Best of The West - February 2014

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