Colorado Artifacts
Objects from everyday life in Colorado’s mining towns and early cities: saloon whiskey jugs and flasks, bottles, souvenir china, union and fraternal pieces, pins, advertising and other three-dimensional history. These pieces carry the names of real businesses and people, a Crested Butte saloon keeper, a Leadville liquor dealer, a mining union, and many are the only surviving trace of them. I research the names and addresses on each artifact using city directories and other records, and that history goes into the description along with dimensions, maker’s marks where present, and an honest account of condition, chips and wear. Several pieces here come from towns I have studied for decades. They suit collectors of Western Americana, local historians, and anyone with a connection to a particular Colorado town.
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Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Colorado Gold Platinum Pin and Gold Railway Pass S. K. Hooper 1890 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Colorado Gold Platinum Pin and Gold Railway Pass S. K. Hooper 1890
$95,000.00 -
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night, Inscribed First Edition 1934 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night, Inscribed First Edition 1934
$150,000.00 -
Colorado Springs Colorado City & Manitou Bird’s-Eye View Map on Denver & Rio Grande Railroad 1874 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
Colorado Springs Colorado City & Manitou Bird’s-Eye View Map on Denver & Rio Grande Railroad 1874
$2,500.00 -
Colorado Springs Board of Trade and Mining Exchange, Western Lithograph Company 1895 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
Colorado Springs Board of Trade and Mining Exchange, Western Lithograph Company 1895
$1,750.00 -
Douglass City, Colorado Saloon, Hagerman Tunnel Construction Cabinet Card Photograph 1886 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
Douglass City, Colorado Saloon, Hagerman Tunnel Construction Cabinet Card Photograph 1886
$600.00 -
Ouray Colorado Cascade Grocery Advertising Bottle & Plate 1900
$995.00 -
Peak Eight, Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado Souvenir Plate 1900 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
Peak Eight, Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado Souvenir Plate 1900
$400.00 -
Smuggler Mill & Mine Telluride Mining District San Miguel County Colorado Souvenir Plate 1907 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
Smuggler Mill & Mine Telluride Mining District San Miguel County Colorado Souvenir Plate 1907
$400.00 -
United Mine Workers of America Brotherhood Cup 1900
$0.00 -
Colorado Agricultural College Ft. Collins Colorado Bird’s-Eye View Panoramic Lithograph 1880 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
Colorado Agricultural College Ft. Collins Colorado Bird’s-Eye View Panoramic Lithograph 1880
$0.00 -
La Veta Hotel Gunnison Colorado Antique Souvenir China Bowl 1905 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
La Veta Hotel Gunnison Colorado Antique Souvenir China Bowl 1905
$450.00 -
Deep Rock Water Company Acid-Etched Seltzer Bottle Denver Colorado 1925 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
Deep Rock Water Company Acid-Etched Seltzer Bottle Denver Colorado 1925
$450.00 -
Golden Colorado Territory Cheney’s Saloon & Hotel Gold Regions Series Anthony Bros Stereo View Photograph 1861 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
Golden Colorado Territory Cheney’s Saloon & Hotel Gold Regions Series Anthony Bros Stereo View Photograph 1861
$500.00 -
Ouray Colorado Bird’s-Eye View Original Photograph Lutes 1903
$1,250.00 -
Hayden Survey Colorado Atlas Original 1881 Edition
$0.00 -
San Luis Valley Colorado Promotional Book A. R. Pelton & C. W. Erdlen 1891 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
San Luis Valley Colorado Promotional Book A. R. Pelton & C. W. Erdlen 1891
$1,350.00
