Best of the West: Antiques & Native American Auction November 12th, 2022

For your consideration is this collection of Jones Glassworks Fused Copper Dragonfly & Glass Plates, four (4), and a fused copper & glass vo...

For your consideration is this Vintage Blue & White Chinoiserie Porcelain Foot Bath Basin with Double Handles. The scene depicted is that of a l...

For your consideration is this Early American Primitive Hand-made Wood Boot Jack, circa 1850s. Provenance tag indicates the boot jack came from an Ea

Featured in this lot is this 1932 first edition copy of Gold in Them Hills by C. B. Glasscock. The book was published in 1932 by the Bobbs-Merril Comp

For your consideration is this 1926 first edition The Saga of Billy the Kid by Walter Noble Burns. This book is about the early life of Billy the Kid.

The lot features a set of sterling earrings with amazing Fox Turquoise from Navajo artist Jennifer Begay. The set shows a sterling silver construction

Featured in this lot is a beautiful Septarian Nodule cabochon set in sterling silver on a liquid silver strand from master Navajo silversmith Herbert

Featured in this lot is this sterling silver and white agate cabochon bracelet from Navajo artist Herbert Tsosie. The bracelet features a wonderfully

This is a sterling silver bangle bracelet that is in a Cartier Love style by a Taxco, Mexico silversmith, as stamped. The bracelet shows a hinged bang

The bracelet shows a feather design in sterling silver micro inlaid with pink Opals from a Navajo Artist. The bracelet is signed AN Sterling and shows

Offered in this lot is an Original Member Montana Farm Bureau George Leffingwell Tin Sign. "MEMBER MONTANA FARM BUREAU GEORGE LEFFINGWELL"...

Featured in this lot we have a Yellowstone National Park souvenir pillow case titled scenic wonders. The piece depicts a grizzly bear at the center w

Featured in this lot is this 1 gallon stoneware striped bottled crock circa 1930's. The crock features a wonderfully and professionally crafted ...

Featured in this lot is this 1 gallon stoneware glazed bottled crock circa 1920's. This crock features a wonderfully and professionally crafted ...

Featured in this lot are two heavy Navajo sterling silver, twisted rope bracelets. The first bracelet shows a closed link sterling silver "S&q...

Featured in this lot is this Mexican silver multistone segmented bracelet circa 1960's. The bracelet features a segmented design that is wonderf...

The lot features two matching bracelets handmade of copper and set with turquoise from Navajo artist G. Skeets. Each is signed G. Skeets and shows a s

Featured in this lot is a beautiful sterling and sleeping beauty turquoise cuff bracelet by Navajo silversmith Max Calabaza. The bracelet cuff is made

The lot features an original sterling silver bracelet set with Candelaria Turquoise by Navajo artist Herbert Tsosie. The bracelet is signed HT STERLIN

Featured in this lot is this Navajo sterling silver scalloped concho earrings. The earrings feather a wonderfully and professionally crafted sterling

For your consideration is a signed original, "The Indian Coast" by Elton Bennett, a silkscreen or what he called "the gentle art of s...

Offered in this lot is an Original Limited Edition Signed framed lithograph, "Old Trucks & Good Dogs" by Larry Chandler, #26/4750, 199...

Included in this lot is an Original Limited Edition Signed Lithograph, "Winter Peace" by William Redd Taylor, #150/950. William Redd Taylo...

Featured in this lot is this framed oil painting of a man and dog chasing down two stray cows by Margie Jackson born 1934 and died 2021 circa 2004. Th

Featured in this lot is this 1931 Rare First Edition, Collectors Edition, "The Real 'Wild Bill' Hickok" by Wilbert E. Eiselle. &qu...

Featured in this lot are these two wedding band diamond and 14k yellow gold rings circa 1969. There are two wedding bands in this lot. The first ring

Featured in this lot are various brands and models of manual and automatic vintage fly reels. They are: South Bend No. 550 Model G (2" dia.), S...

Featured in this lot is this Navajo solid sterling silver twisted rope bracelet. The bracelet features a wonderfully and professionally crafted sterli

The lot features four pieces of circa 1940-1950's Navajo jewelry with an iconic petit point turquoise pattern in silver. The largest piece is th...

For your consideration is this 1950-1960s canvas fishing bag with water-proof liner and cover. The bag is worn from age but still in working condition

Featured in this lot is this Tarahumara Rarámuri Mexican olla pottery vessel. The pottery vessel shows a wonderfully and professionally crafted...

Featured in this lot is this Navajo cyrstal eye dazzler rug circa 1970's. The rug shows a wonderfully and professionally crafted tight woven woo...

