Holabird's 5-day Autumn Splendor Western Americana Auction will be held Oct. 28th thru Nov. 1st

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Reno, NV, USA, October 17, 2021 -- Holabird Western Americana Collections? five-day Autumn Splendor Western Americana Auction, October 28th-November 1st, is packed with over 3,200 lots of Americana, railroadiana, mining collectibles, numismatics, stock certificates, rare books, art and more, online and live in the Reno gallery at 3555 Airway Drive, starting at 8 am Pacific time all five days.

The massive sale will feature several important collections, beginning with the Stuart ?Scotty? MacKenzie Montana collection. Stuart was a lawyer, inveterate collector and dealer. He scoured the backroads of northern Montana looking for documents, archives, company files, libraries, correspondence ? most anything historical except bottles and tokens.

?After Stuart?s death, we brought back two 28-foot trucks and a large, tall van full of goods, probably 18-19 tons of collectible material,? said Fred Holabird of Holabird Western Americana Collections. ?A local auction was held for some of the items in his store, which had been closed for about ten years.?

Stuart had a strong love of mining items. He acquired major collections in Butte, Virginia City, Pony, Helena and many other towns. ?We put together a massive Montana town document collection of over 500 different locations ? nearly 600,? Mr. Holabird remarked. ?There are document archives from many of Montana?s most famous towns that are being offered in this sale and upcoming sales.?

Another major holding are his fruit labels and other labels, from the 1870s through about 1950 that came from all over America and even Europe. MacKenzie also acquired a major printer?s archive of Victorian wall art, mostly pretty ladies in attire of the times, the kind put up in saloons or used today in interior decorating. There are also postcards, postal history, bird prints and a fantastic Montana library.

In another major collection, Shirley Bovis was a mainstay in Tombstone, Arizona ? an avid collector and part-time dealer. She bought longtime Tombstone dealer Joe Soebbing?s adobe in the middle of town and quickly turned part of it into a museum. Her collection of gambling items, saloon, cowboy, Native American ? pretty much everything that is and was Tombstone ? will be in this and upcoming auctions.

The Ken Prag collection is the gift that keeps on giving. ?We picked up another large group of cards and stocks from Ken and by publication time may not have had time to process much, but it's coming,? Mr. Holabird said. ?This sale features a large batch of California postcards, plus more rare autograph stocks including American Express, Wells Fargo, Robert Morris and more.?

Holabird continues to get in great collections of tokens, medals and bullion coins from a wide variety of Western coin dealers and collectors. This sale will feature a great batch of so-called dollars. Also offered will be consignments from three important railroad pass and stock collections, as well as nearly 200 lots of lock keys and lamps, as wells as a huge railroad library.

The mining category will include Western mining photographs, documents and publications, and carbide lamps. Mining stocks will feature a spectacular issued Bodie stock signed by Leland Stanford and a collection of Canadian stocks. Hollywood and Disney autographs and ephemera will feature a big group of autographed pictures and cuts from Hollywood's biggest stars, plus rare collectibles.

Also up for bid will be Native Americana; jewelry; belt buckles and other cowboy collectibles; bottles and saloon collectibles; rare Western documents and photos; militaria, including Civil War knives; gaming and circus collectibles; art and advertising; and the auction?s star lot: an exceptional and rare William Shakespeare original first folio fragment from The First Part of Henry the Fourth.

Online bidding via iCollector.com, LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com. The full catalog can be viewed online now, at www.holabirdamericana.com. For those planning to attend the auction in person, regulations and protocols regarding COVID-19 will be enforced.

Color catalogs are available by calling 1-844-492-2766, or 775-851-1859.To learn more about Holabird Western Americana Collections and the Autumn Splendor Western Americana Auction planned for October 28th-November 1st, please visit www.holabirdamericana.com. Updates posted often.