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We will stamp your purchases with the original ink stamp used by the Smith family in Skagway, Alaska during the 1998 commemoration that mark the 100th anniversary of Soapy Smith's death (July 8, 1898). This is the same stamp used to mark the postcard of Soapy that all the attending family members signed in which the city had postmarked on the day and sealed it inside a time capsule.
Let us know which item and where you want the stamps placed. This is a self contained pre-inked stamper that cannot be refilled so when the ink runs dry...so does this offer.
Size: 2-1/4" x 3/4" Quantity Available: Until ink is gone
$1.00 (each stamping)
(Fronts and backs shown)
Item: #129 Name: RJS Personalized Chip set
This is a set of three chips (1 white, 1 red, 1 blue) of personalized poker chips of Soapy Smith's grandson, John Randolph Smith, who went by the name of Randolph John Smith. The make is unknown but not plastic or cardboard.
Quantity Available: 20 sets
$ 15.00 set
Item: #100 Name:Jeff Smith's Parlors ad card
This is an authentically reproduced advertisement card for Soapy Smith's saloon in Skagway, Alaska duplicated from an ad that appeared in the June 17, 1898 edition of the Skagway News. These are professionally printed on white business card stock paper. You can learn more about Jeff Smith's Parlor HERE.
This is an authentically reproduced handbill printed on March 8, 1898 by the vigilante Committee of 101 to rid the city of Skagway of Soapy Smith and his gang. You can read more about the Committee of 101 and the Law and Order Society (Committee of 317) HERE. These are printed on tan color stock with antique brown ink.
Size: 8-1/2" x 11" Quantity available: 100
$3.50 ea.
Item:#317 Name:Committee of 317 handbill
This
is an authentically reproduced handbill printed in March 1898 by the Law and Order Society of 317 headed by Soapy Smith in response to the handbill posted by the 101 at left. You can read more about the Committee of 101 and the Law
and Order Society of 317HERE. These are printed on tan color stock with antique brown ink.
Size:8-1/2" x 11" Quantity available:100
$3.50 ea.
Item: #101317 Name: Handbill set
A reduced price offered when you purchase the 101 and 317 handbills as a set.
Quantity available: 100
$6.00 (each set)
Item: #102 Name: Soapy's Soap
This is not real soap. It is a manufactured plaster souvenir item molded in 1977 by John Randolph "Randy" Smith, a grandson of Soapy Smith. Engraved on the top is "SOAPY'S SOAP" and John's own copyright brand, an "R" inside a circle. It was originally made to use in reenactments of the Prize Package Soap Sell Racket and then given out to friends of the family.
Size: The one shown is 1-1/4" x 1-3/4" x 1/2." Sizes vary. Quantity available: 20
$2.00 ea.
(front and back shown)
Item: #103 Name: Soap Wrapper
This Soapy "wrapping paper" was printed in 1977 by John Randolph "Randy" Smith to accompany the plaster soaps (item#102). These were used to wrap up the soap bars in reenactments of the Prize Package Soap Sell Racket. They are printed on both sides, the front has a nice explanation of the soap sell with a duplicate of Soapy's signature taken from a letter in the family collection. John's name and copyright date of 1977 are in the bottom right hand corner. Printed on the back is a pattern of the words, "Soapy's Soap" all over.
These were printed over 30 years ago on thin antiqued tan wrapping stock paper for ease of wrapping the soaps. Age has made them too brittle to use them to wrap the soaps more than a couple of times. These are now being sold as a collectible rather than for actual use.
Size: 7-5/8" x 5-1/2" Quantity available: 20
$2.00 ea.
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
Item: #122 Name: Cafe Navarre menu
A six page wine and drink list for the famed Cafe Navarre owned by "Big Ed" Chase, Denver underworld gambling czar. Dates between 1905-1920. More information and history on the menu and Ed Chase can be supplied to those interested.
