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Holabird Western Americana Auction Spans Two Weekends:

June 25-28 and July 10-12

RENO, NV – A Summer 2020 Extravaganza Auction so massive it is being tion, stagecoach passes (includes Sonora to Bodie), railroad and steamer
spread over two separate weekends, two weeks apart, is planned for June 25- passes, cap badges, and mining stocks and bonds from various collections.
28 and July 10-12 by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC, live Top lots will include a stock certificate for the Eureka Quartz Mining
and online, with start times each day of 8 a.m. Pacific time. The sale features Company (Georgetown, CA), for five shares, issued to a William Jenkins of
a number of important collections of Americana – over 4,800 lots in all. Baltimore and dated July 24, 1853, signed by officers in the company (est.
The auction is packed with numismatics, mining, railroadiana, Native $800-$2,000); and a 1917 Liberty Loan bond for $50, in very fine condi-
Americana and more. Online bidding, telephone, and absentee bids will be tion, showing Lady Liberty and Thomas Jefferson (est. $1,000-$1,500).
accepted. For those planning to attend live, Holabird’s gallery is located at Day 3, June 27, will showcase minerals and native gold nuggets and
3555 Airway Drive in Reno. rarities, mining artifacts from an old collection, mine maps, Native
The auction features several important collections, offered in part now Americana, and bottles and saloon items from various Western collections.
and in upcoming sales. One example is the John Reynold’s collection, parts Gold specimens will undoubtedly dominate the list of Day 3 top lots.
of which were offered in two prior sales. On Days 1 and 4, items from Offered will be a large native crystalline gold in quartz specimen with lead
Reynolds’s 50+-year Californiana collection will come up for bid, as will a and silver sulfides, mined in the 1950s and in need of professional curation,
variety of vintage historical baseball and boxing cards, all graded, circa 1920 weighing 12.32 troy oz. (est. $10,000-$14,000).
thru 1950. Other Day 3 star lots include a beautiful Northern Plains fringed beaded
Also on Day 4, the Bart Landinger collection of Arizona material, mostly peace pipe (Chanupa) bag from the early 1900s, with the beading all intact
trade tokens but to also include California and western tokens and scrip, will and the hide well worn (est. $1,500-$3,000); and an exquisite Toadlena
be sold. Mr. Landinger garnered many great rarities in his many travels, Two Grey Hills (New Mexico) weaving, 42 inches by 36 inches, in excellent
looking at collections over the years. condition, with the four corners hooked, as is the center diamond
Benjamin Fauver literally wrote the book on tokens, and he especially (est. $1,500-$3,000).
favored gaming counters (which resembled American gold coins and have Day 4, on Sunday, June 28, will be bursting with coin hoards, cents to
morphed into the gaming chips we know today). He also collected foreign nickels with rare dates from the Indian Trading Post in Russellville,
counters (Jetsons and the like) that were made for years, mainly in Western Arkansas; so-called dollars; gaming counters, the start of the massive
Europe. Parts of the Fauver American Counter Collection will be offered on Benjamin Fauver collection; Exposition collectibles; medals; currency and
Days 1 and 4 and will feature more than 10,000 pinback buttons. scrip; and sports items, to include the large baseball and boxing collection of
The auction will feature maps not generally seen, from a massive John Reynolds.
Western map collection; gold and minerals, to include gold specimens from Day 4 will also be bursting with tokens from the Bart Landinger Arizona
two Western collections; part of a Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) library that collection and the California and Western token and scrip collection.
will highlight a massive Western history library spread across the sale; an Days 5 thru 7 are still being cataloged, but it can be reported that Day 5
Idaho real photo postcard collection; and a group of early signed Norman (July 10) will feature general Americana collectibles and a postcard collection
Rockwell prints. from California and the West; Day 6 (July 11) will contain a wide variety of
Day 1, on Thursday, June 25th, will contain California ephemera mining stocks; and Day 7 (July 12) will include political buttons from the
(a continuation of the John Reynolds collection), parts of the Idaho real Fauver collection; sports, firearms collectibles (no guns will be sold); art in
photo postcard collection, Western maps (also in other places in the catalog), all categories here; historical maps; and an historical reference library.
historical and vintage pinpacks from the Fauver collection, a vintage doll Color catalogs are available by calling 844-492-2766, or 775-851-1859.
collection, an American Directory collection and the Sam Clemens (Mark Also, anyone owning a collection that might fit into an upcoming Holabird
Twain) collection. Western Americana Collections auction is encouraged to get in touch.
Day 1 lots will feature a rare Frontier Gasoline (“Rarin’-to-Go”) enamel The firm travels extensively throughout the U.S., to see and pick up
cowboy sign, six feet in diameter, circa 1958-59 (est. $6,000-$12,000); and collections. Last year it visited Boston, Florida, Seattle and New York,
a first edition, second state of Sketches New and Old (1875), illustrated among other destinations.
throughout by Samuel Clemens, or “Mark Twain” (est. $1,000-$2,000). To learn more about Holabird Western Americana Collections
Day 2, on Friday, June 26, will feature a railroad badges and passes and the online-only Summer 2020 Extravaganza Auction, visit
collection, a continuation of the Ken Prag railroad stocks and bonds collec- www.fhwac.com.

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