Great American July Auction

The “KK/NV/13.” embossing on this ingot refers to the K.K. Consolidated Mining Company that served the Eureka Mining District. The KK CM Co was declar

30 mines are represented on this display. The Old Royston, Inspiration, Egyptian, Kingman, Candelaria, Cedar Mountain, etc. Each has one raw sample an

A nice group of antique Assay office material. Includes very large tongs for ingots, a rusty Mercury flask, heavy iron cupel mold, numerous ceramic an

Lot of nineteen.1) "Battersea Round / 'F' /Morgan / England" clearly printed on side. Excellent condition. 5" tall. 2) Bottom...

Gorgeous Christian Becker, New York, assay balance, c1915. About 10 x 15 x 20". According to Shannon (The Assay Balance), Becker had this speci...

Great historical piece. Not only does it come in a very nice box with paper conversions and seven weights, it comes with a handwritten note with a rec

Pans measure 5" in diameter. Still well balanced! State: City: HWAC#: 47322 Date:

All are heavy metal and painted gold. Largest measures 20". Impress your friends! State: City: HWAC#: 48442 Date:

Painted silver. 10" long. The four molds are all different sizes. State: City: HWAC#: 48443 Date:

About 15” x 6” x 5”. This particular mold is part of a stacking multi-pour mold series. This is the first of this kind we’ve handled. This is the

A group of about five nice rusty belt wheels, from about ten inches to about two feet in diameter. All from the Cambridge Mine, Nevada. The Cambridge

A group of four underground drills used at The Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nevada by the Rink family. They do not come with drill steel. Their operative

A group of about eight cog wheels from machinery at the Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nevada collected by former mine operators the Rink family. They rang

Sturtevant Mine Fan Co., Boston, used at the Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nev. This historic fan is not without a marvelous history. Ben Franklin Sturtev

Large headframe wheel from the Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nevada. These classic remnants of Nevada’s proud mining history are gone from the landscape n

This classic mine artifact from the Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nevada is perfect for any museum quality display as a mining relic. FOB Carson City, th

About nine small dredge buckets from a Link Belt unit. These typically ran small placer operations. The buckets are only about ten inches across and s

Four are identified by the experienced desert collector. 1) Johntown double pick. 19". Johntown was the first city on the Comstock - before Vir...

Location noted on very old tape inside hole for wood. 7.75". One side is chipped at end from use. In the 1870's this was the center of East...

1) Stamped with the number '5'. 21, 75". 2) 18.75". Both have a pick and chisel. Information we have found indicates the company w...

This pick and chisel axe is 15.25" long. A handmade 'T' is etched into the axe. Location is unknown - probably from Nevada. State: ...

This mounted KL6 pickaxe is a pick and chisel.It measures 18" and is in very nice condition. Makes a nice display! State: City: HWAC#: ...

This pickaxe is engraved "North.' It is 15.5". State: City: HWAC#: 49073 Date:

34.5". Well used! Authentic! State: City: HWAC#: 48820 Date:

Includes: 2 smelting crucibles, 4" and 5", a steel Ingot mold, 4 decorative imitation ingots, 2 varieties of miner's candlesticks, a l...

Well used by someone - probably a miner. We found no gold residue inside, sorry! 9" tall. State: City: HWAC#: 47321 Date:

Good Hope Lode. Inc. 1863. Rare, early Alpine Mining District stock dated Nov. 18th, 1864. Issued to E.K. Swain for five shares. Signed by the preside

1) Formed in 1863, this was the district's first corporation. This receipt from The Bullion & Exchange Bank stating that Assessment No. 6 fo...

Very early #16 for 5,000 shares to Paul Cromnell. Signed by Edward (?) and Clinton Gurnee. Nice vignette in the lower right-hand corner of a miner swi

Bodie Mining District. The Mono Gold Mining Company is just over Convict Pass on the left-hand side of the highway (where the gravel pit is now). This

Lot of six. Five green and one orange. 1927-1931. Signed by BC Austin. Acme Mines and Mill Inc, owned several mines in California. Including the Oat H

Check number 676 issued to Mary Wallace and signed by secretary Fahey and president Smith. Douglasville was in Tuolumne County near Columbia. It was a

This was a small mine in El Dorado County near Georgetown. This is not to be confused with the famous Argonaut mine in Jackson. According to FH, this

El Dorado County, California. Unissued for two shares, but signed by Jacob A Shorb as president and E.H. Cornwall as secretary in January 1853. Pinhol

Two letters from John Coleman. "...we have about 6" of bedrock today..." "We area also cutting down No. 3; it will take 3 or 4 d...

