MAY 2018 Auction Catalog

DAY 2 Tuesday, May 8 Saloon Lot# 2697 Lot# 2702 , Canada Buffalo, New Chesterfield Advertising York c19th Pins Three pins with Century Antique lovely ladies, one has the Jewett Humidor original backing advertising 19th C. “The Chesterfield cigarettes out of Jewett” Humidor North Carolina. One and 1/2 Buffalo, NY. Great inches in diameter. Est. $150- humidor crafted 300 HWAC# 61614 of oak, steel, brass & milk glass with two doors (most models have a single door).The inside sides and top are glass lined. Wire racks on bottom to place the cigars on. The humidor is in very good condition. Nice addition for Lot# 2703 , England L & M Metal your collection. 17.5” x 22” x 13.25”. Brass name plate on inside right Sign A hand is holding a pack of L & door. Hewitt served as president and general manager of the John M cigarettes.” Get Lots More / in the C. Jewett & Son company from 1885 to 1917. From 1917 to 1924 he “ red headed “ pack or box”. Approx 22” x 18”. Light rust. Est. $100- continued his position with the Jewett Refrigerator Company which 300 HWAC# 60826 was located at 27 Chandler street. He became vice-president of the Cary Safe Company, and was elected president of Columbia National Lot# 2704 , Germany Figural Bank of Buffalo in 1897. Est. $1200-1800 HWAC# 57847 Tobacco Plug Cutter Tobacco plug cutter with figural man. An early cast- Lot# 2698 , 3 Unopened Parliment iron tobacco plug cutter with a figural man thumbing his nose while he is riding the handle. Classic 19th century artifact for the tobacco Cigarette Packs 3 Unopened collector. 13 inches long, 8 inches tall, 3 inches wide. Est. $100-150 Parliment Mouthpiece Cigarette HWAC# 61177 Packs. Intact tax seals. Small pencil written prices on front. Est. $60-120 Lot# 2705 , Mexico Juan de Fuca HWAC# 48541 Cigar box Juan de Fuca Cigar box, with labels on wooden box exterior. 10C is written with pen in 2 locations inside box lid. Est. $15-25 HWAC# 48309 Lot# 2699 , 3 Vintage Unopened Spud Cigarette packs 3 Vintage Unopened Spud Cigarette packs with unopened tax seals. All 3 are wrinkled, silver pack has 17c written Lot# 2706 , Mexico Just Suits Cut in red ink on front. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 48546 Plug Tin Just Suits Cut Plug Tin, Buchanan and Lyle, New York, NY. Lot# 2700 , British Columbia 5 Hinged top. Some rust inside and Vintage Unopened Cigarette Packs outside. Approx 6 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 48358 5 Vintage Unopened Cigarette Packs. Camel does not have a tax seal, all others have intact tax seals. Cort King Size, Julep cork tip, Dunhill, Salome Ideal Gold. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 48544 Lot# 2707 , Mexico Ladies Leg Pipe 5”. “Made in Italy.” Bowl unscrews. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 47210 Lot# 2701 , Canada 5 Vintage Unopened Cigarette Packs 5 Vintage Unopened Cigarette Packs with intact tax seals. White Rolls, Lot# 2708 , Mexico Pipe Collection Coffee Tone, Herbert Tareyton with A group of 6 different pipes of wrinkled package, Lucky Strike with varying sizes, styles and dates. Sizes wrinkled package, Lady Hamilton. range from 1.5” to 9” Est. $200-400 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 48545 HWAC# 33528 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 149

DAY 2 Tuesday, May 8 Saloon Lot# 2709 , Mexico Pipe: Fancy Lot# 2715 , Engraved Matchcase Two Vadnerwee Mirscaum Pipe Fancy inches tall and 3/4” wide, metal matchcase scroll pipe from L. Vanderwee, Bd, with “A” engraved at top on one side and “F” Anspach, 82, Bruxelles. Inside has on the back. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 61605 beautiful blue and royal purple lining. 8” long. Bowl measures 4” tall. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 42818 Lot# 2710 San Francisco, South Africa Old Louvre Lot# 2716 , Four Different Style Matchcase Beautiful, extra Match Cases Lot of four: 1) The rare metal match case Diamond Match Co. tiny 1 1/2 x 1 with woman in profile on inch metal case with hinged top; 2) the front and on the back “Krupp” with three interlocking rings “Old Louvre / Cor. Market at the top, 2 3/4 inches tall; 3) Brass & O’Farrell Sts. / Schwartz and white metal with levered opening & Beth Props. / San at the bottom, 2 3/4 inches; 4) Ornately engraved match case, 1 3/4 x Francisco. Inlaid with rose 1 1/4 inches. Est. $80-160 HWAC# 48648 colored stone on back and quartz on front. Two and Lot# 2717 , Match Case Engraved 3/4 inches tall, one and metal match case. 2 3/4 inches tall, a half inches wide. Est. 1 1/2 inches wide. The Letter “J” is $200-400 HWAC# 61606 engraved on one side. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 48628 Lot# 2711 Denver, Colorado L. Garson & Co. Match Safe Two and a half inch tall match safe engraved “Compliments / of / L. Garson & Co. / Lot# 2718 , Match Case Engraved match case with One Price / Clothiers / Denver / Colo. the initials “F.C.W.” on one side. 2 1/4 x 1 inch. Est. White metal. Est. $40-80 HWAC# $50-100 HWAC# 48629 48641 Lot# 2712 , Antique Metal Cases Lot of three little boxes: 1) Labeled French Sterling c 1880, a small round box with hinged front. The size of a pocket watch. 2) The lid of the box has beautiful fluting to the metal, along with a scroll & shield design, and the words “Pozzoni’s Boodle Box” embossed Lot# 2719 , Pearl Cuff Links 1.25”. on the top. It looks like the box was Show off that tux! Est. $40-60 used for many years after its work as HWAC# 48445 a compact for carrying small notions & etc. The compact measures 4” by 1 1/2” in size and 1/2” in depth. 3) “The Biggest Thing / In / Kansas City /The New /Live Stock Exchange / At Your /Best Market” with the building pictured on the back. 2 inches wide, 2 1/2 inches tall, opens. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 48639 Lot# 2720 , Three Fine 14K Gold Bracelets Three fine 14K gold Lot# 2713 , Fancy Metal Case for bracelets: one with small gold heart; G. H. Cleveland - United State Navy two others are fine simple chains. Naval (telescoping glass, anchor, 4.3g Est. $150-250 HWAC# 45606 sword and gun) and American (large eagle with shield) oriented. Ornate! Clasp broken. Perhaps for cigarettes? Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62227 Lot# 2714 , Cigarette Case Metal Lot# 2721 Jackson, California Vintage A. cigarette case with the initials “H.B.T.” Vogeli Pocket Watch Vogeli was probably engraved. Top opens and case opens a jeweler. Watch is open face, gold engraved full length for smokes on both sides. 3 x 2 inches. Est. $50-100 HWAC# back. Good condition. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 48630 58836 150 May 2018

DAY 2 Tuesday, May 8 Jewelry Lot# 2722 Waltham, Massachusetts Lot# 2729 , 10 Vintage Hamilton 14K Cased Ladies Pocket Watch Pocket Watched All are open face. American Watch Co. Waltham, Royal. Two are Railway Special, gold plated. Beautifully engraved with floral Three are Art Deco 14k gold. Several designs.14K gold solid Hunter case. are gold plated. Two watches include Does not run, but is in beautiful chains. Great group of watches. condition. Please inspect. Est. $400- Please Inspect. Est. $500-900 HWAC# 800 HWAC# 58827 58843 Lot# 2730 , 12 Vintage Men’s Pocket Watches Lot includes: two Imgraham, one Viceroy with chain Lot# 2723 , 10 Vintage Elgin and one Sturdy with chain; S.U.F.; Croton; Chronometer; Admiral; Pocket Watches 1) 10K gold case, Hampden Watch Co.; South Bend; A face and numerals in gold, very good Matthey Jaquel, Chaux de Fonds; two condition; five others may be 10K Bull’s Eye. Est. $150-250 HWAC# gold; four with gold color face; others 58817 gold filled or plated. Please inspect. Est. $500-900 HWAC# 58833 Lot# 2731 , 4 Men’s Wrist Watches Lot# 2724 , 10 Vintage Elgin 1) Vintage Elgin with Native American Pocket Watches All open face,2 w/ designed band--Thunderbirds of missing face plates. One Railway turquoise and coral chips, silver; 2) watch has watch fob of brass with Luminor GMT Panera, 2006, exclusive penny set in it. Some gold filled. men’s watch, black leather band. Not Please Inspect. Est. $250-400 HWAC# running. 3) 5.11 Tactical Stainless 58842 Steel Swiss Sentinel water resistant watch, compass, black. Not working; 4) Casio G Shock 3366 GW-1500A Chrono Watch. Not working. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 58820 Lot# 2725 , Vintage Elgin National Lot# 2732 , 4 Vintage Illinois Pocket Watch Co. 4 men’s open face pocket Watches All are open face, one face watches. Cases are solid coin silver. Two plate missing. Gold plated, one in good are key wound. c. 1870’s. All are probably condition, others are not. Est. $70-200 railway watches. Est. $250-500 HWAC# HWAC# 58830 58818 Lot# 2726 , Vintage Elgin Set w/ Lot# 2733 , 5 Gold Ladies Pocket Emerald Probably 14K gold, blue Watches Group of 5 small gold pocket enameled circle lines on front and watches, not currently working. 1. back, Emerald set in star on back. ornate case, Elgin, 14kt case, 15 Early 1900’s, Hunter style, working. jewels, sn15805860, 1.4” diameter. Lovely piece. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 2)Hampden, Dueber case, prob gold 58834 plated, diadem works, sn2337944 1.25” diam. 3) Illinois, Crescent Lot# 2727 , 7 Vintage Elgin Men’s WC Co case, prob gold plate, 15 j, Pocket Watches All are large size sn2000299, 1.4” diam; 4)Waltham watches, ranging from late 1800’s Am Watch, Crescent case, prob to early 1900’s. Some silver. Please gold plated, sn3465761, 1.6” diam; inspect. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 58821 Dingwall, cashier case, gold filled, 15j, c64676.1.3” diam ; Est. $400-800 HWAC# 58232 Lot# 2734 , 6 Vintage Gold Ladies Open Face Watches Lot includes: Lot# 2728 , Five Vintage Elgin Elgin octagonal pocket watch, another octagonal gold watch, no Pocket Watches Three are railway watchmaker name; Illinois gold grade. Three gold plated. Please inspect. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 58838 pocket watch; Waltham gold pocket watch, gold scrolling on yellow dial; North Star, gold, beautiful engraving; Hampden gold watch on slider chain, slider had tiny diamond. Please inspect. Est. $350-500 HWAC# 58823 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 151

DAY 2 Tuesday, May 8 Jewelry Lot# 2735 , 8 Gold Pocket Watches Lot# 2741 , Five Vintage 14K Gold 8 gold pocket watches, 1) Elgin Natl. sn Pocket Watches 1) Waltham double 3843173, gold filled?, 2.15” diam, nw; 2) hunter sidewinder pocket watch with South Bend, panama model,17j, sn411; roman numeral dial. Needs servicing. 3) waltham, octagonal, 15j, sn22858148, Movement serial #8156369. Model runs; 4) waltham, sn 22646155, runs, 1883. Production year 1898. Gold gf?; 5) waltham, 1.75” diam, 6) waltham filled case. 2) Waltham Hunter case (fancy face plate), sn229722771.9” diam pocket watch in 14k yellow gold engraved case; 7)waltham (broken face with a beautiful engraved case. Cover glass), 21j, sn590094gf?, 2.2” diam; , 9) glass missing. 3) Elgin, 14K gold waltham, sn15901547, gf?, 1.8” diam. filled, face plate missing. Hunter Case Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 58233 Watch 15 Jewels, c.1916. 4) Non- Magnetic Watch Co. of America, 14K Lot# 2736 , 8 Vintage Ladies gold. Beautifully engraved case, great condition. The Non-Magnetic Pocket Watches Lot includes: One Watch Company of America was founded in 1887. But it all began in gold filled engraved case Betsy Ross the mid 1880’s when a man by the name of Charles-Auguste Paillard pocket watch. Porcelain dial, stem set received several patents for non-magnetic alloys for balance springs and wind, 7 jewel movement; Two and balances. 5) Wm Schleppler & Sons, San Francisco, 14 K gold. Elgin gold watches, both hunters case Engraved: Xmas, 1913. Beautiful condition. Est. $400-1000 HWAC# and both have Roman numerals; one 58840 watch has no company name on face; four watches do not have crystals. Lot# 2742 , Group Est. $250-350 HWAC# 58846 Vintage Men’s Pocket Watches All open face. Three Waltham, gold Lot# 2737 , 8 Vintage Men’s filled, two w/gold color Pocket Watches Open face lot faces, one has gold hands. includes: E. Howard Watch Co.; Arnex Two Hamilton, gold Railway,17 jewel, includes chain plated, one with gold and penknife; J.W. Benson, London; hands. One Elgin, gold Hamilton, 17 jewel; Bulova, gold filled. Please inspect. hands and numerals, needs cleaning; Est. $250-500 HWAC# Hampden; two with cracked face 58837 plates--Admiral and Birkdale Solar. Please inspect. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 58848 Lot# 2743 , Seven Gold Ladies Lot# 2738 , Eight Vintage Gold Pocket Watches Beautiful group Pocket Watches Great group of of watches: Four are Waltham. One different men’s pocket watches: is AWC Waltham, gold, very small Six, 10K-14K gold, have gold color size. One is U.S. Watch Co. Waltham. faces: two with gold hands--Gruen Very elaborate engraved gold case. Very-Thin and Bulova; others--CYMA, Two other Walthams--one Roman Omega, fancy with chain, Caraville, numerals, the other, Arabic numerals- and Knickerbocker. Two porcelain -both 14K gold, small size. All in very face--Montgomery Bros. Los Angeles, Cal. and A.W.Co. Watch Co. Please good condition. Two Elgin: one open inspect. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 58847 face; one face glass missing, hands Lot# 2739 , Eight Vintage Gold missing. Last watch, no name on face, beautifully engraved and embossed. Gold hands and face design, 14K Pocket Watches Men’s open face gold. Please inspect. Est. $500-700 HWAC# 58845 watches: five are Elgin, gold filled or gold plated, one with gold hands Lot# 2744 , Six Vintage and design. Two Waltham, one gold Gold Pocket Watches 1) Elgin filled with horse head engraved on Natl Pocket Watch, Roman back. The other is missing crystal. numerals, gold minute dots, One is from Aurora Watch Co. with pink center color. Dial and engraving of hunter and dog and duck on back--very faint, 15 jewels, movement signed Elgin, case gold plated. Please inspect. Est. $500-800 HWAC# 58849 Union. Case is in extremely Lot# 2740 , Five Vintage 14K Gold sharp condition and dial is superb, face plate missing. 2) Pocket Watches All are closed. Two Elgin, Dueber case, hunter. Face Elgin pocket watches, hunting cases, plate missing,14K gold, worn. 3) very nice engraving on both. One A.W. Co. Waltham, 14K gold. An Waltham, 14K gold filled. One Rockford antique Waltham Traveler full 14K gold filled, beautiful bird engraving. hunter pocket watch. C. 1903, One Illinois Sterling, 14K gold filled, 15 worn. 4) C. D. Peacock, 14K gold. jewels, engravings of houses on case. All Worn engraving. 5) New York watches in good condition, not working. Standard Watch Co., 14K gold filled, 1866-1875, Springfield MA. 6) Est. $300-500 HWAC# 58839 Nice 14K gold case, stem missing, cannot open. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 58841 152 May 2018

DAY 2 Tuesday, May 8 Jewelry Lot# 2745 , Six Vintage Ladies Gold Lot# 2751 , Vintage Pocket Watches Three Elgin ladies Waltham Men’s Closed 14K gold pocket watches. Hunter style, Pocket Watches 1) Ornate roman numeral faces. One missing a 14K gold Waltham pocket hand and face plate cover. One Waltham. watch, with chain, hunting One Illinois. One New York Standard configuration, face cover Watch Co. These last 3 are well worn. loose. 2) Gold Waltham Est. $250-450 HWAC# 58844 men’s pocket watch, hunter configuration. Image of painted hawk on face. Engraving of elk on back. This watch is working! Est. Lot# 2746 , Three Ladies Pocket $400-600 HWAC# 58826 Watches 1) Paul Peugeot, Extime, Swiss Made. 2) Vintage Colibri Gold Tone. 3) Lot# 2752 , Vintage Arnex gold tone, elaborate face withhold Waltham Pocket Watches and pink design. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 58832 Five vintage Waltham men’s open face pocket watches: 1) Silver, white enamel dial with black Roman numbers and the 24 hour dial in the center track. early 1900’s; 2) Coin silver, had missing Lot# 2747 , Two Gold Ladies Pocket on stop dial; 3) Silver A. W. Co. Waltham, c. 1910. 4) Watches 1) AWC Waltham gold with Silver, black engraved, A. W. diamond set in case, Enamel painting Co. Waltham, side wound; on engraved area damaged. Top hanger 5) American Watch Co. missing. 2) Golden Eagle Jewelry Store, Waltham, side wound, face yellowed, c. 1906. Est. $250-500 HWAC# A. Dobrowsky Special. 14K gold, 12 58819 jewels. Hummingbird engraved on case with diamond set in its beak. Good condition, enamel face cracked. Est. Lot# 2753 , Vintage Ladies $400-600 HWAC# 58829 Gold Open Face Pocket Watches Lot of four includes: 1) Vintage Waltham CWC Co. Lot# 2748 , Two Ladies Waltham ladies rose gold pocket watch. Back embossed with a rabbit Hunters Watches Both watches are and flowers; 2) Vintage Nastrix 14K gold, nicely engraved. Watches Ladies gold open face, engraved are similar. Good condition; please gold with gold face, Swiss made. inspect. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 58828 3) Gold Winton Ladies gold open face; 4) Rose Gold, very lovely engraving, cannot find watchmaker name. Est. $350- 650 HWAC# 58822 Lot# 2749 , Two Vintage Waltham Men’s Pocket Watches 1) 17 jewel, Lot# 2754 , Vintage New gold plated, heavily used, surface York Standard Watch Co. very worn. Face glass is cracked. 2) Pocket Watch Vintage Gold plated, nice concentric pattern New York Standard Watch on case. Both are encased watches. Please inspect. Est. $250-400 HWAC# Co. Pocket Watch w/ hand 58825 carved gold filled case, c.1900. Fob attached with Lot# 2750 , 6 Waltham clip. Beautiful timepiece. Pocket Watches Six Est. $200-400 HWAC# 58824 different Walthams: one modern, gold-filled with chain; one w/ gold hands, plated, worn; one missing face, gold filled; one gold filled, back engraved, enameled, knob missing; two others gold plated with chains, one w/ pen knife attached. Inspect. Est. $500-800 HWAC# 58835 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 153

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3000 Nome, Alaska “Souvenir Lot# 3006 , Alaska Map of Alaska of North Western Alaska” by O. Interesting map of Territory of Alaska. D. Goetze c1904. 70 pages. 11 x This was pre-Alaskan Gold Rush. 8”. Focus is on Native American This was known as Russian America. life, animal life, water, ice, boating, Engraved & hand colored by Gray,1876. Nome and mining. Condition is Nice condition, 17.5” x 14”. Mounted poor to good. One page is detached. on mat board. If mats are shipped then Discoloration on some. A few have additional shipping may apply. (Potter large tears or rips. Est. $200-400 Collection) Est. $120-180 HWAC# HWAC# 62258 63400 Lot# 3001 Nome, Alaska Cute Now Alaska Souvenir Shovel and Pick Shovel Lot# 3007 , Alaska Strikingly is 8.25” long. Tip has been chipped. Pick Colorful Alaska Advertising Piece is in great condition. Whale bone? Ivory? called “Gold Fields” This needs to Est. $300-500 HWAC# 62202 be framed!!! Main picture is of men panning for gold. Two small circular pictures show the Skaguay Trail and Dawson City. George S. Harris & Sons of New ork, Chicao and San Franicsco were the lithographers. Perhaps a sample of their work for customers? 6 x 8”. Small holes and rip in left hand margin. Est. $50-100 HWAC# Lot# 3002 Sitka, Alaska 1892 62221 The Alaskan Newspaper, Vol. VI 4pp edition with local news and Lot# 3008 , Alaska Vintage Iditarod interesting pictorial ads. Large tears Dog Sled Vintage Iditarod Malamute and lower right corner of front page wood dog sled from Alaska. This Dog is detached and included. Est. $100- Sled is an antique, but may have been used up into modern times, 200 HWAC# 61352 hence the nylon struts. Awesome rare piece. This is a real dog sled, not just a decorative piece. Get your dogs ready! 8’.6” long x 25.5” wide. Definitely will require extra shipping charges. Please inspect. Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 59376 Lot# 3003 Taku Harbor, Alaska Lot# 3009 , Panama 1948 Yankee 1910 Charles Hill Wanted for Ship Sailing Cards Books (3) Presents “Cohabitating in a State of reproductions of some of the colorful Fornication” With Annie Hill! cards announcing ships sailing in the days Dismissed in 1912 after Charles when Boston Ships and Boston men where disappeared and was never seen known in every port. Yankee Ship Sailing again. Four legal documents, three handwritten notes, and two Cards, Other Yankee Sailing Cards, Yankee envelopes. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 62220 Sailing Cards Vol III (Potter Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 63325 Lot# 3004 , Alaska “Souvenir of Alaska and Yukon Territory” by Hegg Photo Journey! 1902 copyright by E. A. Hegg of Seattle, Washington. Lot# 3010 Ajo, Arizona Ajo, AZ 126 pages full of photographs. Shows life in the city, in the country, Ephmera Group 9 postcards including RPC’s, 5 postal covers on the water and on the snow! including 3 1930 Ajo Airport of Entry Plenty of mining scenes. Identified airmails and a First Flight,. 8 WJ photographs are mostly 1898 and Davies cardboard dairy bottle tops. 1899. Front four panel of Dawson Overview is in near perfect condition. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 61822 Pages are 9 x 12”. Cardboard cover. Spine is loose but attached. Foxing on title page. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 62255 Lot# 3005 , Alaska Alaska Lot# 3011 Altar Valley, Arizona Klondike Gold Rush Ephemera Lot c1869 Tucson to Fuente, Yuma via of 3. 1) Best is unmounted bird’s- Franco en el Altar Postal History eye view photograph of Dawson, The Tucson postmark verifies the Yukon Territory. “Looking Down date. It is a type 3 used from May of from Midnight Dome.” By Larrs & 1868 to June of 1870. Addressed to Ducloy (?). 6.25 x 8.5” Large creases. Jesus Redondo in Fuente, Yuma (?). Nice contrast. c.1898. 2) Unused Reverse shows sender as A Redondo. humorous illustrated lettersheet, Jesus “Jose Tomas” Redondo was “The Sourdough Roadhouse,” Nome, born in 1826 in Mexico. He died on April 20, 1897. He is buried in the 1930s. Printed by the Nome Daily Yuma Pioneer Cemetery. RARE fancy ‘Franco en el Altra’ forwarding Nugget Office. Vignettes of prospectors and Eskimos. House rules stamp. The Altar Valley is a 45-mile long north-south valley, trending printed on the left. Folds. 3) Manuscript document from Killisnoo, slightly northeast from Sasabe, Arizona on the Mexico border to the Alaska, 1905 to a savings bank in San Francisco. Signed by James G. Avra Valley west of the Tucson Mountains. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60939 Blaine. 7.25 x 7.75” Folds, some separation. (Potter Collection) Est. $150-300 HWAC# 60184 154 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3012 Benson, Arizona Benson, Lot# 3018 Douglas, Arizona AZ Postcards and Ephemera Approx Douglas, AZ Postcard Collection 20 postcards including RPC’s-Big Rock and Ephemera Approx 30 Douglas, Bridge, Dragoon Mountains, Texas AZ postcards with a few RPC’s-street Canyon, birdeye, City Hall, Camp Benson, scenes,Southern Pacific Depot, West Main St.and one from 1884. 1907 library, hotels, smelter, G Ave., a Bank of Benson pictorial cover. Bank of parade, City Park and more.Sunset Benson blank deposit slip, 1931 Wells Magazine promo ad for Douglas, Fargo and Co. of Mexico receipt? Est. Kress 5 & !0 1924 billhead. Donohoe $80-120 HWAC# 61821 & Roark billhead, 1930’s folding map. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 61777 Lot# 3013 Bisbee, Arizona Bisbee, Lot# 3019 Fairbank, Arizona AZ Postcards, Postal Covers and Fairbank, AZ Postcards and a Ephemera 32 postcards of Bisbee, Check 3 postcards 1911-1940 with some street scenes,mostly mining Fairbank cancel including an amusing related. 3 Bisbee canceled covers, fishing scene, another a young boy 898-19310 including a dedication sitting on a barrel. 1901 check from series Bisbee airport cover. Saint Consolidated National Bank to Chas. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance large Allen Est. $70-100 HWAC# 61816 business card for JC Collins agent. Lot# 3020 Flagstaff, Arizona Early 1940,s Bisbee travel brochure. 1910 billhead from HW Clarkson Flagstaff, AZ Postcard Collection and PD Extension Copper stock receipt. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 61818 with RPC’s Approx 50 postcards, Lot# 3014 Casa Grande, Mexico mostly color, a few RPC’s. Kitchen Casa Grande, AZ Postcards and Kastle Cafe, birdeye view of Flagstaff, Ephemera 4 postcards including San Francisco Peaks, Aspen Ave., RPC of street scene, 2 1921 postal Court House, Santa Fe St. Lowell covers, US Dept of the Interior Casa Observatory, Cliff Dwelling, a parade Grande National Monument 1941 and and more. Est. $140-200 HWAC# early 1960’s pamphlets, Chamber of 61815 Commerce pictorial pamphlet Est. $70-100 HWAC# 61819 Lot# 3021 Florence, Arizona 1889 Pinal County Bank Stock Certificate Issued and Lot# 3015 Chin Lee, Mexico 1905 signed by President W.E. Guild? We could Charles L Day Indian Reader Letter not find any info on this company in our Nice pictorial letterhead offering a library. Est. $160-320 HWAC# 52554 blanket for $20.Stains and fold tears. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61805 Lot# 3016 Clifton, Mexico Clifton, Lot# 3022 Fort Grant, Arizona 1888, AZ Postcards & Copper Mine 1893 Three Territorial Arizona Paycheck 9 postcards including Fort Letters Three Arizona Territory RPC’s of Arizona Copper Co., business Post letters 1) 1/2 page letter from district, trainyard, bathhouse, and Fort Apache, Arizona Territory. birdseye. Unused Arizona Copper Co. Payment for $1.50. 2-3) Fort Grant. blue paycheck and stub. Est. $80- 1893. Two letters from Edward 120 HWAC# 61817 Anderson to DW Batemen about payment due on rent. One is on Post Exchange letterhead with a stamped, /Edward Anderson, Lieut., 1st Cavalry, Officer in Charge’. Although not about military operations, it Lot# 3017 Douglas, Arizona is signed by a future World War I General, Edward Anderson. After Douglas, Arizona Postal History graduation, Anderson was commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry but was switched to cavalry and performed frontier duty Collection Lot of seventeen. From until 1895, he was in the Great Sioux War of 1890 and served in airmiles to First Day Covers to the Santiago campaign in Cuba in 1891. For his service in Cuba, he pictorial covers, to corner advertising received three Silver Star commendations; in 1898, he served in the covers. Every cover fits one of these areas. Three stamped ‘American Air Puerto Rican campaign. He graduated from the Army War College in Mail Society,’ two first night flight, 1914. From 1917 to 1920, Anderson commanded several camps and three Women’s National Air Derby units around the United States, he received a promotion to brigadier general on October 1, 1918. From March 19, 1919 to February 23, in 1929, three stamped Southern Trans. Continental First Flight 1930, 1921, he commanded the 13th Cavalry and the post of Fort Clark, one pictorial ‘Gateway to the Wonderland of Rocks,’ one cancelled Texas. From April 3, 1921 to October 11, 1922, he commanded April 2, 1934 with a stamp that says ‘OUT Apr 8,’ and one stamped ‘NRA Member,’ etc. Est. $160-320 HWAC# 60277 the Ninth Cavalry at Camp Stotsenberg in the Philippines, then he organized and commanded the 26th Cavalry of Philippine Scouts from October 1922 until January 6, 1923. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 60925 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 155

