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Holabird’s August Great American Pow-Wow Auction

RENO, NV – Holabird Western rugs. Also up for
Americana’s Great American Pow-Wow bid was a fine
Auction, held August 27-31 at their California token
Reno gallery, was packed with Native collection,
and general Americana, sports American and for-
collectibles, toys, stamps and coins, eign counters and
tokens, stocks and bonds, firearms and tokens from the
weaponry, minerals, mining, bargains, Benjamin Fauver
and specials – something for everyone. collection, rare old whiskey bottles and
Native and general Americana took scarce Nevada documents.
center stage at the huge, five-day Also offered was a major pinback
auction, which Holabird Western collection, baseball and boxing
Americana Collections president and collectibles, gold specimens, American
owner Fred Holabird said contained and foreign medals, Victorian furniture,
“the best material we’ve offered in a hot Western art, original Buffalo Bill/
August auction in many years. The variety was Pawnee Bill posters, large ore cars and incline cars from a Nevada City
outstanding, as was the quality of goods offered.” mine, and dynamite and candle boxes.
Of note was a Civil War-era military amputation kit made The list continued with an American souvenir plate collection, music
around 1861 by G. Tiemann & Co. (N.Y.), which sold for collectibles, toys and toy trains, postcard collections, directories, maps, a
$5,000; a pair of circa 1910-1920 railroad signal lamps, one a four- railroad pass collection, antique firearms, badges, mining and railroad
color Adlake lamp, a prize for any collector, the other “SP & Co.” stocks, coins, token dies, a rock-shop
(for Southern Pacific section and mining artifacts.
Railway), which brought in Anyone owning a collection that
$5,375; and a choice, might fit into an upcoming
attractive crystalline gold Holabird Western Americana
specimen weighing 5.45 Collections auction is encour-
troy ounces which realized aged to contact Fred
$5,625. The specimen had Holabird at 775-851-
one cut edge, exposing a very 1859 or 844-492-
high percentage of native gold. 2766. To learn
Native American offerings more, please visit
included turquoise and silver www.holabirdamer-
jewelry, baskets, Kachinas, and icana.com.

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