Over 1,500 lots will come up for bid. Categories include Civil War, Indian Territory, Kansas & Missouri covers, California & Oregon postcards, general Americana, stocks, philatelic, mining.
Included will be beer bottles, decanters, wine bottles, perfumes, pot lids, stoneware bottles and cruets. The auction will be held online and live at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.
Holabird Western Americana Collections will offer a time capsule of Gold Rush life with important items recovered from the 1857 sinking of the legendary “Ship of Gold".
The 2,100-lot auction will feature Native and general Americana, mining, Express, numismatics, art, bottles, stocks and much more, starting at 8 am Pacific time all four days.
Items will include gold jewelry, a Wells Fargo treasure box lid, jeans that may have been made by Levi Strauss, vintage ornate bottles and a mysterious "Mona Lisa of the Deep" photograph.
The four-day, 2,441-lot event was held online and live at the Holabird gallery in Reno, Nevada. It was headlined by two outstanding collections: Gary Bracken and James & Barbara Sherman.
Historic items from the S.S. Central America going on public display in Reno July 28-31 include a Wells Fargo treasure box lid, gold jewelry, jeans that may have been made by Levi Strauss, vintage ornate bottles and a "Mona Lisa of the Deep" photo.
The auction contained hundreds of lots in a wide array of collecting categories, at price points that appealed to novices and veteran collectors alike. The top lot was a 23.06-oz. silver ingot.
The auction contains nearly 2,500 lots in a wide array of collecting categories, at price points that will appeal to both novices and veteran collectors alike. Important collections will be sold.