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3023 Fort Whipple, Arizona 1886 Letter Lot# 3026 Grand Canyon, Arizona to Colonel Grierson who Organized 1 of 2 early to mid 1900’s Grand Canyon Buffalo Soldier Cavalry Units What a great Promo Pamphlets, Booklets, piece of history. United States Representative Stereoview, Maps Approx. 25 pieces Miller is telling Colonel B H Grierson that he of Promo pamphlets & booklets of and the Texas delegation ae doing what they Grand Canyon expeditions & tours; can to get the President of the United States to stereoview of woman & 2 dogs promote him to General. Those of you who saw overlooking rim of Grand Canyon; the Turner Network Television’s documentary Info. write up with pictures of Navaho on the Buffalo Soldiers will recognize this name! Hogans near Hopi House; Booklet of Ancient Landscapes of the Grand Benjamin Grierson became afraid of horses Canyon Region by Edwin D. McKee when at age eight he was kicked and nearly with illustrations. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 61264 killed by a horse, after which he hated horses. So he became a band instructor. At the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the 6th Illinois Lot# 3027 Jerome, Arizona Jerome, Cavalry and was promoted to colonel of that regiment on April 13, AZ Postcards and Ephemera 11 1862. (I guess he got over his fear and hatred of horse!) His regiment postcards mainly birdeye, Main was engaged in a number of small skirmishes and raids on railroads Street,Hotel Jerome and United Verde and facilities in Tennessee and Mississippi that spring and summer. Mine. Return address label from Dr. In November, he became a brigade commander in the Cavalry JT Pecharich. 1914 and 1915 road Division of the Army of the Tennessee. He is most noted for an 1863 tax receipts. 1916 letter to Hanna expedition through Confederate-held territory that severed enemy Laundry Co. regarding transfer of communication lines between Vicksburg, Mississippi and Confederate stock. Est. $100-140 HWAC# 61823 commanders in the Eastern Theater. Grierson decided to remain in the Regular Army after the war and received the rank of colonel. His lack of West Point credentials made Lot# 3028 Kingman, Arizona him suspect to many fellow officers. He organized the 10th U.S. Kingman Postcards (13) and a Cavalry, one of two mounted regiments composed of black enlisted Billhead 13 postcards including men and white officers, called the Buffalo Soldiers. This assignment a few RPC’s of Main St., Old Trails also made him unpopular with other officers, including his superior, Hwy., Santa Fe Depot,birdeye view, General Philip Henry Sheridan, because of his support for and trust burro pack train, a long freight in his troops. His sympathy and courtesy to Native American tribes team Hotel Beale and more. 1908 also led to questions about his judgment. “The only White officer billhead from Lovin & Withers who supports the unit is Regimental Commanding Officer Colonel General Merchandise. Est. $100-120 Benjamin Grierson. Ostracized by other officers for his enthusiastic HWAC# 61824 command of the African-American troops, Grierson believes in the abilities, dedication, and record of performance of the Buffalo Soldiers Lot# 3029 Meteor Crater, Arizona and declines offers to lead at any other post. General Pike offers to Meteor Crater, AZ Ephemera 2 relieve Grierson ‘of this self-imposed exile and have him commanding postcards with 1 RPC. 2 vintage a real cavalry regiment within a month,’ but Grierson refuses” [TNT brochures “ The Great Meteor Crater of Documentary] In 1885 and 1886 he is in Arizona at Fort Whipple and Arizona” with back map. Est. $60-100 later Fort Grant. And back to the letter. He did receive an appointment HWAC# 61828 as Brigadier General in April of 1890. Three months later he retired. [wikipedia] Est. $150-300 HWAC# 60936 Lot# 3024 Globe, Arizona Globe, AZ Postcards and Ephemera c. 1900-1907 b/w photo of Old Lot# 3030 Morenci, Arizona Dominion Works smelter, approx 6” Morenci, AZ Postcards (9) 9 x 8”. 1940’s 3.” x 7.25” 1 red and 1 Morenci, AZ postcards including green pennant-”The Heart of Scenic DtroitCopper Co. Store, Club and Arizona”. Approx 50 postcards school buildings, Morenci Hotel, including RPC’s-Street scene, a smelter, view from D hill, Arizona Hill. parade, Coolidge Dam, Dominion Est. $70-120 HWAC# 61829 Hotel, birdeyes, court house, North Globe, East Globe, horse team hauling ore and many more. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 61813 Lot# 3025 Globe, Mexico Globe/ Lot# 3031 Mt. Lemmon, Arizona Mt. Inspiration, AZ Postal Covers Lemmon, AZ Postcards with RPC’s (15) and Ephemera 15 Mt. Lemmon (12) 12 postal covers from Globe/ Inspiration, AZ 1883-1941. Est. $80- postcards with approx 10 RPC”s. Mt. 120 HWAC# 61812 Lemmon sore and Inn, Mt. Lemmon, Mt. Lemmon Lodge, Soldier’s Lake Hitchcock Hwy., Mt. Lemmon Rd. Mt. Lemmon Lodgematchbook cover, 1909 Tombstone warranty deed with detached and torn recorders page. Est. $70-120 HWAC# 61830 156 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3032 Nogales, Arizona Lot# 3038 Phoenix, Arizona Nogales, AZ Letters and Postal Phoenix, AZ Area Ephemera Canvas Covers. Organization Certificate of money bag from Valley National the Sandoval National Bank 1904 and Bank. 5 Phoenix pictorial souvenir 1903 letter on etterhead1886 letter folders. 11” blue felt pennant with an on letterhead, L. Ephraim General Indian chief head. c.late 1940’s Mesa Merchandise. 1920 billhead Nogales folding promo brochure.Arizona Grid Engineering Co. 1926 Western Union Review Oct. 30, 1948.2 cent tobacco Telegram to Bracey Curtis getting tax sheet-complete. 1906 billhead authority to place a $2000 order from LB Johnson Co. 1906. Unused with Dusqueane Mining and Milling. stamps-1940’s WWI Williams Field Nogales folding map. Approx 20 in Chandler, 4 vintage cowboy rodeos, Desert Mission and more. postal covers c. 1928.3 business cards.3 Nogales National Bank checks 1955 Phoenix folding map. 1956 Mesa folding street map. Approx 20 1911-2912. 1897 letter on letterhead from Ralph J Duffy for blank postcards featuring street scenes, buildings and more. Est. $150-300 payrolls. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 61762 HWAC# 61778 Lot# 3033 Nogales, Arizona Lot# 3039 Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix, Nogales, AZ Postcard Collection AZ Ephemera 8 postcards including with RPC’s Approx 45 Nogales, AZ assembled ostrich. c. 1930’s to 1950’s postcards including Rancho Grande promo brochures for Hotel Desert Hills, Guest House, stock yards, street 2 In the Valley of the Sun, Camelback Inn, scene, “the fence”, The Cavern, Morley The Cleanest City I Ever Saw, 2 Visit The Ave, Mexico Wet/ USA Dry, Grand Land of True Romance, 1876 letter from Ave and more. Est. $200-300 HWAC# War Department about taking an order of 61831 wheat. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61772 Lot# 3034 Oatman, Arizona Lot# 3040 Prescott, Arizona Oatman, AZ Postcards (7) 3 RPC’s- 2 Prescott, AZ Postcards and More Tom Reed Mine, United Eastern Mine. Hotel St. Michael billhead 1910. 2 Main St. Hwy. 66, Oasis Cafe. Est. United Verde Extension Mining $70-100 HWAC# 61763 report 1919. Foldout Prescott color map. Approx 50 postcards including RPC’s. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 61767 Lot# 3035 Patagonia, Arizona Patagonia, AZ Postal Covers and Postcard (6) 5 Patagonia, AZ Lot# 3041 Tombstone, Arizona postmarked covers c. 1926-1933. Tombstone, AZ Letters and Ephemera 3 Cancelled embossed postcard of tickets for Helldorado October 24-27,years NYC”s iconic Flatiron Building. Est. unknown.1940’s unused cowboy window $50-80 HWAC# 61764 decal and c. 1950’s sticker.Several c. 1920’s business receipts. Tombstone Social Club Thanksgiving Party order of dances sheet. Declaration of Intention for citizenship 1883.Tombstone Tales softcover with Lot# 3036 Pearce, Arizona Pearce, photos. Bill heads 188’s to 1920’s and AZ, Postcards (5) 3 Christmas more. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61770 postcards, one with chicks and another with a chick pulling a cart Lot# 3042 Tombstone, Arizona 1886 with eggs in lieu of a missed Easter Bank of California Cochise County card! Est. $50-80 HWAC# 61765 Bank Deposit Slips (7) 6 bank Lot# 3037 Petrified Forest, Arizona deposits slips from Bank of California into Cochise County Bank in Petrified Forest Postcards and Tombstone, 1 credit slip with a tear. Booklets 3 Petrified Forest and 1 deposit of Copper Queen, another Painted Desert postcard booklets. 6 2000 Mexican dollars. Est. $100-200 park booklets. National Park Service HWAC# 61809 vintage hand out map. Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 61766 Lot# 3043 Tombstone, Arizona 1886 Cochise County Bank Deposit Slips from EB Gage & J Goldwater (9) Bank deposit slips from 2 famous Arizonans. 2 EB Gage for cash-see perforations. 7 from J Goldwater . Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61810 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 157

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3044 Tombstone, Arizona 1886 Lot# 3050 Tucson, Arizona 1865 Cochise County Bank Mexican Tucson Cover to Mrs. William Ross Silver Deposit Slips (6) Three 1886 Cover to Mrs. William Ross of Jewett deposits slips for Mexican Silver, City, New London Co., Connecticut. silver deposits. One has light stain, Good condition. Est. $60-100 HWAC# one heavily stained. Est. $100-150 61265 HWAC# 61808 Lot# 3051 Tucson, Arizona late 1800’s to mid 1900’s Covers from Lot# 3045 Tombstone, Arizona Tucson Misc. Covers & personal c1950 Three Cute Ash Trays Two “miss you” letters from 1911, covers Corral Bar, Tombstone ash trays. from Flamingo Hotel, RPC’s of Gilpin Show young lady caught without Airport; Santa Rita Hotel & much any clothes on - only a towel to more. Approx. 50 pieces. Est. $100- protect her innocence. One Hal’s 200 HWAC# 61268 Barber Shop, 208 Clement Street tray. This would place the tray in San Francisco. Cute young girl is holding a small dog. Titled “A Peek-A- Lot# 3052 Tucson, Arizona 1906-1928 Tucson Knees.” All three are used and shows wear. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 62200 Rapid Transit Co. Bond Tucson Rapid Transit Lot# 3046 Tombstone, Arizona Co. $1000 First Mortgage Sinking Fund, 22- Tombstone, AZ Banking Ephemera year Gold Bond. No. 183. Beautiful Vignette of woman, 44 coupons left attached. Good Approx 100 Cochise County Bank condition. Est. $70-100 HWAC# 61267 deposit slips c. 1886. 3 unused and attached Huson & Co Bankers checks c. 1880’s-edge toning. 2 Cochise County Bank checks 1888 and 1888. 6 Cochise County Bank credit slips.State National Bank 1884 slip. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 61769 Lot# 3053 Tucson, Arizona 1879- 1927 Tucson Letterheads & Lot# 3047 Tombstone, Arizona Tombstone, Billheads Approx. 20 pieces in this lot of letters, & bills from Feinberg AZ Postal Covers, 30+ 30+ postal covers c. 1880’s to 1934. A few pictorials. Est. $200- & Mayer from San Francisco Ca.; E.J. 400 HWAC# 61771 Longyear Company (Engineers); Twinn Buttes Mining & Smelting Co., just to list a few. All have plastic covers, in good condition. Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 61270 Lot# 3054 Tucson, Arizona 1874- 1878 Tucson Military Telegraphs Lot# 3048 Tombstone, Arizona Tombstone, (3) 3 US Military telegraphs received at Tucson, AZ. 1874-Dissolution AZ Postcards c. 1960’s Tombstone and announced yesterday... with toning. Boothill photo card booklet.Approx 30 1877-Shipped on Idaho eleven postcards including Bird Cage Theatre and RPC’s. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 61768 thousand pounds. 1878- regarding railroad freight. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 61801 Lot# 3055 Tucson, Arizona early to mid 1900’s Tucson Pictures, Promotional Pamphlets, Business Cards Approx. 40 pieces in this lot containing pics of Nogalis; “Bird Lot# 3049 Tucson, Arizona 1917 Roost” Catalina Mts. in distance Tucson Banking, Canceled Checks, (1922); Agua Caliente, in the Savings Books, Pamphlets Approx. foothills of the Catalina Mts.; Many 10 pieces of banking related different business cards of the day; ephemera from the early 1900’s in Promotional pamphlets for Sunset Tucson. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 61271 Dairy (1946); Programs from Sixth Annual Violin Recital, Temple of Music, in Tucson (1933); & much more. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 61272 158 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3056 Tucson, Arizona early Lot# 3063 Yuma, Arizona c1900 1900’s Tucson Promotional Early Photograph of the Ferry on Pamphlets; Tourism Guides Fun the Colorado River Location written lot of informational pamphlets from in pencil. Ferry crossing the river. Tucson Chamber of Commerce, Loads of wood on the shore waiting Panorama map of Tucson 1937-38 to be ferried across the river. Contrast featuring Old Fort Lowell on front; is weak. Photo is 5 x 7”. Mounted. Top the Tucson Little Theater Program left corner is bent, but does not affect of The Man Who Came to Dinner; & the photo. Est. $100-200 HWAC# much more. Est. $240-400 HWAC# 62203 61273 Lot# 3064 Yuma, Arizona Large Lot# 3057 Tucson, Arizona early to Yuma, AZ Postcard and Postal mid 1900’s RPC’s, Chromolithos Cover Collection Approx 60 Yuma of “Old Tucson” Souvenir pictorial postcards including RPC’s-giant fold out sets, black & white RPC’s, dredges at Yuma, Main St., Hotel chromolithos of “Old Tucson”. Arizona,Indian Mission,hotels, 4th of Includes set of RPC’s of San Xavier July parade, court house, Colorado Mission (founded in 1692) shows River, Overland Ltd train etc. Towers, Portal, Main doorway; Black Other misc. Yuma ephemera-1908 & white RPC of Yaqui Indian Ceremony Pascua Village c. 1940’s; Post quit claim deed, 2 Hotel Lee used card of “DeGrazia & his little children “Los Ninos.” The original oil from letterheads, Yucca Cyanide Mining and Milling stock 1905, Chamber of which UNICEF printed & sold four million boxes.” Approx. 100 pieces Commerce folding map. 8 Yuma cancel postal covers 1900-1947 with in this beautiful collection. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 61266 2 First Flight Airmails. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 61776 Lot# 3058 Tucson, Arizona Tucson, Lot# 3065 , Arizona Arizona State & Arizona Certificates of Deposit In Territorial Postmark Catalogs (3) Arizona Mexican Silver Rare! Two different, Statehood Postmark Catalog by Bechtel both unused. Safford, Hudson & Co., 1989, Arizona Territorial Postmark Catalog Bankers in Tucson. 18--. $10 and by Kriege 6th edition, Arizona Territorial $20 certificated received “in Mexican Postmark Catalog by Meyer (Potter Silver.” 3.5 x 9” Very good condition. Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 63326 (Potter Collection) Est. $150-300 HWAC# 60135 Lot# 3059 Willcox, Arizona Willcox, AZ Postcards and Ephemera 1 Lot# 3066 , Arizona Territorial Willcox cancel postal cover 1934. 5 Willcox cancelled postcards-Main Arizona Letter Collection Lot St. Haskell Ave., comical “spilt milk”, of nine. 1) 1905 Albert Steinfeld Leap Year 1912. Cattle Capital of the billhead, trading coupons and metal Nation folding map with photos. 1910 balance sheet from Willcox plaque (1.5 x 5.75”.) 2) Pinal Ranch Bank and Trust-2 small backing tapes and 2 1910 stapled checks. Est. cover and letterhead. Needs a quote $70-100 HWAC# 61773 on Berkshire pigs! Miami. 3) Hotel Modesti letterhead. 1915. Aqua Lot# 3060 Williams, Arizona Caliente. ‘Chinese employees’, ‘on Williams, AZ Postcards (11) with the Borderland route to California’, ‘nothing to do but eat and sleep’. RPC’s 2 Railroad and Saginaw 4) Letter with cover from Nogales, 1907. Addressed to Mexico and Dams, crying baby on cradle board, in Spanish. 5) 1876 letter from Florence. Seems to be about building Front. St., Hotel Fray Marcos, Santa a house. 6) Arizona & New Mexico Railway unused form. 7) About Fe Depot, street scenes and more. an agreement between the Twin Buttes Company and the Southern Gateway to Grand Canyon folding Pacific Railroad. 8) WA McGinnis letterhead that has been changed to map. Est. $70-100 HWAC# 61774 ‘McGinnis & Hainlein. Signed by Fred Heinlein. 9) 1897 postal history envelope with comic contents. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60927 Lot# 3061 Winslow, Arizona Lot# 3067 , Arizona 1897 1897 Winslow, AZ Post Card and Covers Arizona Territory Lawsuit Collection 14 postal covers with Documents William Hagan v. KR Winslow cancels-1912-1937 with Owens, WJ Fyffe and WF Ogden. several airmails. 10 postcards Suit is for indebtedness of $1337.18 including 1 RPC of a street. Also for unpaid wares. Filed in Arizona Clear Creek Bridge, Hwy. 66 depot, territory. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 61732 E. Second St., birdeye, La Posada and more. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61775 Lot# 3062 Young and Navajo Spring, Arizona 1894-1900 Rare Arizona Lot# 3068 , Arizona 1900-1901 4 Letterheads 2 letterheads from Different Arizona Checks Bank of rare Arizona locales, 1894 Navajo Springs and 1900 Young A. T. with Arizona 1901, Bank of Bisbee 1901,2 x penciled on letter, signed by Geo Young. (Potter Collection) Est. Consolidated National Bank, Oracle $100-200 HWAC# 5973 1900 and Tucson 1901. (Potter Collection) Est. $60-90 HWAC# 59708 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 159

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3069 , Arizona Arizona Bank, Lot# 3074 , Arizona Maps Water and Mail Order Stocks of Early Arizona Highways 1) Phoenix Savings Bank & Trust. Collection of approx. 11 maps Number 6 - very early!!! For 4 shares of Arizona & New Mexico, in 1911 to DH Chalmers. ) Arizona includes the New Atlas of Water Company $333.33 Gold Bond. Tucson; 1958 Arizona Points Due in 1919. 3) Great Western Mail of Interest & Touring Map. Order House number 113 for 100 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61248 shares to OJ Jemison. Signed by Sherrer and Ross. 1909. The company was out of business by 1914. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62242 Lot# 3075 , Arizona 1900’s (early) Arizona Lot# 3070 , Arizona Arizona Photos, Ads, Post Business and Related Ephemera Cards, Engraved Collection c. 1940’s Painted Desert Copper Postcard Inn menu, Apache National Forest Interesting lot with fold out brochure with many photos, a engraved copper other brochures include El Estribo, desert scene of the Fort Apache, hgwy. 66, Dinosaur giant cactus (Saguaro) Caverns, Cocoino County, Navajoland ; photos of old cars map, Sycamore Trail, Pinal County, being ferried across a Pained Desert, Cococino Sketch Book river near Blythe, 1923; and more. Est. $150-300 HWAC# Conoco Travel Bureau 61779 Hotel Directory; Ad to Elect Jack Kinney “and Take Arizona Out of the Red” date 1932; several chromolithos with desert cacti; Interphone Lot# 3071 , Arizona Arizona, The Marana, Arizona, Field 43-A , 1942 with pictures of everyone from Snowflake Herald Newspaper Colonel T. J. Meyer to “F” Flight Cadets, & so much more. Est. $200- Article (2) Snowflake, Arizona 400 HWAC# 61263 Newspaper Articles. 1)The Snowflake Herald, AZ 1917. “Snowflake and Lot# 3076 Auburn, California Taylor will have an Electric Light and Freeman’s Hotel Framed Collage Power Plant. Foxing in crease down 8.25” x 10.75” framed Freeman’s Hotel center of paper. “16” x 22” 2) The Letterhead dated 1891 is taped to Snowflake Herald, AZ 1925. “Anti- backing. Metal seal from Freeman’s Aircraft Type of Gun Said to Have Proved Valueless” 15” x 21.5”. (Potter Hotel is taped to letterhead. Photo Collection) Mounted on mat board. If mats are shipped then additional postcard is taped to letterhead.Hotel shipping may apply. (Potter Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62073 meal card dated 1895 is taped to letterhead. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 51023 Lot# 3072 , Arizona David K Udall Signed letter David K Udall was a superior court judge in Maricopa County, letter dated Sept. 28, 1909 ordering Levi Strauss overalls, rice and 10 lbs. of lard. Creases and small tear. (Potter Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 59730 Lot# 3077 Big Creek, California c1912 Machine Doctor’s Banch at Camp 62, S. C. E. Company Unused postcard. S. C. E. stands for Southern California Edison. They currently have a plant on Big Creek. Construction was from 1911 to 1913. Lot# 3073 , Arizona Ca. 1875 Map of Northern The picture shows the three men responsible to fix the problems with Arizona Parts of Northern the material used in building the dam for the hydro-electric plant for Arizona Atlas Sheet No. 2. power to the city of Los Angeles. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Exploration of Colorado Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 57476 River and its tributaries under the direction of Lot# 3078 Bodie, California 1878 Lieutenant T.A. Touey Bodie Bank ‘Charge’ Receipts. Ten A.D.C. and acting Chief ‘Charge’ receipts from the Bodie Engineer Officer of the Bank in Bodie, California. All list the Department of Arizona. Ca. name of the person and his balance 1875. Note on the top left after the charge. Also one J. S. Cain of the map informs that Company postal acknowledgement the map was produced card. 1907. (Potter Collection) by under the authority Est. $100-150 HWAC# 60270 of Brevet Major General Orlando B. Willcox. The town of Willcox, Arizona is named in his honor. The map measures approximately 23.75” x 22.25” (Potter Collection) Est. $300-600 HWAC# 63542 160 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3079 Bodie, California Lot# 3083 Bodie, California 1902 J. S. 1883 Bodie Knights Templar Cain 1/2 Sheet Letterhead Collection Framed Display Ornate and Lot of six. 1901 to 1903. All to banks beautifully framed Bodie ephemera from the Knights Templar in Carson City, Nevada. These are for Lodge. Approximate 20 x 30” wood frame, matted. 1) Left side has withdrawals and deposits for people five of the very fancy engraved Knights Templar cards. The cards like Benjamin Rosenthal, James T are from prominent Bodie citizens: Edwin F Bert, WA Irwin, Charles Davis, WJ Harris, Comstock Mining & H Kelly, George W Penter, and WA Attlee. William Irwin became Milling, etc. All are two hole punched. superintendent of the Bullion Mine in 1876; superintendent of the (Potter Collection) Est. $60-120 Standard beginning in 1878; representative for Giant Powder Co.; and HWAC# 60269 superintendent of the Bodie Cons. Mining. Co. by 1884. He was one of Bodie’s most important mining figures. Atlee was the Wells Fargo & Co. agent in Bodie. Penter first owned a hay and feed business before Lot# 3084 Bodie, California 1879- taking over the Bodie Bank in 1887. Kelly operated an undertaking 1907 Sixteen Bodie Bank and J. (and furniture) business. 2) Also includes the spectacular 1883 S. Cain Receipt Postal Cards Loto triennial conclave San Francisco Knights Templar Bodie ribbon with of sixteen. 1) Six 1879 postal cards original tassel as well as a Knights Templar eight point with inlays. addressed to M. H. Pope, Cashier, 3) On the right side is a very fancy program for the triennial conclave [Bodie Bank], Bodie, California. From from 1883 from the same person that attended it from Bodie. This lot Knauth, Nachod & Kuhne of New is nothing short of spectacular containing very rare material and is an York. 2) Two J. S. Cain cards. 1902 absolute marvelous display of historical Bodie material. [Ref: 1880 and and 1903. Receipts from the State 1883 Pacific Coast Directories; Guide to Bodie Shopkeepers by Poag] Bank & Trust of Carson City, Nevada. Est. $1000-3000 HWAC# 60646 3) Eight receipts from the State Bank & Trust to the J. S. Cain Company of Bodie. 1907. Initialled by David Cain. (Potter Collection) Est. Lot# 3080 Bodie, California 1880- $200-400 HWAC# 59400 1907 Bodie Manuscript Group Lot of ten. 1) One letterhead. 1887 Lot# 3085 Bodie and Mono, California from George W Penter, Banker. Bodie and Mono, CA Books (7) 7 From EL Benedict, cashier. Seven Bodie and Mono County Books with manuscript notes/letters. 2) 1882 3 copies of Bodie, Boom Town-Gold from J Kullman. Give my regards to Town! signed by author McDonald. Tufley, Marshall & Klein of Carson. The Story of Bodie by Cain and more. 3) 1899 from JD McLeod. Send me (Potter Collection) Est. $80-120 a hundred in paper money. 4) 1889 HWAC# 63145 from E Fitzgerald. 5) 1905 from Mrs. Jessee Miller. 6) 1880 from Wesley George. To George B Hill. Pay the assessment on my stocks. 7) 1902 from E Moran. Have $1,050 in the Well Fargo office. Please pick it up and put it in my account. 8) 1905 from Mrs. Jessee Miller. Two cards: 1902 JS Cain and 1907 JE Cain. All correspondence addressed to a Carson bank. (Potter Collection) Est. Lot# 3086 Bodie, Mono, Inyo, $200-300 HWAC# 59416 California 1880’s-1906 Mono & Inyo County Documents 1) Letter on letterhead from WE Reading in Bodie, CA, Jan. 23, 1907 regarding Lot# 3081 Bodie, California 1880- 1892 Framed Bodie Stagecoach a credit. 2&3) 1926 Agreement & Option for a group of mines and Articles of Incorporation , Grapevine Mountain,Inyo County. Both Ephemera Display Framed Bodie Multipage and typed. 4) 1880’s Mono County tax receipt. (Potter stagecoach documents. Approximate 20 x 24” frame with documents, not adhered, currently slipped inside the frame. Includes Bodie and Collection) Est. $100-250 HWAC# 59716 Lundy stage line 1908; Southern Transportation Company, Bodie 1880; Big Meadows and Bodie Wagon Road Company, Bridgeport, RETURN POLICY Cal 1880; Walker Lake and Bodie toll road ticket and Hawthorne and Bodie stage line datasheet from 1892 showing all kinds of interesting things including: meals had at Summit, Indian Joe working on the All items are guaranteed to be authentic unless road at the Del Monte etc; all for the Walker Lake and Bodie Toll otherwise noted. If authenticity is challenged, please call Road company. This frame contains exceptionally rare wagon road and stagecoach documents from the Bodie region. Est. $1000-2000 our office for assistance. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. You may HWAC# 60647 only return any piece that was significantly inaccurately described by calling our office within 10 days of receipt Lot# 3082 Bodie, California 1887- of item(s) and notifying us of the error and reason for 1889 George W Penter, Banker, Collection Lot of 7. Six half sheet return. We do not refund postage or insurance. PLEASE letterheads. All signed for Penter by CALL US IF YOU REQUIRE A MORE SPECIFIC CONDITION EL Benedict. All are about business REPORT OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE with Carson City, Nevada. One rare ADDITIONAL PHOTOS. Any items that are returned must Penter billhead. Drawer is Peter be returned in the exact, unaltered condition. When C Wilder, Superintendent. Signed by Benedict. Large tear on top left. we receive your bids we will assume you have read the (Potter Collection) Est. $240-400 description in the catalog, viewed the image of the item, HWAC# 58352 have contacted us regarding any questions you may have on any lot and/or have previewed the lot in person. Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 161

