"Fall Frontier Fortunes" Numismatics & Americana Timed Auction (2025 September)

Plate on the inside cover signed by Shamberger. Also signed on the title page. From a bound set of 10 volumes, of which only 70 sets were produced. 19

Major mine in Ely. This prospectus includes a typed letter from mining brokers in Chicago, 1910. 7pp. with mining maps and descriptions. Property is a

Steptoe Valley Smelter / (view of smelter buildings) / Ely, Nevada. Reverse only has a maker's mark: "Jos. Mayer & Bros. / Makers / Sea...

Six inch x 4 x 1.5" specimen of banded iron-oxidation along fracture surfaces, commonly called picture rock. Dave Shaddrick picked this up whil...

Bank of California certificate of deposit for Robert Presho for $490. Signed by WH Blauvelt for the bank. Green 5 cent Nevada adhesive stamp attached

Lot of 4. 1) Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company check, 1893, to paint dealer Joseph Fredericks. Signed by Blauvelt and Eckley. The Yellow Jacket Mine

Lot of 11; all but one are real photo. 1) Gold Hill: 9 postcards, 8 RPPC. Includes: Comstock Mill; pump machinery at New Yellow Jacket Mill; two diffe

Lot of 3. Includes: Gold Hill Assay Office, 1891, bullion deposited by the Justice Mine; and two Bank of California deposit slips, 1869 & 1870, ...

De Witt Clinton Commandery No. 1, Virginia. Wm. S. James. Gold Hill, Nev. James ran the Gold Hill Assay Office. The Gold Hill Assay office was founded

Lot of 30+ items. March 20, 1907 newspaper, Goldfield Daily Tribune, with article about Teddy Roosevelt; 12 maps of claims from the Patrick Investment

Lot of 28. Includes 8 real photo postcards and the rest are early printed cards (incl. amber). Views include: Goldfield Hotel, Consolidated Mill, Gold

Lot of 9 different. From an unknown publication. Published by Clark Eng. & Ptg. Co., Milwaukee. Printed photos are 4.5 x 6.5" on 8 x 10&quo...

Extra Rare! Unused. Photograph pictorial of sacks of ore being loaded for shipment from the Sunrise Mine. Part of Interstate Consolidated Mines Compan

Letterheads from Lander county mine camps. 5x 1895-86 Reese River letters for supplies and 1902 Spencer request for supplies from Mary Spencer. ^ Da

Printing plate, probably for company letterhead. 1.5 x 6.75" Lists Tonopah on the plate, likely their main office. Mine at Manhattan, Manhattan...

Handwritten letter from one Charles G. Aldridge of Schurz, Nevada to M.H. Poehlman, requesting help in securing a grubstake of $500 from George Wingfi

Very rare! Cover sent to J. Strachan, supt. of the TMB Co. (Teel's Marsh Borax Company) via Belleville. 1889 Candelaria cancel. No contents. The...

Approximately 100 blank checks from Tonopah Fraction Mining Company, in perforated sheets. Each check measures 9.5"x3.3". In good conditio...

Tonopah mining district maps, modern reprints. This once bustling mining town is now largely defunct, serving mainly as a current day historical site.

Lot of 9. Includes: Virginia & Truckee Railroad Pay Roll, 1899; Central Pacific Railroad Company, 1877, Browns Station, A. Kleupfer; Gould &...

Lot of 3. 1) RPPC of the Sutro Tunnel entrance, c.1880s. 2) Savage Mine paycheck, 1866, Virginia City Nevada. Charles Bonner, supt. 3) Nevada Centenni

Lot of 12. 1883-1891. Sales of stock for nearly all of the key Comstock mines incl. Con. Imperial, Chollar, Yellow Jacket, Overman, Gould & Curr...

Lot of 2 different. 1) Memorandum of Bullion from the Savage Mining Co. Assayed at the Gould & Curry Assay Office, 1867. Deposits from four mill...