Size: 7-1/2" x 9-1/2" Quantity: 1
$100.00
(front and back shown)
Item:#123 Name: Soapy Wake Money
A larger than life twenty dollar bill used for play gambling at the Magic Castle during the July 8, 2007 Soapy Smith Wake. On the face there is a drawing of Soapy and "How are you fixed for soap?" On the back is "The way of the transgressor is hard...to quit." Guests paid five real dollars and receivedone hundred play Soapy dollars to gamble at faro, roulette, blackjack, chuck-a-luck, three-card Monte and the shell game.
Size: 8-1/2" x 3-1/2" Quantity:2
$5.00 ea.
Item:#124 Name: Wake Brochure
A six page brochure made specifically for the Soapy Smith Wake held annually at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California. The first three pages tell a condensed (inaccurate) storyof Soapy's life. Pages 4-5 explain faro and how to play as faro is a popular game played at the Wake in Hollywood. The last page tells about the Scholl for Scoundrels which hosts the event.
Size: 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" Quantity: 1
$10.00
BOOKS
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COMING SOON
Item: #18601898 Name: Alias Smith - The Life and Death of a Scoundrel, The Biography of Jefferson Randolph Smith II, by Jeff Smith
The good and bad sides of Jefferson R. Smith are fully exposed in this twenty year plus project in what is without doubt the most historically researched accounting of the exciting life and death led by "Soapy" Smith, the king of the frontier con men. This book utilizes the thousands of never before published personal and business letters and documents and photographs residing in the private collections of the Smith family, as well as close to 100 years of family research.
Item: #117 Name: Tombstone Times
The December 2005 issue of this little newspaper with the headline story about Soapy written by Jeff Smith, entitled, The "Sure thing Man." This 22 page issue also contains articles relating to Tombstone characters, including the Clantons.
Author, Howard Clifford. Nice illiustrated book on the history of Skagway, Alaska with a nice amount of Soapy related material with photographs.
Size: 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" Pages: 167 Published: 1975 Quantity: 2
$10.00 ea.
Item: #119 Name: Hell At White Pass (paperback)
Paperback. Fictional story by author Cy Martin about Soapy's confrontations with a railroad man in Skagway, Alaska.
Jeff Smith signed this copy. A previous owner glued a clipping about Soapy from another book onto the inside page. Another like clipping is about Bob Ford, Calamity Jane and Bat Masterson.
Size: 4" x 7" Pages: 208 Published: 1973 Quantity: 1
$10.00
Item: #120 Name: Soapy (paperback)
Paperback. Fictionalized story by author Mike Miller about Soapy in Skagway, Alaska
Size: 4" x 7" Pages: 126 Published: 1970 Quantity: 1
$10.00
Item: #121 Name: The Soapy Smith Tragedy (booklet)
1972 reproduction of a 1907 booklet published by the Skaguay Daily Alaskan.
Ink stamped on the cover and on the inside cover is the personal stamp of Randolph J. Smith (a grandson of Soapy) and wife Dorothy, for "The Jefferson Randolph 'Soapy' Smith Collection." This stamp no longer exist.
Size: 6" x 8-8/2" Pages: 27 Quantity: 1
$25.00
Item:#125 Name: Days of 98 Show program
A 1978 8-page program to the Days of 98 Show, also known as the Soapy Smith show. Information on the show, ads, Photos, etc. Size: 8-1/2" x 11" Quantity:2
$10.00 ea.
Item:#126 Name: Soapy Smith Bad Man & Bluffer
"LIMITED TO 150 COPIES!" A 1973, 21-page extract from The Pacific Monthly, October 1908. Tales of Noted Frontier Characters, "Soapy" Smith, Bad Man and Bluffer, by Don Steffa. Illustrated.
Size: 8-1/2" x 11" Quantity:1
$25.00
Item:#127 Name: Soapy Smith's Creede
A 1973 23-page illustrated booklet by Historian Leland Feitz about Soapy's Creede, Colorado days.