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3087 Bridgeport, California Lot# 3092 Death Valley, California Nevada & California Telegraph Death Valley Books (6) Silver Co. Receipt, Bridgeport, CA, 1883 Stampede by Wilson, Place Names of the Rare telegraph company receipt! Death Valley Region in California and Dateline Bridgeport, June 18, 1883. Nevada by Palmer, Ballart 1897-1917 Message written by T.W.W. Davies by Hubbard, Mines of Death Valley by and addressed to attorney William Belden,Death Valley and the Amargosa S. Wood in San Francisco. Davies by lingenfelter, Lost Mines of Death writes that he will continue until Valley by Weight (Potter Collection) September 5th is Judge William consents. Asks Wood to confirm with Est. $100-200 HWAC# 63159 the judge. Pinholes. 5.5 x 8.5” Col. T.W.W. Davies was a prominent lawyer in Carson City. In 1882, he was appointed counsel for Mono County and moved to Bridgeport with his family (according to Carson Lot# 3093 Donner Lake, California newspapers). He died on October 10th, 1883 in Bodie, as reported Donner Lake Camp Brochure For a by the Nevada State Appeal on Oct. 11th, 1883. We could not locate Real Vacation! Folds out to 18 x 16”. his cause of death. The Nevada & California Telegraph Company was Eleven small photos of the camp and described in Thompson & West, 1881. It was formed in September two panoramas. Map. How to get there, 1878 with a main office in Genoa. It connected the communities accomodations, rates and what to do: on the Comstock (Virginia City, Gold Hill ,Silver City, Empire) with boating, hiking, fishing, swimming, mining camps along the California/Nevada border including Bodie horseback riding, dancing, motoring and and Aurora. The length of the line was 112 miles. J.W. Haines, listed as bonfires. RARE! Nice condition. Est. $80- president on the form, was a resident of Genoa having come to Nevada 120 HWAC# 58315 in 1859. He attended Nevada’s first Constitutional Convention. In 1864, he constructed a toll road from the foot of Kingsbury Grade four miles east to the Esmeralda Toll Road and then to Como. According to Lot# 3094 Downieville, California Wasson, he constructed the telegraph wire for the first telegraph in c1860’s PA Lamping and Co. Original Bodie. (Potter Collection) Est. $120-250 HWAC# 60141 and Duplicate of Exchange Unused Lot# 3088 Brooklyn, California Brooklyn, and attached PA Lamping and Co. Original and Duplicate of Exchange. Cal. Photo, c1888 Cabinet card photo of a Ledger page folded over on back. Est. house in Brooklyn, Ca, c 1888. photo torn lower left, board fine. Much ID on the back. $100-150 HWAC# 61743 Justin Wyman, Brooklyn, Alameda Co. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 63503 Lot# 3095 Folsom Prison, California 1886, 1887, 1913 Seven pieces of Folsom Prison Ephemera 1) 1886 Lot# 3089 Colfax, California 1906 Colfax, letter from Warden McComb about California Birds-eye View Real Photo settling an account with Sperry of Postcard Nice RPC. Mailed to Miss Stella Gridley. 2-6) 1887 letters to Sperry Clark in Gold Hill, Nevada. Message says they (Please send a carload of flour). got to Colfax but the train to Grass Valley left 4) 1913 typed letter from warden 45 minutes before they arrived. Est. $60-100 Johnstone to State Senator Cohn. HWAC# 60031 Referring to the prize fight bill in the California Senate. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 53446 Lot# 3096 Fort McDowell, California Ft. McDowell Mounted Photo 23.25 x 5.5” photo on 5 x 7” cardboard Lot# 3090 Columbia, California 1858 mount. Ft. McDowell, on Angel Island W. O. Sleeper & Co. Checks Two in the San Francisco Bay area was an checks from the W. O. Sleeper & Co. important military post. c1910. Est. firm of Columbia. Blue paper, 7 3/4 $150-250 HWAC# 63501 x 2/1/2 inches, printed by Britton & Rey of San Francisco. Sleeper was a major gold rush banker in Columbia, Lot# 3097 Greenville, California California and an investor in the 1886 Ticket to the Seventh Annual Tuolumne Water Company. Est. Fair Orange colored business card $150-250 HWAC# 61924 sized admission ticket to the Seventh Annual Fair / District No. 11 / Lot# 3091 County of Colusa, Grenville, Cal. / Admit One / 50 cts. California 1864 1864 Bond of Est. $50-100 HWAC# 61067 County of Colusa California 10% Bond canceled in 1864. Nice condition 15.5” x 13.75”. Vignette of woman and man with what appears to be animals and factory behind them. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 51548 162 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3098 Hill’s Ferry, California 1885 Lot# 3104 Lake Tahoe, California Extra Rare $50 Reward for Jail Break Card $50 Bonnie Beach Resort Brochure Blue print on REWARD. Wanted in Stanislaus County, yellow background. 7 x 4”. Rates for rooms and CA by Constable Ed Horn. Jail breakers Ed tents. Owner is DC Barnett. Includes a sandy beach, Price and Mort Moffat- a slogger. Written swimming, boating, fishing, golf, tennis, horseback on bottom “Mort Moffatt captured”. 3” x 5”. rides, etc. Small and simple, but Bonnie Beach has (Potter Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# been lost to history of the most part. Est. $80-120 59706 HWAC# 58317 Lot# 3099 Hobart Mills, California Lot# 3105 Lake Tahoe, California Very Early Real Photo Postcard of Five Different Tahoe Brochures Hobart Mills, California Contrast is by the SP Fishing, boating or just weak, but a nice historic photograph. relaxing - take your pick. The SP Will It was a leading lumbering area get you there. Condition is very nice during the Comstock rush. Address to excellent. Too many pages and too only on the back! Foxing on both many photos to list! All brochures are sides. Creased. Est. $50-100 HWAC# distinctly different! Est. $300-600 48471 HWAC# 58310 Lot# 3100 Hollywood, California Hollywood Related Group Approx Lot# 3106 Lake Tahoe, California SP 11” x 8” metal framed color woman’s presents Donner, Independence photo. Stand is detached. B/W Red & Webber Lakes And of course Ryder promo photo for Horsemen Lake Tahoe! Information on Tahoe of Death. Color promo card-Seven CIty, McKinneys, Tallac Glenbrook, Ways From Sundown featuring Audie Camping, etc. See the miniature Murphy. Mounted b/w 9.5” x 7.5” Yellowstone Falls! Much of this area woman photo. 6.75” x 9.75”b/w photo of a dogsled and team. Mounted is no part fo the Nature Conservatory. b/w 9” x 7.5” b/w photo of Delores Del Rio with a bear. 10.5” x 12.75” Includes time schedules to Tahoe City b/w Utaline track with train between UT and CO Est. $60-100 HWAC# and rates from most major California 60800 cities. 7 x 20.5” Six fold. Map of the lake and five pictures. Very nice condition with no obvious condition issues. Lot# 3101 Hollywood, California Est. $100-200 HWAC# 58304 Rare “The Blue Book of the Screen” 1923 414 pages. 280 Lot# 3107 Lake Tahoe, California pages of biographies and pictures of Four Tahoe Tavern Brochures actors and actresses. Also writers, All different. They measure from 6 producers, directors and pets. x 3.5” to 18 x 16”. Unlike the other Articles on how a movie is made, brochures in this collection, there several on the art of directing, and the future of motion pictures. is a great deal of attention paid to There is not even a ‘peep’ about talking pictures. Even though in less winter sports. The small brochure is than four years the Jazz Singer would revamp the motion picture from the Golden Gate Council of the profession! Est. $120-200 HWAC# 53432 Knights of Columbus for their 1931 Snow Frolic. Generally very good to excellent condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 58319 Lot# 3108 Lake Tahoe, California Lot# 3102 Julian, California Early c1925 Glen Alpine Auto Tour Postcard Showing the Julian Brochure All auto roads lead to Stage & Mail Line Printed photo Tahoe Resorts! The Southern Pacific postcard published by F.L. Blanc, has just purchased and improved unposted. Title: “Julian Stage, Julian, the railroad. Fish, ride horses, enjoy Cal.” c.1908. View shows stagecoach the lake and streams. The brochure with people posing including a man proudly announces “No Rattlesnakes holding a rifle in the air. “US Mail” - No Poison Ivy!” Trifold. 9 x 11” and “Julian Stage Line” visible on the opened. Excellent condition. This side of the stagecoach. Hard crease in area is now a preserved site of the upper right corner. (Potter Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# 60187 USFS. This was a famous resort, but it is gone today. A true Tahoe ‘Ghost Town.’ Est. $80-120 HWAC# 58305 Lot# 3103 Lake Tahoe, California 75 Lake Tahoe Postcards - 16 RPC’s Lot# 3109 Lake Tahoe, California RPC’s includes (steamers, Twin Pomin’s Lake Tahoe Brochure Lake Resort, Frashers, Meeks Bay Owned by the Pomin / Bliss family. cabins, Cal-Neva Lodge, Emerald Bay, At North Lake tahoe. (Robert Pomin boating, Tahoe Tavern in the deep Park is still in use today). Nine photos snow, and scenes of the lake. One and a map. Rates. Est. $80-120 Truckee & Lk. Tahoe postmark, one HWAC# 58316 Tahoe & Truckee train, one Holt art postcard reprint. Many, many others! Est. $200-500 HWAC# 62238 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 163

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3110 Lake Tahoe, California Lot# 3115 Lake Tahoe, California Tallac Brochure 9 x 16”. Fold Out. Two SP / Lake Tahoe Brochures Five photos (Cave Rock, Mt. Tallac, 1) Speed to Lake Tahoe while you Eagle Falls, and the casino) and one sleep on the Southern Pacific. 6.5 x simple map. Good condition. Tallac 13.5”. Four fold. 8 pictures. Map of is the story of Lucky Baldwin and routes and a time table. Very nice today is a historic site. Est. $80-120 condition. 2) Lake Tahoe, California. HWAC# 58313 Southern Pacific / Charles S Fee passenger traffic manager and Lot# 3111 Lake Tahoe, California Three TH Goodman general passenger Different Lake Tahoe Sierra Association agent. In conjunction with Lake Brochures Two are 9 x 20”. One is 18 x 16”. Tahoe Railway and Transportation All have a large Lake Tahoe Map on the inside. Company. DL BLiss Jr. manager and These brochures list post offices, places to JU Haley general passenger agent. eight fold with a stunning 30 inch stay, places to see around Lake Tahoe, the PANAORAMA of the lake when the brochure is opened. Information story of Lake Tahoe and summer and winter on Tahoe Tavern, Tahoe City, McKinneys, Rubicon Springs, Rubicon photographs Condition is generally good. Point, Emerald Bay, Tallac, Glen Alpine, Agassiz, Bijou, Lakeside Park, Est. $100-200 HWAC# 58312 Glanbrook, Brockway, and Deer Park Inn. Rates and schedules. Heavy folds. Very good condition. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 58307 Lot# 3116 Lake Tahoe, California Lot# 3112 Lake Tahoe, California Very Rare ‘Emerald Bay Camp’ Three Lake Tahoe Brochures 1-2) Brochures Lot of four. ALL The first two have the same cover DIFFERENT. All fold out to 9 x 16”. Information on how to get there, the (color Southern Pacific Lines) but camp, the hotel, the livery, boating, the insides are different. One is 16 dancing, picnics, croquet, mountain pages. 9x 8”. Color map inside. 27 climbing, fishing, and one with a 7 x photographs: scenery, Native Americans, panoramas, boating, things 9” photo of Emerald Bay. Condition is to do, accomodations, dog sleds, skiing, etc. Color map inside. The second is eight pages. Many photographs. 3) Tahoe and Reno brochure. generally good to fair. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 58314 Folds out to 1`8 x 16”. Many photos. Lots of bathing suits and pretty Lot# 3117 Lake Tahoe, California girls. Four photos of Harolds Club. Condition is fair to very good. Mounted Lake Tahoe Photographs Est. $200-400 HWAC# 58309 of Family Vacation Judging by they Lot# 3113 Lake Tahoe, California background and lake objects, this Three Lake Tahoe Brochures: must be the Glenbrook area. Extra railroad, bus, and auto Brochure rare family photo climbing Cave Rock. Also swimming, boating, riding by the Lake Tahoe Ry, & T. Company horses, and at the campsite. Photos and Southern Pacific. All in color. are 3.75 x 4.75”. Mounts are 6.25 x Condition is very good to very nice. 1) 7.25”. Contrast of photos is quite good! One has a bend in the top left. 9 x 24” six fold. Beautiful four panel Otherwise in very nice condition. (First came postcards. Then came color map of the region with Lincoln Highway as your way in to and pamphlets. Then came the tourists enjoying this pristine mountain out of the lake. Color photo of Tahoe Tavern and one of an automobile lake.) Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 58306 on dirt road. 2) Lake Sierra and High Sierra County by Bus. Four fold brochure. Greyhound Bus with info on Lake Tahoe, Huntington Lake, Lot# 3118 Glenbrook, Nevada Print Yosemite, Gen. Grant and Sequoia Parks, and Lone Pine. Pictures of Glenbrook Barn by de Curtis (about 15) are in black and white.9 x 16”. 3) Lake Tahoe Country by Glenbrook Barn print by Linda de Southern Pacific. 9 x 4”. 20 pages. 19 photos. 17 are two panel and two Curtis. 5.25” x 3.25”, nicely matted are four panel. Two maps. Condition on all three is very good to nice. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 58308 and framed10,.5” x 12.5”. Born and educated in Italy, de Curtis has Lot# 3114 Lake Tahoe, California Two painted scenes all over Tahoe – every Different Overland Route to Lake Tahoe aspect, every season. The paintings of Linda de Curtis can be found in Brochures 1) 16 pages. 9 x 8”. Mape on private collections throughout the inside two pages. A mixture of photos United States, Europe and around the and drawings. Advertising the SP across world. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 61562 country, San Francisco, with an emphasis on Lake Tahoe. 2) Also 16 pages. 9 x 8”. Five small photos on each page. Notes Lot# 3119 Glenbrook, Nevada on what you will see from Salt Lake to Three Early Photos of Glenbrook Tahoe and from San Francisco to Tahoe: Included are: 1) framed photo of Great Salt Lake, Tecoma, Cobre, Halleck, Glenbrook from 1858. 10” x 13.5”, Golconda, Shoshone, Alazon, Roseville, Port framed 14” x 18”. 2) Photo of Costa, Colfax, Auburn, etc. Information on the Fernely-Susanville Branch. Very good condition. Est. $150-300 Glenbrook Inn from 1913. Matted 16” HWAC# 58311 x 20. 3) View of Lake Tahoe and Cave Rock from 1915. Matted, 16” x 20”. Photographer unknown. Est. $180- 300 HWAC# 61563 164 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3120 Los Angeles, California 1894 The Lot# 3125 Mojave, California Tocsin 1894 Newspaper Rare newspaper Mojave, CA Region Books (3) discussing Los Angeles politics. Note paper Geological Reconnaissance in SW condition issues. On Mat Board (not adhered) Nevada and Eastern California by with plastic covers. If mats are shipped then Ball, Mohave Desert Region California additional shipping may apply. (Potter by Thompson, Mojave River and its Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 63114 Valley by Peirson (Potter Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 63143 Lot# 3126 Mokelumne Hill, California Calaveras Chronicle Billhead, Mokelumne Hill, 1862 Dateline Lot# 3121 Los Angeles, California UCLA Mokelumne Hill, May 17th, 1862. Bill for Yearbook 1930, The Southern Campus. an advertisement of an estate sale. The newspaper ad is attached to the billhead. Leather bound year book with many Westwood Loren Larned has died and they cannot architectural scenes featured in the book. find relatives. Therefore they are holding Features faculty, undergrads and sports teams. Est. $50-150 HWAC# 49927 an estate sale. The billhead has a large diagonal tear that needs to be repaired. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 60069 Lot# 3127 Mono County, California Mono Forest Map & Postcards Lot of 3. 1) Mono National Forest Map and brochure. 1931. Black and white Lot# 3122 Los Angeles, California c1840”s War with Mexico Map from pictures of natural attractions and a 29 x 27” map. Soiling and wear to Freemont Book Sketch of the Battle brochure. Map has some folds and of Los Angeles, Upper California. some separation. 2) Two postcards: Fought between the Americans and real photo postcard of Hotel Long Mexican Jan 9th, 1847. From one of Barn, Mono Road, California (not posted); and color postcards of Mono Freemont’s books. Note right side Lake and Craters (mailed in Bridgeport 1928). Est. $60-100 HWAC# damage. Sols as is. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 57961 60002 Lot# 3128 Mount Shasta, California Lot# 3123 Michigan Bar, Taber Photograph of Mt. Shasta California Alfred Dixon, General Merchandise, Michigan Bluff from Cavanaughs. Isaiah West Taber was an American daguerreotypist, Business Card Alfred Dixon had a ambrotypist, and photographer general merchandise store. You could who took many pictures of noted by hardware, corkery, dry goods, California scenes. He was most tinware, tobacco, hats, etc. But most famous for his portraits of noted importantly if you were a miner, he Californians, which he donated to would buy your gold dust! It was also the California State Library “that the state may preserve the names the office for Wells, Fargo & Company Express. One can only imagine it and faces, and keep alive the memory of those who made it what was a major part of Michigan Bluff town life! Pink border card. Dison it is.” He was also a sketch artist and dentist. 8.5 x 5.25”. Corners owned his store for 35 years. His principal business was supplying the worn. Photograph shows age and has some spotting. Est. $100-200 mines between Michigan Bluff and Last Chance. He actually ran pack HWAC# 53439 trains to deliver these supplies and the United State Mail. Dixon would also own the largest share of ‘Big Gun’ placer mine. [National Register Lot# 3129 Murphy’s, of Historic Places application for the Michigan Bluff - Last Chance California Ledger Trail] (Potter Collection) Est. $150-300 HWAC# 56056 for lumber from Kimball & Cutting Lot# 3124 Michigan Bluff, California Alfred Dixon, General Six pages of ledger Merchandise, Michigan Bluff entries. The entries reflect payments Business Card Alfred Dixon had a from Kimball & general merchandise store. You could Cutting, the major by hardware, corkery, dry goods, regional lumber yard tinware, tobacco, hats, etc. But most in Murphy’s, reflecting K&C’s hauling records, the delivery of Kimball importantly if you were a miner, he & Cuttings products (mostly lumber) to various mines, people or would buy your gold dust! It was also merchants. 1865-1867. Some of the people are: J. Frazier, Eldridge the office for Wells, Fargo & Company Express. One can only imagine it Reynolds, Michael Moran, W.R. Ward, C.P. Morrill , and dozens of was a major part of Michigan Bluff town life! Pink border card. Dison others. One entry has a Federal revenue stamp placed and cancelled, owned his store for 35 years. His principal business was supplying the “Oct. 31, 1867, KC” (KC=Kimball & Cutting). Some receipts are for mines between Michigan Bluff and Last Chance. He actually ran pack labor (“seven days labor at mill”, probably the K&C lumber mill). trains to deliver these supplies and the United State Mail. Dixon would Chinese writing in several locations, indicating a Chinese was working also own the largest share of ‘Big Gun’ placer mine. [National Register for K&C. The Kimball & Cutting company is known to us because we of Historic Places application for the Michigan Bluff - Last Chance Trail] Est. $150-300 HWAC# 62213 handled their extensive original letter archive several years ago. Potter Collection. (Potter Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 62935 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 165

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3130 Napa, California Bank Lot# 3137 Portland, Oregon and of Napa Check Paid in US Silver Marysville, California 1866, 1867 Rare Coin, 1878 Rare check dateline Napa California Telegraph Pair 1) Addressed City, Cal., Oct. 16th, 1878. Blue check to the Portland and the Oregon Iron Works with white underprint U.S. SILVER from CH Leonard. 1867. The Oregon Iron COIN. Floral left border and 2 cent Company was an iron smelting company adhesive revenue stamp. Signed by located in what is now Lake Oswego, cashier Watson. Very good condition. (Potter Collection) Est. $80- Oregon. The company was established 100 HWAC# 60108 in 1865, and in 1867 became the first company west of the Rocky Mountains Lot# 3131 Napa, California in the United States to smelt iron. The Personalized Wallet for Al. company failed after a few years. 2) 1866. T Michelson Michelson lived on 322 Harry F(T)ailing from AG Richardson. “WIll 2nd St. In the 1910 Napa census there Robinson leave for the states before HW Corbett returns to Portland.” was an Albert H. Michelson who live Est. $100-200 HWAC# 53451 at 118 Jaurez Street in Napa. He was listed as a barber. In the 1920 census Lot# 3138 Sacramento, California Folsom he lived at 322 Randolph. 9.5 x 4.5” - Sacramento Auto Stage Business unfolded. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 42824 Cards Lot of 2. Competing Lines. 1) THe original Baham & Hazemann line. Leaves Lot# 3132 Nevada City, California three times a day from the Windsor Hotel. 1877 Moore’s Flat and Eureka Returns from Heiken’s Store. 2) Newman & Express Way-Bill This stage coach Baham auto stage. Still leaves three times way-bill is from August 18, 1877 from a day. Says “Over” but the back has been Nevada City to North Bloomfield. miscut and is partially visible at a diagonal Includes 1 spade for George Wehrung, 1 box for Ching Sing (Chinese), angle. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62219 and a COD package for $27.00 to O. Vance. Est. $40-60 HWAC# 51468 Lot# 3133 Oakland, California Lot# 3139 Sacramento, California 1864 Oakland A’s pin collection This is a Newspaper Article, Sacramento Daily Union picture frame with 31 pins and 14 are Newspaper Article of California Legislators, for the Oakland A’s baseball team. This pin poster frame is approx. 12 in. X 22 in. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 56258 Fifteenth Session, Assembly, Theatrical and Musical Items and other articles. This newspaper Lot# 3134 Palm Desert, California is in poor condition. Mounted on mat board. If 1960 Mounted Desert Magazine mats are shipped then additional shipping may Covers Four framed Desert Magazine apply. 17.5” x 23.5”. (Potter Collection) Est. covers featuring the art of Victor Clyde Forsythe, a Southern California $50-80 HWAC# 58774 artist who once shared a studio with then young artist Norman Rockwell. Forsythe was fascinated with mining history, sometimes living in ghost towns on extended painting trips. These are from June, July, August, and September of 1960. Titles are “the Gold Rush”, “The Lot# 3140 Sacramento, California Mining Camp”, “The Mining Town” an”the Ghost Town.” This series 1850 View of Sacramento City, follows the town from birth to death. The magazine focused on the Reprint “View of Sacramento City desert country of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern //As it Appeared During the Great Mexico, and covered a broad range of desert subjects. The pictures Inundation in January 1850” Very are bright, full of action and humor, and capture the beauty of the nice condition. 34” x 35” Est. $80- landscape. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 590002 120 HWAC# 61244 Lot# 3135 Pasadena, California c1908 Mt. Lowe, Lot# 3141 San Diego, California San CA Pacific Electric Train Broadside Old broadside, Diego History Books (4) History special excursion from Pacific Electric Train, Long of Julian, Old Town San Diego by Beach to Mt. Lowe. Undated. Red and blue print. 12” x 6”. Small top chip missing. Est. $100-200 Scharf, The Story of New San Diego HWAC# 54329 by MacPhail, Frontier Port by Stewart (Potter Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# 63147 Lot# 3136 Placerville, California 1893 Placerville, El Dorado County Sheriff Corner Cover Envelope Register, Bid, from George H. Hilbert, Sheriff and Tax Collector of El Dorado County & view opening bids at addressed to Mr. James Lodge of Siskiyou County. 6 x 3 1/2 inches. FHWAC.com Postmarked Placerville, Oct. 15, 1893. Two one cent stamps. Very attractive. In 1888 Hilbert was superintendent of the Gentle Annie in Placerville. In 1896/96 he was working on the stage robbery of the Auburn - Georgetown stage route. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 49539 166 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3142 San Francisco, California 1939 Lot# 3147 San Francisco, California “Seven Centuries of Painting” by the M. H. 1852-1898 Early San Francisco De Young Museum Catalogue for December Checks & Receipts Lot of 10. 1) 29, 1939 to January 28, 1940 exhibition at 1852 Post Office receipt for Box the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Rent. California Gold Rush era. 2) and The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Four pictorial California Street Cable San Francisco. 235 B/W illustrations. Essays Railroad Co. checks, three signed by by Walter Heil, Alfred Neumeyer, Thomas James Stetson, 1890-1898. 3) Five Carr Howe, Jr., and Robert Neuhaus. Works by loan receipts from Nov. 2, 1869. H. Bellini, Mantegna, van Eyck, Tintoretto, Titian, Ettinger promises to pay Otto Wermuth Rembrandt, and others. Descriptive text is $200 (for each of the five receipts), 64p, followed by 56 plates section. Cardboard total $1,000 being borrowed. Each cover. Extremely nice condition. 7.5 x 10. “. receipt has adhesive revenue stamps. Est. $40-60 HWAC# 53428 Est. $80-100 HWAC# 60064 Lot# 3143 San Francisco, California 1876 Lot# 3148 San Francisco, California Letter Between Meussdorffer Brothers, c1950 Eight Original 3.25 x 4.25 Pioneer SF Hatters Letter is written from Black & White Negatives of San Portland, August 18th, 1876. Addressed to Francisco These eight negatives are J.C. Ms. Bro. in San Francisco. Written by all from San Francisco. Spectacular, CH Meussdorffer to his brother. Letter is high-quality historical scenes of mostly business related regarding drafts San Francisco from 70 years ago. and payments, but he does mention he Five of the negatives have 8 x is enlarging his house. J.C. Meussdorffer 10” prints. These are overview which include trolley cars and the was “the pioneer hatter of San Francisco.” bridge to Oakland. The contrast is remarkable!!! Excellent condition. He arrived in San Francisco in the early Est. $100-200 HWAC# 58302 days of the Gold Rush in Sept. 1849. The family stayed in the hatting business in Lot# 3149 San Francisco, California San Francisco for many years based on directory listings. The J.C. 1855 James King of William Notice of Meussdorffer Hat Manufacturing Company came to have branches in Attachment Thomas Carew (or Carey) vs. Sacramento, Marysville and Portland. Folds. One page front and back. L. Mowry, to James King of William. The Est. $50-100 HWAC# 60104 Constable of the first township issued the Notice of Attachment out of the Justice Court Lot# 3144 San Francisco, California 1904 to attach “all moneys, debts, effects, and pension for Mary S Burnett from Dwight J credits in your hands or under your control Burnett Mary Burnett to receive $8 a month belonging to the above Defendant [James from June 1902 to November 1903. Her King of William] or so much thereof as will lawyer to receive the first $25. That would satisfy the claim, to wit: $200.00 with cost leave Mary about $100. Est. $100-200 and accruing cost.” On blue stock paper HWAC# 60969 issued by Cooke, Kenny, & Co., Law Stationers, Montgomery Street. Very Good condition. James King of William (January 28, 1822 – May 20,1856) was a crusading San Francisco, California, newspaper editor whose shooting death in 1856 resulted in the establishment of the second San Francisco Vigilance Committee and changed the politics of the city. The Lot# 3145 San Francisco, California Vigilance Committee hung the man who shot him, and King is given 1868 Bank of California Duplicate credit for rousting the criminal element from City government. King was among the first newspapermen to be honored by the of Exchange Nice cancel on this 2nd of exchange. Vignette of sailing California Journalism Hall of Fame. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 44272 ship, steamship and young lady. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61662 Lot# 3150 San Francisco, California 1914 Knight’s Templar Poster, H. W. Hansen Twenty- Lot# 3146 San Francisco, California pre-1905 Ninth Triennial Conclave Knight’s Templar Poster, Cutter & Moseley Grain Sample Bag Located at 302 by H. W. Hansen. San Francisco, California, California Street. In 1905 E. B. Cutter & Company September HMDCCCCIV (1914). Poster, 36.75” x replace Cutter & Moseley (Andrew S.). Bag is actually 24”. fair condition, has been folded and has torn quite thin and has slowly deteriorated over the years. edges--great image, though. Many holes. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 62225 Herman Wendelborg Hansen (1854-1924) was a 19th-century artist, well known for his Western- themed paintings featuring horses, cowboys, and the frontier. Hansen has been called the “Frederic Remington of the West Coast,” but there are differences in their styles. Hansen was a High Resolution Images of strict Western genre painter. (“Herman Wendelborg Hansen”. askart. com. Retrieved 5 March 2015) and (“Herman Hansen”. Fine Arts ALL LOTS available online at Dealers Association. Retrieved 5 March 2015). Artist Eugen Neuhaus said of Hansen’s artwork: “His concern was more with photographic FHWAC.com records of frontier life than with the beauties of design and color.” Est. $200-400 HWAC# 43841 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 167

