Best of The West - February 2014

Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66278

building, 3 picks, pan. Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66247

Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66258

with rusty artifacts & barnwood Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66260

and tracks, appx 4 feet Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66249

Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66300

Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66293

Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66277

Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66263

and monitor nozzles Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66250

wagon wheel , fancy ore bucket, pick handle collection, stove parts Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66248

Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66264

Bud Bassett Collection - HKA#66256

HKA#66305

1919 This is a rare Justrite cast aluminum 6 hour. hand lamp with steel bail and hook with spiral feed, marked COPPER QUEEN on left side top with nic

c1900 This is a carbide mining lamp from the Copper Queen Mine in Cochise County, Arizona. There are some minor parts missing from this 6” tall sampl

1926 Lot of 3. 1) Rose Tool & Supply Company Catalog No. 5 from Pittsburg, PA. The cover indicates "Mill-Mine Machinists Contractors Tools...

c1878 Andrew Smith Hallidie is credited for introducing California to wire rope, thus changing mining and engineering forever. Hallidie was born in E

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

This specimen weighs 8.69 troy oz. and is about 70% gold by weight. Measures: 3" x 1.25" x 2.5". Nice gold in quartz specimen profess...

This is a lot of 13 slabs of gold quartz of various shapes and sizes, from 0.5" to 3". It’s all California gold and there are flecks and v...

This collection includes 12 silver ore specimens from the Fred Willoughby Collection. Willoughby was the manager of the Midnight Mine at Aspen, which

A large-mass copper showing glacial striations, showing natural malachite-green patina, and illustrated vivid anthropomorphic form of a growling wolf`

c1965 Lot of three pieces: 1) Engraving copper sheet measuring 8 x 11” made from fire-refined ore. Taken from the White Pine Copper Mine, White Pine,

1959 A large chunk of native copper, crystalline with calcite and gray wall rock, measuring 12.5” in length and 5” at widest part. Crystals are gener

c1965 Another crystalline copper specimen. This one was also taken from the Nonesuch Formation at the White Pine Mine, Upper Peninsula of Michigan by

This is a lot of five ore specimens from Nye County. Included in this exceptional lot is a 2.56 troy oz. silver piece from the Bullfrog District. The

Lot of four gold specimens from Round Mountain - HKA#65893

c Native gold from Virfinia City in quartz bracia. - HKA#65895

Lot of seven gold specimens from The North Bonanza Mine on the Flowery Lode on the Comstock. - HKA#65935

Measures 3 x 3.5 x 3. The Zapot mine is located near Hawthorne and was mined by Harvey Gordon from the early 80s to the mid 90s. During that time he u