x 10.75” Located near F Turner. Nice condition: two the famous Silver King and used the name in an effort to raise money. vertical folds and rounded corners. A high-grade silver mine. The Silver Queen outcrop was located soon Underground Mining vignette. Turner was the Chief Justice of the after the discovery of the Silver King. It was incorporated in New York Third Judicial District in Arizona. Hill in “Mining Districts of the in 1880 by Philip S. Swain. It was shut down in 1893 due to falling Western United States” cites the district as location unknown. Hinton silver prices. Prior to 1932, the district produced more that $2 million only discusses briefly. (Laguna Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 62942 in gold as a byproduct of copper. The Silver King & Queen are now part of the large Magma Copper Co. at Superior, Arizona. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 60247 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 41

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1363 San Pedro Mining Lot# 1367 Santa Cruz, District, Pinal, Arizona 1882 Tyndall, Arizona Wisconsin Ferre Mining Company & Arizona Mining Company Stock Certificate Number Stock Certificate Early 92 for 600 shares to TW number 45 for 300 shares Belcham. Signed by president to William Goodell of P Whitmer and secretary JC Philadelphia in 1884. Signed McFarland. Incorporated in by OM Sanger and James Illinois with headquarters McRay. Light folds. No edge, in Bloomington. Vignette of corner color or pinhole underground mines and ore issues. Corporate bright blue cart. Black border and print seal. Had the Helvetia, Emma with green safety print on white paper. Very nice condition. Small dog and Josephine mines. The ear lower left. Two vertical folds. The San Pedro District was originally Helvetia was located at the in Pima County until its redistribution over a period of 15 years. It was head of Josephine Canyon. a copper and gold district in the early 1860’s and extensively reported It was the most notable, but the ore in the canyon did not pan out and by Browne in 1868. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 60677 the eastern investors for this (and other) companies did not strike it rich. [Grabani] (Laguna Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 62965 Lot# 1364 Santa Cruz, Arizona 1887 Crittenden Smelting, Milling, and Lot# 1368 Tombstone, Arizona Mining Company Stock Certificate Cincinnati Mining Company Stock Number 75 for 50 shares to Michael Certificate Number 85 for 50 shares Kneiss. Signed by George L Bramard to NB Lazard in 1890. Signed by and RP (?). Endorsed on back. AF McGrew and JJ Scoville. Printed Vignette at left end of allegorical by Waugaman of San Francisco. Indian maiden. U/C. Printer: Francis, Valentine & Co., S.F. Datelined Folds, Bottom torn a little roughly San Francisco. 4 x 9 ½.” Crittenden (now a ghost town) was originally from book. No edge corner, color, or known as Casa Blanca, mainly known for its rail depot and mining. pinholes issues. The Company was probably a reorganization of the Mint condition with minor yellowing, trimmed tight at left. Comes Cincinnati Gold & Silver Mining Company which was incorporated in with history of Fort Crittenden and the town of Crittenden. Very Fine 1890. Extremely fine. (Laguna Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# Condition: no edge or corner issues, no folds, no discoloration, no 62954 pinholes. Uncancelled. (Laguna Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 62275 Lot# 1369 Tombstone, Arizona Three Unlisted Tombstone Lot# 1365 Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Arizona Five Patagonia District, Stock Certificates None of these were listed by Garbani. 1) Boston Arizona Stock Certificates 1) Santa & Arizona. Number 460 for 700 Cruz Mining Company. Number 2133 shares. 1910. 2) Estrella Mining and for 100 shares to WH Parkin in 1907. Smelting. Number 243 for 500 shares. Signed by McDonald & Hall. 2) Santa 1906. 3) Montezuma Extension Gold Cruz Mines and Smelter Company. Mining. Number 1599 for 100 shares. Number 383 for 15 shares to Phebe 1907. (Laguna Collection) Est. Beaver in 1906. Signed by Foster and Treaton. 3) Happy Thought $100-200 HWAC# 63004 and Fairview Mining Company. Number 3518 for 400 shares to F McKendry. Signed by Garbett and (?). 4) Happy Jack Copper Mining Lot# 1370 Tombstone, Arizona & Development Company. Number 367 for 105 shares to William Tombstone Consolidated Mines R Clark. Signed. 