Lot 222
Strawberry Valley Account Book From the Pony Express Museum, Leather and suede journal from Strawberry Valley (Yuba County, California), a town founded in 1851. The attractive journal, which is 14 x 9 inches and 1½ in. thick, with marbled end pages and edges, probably belonged to the general store. It lists customers between 1871-73, what they bought and how much they paid. Stamps on front end pages say "W. Parker Lyon's Pony Express Arcadia, Cal." and a handwritten note reads, "Sales book given me by John Bean at Strawberry Valley 1938." W. Parker Lyons operated the Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, California from 1935-55. The museum was a copy of the station and general store in Sonoma, California as it looked in 1850 and exhibited original artifacts from the Old West, including the Pony Express and Gold Rush eras, such as a stage coach, a one-cell jail, safes, gold scales, and a barber's chair with bloodstains from a man who had been shot dead in it.
Estimated Value $250 - 350
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| Realized $300 |
