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The West Rides Again: Tombstone Museum Part II, Western Art & Navajo Treasures

Sat, Nov 15, 2025 11:00AM EST
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Join North American Auction Company on November 15th for Part II of the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum Collection with other rare items. This extraordinary sale features the largest private collection of Tombstone history, including rare and historic pieces tied to Wyatt Earp, the Earp Brothers, and the infamous Cochise Cowboys. From original artifacts, outlaw relics, and C.S. Fly photographs, this is a can’t-miss event for collectors of the Old West’s most legendary chapter.
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Lot 784

Signed AP News Membership Certificate 1919

Estimate: $600 - $800
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$125

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Featured in this lot is an Antique Signed Original AP News Membership Certificate for the Bisbee Daily Review Newspaper, circa July 7, 1919. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona. This certificate of membership names John M. Ross as receiving permission to publish AP News stories for the town of Bisbee and the surrounding area, up to 30 miles. The certificate is signed by then AP News president Frank B. Noyes as well as AP Secretary and General Manager, Melville Stone. It's numbered "No. 3433" at the top right corner, with the official Associated Press seal affixed to the bottom left corner. The Bisbee Daily Review had its beginnings in 1896 as The Weekly Orb, an independent newspaper that ran until 1898 when it became The Arizona Daily Orb. After a number of editorial and political transitions, in 1902 it became the Bisbee Daily Review. The paper provided mining news from every county in Arizona, ownership eventually owned all the daily's in Arizona's southeastern mining districts. As the prominent daily newspaper, the Daily Review would have covered the July 3, 1919 Bisbee Riot between local police and soldiers from the Fort Huachuca US Army 10th Cavalry, Buffalo Soldiers. The certificate is mounted in a painted wood frame, the reverse which has a photocopy of the abbreviated membership certificate. Tombstone Western Heritage Museum code at top right corner, "X65". The certificate is in good overall condition, age tanning exhibited. Visible image measures 13.5"W x 13.625"L, frame is 15.375"W x 15.625"L x .75"D. Combined 2lb, 14oz.

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