5) Second Santa Cruz Mines and Smelter Company. Company Stock signed by Gage Number 958. Overall these stocks are extremely nice. Heavy folds on Number 765 for 100 shares to FE one. Very small fold rip at edge on one. Not much to complain about! Myers & Brother in 1902. Signed (Laguna Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 62970 by HM Robinson and EB Gage. Gage was a prominent mining engineer Lot# 1366 Santa Cruz, Tyndall, Arizona and entrepreneur and was one of the Rosario Silver Mining notable Tombstone residents from Company Stock the early days. He was responsible for the second boom in 1886 when Certificate Number he discovered a way to rid the mines 432 for 50 shares to of the flooding which ended much of the town’s success in 1881. Gage William Temple in was instrumental in transforming Tempe from a sleepy rural village 1868. Very early date! when he organized the Tempe Land and Improvement Company. Very Signed by SR Seldin and nice condition with a few small nips at folds at edges. Gold Seal. Light RA Sinclair. Large 25c wrinkling on top. Striking stock with great presence. The Tombstone revenue stamp. Stamped Consoldiated was organized to get many of the best mines from 1881 corporate seal with a under one working company. The object of consolidation was to crossed pick and shovel. Excellent condition. This company operated coordinate pumping operations. It worked as the company yielded a mine 1.5 miles from the famous Solaro mine. The mine was worked $3,376,000 from 1903 to 1914. [Grabani] (Laguna Collection) Est. in the 1700’s by Mexicans. For anyone collecting old Spanish Mines in $100-200 HWAC# 62966 America this should be one your list! [Garbani] (Laguna Collection) Est. $300-500 HWAC# 62964 View High Resolution Images, Register, Place Bids, See Current Opening Bids Visit the online catalog at FHWAC.com 42 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1371 Tombstone, Arizona Lot# 1376 Union District, Globe, 1884 Tombstone Mill & Mining Gila County, Arizona 1882 Union Company Stock Certificate No. League Silver Mining Company A2572, 50 shares to PH Filbert. Stock Certificate An early 1880’s Signed by president Burnham(?), Arizona mining certificate. secretary Gilroy and treasurer JW Number 122 for 250 shares to McElwee. Two Native American Charles Cobb. Signed by George vignettes. Excellent specimen. Mine Dickson and George W Dickson was located in Tombstone, Cochise Jr. Underground mining vignette County, Arizona. Ed Schieffelin discovered rich silver ore in 1877 at in top center and a bucket what is now known as Tombstone. By 1878 a stamp mill was operating being hoisted down to the miners on the left. Several vertical folds and the company was processing 15-20 tons of are a day, turning out and a couple of pinholes are all that mar this wonderful certificate. $90,000 worth of bullion. In 1881 the Corbin mill, named in honor of Balch (1882, p. 1178) reports the company’s property lies 800 feet the treasurer of the company, was operating. It became the property northwest of Mack Morris mine, in the Richmond basin, Globe mining of TM&MC. In 1879 Governor A.P.K. Safford visited the camp and district. Ransome (1903, pgs. 114-117 and Barns, pgs. 103, 113) together with Frank Corbin on New Britain, Connecticut, he organized report that in 1876 Mack Morris was the locator of the first silver mine the Tombstone Mill & Mining Company and commissioned Richard K. in Richmond Basin, where people could actually pick up silver nuggets. Gird to erect a stamp and amalgamating mill, which was completed in Morris’ mine was incorporated in 1881 and became the Union League 1879. In March 1880 the Schieffelin interest in the TM&MC was bought Silver MC. The Union League name is derived from the Union League, out by a syndicate consisting of the Corbin brothers and others. By a fraternal organization in support of the Union during and after the 1881 the town had a population of 3,000, two daily newspapers, two Civil War, still in existence today. The main office is in Philadelphia, banks, and many stores and saloons. Burchard (1883) states that the which today houses the Union League collection. The building and Tombstone Mill & Mining Company, which comprises the Tough Nut, contents are a marvelous complement to the Union theme, and to Good Enough, Lucky Cuss, D tense, Survey, Tribute, West Side, East American history. Extra Rare. (Laguna Collection) Est. $200-400 Side, No.2, Owl’s Nest, and Owl’s Nest Last Hoot mines, and two mills HWAC# 59689 located at Charleston. Its bullion output for the year was $840,000 (Refs: Blake, W.P. (1902) Tombstone and Its Mines. Butler, B.S. Geology Lot# 1377 Vulture, Arizona 1884 and Ore Deposits of Tombstone: 41,44,45. Williams, S.A. (1980) “The Nice Kales & Lewis Check printed Tombstone Mining District [in the Mineralogical Record, Vol. 11, No.4, Central Arizona Mining Company July-Aug 1980. (Arizona II issue): 251-257. Barnes, “Arizona Place This company owned the Vulture Names”; Burchard (1883) Precious Metals in the United States: 278.) Mine located 14 miles by road from Est. $250-400 HWAC# 60246 Wickenburg at the southern margin of the Vulture Mountains, and about 9 miles west of the Hassayampa Lot# 1372 Tucson, Arizona 1905 River. Check is wrinkled. Singed by legal agent Robert B (?). Kales & EA Jacobs Assay Certificate Assay Lewis blue circular stamp. August 23, 1884. Est. $100-200 HWAC# certificate from EA Jacobs, cor. Main 60954 and Congress, Mar 20, 1905 signed EA Jacobs. Twin Butte Mine. Est. Lot# 1378 Whiteford, Arizona 1899 $100-200 HWAC# 61802 Whiteford Gold Mining Company Stock Certificate Very rare! Inc. in Territory of Arizona. No. 174, issued Lot# 1373 Tucson, Arizona 1902 for 3,000 shares on March 16, 1899. Letter & Capital Stock Cert. Cons. Signed by Crawley (vice president) Gold Mountain Mining Letter and White (secretary). Gilt border from Mr. Flemming, Secretary from and gold seal. Vignette of miners Consolidated Gold Mountain Mining underground. Folds with small Co. to Mrs. Mary H. White from 1902. bottom tear and right edge damage. The Cert. is No. 30, for 8 shares. Good 9” x 12.5”. