PLEASE NOTICE !!!!
In Accordance with the Laws & the California State Board of Equalization.......
*** WE COLLECT CALIFORNIA SALES TAX........Unless you have a VALID resale permit on file with us.
If you DO have a valid resale certificate, then PLEASE bring your certificate and paperwork to show us........OR YOU WILL BE CHARGED SALES TAX !!
We verify certificates ON SITE (on smart phone) at the State Board of Equalization website !!!!
Any estate seller who is NOT charging, and remitting, sales tax to the state of CA, is breaking the law.
*** PLEASE NOTICE.......We hand out numbers 1 hour prior to the opening of the sale to those who are PHYSICALLY IN LINE. If you chose to place a marker to hold a place in line before numbers, then you MUST stay around the property to watch over your marker. The estate sale staff is NOT AT ALL respondsible for unattended markers or if you are NOT there when we hand out numbers.
PAYMENTS:
Cash
Personal checks
Credit cards accepted over $25((under $100 there is a $2 bank service fee))
EVERYTHING will be sold......."AS IS" & "WHERE IS" and that's how we sell it.....(did you see how I did that?)
There are NO returns so PLEASE.......look over your purchases carefully BEFORE buying. Please inspect your purchases BEFORE buying.......there are NO RETURNS for any reason. Once it leaves the house, it does not come back !!
NOTHING will be pre-sold !! Everything you see in the photos is what is at the sale !! (( unless the family decided to keep something at the last minute, after all, it is their stuff ))
You MUST bring your own truck, tools & help......we DO NOT help you remove large items.
Our staff is NOT your labor.......we have a sale to run.
ALL items that you purchase "MUST" be removed from the property by the end of the sale !!
PLEASE..........BE COURTEOUS TO OTHERS AROUND YOU.
We want everyone to have a wonderful experience.
We really appreciate your business and patronage.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOYALTY AND THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING WITH US !!
Dan, Suki, Amy & Andrew and the rest of us

WELCOME FRIENDS !!

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We have an AWESOME historic California Gold Rush era auction for you.

One of the important aspects of this auction is that Francis Hamlin vowed to himself that beginning on Jan 1st 1853, he was going to keep a written daily diary of his life during the California Gold Rush until his death in 1902.......and HE DID !!!  Francis was considered to be one of the true Argonauts. 

"Gold! Gold! There is gold here"

A very well preserved, historical, multi-generational family collection of unique and wonderful items.

This is an exciting historical find and includes one of the largest collections of California Gold Rush manuscripts and diaries that have ever come up on the market. The diaries span 50 years of the life of a California ‘49’er,  Francis Hamlin. Francis was a relative of Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President, Hannibal Hamlin. Diaries include his amazing overland trip diary starting in Ohio and all the way out to the gold mines of California. 

This family story begins back in England in the 1630's when Francis’s ancestors came to the United States, landing in Barnstable, MA, an early Plymouth Colony. This collection spans more than 5 major wars, and many minor ones, and continues all the way through the mid 1940's with a majority of the items from the early California and the Gold Rush era.

Since this was the "Wild West", there is also a collection of 27 firearms that are in this auction. Every single firearm, as well as all every single items in this auction, have been passed down through the family.

The Thrasher family is also highlighted in this collection and we have a gold rush letter, many correspondences, photos including the Civil War poll tax receipt of William Thrasher.

The consignor is also a direct descendant of Luther Ashley. Luther Ashley served in the Civil War on the Union side. The Ashley's side of the family were successful miners who ran mines from the 1880’s well into the 1950's.

Robert Ashley, who’s estate these items came from, was the direct descendant of all of these families

And here today, we present to you in its entirety, this historic collection to bid on.

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