2012 Hot August Auction

An album containing 11 stock certificates, a 1918 US Mint receipt from the Carson City Mint for the Mazuma Hills MC, a map of the Underground Workings

This is a handwritten letter from a T. I. Barnes to "Friend William" discussing the goings on at the Silver Peak Mine in 1866. He writes of

Obv.: Stillwater/ Hotel/ G.W. Cavness/ Prop.; rev.: Good For One/ 5c/ Drink or Cigar. Cavness took over the operation of this hotel from the Cirac fam

Obv.: "Stillwater Hotel/ Cirac Bros./ Prop`s; rev.: Good For/ One/ Drink or Cigar". The Cirac family is an old Nevada mining family, who pur

Lot of 4 items related to Comstock giant Adolph Sutro. 1) A business card, with an address of Sutro Tunnel, Nevada printed on the piece. 2) A blank Su

Lot of 3: 1) "Justice Silver Mining Co. Gold Hill Nev." check register ledger. The checks state Bullion and Exchange Bank, Carson, Nevada. D

Lot of 17 various documents and images of the Comstock including 5 framed items that consist of 2 sketches of Silver City and Virginia City, and 3 fra

Lot of 3: “In 1871,” according to the Online Archive of California, “James Flood began to buy stock in Consolidated Virginia and, joined by John Macka

This group includes a rare Western Union Telegraph Co. letter and envelope from Gold Hill, dated 1878. 30 Bullion and Exchange Bank Checks from 1895 a

Round, rare: inscribed "Hunting & Fishing/ $1.00/ Storey County/ Nevada/ Expires/ Feb. 28. 1918/ License/ 157". - Jacobitz Collection -6

Lot of 2 framed portraits by (K.D.?) Kimble dated ‘78, one of an American Indian young man and the other of an American Indian maiden. The young man w

This stereocard shows a bird's eye view of the town. The image is clearly pre-fire, pre-V&T Railroad, and comes from the height of the 1860s...

Comstock Mining District. Lot of 6. Included are 3 receipts: An 1864 receipt for one load of gold and silver ore, weighing 1,010 lbs. received from th

Lot of 19 from various Nevada towns and businesses Kelly & Lindsay of Carson City, Reno Brewing Company, Johnson & Thomas General Merchandise,

This lot contains about 9 years of assay, payroll records and other paper work from the Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada, between 1906 and 1917. Inclu

Lot of 24. Range in sizes from 1.75” x 2.75" to 7” x 9.” Low to medium contrast and focus is sharp. Some wear on a few photographs, which show va

Titled “The Crowd at Ringside,” the photo was taken during the “Fight of the Century" between Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries, in which Johnso

Lot of 3: 1) Thirteenth Annual Report of the Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada, 30 pp. Green paper cover. 2) Annual Report of the Nevada-Douglas Copper

One of the top Western tokens, this pictorial is in very fine condition. Obv.: The Original Package/ Good For/ 12.5c/ Tonopah; rev.: pictorial of bear

Lot of 25 various documents, letters, both typed & hand-written, newspaper article, stock certificates books, Articles of Incorporation, Meeting M