Featured in this lot is this Agate Basin lanceolate point aged from the transitional Paleo period and from 10,200 - 8,500 B.P. The point is a long and

Featured in this lot we have a collection of natural petrified wood with mineral deposit sites. The collection consists of four pieces of petrified wo

Offered in this lot is this vintage Large Chinoiserie Asian Couple Blue White Porcelain Figurines. Chinoiserie was once the most coveted fashion of th

The lot features an original handmade pottery vase with incised geometric pattern and scalloped top edge signed with a bird effigy signature by Darlen

For your consideration is a Primitive Wooden Caddy with Handle Separated Compartments, circa early 19th Century. Caddy style and construction is remin

For your consideration this lot has Edward S. Curtis prints from his monumental work, "The North American Indian"; more than 2200 photos a...

Featured in this lot is this Montana professional taxidermy mule deer hide. The hide shows a wonderfully and professionally crafted taxidermy creation

Featured in this lot is an antique JC Higgins Western Ranch Saddle, circa mid 1900s. From 1908 until 1962, Sears, Roebuck & Company sold a varie...

This lot includes a beautifully framed and two-sided collection of twenty-five (25) "Celebrated Indian Chiefs" trading cards by Allen &...

Featured in this lot is an early edition of Winston Churchill's book titled "The Crossing". The book was published by Grosset & Du...

Featured in this lot is the First Edition of, “The Story of Yellowstone Geysers” by Clyde Max Bauer, Ph.D., 1937. This book features

The lot features two original Navajo Jennifer Begay necklaces both set with Rhodochrosite from Colorado. Both necklace pendants are signed JB STERLING

Presented in this lot is a vintage Black Hills Gold Yellow Gold Band 10K Ring, Ca. 1970s, size 7. Black Hills gold jewelry is a type of jewelry manufa

The lot features a set of sterling silver feather dangle earrings with two spots of Turquoise from a Navajo artist. The back is signed R. Sam Sterlin

Featured in this lot is this gorgeous moonstone pendant set in sterling silver with a 925 Italian box link sterling chain by Navajo silversmith Albert

For your consideration this lot includes a Mid Century Modern Light Green Spinel and 10K White Gold ring, size 5 1/2. Round brilliant cut, fine clarit

Featured in this lot is this majestic American bald eagle pewter sculpture c. 1988. This pewter sculpture features a wonderfully and professionally cr

Offered in this lot is a vintage Hand-carved Blackthorn Walking Stick. A species of flowering plant in the rose family, native to Europe, Blackthorn w

Presented in this lot is a Hand-Made 14" Orthoceras Fossil Stoneware Bowl crafted out of a solid block of what was once the bottom of a 450 mil...

Featured in this lot we have an early edition Chronic Disease by Dr. W.H. Burgess and copyrighted in 1907. Chronic Disease The Natural Method of Diagn

Featured in this lot we have a Pioneer Surgeons of the Woman's Hospital by James Pratt Marr and originating from 1957. The book was printed by F...

Featured in this lot we have a collection of Ohio metal car license plates originating from the 1960's to 1970's. The collection consists of...

Offered in this lot is an Original C. R. Anthony 100% Wool Blanket, in a classic trade blanket black, yellow, green and red stripe design against a cr

Included in this lot is Hanging Mirror reproduction of the original Charles M. Russell water color, "At The End Of The Rope", made for the...

Included in this lot is an Original 1917 Montana License Plate. Painted in the original military green paint background and red paint letters and numb

Featured in this lot is a Vintage Original Reverse Painted Glass Panel for a wall hung sign. Philco (an acronym for Philadelphia Battery Company) was

Included in this lot we have a Amarillo Art Center painting by Amado Maurilio Pena Jr. originating from the late 1900's. Amado Maurilio Pena Jr....

Featured in this lot is an original autumn harvest landscape painting by Edward J. Ray, titled "Mt. Chocorua & Chocorua Lake". The pai...

For your consideration is this 1989 lithograph called "Great Montana Cattle Drive" by Jeanie Southworth. The lithograph shows colorful and...

Featured in this lot is this graphite on paper called "60 Years in the Saddle," by artist Margie Jackson born in 1934 and died in 2021. Th...

Featured in this lot is this 1955 Christmas copy of “War Path and Bivouac: The Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition” by John F. Finer

Featured in this lot is this 1889 illustrated copy of “Sword and Pen or Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier, (The Soldier-Author,) in

Featured in this lot is this 10 x 36 Gros Louis Canadian wooden snow shoes. These shoes are made of a light wood and sinew with leather wrapping. The

Featured in this lot we have a Masai Afircan beaded leather water jug canteen originating from the 1920's to 1930's. This water canteen feat...

