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Holabird Western Americana Collections

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Sale Name: The Big Bonanza Auction: Mining, Philatelic, Numismatics, Americana
Auction Date: 04/02/2023 - 04/02/2023
Year of Sale: 2023
Sale Number: #88975
Total Lots: 240
Sold Lots: 162
Lots Sold: 67.5%
Unsold Lots: 78
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (USD): 62,788.30
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 53,870.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 105,690.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 100,710.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 208,090.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 30.17%
Currency: USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 61,717.00

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
4204	Earliest Known Comstock Lode Mine Document: 1859 Ophir Diggings, Utah Territory Deed	1859	USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00	16,875.00
4205	Spectacular Comstock "Wash-Oh!" Illustrated Lettersheet, 1860	1860	USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	5,750.00
4206	1859 Letter to Judge James Walsh Regarding First Comstock Ore Assays	1859	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	3,500.00
4095	Fraser & Chalmers Mining Machinery Catalogues, 1889-1892	1889-1892	USD 1,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,440.00
4151	Rarest Nevada Revenue Check: Chollar Potosi Mining Co. w/ Violet Nevada Stamp	1869	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,875.00
4018	Framed 101 Ranch Real Wild West Poster		USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00	1,875.00
4019	Framed 101 Ranch Wild West Show Lithograph		USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	1,250.00
4158	Gould & Curry Silver Mining Check Signed by Deidesheimer	1870	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,125.00
4139	Sheriff's Sale of Gold Hill Mining Claim, Signed by JC Clark	1866	USD 150.00 - 250.00	1,000.00
4082	Gold Mines and Mining in California	1885	USD 500.00 - 1,200.00	812.50
4258	A Practical Hand-book for Miners, Metallurgists, and Assayers, 1867	1867	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	593.75
4023	John Wesley Hardin Book and Business Card		USD 300.00 - 1,000.00	593.75
4182	Union Mill & Mining Co. Revenue Check Signed by William Sharon	1875	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	593.75
4138	Letter to Early Comstocker Vignot With Reference to Ormsby	1860	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	550.00
4030	My Reminiscences by Raphael Pumpelly, 1918	1918	USD 200.00 - 400.00	500.00
4088	Fantastic Cripple Creek "Vein of Gold" Play Poster		USD 500.00 - 1,500.00	500.00
4222	Deed Selling a Mill Site in Sevenmile Canyon, Comstock Lode, w/ Many Revenue Stamps	1869	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	468.75
4183	Utah Mining Co. Revenue Check Signed by John Mackay	1876	USD 200.00 - 300.00	468.75
4246	Virginia City & Surrounding Area Billhead Group	1873-1897	USD 200.00 - 300.00	468.75
4208	Extremely Rare Mining & Milling Pamphlet by Almarin B. Paul	1871	USD 600.00 - 1,500.00	437.50
4278	Miner's Lunch Box, Store Sample and Stone Artifact		USD 140.00 - 200.00	406.25
4273	Mining Ephemera and Hendy Match Safe		USD 300.00 - 500.00	406.25
4114	1865 Austin, Reese River Mining District, Nevada, Hand Drawn Map		USD 800.00 - 3,000.00	375.00
4229	Savage Mining Company Bullion Receipts for Wells Fargo	1866-69	USD 400.00 - 600.00	375.00
4007	Hamley's Cowboy Catalog		USD 150.00 - 250.00	343.75

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Sotheby’s
Year in Review

Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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