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Holabird’s 5-Day Holiday Auction Adds Range of Collectible

Items to Eager Bidders’ Collections

RENO, NV – A portfolio of five aquatint etchings by the Chilean artist Day 3, December 19th,
Sebastiàn Matta sold for $3,750, a pictorial letter-sheet from 1856 illus- featured Wells Fargo and other
trating all the major types of gold mining done in California by 1855 Express, postal history (includ-
brought $3,500, a monumental 12-volume railroad survey report ing the California Gold Rush
published from 1855-1860 compiled to find the best rail route to the letter sheet), major collections of
Pacific coast realized $3,125, and a pair of Chinese publishing company first flight covers (U.S. and
stock certificates from the 1920s fetched $2,125 at a five-day Holiday Canada), 600 lots of postcards
Auction held December 17th-21st by Holabird Western Americana from the massive Ken Prag
Collections, LLC. collection (Native Americana,
The auction was held live in the Holabird gallery at 3355 Airway Black Americana, holidays,
Drive (Ste. 308) in Reno, as well as online via iCollector.com, political and military, California,
LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, and Auctionzip.com. The sale foreign and miscellaneous),
was packed with hundreds of lots of mining collectibles, philatelic stamps and ephemera.
material, Americana, and more and featured a number of important Day 4 contained 733 lots Color litho play posters from
collections in a wide range of collecting categories. of art, Native the production of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
Day 1, December 17th, was dedicated to stocks and Americana, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold for $500
bonds – 712 lots in total, led by 208 lots of mining firearms and military, sports (including postcards,
stocks and 66 lots of railroad and transportation stock. stocks, and cards), and Part 1 of bargains and dealer
Additional categories included agriculture, banking, specials, including numismatics, stocks, and bonds
breweriana, the entertainment industry, Express, (mining, railroad and other categories, and mining
firearms, and printing and publishing. Headlining the equipment and ephemera).
day was Ken Prag’s massive industrial stock certificate The final day of the sale, December 21st, was a
collection. continuation of bargains and dealer specials – 680 lots,
Day 2 saw a wild flurry of bidder activity. Categories led by 29 lots of transportation and the rest general
included transportation (railroad passes and cap badges, Americana, to include toys, cowboy, souvenir plates,
ephemera, and more), mining artifacts and ephemera music memorabilia, jewelry, books, foreign, geographic
(including geographic sort), general Americana (more sort and miscellaneous.
geographic sort, badges, bottles, circus, cowboy, To learn more about Holabird Western Americana
World's Fair and Exposition), numismatics (coins, Fringed shotgun chaps out of Collections, LLC, visit www.holabirdamericana.com.
currency, medals, and tokens), jewelry, fire, toys and more. Cheyenne, WY sold for $85 Updates are posted often.

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