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3151 San Francisco, Lot# 3155 San Francisco, California California Kohler & 1867 Rare Bank of California 1867 Ritter Silver Flatware, Telegraphic Order Dated June 17, c1867 Kohler & Ritter 1867. Received from Henry Benjamin were successors to Fred To Mrs. Mary L Singleton $150. Reichel in San Francisco Premium was $34.61 so it seems in 1867. Both worked she only received $115.39. Then as silversmiths with they added another $5.00 and she Reichel, and Gotthard received $121.39. (Some kind of creative bookkeeping???) Signed by J. Kohler was Reichel’s Burt(?) for W. C. Ralston cashier. Two cent orange revenue stamp. Nice! manger. Gotthard Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61240 Kohler’s relationship with Gold Rush assayer Lot# 3156 San Francisco, California F. D. Kohler is unknown. San Francisco & San Jose Fraternal Kohler & Ritter silver are Calling Cards Lot of 4. Three Knights found with two different Templar cards for San Francisco hallmarks, a “K & R” and “Kohler & Ritter” This group of rare early members at the No. 16 Golden Gate San Francisco silver has 4 pieces marked K&R and six pieces marked Commandery for the 24th Triennial Kohler & Ritter. Of the K & R pieces, there is a dinner fork, tea spoon, Conclave at Washington D.C. in 1889. and two serving pieces, a berry spoon and a fish fork?, both about 9” Also one Native Sons of the Golden long. The Kohler & Ritter prices are 5 teaspoons and a very large soup West calling card for George W. Scott ladle (14”). These are some of the few known such marked pieces. Est. of the San Jose Parlor, No. 22. (Potter Collection) Est. $100-150 $840-1260 HWAC# 49148 HWAC# 59999 Lot# 3157 San Francisco, California c1902 Lot# 3152 San San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board Francisco, California 1871 Land Deed Published by Leon Goldstein, November 12, Issued to Francois 1902. Has slight tearing at bottom of page & right of page. 12” x 17.5” Est. $50-100 HWAC# Pioche Land Deed 62006 Issued to Francois Pioche in San Francisco January 10, 1871. Signed f. .l. a Pioche. Pioche was a French born bon vivant San Francisco banker and financier. Parisian born in 1818, suave and cultured Francois Pioche was Secretary to the French Consul in Santiago, Chile, when he decided to join the Gold Lot# 3158 San Francisco, California Rush to San Francisco in 1848 with Julius Bayerque. Once here, they San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge became importers of wine and by the mid-1850s, they had established California Photos (4) 4 “ x 10” a reputable mercantile and banking house on the north side at 744 photos of the Bay Bridge. One color Montgomery Street, just off Portsmouth Square. In 1851, he went to shot from San Francisco. 3 b/w shots Paris to boost San Francisco and its future. Coming back with about of bridge cabling during construction six million francs to invest, he proceeded to channel the money into phase. Est. $60-90 HWAC# 58672 many successful enterprises, becoming one of primary builders of San Francisco. (Courtesy www.piochenevada.com.) Est. $500-1000 Lot# 3159 San Francisco, California Lot# 3153 San Francisco, California 1910 Past c1901 Souvenir of San Francisco Pictorial Book Hardcover 30pp. Chief Ranger Badge Court Golden Gate Pin B/W illustrations on San Francisco badge “Past Chief Ranger / Court golden Gate No.5 building and landmarks.Text is / F. of A. Engraved on reverse: “Presented to / detached from cover. Est. $150-200 Aaron Jacobs / July 2, 1910.” Possibly 14 kt. gold, HWAC# 571954 with small diamond. Two and a half inches long. Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 61600 Lot# 3160 San Francisco, California 1877 Steamship Master’s Certificate for William Pierce Extra rare! This is NUMBER 5 in 1877. This certifies that William Lot# 3154 San Francisco, California 1852 Pierce is a skillful master Pictorial of Great Fire of San Francisco pilot of steam vessels for the Gleason’s Pictorial, circa 1852 Life in CA & San bays of San Francisco and its Francisco Fire. Was later hand colored. Lively tributaries. Although, one scene at a dock in San Francisco with occupants wonders if William Pierce trying to get ready to evacuate city. The other needed the paper to prove pictorial is of a California cabin with 3 men he was a master pilot. we having a meal where there encampment is near found a William Pierce who Georgetown, CA. Some foxing at bottom & right of was master of the Steamer Sam Soule on a trip from Sacramento to piece. Mounted on mat board. If mats are shipped Colusa, Red Bluffs and intermediate points in 1859! Est. $300-500 then additional shipping may apply. 11” x 15.5”. HWAC# 50436 (Potter Collection) Est. $50-80 HWAC# 58773 168 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3161 San Francisco, California Lot# 3166 San Francisco, California 1891 The Builders of a Great Will & Finck Blade Sharpening City Vol. 1 Rare hardcover, 356pp, Tool Will & Finck blade sharening gilded page edges. Early history of tool, stag horn handle. Unusual, rare San Francisco with many photos of San Francisco maker consisting of a carving knife that has makers prominent historical figures. Cover mark “ WILL & FINCK S.F. CAL”. Made in the 1800’s so it shows signs has signs of wear. (Potter Collection) of wear. 15” long. Engraved metal emblem on top of handle--”B”. Est. $120-180 HWAC# 63146 Est. $150-250 HWAC# 61536 Lot# 3167 San Fransisco, California Lot# 3162 San Francisco, California 1914 Rare San Francisco, CA Two San Francisco Advertising Telephone Directory Rare 1917 San Mirrors Lot of two: 1) Ghirardelli’s Fransisco telephone directory 320pp Ground Chocolate / San Francisco; some foxing. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 1 3/4 inches diameter. 2) Club 62474 Continental / New Continental / Hotel / 127 Ellis Street / 1 Anna Lot# 3168 San Jose, California Lane / San Francisco; 2 1/2 inches in diameter. Both mirrors in well preserved condition. Est. $120-300 1797-1947 Mission San Jose Poster HWAC# 61607 Beautiful poster “Visit Mission San Jose’s Great Sesquicentennial Celebration” (1797-1947) with Spanish Lot# 3163 San Francisco, Flamenco dancer in full regalia on front. Vivid yellow, red & pink. California Portrait of Edwin Small tear in bottom right, approx. 2”. 13” x 21”. (Potter Collection) Thomas Booth Exquisite Est. $80-150 HWAC# 58768 portrait of Edwin Thomas Booth Lot# 3169 San Pedro, California 2 Choice (November 13, 1833 – June 7, San Pedro early Cabinet Cards Both 1893). Portrait by Bradley & show wharf scenes with great activity! Rulofson, San Francisco. Booth Formerly a separate city, it consolidated was a 19th-century American with Los Angeles in 1909. The Port of Los actor who toured throughout Angeles, a major international seaport, America and the major is partially located within San Pedro. The capitals of Europe, performing district has grown from being dominated Shakespearean plays. In 1869 he by the fishing industry to become primarily founded Booth’s Theatre in New a working class community within the York, a spectacular theatre that city of Los Angeles. Both photos by A.Blix, was quite modern for its time. Photographer. 5 x 7”. Est. $300-500 [2] Some theatrical historians HWAC# 53423 consider him the greatest American actor, and the greatest Hamlet, of the 19th century. [3] Lot# 3170 Santa Barbara, California However, his achievements are often overshadowed by his relationship 1931-1944 5 Santa Barbara, CA with his brother, John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated City Directories Santa Barbra, CA President Abraham Lincoln. (Wikipedia) Matted and framed, 25” x 22”, City Directories. 1931-half detached no glass. Oak frame appears to be original to portrait. On t5he back of spine, 1936-detached spine and no the frame, written in ink, “Gertrude Kellogg” who was herself an actor back cover, 1937, 1938-taped spine, (1843-1903) on the New York stage. Portrait was possibly owned by 1944. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 61836 her. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 43834 Lot# 3171 Santa Barbara, California 1896 Santa Lot# 3164 , Edwin Booth as Hamlet Cabinet Barbara Flower Festival Bread Badge Souvenir Card Yes he is the brother of John Wilkes Booth Brass Santa Barbara Flower Festival Bread the Lincoln assassin. In costume as Hamlet with Badge, 2.5” long with bear on top. Est. $70-120 long hair. Photographer name is trimmed from HWAC# 59748 bottom of mount. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 63100 Lot# 3172 Santa Rosa, California Lot# 3165 San Francisco, Press Democrat Issue about San California 1891 Rare Wells Fargo & Co. San Francisco Francisco Earthquake Vol. XXXII, April 19, 1906 Press Democrat. Two Check Rare Wells Fargo & Co. pages. Focuses completely on the San Check #4530 Aug 26, 1891 to Francisco earthquake and the damage Liverpool & London & Globe it did to surrounding cities such as Insurance, signed by Nathan Santa Rosa, San Jose, Petaluma, and Kline. Note staining. (Potter Sacramento. “A Dreadful Catastrophe Collection) Est. $100-300 HWAC# 59709 Visits Santa Rosa” ; “San Jose in Ruins”; “Los Angeles Spared.” Folds, toning and tears. 11.5” x 8.5” Est. $100-200 HWAC# 50617 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 169

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3173 Shasta, California 4 Shasta Lot# 3177 Southern California, Region Black and White Photos 4.75” California c 1899-1909 Southern CA x 7” photos of Sacramento River near Ephemera (7) 1906 Post Office Dept Copley showing a boat and waterwheel? Steadman, CA Postmaster application and Bully Hill Mining Camp. 3 8” x 10” letter. WB Broadwell billhead to black and white photos of Masonic Yellow Aster Mine 1899. Yellow Hall at Shasta, Greenback Mine Rd No Aster Mine 1918 assayer’s report. 3 Tresspassing(sic) sign. Est. $50-80 Ludlow & Southern Ry. Co. receipts, HWAC# 49511 c. 1904 with toning. 1909 map of Tonopah & Tidewater Rail Road with letter on back stating the railroad will handle mineral specimens originating in NV destined to American Mining Congress in Goldfield, NV. (Potter Collection) Est. $100-200 Lot# 3174 Simpson’s Flat, California Chris Evans, HWAC# 59717 Sonntag Brothers (robbers, killers, innocent men) Half Lot# 3178 Sterling City, California 1903 Sterling Plate Tintype Chris Evans City Photograph was a sharp shooting farmer Original photo, 6 x 9”, who joined the notorious train framed and matted robbers, the Sonntag Brothers. in old frame, but not In August of 1892 they robbed contemporary to photo. a train at Collis Station near Sterling City in Butte Fresno, shattered the express County was formed by car with dynamite and got the Diamond Match Co. away with $5,000. A posse was formed to find the men and bring them to garner wood from to justice. The seven month chase resulted in which 9 deputies were local forests for matches. injured and three were killed. John Sonntag died during the final eight This photo shows a hour battle at Simpson’s Flat. George Sonntag incited a riot and was family camp there. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 2941 killed trying to scale the prison walls after he heard the news. Chris Evans, who insisted he never robbed a train and only killed in self- defense, was sentenced to life. He was pardoned in 1911. Lot# 3179 Susanville, This glass photograph of a man at final rest represents several California Susanville problems. The book “Pictorial History of the Wild West” identifies Birds-Eye View the photo as that of Chris Evans. The book “Bandits and the Southern Postcards (most RPPC) Pacific” by CB Glascock has a photo identifying a captured John Lot of 24. Nineteen Sonntag which looks like our negative. are real photo, two are This type of negative was used primarily up to 1880. However, color, and three are someone could have used an old camera to take the photo. Still it early printed. Of the 24, would make more sense that it was the 1893 death of John Sonntag six were mailed (1909- during the battle than the 1917 Chris Evans at home. A great story that 1961) and one has a long needs more research! The book “Pictorial History of the Wild West is message written in 1915. included. Est. $100-500 HWAC# 45508 Most are by Eastman; one is Thompson Studio. Includes views of the lumber mills, Main St., views from the air, Mt. Lassen, and Diamond Lot# 3175 Sonora, California 1941 Oliver Mountain. (Prag Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 39011 Hardware Advertising Calendar Beautifully Lot# 3180 Sutter, California 1926 framed and matted pictorial calendar frozen Sutter’s Gold by Cendrars with in March 1941. Bucolic Sonora tree filled Decorations by Harry Cimino watercolor. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 51379 Translated from the French by Henry Longan Stuart. Five woodblock prints suitable for mat and frame. Illustrations by Cimino are wood cut designs. Harry Cimino was active/lived in Connecticut and Indiana. He is known as an engraver, illustrator, designer, craftsperson. 179 pages. Rough binding. Still and interesting Gold Rush story as told to those in a foreign country who were starved for information on the great Lot# 3176 Sonora, California 1911 Standard American strike! Est. $50-80 HWAC# 46900 Lumber Co. Complaining Letter 2 sided letter on pictorial letterhead, Oct. 1911, Lot# 3181 Sutter Creek, California Slavonic Badge Standard Lumber co, Sonora, CA. Only 1 page and Ribbon, Sutter Creek, CA Handshake badge of a multi page letter about the finished road with 8” ribbon and fringes. SLAVONIC / LBS / ANGELS along the Merced River has hurt the lumber CAMP, CAL / BRANCH OF SIBS/ SUTTER CREEK, CAL. mills business in the area. Creasing and small Est. $80-100 HWAC# 63102 lower chip. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 571575 170 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3182 Topaz, Mono County, Lot# 3187 Yosemite, California California 1888-1906 Seven Topaz Yosemite & Surrounding Area Documents from Rickey or Kirman Ephemera Lot of 6. 1) Two and Rickey 1) Small letterhead. different Tuolumne County tax Rickey Land & Cattle Company, Inc. documents. An 1866 receipt 1906. 2) Large fancy Kirman & Ricket for a Chinese person (Losang) letterhead 1895. Harness, Saddles, and and 1877 receipt for taxes Bridles, etc. This is from their General on land in Chinese Camp. Merchandise Store. 3) Stamped 2) Pictorial billhead for El Rickey Land & Cattle Company. 1905. Capitan Stables, 1898, Merced. Four notes to the bank in Carson City. Signed by CL Rickey, AD Bird (3). Headquarters for the Mariposa, (Potter Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 59408 Coulterville, and Yosemite Stage Lines. Vignette of building with horses and carriage out front. Lot# 3183 Weaverville, 3) c.1910 hand-colored photograph of Mirror Lake in Yosemite. California Check from Beautiful, but damaged: bottom right corner missing, creases, foxing Express & Banking Office along the top. 5.5 x 7” Done by M. Reider. 4) Two U.S.P.O.D. Registered of Rhodes and Co Signed Package envelopes: 1891 Bear Valley and 1898 Wawona. Both to by FW Blake Rare! This the Postmaster at Mariposa. (Potter Collection) Est. $120-200 pictorial check for $4000 HWAC# 60175 was made out to Pierce Delap??? signed by F. W. Blake as agent for Rhodes & Lot# 3188 Yreka, California 1911 Yreka, Fort Co. Blake was the agent for Rhodes in Weaverville beginning in 1852. Jones & Etna Stage Line Way Bill Yreka to Fort Very little survives today from this remote important gold mining Jones to Etna and Return. Large way-bill dated camp located in the middle of the Trinity gold region in far northern July 4, 1911. Five entries. William Altoppen California. Weaverville was the business center for the all the Trinity as driver. 17 x 11” Folds. Light wear. (Potter River region. The entire northern gold region’s business center Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 60161 was Shasta. From there, all business matters went south, either to Marysville or Sacramento. Frank W. Blake, the cousin of Gorham Blake of S.S. Central America fame. After arriving in California from Boston in 1852, Frank settled in Weaverville for seven years, where he eventually opened his own express company. After two years in Sacramento, Frank moved to Carson City for a year, only to leave for Unionville, NV, the “Land of Lot# 3189 , California California Silver.” By 1863, F.W. Blake was issuing assay certificates and serving Mother Lode Books (3) 3 as mining secretary for several local corporations. He remained in hardcovers. California Gold Country, Unionville until 1866, when he left for Silver City, in southern Idaho, Highway 49 Revisited by Koeppel. where new gold camps were springing up. He set up a successful assay Mother Lode Album by Weston. office and was soon the owner of a jewelry store and additional real Gold Mines of California by Weston estate [Holabird, 2008, 467]. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 61742 (Potter Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 63333 Lot# 3184 , California 1855 Gold Rush Era Check from Rhodes & Co. #2627 from Express & Banking office of Rhodes & Co, Feb. 5, 1855 for Lot# 3190 , California $699.52 with X tear in center. Native California History Books (3) American pictorial.3 folds and small toning on rear. Est. $100-150 HWAC# Hardcovers. 1) California by 61744 McGroarty 1926 393pp with index, front hinge repaired. Lot# 3185 Yosemite, California 4 2) California, Its History and Ansel Adams Yosemite Prints Four Romance by McGoarty, 393 Adam’s prints: 11” x 14”; Half Dome- pp with index, 1911 inscribed -Azaleas; Yosemite Falls; High Sierra by author. 3) California, An from Glacier Point; El Capitan, Winter. Illustrated History by Watkins, Another print included: Chuck 543pp with index. (Potter wagon and group of men and women Collection) Est. $150-250 picnicking. 21” x 21” framed. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 61549 HWAC# 63328 Lot# 3186 Yosemite, California Lot# 3191 , California California Vernal Falls Oil Painting Oil on History Books (8) Land in board, painting of Vernal Falls California by Robinson, The Year in Yosemite with storm clouds rising in the background. Original of Decision 1846 by Devoto, frame—25” H x 18.5” W. Signed by the artist. Benjamin Willard Sears Early Prints and Drawings of (1846-1905) was born in Guilford, CT on May 16, 1846. Sears’ father California, California Ephemeral, had come to California in 1852 and followed placer mining in the Adobe Days by Smith, Jottings In vicinity of Sonora. Ben and his two brothers made the trip to Sonora Southern California History, The via Panama in 1862. He came to San Francisco in 1868 and worked Cattle on a Thousand Hills by as a photographer in several galleries until the early 1870s when he Cleland, Governors of California switched to oil painting. He spent a great deal of time in the studios of by Melendy (Potter Collection) various painters where he may have learned to paint by observing the Est. $120-200 HWAC# 63122 techniques of these artists. Est. $1500-5000 HWAC# 22013 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 171

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3192 , California 1867 Republican Ticket Lot# 3196 , California California Gold Rush Bill for Governor with John P. Jones Running Union Heads (3) McKinlay, Garrioch & Co, San Francisco ticket for the 1867 California gubernatorial race 1855 for 1000 ? Backus & Harrison 1851 for prints in California. George C. Gorham for Governor, John and more, Middleton & Smiley 1851 with crease P. Jones for Liet. Governor, etc. Reverse features a toning. Est. $100-120 HWAC# 61366 red and white American flag and “The Red, White and Blue / Liberty / and / Union.” 10.5 x 3” Folds, small tears and light edge wear. This ticket lost that election. John P. Jones is well-known to Nevada collectors and historians. After mining in the California Gold Rush, Jones came to the Comstock Lode in 1868 and managed the Crown Point Mine in Gold Hill. He made a fortune by acquiring shares Lot# 3197 , California in the Crown Point when it struck a rich ore body. In 1873, he became Walker’s Manual of California a U.S. Senator for Nevada and served five terms. He also co-founded Securities and Directory of the city of Santa Monica in California. (Potter Collection) Est. $60- Directors 1924 1924. 872pp 100 HWAC# 60120 plus ads. folding maps in Lot# 3193 , California Abbot Kinney’s interior. indexed. Divided by Venice-Of-America Vol. 1 by Alexander type of business: banks, public utilities, industrial, sugar, Hardcover 225pp with many b/w photos oil; directory of directors. By (Potter Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# Walker. Rare. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 52237 63154 Lot# 3198 , California California Male Cabinet Card Portraits Man with mustache by Swart, Nevada City, CA. Man with beard and funky hair peak and a unibrow by Elite in San Francisco, CA. Young bow in a suit by Lot# 3194 , California 1954 Halsey in Dutch Flat, CA. Est. $60- Arlington Auburn Letter and 100 HWAC# 62462 Promo Photo 8” x 10” glossy b/w Lot# 3199 , California California by Ralph Widman of “Arlington Twin Motherlode Fraternal Calling Auburn Speedsters” and a letter Cards Lot of 4. Included: color IOOF from the arlington auburn in North card for D.E. Stratton, Chinese Camp, Hollywood, CA dated 1954 and sent Tuolumne County; color GAR card for to S B Hill at Samuel Goldwyn Studios James H. Lord, Grass Valley; card for stating “ although manufactured in 1935, as modern as tomorrow. ... Mary A. Flint, San Juan, CA, Worthy Rental rates are reasonable.” Signed by Charles Arlington. Est. $100- Grand Matron, Geonothus Chapter 200 HWAC# 58663 No. 45; and a member card for the Lot# 3195 , California Grass Valley War Chest Association. (Potter Collection) Est. $100- California Ephemera 150 HWAC# 60008 Collection (Gold Rush, Lot# 3200 , California 1863 California State Railroad, Express) Lot Prison Directors Meeting Minutes Dated of 18. 1) Illustration of December 16, 1863 and signed by California the execution of Brace Governor Fredrick Low, Lieutenant Governor and Hetherington by the Tim. N. Machin, and Secretary of Sate Benjamin Vigilance Committee of San B. Redding. The meeting notes in short discuss Francisco, 1856. Printed the use of property in the prison system and the on very thick cardstock. titles of those held within the prison system are Reverse stamped Frederick to be held until further notice. Approximately Nordstrom Rare Prints, 11” x 12.5.” (Potter Collection) Est. $200- Arlington, Mass. 8 x 9.75” 2) 400 HWAC# 63220 Five way-bills for Moore’s Flat and Eureka Express, 1876-1877, for transport from Nevada City to North Bloomfield. 3) Two Declaratory Statements for Settling and Improving Land, 1865 (Sutter County) and 1858 (Shasta County). Lot# 3201 , California 4) c.1920 black and white photograph of the construction of Edison Catalog of California Power Plant in Big Creek. 9 x 6.25” 5) 1858 I.O.O.F San Francisco Pictorial Letter Sheets document about reinstated, rejected, and expelled members. 6) Three of Henry H. Clifford 1903 Wells Fargo checks, San Francisco with stubs. 7) Nevada County Hardcover catalog, Dorothy Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. receipt, 1885, Nevada City. 8) Revenue Sloan Rare Books. Definitive imprinted pictorial Bank of California, North Pacific Transportation collection of these pictorial Co. check issued to Wells Fargo, 1869. 9) Assessment receipt, 1880 California letters. 106pp. for the Independence Mining Co. 10) Two other 1850s San Francisco (Al Adams Gold Rush documents. (Potter Collection) Est. $150-300 HWAC# 60157 Memorabilia Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 58603 172 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3202 , California E.C. Voorheis, Lot# 3207 , California 1884 Map of California State Senator & Mining California 1884 California, 1884. Engraved Man, Pictorial Business Card, and hand colored by Frank A. Gray. c.1890s Card is for his run as the Produced by O.W. Gray & Son, Philadelphia. Republican nominee for State Approximately 17.5” x 28.25.” (Potter Senator for the 14th District which Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 63224 was comprised on Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, and Mono Counties. 2.75 x 4.25” Very good condition. Voorheis appears to have held this post in 1895. His name appears in more mining related publications, including as proprietor of the Amador Reduction Works in 1891 and the Lincoln Mine at Sutter Creek in 1894. He appears to also have been president of the Atolia Mining Company. (Potter Collection) Est. $50- 80 HWAC# 59998 Lot# 3203 , California 1927 Financing Lot# 3208 , California Map of California an Empire, Banking in California Vol. 1886 Map of California by DeBeers, engraved with color by Lithography, 1-4 by Cross 4 illustrated hardcovers 1886. Very slight foxing in fold. 19” x by Ira Cross. Vol. 1 526pp. Vol. 2 to 24.25”. (Potter Collection) Mounted 1002pp, Vol. 3 532pp, Vol. 4 558pp, on mat board. If mats are shipped then An important California banking additional shipping may apply. (Potter history reference. (Potter Collection) Est. $250-500 HWAC# 63324 Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 62079 Lot# 3209 , California 1829 - early 1900’s Motherlode Letters, Billheads & Postcard Approx. 10 pieces including postcard of Lover’s Lot# 3204 , California Long Beach Leap, Blue Canyon, California on Development Company Certificate Rare $500 Southern Pacific Ogden Route; 10 year 6% bond. Ocean waves vignette, signed picture of McFarlands Hotel, Empire by president. #29 15” x 10”. Est. $80-150 Flat; letter from California State HWAC# 52673 Board of Trade dated 1901 from San Francisco & many more letters, billheads & Superintendents Report from Washington Gold Mining Co. dated 3-11-1882. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 54908 Lot# 3210 , California 1854 Unused Gold Rush Banking Documents Lot# 3205 , California Map of California 1878 including the very rare town of Don Pedro’s Bar California, 1878. Engraved and hand colored by Lot of three. 1) Banking Mitchell. Approximately 23” x 15.25.” (Potter Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 63223 House of Montezuma. Duplicate of Exchange. 1854. 2) Banking house of P. A. Lamping. Original of exchange. 186-. 3) Check from Banking House, Don Pedro’s Bar. 1854. Located in Toulumne County. (Potter Collection) Est. $100-300 HWAC# 56071 Lot# 3211 , California 1880-1893 California Newspapers (3) The San Francisco Chronicle, The County Record (Angels Camp, California); Lot# 3206 , California Map of The Mountain Messenger, (Downieville, California & Nevada, 1883 California California). All in good condition. The County & Nevada, 1883 engraved with color Record has scotch tape in center of page at fold. by Lithography by Rand, McNally. Anecdotally, there is an article in the Mountain Great map in very nice condition, Messenger reading “...Colossal organizations beautiful colors, very detailed. 20.5” with lavish appropriations are in the field for the x 24.5”. (Potter Collection) Mounted purpose of suppressing crime and pauperism...” on mat board. If mats are shipped Also, a story of “An Extinct Volcano in the then additional shipping may apply. Hawaiian Islands explaining about the “Leper (Potter Collection) Est. $200-400 Colony”. This is an interesting lot. On Mat Board HWAC# 62074 (not adhered) with plastic covers. If mats are shipped then additional shipping may apply. 20” x 23.5” (Potter Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 59622 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 173

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3212 , California 1874 & 1886 Lot# 3217 Cripple Creek, Colorado Two Bay Area Telegraph Receipts Cripple Creek, CO Circus Pennant w/ Envelopes (Alvarado & San Jose) and Metal Tray Metal tray with 1) Rare telegram and envelope for images of National Hotel and Teller the Bay & Coast Telegraph Company. County Courthouse , approx 3.25” Dateline San Francisco, 10/9/1886. Sent x 4.25”. Red cloth pennant, Blinky’s to SP Harvey of Alvarado. “Ship your Miniature Circus, Cripple Creek, chevalier farley to Alameda point. Have Colo. with a polar bear in a cage. Approx 7” x 15.5”. Est. $80-120 it there Monday night.” Signed Lowrie HWAC# 62455 & Steeler. 2) Western Union telegram and envelope. Sent from San Jose, Lot# 3218 Cripple Creek, Colorado The Cala., 8/25/1874. Sent to Dr. Thomas Cripple Creek Trip (1915 Photo Booklet) Flint, care Britton & Gray, Washington. Rare small booklet: A Picture Story of The Message is about reducing price of Panamint(?) mail if necessary to Cripple Creek Trip. Soft cover, 6” x 9”. Published secure it and that Stewart & Jones will telegraph to secure Bakersfield by The Smith-Brooks Press, 1915. Soft cover, and Tehachahi[sic.] mail. Signed by W. Buckley. (Potter Collection) stapled binding. Book Condition: Good. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 60165 Softcover, edge wear to softcover. 41 pages of sepia toned photographs of the landscape Lot# 3213 Arlington, Colorado 1888 and mining industry, including four fold out The Pennsylvania Town Company panoramic scenes. Photographs are clean and Stock Certificate (Arlington without marking or discoloration. Est. $60-150 Springs) Proprietors of Arlington HWAC# 35340 Springs, Bent County, Colorado. Inc. in Colorado. No. 169, issued for 1 Lot# 3219 Denver, Colorado Denver, share to Oliver H. Perry, president Leadville & Pueblo, CO Illustration of the company, on March 15th, Book B/W illustrations of Denver, 1888. Not cancelled. Also signed by Leadville & Pueblo, CO in a foldout the secretary (Hunt). Maroon border and print. Colorado state seal hardcover book. Approx 20 scenes, 6” vignette. Printed by Chieftain Print. 6” x 10” Small tear on bottom x 5”. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 62468 edge. Light toning. (Prag Collection) Est. $80-150 HWAC# 34968 Lot# 3220 Denver, Colorado Lot# 3214 Bakerville, Colorado 1902 The Continental Wireless Bakerville, Colorado Territory Telephone & Telegraph Company Stereoview Handwritten “Gorge Stock Certificate Inc. in South above Bakerville C. T.” W. G. Dakota. No. 3515, issued for 150 Chamberlain, photographer, Denver. shares to Edward Malke on May Bakerville was near the site of the 26, 1902. Signed by the company original silver discovery in Steven’s president and secretary. Not Gulch. Mining started in 1865. cancelled. Ornate brown border Est. $20-50 HWAC# 26931 and floral logo. One 10 cent revenue stamp at left. Folds. 8.25” x 10.5” Lot# 3215 Central City, Colorado (Prag Collection) Est. $80-200 HWAC# 34865 1868-1907 Central City & Nevadaville, Colorado Ephemera Lot# 3221 Denver, Colorado Three BPOE Lot of 4 pieces for these two adjacent Badges/Pins (Denver and Seattle) Lot of 3. mining camps. 1) Revenue-imprinted 1) Gilt pinback for the Golden Jubilee Grand (RN-P5) Certificate of Deposit for Lodge Reunion, Denver, Colorado ,1914. the Rocky Mountain National Bank, “Denver / Queen City of the Plains.” Pike’s Central City, 1868.Some soiling. Peak cutout. Hanger gold pan, two shovels, Also an 1885 First National Bank of with elk and clock on bowl. Manufactured Central City check from Fullerton for Sam Mayer, Denver, by Robbins Attleboro. & Seymour, Insurance. 2) Two rare 2.5” 2) Ribbon with hanging medallion pieces from Nevadaville: tickets for for the same 1914 event. Ribbon torn and the 1894 and 1907 Nevadaville Fire soiled. Medallion has raised elk and is Department Balls. (Potter Collection) 43mm. 3) Seattle, Washington, Puget Sound Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60197 Lodge No. 109 member badge. Ornate elk hanger with purple ribbon w/ gilt tassels. Very good condition. 6 x 2” Lot# 3216 Cripple Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60042 Creek, Colorado 1896 Architectural Plans City Lot# 3222 Denver, Colorado Two Hall This is a drawing of Large Hanging Denver Scales with very heavy Weights The two scales the front of the New City are from the Denver Equipment Hall to be built at Cripple Company. 12 weights. All are marked Creek, Colorado by John J. Toledo (Fairbanks). Scales weigh 10 Huddart, Architect. There pounds (2), 5 pounds, 2 pounds (2), is foxing in folds & repair 1.075 pounds, 8 ounces, .310 pounds, by tape at seams. 37.5” x 36”. Est. $200-500 5 ounces, 2 ounces, 1 ounce(2). Four HWAC# 61243 are dark brown, the rest are silver in color. Probably used for produce or hardware. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 49726 174 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3223 Denver, Colorado Lot# 3229 , Colorado Cabinet Card The Colorado Sun, June-Sept. of Sellers Lake at Beulah, Colorado 1891 Tremendous source of Cabinet Card Photo. Written at historical information for the bottom in period ink is “Sellers Lake Colorado researcher! Price: 5 at Beulah Colo.”, photo c. 1880’s. Light cents. Measures 19” x 23”. Very blue ink line in background, 1.5” long. poor condition: Spine to ledger is Slight darkening of photo at the top loose and disengrating. Individual and left bottom. 5” x 8”. The town of newspaper pages are heavily toned Mace’s Hole was settled in 1862.[1] and chipping. Est. $300-500 The town was named for Juan Maes, anglicized to “Mace,” a bandit who HWAC# 21074 used the valley for a hideout.[4] The Mace’s Hole Post Office opened on April 23, 1873.[5] A local preacher took umbrage at the town’s name and suggested the biblical name Beulah as a more wholesome alternative.[1] The name of the town was changed to Beulah on October 25, 1876.[5] The name is a reference to Isaiah 62:4;[6] it comes from the Hebrew for “married.”[7]. From Wikipedia. Est. $50- 100 HWAC# 51628 Lot# 3230 , Colorado 4 Old Lot# 3224 Greeley, Colorado Vintage Red Star Medicine Co. Case Colorado Photo Folders 4 Colorado photo folders measuring 4.25” x and Formulas Vintage medical case 6.25”. Subjects are Crystal Park Auto contains items from the Red Star Trip, South Cheyenne Canon and Medicine Co. “Recognized Remedies Seven Falls, Views of the Pike’s Peak for the Diseases Indicated”. Many Region, Moffat Road, Crystal Park jars of various pill. Hints for Health, Auto Trip. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 50379 Emergency Health Guide included. This is a fabulous find! Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 57843 Lot# 3231 , Colorado Colorado Group: Including a Magnificent Lot# 3225 Leadville, Colorado Ribbon. Lot of five. 1) Spectacular Mounted photograph of the Bank Oddfellows Ribbon. Cripple Creek Bar in Leadville, Colorado Two men Lodge, No. 1. Ribbon is a vivid red. enjoying a smoke outside of the door. Second ribbon adorns this piece. It is Very business like. Strong Contrast! light brown, has crossed flags and the Handwritten date rod 1912. Leadville all seeing eye. Please see photograph is also identified after the fact. to catch its grandeur. Reversible for Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62222 funerals. 2) 4.25 x 6.25” photograph of the Wells Fargo office in Denver. 1900. Comes with description. 3) Stereoview of a burro supply train on its way to the mines. B. L. Lot# 3226 Pueblo, Colorado 1926 Lingley. 4) Unidentified photograph of two young children taken in Pueblo, Colorado Map / Guide 1926 Cripple Creek. 5) Several unused envelopes for Mines, Inc. of Cripple map and guide for the city of Pueblo. Creek. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 60973 Est. $80-150 HWAC# 41409 Lot# 3232 , Colorado 1913- 1929 Rocky Mountain Grain & Commission Co. Stock Certificates Plus One Other CO Stock Lot of 4. 1) Three issued stock certificates for the Lot# 3227 , Colorado 1913- 1937 `”Laws of Colorado” Book Rocky Mountain Grain & Commission Company. Issued 1922, 1926, and Collection Lot of fourteen. Six copies 1929. 2) Plus one issued stock of “Session Laws of Colorado,” 1913, certificate for the Ruble Orendorf 1915, 1917, 1923, 1925, 1937. Nine Mercantile Company, 1913, which smaller supplemental booklets: 1915 operated in Norwood, Colorado. Est. laws of extraordinary session, 1902, 1914, 1948, 1922, 1919, 1917, extraordinary sessions. Condition is $40-80 HWAC# 60011 generally poor to good. Est. $20-100 HWAC# 27503 Lot# 3228 , Colorado 1870 Zoom in and see Colorado Territory Political Letter Two page letterpress copy of letter close up detail written by R.W. Thyh(?), comptroller, Treasury Department, April 1st, High Resolution 1870. Addressed to Frank Hall, esq., Secretary of Colorado Territory, Images of ALL LOTS Denver. Says the governor’s message has been received and mentions available online at the printing of reports of territorial officers. Toning, tissue paper. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 60100 FHWAC.com Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 175