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 51551 condition. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 61269 Lot# 1379 Wickenburg, Arizona 1913 Monarch Mining & Smelting Company 1913. Number 2708 Lot# 1374 Tucson, Arizona Tucson Gem and for 407 shares to ES Middlebrook. Signed by James T Ross president Mineral Show Prints Four framed prints 18 x 24 inches: 1992 Pyromorphite; 1996 Calcite; 1997 and (?) secretary. Condition: small Copper; 1998 Alpine Minerals. Est. $130-250 HWAC# tears on edges especially at folds. 49565 Not cancelled. Lands were known as the Ryland, or Three Black Buttes group. Diorite and schist carried copper, silver and gold ores, the latter valued at $3 to $15 per ton. Noted by Steven, a high figure of 1,000,000 tons of ore was estimated by management at 540’ levels (Ref: 1910- 11, p.1198). Vignette of bald eagle perched atop dome. Black border and gilt seal. Goes-printers. Had 10 claims known as the Three Black Lot# 1375 Turquoise, Arizona 1901 Buttes. In the Black Rock district 9 miles southeast of Wickenburg. Turquoise Copper Mining and Opened by tunnel with circa 4,000 of workings. Ores are low in average tenor giving assays of 3 to 20 copper and to $15 gold per ton. Smelting letter Letter on company Old 50 ton mill burned April 1007. Was replaced 1908 by a 50 ton mill letterhead pertaining to Bro. Thomas on same site. [Mines Register Volume 8 and 9] (Al Adams Gold Rush Lawry having pneumonia. Large blue Memorabilia Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 56935 ink blot. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61800 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 43

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1380 Yavapai, Arizona Two Nice Lot# 1385 Yavapai, Jerome, Arizona Yavapai Stock Certificates 1) Great Belcher Six Jerome (and Area) District of Arizona. No.684, 150 shares. Unusual group Mining Stock Certificates The Lone of three vignettes including a bull. 1906. Pine. 1901. Striking rose colored. Signed, not cancelled. Providence District. Excellent condition. 2) Haynes The company was dead by 1910 [Garbani] 2) Copper. 1910. 3) Decatur Copper. Interior Mining Trust. No. 2619, 100 shares. 1902. 4) Verde Grande Copper. 1907. Signed, not cancelled. Nice condition! 1908. 5) Homestake Extension. 1905.6) Pittsburgh-Jerome Copper. (Laguna Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 1906. Overall in very good to excellent condition. A nice set! (Laguna 62979 Collection) Est. $120-200 HWAC# 63001 Lot# 1386 Yavapai, Prescott, Arizona Prescott Mining District Lot# 1381 Yavapai, Big Bug, Arizona Five Big Bug District Stock Stock Certificate Collection Lot of 7. The best piece is the Arizona Certificates 1) Model Gold Mining Development Company. Grade 65 - Company. Three 2c document stamps. Gem Uncirculated by PMG. 1901. 2) 1902. Excellent condition. This Cornucopia Gold & Copper. Number company owned the McCabe Mine. 20 for 14,999 shares to the company. Long history included. 2) American Really nice specimen for a different Copper and Gold. 1906. 3) Hassayampa stock where it is sold to the company. Copper, 1910. 4) New England & 3) Cumberland. Number 46. 1900. Excellent condition. 4) Mount Arizona Gold & Copper, 1901. Nice Title Copper. 1908. Number 95. Again, in excellent condition. 5) Azter condition. 5) Missouri and Arizona Copper. 1910. Great specimen. 6) Heart of Arizona Gold & Copper. Copper, 1907. Overall certificates in 1907. Another great cert. 7) And perhaps the most striking - Cardinal excellent condition. (Laguna Collection) Est. $120-200 HWAC# 62977 Mining Company. Title in red with a bright red Cardinal on top. 1908. Like any of these - no edge, corner, color or pinhole issues. Those that do not meet this standard, are darn close! (Laguna Collection) Est. Lot# 1382 Yavapai, Black Hills, Arizona Copper Belt Mining $150-250 HWAC# 62978 Company Stock Certificate Sticking Lot# 1387 Yuma, Arizona 7 Certificate. Underprint in pink with Different Yuma County Mining a train running through the bottom District Stock Certificates 1) Little third of the certificate. Gold Seal. Butte. Bouse District. 1909. 2) Center vignette has a belt buckle Arizona Mines. Number 76. 1911. circle (in pink) around two allegorical Nice rose colored stock. 3) Will women leaning on a shield. Nearly Smelting. Harqua. 1906. 4) Golden perfect. Uncancelled. No. 125, 500 shares to Lyman J Zaskin trustee Star Mining & Milling. Kofa. 1906. in 1884. Signed by Zaskin and James W Smith. This district would 5) Oregon Development Company. eventually become known as Jerome - one of the best copper districts in the west. (Laguna Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 62960 Cienega. 1903. 6) Ruby Gold & Copper. NUMBER A16. Green safety paper. Preferred stock. 1902. Cienega. 7) Flambeau - Hastings. NUMBER 48. 