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Auction Name: The "Mint State" Auction, session 3: Transportation, Toys, Numismatics
Auction Date: 05/04/2025 - 05/04/2025
Sale Number: #107455
Total Lots: 188
Sold Lots: 118
Lots Sold: 62.77%
Unsold Lots: 70

Total Sales (USD): 36,668.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 22,280.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 55,560.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 35,410.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 82,510.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 44.44%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
3284	Last Will & Testament of David Rittenhouse, First Director of the United States Mint		USD 1,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 8,437.50
3279	Dahlonega Mint Supt Patton Letter Group, 1854-5		USD 2,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 7,500.00
3291	US Mint, Medal Dept. Clerk's Record Book, 1856-1868		USD 2,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,000.00
3295	Collection of U. S. Mint Reports 1795-1877 (32)		USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,687.50
3286	Mint Director Patterson re Mint Theft of Copper, 1840		USD 500.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,250.00
3285	Mint Director Patterson Letter re Rumford Medal, 1839		USD 500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,062.50
3292	U. S. Mint Tag for Bag of Half Dollars 1936		USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 937.50
3313	Treasury & Mint Receipts for Silver Dollars/Requests for Coins		USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 750.00
3281	Carson City Mint Ephemera (4 pieces)		USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 625.00
3293	U.S. Mint Philadelphia Glass Slides	1900c	USD 150.00 - 400.00	USD 437.50
3347	1804 Dollar Manuscript Written in 1904		USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 312.50
3321	Pan Pacific Expo Coin Envelopes		USD 60.00 - 100.00	USD 281.25
3087	US Railroad Pass Collection (78 Pieces)	1920s-60s	USD 400.00 - 800.00	USD 250.00
3359	Description of the Medallion for the Franklin Statue		USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 250.00
3342	Congressional Bills Proposing the "Stella" and Gold Coins		USD 400.00 - 1,000.00	USD 250.00
3054	Southern Pacific Railroad California Brochure Pair: Santa Cruz & Southern CA, 1901	1901	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 225.00
3300	Women of the U.S. Mint Ephemera		USD 200.00 - 500.00	USD 212.50
3340	Coins Coinage and Bullion by DuBois 1851		USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 212.50
3277	Denver Mint Assay Dated 1879		USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 212.50
3114	Weaverville & Shasta Toll Road Tickets	1890's	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 200.00

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Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

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Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

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