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3233 , Colorado Western Lot# 3236 West Palm Beach, Florida 1924- Waterfall and Canyon Photos Four 1926 Two West Palm Beach, Florida Stock Williams Canyon Photographs-1) Certificates 1) The National Bank of West Palm The Narrows at Williams Canon. Beach. Issued in 1926, not cancelled. Eagle Four nicely dressed women in the vignette. Folds, some separation. 2) Dealers photo. W. E. Hook Photograph. Ad Supply Corporation of West Palm Beach. Issued on the back for the Half-way House. in 1924, not cancelled. Folds, some separations “a comfortable rustic house in a and tears. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia beautiful grove of pines and spruce....” T. T. Palsgrove, Proprietor. Collection) Est. $50-80 HWAC# 60015 2) A Chase photo of the Narrows. in Williams Canon. 3) A Hersom photograph of the Canon itself. 4) The amphitheater. Shows cabin in the canon. A Hersom photograph. All photos are 8 x 5” and on card stock. Some cards have bends and tears at corner, but does not Lot# 3237 , Florida Florida affect the photo. Last two are a little washed out. Lot of 4 photos of Telephone Stock Certificates & the “Hanging Bridge” in the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas with the Bonds Lot of 10. 1) General Telephone Denver and Rio Grande railroad track. Photographers include Stone & Company of Florida: nine bonds, Co.,Erdlen’s, & Dennis of Glenwood Springs. Photos are 4 1/2 x 7 1/2. $1,000-$20,000. Issued 1968-1984. Rainbow Falls-Lot of 2: 1) Stone & Co. 7 3/4 x 4 1/2. “Rainbow Falls, Punch cancelled. 2) Florida East Coast Ute Pass.” 2) W.E. Hook photographer, Manitou Springs, Colorado; 4 Industries, Inc. One stock certificate 1/4 x 7 12 inches. Est. $120-250 HWAC# 571611 issued for 200 shares in 1985. Punch Lot# 3234 Washington, District of Columbia cancelled. Blue border with allegorical 1868 Postmaster General Report About and railroad vignette. (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. Contracts with Ben Holladay House of $80-100 HWAC# 60046 Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 201. “Contracts with Benjamin Holladay. Letter from the Postmaster Lot# 3238 , Florida Maps, General.” Describes payments and mail contracts Florida by Counties & with Ben Holladay, Overland Mail Company, Louisiana Lot of 2 maps. 1) Central Pacific Railroad Company, and Union Florida by Counties, circa Pacific Railroad Company (Western Division). 1900, color & lithography Also references selling paid-stamped envelopes by Cram. 11” x 14”; 2) to Wells Fargo & Company. 6pp, taken from Louisiana by Cram 1886, a book. Some toning. 9 x 5.75” Holladay, the color by Lithography. 13” “Stagecoach King,” created the Overland Stage to x 11”. (Potter Collection) California during the height of the 1849 California Gold Rush. (Potter Mounted on mat board. Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 60167 If mats are shipped then additional shipping may apply. (Potter Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 62069 Lot# 3239 Honolulu, Hawaii 1913 Pacific Bank Company Stock Certificates (Territory of Hawaii) Lot of two certificates issued by the Pacific Bank Company of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. No. 18 and 66, both issued the same day in 1913. Most of the relevant details about the company have been handwritten in pen. One certificate says “temporary.” Ornate border and eagle vignette. Not cancelled. (Prag Collection) Est. $80-160 HWAC# 571814 Lot# 3235 Washington, District of Columbia Fred Dennett Archive Originally belonging to Fred Dennett, 32nd Commissioner of the Lot# 3240 , General Land Office, 1908-1913. The General Land Office was an Hawaii Hawaii independent agency of the United States government responsible for Photographs and public domain lands in the United States. It was created in 1812, and Postcards Large it merged with the United States Grazing Service in 1946 to become group of Hawaii the Bureau of Land Management. The official in charge of the agency photographs was called the Commissioner of the General Land Office, appointed by taken just prior the President and confirmed by the Senate. 1) Holton-Arms School to World War II, Washington, D.C. diploma, signed by Jessie Moon Holton, dated May approximately 29th, 1915, awarded to Dorothy Dixon Dennett, “who has satisfactorily 80 photographs. completed the General Course of study proscribed by this school.” 14 Group also contains 3/4 x 19 5/8”. 2) United States General Land Office 1912 cast bronze a number of medal, depicting an eagle, obverse, with “CENTENNIAL OF THE postcards just ORGANIZATION OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE 1812-1912”, reverse. after World War Housed in a black leather case with purple satin and velvet interior II as well as of lining. Stamped “Jos. K. Davidson’s Sons, Philadelphia” in gilt lettering, an original photograph collection of Guam during the war, about 20 inside of case, stamped “Hon. Fred Dennett” in gilt lettering, lid of photos. A nice group historical. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 571515 case. Medal – 2” dia. Case – 7/8” H x 3” W x 3” D. Early 20th century. 3) Ambrotype depicting a seated man, possibly Reverend D. Richard Dennett, father of Fred Dennett. Spine of case split. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 51848 176 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3241 Boise, Idaho Boise Land and Lot# 3245 , Idaho Idaho Stock Water Company Bond Rare $500 6% 20 Group Colorado Investment year gold bond. Vignette of a train and Company-Lot of 15. Includes: The waterway. Signed by president Stewart. 17” x Alameda Investment Co. (1925, not 14”. #25. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 52666 cxl), The Cons. Realty & Investment Co. (1912, pen cxl and 1915, not cxl), The Montview Investment Co. (1930 & 1933, not cxl), The Interstate Co- Partnership Assoc. (1930, not cxl), The James A. McCandless Investment Co. (two issued 1926 & 1930, both pen cxl), Boulder Acceptance Corp. Lot# 3242 Nicholia, Idaho Nicholia Stage (two 1958, not cxl), Denver Acceptance Corp. (two 1959, not cxl), Company Receipt, 1886 (Idaho Ghost Town) Sears Investment Co. (1904, not cxl), The Home Investment Co. (192- ), and The Kinney Investment Co. (1928, not cxl). Lot of 15. Includes: Rare. Receipt on letterhead for Nicholia Stage The Alameda Investment Co. (1925, not cxl), The Cons. Realty & Company, E.E. Corbin, Proprietor. (Date of Oct. Investment Co. (1912, pen cxl and 1915, not cxl), The Montview 8, 1886 on reverse). Message is instructions to Investment Co. (1930 & 1933, not cxl), The Interstate Co-Partnership ship to AM Stephenson of Junction via Red Rock: port, sherry, cigars, etc. Signed E.C. Message Assoc. (1930, not cxl), The James A. McCandless Investment Co. (two below signature says ship cigars by express to issued 1926 & 1930, both pen cxl), Boulder Acceptance Corp. (two Red Rock and the stage will get them and bring 1958, not cxl), Denver Acceptance Corp. (two 1959, not cxl), Sears Investment Co. (1904, not cxl), The Home Investment Co. (192-), them to Junction. 8.5 x 5.25” Folds, spindle hole, and The Kinney Investment Co. (1928, not cxl). Est. $200-300 and some toning. Nicholia was located in Lemhi County. The town was established in 1885 HWAC# 571612 following the construction of a smelter located at Lot# 3246 , Idaho Idaho Territory the foot of the hills. In 1889, it had a population over 1,500 people. The Ephemera Collection Lot of 24. 1) Viola Mine was located high on a ridge behind the town and tramways brought the ore to the smelter. (Potter Collection) Est. $60-100 Eleven Territorial & County liquor HWAC# 60159 license stubs, 1887-1890, Owyhee County. 2) Five Office of the County Lot# 3243 Silver City, Idaho Silver Superintendent of Schools requisitions, City, Idaho Ephemera (Most 1889. 3) Invoice of Ore for Clayton Territorial) Lot of 7. 1) Five Smelting Works, 1884. 4) 1890 billhead territorial billheads: Ritt & Weeks, for Dan. Beaton, Prop. of the Hailey, Smoky & Camas Prairie Stage Line. 5) Stoves, pictorial, 1870; Philip Return Registered Letter Bill, 1872 Kohlheyer, Washington Market, for packages sent from Idaho City to pictorial, 1869; Thos. Ewing & Co., San Francisco. 6) Five unused pictorial Groceries & Liquor, 1860s; DuRell sheets of checks for two different banks: Bank of Idaho, J.T. Morgan & Moore, Dry Goods, 1868; and C.H. & Co., 1880s, Blackfoot, ID; and Bank of Ketchum, J.T. Morgan & Co., Crane, Mining & Mill Supplies, 1867. Three are issued to the Owyhee Gold & Silver Mining Co. 2) Knights 1880s. (Potter Collection) Est. $150-300 HWAC# 60172 of Pythias letterhead, 1897, message describes bill for painting the Lot# 3247 , Idaho 1877-1898 Idaho Town lodge. 3) Partial pay-roll sheet for the New York and Owyhee Gold & Silver Mining Company (cut off). (Potter Collection) Est. $150-200 Collection Lot of 6 from 5 different Idaho HWAC# 60149 towns:Boise County Bank letter (only one page present), Silver City, 1880s; letterhead Lot# 3244 , Idaho Idaho Ephemera for J.D. Ellis, Dry Goods & Groceries, Medicine Lodge, 1891; letterhead for T.E. Collection Lot of 7. Includes: 1870 Lyne, Nicholia, Idaho, 1887 (now a ghost Washington Market billhead, Silver City; town); letterhead for DeLamar Livery Stable, 1872 billhead for John Catalow, Silver City; DeLamar, 1898; pictorial letterhead for E.L. 1867 sundries list in a/c with Poorman; Ballard, District Court Clerk for Owyhee two page invoice for AF Wright, Junction, County, Silver City, 1898; and the top portion 1886; 1900 Bill of Lading for Boise, of a colorful billhead for Marion F. Waldron, Nampa & Owyhee Railway, Murphy, ID; 1907 postcard of train crossing bridge, Centerville, 1877. (Potter Collection) American Falls, Idaho; and unused way-bill Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60151 for Murphy, Silver City and De Lamar Stage Line. (Potter Collection) Est. $150-200 HWAC# 60150 View High Resolution Images, Register, Place Bids, See Current Opening Bids Visit the online catalog at FHWAC.com Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 177

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3248 , Idaho 1930’s-1950’s Lot# 3253 , Indiana Maps State Historical Society of Idaho of Indiana Lot of 2. 1) Rand, Reports 4 copies: 13th Biennial McNally with engraving and Report, State Historical Society of color by lithography, 1885. Idaho for the Years 1931-1932; 4 Approximately 14.5” x 21.” copies: 14th Biennial Report, State 2) Johnson and Ward. 1864. Historical Society of Idaho for the Engraved, cartography and hand Years 1933-1934; 4 copies: 15th color. 18.25” x 27.” (Potter Biennial Report, State Historical Collection) Est. $150-250 Society of Idaho for the Years HWAC# 63203 1935-1936; 3 copies: 17th Biennial Report, State Historical Society of Idaho for the Years 1939-1940; Lot# 3254 Dubuque, Iowa 1895 Cabinet 4 copies: 18th Biennial Report, Card of Man Playing the Part of Jesse State Historical Society of Idaho James? Cabinet card is 6.5 x 4.25”. Shows for the Years 1941-1942; 2 copies: 19th Biennial Report, State Historical a man posing. Back in pencil says, “Ford Society of Idaho for the Years 1943-1944; 1 copy: 20th Biennial Report, playing part of Jesse James.” Perhaps for State Historical Society of Idaho for the Years 1945-1946; 1 copy: 23rd some sort of production, because the part Biennial Report, State Historical Society of Idaho for the Years 1951- seems to be overplayed. In 1895 and 1896 1952. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 43845 the Lenz Brothers were photographers in Dubuque, Iowa. This photograph does not Lot# 3249 Chicago, Illinois 1904 list the studio as Lenz Brothers, but rather Paperweight, Early Chicago Glass as Ph. W. Lenz. Perhaps the “Ph” stands for Inscribed with “Wedding Day, June a name or for Photographer. In 1900 there 16, 1904”(Easte Deutche?) on the is a Nicholas Lenz listed in the Census as a other side of paperweight reads “14th photographer living in Julien in Dubuque Bundes Konferenzi / Chicago. 3.25” x County. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 62250 4”. Est. $50-70 HWAC# 61231 Lot# 3255 , Iowa 2 Metal Iowa Property Line Markers 2 metal 4’ property line markers. IOWA STATE/ PROPERTY LINE / UNLAWFUL TO DISTURB/ CONSERVATION Lot# 3250 Mt. Vernon, Illinois Patterson Bros. COMMISSION. One has signs of wear, Fashion Shop Advertising Not a mirror, but one may be unused. Est. $80-120 an emory board on reverse with a scantily clad HWAC# 50370 woman in a big hat on the front of this oval advertisement. 2 3/4 inches tall. Est. $100-150 Lot# 3256 Louisville, Kentucky HWAC# 61608 Louisville, Kentucky 1850s & 1860s Receipts Lot of 6. Included: 1859 A.B. Semple & Sons loan document for $196.60; 1859 Thomas & Anderson loan document for $208.03; 1860 Thomas & Anderson receipt; and three Anderson, McLane Lot# 3251 , Illinois 1895 Lake & Co. receipts, 1859-1860. (Potter Michigan Seaman’s Union Card Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 60400 Sailing card from Lake Seaman’s Lot# 3257 , Kentucky Union, June 1895 . Vertical crease and Kentucky and Tennessee small water stain.Orange approx 2.5” x 4.5”. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62470 Maps (5) 5 different Kentucky and Tennessee 1) Hand colored by Gray Lot# 3252 , Illinois Maps of 1874 , pp 111, 14.5” x 17” 2) Engraved and hand Illinois (3) 3 Maps of Illinois. colored by Mitchell 1871, 1) Illinois by Counties 12.5” x 15”. 3) Engraved with Railroads, Geo. Cram and hand colored by Presents Cartography & Colton 1855, No. 40 13” color by Lithography, 1883. x 17” 3) Tennessee by Double truck pp. 130,131; county, lithographic cartography and color by Cram 1884, pp 151- 14.5” x 21”; 2) Johnson & 152 double truck 14.5” x 22.25” 5) Kentucky by county, lithographic Browning’s Illinois engraved cartography and color by Cram 1884 double truck pp 146-147 14.5” x with vignette & hand colored, 22”. (Potter Collection) Est. $300-500 HWAC# 63111 circa 1864, slight foxing at bottom of map that does not encroach on map. 14” x 18”; 3) Illinois by County, engraved cartography with hand coloring by A.J. Johnson, 1864. Very vivid colors in this map. Double truck, very slight foxing. Beautiful map. 18” x 26”. (Potter Collection) Mounted on mat board. If mats are shipped then additional shipping may apply. (Potter Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 62071 178 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3258 , Kentucky 1864 Map of Lot# 3262 Detroit, Michigan Vintage DM Kentucky & Tennessee Double truck, Ferry Seeds Poster DM Ferry Seed Co Vintage pp. 48,49. Engraved Cartography with Advertising Poster. 24” x 12” , matted and framed hand coloring by Johnson & Ward. 2 30” x 19”. In 1856, Milo T. Gardner, Dexter M. vignettes at bottom of the State House Ferry, and Eber F. Church organized a small seed- of Nashville & the other Navy Yard at growing company, M.T. Gardner & Company (also Memphis. 1 small tear (.25”) at bottom known as Gardner, Ferry, and Church) in Detroit, left margin, does not encroach on map. Michigan. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 57850 On Mat Board (not adhered) with plastic covers. If mats are shipped then additional shipping may apply. 26.25” x 18”. (Potter Collection) Est. $200-300 HWAC# 59632 Lot# 3263 , Michigan 1839 Michigan Property Patent with Van Buren Lot# 3259 New Orleans, Louisiana Signature Land patent on parchment Planters’ Hotel Receipt, 1848, New with Martin Van Buren secretary Orleans Just about the time of the signature. Small hole thru “Martin”. discovery in California leading to the Est. $60-100 HWAC# 61369 Gold Rush. Dateline New Orleans, Nov. 2nd, 1848. Billed to Mr. Parks for board for one week. Vignette of hotel at left. Folds, toning, missing upper right corner. 4 x 7.5” (Potter Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# 60180 Lot# 3264 Sauk Rapids, Minnesota 1886 Photograph of Sauk Rapids Lot# 3260 , Louisiana Maps of Cyclone Wreckage - Killing 72! Louisiana Lot of 2. 1) Louisiana, The 1886 Sauk Rapids Tornado was 1883. Lithography and color by a violent tornado that tore through Hardesty. Approximately 14.5” x 11.” the cities of Sauk Rapids, St. Cloud, 2) Louisiana by County. Published and Rice, Minnesota, on April 14, by George F. Cram, Chicago. 1884. 1886. It destroyed much of the town Lithographic cartography and color. of Sauk Rapids and killed 72 people Approximately 22” x 14.5.” (Potter along its path. It is the deadliest Collection) Est. $120-200 HWAC# 63229 tornado on record in Minnesota. Photo shows utter desolation of the city. High contrast. Photo by Riley & Swain of St. Paul, Minnesota. With the hurricane devastation in Texas, Florida, the Caribbean, etc., we see how devastating a weather event like this can be. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 53466 Lot# 3265 , Minnesota 1855 Map of Minnesota Territory This early map of Minnesota Territory is engraved & hand colored by Colton. Vivid color, slight foxing on outside edge that does not encroach on map. Mounted on mat board. If mats are shipped then additional shipping may apply. 18.5” x 15”. (Potter Collection) Est. $120-150 HWAC# 58778 Lot# 3261 Provincetown, Massachusetts First Resident Directory of Lot# 3266 , Minnesota Maps of Provincetown, Massachusetts (1886) We did a quick search and could Minnesota Lot of 2. 1) Minnesota, not find any copies available for sale online. The last copy that we know 1886. Hand colored by Bradley. of sold in 1989 for $1,100. Compiled J. H. Hogan and published by W. F. Approximately 12.5” x 15.” 2) Richardson. ”Containing also a complete business directory, churches, Minnesota by J.H. Colton, 1855. school, societies, towns, officers, etc.” Advertisements throughout – Hand colored by County via copper many pictorial. At the time of European encounter, this area was long engraving. Approximately 14.75” settled by the historic Nauset tribe, who had a settlement known as x 17.5.” (Potter Collection) Meeshawn. They spoke an Algonquian language and were affiliated with Est. $150-250 HWAC# 63546 other Algonquian tribes of the language families along the East Coast. In 1692, a new Royal Charter combined the Plymouth and Massachusetts Lot# 3267 , Minnesota Maps of Bay colonies into the Province of Massachusetts Bay. “Cape Cod” was Minnesota and Wisconsin Lot thus officially renamed the “Province Lands”. On June 14, 1727, after of 3. 1) Minnesota. Hand colored harboring ships for more than a century, the Precinct of Cape Cod by Mitchell, 1874. Approximately was incorporated as a township. Following the American Revolution, 12.5” x 15.” 2) Map of Minnesota Provincetown grew rapidly as a fishing and whaling center. By the with rail and wagon routes. 1890s, Provincetown was booming, and began to develop a resident Engraved cartography with hand population of writers and artists, as well as a summer tourist industry. coloring. Produced by Gray’s Atlas. Today, it is a small coastal resort town with a year-round population of Approximately 17.25” x 27.” 3) just under 3,000 and a summer population of as high as 60,000. Front Wisconsin, Rand McNally. 1889. and back cover connected, but becoming unhinged. Edges and corners Engraving and color by lithography. of covers frayed. Overall, in nice shape for a 128 year-old book. 110 Approximately 22” x 29.5.” (Potter Collection) Est. $300-400 pages. Est. $500-1500 HWAC# 11444 HWAC# 63206 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 179

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3268 Big Black, Mississippi 1866 Old Lot# 3272 St. Louis, Missouri 1945 Mason Letter From a Brother to His Little Sister A Inspector General 33rd Degree Hat and post Civil War letter July 6, 1866 from a man Certificate White Mason Inspector General to his little sister. The crop of corn and cotton 33rd Degree Hat in hard carry case with handle will be light due to heavy rain then heat and embossed J. A. Morlan, St. Louis, MO. Also lack of rain among other topics. Note 2 holes framed Inspector General Mason certificate for in paper. (Potter Collection) Est. $60-100 John Adolphus Morlan 1945. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 59713 HWAC# 63309 Lot# 3269 Louisiana, Missouri Lot# 3273 , Missouri Church Key Louisiana, Missouri Business Cards and Punch for Miners Ice & Fuel c.1890s Lot of 4 c.1890s business Company Phone 398. c1920’s. Est. cards. Two for A.L. Cox, Lime Burner, $50-80 HWAC# 62226 Wholesale & Retail Dealer in Plaster, Cement, Hair, White Sand & Fire Lot# 3274 , Missouri Maps Brick. One miniature card for Thos. L. of Missouri (3) Lot of 3 maps. Anderson, prosecuting attorney. And 1) Missouri & by Cram, circa one for J.M. Bartlett, agent for Singer 1900. Cartography & color by Sewing Machines. (Potter Collection) Est. $60-120 HWAC# 59976 Lithography. Double truck, pp. 200, 201. Beautiful map Lot# 3270 St. Louis, Missouri 1880 with vivid color. 22.5” x 15”. Medical Journal Association of 2) Missouri by Cowperthwait, the Mississippi Valley Certificate 1850, engraved & hand colored Issued to B. M. Hypes, M. D. Signed illustrating Rail & Wagon by A Steele and (?). Dr. Hypes has Roads.17” x 13”; 4) Iowa & purchased one share for $25.00. Missouri, engraving & hand color by Augustus Mitchell, 1876, 15” x Rough condition, but a nice medical 22”. (Potter Collection) Mounted on mat board. If mats are shipped certificate for an important midwest then additional shipping may apply. (Potter Collection) Est. $200-400 doctor. Benjamin M. Hypes graduated HWAC# 62070 from McKendree University in 1866. He later attended Rush Medical Lot# 3275 Bozeman, Montana 1899 H.B. College in Chicago, continuing his medical studies at the St. Louis McCay Pictorial Letterhead & Circular Medical College, where he graduated in 1872. In 1890, he was one Business Cards Lot of 3. Gorgeous of the founders of the Marion Sims-Beaumont College of Medicine illustrated letterhead for H.B. McCay, General in St. Louis. This school was not long-lived, but its legacy lives on Hardware, Mill and Mine Supplies, Stoves today. By 1903, St. Louis University had been without a medical and Ranges. Dateline Bozeman, Montana, school since 1854. Its original medical school was founded in 1836, Aug. 26th, 1899. Addressed to a merchant but was separated from the university due to pressure from the anti- in Helena requesting various supplies. Also immigrant, anti-Catholic Know-Nothing political party in the 1850s. comes with two silver-dollar-sized circular It was in 1903 that the Marion Sims Beaumont College became a part business cards. Nice trio! Est. $70-100 of St. Louis University. Dr. Hypes, a St. Clair County native, can be HWAC# 60058 considered one of the founders of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He remained on the faculty of school until his death in 1924. Lot# 3276 Butte, Montana 1941 [St. Clair County Historical Society facebook page] (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 60255 1941 Jackson St. Explosion Report and Map A six page report Lot# 3271 St. Louis, Missouri and detailed map of a natural 1884 Public School Library Life gas explosion on a Jackson Street Membership Paper Issued to Residence in Butte Montana. Believed Dr. B. M. Hypes. Signed by James to have been caused by a ruptured Richardson and (?). Vignette of Henry gas main that traveled through a Ames Hall in the public library. Dr. sewer vent and into the residence. Interesting Butte historical piece. Benjamin M. Hypes graduated from Est. $60-150 HWAC# 40834 McKendree University in 1866. He Lot# 3277 Butte, later attended Rush Medical College Montana 1880’s to early in Chicago, continuing his medical studies at the St. Louis Medical 1900’s Abstract of Title College, where he graduated in 1872. In 1890, he was one of the to part of Smith & founders of the Marion Sims-Beaumont College of Medicine in St. Shewe Addition, Butte Louis. This school was not long-lived, but its legacy lives on today. Montana This shows By 1903, St. Louis University had been without a medical school the described real estate since 1854. Its original medical school was founded in 1836, but was separated from the university due to pressure from the anti- situated in Silver Bow County, Montana & lists immigrant, anti-Catholic Know-Nothing political party in the 1850s. the lots and blocks therein. 31 pages and staple rust. Est. $100-300 It was in 1903 that the Marion Sims Beaumont College became a part of St. Louis University. Dr. Hypes, a St. Clair County native, can be HWAC# 50349 considered one of the founders of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He remained on the faculty of school until his death in 1924. [St. Clair County Historical Society facebook page] (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 60256 180 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3278 Butte, Montana Abstract of Lot# 3284 Butte, Montana Title, Butte Montana Absratct of title from Assortment of Vehicle Pictures, Butte Montana, c 18.86. Lot 550 on Gold Stickers, Receipts, Stickers and a Street. 97 pages, cover page is missing Patch Copper City Radio Club, Butte bottom portion. Est. $100-300 HWAC# MT. cloth patch. 5 stapled Gordon’s 50344 Jewelry receipts c. 1938. Stove Catalog from Butte Stove Repair Company, Butte Montana. Approx 20 copies of newspaper ads for Justrite mining lamps and vehicles.4 Butte, MT realtor business cards, 3 small Leskovar Lincoln-Mercury stickers. 6.75” x 4.75” flip book of Seasons Greetings with illustration of miners and some of them feature “potty Lot# 3279 Butte, Montana Abstract Of humor”. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 50331 Title, Hamilton Addition, Butte Montana Lot# 3285 Butte, Montana 10.75” x 8.5”. Abstract of Title To Part of Group Photo of “Bagdad Hamilton Addition to the City of Butt Montana. Shriners” in Butte A group MONTANA ABSTRACT AND TITLE INSURANCE photo of “Bagdad Shriners” in CO., 114 West Granite Street, Butte Montana. Butte Montana taken by Elite 120 pages. There is staple rust on the front and rear. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 50343 Studios. Early Shriner uniforms for this chapter of the fraternal organization that hosts events and runs multiple pediatric hospitals. 7.5” x 9.5” Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 40862 Lot# 3280 Butte, Montana 5 Plumbers Union Booklets 2 By Lot# 3286 Butte, Montana 2 Labor Laws and Rules of Local Union No. 41, Union Strike Pads 2 yellow colored Butte Montana, revised March, 1954. 1.25” x 2.25” pads of approx 25 sheets 3 Union member monthly dues stamp each. The pads proclaim Notice Workers! books, hardcover. 1935-1943. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 50258 / Stay Away from / Butte, Montana / Overcrowded Now. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 50337 Lot# 3281 Butte, Montana Corner of Park and Main Trolley Photograph (Butte, Montana) Photograph of the Trolley at Lot# 3287 Butte, Montana the corner of Park and Main St. in Butte Butte Montana Promo Montana. Done by Elite Photo Studios, 3.5”x 4.75” very good condition. Est. $60-120 Items Includes a 1905 HWAC# 40866 booklet with numerous photos, mining articles, several tourist color guides. An used cloth bumper sticker for Butte. Perhaps the highlight of this lot is a special booklet from The Lot# 3282 Butte, Montana Irrepressible Butte Montana Standard for Evel Booklet Irrepressible Butte. the richest City in Knievel Daze, July 31st the World. Unique, Healthy, and Enterprising. through August 2nd, 2003. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 50265 $900.00 Produced Annually for Each Inhabitant. Compliments of Passmore & Co., 25 West Granite St. Butte, Established 1899. Montana Is Our Lot# 3288 Dillon, Montana 1880, 1886 Field. Map and photos. Very worn condition. Est. Two BF White Montana billheads $60-120 HWAC# 40636 1) 1880. B. F. White, forwarding and commission merchant. Pay Henry Elling $85.95. Autosigned by White. For value received charge to account of DR Buford of Virginia City. 2) Sebree Ferris & White, forwarding and commission. 1886. To Lot# 3283 Butte, Montana 1890, 19021 Three Montana Sewage Elling, Knight & Buford. Both Mention the Utah & Northern Railroad. The Union Bonds 1) City of Butte. 1890. 15 Pacific Railroad entered Montana Territory coupons remaining, Gold & Wihte. via the Utah and Northern narrow gauge Excellent condition other than branch line in 1880. The newly platted folds. Hole cancelled, Bottom left town of Dillon, named for Utah and Northern president Sidney Dillon, corner ripped, Not tears or damage stood ready as a stopping point between Utah and the mining town at fold intersections. 2) 1900. 19 of Butte.Mayor B. F. White in 1906 secured a promise from the U&NR coupons reamining. Hole cancelled. No condition issues. 3) 1921. Hole cancelled. Excellent condition. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 41218 to build a new depot to replace the old, dingy one. (Potter Collection) Est. $60-150 HWAC# 56073 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 181