1906. Condition varies from very good to excellent. Lot# 1383 Yavapai, Castle Creek, (Laguna Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 63002 Arizona Castle Creek District Stock Certificates 1) Castle Creek Copper Lot# 1388 Yuma, Empire Flat, Company. No. 37, 6 shares to Robert Arizona Colorado River Copper W Groom, 1882. Signed by president and Gold Mining Company Stock and secretary. Incorporated in New Certificate by Grafton T Brown York in 1882. 2) Castle Creek Mining RARE! No. 3!!! (Probably a founders and Development Company. No. share.) Excellent condition. Issued 105, 500 shares to Mrs. AE Parsons for 2,000 shares, 1877 to IC Bateman. Signed by U Augustus Whiting in 1906. SInged by Mary Ellen Fike and IC Bateman. Principal place of business was San Francisco. Which and Josiah Fike. Some rips and tears. The Arizona Republic of Phoenix is why the famous San Franascio African American Lithographer did reported on April 8, 1910 that the company was unable to develop this stock certificate!!! A rare non-California or Nevada G. T. Brown the property as they hoped and the claim is up for sale. 3) Express stock certificate. In 1877 work began and had only produced a single Mining & Milling Company. Number A2231 for 500 shares to HW bar worth $808. They had six mines with a total of 9,000 feet. (Laguna Bowes. Signed by Edmund Wolcott and Stephen Purel(?). Small rip at Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 62962 fold edges, otherwise in very nice condition. (Laguna Collection) Est. $200-300 HWAC# 62956 Lot# 1389 Yuma, Plomosa, Arizona Lot# 1384 Yavapai, Groom Creek, Four Different Plomosa District Arizona Ida Gold & Silver Mining Stock Certificates 1) Wiley Gold. Company Stock Certificate Number NUMBER 26 for 5000 shares to James 403 for 60 shares to McCamer(?) in Thompson in 1906. Signed by James 1884. Signed by A Clement and OJ Thompson as secretary. The Wiley Wells. Excellent condition. No edge, brothers operated the Little Butte corner of pinhole issues. Very slight Mine. Very nice condition. 2) Quartz discoloration on top at light folds. King Mining. Number 6766 in 1905. The Ida was part of the Arizona Signed by president Theodore A Bell. Queen before it was plist and leased 3) Quartz King. Entirely different cert. from the one above. Still signed in mid-1884. This was one of the by president Theodore A Bell. 4) Picacho Basin. 1907. These are all in best timbered and watered sections in Arizona. [Garbani] (Laguna very nice condition. (Laguna Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 63003 Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 62961 44 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1390 , Arizona 1901-1915 Lot# 1395 , Arizona Arizona Arizona Territorial Letters on Mining Camp Stereoview Unknown Mining Letterhead Lot of three. 1) Arizona mining camp by Continent Old Hickory Copper Company. Mines Stereoscopic, NY, mat has trimming. in the Old Baldy District in the Santa Est. $120-200 HWAC# 63104 Rita Mountains. The person writing, Leon, is staying with a gentleman who has a controlling interest in the mines.This is in an official U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service cover. There is a rarer Lot# 1396 , Arizona Arizona Mining Helvetia 1915 CDS postmark. Letter is mostly his plans and wanting Stereoview, Postcards and a Booklet to visit his girl! 2) La Fortuna Mining Company cover and letterhead. Lot of 11. 1) Booklet is Precious & The letter is from John Doan and is commending Captain P. P. Parker’s Semiprecious metals in Arizona in 1912. appointment as Speaker of the House. Please fight Senator Jones of Mine production by Heikes. 36 pages Arkansas for his un-Democratic position on opposing the policy of with lots of charts. 2) Metcalf stereoview national irrigation. We need the San Carlos Reservoir! Doan was the of inclines. 3) Type statement form the first postmaster of Fortuna when it received a post office in 1896. Gold Bug Mine of subscribers. 1908. Poor 3) Note on Mowry Mines paper. Let Felix Morales have $5.00 in condition. 4-11) Postcards of Crown King merchandise. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 60926 Quartz Mill, Congress Mine, Sasco Smelter Lot# 1391 , Arizona Arizona Mining Stock (RPC), Detroit Copper Company smelter, United Verdi Smelter, Mount Elliott Certificates Boston and Gila River Cattle Company, Mill, Humboldt Smelter, General Copper issued 1882 to C. Newcomb #7 10000 shares Company (RPC). (Laguna Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62269 and signed by president. 6” x 9”. Jerome Verde Development Company, issued 192 to Barnes Bros Lot# 1397 , Arizona 1909-1923 #5793 11 shares1 and signed by president Edwards. Four Different Arizona Mining 8” x 11.75”. Little Illinois Gold Mining Company, Stock Certificates 4 Arizona Stock issued 1914 to A. W. Baker #1981000 shares and Certs. Octave Mining Company; 7.75” signed by president. 