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Fall 2025 Auction
October 03, 2025 7:00 AM PT - October 12, 2025 7:00 PM PT
Bidding Will Begin Friday October 3rd. Don't forget to add your shipping address when registering (if you registered in a previous auction, you do not need to re-register). Additional photos can be seen once you click into the lot details page for each item. The 10 minute timer starts at 6:50 PM. If no bids between 6:50 and 7 PM, the lot closes at 7 PM. If any bids after 6:50 PM, the new lot close time will be extended by 10 minutes.
L & V
1850s. A nice medium green graphite pontiled L&V from Stockton, CA. Little to no casewear and possibly uncleaned. There is one small open bubble near the L and one scratch on the edge of the front base, but overall, a solid example of this pontiled soda. See photos.
Lot # 1
Winning Bid
$325.00
Empire Soda Works Vallejo
1870s. With an Eagle on the reverse. This example is a strong fire aqua and generally problem free with some whittle and light amber striations.
Lot # 2
Winning Bid
$300.00
Pacific Congress Water
A solid example of a popular Western soda in a medium aqua and full of seed bubbles. This is the variant without the deer on the reverse and dates from the late 1860s into the early 1870s. Small open bubble on base, see photos.
Lot # 3
Winning Bid
$100.00
Owen Casey Eagle Soda Works / Sac City
1870s. A classic Sacramento soda. This example is just loaded with whittle, a few larger bubbles, and even an amber streak or two. Unfortunately, there is a 3/8" crack/bruise on the edge of the base, but the good news is that you can't really see the damage when the bottle is displayed. See photos.
Lot # 4
Winning Bid
$210.00
Henry Winkle Sac. City
A very early iron pontiled Gold Rush soda from Sacramento dating to 1852 with two large Xs on the reverse. This is a solid example of a pontiled soda with occasional small fisheyes, or flea bites typical of pontiled sodas. Overall, much better than your average Henry Winkle.
Lot # 5
Winning Bid
$275.00
The Excelsior Water
Iron pontiled and from San Francisco. It's difficult finding pontiled sodas that have not been professionally cleaned. This is one of them and it still retains a touch of interior dirt that the original digger left inside. No casewear, just a tiny chip off the edge of the base, a pinhead flake off the edge of the lip, and a 1/16" bruise on the top of the lip. See photos.
Lot # 6
Winning Bid
$550.00
Hollister & Co Honolulu
1870s. Here is an aqua Hollister soda from Hawaii. There is a nice amber streak in the neck and a good sized drip on the top. These sodas were blown in San Francisco for this famous Honolulu company (note the notorious Western curved R). This example has some small flea bites on the top, drip, and the surface of the bottle. Not perfect, but an overall solid example of this scarce soda in a deep color.
Lot # 7
Winning Bid
$325.00
Golden Gate
Iron pontiled with slug plate. Believed to be from Yankee Jims in California's Gold Country, these sodas are popular with collectors for their iconic name. This is in exceptional condition with essentially no casewear and faint interior stain, a top example.
Lot # 8
Winning Bid
$550.00
G.M. Henderson's Bonanza Mineral Water Mendocino Cal
An early 1890s soda with a great name from Mendocino, California! Tooled top with some very light shovel scuffs on the reverse.
Lot # 9
Winning Bid
$300.00
Pacific Soda Works / San Francisco
While at first this looks like a common Classen soda, look again, and you will find that the reverse is embossed 'San Francisco' and 'Classen' is nowhere to be seen. The bottle is an entirely different mold (an exponentially rarer) with other subtle variations to the embossing pattern. This variant likely dates to the late 1860s when Classen left the business and usually comes out of the ground with shiny Western glass.
Lot # 10
Winning Bid
$100.00
Eagle Soda
1850s, Iron pontiled and medium green with an embossed Eagle, these are believed to be a Sacramento bottle. Nice whittle with medium casewear. On the inside base of the bottle there is an open bubble that likely opened during manufacturing. Better than most examples of this soda. This is the variant without the slugplate.
Lot # 11
Winning Bid
$325.00
Napa Soda Phil Caduc / Natural Mineral Water
These Sacramento sodas begin in the 1860s and run into the 1870s. The longer necked examples like this are believed to be the oldest examples. This one is an odd greenish aqua and generally has no issues.
Lot # 12
Winning Bid
$60.00
Empire Soda Works San Francisco
A classic 1860s San Francisco Soda. While aqua Empire sodas are not rare, it is very difficult finding an uncleaned example with no issues and a great strike like this one. An upgrade for most collectors.
Lot # 13
Winning Bid
$120.00
M. Mooney Visalia
1870s. A scarce soda from the central California valley town of Visalia. A few miniscule ticks around the base edge and a small fisheye on the side of the lip. Light interior stain.
Lot # 14
Winning Bid
$190.00
W.H. Burt San Francisco
Iron pontil, circa early 1850s. Yet another pontiled soda in above average condition, this example has minimal casewear and no issues. There is light interior stain and some dirt under the top leading to the conclusion that this soda was never professionally polished like the vast majority of pontiled sodas dug on the West Coast. A very strong example.
Lot # 15
Winning Bid
$275.00
Chase & Co Mineral Water San Francisco Cal
Iron pontiled, circa early 1850s. Medium green. Average casewear with small fisheyes here and there. There is a small patch of missing glass above the O in Co. See photos.
Lot # 16
Winning Bid
$160.00
A.W. Cudworth & Co. San Francisco
1850s, Iron pontiled. Better condition than most sodas this age with light casewear and some amber striations. A great example!
Lot # 17
Winning Bid
$300.00
C & K Eagle Soda Works Sac City
Medium blue, circa mid 1860s. A classic Sacramento soda that is often riddled with case wear, over polished, or both. This example is better than most with light wear and no major issues.
Lot # 18
Winning Bid
$400.00
Classen & Co. Sparkling
With embossed anchors. Circa mid 1860s. These sodas don't show up very often anymore. They are often in very rough shape, but this example is better than most with a few areas of wear and the occasional fisheye. On the top there are two tiny pecks, see photos.
Lot # 19
Winning Bid
$210.00
Jackson's Napa Soda
Circa 1870s. A strong example of a blue Jacksons in a darker than average shade with nice crudity. There is a small 1/8" potstone with associated bruise on the reverse shoulder, see photos.
Lot # 20
Winning Bid
$550.00