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3289 Fort Benton, Montana Letter Lot# 3293 Helena, Montana Helena, for T.C. Power & Bro. Military & Indian Montana Territory Deposit for a Traders, 1876 Office of T.C. Power & Bro., Gold Bar, 1866 Rare manuscript Freighters and Forwarding Merchants, document. Helena, MT June 29, 1866. Military and Indian Traders. Letter addressed First National Bank of Helena. John to post trader J,H. McKnight & Co. at Fort Gropper has deposited one bar of Shaw, Montana. Dateline Fort Benton, M.T., gold weighing 18.55 ounces (.740 March 26th, 1876. Letter asks them to send fine), valued at $257.50. Signed by the enclosed dispatch and to send the goods the cashier, T.H. Kleinschmidt. The First National Bank of Helena, down at the first opportunity. Folds, 8 x 10” Montana, organized by Samuel T. Hauser and Kleinschmidt earlier in T.C. Power was an influential military and 1866. The bank erected its own building in 1866 at the corner of Main Indian trader at Ft. Benton, Montana, and and Wall streets, near where Helena’s first gold strike had been made also ran a steamer company on the Missouri two years before. (Potter Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60136 River. He served in the United States Senate from January 2, 1890 to March 3, 1895, as one of the first two senators from Montana. (Potter Lot# 3294 Helena, Montana Letter to Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 60155 Ft. Shaw from Supt. of Indian Affairs, 1873, Montana Territory Rare. Letter Lot# 3290 Fort Benton, Montana written on official letterhead for the Office 1873-1876 T.C. Power & Bro, Indian Traders, Collection, Ft. Benton, of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Dateline Helena, M.T. (Montana Territory), MT Lot of 5 letters between two 1873. Addressed to J.H. McKnight at Fort post traders. All are on T.C. Power & Shaw. McKnight was a post trader. Message Bro., Military & Indian Traders, Fort inquires about the price and varieties Benton, letterhead and addressed of potatoes from McKnight or from the to McKnight & Co. at Fort Shaw, Blackfoot Agency. Signed by James Wright, Montana. Letters dated 1873-1876. Supt. Indians. Some stains. Ink is fading. Four are about business transactions Folds. (Potter Collection) Est. $80-120 and the last is a more personal HWAC# 60148 message between the two about a Lieutenant Bradly. T.C. Power was an influential military and Indian Lot# 3295 Helena, Montana 1905 trader at Ft. Benton, Montana, and also ran a steamer company on the Souvenir for Sands Bros. Co. in Helena Missouri River. He served in the United States Senate from January 2, 8.5” diameter circular souvenir (plate?) 1890 to March 3, 1895, as one of the first two senators from Montana. with woman with flowers in her hair. (Potter Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 60152 Back has label: “Souvenir of 1905 / Lot# 3291 Garneill, Montana c1895 Medal/Ribbon Compliments / of / Sands Bros. Co. / The Reliable Dry Goods House / Helena, Garneill Lodge, No. 47 Ribbon and Medal, Garneill Montana.” Spring-loaded stand(?) on Lodge, No. 47 K. of P. Garneill, Mont. Reverse: “In reverse. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 50646 Memoriam”. Est. $60-150 HWAC# 40628 Lot# 3296 Helena, Montana 1867- 83 5 First National Bank of Helena Checks 1) Nice vignette of woman with shovel and shield on left side and eagle on right side. Orange Lot# 3292 Helena, Montana 1866 adhesive R6c revenue stamp. 2) Jan. Deposit of “Gulch Gold Dust,” , 1871. Orange imprinted revenue Helena, Montana Territory stamp RN-C1. Endorsed on reverse by John Hotzman. 3) March, 1873. Manuscript Certificate of Deposit at Imprinted orange revenue stamp the First National Bank in Helena. RN-D1. Endorsed on reverse by C. E. Yosh. 4) May, 1878. Orange Dateline Helena, M.T., June 26, 1866. imprinted revenue stamp RN-G1. Cancelled. 5) July, 1883. Made out to S.W. Vorhees has deposited one Donnell, Lawson & Simpson, one of the six brokerage firms to fail in purse said to contain $800 in “gulch the Banking Panic of 1884.Orange imprinted revenue stamp RN-G1. gold dust.” Signed by S.T. Hauser as The tax on checks and drafts was not longer effective as of July 1, 1883, president of the bank. This is a great but people used up existing supplies of printed checks. Est. $100-300 early Montana banking and mining document! The bank had begun HWAC# 30706 only a few months before. 5.5 x 7.75” Rough edge, punch hole, some foxing. (Potter Collection) Est. $120-300 HWAC# 60177 Lot# 3297 Helena, Montana 1878 Letterhead for Overland Freight Line via Union Pacific & Utah Northern Railways Rare letterhead for the office of High Resolution Overland Freight Line via Union Pacific & Utah Northern Railways. Dateline Helena, Images of ALL LOTS Montana, November 23, 1878. Addressed to McKnight & Co. in Fort Shaw, Montana available online at Territory. Regarding a sack that they can forwarded by stage. Signed E.G. Maclay & Co. FHWAC.com Folds, pinholes. McKnight & Co. were post and Indian traders at Fort Shaw. (Potter Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 60147 182 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3298 Helena, Montana 1866-1881 Three Lot# 3303 Helena, Montana Different Territorial Helena Bank Exchanges/ Helena, MT Booklets Placer Hotel COD’s All issued pre-statehood. Nice variety. 1) and Arbuckle’s advertising items. Best is L. Hershfield illustrated draft with green Montana Deaconess School at Helena 2 cent revenue imprint (RN-B6). No. 2, issued showing students and grounds.163 1866 to be paid in current funds. Vignette of Infantry Journal. Helena Water prospector with his dog. 2) First National Bank System, Filter Plant Dedication, of Helena Certificate of Deposit. Dateline Helena, October 30, 1960 brochure. The M.T., February 24th, 1873. John Kennedy has Montana Food Distributor, June deposited $170. Signed by cashier Corbin. 3) 1952. Golden Canyon Days, Souvenir Banking House of L.H. Hershfield & Brother Booklet, July 1949. Souvenir booklet, Second of Exchange. Dated Oct. 22, 1881. Pay Golden Canyon Days, July 1949. $100 to Mrs. JH Wilson. Vignette at left mostly Est. $100-150 HWAC# 50273 covered by adhesive revenue stamp. (Potter Collection) Est. $120- 150 HWAC# 60109 Lot# 3304 Helena, Montana The Bain Wagon Trade Card 3.5” x 6” Lot# 3299 Helena, Montana 1954 trade card for The Bain Mountain and 1955 Two Helena, Montana Wagon. Stamped by BLACKFOOT Telephone Directories Both for CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY next territory served by The Mountain to an image of the wooden wagon. States Telephone & Telegraph Stamped BENSON-CARPENTER CO Company. 1) Winter 1954-55. 68 HELENA. - MONTANA. Est. $50-100 pages. 9 x 6” softcover. 2) Winter HWAC# 50312 1955-56. 48 pages. 11 x 9” softcover. Both have expected yellowing to Lot# 3305 Madison County, pages. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 60024 Montana Madison Co. Residential Photograph Photograph of a Lot# 3300 Helena, Montana 1879 residence in Madison County with Choice Color Illustrated Montana stables and select hand-colored Territory Billhead Montana Steam trees. View of the stables, backyard, Cracker Company, Helena and and mountains behind the house. Bozeman, manufacturers of Lockey’s Mounted to board. 5” x 7” Est. $60- Brand of Crackers and Hard Bread. 120 HWAC# 40857 Illustrated receipt for items received at the Helena office to be transported Lot# 3306 Miles City, Montana 1930’s Miles to the Bozeman office. Color vignette City Police Labor Letter AFL 5 Letters from of man operating a cracker making machine. Folds, clean. (Potter the great depression from the Miles City Collection) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 60124 Trades and Labor Council, associated with Lot# 3301 Helena, Montana 1888 the American Federation of Labor, to the City Council and Mayor regarding the police Helena Legal Documents 2 Legal activity of placing unemployed workers and documents from Helena Montana. job searchers on road chain-gangs. Signed and They are both territorial from April by 5 different labor unions and organizations of 1888 and hand written concerned including a “Vigilante 66”. Great depression with a payment of one thousand police-labor ephemera. Est. $100-300 HWAC# dollars for a debt owed, and the 40876 passing of a bill. Original territorial legal documents. Est. $60-120 Lot# 3307 Miles City, Montana HWAC# 40832 Miles City, Montana Archive 80+ Lot# 3302 Helena, Montana Helena pieces. Binder full of letterheads and correspondence to the city Montana Checks and Receipts 10 government of Miles City, Montana, The First National Bank of Butte loan as well as other Mile City documents. receipts c. 1920 with stamps. Approx c1906-1936. Many are addressed 25 bank checks from various banks in Montana and ND c. 1905-1963. Est. to either the mayor or city clerk. $100-300 HWAC# 50347 Subjects include: construction of a bridge; construction of a new channel in the Tongue River; early motor sales; need for additional postmen; installing a larger water storage tank; proposal for jail work; resignation of city attorney; transfer of a liquor license; 1906 police report; sidewalk improvements; unsanitary alleys; etc. A peak into small town municipal issues. Please inspect. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 50613 View High Resolution Images, Register, Place Bids, See Current Opening Bids Visit the online catalog at FHWAC.com Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 183

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3308 Missoula, Montana 1906 Lot# 3312 Red Lodge, Montana 1900-1910 Framed United States Supreme Court The City of Red Lodge Booklet Advertising Appointment Framed appointment booklet for Red Lodge in Carbon County of Joseph M Dixon as an attorney and Montana. Illustrated promotional piece for counselor of the Supreme Court of the the small town with pictures, advertisements United States. In 1902 and 1904 Dixon and information about Red Lodge Compiled won congressional races, and in 1907 by James T. Higgins. Sewn spine repair. the Montana legislature chose him excellent condition otherwise. Est. $80-200 for a U.S. Senate seat. He became an HWAC# 40463 ardent admirer of President Theodore Roosevelt, and joined the progressive wing of the party, fighting the conservatives. He unsuccessfully ran for reelection in 1912, but that year, he was the campaign manager for Roosevelt and chaired the Lot# 3313 Renova, Jefferson County, National Progressive Convention that nominated Roosevelt on the Montana 1906 Renova Postcard Great card! third-party Progressive Party (“Bull Moose”) ticket as the GOP split. Man sleeping in doghouse. Post marked Out of office, Dixon returned to Montana to look after his newspaper Renova, 1906. Post office open, 1906-1923. properties, and to battle the Amalgamated Copper Company, the Est. $50-100 HWAC# 38658 behemoth that dominated both political parties through its corrupt spending. He finally sold his newspapers, and they were taken over by Amalgamated. In 1920, Dixon ran for Governor of Montana, and, following farmer unrest that weakened the copper company, Dixon was carried by the national Republican landslide into office as governor, defeating Democratic nominee Burton K. Wheeler comfortably. Although Dixon had many reform proposals, he was unable to enact them because of the severe economic depression in Lot# 3314 Rondo, the state, and the systematic opposition of Anaconda Copper. In 1929 Flathead County, he was appointed First Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and served Montana 1907 in that position until 1933. In 1930, he was involved with a project to Pinkerton Detective develop water power on the Flathead Indian Reservation, and with Agency Reward it, a complex network of water rights for the Reservation. [National to Masked Train Governors Association / Wikipedia] Est. $200-500 HWAC# 41201 Robbers What a great piece. Two Lot# 3309 Philbrook, Montana masked men “... Benton & Barker Stage Co. secreted themselves Receipt, Philbrook, Montana on the tender of the Territory Rare! Dateline Philbrook, Oriental Limited, Great May 28, 1884. Pay $15.25 to G.J. Northern Railway Morrison for merchandise. Signed Company” on September 12, 1907. They “crawled over the tender by superintendent John Davis. To be into the engine cab and with revolver, ‘held up’ the engineer and paid by the Treasurer at Ft. Benton. fireman.” They blew up the safe in the express car, but found nothing Endorsed on reverse. 3.5 x 7.25” Very good condition. Philbrook was of value so they stole four packages of mail. Includes a description of short-lived town in Fergus County. Founded in 1881. Stage stop and the men. Reward was $6,000. Two full pages of amazing history. So, freight from Ft. Benton passed through. When the Great Northern did they get away with the $40,000 they stole. No! They lead robber, Railway came to Hobson, Montana in 1908, the post office at Philbrook George Frankhuaser was arrested and escaped and arrested and was moved and the town faded away. (Potter Collection) Est. $120- sentenced to life imprisonment. A few people claimed the reward. 200 HWAC# 60190 The court ordered that they did not fulfill any of the obligations to earn the reward. It did go further, so we are not sure how it ended! Lot# 3310 Philipsburg, Montana 1902-1906 Philipsburg, Montana [“The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 129”, p134]. Rip at folds and discoloration at edges. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 60968 Fire Ephemera Lot of 5. Includes: two pictorial receipts for the Philipsburg Fire Brigade No. 1, Lot# 3315 Stevensville, Montana 1909 Nice 1906; a 1902 pictorial draft for the Pine Creek Cancel on Stevensville Postcard same fire company; a 1905 Postal- Nice black and white photo of the Stevensville Telegraph-Cable Company billhead Hotel. Hand written notes on fronts include to the Philipsburg Fire Brigade; “parlor door” and “This used to be my and a 1905 receipt from the Rocky bedroom window.” The Pine Creek cancel Mountain Bell Telephone Co. to the (1904-1914) is a forwarding cancel. Sent fire company. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 60050 from Stevensville. Est. $50-75 HWAC# 40274 Lot# 3311 Poplar, Montana Brown Shoe Company Letter (1936) Illustrated lettersheet for Brown Shoe Company, datelined Basin, Wyoming, Aug. 3, 1936. Sent Lot# 3316 Virginia City, Montana to Ft. Peck Mercantile Co. in Poplar, MT. Letter Ledger for Livery & Feed Stable is about cancelling an order of house slippers. Ledger for Emil Hedrick, Dr., First page only. 11” x 8.5” Est. $60-100 Livery & Feed Stable. 14.25” x 9”. HWAC# 50636 Good condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 57835 184 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3317 VIrginia City, Montana Virginia City, Montana Stage & Lot# 3323 Express Line License Rare! Issued , Montana October 16th, 1893 to S.R. Buford Important & Co. of Virginia City, Montana to Montana Labor carry on the business of Stage & Collection Express. Signed by the state auditor, Includes 10 postal A.B. Cook. 5.25 x 7.5” Pinholes, light receipts/ working wear. Buford was a Montana pioneer cards. Approx businessman and arrived in Virginia 100 letters from City in 1865. (Potter Collection) State of Montana Est. $200-400 HWAC# 60182 Attorney General, State Forester, Lot# 3318 Virginia City, Montana Schulze House of Brothers Co. Saddlery Cover and Representatives, Billhead 1904 pictorial cover and billhead gubernatorial for harnesses billed to S.R. Buford in candidates, labor unions and various trade organizations.1938-1948. Virginia City, Montana. “Wholesale Harness, These documents are in the aftermath of major labor troubles before Saddlery, Leather & Findings. VC cancel on 1920. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 50277 cover. Est. $40-60 HWAC# 50423 Lot# 3324 , Montana 2 Montana Historical Books Vigilantes of Montana or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains by Prof. Thos. J. Dismdale. Mackinaws Down the Lot# 3319 Virginia City, Montana Mitchell Missouri by Glen Barrett. Est. $100- & Lewis Wagon Co. Pictorial Letterhead & 150 HWAC# 50520 Cover 1899 letter and cover from the Mitchell & Lewis Wagon Co. (Racine, Wisconsin) sent Lot# 3325 , Montana 5 Different Labor to S.R. Buford & Co. in Virginia City, Montana. Union Documents 2 x mine union brother Re: order of extra parts to be included “with release papers dated 1944. By laws and rules your car of wagons.” Choice Western imagery! of local union 41. Butte Mutual Labor Bureau Est. $100-200 HWAC# 50621 Recommendation Card dated 1922, has tape repairs. Due Book, International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths and Helpers dated 1917. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 50262 Lot# 3320 Virginia City, Montana Wagon Broadside Booklet Advertising broadside booklet and cover for the Commonwealth Lot# 3326 , Montana 7 Union Carriage Co., St. Louis, Missouri, Member Documents 4 pink working mailed to S.R. Buford in Virginia City, cards, local 175. Savings passbook Montana in 1905. Booklet has three The First National Bank of Dillon pages of fantastic illustrations of Montana, 1963-7967. Dues book different wagon models offered by United Brotherhood of Carpenters the company (11” x 17”). Est. $100-150 HWAC# 50432 and Joiners of America, unused. Lot# 3321 , Montana 2 Montana Engineer Constitution and by-laws of Montana State Council of Carpenters, 1959. Licenses Montana State Boiler Inspector’s Est. $100-200 HWAC# 50263 Certificate dated 1926. Montana Traction Engineer’s License dated 1927. Nice tractor Lot# 3327 , Montana 1957 Books of image. Both have some rear tape residue. Vigilantes of Montana, Anaconda Mine Lot Est. $50-80 HWAC# 50369 of 5 books 1)The Vigilantes of Montana by Prof. Thos. J. Dimsdale; embossed, leather bound, a reprint 1981 from 1866 edition by Time Life Books, has water damage in upper right corner; 2) “Uncle Dick” Wootton by Howard L. Conard, embossed, leather bound reprinted 1980 from the 1890 edition, nice condition 472 Lot# 3322 , Montana 2 Different pp; 3) Olmsted’s Texas Journey by Frederick Union Documents Official dues Law Olmsted, leather bound, embossed, card, International Brotherhood of reprinted 1981 from the 1857 first edition. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen Nice condition, 516 pp; 4) Anaconda by Isaac F. and Helpers. 1938-1939. Marcosson, 1957, cover is beginning to detach, 370 pp, extra copy of Constitution and By-laws, Butte this book included. 5.5” x 8.25” Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62011 Teamsters Union, Local 2. Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 50264 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 185

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3328 , Montana 1863 Lot# 3333 , Montana Montana Certificate of Alexander Education Booklets Included: Biennial M.Walker, Society of Reports, Chairman of the Board of Montana Pioneers Trustees and the Librarian of the State Beautiful Certificate Law Library, 1917-1918; University from Society of Montana of Montana President’s Report, 1898; Pioneers certifying that Biennial report of the Superintendent Alexander M. Walker of Public Instruction of Montana, 1938, arrived within the territory Helena; Montana Law Library Catalogue, now constituting the State 1898; A Plea for Fairness, Favoring Free of Montana on the 2nd day Textbooks for all School Children. Est. June, 1863, declared to be $100-200 HWAC# 40622 a member of the Society of Montana Pioneers. This Lot# 3334 , Montana is signed by Granville Montana Letterheads & Stuart, President. There Other Ephemera Lot of 12. is a gold seal at bottom Included: 1873 letterhead for left with buffalo on it. Henry Elling, Banker, Virginia There is a vignette with City; pictorial letterhead for oxen & carriages in a scene with Montana landscape. On Mat Board the Park Hotel, Great Falls, (not adhered) with plastic covers. If mats are shipped then additional 1890s; letter from CH Peck, shipping may apply. 15” x 12”. (Potter Collection) Est. $300-500 Red Bluff, 1890, re: box of silver; pictorial letterhead Lot# 3329 , Montana 1889 & 1907 for The Montana, Anaconda, Fabulous Pictorial Montana Wagon 1890s; pictorial billhead Documents Lot of three pieces. 1) for Clarke, Conrad & Curtin, Billhead for S.C. Ashby & Co., seller Helena, 1887, Auditor’s Office receipt attached; pictorial letterhead of The Mitchell Fram and Spring from the Territory of Montana Secretary’s Office, Helena, 1887, re: bill Wagons. Dateline Helena, M.T., Oct. due for compiling and editing the laws of Montana; pictorial letterhead 9th, 1889. Billed to Warmington in for the Helena & Frisco Mining Co., Helena/Gem, 1897; letterhead Virginia City. Vignettes of Mitchell for Charles Anceney Land & Live Stock Co., Salesvill, 190_; different and farm wagons. 2) Pictorial cover and letterhead for Mitchell & pictorial letterhead for The Montana, Anaconda, 1904; pictorial Lewis Co., Racine, Wisconsin. Billed in 1907 to Buford Mercantile letterhead for the Territory of Montana Auditor’s Office, Helena, Co., Virginia City, Montana. Letterhead has vignette of factory and 1888, re: office rent; 1883 license for military and Indian traders JH two vignettes of wagons. Cover has vignette of wagon. Est. $80-100 McKnight & Co. of Ft. Shaw; and an 1868 pictorial $100 Territory HWAC# 60025 of Montana bond with 5 coupons still attached. (Potter Collection) Est. $100-300 HWAC# 60153 Lot# 3330 , Montana Five Montana Souvenir Spoons Lot Lot# 3335 , Montana of five different. Includes: copper, 1871-1887 Montana War 5.75”, mining scene on bowl and Department Telegraphs handle; patriotic handle and (gold- Between Post Traders Lot of plated?) small Montana seal, 6”; 8. This is a nice group showing gold wash bowl, mining scene communication between the handle w/ “Montana”, approx 5.25”; post and Indian traders at Ft. Bath House, White Sulphur Springs, Shaw and Ft. Benton. 1) Four are engraved bowl, floral handle, 5.25”; sent from Fort Benton, 1871- and small with Judith Gap, Mont. engraved bowl, 4.5”. Est. $140-200 1884. Two are addressed to HWAC# 50415 post trader JH McKnight at Fort Shaw from fellow post & Indian Lot# 3331 , Montana 1868-1887 Group of traders the Power Brothers at Ft. Benton. A third is sent by McKnight. 2) Two are sent from Helena Montana Territorial Warrants Lot of 4. 1) to JH McKnight at Ft. Shaw, 1885 & 1886. Both are sent from TC Power Two different pictorial and colorful Territory of (who would go on to become a Montana senator). One describes a Montana warrants/bonds for $50 and $100, issued fair: Big Success. Over three thousand attendance yesterday. Same 1868. One has five coupons attached. Printed by today.” 3) Final two include: one sent from Sweetland in Ft. Shaw to JH Montana Democrat Print. 2) Two smaller pictorial McKnight, 1884; the other was sent from Miles City to the postmaster warrants from the Montana Territory, Auditor’s at Ft. Shaw, 1887. (Potter Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 60189 Office, Helena, 1887. Both are issued to James Sullivan, one for compilation of laws and the other for 500 blank licenses. 3.5 x 8.5” (Potter Lot# 3336 , Montana Pair of Collection) Est. $150-200 HWAC# 60158 Territorial Montana Receipts for Expressmen 1) 1884 license receipt Lot# 3332 , Montana c1920’s issued 1884 in Dillon to Utah & Hotel Montana Photograph Hotel Northern Railroad Expressman. 2) Montana photograph. Location is not 1889 license receipt for Omnibus & known. Dated by car in photo. One Expressman in Bozeman. 6.25” x 4” photo is pristine and sharp. The other Soiling Est. $50-100 HWAC# 50631 has a full length bend in it. Size 5 x 7”. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 35600 186 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3337 , Montana 1909 & 1915 Two Lot# 3343 Carson City, Nevada Anglo- Montana Ribbons 1) Silver Anniversary California Bank Gold Coin Receipts to Encampment W.R.C., Department of Montana, Bullion & Exchange Bank Two receipts Billings, April 15, 16, 17, 1909. Yellow cloth, 8” dated 1901 & 1908 from the Anglo-California x 2.25”. Vignette of badge. Fraying on edges. 2) Bank of San Francisco to the State Bank Second Annual Montana California Excursion, & Trust and Bullion & Exchange Bank of January 21, 1915, Union Pacific, Salt Lake Route. Carson City for gold coin. Est. $100-200 Red and blue font. Soiling and some fading. 7” x HWAC# 61048 2.25” Est. $50-100 HWAC# 50606 Lot# 3338 , Montana Western Lot# 3344 Carson City, Nevada Letterheads to Montana Lot of Bullion & Exchange Bank Archive about 15 misc. letterheads issued (Carson City, Nevada) Lot of 7. 1) to Montana merchants, 1906-1916. Six Ormsby County banking licenses Best piece is Home Lode Gold Mining issued to the Bullion & Exchange Bank Co. (Silver City, SD) to Butte, MT, 1889-1898. Five are for one month 1916 with map of claims on reverse. and the last is for 3 months. Signed Rest is all material addressed to Al by the County Treasurer, Auditor, Furstnow of Miles City (Saddlery) Sheriff, and Deputy Sheriff. Each is from merchants in Nebraska, Oregon, approx. 5.5 x 8” 2) 1901 property tax North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, and Texas. Please inspect. assessment document for the Bullion Est. $100-150 HWAC# 50430 & Exchange Bank. The Bullion & Exchange was originally the Carson Lot# 3339 , Nebraska 1865 Map City Savings Bank, which was incorporated in 1875. It became the of Nebraska, Dakota, Idaho & Bullion & Exchange (B&E) in 1882. It was restructured into the State Wyoming Double truck, engraved Bank and Trust Company in 1903, failing by 1907. It served the Carson & hand colored by Johnson. Gray and Comstock by providing financial services and brokering the sales border, colors are vivid. Slight .25” of mining stocks. It also acted as a clearing house for other banks in tear at bottom, middle, does not Nevada for bullion, coin, scrip, drafts, checks, bills of exchange and encroach on map. On Mat Board other valuables, with branches in Hawthorne, Tonopah, Goldfield and (not adhered) with plastic covers. Manhattan, Nevada. The B & E had an office inside the Carson City If mats are shipped then additional mint with the bank controlling the refinery operations after 1893. shipping may apply. 24” x 17.5”. (Potter Collection) Est. $150-200 HWAC# 60133 (Potter Collection) Est. $200-300 HWAC# 59603 Lot# 3345 Carson City, Nevada Bullion and Exchange Bank Lot# 3340 , Nebraska Maps of Certificate issued to Overton Issued Nebraska 3 Maps. 1) Nebraska to J. B.Overton 1899 # 57 9 shares, by Gray. 1873. Engraved and hand “one of the well-and favorably known colored. Approximately 17” x 27.” citizens of Virginia City, who has 2) Nebraska by County, 1883. been identified with the interests Graphics and lithographic color of this place for the past thirty-one by H.H. Hardesty. Produced by years. He was born in Alleghany county, New York, April 13, 1824. In Rand, McNally. Approximately 21” 1849 he joined the argonauts bound for California, making the trip x 14.5.” 3) Nebraska by County, around Cape Horn, his voyage being taken on the bark Griffin from 1884. Cartography and color by lithography by Geo. Cram. Chicago. New York to San Francisco. He reached the Golden state safely and Approximately 22.25” x 14.5.” (Potter Collection) Est. $250-400 went immediately to the gold diggings at Weaverville, made plenty of HWAC# 63205 money, and in the free-hearted and free-handed manner of the time, Lot# 3341 Boulder City, Nevada spent it. but had become well enough established by 1853 to start a Boulder City Postcard Collection store at Rich Bar, on the middle fork of the Feather river. He was very successful in this venture, and in 1866 built a sawmill in Onion Valley. All of Boulder Dam and Lake Mead. By 1868 he was looked upon with so much public esteem that he was One RPC of Lake Mead. One Frasher elected county clerk of Plumas county, and filled that office for four of the Original site of Boulder Dam. years, returning then to San Francisco, where he lived three years, One Union Pacific card. Series of eight doing a brokerage business with a partner. In 1871 he came to Virginia Carpenter Paper COmpany cards (two City to take charge of the construction of the Virginia City and Gold dups). Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62230 Hill water works, and ever since has had charge of this company’s affairs.The water works system of this company is what is known as a gravity system, and crosses Washoe valley in three twelve-inch pipes. The water is noted for its purity. The original company contained Lot# 3342 Bullfrog, Nevada such capitalists as Mackey, Fair and others, and the plant has never Unused Bullfrog Bank & Trust changed hands, a rather remarkable circumstance.” from http:// Co. Checkbook 190-. Unused blue genealogytrails.com. Signed by Richard Kirman, future governor of checks and deposit slips in bound Nevada. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 52670 checkbook. Dateline Beatty, Nev. Bullfrog Bank & Trust Company. Approx. 25 checks. 2.5 x 7” Est. $50- 100 HWAC# 60001 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 187