Size: 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" Quantity:1
$20.00
Item:#128 Name: A Quick History of Creede
A 1969 48-page illustrated booklet by Historian Leland Feitz about Creede, Colorado from 1892 to 1969.
Size: 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" Quantity:2
$15.00 ea.
Item: #130 Name: Tara Kane
Special Note: Inside cover has the Soapy Smith Collection ink stamp with name of Soapy's grandson, Randolph J. Smith (John Randolph Smith). Aslo on inner page has signiture and message to friend of great grandson, Jeff Smith.
A 1978 409 page historical novel about a woman who ventures to Alaska and the Klondike searching for her husband. Soapy Smith is a top main character. I won't give away the story and surprise ending.
Condition: The book is in great condition but the dust jacket is frayed around the edges. See photograph. Size: 9-1/4" x 6-1/2" Quantity available: 1
$20.00
PHOTOGRAPHS
Item: #110 Name: Soapy's Gang (Photo)
b&w glossy photograph of nine members of the gang being deported from Skagway after Soapy's death.
Size:5" x 7" Quantity available:3
$12.00 ea.
Item: #111 Name:Soapy's grave (Photo) Sepiatone photograph of Soapy's second grave marker about 1917-1919.
Size:5" x 7" Quantity availble:1
12.00
Item: #112 Name: Creede corner (photo)
b&w photograph of busy corner in Creede, Colorado, 1892. This photo was reprinted in 1987.
Size: 5" x 7" Quantity available: 1
$20.00
Item: #113
Name: Creede from above (photo)
b&w photograph taken from a mountain top in 1892. This photo was reprinted in 1987.
Size:5" x 7"
Quantity available: 1
$20.00
Item: #114
Name: Train arrives in Creede (photo)
b&w photograph of train arrival in Creede, Colorado in 1892. This photo was reprinted in 1987.
Size: 5" x 7"
Quantity available: 1
$20.00
Item: #115
Name: Creede after fire (photo) b&w photograph taken in Creede, 1892 after the fire. This photo was reprinted in 1987.
Size: 5" x 7"
Quantity available: 1
$20.00
Item: #116
Name: Creede business district (photo)
b&w photograph of Creede business district.This photo was reprinted in 1987.
Size: 5" x 7"
Quantity available: 1
$20.00
POSTCARDS
Item: #104 Name: Soapy Museum PC
Photo postcard of the Soapy Smith Museum operated by George Rapuzzi in the years he owned itand . The picture and card date between 1960-1970.
Size: 5-1/2" x 3-1/2" Quantity available: 1
$10.00
Item: #105 Name: Soapy's Skull PC
Colorized photo postcard of Soapy's skull, a natural formation on the hillside over looking Skagway, Alaska. Dates between 1925-1950.
Size: 5-1/2" x 3-1/2" Quantity available: 1
$10.00
Item: #106 Name: Soapy on horseback PC
Photo postcard of Soapy on his horse on the morning of July 7, 1898 (even though inscription says July 4). Believed to be the last photo taken of him while alive. Postcard dates from 1970s.
Size: 5-1/2" x 3-1/2" Quantity available: 3
$10.00 ea.
Item: #107 Name: Soapy Tragedy PC
Photo postcard of 1900s print "Actors & Scenes of the Soapy Smith Tragedy." Ten photos depicting events related to the Soapy Smith shooting. The original hung in Jeff Smith's Parlor Museum. Postcard dates from the 1970s.
Size: 5-1/2" x 3-1/2" Quantity available: 3
$10.00 ea.
Item: #108 Name: Famous Skagway Graves PC
Photo postcard showing graves of Soapy Smith and Frank Reid. A new marker was placed on Soapy's grave in 1997. Postcard dates from the 1980s.
Size: 4-1/16" x 5-13/16" Quantity available: 2
$10.00 ea.
Item: #109 Name: Cripple Creek PC
Photo postcard of Cripple Creek in 1894 before the big fire and just about the time Soapy was there.
Size: 4-1/4" x 5-7/8" Quantity available: 1
$10.00
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