Rare. Shows nearly 60 miners working the week of June 8, 1888, plus numerous other workers. Talks about work on the El Dorado Level and Drain Tunnel L

Rare. 1866 assessment receipt for CF Nolte on behalf of DM Geiger for $50 on 50 shares of stock. Signed by secretary AB Elliott. Orange NV adhesive st

Scarce receipt for this short-lived express company. 1869 shipment of 5 packages from James G. Fair, as supt of the Hale & Norcross Mining Compa...

Rarer than the Gould & Curry receipts. Oct. 1866 shipment of 9 bars of silver bullion from Virginia City to the Savage Mining company office in ...

Lot of 9. Includes: Sutro Tunnel Co. letterhead, 1870s, unused; 1870s unused receipt; 1870s partial cross-section; and six copies of a rare 1869 newsp

Rare unused stationery for the Sutro Tunnel Company. Dateline Sutro, Lyon Co., Nevada, 187-. 8.5 x 5.5" Folds, toning. The Sutro Tunnel, comple...

Lot of 2 different. 1) Assay Office of Van Wyck & Co. receipt for a deposit of 3,500 ounces of bullion from the Savage Mine, Bassett Mill (locat...

Lot of 30. Some duplication. Many pictorial. One Gold Hill, the rest are Virginia City. 1860s-90s. This is a great group! Includes: Gillig, Mott &am...

Lot of 19. Includes: Savage Mine 1868 paycheck and sheet of two unused; 1876 court document for case between RB Breashears and PF Kelly, mentions the

This is a partial cover (most of back missing) addressed from the Bank of California in San Francisco to Stateler & Arrington, Bankers, Virginia...

Lot of 10 different. This is a fantastic collection! The Bank of California Virginia City branch opened in September 1864 with William Sharon installe

Rare unused (as is normal for these) check for the Young America Engine Co. No. 2, dateline Virginia, Nev. 187- with vignette of horse-drawn fire wago

Lot of 2 different. Mackay and Fair were half of the "Bonanza King" Firm along with Flood and O'Brien, who worked mostly out of San Fr...

This is a rarer Mackay autograph. 1876 check issued to Mackay, signed by him as supt. Endorsed by Taylor on the reverse. RN-G. The Best & Belche...

Lot of 2. Both are Bank of California with RN-G. 1) 1874 check issued to the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, signed by "Bonanza King" Jam...

Lot of 10 Wells Fargo territorial checks issued in 1864 by the Empire Mill & Mining Company, signed by RN Graves as supt. All have a US IR stamp...

Lot of 4 Wells Faro & Co. territorial checks issued by the Empire Mine in Gold Hill to Comstock merchants. All signed by RN Graves as supt. Merc...

Lot of 5 Wells Fargo checks issued in 1863 by the Empire Mill & Mining Company. All signed by RN Graves as superintendent. Each has a US IR stam...

Lot of 4: two each for two mines, incl. a territorial for each. 1-2) Empire Mill and Mining Company. 1864 Wells Fargo issued to J. Wilson, signed by R

The most sought-after Comstock autograph. Bank of California check with green print, RN-B imprinted revenue (center) and green 2 cent NV stamp in bord

Lot of 3 different. 1) Best is an 1874 check signed by Bonanza King James G. Fair, and issued to the Con. Virginia Mining Company, which was under Fai

Lot of 5. These are the second generation Wells Fargo 1861 checks with green print. Earliest are the blue version. This group of five was issued by Ch

Stateler & Arrington territorial check issued by the Gould & Curry Mine to A. Hanak, who at this time was listed as a baker, but would event...

A rare find in the Comstock check archive we have been processing. This 1872 Gould & Curry check is issued to "M. Ming" for $35. Signe...

Lot of 5 Stateler & Arrington issued in 1864 for the Gould & Curry. People include: David Bowie (G&C supt.); AB Thompson (assoc. with Ha...

1871 Gould & Curry Silver Mining Co. check issued to TD Parkinson for $100. Signed by CC Batterman as supt. Signed on the back by Parkinson. RN-...

Lot of 3 Gould & Curry checks issued in 1866 and signed by Louis Janin as supt. Two are to OHP Culbertson and one to John Tailleur. Culbertson w...