Great American July Auction

Two embossed early blasting caps for the Repauno Chemical Company. Scarce. State: City: HWAC#: 46861 Date:

Two blasting powder boxes, one of vertical Trojan powder box for 50 pounds, the other an unmarked company box. State: City: HWAC#: 46454 Date

Western Powder Company of Salt Lake City issued this 77 page book "Detonators for High Explosive: A handbook on blasting caps electric blasting...

Six different blasting cap tins from seven different companies. MC, Gold Medal, Hercules, Brown, Illinois, Nobel, Atlas. All nice. State: City:

Collection of 14 miscellaneous blasting cap tins. Dupont, Atlas, Hercules. State: City: HWAC#: 46876 Date:

Nice collection of 10 different tins. Collection includes six round tins, three rectangular, and one cardboard. Excellent condition, please inspect.

The most interesting tin is the 1.25" diameter "100 Primers, No.2.' From the U. C. C. Company. 2) Hercules #8 Blasting caps in a large...

Explosifs Minelite, Societe Anoyme Francaise. Issued in 1928. State: Foreign City: HWAC#: 47854 Date:

"Colliery Explosions and Recovery Work" By J.W. Whitaker, c.1946, hardback, 230 pages, 5 1/2 x 9 inches. Textbook in the Mining Certifica...

Three old advertising pieces for explosives: 1) "Explosives for Blasting: How to use them what they will do" a brochure by Arthur Kirk &am...

Two dynamite boxes, one DuPont tamping bag, and two Justrite Lamps. State: City: HWAC#: 47272 Date:

Five pieces of explosives brochures. Atlas Powder Company, Dallas, Texas pamphlets "Prevention of accidents in the use of explosives." &qu...

Seven publications on explosives. 1) Copy of Alfred Nobel's patent application for dynamite. 2) Tennessee Copper Company's "Electric Bl...

Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 84 pages. "Manufacture of Explosives Twenty Years' Progress" by Oscar Guttmann. Copyright 1909, formerly in ...

Three issues of "The Explosives Engineer Magazine" "A Magazine for users of explosives" or "Fore-runner of progress in mini...

Utica Mining Company, Memorandum of Gold Bullion (Duplicate), Angels Camp, Mar. 4th, 1897. State: California City: Angels Camp HWAC#: 38278 Dat

These are both for Roy King in 1924 and 1931. Gold Values are high in 1924 - highest being $153 per ton. In 1931 there was no value. Signed by Emil J.

Very rare 1870s Colorado assay from the US Mint at Denver. No. 757, issued Oct. 21st, 1878 for a deposit by the City National Bank. Produced a 20 ounc

Goodall Brothers Assayers and Chemists, 46 S. Main Street, PO Box 537, Phone 628, Helena, Montana. Pictorial of a prospector with two mules. Governmen

The “KK/NV/13.” embossing on this ingot refers to the K.K. Consolidated Mining Company that served the Eureka Mining District. The KK CM Co was declar

30 mines are represented on this display. The Old Royston, Inspiration, Egyptian, Kingman, Candelaria, Cedar Mountain, etc. Each has one raw sample an

A nice group of antique Assay office material. Includes very large tongs for ingots, a rusty Mercury flask, heavy iron cupel mold, numerous ceramic an

Lot of nineteen.1) "Battersea Round / 'F' /Morgan / England" clearly printed on side. Excellent condition. 5" tall. 2) Bottom...

Gorgeous Christian Becker, New York, assay balance, c1915. About 10 x 15 x 20". According to Shannon (The Assay Balance), Becker had this speci...

Great historical piece. Not only does it come in a very nice box with paper conversions and seven weights, it comes with a handwritten note with a rec

Pans measure 5" in diameter. Still well balanced! State: City: HWAC#: 47322 Date:

All are heavy metal and painted gold. Largest measures 20". Impress your friends! State: City: HWAC#: 48442 Date:

Painted silver. 10" long. The four molds are all different sizes. State: City: HWAC#: 48443 Date:

About 15” x 6” x 5”. This particular mold is part of a stacking multi-pour mold series. This is the first of this kind we’ve handled. This is the

A group of about five nice rusty belt wheels, from about ten inches to about two feet in diameter. All from the Cambridge Mine, Nevada. The Cambridge

A group of four underground drills used at The Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nevada by the Rink family. They do not come with drill steel. Their operative

A group of about eight cog wheels from machinery at the Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nevada collected by former mine operators the Rink family. They rang

Sturtevant Mine Fan Co., Boston, used at the Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nev. This historic fan is not without a marvelous history. Ben Franklin Sturtev

Large headframe wheel from the Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nevada. These classic remnants of Nevada’s proud mining history are gone from the landscape n

This classic mine artifact from the Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nevada is perfect for any museum quality display as a mining relic. FOB Carson City, th

About nine small dredge buckets from a Link Belt unit. These typically ran small placer operations. The buckets are only about ten inches across and s

Four are identified by the experienced desert collector. 1) Johntown double pick. 19". Johntown was the first city on the Comstock - before Vir...

Location noted on very old tape inside hole for wood. 7.75". One side is chipped at end from use. In the 1870's this was the center of East...

1) Stamped with the number '5'. 21, 75". 2) 18.75". Both have a pick and chisel. Information we have found indicates the company w...

This pick and chisel axe is 15.25" long. A handmade 'T' is etched into the axe. Location is unknown - probably from Nevada. State: ...

This mounted KL6 pickaxe is a pick and chisel.It measures 18" and is in very nice condition. Makes a nice display! State: City: HWAC#: ...

This pickaxe is engraved "North.' It is 15.5". State: City: HWAC#: 49073 Date:

34.5". Well used! Authentic! State: City: HWAC#: 48820 Date:

Includes: 2 smelting crucibles, 4" and 5", a steel Ingot mold, 4 decorative imitation ingots, 2 varieties of miner's candlesticks, a l...

Well used by someone - probably a miner. We found no gold residue inside, sorry! 9" tall. State: City: HWAC#: 47321 Date:

Good Hope Lode. Inc. 1863. Rare, early Alpine Mining District stock dated Nov. 18th, 1864. Issued to E.K. Swain for five shares. Signed by the preside

1) Formed in 1863, this was the district's first corporation. This receipt from The Bullion & Exchange Bank stating that Assessment No. 6 fo...

Very early #16 for 5,000 shares to Paul Cromnell. Signed by Edward (?) and Clinton Gurnee. Nice vignette in the lower right-hand corner of a miner swi

Bodie Mining District. The Mono Gold Mining Company is just over Convict Pass on the left-hand side of the highway (where the gravel pit is now). This

Lot of six. Five green and one orange. 1927-1931. Signed by BC Austin. Acme Mines and Mill Inc, owned several mines in California. Including the Oat H