RENO, Nev. – Out of more than 4,000 lots in various collecting categories, a wire gold specimen pulled from the Ibex Mine in Leadville, Colorado, won the day after selling for $11,250 at a recent Holabird Western Americana auction.
Another top seller was a Hawaii Baseball Association stock certificate issued to baseball inventor A.J. Cartwright in 1890 that brought in $4,500. The certificate was issued on June 12th, 1890, for five shares, and Cartwright signed the reverse.
The five-day auction featured 4,134 lots of numismatics, mining, transportation, and sports collectibles, jewelry, furniture, art, Native Americana, textiles, bottles, cowboy collectibles, firearms and weaponry, entertainment, gaming, military, minerals and marbles and grossed around $500,000.
Other highlights included a necklace with 25 gold nuggets and a diamond, which sailed past its estimate of…
