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373.   SOLD   Alaska. Katalla. Original photo post card of Katalla, showing the Northern Hotel, a drug store and other buildings. Postmarked on the back from 1907. Very fine. $65.

374.    Alaska. Skagway original photo post cards: street scene and Klondike City printed card. Both circa 1907. $60

375.  SOLD    California. Mono.  Insider Trading in California, Homer MC. 5 certificates.  The Homer District near Lundy Lake in Mono County, California was discovered by L. Homer in 1879.  He quickly sold out to mining speculator James G. McClinton of San Francisco, who incorporated the mine in October 1879.  Over the next two years, the mine produced over $650,000 in gold, prompting large scale stock sales on the San Francisco exchange and some wild speculation.  The five people on these five certificates all have something in common: they all had their office at 330 Pine Street in San Francisco and most were officers of the company at one time or another.  McClinton, the president, was in Room 7, along with John Van Orden, a mining speculator.  Nathan Atkinson, vice president, was in “real estate” in Room 5, along with Samuel Theller, also a real estate man.  Also in Room 5 was Fred Luty, a professional mining secretary.  Truman Jewell, a mining speculator, was in Room 2.  Of the surviving certificates, the 20,000 shares for Theller is the largest sale, and Luty’s 2500 shares is the second highest, though the investment was made at a time when the mine was near closure.  [ref: SF 1881 Directory].  $550

376.   SOLD   California. San Bernardino. Stereo view of San Bernardino by Continent Co., New York, No. 113, circa 1875. Shows a street scene. One business sign reads “Star Bakery.”  $125.

377.  SOLD    Colorado. Aspen. Two letters, 1885. May 1885 letter with cover datelined Aspen Forwarding Co., Aspen, Colorado from G. Bayard Lott, 6pp.  Lott is writing to his sister trying to borrow money for the Company, discussing details. He stresses that the company is not a “stock company.”  Second letter dated July 1885 from Granite, Chaffee Co. This letter is infinitely more interesting, discussing that he lost his job with the Aspen Smelting Co., having worked for the Forwarding Co., a related company. He was about to become a cowboy, then was offered the position in Granite “as the outlook in Aspen was very poor, I accepted with alacrity and am now one of the few respectable residents of this respectable railroad town.” 4pp, very fine. $175.

378.   SOLD   Colorado. Boulder. Ward. Copper Mountain M & MC prospectus, circa 1907. Ten pages with folding map, 3.5 x 8.5” Includes claim map, Cross section and photo of property at Ward, which they compare to Cripple Creek.  $75.

379.  SOLD    Colorado. Clear Creek. Georgetown. Two 1870’s assay receipts. Colorado Assay office, Georgetown, 1872, signed by H. Stoelting, territorial assayer for assays on the Stevens lode, and 1871 W. Bement assay office, Clayton & Co. print, Pearl Street for the no name lode in the Griffith District. $100.

379A. SOLD Colorado.  Gilpin.  Black Hawk.  National Gold Mining Co., Colorado, stock certificate.  Incorporated in 1864 in New York, issued 1865 at Boston to George Lord for 5867 shares, signed by Samuel Atherton, president and M.M. Balloon, treasurer.  Uncancelled, 5.5 x 8.5”.  Red printed seal, 25 cent Entry of Goods revenue stamp attached at top center.  This is a very odd use o f this revenue stamp.  The agent may have been out of the proper stamp and provided this in its stead.  The National’s property was on the Gregory Lode, but a bit north of its main workings.  Hollister mentions the company in 1867, but says they “have never done anything.”  Their claim to fame came from their key properties, which were bought from the defunct Pittsburgh and Rocky Mountain GMC, at Mammoth City in the Wisconsin District in Gilpin.  The National took over 300 or so claims and built a mill in 1865, but it did not run by 1867. They dad done much underground drifting, exploring for ores.  $600.

