Auction details
Americana with Photographs
1:00 PM PT - Jul 9th, 2009
offered by
PBA Galleries
San Francisco, CA 94108
Auction Description
Auction Terms & Conditions
Buyer's Premium
20% up to 100000
20% above 100001
Bid Increments
| From | Increment |
| 0 | 10 |
| 200 | 25 |
| 500 | 50 |
| 1000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 250 |
| 5000 | 500 |
| 10000 | 1000 |
| 20000 | 2500 |
| 50000 | 5000 |
| 100000 | 10000 |
Auction House Preview
Tuesday, July 7, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Wednesday, July 8, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday, July 9, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
419 Items
| Lot | Description | Estimates (USD) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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3 letters signed by William Waldorf Astor |
300 - 500 |
|
| 2 |
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Large collection of 'Automatic Writings' |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 3 |
|
Letter from founder of ASPCA |
200 - 300 |
|
| 4 |
|
Letter from John Bigler to Henry Haight |
300 - 500 |
|
| 5 |
|
Archve of Benhamin Bourne letters 1783-1796 |
500 - 800 |
|
| 6 |
|
Small group of Alpine County ephemera |
200 - 300 |
|
| 7 |
|
Small group of Amador County ephemera |
150 - 250 |
|
| 8 |
|
Archive of Calaveras County ephemera |
300 - 500 |
|
| 9 |
|
Small group of Contra Costa County ephemera |
100 - 150 |
|
| 10 |
|
San Francisco Farming Goods Merchants |
250 - 350 |
|
| 11 |
|
Archive of San Francisco clothiers, tailors, etc. |
250 - 350 |
|
| 12 |
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Archive of San Francisco clothiers, tailors, etc. |
500 - 800 |
|
| 13 |
|
Billhead for San Francisco cutler Will & Finck |
100 - 150 |
|
| 14 |
|
Archive of SF Hardware Merchants Ephemera |
250 - 350 |
|
| 15 |
|
Collection of ephemera from San Francisco jeweler |
100 - 150 |
|
| 16 |
|
Ephemera from San Francisco clothiers, hat makers |
250 - 350 |
|
| 17 |
|
Various San Francisco Merchant Bill & Letterheads |
250 - 350 |
|
| 18 |
|
Stockton Land Deed 1850 |
300 - 500 |
|
| 19 |
|
Ledger from the Portervill City Water Works, 1910 |
200 - 300 |
|
| 20 |
|
Ms. items relating to Canada |
300 - 500 |
|
| 21 |
|
ALs advising route of Canada-Vermont Road 1800 |
300 - 500 |
|
| 22 |
|
Rare letter from Fort Adams Mississippi |
500 - 800 |
|
| 23 |
|
Confederate ms. Regimental Order Book |
2,000 - 3,000 |
|
| 24 |
|
Letters from American clergymen 18th/19th cents. |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 25 |
|
Signed by George Clinton as Governor of New York |
250 - 350 |
|
| 26 |
|
Irving Dugan Archive |
150 - 250 |
|
| 27 |
|
Dutch Sweeney Mining Company Ledger Book 1914-15 |
150 - 250 |
|
| 28 |
|
Mortgage for Long Bar Water Co. CA 1852 |
200 - 300 |
|
| 29 |
|
Letter from Henry Haight to his brother 1851 |
300 - 500 |
|
| 30 |
|
Letters to future California Gov. Henry Haight |
400 - 600 |
|
| 31 |
|
Benediction in Hawaiian by former missionary |
300 - 500 |
|
| 32 |
|
Revolutionary War letter from Tory, 1775 |
400 - 600 |
|
| 33 |
|
Congressman Patrick Hillings Archive |
2,000 - 3,000 |
|
| 34 |
|
Illinois Insurance Policy Ledgers 1890s-1920s |
200 - 300 |
|
| 35 |
|
Document signed by John Jay, 1779 |
1,500 - 2,500 |
|
| 36 |
|
Archive of letters to Joseph and William Knowland |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 37 |
|
Letters from Mass. Congressman Samuel Lyman |
400 - 600 |
|
| 38 |
|
Letters from Thomas McKenney to Peter Force |
4,000 - 6,000 |
|
| 39 |
|
ALs for Louis McLane to Nicholas Biddle |
300 - 500 |
|
| 40 |
|
Journey from Wilmington to Baltimore, 1818 |
500 - 800 |
|
| 41 |
|
Taxing inhabitants of Deerfield Mass. 1763 |
200 - 300 |
|
| 42 |
|
New Hampshire lauds George II on grandson's birth |
500 - 800 |
|
| 43 |
|
Letter from Meshech Weare of New Hampshire |
300 - 500 |
|
| 44 |
|
Doc. signed by New Jersey Governor 1806 |
300 - 500 |
|
| 45 |
|
ALs criticizing young DeWitt Clinton |
250 - 350 |
|
| 46 |
|
7 letters signed by politicians and statesmen |
400 - 600 |
|
| 47 |
|
200 items signed by U.S. Politicians & Statesmen |
600 - 900 |
|
| 48 |
|
Powers Family History Connecticut 1840s |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 49 |
|
Letters from Arthur M. Scott on Quicksilver mine |
5,000 - 8,000 |
|
| 50 |
|
Gold Rush letter from W.T. Sherman 1857 |
1,500 - 2,000 |