8.25” x 9.75”, small lower left nice condition, Issued in 1909. Not stain. Est. $120-160 HWAC# 52609 canceled 7.75” x 11.5”; The Flux Mining Company nice condition 8.5” x 11.25”; Magmatic Copper Company, Lot# 1392 , Arizona Arizona Brunswick 5.75” x 10”. Fortuna Consolidated Mining Co Stocks and Stock Book 10 issued Mining Company, issued 1923, 9” x 1918. Approx 25 more stocks in hardcover 11.25”. Fold marks. Est. $100-120 stock issuing book. All are i/c 1918 and HWAC# 51558 undetached. Book cover in rough condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 61368 Lot# 1398 , Arizona Four Very Early Numbered, Arizona [Incorporated] Stocks 1) Curry & Company. Number 10 issued to AG Curry for 1000 shares in 1901. Signed by AG and JE Curry. 2) El Hueco Mining Company. Number 8 for 100 shares to Roy Hill. Signed Lot# 1393 , Arizona Arizona Copper Co Paper by CF Moore and Porter P Fitzgerald. 3) Unissued #20 for the Gold Gulch. Tokens 4 loose sheets of 4 and a booklet with approx This certainly must not have been 10 sheets of 4 paper tokens from Clifton to smelter. a very good investment as it seems Cover is detached from booklet and several sheets are stuck together. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 61804 they were out of business before stock #20 could be sold. 4) Industrial Mining Company. Number 17 for 2000 shares to William Gagan. Signed by FW Cushing and JR Seupham. 1904. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 62245 Lot# 1399 , Arizona 1875 Map of South Eastern Arizona Territory Map showing Fort Grant, shows military forts & camps, Ft. Lot# 1394 , Arizona Arizona Apache, Globe City Mining Historical Library (Mostly Mining) Region. Topography by Mostly mining related. Approximately T.A.Touey, USA Department of 15 publications. Includes technical Arizona. Map is in excellent articles on mines in Arizona, various condition, dark gray print USGS or University of Arizona on light gray paper. On Mat bulletins on different parts of Arizona Board (not adhered) with including Tombstone, as well as two plastic covers. If mats are volumes of Michael Canty’s History of shipped then additional Mining in Arizona. Nice group worthy shipping may apply. 26” x 22”. of further inspection, please see the (Potter Collection) Est. $300- photo. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 62131 500 HWAC# 59613 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 45

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1400 , Arizona 1939-1943 Lot# 1405 Bear, Arkansas 1887 Phelps Dodge Safety Books (3) Bear Mountain Mining Company 3 6” x 4.5” softcover Phelps Dodge Stock Certificate Number 316 for safety books. 1939-green cover Safety 250 shares to DJ Donnelly. Signed Rules. 1943 gold cover General Rules by secretary Charles Cutter and and Instructions. 1950-yellow cover president JW Carhart. Two heavy Smelter Division General Safety Rules vertical folds. Light staining on and Information. Est. $100-200 border. Very nice! The Mercury of HWAC# 61806 Sandersville, Georgia reported on April 26, 1887 that the company had decided to erect a stamp mill Lot# 1401 , Arizona Ray here. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $60-100 Consolidated Copper Company HWAC# 60264 Annual Reports 1912 and 1918 Mine founded in 1910 and is 18 miles west Lot# 1406 , Arkansas 1850 South- of Hayden. First, second and third Western and Arkansas Mining quarter reports of 1912. Bound 1918 Company Stock Certificate This report with soiled front of binder. Est. small sized silver company stock $100-200 HWAC# 52817 certificate measures 4 x 7.25”. Number 530 issued to George A Worthen for $100 (NOT SHARES). Signed by president Thomas Minton(?) and George A Worthen Lot# 1402 , Arizona Rare Southern as secretary. The original Kellogg mine was opened in 1840 south of Arizona Ban and Trust Co. Stock Kellogg Creek by the South Western and Arkansas Mining Company, under a lease from Benjamin Kellogg. It was followed by several other Certificate Rare Southern Arizona mines on both sides of the creek; they all ceased operations before Ban and Trust Co. Stock Certificate issued in 1921. Est. $100-200 1852. Operations in this period yielded up to 500 tons of lead-silver HWAC# 50302 concentrate, valued at $90 to $100 per ton, all of which was shipped for processing to Liverpool, England. [Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture online] See also Whitney Page 115. The company was incorporated in Arkansas in 1849. VF+. Writing on back bleeds through to the front. Cut roughly. Two very small pinholes where the Lot# 1403 , Arizona Thirteen value %100.00 was written. Nice condition! (Al Adams Gold Rush Arizona Mining Company stock Memorabilia Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 60265 certificates 1) 1904 Twin Buttes Lot# 1407 , Arkansas 1853 South- Mining & Smelting. 2) 1904 Arizona Western and Arkansas Mining Mining & Development. 3) 1918 Company Stock Certificate This Arizona Brunswick for 5000 shares. 4) small sized silver company stock Unissued Antler Gold. 5) 1910 Nelson certificate measures 4 x 7.25”. Mining Company. Early number B36. Number 514 issued to Ann A 6) 1915 Lazy Boy Gold. Olney was Worthen for $100 (NOT SHARES). president of other mining ventures like Signed by president Thomas the Arizona Silver Mines of Unionville, Minton(?) and George A Worthen as Nevada. 