Holabird's "Raise a Glass to Yesteryear" auction, Aug. 24-27, is packed with over 2,000 premier lots

RENO, Nev. - Aug. 17, 2023 - PRLog -- Holabird Western Americana Collections will bid farewell to summer with a premier four-day "Raise a Glass to Yesteryear" auction Thursday thru Sunday, August 24^th-27^th, online and live in the Reno gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive. Start times all four days are 8 am Pacific time. Online bidding is via iCollector.com, LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com.

The four days will be packed with more than 2,000 lots in a wide range of collecting categories, to include saloon, bottles, brewery, mining, numismatics, philatelic, general Americana, stocks and bonds, fine art, display minerals, vintage toys and more. Included in the offerings will be a major beer tray collection, U.S. coin sets, ingots and assay, fractional gold, medals and tokens.

Lots with lofty pre-sale estimates include a magnificent sculpture of the Chinese goddess Guan Yin by Zhang Lizi; a 1787 land deed signed by Benjamin Franklin for "Powersburg"; a color 1860s lithograph of the burgeoning Comstock gold mines of Nevada by African-American artist Grafton T. Brown; and a beautiful leather beaded Miller Bros. 101 Ranch performer's gun belt.

Day 1, on Thursday, August 24^th, will feature art and artifacts from around the world, to include paintings, prints, Native American artifacts, sculptures, textiles, boxwood root sculptures and viewing stones; display minerals and fossils, to include calcite, fluorite, mineral groups and quartz; and stocks and bonds, to include mining, railroad, petroliana and other subject matter.

Day 2, on Friday, August 25^th, will contain general Americana, to include antiquarian books, transportation, ephemera, autographs and photographs; mining collectibles, to include mining equipment, ore specimens and ephemera; and tools. Nearly 500 lots will come up for auction.

Day 3, on Saturday, August 26^th, will feature bottles; saloon, brewery and a beer tray collection; gaming; cowboy collectibles; railroadiana; military memorabilia; firearms and weaponry; license plates; signs; and general collectibles, to include toys, musical items, furnishings and other items.

Day 4, on Sunday, August 27^th, will highlight philatelic items, to include postal history, postcards, stamps, Wells Fargo and Express; numismatics, to include bullion, coins, "potty" coins, U.S. Mint sets, fractional currency, foreign coins, ingots, assay and medals; and tokens.

To learn more about Holabird Western Americana Collections, and the four-day "Raise a Glass to Yesteryear" auction, August 24^th, 25^th, 26^th and 27^th, at 8 am Pacific time each day, please visit www.holabirdamericana.com.