Gil Schmidtmann Nevada & Death Valley Collection Auction #1
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Category: Documents & Ephemera. Miscellaneous (100 to 104)
Lot Number
Description
Current Bid
Carson City Bank & San Francisco Businesses Documents, c1890s. Large lot contains about 100 pieces of Ephemera including receipts, letters, checks and more.
$ 180
Firearms Related Material, c1894-1902. Lot includes 4 pieces: The Parker Gun pamphlet & informational handout, Ithaca Gun company service receipt and John P. Lovell Arms Co. Firearm receipt.
$ 50 *
Jack & Jack 1904 Promotional Fire Department Buttons.1904. Lot contains 3 small promotional buttons for Jack & Jack Champions of The World. Each measures approx 1 3/8" diameter.
$ 60 *
Nineteenth Century scrapbook/travel album. 1901. Large scrapbook filled with prints of famous monuments and artwork from around the world. The inner cover is dated 1901.
$ 50
Western Cattle Horn Chair, c1895. Now and then rare pieces of original western art cross our paths that can be and are very exciting. This chair is one such piece. It is a classic Frederick Remington era cowboy chair, and thought to have been specially made by the L.H. Cranes Furniture Co. in St. Louis. This piece, constructed of cattle horns with a classic Victorian era red leather swivel seat, is in excellent condition, having in all probability never been used. As original cowboy art, it would have been purchased by an advanced collector, perhaps sitting in a gallery beneath a piece of classic western art, such as Remington, George Catlin, Charles Russell, or Maynard Dixon. Chairs such as these first became popular in the 1870s coincident to and part of America's fascination with the cowboy. Wild West Shows spread the popularity. Chairs of this specific style are known from the mid-1880s. This piece is thought to be from the 1890s or perhaps shortly after. Thanks to Alan Rogers, founder of the National Texas Longhorn Museum, for assisting us in the identification of this wonderful chair.