7) Lazy Boy Gold. 1915. secretary. Must have been issued to the secretary’s wife! The original Number 78. 8) Arizona Brunswick. Kellogg mine was opened in 1840 south of Kellogg Creek by the South 1918. 9) Yucca Cyanide Mining & Milling. 1905. On June 11, 1904 the Western and Arkansas Mining Company, under a lease from Benjamin United States Investor reported a substantial strike. They, however, Kellogg. It was followed by several other mines on both sides of the caution that this does not mean any long term production. 10) creek; they all ceased operations before 1852. Operations in this Unissued Roario Mining & Milling. 191-. 11) Palmilla District mines. period yielded up to 500 tons of lead-silver concentrate, valued at $90 1927. 12) Unissued Maricopa Mica. 189-. 13) Olentangy Mining & to $100 per ton, all of which was shipped for processing to Liverpool, Milling. Number 334 for 5000 shares. 1907. Incorporated in Arizona England. [Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture online] See also and mined in Washington. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 62244 Whitney Page 115. The company was incorporated in Arkansas in Lot# 1404 , Arizona 14 Vintage 1849. VF+. Writing on back bleeds through to the front. Small pinholes Arizona Ghost Town Photos and 2 where it was endorsed on back. Very nice looking. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 57317 Arizona Mining Booklets 2 copies of From The Ground up, Stories of Arizona’s Mines and Early Mineral Discoveries, by Governor Jack Register, Bid, Williams. 3 5” x 7” black and white photos-Oatman Sunday School 1916, Main street in Oatman with several & view opening bids at cars, Main St. in Johnson, a mining bucket lowering device, abandoned FHWAC.com buildings in Clarkdale, Cleator schoolhouse, an antiques sign held up with 2 hangman’s knots in Tombstone, an old wooden wagon wheel, in Jerome, a wooden building feature in the movie How The West Was Won, 2 chairs supported by a rock, and 2 old buildings in Johnson. The 8 x 10’s were shot by Donald C. Miller, photographer and author. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 50336 46 May 2018

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1408 , Arkansas 1850 South- Lot# 1412 Bodie, California 1878 Western and Arkansas Mining Aurora Tunnel and Mining Company Stock Certificates Pair of Company Stock Certificate Rare. sequentially numbered 1850 Arkansas Incorporated January 22, 1878. stock certificates. These small sized silver Certificate No. 576, issued October company stock certificates measures 10, 1878 to Silas Smith for 100 4 x 7.25”. Number 539 and 540 issued shares; signed by Graves, president to George A Worthen for $100 (NOT and Hubbard as Secretary. Printed by Lith Britton, Rey & Co. S.F.; U/C. SHARES). Signed by president Thomas Endorsed on reverse. The Aurora Tunnel and Mining Company, located Minton(?) and George A Worthen as in Mono County, California in the Bodie Mining District. From the secretary. The original Kellogg mine was Pacific Coast Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger 1878, p.171-2 opened in 1840 south of Kellogg Creek by : They have…..”pushed it forward nearly a thousand feet towards its the South Western and Arkansas Mining objective point. In the construction of this tunnel they had a double Company, under a lease from Benjamin Kellogg. It was followed purpose - having in view the opening of a passage-way for draining by several other mines on both sides of the creek; they all ceased and working the tier of veins already taken up in the ridge between operations before 1852. Operations in this period yielded up to 500 Bodie Bluff and Silver Hill, and the discovery and locating of any blind tons of lead-silver concentrate, valued at $90 to $100 per ton, all of lodes that the tunnel might intersect in its course. The surface claim which was shipped for processing to Liverpool, England. [Encyclopedia taken up is 3,000 feet in length, extending clear across the mineral- of Arkansas History & Culture online] See also Whitney Page 115. The bearing belt that here traverses the country. The tunnel enters the company was incorporated in Arkansas in 1849. VF+. Cut roughly. hill from the east, passing through the “Good-shaw,” “South Standard,” One has two pin holes from heavy writing. (Al Adams Gold Rush and such other parallel claims as lie in its path. For aiding ventilation, Memorabilia Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 60263 an air-shaft has been opened from the surface to the tunnel level, and 500 feet in from its mouth a prospecting winze has been sunk to a Lot# 1409 Alpine / Amador County, depth of 100 feet. Several blind veins have already been intersected California Crystal Gold & Silver by the tunnel, all of which have been duly secured by the Company, Mining Co. Stock Certificate, Silver who will in good time proceed to explore such other favorable Mountain, 1863 Silver Mountain, mineral implications as this work has partially laid open. Among the Amador Co., Cal., 2500 feet (printed lodes cut by the tunnel is one situated 765 feet from its entrance.” below logo). This was about the R.N. Graves was heavily