Best of The West - February 2014

These are 2 great high grader sticks from the Trinity-Klamath region on California. The first is a fancy model and has similar characteristics of a C.

This elegant folding stick is nickel-plated steel, and has "The Aetna Powder Co. Chicago" stamped on the thimble. The hook and thimble rot...

c1867 This is a stock certificate issued by the New York & Austin Silver Mining Company. It is issued to Clement Parsons for 43 shares. Rare. ...

c1890 Very rare carbide lamp from the Dewar Mfg. in New York. The top of the lamp reads "Dew-R-Lite," adjacent to the fuel cap and hangin...

This stick measures 7.5” long and has a patent date of June 17, 1890. This stick was made by Louis H. Sholder, and was patent #430,488. This stick fea

c1887 Ore car without base, 4 purple insulators, "Chute Closed" sign and miscellaneous artifacts. Located at the large boulder "mine ...

Camp Bird Mine gold and silver ore is extremely rare and almost unheard of. The few pieces known were recovered in the front of the mine by a metal de

This is an excellent specimen displaying unsusually complete fusion crust from the largest meteor impact to hit the earth in 100 years. The meteorite

c1908 Lot of 2. Both printed in their respective foreign languages, hard-cover, illustrated. 1) from the Czech Republic by Karel Kopecky, titled MALY

Lot of 3: 1.) Attractive Silver Leaf 1.5" tall complex crystal silver leaf with acanthite from the Capital Mine measures 1.5" x 1" x ...

Lot of 2: This is a lot of a brilliant wulfenite crystal formation, and a deep blue/ purple azurite crystals formation. Both of these pieces display u

Lot of 2: In the year 2011 the worlds finest discovery of cuprite octahedrons, in association with native copper and native silver, was made at the Ru

Lot of 3: 1.) Crystal and silver with crystallin and polybasite. A very unusual specimen with a rare asssociation from a little producing mine, some o

Lot of 3: 1.) A rich specimen consisting of quarter inch grains of bright native silver with 8" grains of polybasite scattered throughout the m...

Unique collection of high quality lab-created gem stones. Ther are 45 separate viles containing various faceted stones such as rubies, topaz, saphire,

1910 Lot of 5 German and English books. 1) THE WORLD’S MINERALS by Leonard J. Spencer. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers. Little wear,

Lot of 2: spectacilar rose and pale white crystal formations. Many of the crystals measure over 2" long, and feature the classic multi-faceted ...

Measures 6.5 x 5.25 x .33. A very well defined breccia ore slab consisting of rich native silver grains to .25" embedded among host rock clasts...

Lot of eight different gold specimens from Round Mountain, Mojave, Weepah and other areas of Cal. and NV. - HKA#65934

“This lot consists of two California gold quartz slabs. One measures 1” x .5”, the other 1.5” x .75”. The total combined weight of both pieces is .40