The timed auction featured postcards and stamps, mining, artwork, common Americana, books, bottles, shares, numismatics, railroad, tokens and Native Americana.

RENO, NV, UNITED STATES, August 14, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Rare Gold Rush-era antique bottles, lovely 19th century stock certificates, boxing playing cards from the primary half of the twentieth century and scarce old coins and tokens all did well in Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC’s online-only “Time Flies in July” auction, held July twenty eighth, twenty ninth and thirtieth. The particular timed auction featured practically 2,200 heaps in many classes.

The auction was hosted completely on iCollector.com (Holabird’s most well-liked on-line bidding platform) and contained collectibles in over ten classes, together with postcards and stamps, mining, artwork, common Americana, books, bottles, shares, numismatics, railroad, tokens, Native Americana and extra – a collector’s dream. Each lot had a beginning value of simply ten {dollars}.

Day 1, on Friday, July twenty eighth, contained 728 a number of common Americana, to incorporate autographs, books, collectibles, cowboy, leisure, ephemera, firefighting memorabilia, fraternal organizations, gaming, jewellery, maps, mannequin railroading, music, images and sports activities.

The day’s prime achiever (and the general prime lot of the auction) was a bunch of three scrolls containing early knowledge (Fifties and 60s) on whitewater canoeing and rafting, plus different actions. The rapids rankings, maps and different materials pertained largely to the Colorado River and Salmon River Nationwide Forest. Bidders rewarded the lot’s rarity with a remaining promoting value of $2,875.

Teams of image playing cards that includes boxing greats similar to Child Gavilan, John L. Sullivan, Rocky Marciano, Gene Tunney, Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey scored a knockout with bidders, who have been interested in the colourful photographs and stances. Two teams of 60 every ‘Boxers of Yesteryear’ introduced $562,50 and $500, whereas loads of 11 ‘Boxing Champions of the Previous’ made $312.50.

A gaggle of three cotton bale delivery receipts from circa 1845-1879, through steamer and different modes of transportation, one from 1866 having a 2-cent brown adhesive income stamp, went for $281.25. Additionally, a replica of an Outlaws of the West scrapbook with 64 pages of well-known and not so well-known outlaws, Wild West reveals, lawmen and a Choose Roy Bean wished poster, hit $237.50.

A hoard of round 600 issued Humboldt County, Nevada warrants from the Nineteen Twenties, issued by the treasurer of the county, signed by the county auditor and datelined Winnemucca, hit $237.50; whereas a framed Colorado Pabst Chemical Firm cures broadside (“positively and with out fail cures gonorrhea and gleet”), housed in a ten ½ inch by 7 ½ inch body, gaveled for $212.50.

Day 2, on Saturday, July twenty ninth, was filled with greater than 750 a number of tobacco and saloon, bottles, firearms and weapons, militaria, political, minerals, mining, shares and bonds and transportation.

Bottles and stock certificates have been what bidders flocked to on Day 2. The general prime lot of the session was a pair of very gentle lime coloured Stillwater (Oklahoma) Bottling Works / C. F. Knowles / Corliss Bros. bottles, each 6 ¾ inches tall, that offered as one lot for $2,000. Different bottles, provided individually and in group heaps, additionally carried out well, to incorporate the next:

• A really uncommon clear Metropolis Drug Retailer (Goldfield, Colo.) citrate bottle, 8 ½ inches tall, with no obvious chips or cracks ($1,125).

• Two Colorado mining camp embossed milk bottles, one for Black Bruns Dairy in Creede and one for Camp Chicken Dairy in Ouray ($1,125).

• Two completely different black Sapulpa Bottling Works bottles from the Sapulpa Indian Territory, one aqua crown prime and the opposite clear crown prime, each simply over 7 ½ inches ($937.50.

Stock certificates have been led by two examples from the Republic of Texas, dated 1840. One was certificates no. 1364, issued to P. Burns for $100 ($812.50). The opposite was certificates no. 674, issued to Joseph C. Eldridge for $500 ($750). Each have been signed by Charles DeMorse as Stock Commissioner and James Wright Simmons as Comptroller and featured attractive vignettes.

An American Categorical Firm stock certificates from 1863, signed by Henry Wells as president and William G. Fargo as secretary (two of the three founders of American Categorical and Wells, Fargo & Firm) introduced $625. Additionally, a bunch of 21 framed stock certificates from railroad and mining corporations in and round Cripple Creek, Colorado, Nineties-Nineteen Forties, reached $281.25.

A number of 43 classic plane picture postcards, together with 5 of the Pacific Air Transit airplane “The Glacier” from 1931, plus a number of of the well-known stunt pilot Artwork Smith, in protecting shells, went for $500. Additionally, a big assortment of army associated medals, buttons and pins, together with ten Gen. Douglas MacArthur “Man of the Hour” pinbacks, Bear in mind the Maine and extra, hit $406.25.

The auction’s final day, Sunday, July thirtieth, featured greater than 700 a number of artwork, Native Americana, numismatics, tokens, philatelic (stamps) and postal historical past. The day’s prime lot was a bunch of 5 miscellaneous items, together with an 1853 half dime, an Ohio Volunteers medal offered to Henry Ford, an 1849 California token with the American flag, and a tiny spiel mark ($1,438).

An Arkansas Mail Stage & Switch Firm stage go from 1864 fetched $750; loads of 14 miscellaneous overseas coins, together with a 1903 Saxony 5 marks coin, two 1937 German two marks coins, two Iranian coins and 5 Asian coins rang up $688; and an 1874 California spherical fractional gold half greenback, BG 1053, in Very Nice-Additional Nice situation, modified fingers for $625.

Two transportation token collections offered as single heaps fort a mixed $1,136. One comprised eighty rows of 9 inches of transportation tokens from all over the U.S., over 600 tokens in all ($574). The opposite was a double large 14-inch field of two x 2 envelopes with tokens from Alabama to Washington, plus a small group of worldwide tokens, all in round 200 envelopes ($562).

Subsequent up fort Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC is a “Elevate a Glass to Yesteryear” auction, slated for Thursday through Sunday, August Twenty fourth-Twenty seventh, beginning at 8 am Pacific time every day, on-line and reside on the Holabird gallery in Reno. Up for bid might be 2,000 heaps in gathering classes that embrace Saloon, Bottles, Brewery, Mining, Numismatics, Philatelic, Normal Americana, Shares and Bonds, Nice Artwork, Show Minerals, Classic Toys and rather more.

Anybody proudly owning a group that may match right into a Holabird Western Americana Collections auction is inspired to get in contact. The agency travels all through the U.S., to see and decide up collections. The corporate has brokers all over America and will journey to examine most collections.

Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC is at all times searching for new and main collections to convey to market. It prides itself as being a serious supply for promoting Americana at the very best costs obtainable, having offered greater than every other related firm in the previous decade alone. The agency could have its complete gross sales database on-line quickly, for gratis – practically 200,000 heaps offered since 2014.

To consign a single piece or a group, you could name Fred Holabird at 775-851-1859 or 844-492-2766; or, you may ship an e-mail to [email protected]. To be taught extra about Holabird Western Americana Collections and the upcoming auction, go to www.holabirdamericana.com.

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