involved in both the Comstock and Bodie. time that Alpine County would be He served as superintendent for the Empire Mill & Mining Company, created this ares of Amador County. Gould & Curry, Imperial, and others. With the decline of the Comstock, Dateline San Francisco, August 20th, 1863. No. 46, issued for 10 he invested heavily in Bodie, financing mining operations and the shares to Frank Cooper. Signed by the president, Alfred Fonda(?) Bodie & Benton Railroad. In 1879, the Aurora Tunnel Company gave and secretary Lawrence Pool. Not cancelled. Nice vignette showing up portions of its claims to form the Dudley Mining Co., south of the miner pushing an ore cart out of a mine tunnel in the mountains. Lith. Jupiter and southeast of the Mono. The Aurora Tunnel is also mention by Drouaillet, SF. 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached on the bottom in Jos. Wasson’s 1878 “Bodie & Esmeralda: “This is now an important left. Border is cut close. Very good condition with no obvious flaws. enterprise, more of the nature of an extensive cross-cut under the Although spelled differently, there is mention of a property with the surface, for the purpose of discovering and locating blind lodes name Chrystal in the Mining and Scientific Press Volume 7, December pertaining to the backbone between Bodie Bluff and Silver Hill. Several 1863. Besides the Silver Mountain District, there was also the Monitor, locations of vein matter have been made, and some very auspicious Mokelumne, Raymond, and Mogul districts in Alpine County. Hawkins indications noted for further exploration. At 765 feet from the mouth, notes that a considerable amount of work has been done in the county 15 feet of vein matter-a solid character, and of sufficient richness to in the previous two years. [Ref: Appendix to the Journals of State of justify a thorough system of development-is located. Enough is already California, 1866, pg.254] Est. $400-800 HWAC# 62925 demonstrated to characterize the Aurora tunnel as a leading and permanent enterprise.” Est. $300-600 HWAC# 60250 Lot# 1410 Amador, California 1878- 1899 Empire Mill and Mining Company Stock Certificate Number RETURN POLICY 23 for 200 shares issued to trustee CD Morrison. Signed by president Alfred Lyon and secretary William All items are guaranteed to be authentic unless Drake. The Empire Mine in Amador County was located 2 miles west of Mokelumne Hill and 2.5 miles otherwise noted. If authenticity is challenged, please south of Jackson in the central Mother Lode region. The company call our office for assistance. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. was re-incorporated as the Empire Mill and Mining Company April You may only return any piece that was significantly 23rd, 1877. It was capitalized at $500,000; 50,000 shares at $10 per. The Pacific company took over the Empire`s assets after 1883 [Ref: inaccurately described by calling our office within Logan, Mother Lode Gold Belt, 1934, p 106-7]. Between 1850 and 10 days of receipt of item(s) and notifying us of the its closure in 1956, the Empire Mine produced 5.8 million ounces of error and reason for return. We do not refund postage gold, extracted from 367 miles of underground passages. The Empire Mining Co. was originally incorporated in 1854, after John Rush the or insurance. PLEASE CALL US IF YOU REQUIRE A original owner was bought out after acquiring it two years earlier. MORE SPECIFIC CONDITION REPORT OR ADDITIONAL This mine was probably the first Hard Rock (quartz) gold mine in PHOTOS. Any items that are returned must be California. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $50- 100 HWAC# 58328 returned in the exact, unaltered condition. When we receive your bids we will assume you have read the Lot# 1411 Angels Camp, California 1897 Utica Mining Co. Gold Bullion description in the catalog, viewed the image of the Assay Document Utica Mining item, have contacted us regarding any questions you Company, Memorandum of Gold may have on any lot and/or have previewed the lot in Bullion (Duplicate), Angels Camp, Mar. 4th, 1897. Est. $70-100 HWAC# person. 38278 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 47

DAY 1 Monday, May 7 Mining Lot# 1413 Bodie, California 1887 Lot# 1416 Butte Co., Consolidated Pacific Mining California Porter Company Stock Certificate G&S MC Stock, Number 4806 for 50 shares to FE 1864. Choice Porter Luty, trustee. Signed by secretary G&SMC stock, issued Luty and vice president TE Jewell. and uncancelled Printed by Britton & Rey, SF. 4” x 9”. to the company Seven assessment stamps on back signed by Luty. “This property was, itself, Jan 25, 1864. until recently, owned by Judge J. G. McClinton, who held it for over Lithography by thirteen years. The claim is 1,400 feet long by a width of 300 feet, and Drouaillet, SF. Choice, covers four distinct lodes, viz: The Pacific No. 1, the Pacific No. 2, the unfolded. The mines in Butte County were generally centered around Pacific No. 3 and the Sharon lode, with their respective extensions Table Mountain, which has a basalt layer that covers an important gold south. Its location is most favorable, being contiguous to