Sold2023Letter to Surveyor General John Coffee Hays from San Francisco Treasury Comptroller, 18547.75" x 10.25". Onion skin paper dated October, 1854. Letter to John Coffee Hays as Surveyor General of California explaining an error in accounting. One page of a two page letter. **Good condition. SSee Sold Price
Sold2022Los Angeles 1854 Letter Sheet, Adams & Co. Express [153693]Written to JW Britton of San Francisco and asking for supplies. Stamped "Adams & Co. / Express / Los Angeles" oval. Sent a $100 Adams draft! From S. A. Knox & Company. The company of SA Knox and M WhiSee Sold Price
Sold2022Pictorial Letter Sheet SF IN 1849 & 1854Heading: (San Francisco...) Author: Title: San Francisco Past and Present - San Francisco As It Was, 1849 / San Francisco As It Is, 1854 Place Published: San Francisco Publisher:Barber & Baker DSee Sold Price
Sold2023Wells Fargo & Co. Exchange Department letter. San Francisco: April 11th 1870. Exchange letter onWells Fargo & Co. Exchange Department letter. San Francisco: April 11th 1870. Exchange letter on Wells Fargo & Co., Exchange Department letterhead. Signed by Reuben W. Washburn. Visible size: approximSee Sold Price
Sold2017Letter, San Francisco, San Diego, 1849, to St. Louis19th Century Double Sided Letter, sent from San Francisco, San Diego in 1849, to St. Louis, MO, correspondence between brothers, with particulars about business, Panama canal etc. interesting subjectSee Sold Price
Sold2023[TATTOO]. TUTTLE, Lyle (1931-2019). Two Signed Letters. San...[TATTOO]. TUTTLE, Lyle (1931-2019). Two Signed Letters. San Francisco, 1980s. Letter signed (“Lyle Tuttle'”) with an initialed letter from The Tattoo Historian. Largest 11 x 9”.See Sold Price
Sold20211854 SF Mint Double Eagle Tribute 20 Dollar CoinsLot of 3 reproduction 1854 San Francisco Mint Double Eagle Tribute 20$ Coins. Limited Editions with COA. Brass with 100 mil Pure Silver layered in 10 mil pure gold.See Sold Price
Sold2022Pictorial Letter Sheet San Francisco Fire 1850Heading: (Great...) Author: Title: Great Fire in San Fransisco(sic). M[backwards 'a']y 4th, 1850. Buildings Burned! Loss $5,000,000. Place Published: San Francisco Publisher:W.B. Cooke & Co. DatSee Sold Price
Sold2022HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Autograph letter signed.HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Autograph letter signed. San Francisco de Paula, Cuba: 11 April 1959. A 1 1/4 page autograph letter in blue ink signed "Ernie" on one sheet of Hemingway's Finca Vigia San Francisco dSee Sold Price
Sold2023MLB Fan Letters With EnvelopesMLB Fan Letters With Envelopes: Team letters include San Francisco Giants, Oakland A's, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, California Angels, Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers, NY Mets, National LeagSee Sold Price
Sold2022Flattening the streets of San Francisco, 1854Heading: -1854 Author: Title: Report of the Board of Engineers upon the city grades. San Francisco, May 12, 1854 Place Published: San Francisco Publisher:Commercial Advertiser Power Presses DateSee Sold Price
Sold2022Lithographed view of San Francisco, 1854Heading: (California - San Francisco) Author: Title: San Francisco. 1854. Published for the History of the World by Henry Bill, New York Place Published: New York Publisher: Date Published:See Sold Price
Sold2017SOULE, FRANK: THE ANNALS OF SAN FRANCISCO, 1854New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1854, by Frank Soule, John H. Gihon, M.D., and James Nisbet. 8vo, brown cloth boards, frontispiece. Includes a fold-out map of the 'United States and Mexican Boundary CommSee Sold Price
Sold2018Three Annals of San Francisco: 1854, 1935, 1939Description: Selection of three Annals of San Francisco: 1854, 1935, 1939. Published in the U.S.A. Highlights Include: The Annals of San Francisco Containing a Summary of the History of the First DSee Sold Price