380.    Guns. Promotional and illustrated sales catalog for various guns and knives sold by the Cudahy Packing Co of Omaha, Nebraska. 1899. Comes with letter and cover. $75.

381.    Guns. Promotional material for the Parker Gun. 4pp 8 x 11 flyer and 16pp illustrated booklet, 1910. The pamphlet shows numerous views of the Parker shot gun. Mint. $75.

382.    Mining Catalog.  Goodman Shortwall Machines, Chicago, 1912-1915. Bulletin 103 (1912), 121 (1915), 451 (1914), 503 (1913), 402 (nd). About 250pp. Bound in Goodman brown soft covers with green embossing.  Soiling and water stain to rear. Contains numerous photos (off-set printed, not real photos) of underground mining, mostly in Minnesota and Michigan. Most of the underground miners are wearing soft hats with tea-pot lamps. Very fine, except the minor water damage to back. $200

383.    SOLD Nevada. Esmeralda. Goldfield. 4pp letter from Blakeslee on printed stationery, 1905. Letter discusses Blakeslee setting up a jewelry store in Goldfield. The author notes that he is next door to a saloon. Of Goldfield, he says: “it is the dustiest, muddiest, most barren, ungodlike country…”   “They say there is a town in Arizona worse than this one, but I am not going there.”  “This country is the best ever to make a quick raise [make a quick buck - FH] in but I would not stay here…” Very good content and condition. $85.

384.   SOLD   Nevada. Reno. Original photo post card of the Johnson Jeffries fight in Reno. Dann photo. No. 44. Mint , unused. “Jeffries entering the ring.”  $90.

385.   SOLD   Saloon Photo, Montana, Helena, c1900. Shows nine men and the bartender with the back-bar, all hoisting a mug of beer. The men are labeled on the back. 4 x 6”. $65.

386. Several Still Available  Saloon, Billiards, Gaming. 1795. License to operate a saloon in New York City, signed by George Washington’s Aide de Camp Richard Varick. The license states that [name of person] “hath obtained a license to keep an inn or tavern for retailing strong or spirituous liquors in his dwelling-house…” and that the tavern owner must not permit “cock fighting, gaming, or playing with cards or dice, or keep any billiard-table, or other gaming table…” These are the finest saloon licenses we have ever had, and got lucky and have several available, all from the 1790’s, all signed by Varick. 8 x 14” Excellent condition.  $300.

387.  SOLD    Utah.  39 Prints taken from the Stansbury Expedition as published in the Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1853. Contains 26 prints of outdoor scenes. Also contains 13 prints of natural items, such as lizards, fossils, etc. The outdoor scenes include Fort Utah, Fort Laramie, Crossing of the Platte, Fort Bridger, Salt Lake City, the Mint, etc. Wonderful archive. $400.

388.   SOLD   Utah. Salt Lake City. Nelson’s Pictorial Guide Book, Salt Lake City, with sketch of the route of the Central Pacific Railroad, from Omaha to Salt Lake City, and thence to San Francisco. Photographs by Savage and Ottinger, Salt Lake. 31pp with 9 color single page views and two two-page fold out views. Some foxing. The views are all of Salt Lake City, and appear to date from the 1860’s.  The two folding views both have splits and discoloration to edges or along the splits. There is no date of publication, though it appears the book was put out to promote the opening of the Central Pacific Railroad in 1868.  Blue cover, 3.5 x 6.5”. Outstanding rendition of Salt Lake City in the 1860’s. $150.

389.   SOLD   Wells Fargo Brass Plaque.  Wonderful scene embossed in copper of a Wells Fargo stage robbery, complete with the driver shooting at the bandit, all set in the Sierra Nevada. One of the passengers is also shooting at the bandit. 6.5 x 15”, framed, titled “In the Line of Duty”, copyright 1934 WFB & UT Co. [Wells Fargo Bank and Union Trust Co.] We have not had this before. $250.