the famous bearing Tertiary gravel. Important companies of the period included Bodie, Bulwer and Belvidere claims. It is one of the four producing the Oregon Gulch, Cherokee Blue Gravel. Other mines were located at mines of the district. Considerable work has already been done on Forbestown, Wyandotte, Bangor and a few other locales. Raymond’s this property, and further developments will be vigorously pushed 1867 treatise does not mention the Porter, even though it discusses forward. On Pacific No. 1 lode, the most easterly of the series, a shaft the active mines of the 1864 period. Est. $400-700 HWAC# 59504 50 feet deep has been sunk, showing good ore, the vein varying from eighteen inches to three feet in thickness throughout its entire depth. Lot# 1417 Butte County, California The ground has been stoped from this shaft northerly to the northern California Dredging and Mining boundary of the claim. The ore here produced milled from $40 to Cerificate An early gold dredging $200 per ton. On Pacific No. 2 lode a tunnel, commencing about 300 operation on the Feather River feet south from the northern boundary of the claim, has been run near Oroville, California in Butte northerly on the vein 215 feet. This tunnel, which connects with an air County. #329 i/u 150 shares 1879 shaft located 125 feet from its mouth, is now being run 20 feet further with pretty gold ink. Est. $100-150 north, at which point a crosscut to Pacific No. 1 lode will be made. HWAC# 61712 On Pacific No. 3 lode some surface cuts have been made, showing a fine vein of low grade ore. On the Sharon lode a prospecting shaft is Lot# 1418 Calaveras County, now being sunk about 70 feet from the northern boundary, which, California Certificate of Share for at a depth of only ten feet, shows very good milling ore. The main the Philadelphia Gold Mining working shaft has been located between Pacific No. 1 and Pacific No. Company Good for 1,000 feet of the 2 lodes, 535 feet from the northern boundary of the claim, and is now Atlantic and 1,000 feet of the Pacific being pushed rapidly downward. All the four lodes will be worked in the West Point Mining District, through this shaft. Ore will continue to be extracted through the tunnel Calaveras County, California. Dated on Pacific No. 2 as at present. This main shaft is located about 300 1867. #8 or 81 for one share. Issued feet westerly from the Bodie shaft. As the ground is easily worked, to William Price(?). Signed by William operations can be advanced rapidly, and no trouble from water need Hill, William Triple, Fred Homer be apprehended. About 40 tons of ore now at the mouth of the tunnel. and William Schreiner. Unusual! Ore taken from the shaft assayed $65, and some taken from the open Est. $200-400 HWAC# 61741 cuts in the northern end of the veins assayed from $400 to $800 per ton.” [Pacific Coast Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger 1878, Lot# 1419 Calaveras County, p.189] (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $100-150 California 1881 New York and HWAC# 60258 Calaveras County Gold Mining Company Stock New York and Lot# 1414 Mono County, California Calaveras County Gold Mining 1879 Homer Mill and Mining Stock Company. Issued for 100 shares Certificate #403 i/u AM Griffing in 1881. Signed by secretary RK 1879, 00 shares. Signed by president Southwick and president JK Marshall. Clinton. Nice condition.”The Homer Issued to A Peckham. Endorsed on mining district was established in back. Not cancelled. Gorgeous cert. 1878 and included the May Lundy with vignette of camp and mine on mountain. Pinholes, folds, very mine, which is situated at over 9000 ft. over looking beautiful Crystal fine. Printed by Stewart, Haring & Warren, New York. On June 4, 1881 Lake. The mine was named after the pretty daughter of W. J. Lundy (four months after this stock was issued) an ad in the “Engineering who operated a sawmill supplying Bodie with lumber in a canyon and Mining Worlds” advised the New York & Calaveras County Gold named after him. A mill was built at the site by the Crystal Lake Gold stockholders that they could change their percent of stock for bonds Mining Co; a successor of the May Lundy, a tunnel was run near the in the Calaveras Water and Mining Company. Southwick was the mill site to cut the veins nearly 1500 ft. from the outcrop. The actual secretary of both companies. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60675 May Lundy mineshaft is located high above the mill site and was connected via an aerial tramway.” from www.cityconcierge.com/ Lot# 1420 Calaveras County, mammoth-lakes/summer/homer.asp Est. $100-120 HWAC# 61706 California Assay and Land Surveyor Business Card Business card from Lot# 1415 Mono County, California H. W. H. Penniman, San Andreas, Mono County Mining Stock CA. Calaveras County. 2.5” x 3.75”. Certificates Munckton Gold & Silver Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62469 Mining # 86 u/i, Dunderberg Lode. Homer Mill and Mining #672 i/u SB Baldwell 1881 100 shares, signed by president Clinton. Small lower left crease. Est. $100-120 HWAC# 61414 48 May 2018


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