New Finds (2025-2026)
This is always a fun section. This is where we feature pieces we have found on our trips or purchased from our collector friends over the last year. Keep checking back to see what new treasures we have located.
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David W. Fawkes - Operated a drugstore in Newcastle, Wyoming in partnership with his brother-in-law until 1911, when he solely took over until 1913.
Arizona Mercantile Co. - Incorporated in 1897, this business operated for twenty years. With the loss of its liquor business due to prohibition in 1915, it became a drugstore in 1917. This rounded shouldered jug is very rare with just a couple examples known.
Two early Arizona pinbacks - The one on the right came from a person in Casa Grande whose mother was born there in 1917 and attended the pageant, as a little girl, in 1926 where she got the pinback. This was an event where Native American dances & culture were on display.
Bail-Heineman Co. - Incorporated in 1902, this Tucson liquor business operated as such until prohibition in 1915. Adolf Bail left by 1906, but Simon Heineman continued using the company name.
E. F. Sanguinetti - Wooden thermometer from the late 1920's to 1930's. Sanguinetti started in the mercantile business by 1891 in partnership with John Gandolfo.
Pioneer Drug Store - Just acquired this very rare 8-ounce sized picture drugstore bottle. There are less than 5 of these bottles known including the unique 1-ounce sized one which has no picture.
Wm. M. Kaymer & Co. - 1912 & 1913 Calendar plate from a general merchandise business in the small Northern Arizona town of Hackberry, which is now a near ghost town on historic Route 66.
Bisbee Competition Fire Department Hose Team - Souvenir piece from July 4th, 1908. Held in Douglas, this was from the Arizona Territory Fire Department Hose Team competition for the Territorial Loving Cup. Bisbee had won the cup the previous year.
R. M. Bruchman - Advertising piece from a long lived trading post and curio shop located in Winslow, Arizona.
Saratoga Cafe - Rare spinner ashtray from a Phoenix, Arizona Cafe which opened in the 1900's and operated until the 1950's. Located at Central Avenue & Washington Street, it is now the location of a Chipotle Mexican Grill. Sad but true.
Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railway and the Prescott & Eastern Railroad - Baggage Shell Tags for the two of the Santa Fe's subsidiary lines in Arizona. The route of the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix was from Ash Fork to Phoenix. The Prescott & Eastern completed its first run in 1898, was 26 miles long running from Entro to the mines at Mayer.
Barkley's Pharmacy - Etched dose glass from the small mining community of Fairfield, Idaho. The town had a population of around 200 people when this glass was used in the 1910's.
Willows Saloon - Two raffle cards used at the Willows Saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. Stevenson & Walker owned the saloon from 1887 to 1890.
Sunny Side Lodging House - Located on Fifth Street between Allen & Toughnut Streets, this lodging house was in business from 1881 to 1884.
Mrs. S. R. Worth - Another boarding house in Tombstone at the time of the Gun Fight at the OK Corral. Mrs. Worth moved to Santa Cruz, California in 1882 and ran the Seaside Home Hotel there.
Al S. Lamb - Ran a drugstore in Aspen, Colorado from 1887 into the 1930's. One of the best animal picture glasses.
Robertson Drug Co. - Operated in the small western Colorado town of Hotchkiss from 1910 to 1919.
McDougall & Cassou Co. - M. C. McDougall & Joe Cassou operated this clothier store starting in late 1901. It operated under that name until 1968. The business had previously been known as McDougall-Gage Co. from 1897 to 1900 & McDougall & Co. in 1901.
Hotel Heidel - Opened in 1908 by John Heidel, the hotel was located at the previous site of the Heidel's Cactus Saloon
Crystal Coca-Cola Bottling Co. - Two early 1930's siphon bottles from a long running Tucson Bottling Works.
Globe, Arizona - A nice souvenir tray from the Central Arizona mining town of Globe.
Two newly acquired very rare drugstore bottles from Arizona. Both have only a couple undamaged examples known.
Tombstone Baseball Association - Organized on April 30th, 1882, the Tombstone team played on a field at Boston Mill. By 1886 a field was constructed in the infield of the fairgrounds horse race track.
M. M. O'Gorman - Business card for an important mining man who represented the Black Diamind Mining Company, located in the Dragoon Mountains east of Tombstone. O'Gorman was a resident of Tombstone in the middle to late 1890's.
Tombstone Social Club - Ticket for the Grand Social Hop held on February 22nd, 1897, in Tombstone, Arizona.
Tombstone Stags - A social club of single businessmen which held events during the mid-1890's in Tombstone.
R. C. Luesley & Co.- An early souvenir china piece with a scene of a waterfall on the Arizona Canal at Phoenix. R. C. Luesley operated a souvenir & novelty store in the 1890's.
Mission Dairy Inc. - A very rare two-color "Cop the Cream" milk bottle from Phoenix. Mission Dairy Company bought the Norton Dairy in 1929 and operated for many years. This is the only milk bottle of this type from Arizona. We found this on a recent trip to New Mexico.
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce - A 1925 pinback to promote national investment in the city of Phoenix as the Gold Spot of America.
Laird & Dines - It took 30+ years to add a 1/2-ounce sized Tempe drugstore bottle to our collection. A very Merry Xmas indeed.
Phoenix Union High School - An early 1900's spirit pin.
Prescott fraternal pins - 1918 Odd Fellows & 1908 Masonic pins.
Tool check tags - Canning & Andrus ran an automobile dealership in Globe, Arizona the 1910's. Babbitt Brothers owned several businesses in Flagstaff, Arizona including general merchandise & lumber production. The Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Company operated in Williams, Arizona in the 1920's.
Salvation Army - Souvenir knife from Capt. Pearl Luce who along with her husband were commanders of the Globe Arizona Salvation Army. They arrived in Globe from Los Angeles in December 1906.
Roosevelt Dam - A souvenir pinback from the early days of the Roosevelt Dam. The Dam was completed in 1911 and is located east of Phoenix on the Salt River.
Santa Rita Hotel - A nice pocket match safe from the Santa Rita Hotel which opened on February 1st, 1904. *Care needs to be taken in collecting these insert type match safes which are being counterfeited. This one comes from a well-known collection and has provenance back to the 1970's.*
Crystal Bottling Works - Very rare 1920's Coca-Cola bottle cap. Business was renamed Crystal Coca-Cola Bottling Works in 1931.
Old Dominion Copper Co. - Enameled safety committee watch fob from a Globe, Arizona copper mining company which operated from 1880 to 1931.
Pedro Aguirre & Co. Co. - 1884 broadside from a stage line that operated from 1880 to 1886 from Tucson to the mines in Southern Arizona.
Frank Connelley - Advertising chauffeur hat coin purse from Frank Connelley who, in Phoenix, managed the Dorris Opera House from 1907 to 1908, and owned The Mission Saloon from 1908 to 1914.
Gila County Cattle Growers Association - Nice celluloid watch fob from mining town of Globe.
H. D. Stuthman - Celluloid advertising notepad from a liquor & beer agent from 1902 to 1905 in Prescott. Stuthman was proprietor of both the Railroad & Grand Saloons with Fred W. Eckert.
Melczer Brothers - A very rare bar top corkscrew from a Phoenix liquor distributor who operated in Phoenix from 1893 to 1915.
Barkley - Berryman Mercantile Co. - Opened in 1897, this partnership lasted until 1898 when Berryman left. The business was then renamed Barkley Brothers.