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3346 Carson City, Nevada Important Lot# 3350 Elko Letter Related to the Corbett Fitzsimmons County, Nevada Fight 1902 letter written on Russ House Nicely Framed letterhead (San Francisco) to the Bullion & Large Elko County Exchange Bank. Message is from Carson City Map 8 x 24” map saloon owner Al Livingston: “I hereby notify you (28 x 32” framed) of that I have placed certified checks to the amount Elko County. Drawn of $1,000 in the hands of Mr. Harry Corbett as by draughtsman a guarantee of pulling off a glove contest to a William P Wright. finish in July next and in Nevada.” Harry was Wright appears in the brother of James “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, Federal records who was defeated in the famous 1897 boxing as early as 1872 match with Robert Fitzsimmons. Al Livingston as a draughtsman. was a tobacco merchant in Genoa in 1861 before becoming proprietor This map shows of the Ozark Saloon in Carson City. He was one of the chief organizers the Western Pacific of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight. In 1899, he was elected to the state railroad (making senate. In 1903, the Nevada legislature passed laws requiring a $1000 it c1908 or later), fee from anyone promoting boxing events outside the state. A new Southern Pacific and law also required that all boxing matches be sponsored by a licensed Northern Nevada. Stops along the Southern Pacific are named. Also athletic club. In 1905, Livingston was elected first President of the named are some creeks, lakes, hot springs, valleys, etc. Towns listed Reno Athletic Club. It had been hastily organized to sponsor a contest include Charstown, Roland, Aura, Bullion, Bews, Welland, Gold Creek, between Marvin Hart and Jack Root, contenders for the heavyweight etc. All-in-all excellent condition. Est. $700-2000 HWAC# 48439 championship. The event attracted four thousand spectators and was a memorable success. Livingston died in 1908. 8.25 x 5.25” Folds. Lot# 3351 Ely, Nevada Bank Club Opening Est. $50-100 HWAC# 60075 Night Menus 1987 menus with a photo of opening night and an article on the first train Lot# 3347 Carson River, Nevada into Ely. Enjoy your shrimp for $8.45. Some 1879 Two Carson River Related staining. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 50871 Items 1) 1879 billhead from the Union Iron Works of San Francisco to the California Mill. 14 x 50” screens. Total of $113.75 worth. 2) Stereoview of a tarantula from the Wadkins New Series. TItled “Tarantula, Carson River Pet.” Est. $50-100 HWAC# 58300 Lot# 3352 Ely, Nevada Ely, Lot# 3348 Dayton, Nevada Antique Oak NV Framed Musical Napkin Recliner found in This 12.5” x 8.75” black framed Dayton An antique oak cocktail napkins from Hotel recliner found in Dayton. Nevada in Ely Nevada and It has been in the same pictures a burro in cowboy attire family for over fifty shooting 2 pistols. The napkin years. No maker shown. is autographed by a band called Lion heads on the ends Diamond Lil featuring Sam “25” of the arm restss, with 0” Wiley - piano, Dave W??? claw feet on wooden Banjo and Joe McCaffrey- drums? rollers. Gingerbread Est. $50-100 HWAC# 51052 on front lower panels. The padding is modern Lot# 3353 Eureka, Nevada 1875 & made by an Osage Indian 1881 Two Different Billheads for the in Albuquerque. The original padding was stuffed with straw. 32” Eureka Daily Sentinel 1) Very attractive deep front to back, 40” tall. Arm restss are 4.75” wide at their widest. 1875 color billhead for Eureka Daily Wrought iron stops (4) for the copper recliner bar, classic mid to Sentinel, Dennis and Cassidy proprietors. late nineteenth century American. Seven round dowel-style carved Bare-breasted allegorical woman and supports for the arms on each side. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 52065 locomotive vignettes. Issued to the Knights of Pythias. Some fading of the ink. Lot# 3349 Elko, Nevada 3 Different Elko, 2) 1881 billhead for Cassidy & Skillman, NV Key Fobs Copper plastic STOCKMEN’S Eureka Daily and Weekly Sentinel. Billed MOTOR HOTEL ELKO, NEVADA 89801 2.5” to the Eureka Lodge. Red print. (Potter x 1.25”. Green plastic ELKO HOTEL, ELKO, Collection) Est. $60-100 HWAC# 60117 NEVADA 3.5” X 1.5”. Compressed material Lot# 3354 Fort Ruby, Nevada Two RANCH INN RENO, NEVADA 3.5” X 1.75”. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 51442 POD Buttons found in the Fort Ruby area These were found by one of Northern Nevada’s most prolific diggers. “POD” stands for Post Office Department. Both are pictorial: Pony Express and walking mailman. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 48115 188 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3355 Gold Hill, Nevada Gold Hill, Lot# 3360 Las Vegas, Nevada 5 Las Nevada Territory Wells Fargo COD Plus Rare Vegas Hotel Key Cards including Telegraph Two Gold Hill items. 1) Wells, Fargo & Star Trek The Star Trek The Co. green certificate of deposit. Dateline Gold Hill, Experience key card is from the Las N.T., April 11, 1863. William Hess has deposited Vegas Hilton. The event was held $700. Pen cancelled. 5 cent IR adhesive stamp. 2) there from 1998 to 2008, the date Central Pacific Division of the Atlantic & Pacific of this card is unknown.There are 3 Telegraph Co. telegraph message dated May cards from the Flamingo Hilton and 4th, 1877 from San Francisco to Jas. Hay Smith 1 card from the Antique & Classic Auto Collection, Imperial Hotel. in Gold Hill. Message is in code. Likely relating Est. $50-80 HWAC# 49202 to a mining stock sale. (Potter Collection) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 60134 Lot# 3361 Metropolis, Nevada 1916 Metropolis Blue Print Plat Map Creating Lot# 3356 Goldfield, Nevada the town of Metropolis was the project of Goldfield Postcard Collection an eastern businessman, Harry L. Pierce. Wide range of RPC’s, black and white He purchased 40,000 acres of desert land reprints, and color postcards. Includes in 1910 and hired a respected Salt Lake City many mining scenes, prospectors, contractor, P. J. “Pat” Moran, to build a dam on working in the mines, Florence Mine, Bishop Creek. Once the dam was complete, Combination Mine, Mohawk Mine, the Company stepped up its promotional Red Top and Goldfield Consolidated. campaign. In an attempt to demonstrate permanence, the Company Also a Faro game, Goldfield Hotel built the amusement hall, a post office, a school, a train depot, and a lobby, Hippodrome, T&G Depot on a magnificent modern hotel, complete with an electric generator, central busy day, mining and stock exchange, heating, and hot and cold running water in every room. A railroad spur overviews, church, etc. Est. $50-100 was extended to the town site, and regular passenger service began HWAC# 62232 in 1912. The population grew to nearly 700. Superficially the town seemed a success, but it faced serious problems. Pierce had failed Lot# 3357 Goldfield, Nevada Two Goldfield to obtain water rights to Bishop Creek. Because residents could not Postcards One RPC of Eagles Drum corps, irrigate, many tried dry-farming wheat without lasting success. Lower June, 2-1911, Goldfield Nevada. The other, rainfall and Mormon crickets ended the experiment. Pierce declared hand colored image of “a bonanza Lease on bankruptcy in 1920. There can be no doubt this map was used to the Mohawk, Goldfield, Nevada. Both cards lure new residents to this soon-to-be extinct city! Framed 31.5 x 31.5 were mailed to Dayton, Nevada. Est. $50-80 inches. Dated October 6, 1916. Show the park, railroad line, school, HWAC# 41667 etc. major creasing and staining on right. Still a great historic piece. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 47334 Lot# 3362 Pactolus, Nevada 1902 Rare Pactolus Datelined Lettersheet Letter from Pactolus, Nevada, dated 1902 to The State Bank and Trust Company, Lot# 3358 Goldfield, Nevada Two Carson Nevada. 8.5” x 10” Est. $50-100 HWAC# 56775 Locks and Keys from Montezuma Club, Goldfield NV Two locks with keys and key tags from the Montezuma club at Goldfield Nevada. These key tags and locks must’ve been removed when the Montezuma Lot# 3363 Rawhide, Nevada High club was demolished. The plastic key tags have the return postage Quality Reprint of Souvenir guarantee, and are for rooms 13 and 15. The keytags themselves Rawhide Booklet c.1960 high are marvelous, but to have the original locks and keys with them is quality reprint of “Souvenir of something we haven’t seen before and should be prized by collectors. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 62169 Rawhide: Nevada’s Great Gold Camp.” Originally published in 1908 by and Lot# 3359 Humboldt Sink, Nevada 1876 featuring photographs from NE Johnson. Pages not numbered, but Letter from Murphy’s Station, Humboldt many high quality black and white photographs of the camp and a Sink, Nevada One page letter written Nov. fold-out panorama in the back. Green softcover, staple binding. 8 x 10.5” Though not a 1908 copy, the pictures are the same and worthy of 13th, 1876. Location is described at the top: “Murphy’s Old Station (illegible) Sink a Nevada collector’s library. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 60078 Humboldt 37 miles from Ragtown.” Message Lot# 3364 Rawhide, Nevada Rawhide reads: “We camped here last night and go eight Ephemera Group (Booklet, Postcard, miles today to the last water and remain until Photographs) Lot of 4. 1) Souvenir Views tomorrow noon then drive out about half way of Rawhide: Ned Johnson’s photographs. and through to Ragtown the next afternoon...” Great photographs: city, mines, people, Signed by L.R. Nithington (?). Folds. 6.5 x 5” buildings etc. First tent, first hotel According to the Third Biennial Report of the (tent), Tex Rickard’s famous drill, EARLY Nevada Historical Society (1913): “Murphy’s photographs of the town, first saloon Murphy’s Station which is evidently the same as Murphy and Johnson’s (again a tent), Royal Tiger Mine, First Bank Station was located 9 miles from the slough of the Humboldt and 1 of Rawhide, Last Chance Mine, Grutt Hill mile from the foot of Humboldt Lake. On the old 1878 map it is shown Lease , etc. Before the great Rawhide fire. just north of Humboldt Sink. It received its name from the proprietor 2) Three other pieces: 8x10 photograph of the station.” Humboldt Sink, also known as the Forty Mile Desert, of early Rawhide ghost town status, was a famous & dreaded part of the journey to the California gold fields. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 60065 early Rawhide ghost town postcard clearly showing the Wonder Lumber Company, and unused Rawhide Stocks cover. Est. $120-300 HWAC# 42101 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 189

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3365 Reno, Nevada 2 Different Lot# 3372 Tonopah, Nevada Reno, NV Key Fobs 2 black 3.5” Tonopah Advertising & Map Color x 1.75” key fobs. Virginia Hotel Map of Nevada (tearing at right side) Reno, Nevada, reverse IN RENO IT’S misc. letters, checks, bills. Interesting HAROLDS CLUB. Colonial Motor Inn, dealer lot. Est. $90-150 HWAC# 61238 Reno, Nevada, reverse Let yourself go! HAROLDS CLUB RENO Est. $60- 100 HWAC# 51441 Lot# 3373 Tonopah, Nevada Lot# 3366 Reno, Nevada 3 Reno, NV Key Tonopah Postcard Collection Lot Fobs Grand Hotel 4.75” x 2.25” key fob with of twenty-three. Some nice and key. Motel 500 with key. Sutro Motel with unusual reprints of the early days of key. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 51433 Goldfield: the original Mizpah, July 4 1913, crowded street, different depot view, entire 1902 population, overviewsmining, Jim Butler, freight team, etc. Fourteen black & white, Black & white reprints, and RPCs. Est. $70-120 HWAC# 62233 Lot# 3367 Reno, Nevada Dr. Charles Lot# 3374 , Nevada 1867-1893 O Gasho Glasses and Case 1) Case is in Adolph Sutro Collection Lot of 5 very nice condition. Hard plastic material. items related to Adolph Sutro and Inside in gold color is “Dr. Chas. O. Gasho / the Sutro Tunnel on the Comstock. Optometrist / Reno - Nevada.” 2) Circular 1) Rare 1888 receipt datelined Sutro, glasses of this time period?. 3) Pink cleaning Nev. for the Lucille Lodge of the cloth with same advertisement on it. AOUW. Certifies Thos. Curran as a Est. $80-120 HWAC# 48127 member of the lodge. Blue paper with some soiling. Documents from Sutro, Nevada are scarce. 2) $1,000 Bond for the Comstock Tunnel Company, Lot# 3368 Reno, Nevada George the later name for the Sutro Tunnel. Issued 1889, signed by Theodore Wingfield Promissory Note, 1920 Sutro. Punch cancelled, many coupons remaining. 3) 1872 Senate Report on the Sutro Tunnel. 66pp. Disbound. Toning. 4) Letterpess Promissory note from George Wingfield copy of a letter sent on Sutro Tunnel Co. letterhead from Washington for $15,075 to A. Sage. Dateline Reno, DC by Sutro to John Sherman, 1867, pitching the riches of Nevada and Nevada April 22, 1920. 8% per annum. for Sherman to read a pamphlet. Missing upper left corner, rips, tape Three $1 and one 2 cent documentary repairs. 5) Wells Fargo San Francisco check signed by Adolph Sutro stamps. Reverse shows two payments. in 1893. This was two years before he became SF mayor after selling Wingfield made his fortune in Tonopah and Goldfield before dominating the Nevada banking industry. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 60033 out on the waning Comstock. Check has old tape repairs. (Potter Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 60125 Lot# 3369 Reno, Nevada Reno / Lot# 3375 Virginia City, Nevada American American Legion FOB Bronze colored Exchange Hotel Business Card Corner of “The Biggest Little City in the World.” Washington & E Street. That would have been Manufactured by the Greendcuck right across from the V&T train depot. S. A. Miller Company out of Chicago. 1.5”. Est. $50- was the proprietor. “Rooms Single or en Suite 100 HWAC# 48400 / First-class board.” The 1875 V&T Directory lists Miller and James McCready as proprietors Lot# 3370 Reno, Nevada Reno Hot of the Randolph House in Virginia City. Good Springs Key Fob Reno Hot Springs, condition. Slight edge issues. V&T Timetable on Reno,NV, red plastic key fob. Swim for reverse shows light staining. Overall in very nice health, largest mineral pool in America. condition. Printed by Brown & Mahanny’s Print, Est. $50-100 HWAC# 51434 Virginia, Nevada. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 62204 Lot# 3376 Virginia City, Nevada Comstock Ephemera Group Lot of Lot# 3371 Reno, Nevada 2003 Reno, NV 23. Includes: 1887 Gold Hill letter to TR Hofer; two assessment receipts City Centennial Poster Reno, NV Centennial for the Utah Silver Mining Co., 1888; poster. Approx 21” x 22”. 3 horses in front of eight Bank of California deposit slips, Reno skyline and Sierra Nevada Mountains. Small tack holes in 4 corners. Est. $50-100 1893; two Bank of California debit HWAC# 60806 slips, 1903; Carson City Savings Bank receipt for sale of Belcher mining stock, 1878; 1884 amendment to a legal complaint against the Como Eureka Gold & Silver Mining Company; 1962 tourist newspaper, Virginia City Chronicle; Nevada Centennial cover; letter from mining superintendent Gorham re: check; and misc. banking documents. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 60049 190 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3377 Virginia City, Nevada Three Lot# 3381 Virginia City, Different Virginia City, Nevada Licenses Nevada Silver Flatware Nine (Wagon, Gambling, Engineer) All three are pieces that came with the rare. 1) 1877 City License, Vehicle (wagon) 1st M. M. Frederick, Eaves & Co., Class. Issued to RH McDonald for 3 months and Nye silver flatware from starting January 1877. Signed by the mayor, Virginia City. These pieces are city clerk, and city tax collector. Printed by NOT MARKED. Two pieces Enterprise Print. Folds, small stain on reverse. are berry serving spoons, a 4 x 9” 2) 1923 license to operate 3 slot third is a large butter knife, machines, issued to Johnson & Werner. Toning and six are “pearl” handled and missing lower right corner. 4 x 9.75” knives. All may date to the 3) Engineer’s License to operate Stationary early 1870’s. Very nice group, Engines, Boilers, and Steam Hoists issued to please inspect. Est. $350- H.F. Wooley on June 30, 1905. Signed by three members of the Board of 900 HWAC# 49154 County Commissioners of Storey County, Nevada. Folds, some soiling. T. Wooley operated the Gold Hill Boiler Works in the 1870s(possibly Lot# 3382 Virginia City, Nevada Ultra Rare his father?). 5 x 8” (Potter Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 60130 Nye & Co. Silver Pieces, c1865-1866 Nye may have gotten started in Sacramento in the Lot# 3378 Virginia City, Nevada late 1850’s. By 1860 he was in partnership Comstock Lode Books (6) Legends with W.T. Eaves. The pair appeared to have of the Comstock Lode by Beebe, The moved to Virginia City shortly after. Prior to History of the Comstock Lode 1850- discovery of these two pieces, there were only 1920 by Smith, Silver Kings by Lewis, three Nye & Co. pieces known to the advanced Virginia and Truckee by Beebe, A Nevada silver collectors. There are thus now History of the Comstock Silver Lode only five Nye & Co. pieces known. Here are a by De Quille, The Saga of the Comstock large dinner fork and a serving spade for fowl, Lode by Lyman (Potter Collection) which is fancily engraved on the spade face. Est. $90-130 HWAC# 63135 Both are Gorham pattern. The relationship of this Nye to the Nevada Territorial Governor is unknown. Est. $800-2000 HWAC# 49153 Lot# 3379 Virginia City, Nevada Nevada Real Photo Postcards Group of approximately 17 real photo postcards. About half of these are from the normal suite of relatively common photo postcard and the other half are not common and includes view of the Union Mine hoisting house, the cages at the C&C shaft, two cards regarding the Virginia City premier, and unusual view of the north part of town, a view of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad in winter, and a view of Geiger Grade in the very very early days long before it was paved. A nice group including some rare views. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 571517 Lot# 3380 Virginia City, Nevada M.M. Fredrick Silver Chalice This unique and rare lot offers a silver chalice from historical Virginia City Nevada. The piece Lot# 3383 , Nevada 1871 Nevada 1871 Directory: Storey, Ormsby, measures 6 1/2 inches in height, with Washoe, and Lyons Five copies listed as known in Quibedeux. a cup opening of 3 inches. It is stamped “Storey, Ormsby, Washoe & Lyon Counties Directory, Including the MM Fredrick on the bottom and is Cities and Towns of Virginia City, Gold Hill, Carson City, Dayton, Silver quite possibly the best example of the City, Empire City, Washoe City, Reno, Wadsworth, Crystal Peak, Ophir, silversmith craft in Virginia City. etc., for 1871-72, Containing the Names, Business and Location According to the Virginia City directory, of Merchants, Miners, Farmers, Manufacturers, Professional Men, the company was listed as watch makers Book-keepers, Salesmen, Clerks, and all Adult Male Citizens of the and jewelers. M. M. Fredrick took over the County. Also, Railroads, Stage Lines, Corporations, Companies, Mills, business and began using his own name Schools, Churches, etc. Together with a Sketch of the Cities and Towns in 1872, calling himself a manufacturing Mentioned Above. Complete General and Business Directory of the jeweler. The business made it through the Residents of Storey, Ormsby, Washoe, and Lyon Counties.” This copy fire of 1875. By 1877 Fredrick was billed has a Silver City postal cancel for October 31 and October 24 on the as the Nevada Jewelry Manufactory, as first few pages. Ads throughout on different colored paper.Organized listed on his billheads and in the Bishop`s by county, not city, and not alphabetically (Storey comes first). Directory of Virginia City and surrounds Virginia City has no separate business directory, but rather lists each in 1878. Meanwhile, Fredrick`s business was doing so well that he resident with his job, but not necessarily the employer. Fantastic ads opened two other businesses. The M. M. Fredrick House, a lodging interspersed. Condition: Front and back boards are warped and front establishment on the north east corner of Union and C Streets, was and back pages show signs of water damaged. Back cover has issues opened about 1876 and run by his son, M. M. Fredrick, Jr. He also ran (please see photo). All pages are firmly attached and ! Crocker and an auction business in 1876 [Ref: 1876 Langley Pacific Coast Business Company, Sacramento, 1871. Est. $2500-4000 HWAC# 46067 Directory]. By 1883, Fredrick was known as the Pioneer Watch Maker, still located at the old shop address, 36 South C. His store and business was then twenty years old [Ref: McKenney`s Oregon State Directory for 1883]. Est. $2000-5000 HWAC# 571827 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 191

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3384 Virginia City, Nevada 1875- Lot# 3388 Virginia City, Nevada 1910 Virginia & Gold Hill Water Signed and Framed Bonanza Company Billhead Collection Lot of 13 Promo Photo 8” x 10” b/w Bonanza billheads, most issued 1875-1876 and Promo photo signed by Michael one issued 1910. Billed for water rents Landon, Lorne Green, Pernell and various supplies purchased from Roberts and Dan Blocker. Photo Virginia City and Gold Hill merchants. A has some creasing. Est. $100-150 variety of billhead styles. Good condition. HWAC# 61376 The Virginia & Gold Hill Water Company was incorporated in the early 1860s, a consolidation of the Virginia Water Co. and Gold Hill Water Co. Finding safe, Lot# 3389 Washoe County, Nevada Official Postmasters’ Account & good tasting drinking water on Mount Davidson was an early problem for the Comstock miners. It wasn’t Record Book, Washoe, NV 1913 For the Postoffice at Washoe, County until this company was reincorporated in 1871 and purchased by of Washoe, State of Nevada. Includes W.S. Hobart and the Bonanza Firm (Fair, Mackay, Flood, O’Brien) that Daily Record of Cancellations and a stable water source was found and exploited. The new owners had Sales of Postage Stamps, Stamped a plan to bring water from the Hobart Creek and Marlette Reservoir Envelopes, Postal Cards. Entries area 1,500 feet above Lake Tahoe. They hired Hermann Schussler, a beginning June 1913. Seventeen noted hydraulic engineer, who constructed a pipe line from Marlette down to the Washoe Valley and back up the other side to Virginia City pages used. Chipping, toning, binding in a reverse siphon process. This required a pipe line 7 miles long separating. 13 x 8.25” Est. $100-150 and 11.5 inches in diameter. The water pressure exceeded 200psi. HWAC# 60013 The pipeline was completed July 25, 1873. When the water started Lot# 3390 White Pine, Nevada White flowing, residents could trace the progress of the flow by the sound Pine, NV Books (4) Treasure hill by of the blow-off valves opening to release trapped air. Virginia City Jackson. Growing Up in a Company Town journalist Dan DeQuille wrote: “Compared with what was heard when by Elliot. Nevada Northern Railway. these cocks blew off, the blowing of a whale was a mere whisper.”It Romancing Nevada’s Past by Hall. transported two million gallons a day. By 1887, two more pipelines Est. $80-100 HWAC# 62123 had been laid to supply water to the Comstock. The Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company was purchased by Storey County over 100 years later. It is still providing water to citizens of Virginia City. (Potter Collection) Est. $150-300 HWAC# 60122 Lot# 3385 Virginia City, Nevada Virginia City & Gold Hill Ephemera (Wells Fargo, Mining, Banking) Lot# 3391 White Pine County, Nevada 1910 White Lot of 5. 1) Best is Wells Fargo & Co. Pine County Political Advertising Lists candidates certificate of deposit from Gold Hill, running for office, inspectors of elections, and Nevada Territory, June 26, 1863, polling places. Pictorial of H. O. (“Tex”) Hall for William A White. White is listed as sheriff! Interesting Nevada political piece. 20 X 12” a clerk at the Golden Eagle Hotel in Framed. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 48815 Gold Hill (1864 Collins directory). 2) Bank of California Second of Exchange, 1888, for 28 pounds sterling. Signed by JW Eckley. 3) 1881 San Francisco Assessment form for the Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company. 4) Two stock certificates: Mexican Gold & Silver Mining Company (issued and punch cancelled 1919) and an unissued later Gould & Curry. (Potter Collection) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 60128 Lot# 3392 , Nevada 1892 California Lot# 3386 Virginia City, Nevada & Nevada Stage Company Virginia City, NV Leather Business Letterheads You don’t see a ton of paper from this company. Lot of Card Holder Black leather folding 2 different style letterheads, both business card holder from G. E. written in Salt Lake City in 1892 and Getchel, Drugs and Jewelry, 20-22 addressed to TR Hofer at the Bullion South C. St., Virginia City, Nevada. & Exchange Bank in Carson City re: Approx 4.5” x 6”. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 62456 warrants. Signed by VH Pease. 8.25 x 5.5” Information on this stage was very hard to find. However, V.H. Pease Lot# 3387 Virginia City, Nevada 1877 Virginia City, NV Water Bond was also the general manager of the Nevada Stage Company which operated in California and offered trips to Yosemite in the 1880s $1000 Gold Coin water bond from via Sonora, Columbia, Milton and Chinese Camp. It is likely that the Virginia City, NV, #54. Issued January California & Nevada Stage Company is the later incarnation. (Potter 1, 1877 to Sutro and Co. Mayor and clerk signatures are punched. Est. Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 60118 $100-300 HWAC# 61358 192 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3393 , Nevada C. C. Higgins Lot# 3397 , Nevada Nevada Knights Original Manuscripts about Templar Calling Cards Lot of 2. 1) De Nevada Desert Life Includes The Witt Clinton Commandery No. 1 card for Roughneck( with notes on Reno Geo. Fred. Ford of Carson City, Nevada. Commercial Club paper), Katie of Ford was a bookkeeper according to Desolate Springs (returned from the 1880 census. He served in the Civil Everybody’s Magazine), The Three War. He died in 1898. 2) Commandery Lost Buttes (rewritten and published No. 2 card for O.G. Barlow of Eureka, in Reno Gazette), two copies of Nevada. Both cards are pre-1900 and That Cuss the Burro, Mystery of the colorful. (Potter Collection) Est. $60-100 Grapevines, and Too Much Argument. HWAC# 60000 Some of these may have never been published before!Higgins was living in Reno at 437 Granite Street Lot# 3398 , Nevada Reno & when these were written, but had spent time at some the the later Virginia City Photographs Man mining camps. He had a ranch outside Reno and was into real estate. posing with a hat and cane by Also eight 1932 stories written for the Reno Gazette about ‘Old Bill’ in Rifeinberg & Dowe, Reno, NV. Lady in some sort of serial form with many parts missing it seems. From the a hat and gloves posing outdoors by personal collection of Hugh Shamberger. Most Photos identified by/for Beals of Virginia City, NV. Est. $40- Hugh on the front or the back. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 49968 80 HWAC# 62463 Lot# 3394 , Nevada 1886-1906 Famous Nevadans on Documents Lot of 5 documents. Includes: 1) 1898 Carson City check charged to William Lot# 3399 , Nevada c1909 Nevada M. Stewart plus an 1886 bullion Postal History Lot Six Nevada purchase slip by Stewart. Stewart Postmarks on Postcards. Two R-4 was a prominent mining lawyer in Fairview (1909 and 1908), one strong the early days of the Comstock Lode 1908 Goldfield, One weaker 1908 and then went on to be a Nevada Millers sent to Leeds England, one senator from 1865-1875. 2) Montana- 1967 Gold Point, one 1908 Smith. Tonopah Mining Co. letterhead dated Est. $50-80 HWAC# 62228 Jan. 8th, 1905 and addressed to Mr. Geo. Wingfield. George Wingfield made his fortune in Tonopah and Goldfield before dominating the Nevada banking industry. 3) Bank of Nevada Interest Statement for Theo. Winters, 1891. Winters was an early arrival to Nevada and was Lot# 3400 , Nevada NE Johnson a prominent land owner (Winters Ranch) and unsuccessful candidate Nevada Photo Postcard Set 27 for governor. 4) 1889 Bullion & Exchange Bank memo to Richard photo postcard set, later reprints of Kirman from Richard Kirman. Kirman was a wealth banker and the NE Johnson photographs. Printed father to the future 17th governor of Nevada. 5) State Bank & Trust by Lawrence Publishing Co. All Co. (Tonopah, 1906) slip to Vail Pittman. Vail Pittman went on to unmailed and come with the original become the 19th governor of Nevada and was the brother of Nevada envelope. Views of Rawhide, Rhyolite, senator Key Pittman. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 60005 Rochester, Indian Springs, Las Vegas, Lot# 3395 , Nevada Hard to Goldfield, Weepah, Black Canyon, and Angels Camp. A fraction of the Find Nevada History Books (5) cost of original Johnson photos. Neat Nevada Military Place Names of set! Postcards in great condition; envelope has tears. Est. $50-100 the Indian Wars and Civil War by HWAC# 60045 Rathbugen,Pahute Indian Legends by Palmer, Desert Challenge by Lillard, Lot# 3401 , Nevada Central As I Remember Them by Goodwin, My Nevada Mining Camp Postcards Adventures with Your Money by Rice- Lot of fourteen. Six RPCS of Eureka sealed Est. $100-150 HWAC# 62119 (St James Church, Ruby Hill Mine, Old Fire Station, Downtown, Opera House, Court House). Three Austin black & white reprints (in the snow, Lot# 3396 , Nevada Ludwig Mercantile and two Mules relief). Three black Merchants Coupons & Cottonwood Cafe and white of Belmont (court house Coupon Rare paper coupons from Ludwig and overview) and AUstin (Stokes Mercantile Co. in Nevada Terr. 5 pink 5 cents, Castle). One stamped Fairview 4 blue 10 cents, 5 cream 25 cents with stain. postcard with a Fairview postmark. Unused paper coupon from Cottonwood One Lovelock RPC of dam and mill Cafe, Jack and Betty Murphy, Goldfield, NV addressed to Fairview, Nevada. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62229 Est. $100-120 HWAC# 61354 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 193

