2012 Hot August Auction

Folding hook and spike model candlestick, 4” and 6.5” folded and unfolded. Made with sheet steel and a nickel-plated brass thimble. The handle on thi

Clothbound 3-ring binder containing some of Eichler’s research archive on miner`s candlesticks. Includes research notes, photocopies of old patents an

Lot of 3 boxes of correspondence, photocopies, and research notes between George Eichler and Jeani Martin, George Bayles, Jack Ramsdell, Tony Moon, No

Elizabeth Lauder watercolor of a mine near Victor and Goldfield, Colorado, noted on the piece as the "Sleeping Giant." The framed, mounted,

This is possibly one of the best pieces in the collection and arguably one of the most important miner’s candlesticks ever made. It was made for Hora

This stick out of Leadville, is a Bernier patent (Patent 631,270 – Victor Colorado, August 22, 1899). No examples of the Bernier patent were known whe

An 11" x 19" acrylic painting of the Leadville area mine by Bill Harrington. Owned by G.J. Hite, Jacob Fillins, and Robert Morrison, all fro

A DuPont No. 50 Blasting Machine, with its original red/brown painted finish, with a few scratches and dings here and there, due to use. The wood box

This lithograph, believed to be from the 1880s by E. Green, features the Alturas Rocky Bar Mine in Idaho and was produced by the famous San Francisco

The Harden Company was a Chicago-based firm that specialized in these fire extinguishing devices. This blue glass globe "Star" hand grenade