Included in this lot is an Original Inupiaq Woven Basket made by Native American Inupiat Beulah Ballot, Buckland, Alaska. The Inupiaq people are known

The lot features a beaded Indian tanned hide tomahawk or dance club drop from the Plains Indians dating to mid-1900's. The hide is Indian tanned...

The lot features a tomahawk axe having a forged iron head, carved haft, pewter inlay, and engraved features being marked Red Eagle 1881 and likely dat

The lot features a forged iron tomahawk with weeping heart cutout at the center, from the 20th Century. The head shows signs of being blacksmith forge

Featured in this lot is this Paiute Indians willow woven water Tus circa 1900's. The water Tus is wonderfully and professionally crafted from wo...

Featured in this lot is this fully beaded coin purse from the Flathead Plateau tribe circa 1930-1940's. This is a beautiful coin purse that show...

This lot includes a 1856 copy of “Life, Explorations and Public Service of John Charles Fremont.” By Charles Wentworth Upham. John C

Featured in this lot is this 1901 copy of Sportsman's Club In The Saddle by Harry Castlemon. The book features stories and tales from the sporti...

Featured in this lot is are two (2) Vintage Original Philco Radio Reverse Painted Glass Panels for a wall hung sign. Philco (an acronym for Philadelph

Featured in this lot is this Brookins service station oil tin circa 1930's. The oil tin features a wonderfully and professionally crafted tin co...

Featured in this lot we have a pair of large uncut natural Montana quartz geodes. The piece shows large crystal formations with striations in the crys

Featured in this lot is a Vintage English Silver Manufacturing Company Footed Serving Platter, circa 1950-1970. The English Silver Mfg Co of Brooklyn,

Featured in this lot we have a silver and pewter hand chain multi ring bracelet. The piece displays cast silver and pewter construction with a chain d

Featured in this lot is this Estados Unidos Mexicanos Pesos bracelet circa 1958-1961. The bracelet features a wonderfully and professionally crafted p

The lot features a fantastic sterling silver necklace strung with liquid silver and set with Noreena Jasper by Navajo artist Starr Bird. The pendant i

Featured in this lot is this Carico Lake turquoise necklace from Navajo artist Johnny Johnson. The necklace features a wonderfully and professionally

Featured in this lot we have a Boston maker Wakefield percussion cap sporting rifle with a .64 gauge barrel. The rifle was manufactured in the mid to

For your consideration is this beautiful Beaver State Pendleton Indian trade blanket with fringe. The banded blanket is primarily brown with bands con

Two coyote skulls and one wolf skull. One coyote skull is in near perfect condition with only two front teeth and one side tooth missing on the bottom

Featured in this lot is this bronze sculpture titled "Eagle Dancer," by Tom Knapp born 1925 and died 2016. The bronze features a wonderful...

Featured in this lot is a Tribe America Buffalo Bone Hairpipe Fringed Buckskin Vest, Ivory/Cream colour, size 14 women's. Beautiful craftsmanshi...

Featured in this lot is this Agate Bason Plano Lanceolate cluster aged from the Transitinoal Paleo period and from the 10,550 - 9,350 B.P. The point f

Included in this lot is an early 1900's women's Yellowstone Range Rider souvenir powder compact. This is a grass green compact that depicts ...

This is an original key wind sterling silver pocket watch dating to circa 1866 from J.T. of Chester, England. Interior of the back case has silversmit

Featured in this lot is this Dala Precisions Ankarur pocket watch and British sterling silver pocket watch circa1902 & 1892. There are two watch...

Presented in this lot is a Victorian Schoenhut Toy Upright Piano, circa late 19th century, wooden toy upright piano with seven keys, decorated with a

This lot includes a Victorian Meriden Brittania Co. Silver-plated Footed Pitcher, matte finish. Also included are one silver-plated cake and pie serve

In this lot is included a collection of eighty-five (85) Montana State Seal Career Uniform Brass Buttons. When the War of 1812 interrupted the supply

Offered in this lot is a Montana Sheepskin Hide Fur Rug. This creamy white coloured sheepskin hide rug is luxurious to the touch, the wool is thick. M

Offered in this lot is a Rare Folk Art Hand Carved Walking Stick with Wood Duck Headed Handle. The painted turned shaft is graduated downwards from th

Offered in this lot is this 19th Century Americana Child's Snow Sled. Antique American Pine and iron child's snow sled with iron runners and...

Presented in this lot is a vintage Large Blue and White Chinoiserie Mt. Fugi Egg, unknown artist. It has a crisp white background with cobalt blue acc

Offered in this lot is this Cast Iron Kenton Brand Union Bank, circa 1900. This very small antique cast iron bank, in the form of a safe, is called a

Featured in this lot is are three (3) 1800s coverlet pattern designs. A coverlet is a catch-all term for a mid-size blanket. By mid-size, we mean larg