Sold2022Pictorial Letter Sheet SF in 1850 with letterHeading: (View...) Author: Title: View of San Francisco, from Telegraph Hill. Moody del. from a sketch by Swan. Lith. of Peirce & Pollard - with letter Place Published: San Francisco Publisher:CookeSee Sold Price
Sold2022Rare litho of May Turnfest in S.F. 1854Heading: (California - San Francisco) Author: Steinneger, Henry Title: May Turnfest San Francisco Cala. May 7th-8th 1854 Place Published: San Francisco Publisher:C.F. Becheren Date Published:See Sold Price
Sold2022Panorama of SF with letter from Placer Co 1852Heading: (San Francisco...) Author: Title: San Francisco Upper California, in November 1851 - with letter Place Published: San Francisco Publisher:Justh, Quirot & Co. Date Published: 1851See Sold Price
Sold20181869 Postally Used San Francisco to Paris / CalaisStamps Rare 1869 Postally Used Cover with Integral Letter Mailed From San Francisco to Paris / Calais France Scott #77-15¢ July 7, 1869-Dated, United States Postal Cover Mailed From San Francisco, CASee Sold Price
Sold2023JOHN STOBART Signed Nautical Offset LithographSigned in lower right corner in graphite John STOBART, 204/850 Lower margin reads Flying Cloud The Celebrated Clipper ship approaching San Francisco 1854 Subject depicts the flying Cloud Clipper shipSee Sold Price
Sold2024Ernest Hemingway AssemblageTypewritten letter on Finca Vigia San Francisco De Paula Cuba stationary, October 9, 1954 with handwritten insert and signature 'Papa'. Assemblage includes letter, black & white image, brass plate witSee Sold Price
Sold2015Patinated bronze letters C, A, L, I, each 14"h,Original facade font from the facade of the California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, each letter executed in patinated bronze and measures 16" . Provenance: Deaccessioned fromSee Sold Price
Sold2022(CALIFORNIA.) John Haile Jr. Long and detailed letter from a newly arrived Forty-Niner in San(CALIFORNIA.) John Haile Jr. Long and detailed letter from a newly arrived Forty-Niner in San Francisco. Autograph Letter Signed to wife Clara Brayton Haile. 4 pages, densely cross-written, on one folSee Sold Price
Sold2021Bird's-eye panorama of San Francisco 1851Heading: (California Letter Sheets) Author: Title: San Francisco Upper California, in November 1851 Place Published: San Francisco Publisher:Lith. & Published by Quirot & Co. Date Published:See Sold Price
Sold2023Woodcut view of San Francisco as State CapitalHeading: (California - San Francisco) Author: Title: Letter with view of San Francisco as State Capital Place Published: [California?] Publisher: Date Published: 1875 Description:See Sold Price
May 19Rich Penn AuctionsHarley-Davidson Paper (12 pcs), all from Selkirk's Harley-Davidson Sales-Canton, IL from 1948-1952:$50
1 day LeftHermann Historica GmbHErnest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) – an important letter to Robert Manning, signed "Papa" and dated 30€4,000
2 days LeftWhite Knight Auction, IncFrank Stella de Young, Letter on the Blind II, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Poster, 2014$200
May 16Robinhood AuctionsPeter Ellenshaw (1913-2007), "The Glow of San Francisco" Limited Edition Lithograph, Numbered and$90
3 days LeftRail & Road AuctionsAlbum and Ephemera Group of George A. Hancock Superintendent of Motive Power for Frisco Railroad$60(2 bids)
3 days LeftRail & Road AuctionsTwo US Letters Patents for Railroad Weed Burners and Locomotive Circulating Exhaust Attachments$30
May 18Rich Penn AuctionsGunpowder Calendar from The California Powder Works San Francisco, Cal., c.1902 w/full calendar pad,$150(2 bids)
6 days LeftSchilb Antiquarian Rare Books1906 San Francisco 1ed California Earthquake & Vesuvius Archaeology Disasters$27(4 bids)
1 day LeftJohn Moran Auctioneers, Inc.Phillips Lewis (1892-1930), "After the Storm, San Francisco Bay"$1,000(1 bid)