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3402 , Nevada Nevada Related Lot# 3407 , Nevada 1972 Photo Mosaic Poster Collection 33 Posters from of Nevada Compiled from Earth Resources either Nevada or pertaining to Technology Satellite, Height of Orbit 494 Miles. Nevada. Sizes range from 8.5” x Max C. Fleischman College of Agriculture / 14” to 24” x 19”. Examples include University of Nevada. Black & white, good reproduction calendars from the condition. 2) 1974 Mosaic of Imagry from Earth Buffalo Brewing Company 1909, and Resources Technology, Conterminous United a beer tray image for the Liberty States, Prepared for NASA Goddard Space Flight Bell Saloon and Restaurant in Reno Center. 9” tear on bottom left & small tearing for 1978-79. Also includes posters on left margin of imagery. 2 smaller images for the Emigrant Trail, Nevada of topography in Nevada. Origin unknown. Archaeological Awareness Week, Est. $50-70 HWAC# 61245 Pyramid Lake, Summits and Secrets, Basque Sheepherders, Coyote Speaks; Native American Oral Tradition, Wovoka and the Ghost Dance, Lot# 3408 , Nevada-Calif. Maps and more. Many are from the University of Nevada. Est. $200-450 of Nevada & Utah; California HWAC# 40410 & Nevada (2) Nevada & Utah by Bradley, 1886 Copperplate Engraving, Lot# 3403 , Nevada Northeast hand colored. Nice condition, 24.5” Nevada Postcard Collection Sixteen x 19”; California & Nevada, circa northeast Nevada postcards. Six 1876, Lithographic Cartography, hand railroad related: Palisade, Ryndon, colored by Gray, double truck, pp. Imlay, etc. Most show trains. Two 144,145. 17.5” x 28”. Mounted on mat board. If mats are shipped then nearly identical Palisade with two additional shipping may apply. (Potter Collection) Est. $200-300 different railroad cars. Also Angel HWAC# 62078 Lake, Stella Lake, Ruth copper pit, Jay’s Hotel, etc. Two RPC’s including a nice photo of a young lady on horseback with an Ely postmark. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62234 Lot# 3404 , Nevada Nevada and Nevada Related Postcard Lot Twenty-one. Three RPC’s and six black and white. Includes four donkey themed, one Indian, one railroad, many desert, two poems, one cartoon, Faro reprint, etc. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 62231 Lot# 3409 , New England New England Map Collection Lot of 10 maps. 1) New Hampshire. Engraved and color by Lithography by Lot# 3405 , Nevada Seventeen Cram. Chicago. 1883. Approximately 14.5” x 21.” 2) New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Engraved and hand Southern Nevada Postcards Las colored by Asher and Adams, 1873. Approximately 24”x 17.5.” 3) The Vegas, Rhyolite, Caliente, Blair, Round Atlantic Middle States. Engraved and hand colored by Mitchell. 1852. Mountain. Unusual Blair Crater. George Approximately 18” x 12.” 4) Vermont by Colton. Engraved and hand Foley, Round Mountain black & white, colored. 1855. New York. Approximately 14.75” x 17.5.” 5) Maine. Rhyolite (old and new overviews, Hand Colored by Johnson and Ward. New York. 1864. Approximately bottle house, station, abandoned street 13.5” x 17.” 6) Delaware and Maryland by County. 1855. Copper scene, etc.) Vegas cards include the engraved and hand colored by Colton. Published by A.J. Johnson, original Stewart Ranch where it all New York. Approximately 18” x 14.” 7) Delaware and Maryland. Hand started. Also Golden Nugget Saloon, colored by Johnson and Ward. 1864. Approximately 18.25” x 14.” county court house, Union Pacific 8) Connecticut with portions of New York and Rhode Island, 1855. depot,Las Vegas Club, Horseshoe. Engraved and hand colored by Colton. New York. Approximately Est. $50-80 HWAC# 62235 17.75” x 14.” 9) New York by Johnson and Browning. 1864. Lot# 3406 , Nevada West Central Approximately 26” x 18.”10) Washington DC. Published, cartography and color by lithography Foster and Reynolds, 1910. Approximately Nevada Postcard Collection Lot 24” x 19.” (Potter Collection) Est. $700-1000 HWAC# 63201 of 56. Six Gardnerville (three RPC’s including family and women with guns), three Fort Churchill including Lot# 3410 , New Hampshire Map of New reprint of original camp, Fernley Hampshire & Vermont Map engraved high school, Derby Diversion Dam, cartography, rail & wagon roads with hand three Dayton (RPC aerial overview, color by Johnson & Ward. Double truck, three Carson City (prison and Federal pp.23,24. Vivid color . Slight staining at left Building), RPC Winnemucca Court margin, does not encroach on map. 18” x House, Yerington street scene, eight 25.5”. (Potter Collection) Mounted on mat Genoa (7 black and white including board. If mats are shipped then additional reprints of older days), seven Pyramid Lake (three RPC’s), ten Virginia shipping may apply. (Potter Collection) City (two RPC’s, mostly of famous buildings), and 12 Sparks - all Est. $150-250 HWAC# 62075 Nugget. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62237 194 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3411 Newark, New Jersey 1867 Lot# 3415 , New Mexico mid 1900’s Passaic Corner Cover, Letter and Business New Mexico First Flight & First Card Nice set of three items. 1) 1867 Day Covers Approx. 60 pieces total. stamped ‘Newark, Jun 7, New Jersey’ corner Various first flight covers from Clovis Airbase, Albuquerque Carlsbad, advertisement for the Passaic Machine Santa Fe, Roswell, & other N.M. locations; various first flight airmails Works. Addressed to GS Allison of North from 1960’s, 5 balloon related First Day covers, approx. 2 dozen of Haverstraw, Rockland Co., New York. (In 1609, circa 1930’s airmails, & more. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 61252 the region was explored by Henry Hudson. A land purchase was made in this town in Lot# 3416 , New Mexico 1666 from local natives and confirmed as early to mid 1900’s New a patent in 1671. The region was known as Mexico Maps Approx. 40 Haverstroo, meaning “oat straw” in Dutch. maps including Historical During the American Revolution, it served Trails through New as an important lookout for British activities on the Hudson. A blue- Mexico; a Census Edition; marked trail, the Long Path, may be taken 2 miles (3 km) eastward Visitors pamphlets 1953- from Central Highway along the crest of South Mountain to High Tor. ’54; History Geology of Halfway is Little Tor, the second highest peak on South Mountain. The the Carlsbad Caverns, town of Haverstraw was formed in 1788 while still part of Orange Info. about Santa Fe, Taos County, New York.) 2) Business card for the Passaic Machine Works & many fold out maps & on Passaic & Ogden Street near the Passaic River. They were most tourist info. Interesting famous for manufacturing steam engines and repairing old engines. lot. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 3) Letter from Thomas Nelson to GS Allison of Haverstraw. Seems that 61250 Allison has not paid full amount owed Nelson on land. Reverse as the double circle ‘Watts Campbell & Co. Newark’ stamp. Est. $50-100 Lot# 3417 , New Mexico New Mexico HWAC# 60923 Territorial Postmark Catalog by Todsen 223pp and inscribed by author. Hundreds Lot# 3412 , New Jersey Birch Carriage of NM postmarks illustrated. (Potter and Harness Catalog Pictorial 1902 Collection) Est. $80-120 HWAC# 63123 catalog from James H. Birch of Burlington, NJ featuring Birch carriages and harnesses. Export catalog No. 65, 208pp. Both covers have some tape repairs and small chips. (Potter Collection) Est. $300-500 HWAC# 63156 Lot# 3418 , New Mexico early 1900’s New Mexico/Native American Related Publications Approx. 10 pieces in a collection of booklets, pamphlets, misc. circular “In the Land Lot# 3413 , New Mexico 1880s to of the Ancient Cliff Dweller”; Aztec 1940’s Large New Mexico Postal Ruins National Monument pamphlets, History Collection Although there Map & Guide to Mesa Verde National may not be any killer covers, there Park; & much more. Est. $120-200 are a lot of nice covers. 1913 Ramah HWAC# 61249 with a two page letter from Master Bothers, Indian Traders. Large 1895 Fairview with straight line date. Lot# 3419 , New Mexico early to 1883 Fort Wingate with star in circle mid 1900’s New Mexico Tourism & killer. 1907 Steins (1905-1944), 1911 Ephemera Approx. 30 pieces of letters, Rodeo with advertising cover for AT Prather general merchandise. pamphlets, chrome Litho post card; a 1907 Cloudcroft. Letter addressed to Las Vegas with six 5 centavo Pictorial Map of Gallup, New Mexico; stamps in 1887. Five airmail covers. Nine specialty covers: Inter-tribal an Official Map of New Mexico 1937; Indian Celebration, New Mexico centennial, first day issue San Miguel Many fold out maps. Plastic protective Mission, etc. World War I military related covers with letters. Several covers, good condition. Est. $150-250 from Deming, Cody Branch. Also 1902 Aztec, 1929 Shiprock from HWAC# 61251 Indian Field Service, 1885 Silver City, 1911 Gage, 1910 Rodeo, c1800’s Hope, 1909 White Oaks, 1913 Roy, 1908 Mora, 1884 Las Vegas, 1892 Raton. Many others. 82 TOTAL pieces. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 60966 Lot# 3414 , New Mexico Maps of New Mexico & Utah Territories 1) High Resolution New Mexico, circa 1883,engraved & hand colored by Tunison. Vivid Images of ALL LOTS color. Nice condition. (Note the population of 119,565) 11” x 14”. 2) available online at New Mexico & Utah Territories, 1855 engraved & hand colored by Colton FHWAC.com 18.5” x 16”. Both are mounted on mat board. If mats are shipped then additional shipping may apply. (Potter Collection) Est. $130-200 HWAC# 63401 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 195

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3420 Albany, New York 1798 New Lot# 3422 Little Valley, New York 1915 York Supreme Court (under Robert Cattaraugus Cutlery Company Billhead Yates) Handwritten Document This is Bill head from Cattaraugus Cutlery Company case of trespass brought against Toume(?) to Jacques Bros. of Lowville, NY for a total Donnelly by Peter Menie. Seated justice was of 25 parts totaling $18.63 Est. $60-100 Robert Yates. Handwritten transcription HWAC# 52017 by F. Bloodgood, clerk (and signed by him). Francis Bloodgood was born on 12 June 1775 in Albany. He established a law firm in Albany in the State Hall on State Street. He became Director and President of the State Bank and President of the Albany Insurance Company. In the 1800 census Lot# 3423 New York, New York his household had seven family members 1941 1941 NY License Plates Two and four slaves. From 1797 to 1825 he was plates in unused condition. WE13.79 clerk of the New York Supreme Court. is the plate number. Est. $100-200 Robert Yates, although not signed by him, presided over this case. He HWAC# 61531 was an extremely important politician during the founding of this great country. Robert Yates was born January 27, 1738, in Schenectady, New York. He learned the craft of the surveyor and then decided to Lot# 3424 New York, New York 1930 pursue a career in law. Surveying supplemented Yates’ attorney’s income as he made a number of important land maps during the Extra Rare Private Press Book; 1760s. He drew the first civilian map of Albany in 1770. Wall Street Member This book was From the beginning of the struggle for American independence, published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Joseph Walker & Sons. although he did not sign the Albany Sons of Liberty constitution of Biography of Walker and the story of 1766, he was prominent in the local resistance to the Stamp Act. the company. Illustrations throughout Beginning in the spring of 1775, Yates was elected to represent Albany including buildings and famous men of the early days of Wall Street: in each of the four New York Provincial Congresses. The first three Vanderbilt, Gould, etc. Special mention of William Smith and William met in New York, while the last one, convened after the Declaration of Wulff - oldest members of the company. Full size booklet. 1930. 19 Independence, met under duress in locations throughout the Hudson pages. Published by the company. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 53448 Valley. In 1776–77, he served on the committee that drafted the first New York State Constitution and also was a member of the “Secret Lot# 3425 New York, New York 1899 New Committee for Obstructing Navigation of the Hudson.” York Press Club Menu Signed by Sir Thomas In October 1777, Yates was appointed to the New York State Supreme Lipton Illustrated dinner menu for the New Court. York Press Club, October 30th, 1899. Signed After the war ended, although principally an associate justice of the at the bottom in pencil by Sir Thomas Lipton. state Supreme Court, Yates maintained a modest legal practice and Illustrated with color drawings of a sail ship. continued surveying as well. During the 1780s, his political star Reverse has a name written in pen who likely continued to rise in the “party” of Governor George Clinton as he spoke attended the event. Printed on thick cardstock. in opposition to the expansion of the scope of a national government. 7 x 5” Very good condition. Sir Thomas In 1787, he was appointed with John Lansing, Jr. and Alexander Lipton is best known for his worldwide best- Hamilton to represent New York at the Philadelphia convention to selling tea, but was also a successful grocer, revise the Articles of Confederation. Arriving in Philadelphia. yachtsman, and the most persistent challenger In 1788, Yates was elected as an antifederalist delegate to the New in the history of the America’s Cup. (Potter York State ratifying convention at Poughkeepsie, and worked against Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60106 adoption of the Constitution. Among the leading antifederalists who attended the Poughkeepsie Convention, he was the most Lot# 3426 New York City, New York vocal delegate in support of protecting individual liberties. After 1820s City of New York Drafts the Poughkeepsie Convention ratified the Constitution with an Signed by Two Mayors Lot of 5 City accompanying request for amendments to protect individual liberties, of New York drafts. All are signed Yates pledged his support as a matter of patriotic duty. by the mayor, clerk and comptroller. In 1789, he ran for governor against George Clinton with the support To be paid by the Treasurer of the of the New York Anti-Federalists – who viewed him as a reasonable, City of New York at the Mechanics’ potentially kindred spirit who was not from a wealthy family. He was Bank. Two are from 1828 signed by defeated by Governor Clinton. In the gubernatorial campaign of 1795, Mayor William Paulding and three considerable sentiment existed for Yates’s candidacy as he was firmly are from 1829 and signed by Mayor established in the center of the former antifederal party. John Jay Walter Browne. 4 x 6” with expected defeated him in a close election. age toning. (Potter Collection) In September 1790, Yates was chosen Chief Justice of the New York Est. $60-100 HWAC# 60401 State Supreme Court. He served until the mandatory retirement age of sixty in 1798. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 57307 Lot# 3427 New York, New York Babcock & Wilcox Company Lot# 3421 Hurleyville, New York Bronze Logo Casting 6” cast bronze 1903 Antique Wood “Billy Club” round logo..5” at the thickest. Heavy Oak “Billy Club”--police baton from disc! Est. $80-120 HWAC# 57966 the early 1900’s. Note on bat reads: From Joe & Lottie ___ / 1903 / Hurleyville, NY”. Top of baton is rough hewn. 17” long. Turned handle, small chip in handle. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61535 196 May 2018

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3428 Rochester, New York Lot# 3432 , 1887 Pennock Battery 1954 Bass Head Harbor Light Electric Light Company Stock House Painting Bass Head Harbor Certificate The Pennock Battery lighthouse on Mt. Desert Isle by Earl Electric Light Company. Number 99 B. Holdren. Oil painting on canvas for 100 shares to HW Jenkins. 1887. board. 11.5” x 15.25”, framed 15” x Signed by Bernard Laud(?) and 19. Holdren studied art, design and Walter Flemming. Specifically made advertising at Carnegie Institute of for furnishing electric lights between Technology and the Art Institute of passenger cars. Est. $100-200 Pittsburgh during the early 1930s. HWAC# 60933 After working briefly as an artist and freelance designer in New York and Pittsburgh, he had turned to Lot# 3433 , New York 1886 Wallace a full-time career in advertising by the middle of that decade while Electric Telephone Manufacturing continuing to paint and exhibit on an occasional basis in Pittsburgh. Company Stock Certificate Number He moved to Rochester, NY in 1944 and was painting in Canandaigua 146 for 100 shares to Arthur Hunter. Lake Country. He had a studio in Gorham, Ontario County, New 1886. Signed by Gustave Frank and York. He has had works in the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery. CL Cammann. This was an early Est. $200-300 HWAC# 61554 entry into the telephone market by a small company. Up to this point Lot# 3429 Rochester, New York Three telephones had not been very reliable Tire Company Stock Certificates 1-2) and businessmen could be found who disputed the usefulness of them! Rochester Tire and Rubber Company. Major tears - please see photo. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60935 Numbers 2424 adn 2425 - a nice matched pair. To Mr. and Mrs. Henry J Krueger Lot# 3434 , New York Map of New for one share each. 1918. Plant was at York 1866 Double truck, 29,30. Hand Rochester, New York. 3) Powertown colored on engraved cartography. Tire Corporation number 2577 to four Very vivid color. Shows Lake Ontario, shares to Helen Kruger. The United States part of Lake Erie & inset of Long Investor ways, “We have not been particularly impressed with the Island. On Mat Board (not adhered) stock of the Powertown Tire Corporation whose factory is located in with plastic covers. If mats are Rochester and whose officers are as follows: TJ Costello president, HJ shipped then additional shipping may Crowder vice president, AM Johnson secretary and EW Ewell treasurer apply. 26” x 18”. (Potter Collection) Correspondents in whom we have confidence tell us that the business Est. $150-300 HWAC# 59629 if this company was carried on for a year or two under the name of Lot# 3435 , New York 1874 Map the Rochester Tire Company but that they have more recently started of New York & New England manufacturing under their own formula at Rochester. We have always (Railroad) Railroad Map of New felt that while a nominal investment in their stock as a means of getting York & New England,hand colored tires at a discount might be worthwhile - an extensive purchase of the stock would be nothing but a speculation.” Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62243 Colton Map by Gray 1874. Double truck. Slight foxing on left side. Vivid color. 27.5” x 17”. (Potter Collection) Lot# 3430 Syracuse, New York Fireman’s Hand Held Mounted on mat board. If mats are Lantern by Dietz Dietz King Fire Department Lantern, shipped then additional shipping may Syracuse, New York. Latches are in working order apply. (Potter Collection) Est. $100- to open cage. The wick is still in place, the key to roll 150 HWAC# 62077 the wick is in working order. Brass coating on handle. Copper base, cranberry color tinted glass, Beautiful condition. 8” x 18.5”. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 61239 Lot# 3436 , New York Vintage Mother of Pearl Opera Glasses Vintage Gall & Lembke mother of pearl and brass opera glasses. Excellent condition, with handle. Est. $80- 120 HWAC# 57833 Lot# 3431 , New York 1884 Baxter Electric Light Company Stock Certificate Baxter Electric Light Company. Number 372 for 100 shares to Henry Altman(?). Signed by secretary Altman and EH (?). Printed by Wm. H. Trafton’s Sons. Great Graphics! Rare! Baxter was Lot# 3437 , North Carolina Map involved in a major episode in 1888. of North Carolina 1888 This map “Electric Lighting From America is by Rand, McNally, Lithographic comes the report that about three weeks ago the wires of the Baxter Graphics & Color, p.130. Excellent Electric Light Company were crossed by the wires of the New Jersey condition. Vivid color. On Mat Board Telephone and Telegraph Company in Jersey City and part of the city (not adhered) with plastic covers. thrown into darkness for several hours. The diverting of the powerful If mats are shipped then additional current from the Baxter wires to the telephone system destroyed several shipping may apply. 22” x 14.5”. instruments. The Baxter Light Company say that the crossing was the (Potter Collection) Est. $100-200 result of malicious mischief the wires being found tied together with an HWAC# 59346 old woollen scarf. Experts say that the fault was caused by the sagging of the Baxter wires as the insulator is burned off in several places.” [The Electric Review, Volume 12, p95] Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60934 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 197

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 9 General Americana Lot# 3438 , North Dakota Maps of North Lot# 3444 Portland, Oregon and South Dakota Lot of 2. 1) South Dakota Klickitat Valley Development by County, 1884. Cartography and color by Company Stock Certificate, 1911 lithography by George F. Cram. Approximately Inc. in Oregon. Low No. 10, issued 22.25” x 14.5.” 2) North Dakota by County, for one share to M.P. Martin on June 1884. Cartography and color by lithography 26th, 1911. Signed by the president by George F. Cram. Approximately 22” x (King) and secretary (Watson). Pen 14.5.” (Potter Collection) Est. $150-250 and stamp cancelled. Ornate border HWAC# 63232 with allegorical vignette. In PASS- CO holder, graded EF. “The Klickitat Valley Development Company was engaged in the construction of a Lot# 3439 , North Dakota 1900 project for the irrigation of the table Maps of South Dakota & North lands in the vicinity of Glenwood. Water diverted below the mouth of Big Muddy River could be carried upon the lands by gravity flow Dakota 1) North Dakota, color & affording some good incidental opportunities for power development lithography by Cram. 14” x 11”. 2) .” (Al Adams Gold Rush Memorabilia Collection) Est. $40-60 South Dakota by Counties, color & HWAC# 60048 lithography by Cram. No condition issues noted. Mounted on mat board. Lot# 3445 Portland, Oregon If mats are shipped then additional shipping may apply. 14” x 11”. (Potter Collection) Est. $110-180 HWAC# 58775 Portland, Oregon Ephemera Lot of 8 pieces. 1) Pictorial 1864 First Lot# 3440 , Ohio Pictorial Iron of Exchange, manuscript Portland Sides Steamship Company dateline. Signed by H.W. Corbett. Faded revenue stamp. 2) Memo from Business Card Business card from the Oregon & California Railroad Co. The Ironsides Company, Columbus, Land Department, Portland, 1895. OH with pictorial ship image.2.75” x 5”, lower left corner crease. Est. $50- 3) Five different Portland billheads, 80 HWAC# 62471 four very pictorial: Elfelt, Weil & Co. (1864); two different Chas. H. Dodd & Co. (1885 & 1890, farm wagon Lot# 3441 Tulsa, Oklahoma 1933 vignettes); and two different Thompson, De Hart & Co. Hardware “The Beginnings of Tulsa” by J. (1884 & 1886, vignette of building). 4) Fraternal calling card, Orient M. Hall This is a 1933 reprint of a of Salem, for Mrs. R. Newcomb. (Potter Collection) Est. $150-300 1923 book. Great early resource for HWAC# 60163 Tulsa. It starts with “Tent Town,” first in Tulsa, earliest residents, Lot# 3446 Portland, Oregon Portland first train, first school, etc. Spine is Overland Mail Route Handbill Reprint Appears to be a Portland Overland Mail beginning to detach, but very usable. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 26933 Route Handbill Reprint done in the 19th Century. Nice coach and 6 horse woodcut. Lot# 3442 , Oklahoma c.1912 Chris Madsen, Dated July 20, 1866. Travelers avoid risk of Chief of Oklahoma City PD RPC RPC Of Chris ocean travel from Sacramento to Portland. Madsen as Chief of Police, Oklahoma City. He was Small hole on upper left, approx 8.75” x 7” also US Cavalry, Deputy US Marshall for OK and Est. $100-150 HWAC# 61740 MS, a Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt, a guard and court bailiff. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 59762 Lot# 3447 Sweet Home, Oregon Retro Whites Coinmaster Precious Metal Detector Space Age Vintage Retro Whites Coinmaster Precious Metal Detector Model IV. This thing looks like something out off Star Trek or Buck Rogers! Late 60’s or early 70’s year White’s metal detector. It has a date Lot# 3443 Dalles, Oregon 1862 code of L/1. This is a very collectible piece, as Whites is still Four page letter about wagon trip in business as one of the best, most reliable brands. It is in to Oregon Written by R. A. Nichols. good used condition with only minor wear. There is minor He had arrived on the 17th of October and is writing to his parents paint chipping here and there around the box. Also has on the 18th. This letter is very descriptive of his 1862 trip across the surface scratches and abrasions to locator disk where it was plains in a wagon. He will made $4.00 in his trade starting tomorrow. brushed over the ground. The detector measures about 43” The stock has been mostly sold already. They sent some provisions in length. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 57829 back to Auburn at the Powder River Mines. He talks about the portage Lot# 3448 , Oregon Bonneville across the Cascade Mountain. Mentions many of his fellow travelers Dam Documents 8.75 x 11.5” by first and last name. “Our team had trouble of the indians, but some Hydrograph summary in Blue, 24.5” were massacred.” After they left the Platte RIver and took the Lander x 21” improvement in fish ladders cutoff they saw graves of those that had been killed by the indians. The content speaks for itself! (Potter Collection) Est. $300-800 in blue. Five Corps of Engineers HWAC# 59436 U.S. Army 10.5” x 16.5” blue prints including General Site Map and other Dam details. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 50849 198 May 2018