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City |
State |
Date |
Description |
Cond. |
Price |
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Fairbanks |
AZ |
1898 |
ALS by Charles Heath on New Mexico & Arizona Railroad Company letterhead *SOLD* |
VF |
$85 |
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Fort Tejon |
CA |
1854 |
Payment to John Galgenmeyer for labor in the months of October and November, 1854 in the construction of Fort Tejon *SOLD* |
VF |
$795 |
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Hardenbury Mine |
(CA) |
1893 |
Letter written at the mine describing the workings and repair of equipment *SOLD* |
VF |
$60 |
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(Los Angeles) |
CA |
186- |
Coast Line San Juan & Los Angeles U.S.M. Stage Co. letterhead enumerating payments made *SOLD* |
XF |
$165 |
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Los Angeles |
CA |
1913 |
Billhead on Musgrove Mining Company to Lane Mill & Machinery Co. for timbers *SOLD* |
XF |
$30 |
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| EP78194 | Los Angeles | CA | 1904 | Pacific Electric Railway Co. Accounts Payable Voucher signed by Huntington, as President *SOLD* | VF | $135 |
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Mokelumne Hill |
CA |
1865 |
Calaveras County Auditor's Warrant in the amount of $36.00 drawn on the County Treasurer's General Fund |
VF |
$35 |
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North San Juan |
CA |
1874 |
Billhead on Block & Furth, purveyors of Giant Powder, Quicksilver, Candles, Clothing, etc. *SOLD* |
F |
$80 |
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San Francisco |
CA |
185- |
Adams & Co. Express and Banking Office 3rd of Exchange remainder *SOLD* |
XF |
$35 |
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| EP35538 | San Francisco | CA | 185- | Adams & Co's Express and Banking House Draft--a remainder following their closure. | XF | $65 |
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San Francisco |
CA |
1852 |
A receipt for the transfer 1 package said to contain 22 3/4 ounces of GOLD DUST from Rhodes & Lusk (Bankers & Express Co.) to Plummer & Co. |
F |
$245 |
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San Francisco |
CA |
1861 |
Promissory Note payable to T.J.L. Smiley & Co. in the amount of $106.95 |
VF |
$55 |
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San Francisco |
CA |
1850 |
A check drawn on D.J. Tallant & Co. Exchange and Banking House by John C(offee) Hays, Sheriff of San Francisco, shortly after California attained Statehood. *SOLD* |
XF |
$295 |
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Shasta |
CA |
1855 |
Certificate of Deposit issued by Rhodes & Whitney on the Express & Banking Office of Rhodes & Co. in Shasta, CA receiving $600.00. A combination instrument related to two very scarce Banking and Express institutions. *SOLD* |
VF |
$265 |
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Shasta |
CA |
1853 |
A scarce Sacramento City Bank check drawn in the amount of $2200.00 |
XF |
$225 |
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Weaverville |
CA |
1853 |
A Rhodes & Lusk Sight Draft drawn on their Shasta branch in the amount of $400.00, signed by L.W. Blake, Agent. |
VF |
$235 |
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Honolulu |
HI |
1879 |
Billhead on Bolles & Co., Ship Chandlers & Commission Merchants, 34 Queen St. *SOLD* |
VF |
$225 |
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Honolulu |
HI |
1872 |
Billhead on Bolles & Co., Ship Chandlers & Commission Merchants, 34 Queen St. *SOLD* |
VF |
$225 |
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Honolulu |
HI |
1879 |
Billhead on Bolles & Co., Ship Chandlers & Commission Merchants, 34 Queen St. *SOLD* |
VF |
$225 |
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Honolulu |
HI |
1878 |
Billhead on West & Chayter, Carriage Building & Repairing, 76 King Street, near Nuuanu Street *SOLD* |
VF |
$225 |
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Alturus Co. |
IT Terr |
1866 |
Deed to properties transferred from the Pacific and Golden Wreath mines w/R-61b revenue attached |
F |
$95 |
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Helena |
MT |
ca 1920 |
Complete folded road map of Montana compliments of Helena Motor Co. w/fold separations |
F |
$25 |
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| EP36729 | Omaha | NE | 1897 | Union Pacific Rail Road Company Time Table and Map of routes from St. Joseph and Kansas City, MO and Leavenworth, KS to Los Angeles, San Francisco, CA and Portland, OR | XF | $185 |
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Austin |
NV |
1866 |
Waybill for the Overland Mail Company for fare from Austin to Sacramento *SOLD* |
VF |
$175 |
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| EP67344 | Carson City | NV | 187- | Gillson & Barber, Merchants, Carson City, NV & Bodie, Mono Co., CA, remainder | XF | $28 |
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New York |
NY |
ca 1880 |
Cabinet Card photograph of banner "Associated Pioneers Territorial Days of California", Organized Feb. 11, 1875 *SOLD* |
VF |
$150 |
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Jacksonville |
OR |
1865 |
Wells, Fargo & Co. Original check signed by C. C. Beekman. Beekman was a well known and active agent for Wells, Fargo. |
XF |
$45 |