Best of The West - February 2014

1880 1) Memorandum of Gold Bullion deposited at the United States Assay Office in Helena, MT Move, 10th, 1883. 9 Ounces Dust by P.V. Jackson Red Bluf

c1908 A very clean Seederer-Kohlbusch Inc. analytical balance scale out of Jersey City, NJ. Likely dates to the early 1900s. Includes balance arms an

No. 7782. Specimen deposited for assay and assay results for a sample submitted by N.S. Gallagher. Total value of specimen estimated at $325.16. Vigne

1887 Lot of 3. 1) Letterhead from the Cashier's office dated August 7, 1890. The topic of the letter was to notify that $7,137.16 was being tra...

c1889 Lot of 3: Memorandum of Silver Deposit documents from the Carson Mint, all dated 1889. All of these are from Comstock mills. The mills had merc

c1880 Original S. Dowling Assayer card from Virginia City on the Comstock. This piece is in very good condition for its age, showing little signs of

c1867 Mining, Storey, VC 500-750 R400 1867A statement showing the deposit by the Bacon Mill of 4 samples on May 23. These ran $13-$19/ton. Signed by

Leather wallet with tooled frontpiece. The illustration is a lovely liberty head facing left, below a patriotic eagle with American flags on either si

1909 Tiny leather-bound bbok, filled with hand-writen assay information, diagrams, ledger counts, assay amounts and records, plus other insriptions,

Extremely rare assay note from the famous Gould & Curry Scale, No. 17. It indicates 5 loads of gold and silver ore received, destined for the st...