Incorp. in Kentucky, 1886, issued to H. Montgomery for 100 shares , April 6, 1889, signed by Henry Murray as president. Yellow paper, multiple signat

1) Allison Phoenix #135 for 500 shares in 1877. 2) South Idaho Consolidated #294 for 25 shares in 1896. 3) Maryland Gold Quart #73 for 500 shares in 1

Incorporated September 22, 1863 and capitalized at $180,000; 1800 Shares at $100 per. Cert. #127, issued to Benjamin Dore for 5 shares and dated Decem

Lost Camp seems to be in or near Blue Canyon (near the Nyack exit on I-80 near Donner Pass). Certificate No. 4 dated 7-29-67 for 25 shares to Josiah C

This certificate is 5201 to 5220. Wavy left cut. Pinholes, some soiling. 6.5" x 9.25" According to the company's description detailed ...

The Excelsior Mine produced most of the gold in the Meadow Lake Mining District and is thought to be the only profitable mine in the district. Certifi

Two stocks. 1) 1952 to Sutro & Co. 2) 1933 to Benjamin Williams. Both have a mountain vignette with a large 'M' imprinted on the mountai...

Very rare Napa County quicksilver! Inc. March 11th, 1874. Location: Napa County, Cal. Dateline San Francisco April 21, 1875. No. 213, issued for 100 s

February 27, 1909 "The Engineering and Mining Journal." Article by G. E. Wolcott, a mining engineer from Reno, Nevada. Discusses mills in ...

Rare magazine called the Nevada City Nugget. This is the Special Mining Number, issued Friday, May 10, 1929. It is 32 pages including an 8 page direct

Two spectacular Oreville mining photographs. Two different side views of the Indiana dredge taken September 1901. Mounted to board, excellent conditio

4 x 6.5 inches, Centaur with bow and arrow in silver and gold, red border with blue text, back of card has list of best passages of competitor ships l

Very Early certificate # 10 to Harlow Nettleton for 100 shares datelined Stone Ranch and dated October 10, 1863. The company was incorporated July 186

The statue is 4" high and weighs 11 ounces. It is a very nice looking piece. BUT in his two hands are small 16 to 1 native gold in clear quartz...

Group of original glass negatives and prints from the Jeffrey Mine, White Mountains, Inyo County, California. Approximately 20 photographs separated f

Great condition. Slide printed with, "Old miner with outfit, California." Used by the Chicago Public Schools. Very interesting piece and r...

Excellent condition. Two nozzles at work with 15 people looking on. State: California City: HWAC#: 48469 Date:

Seal says "Sterling Borax Co. / Incorporated / May 9, 1908 / Nevada." 10.75". On January 15, 1908, the Sterling Borax Company was fou...

One shows the aftermath of the hydraulic hose on a mountain. It is amazing the devastation it caused. Excellent contrast. Photo size is 5 x 7"....

Cripple Creek District: Legend, Title Map, Showing Deviation of Title of Golden Cycle Mining Company (highlighted in red), Theresa Gold mining Company

"Designers, Manufacturers and Jobbers of Mining, Milling, Machine Shop, Steam, Electric, Compressed Air, Hydraulic, and Pumping Machinery, Elec...

Silver mine located in Clear Creek County near Georgetown.1) 1876 prospectus. 20 pages. Begins with description of Georgetown and the Cascade Claim (d

Silver mine near Georgetown. 20 pages. Printed by Press of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, New York. Located on the Charter Oak Ridge (five miles up the v...

We have not seen this stock certificate in 40 years. English Mortgage Debenture. To Frederick Connon of Scarsdale Villas, Kensington. The Snowdrift s

Cert. #18, issued to Shalor W. Eldridge for 200 shares in 1880. Incorporated in New York. Signed by Lewis Jones as president and Meredith L. Jones as

Another English / American venture. Number 869 issued to Luke Soliague of the Telfar Lodge at Tulse Hill. Signed by Soliague as secretary. 5 coupons s

This a a first mortgage six per cent bond for $1,000. The specimen proof contains 10 attached coupons. The Trinidad was a subsidiary of the Atchison,

1) Warranty Deed, 1899, for $20,000 from George C. Logan to Rocky Mountain Coal Co., County of La Plata, Colorado. 20 adhesive revenue stamps. 2) Inde

Lot includes three advertising covers with letters and other mining letterheads. 1) Stratton Independence of Victor. Strong 1903 strike. 2) Happy Jack

1 made by E. L. D. Denver, front die struck--mining scene and Indian, "Wyoming"; 2 "Colorado", similar mining scenes on handles...

Lot of five incl. a rare territorial booklet. 1) Colorado. 1872. 2)"Facts concerning the Struggle in Colorado for Industrial Freedom, Series 1....

1) List of mining capital stock owners (one is Kit Carson) and some expenses for the Consolidated Republican Mountain Mining Co. 20 Abstract of record

22 pages. Printed by W.D. Starr & Son, Middletown. Very nice color map (17.5" x 21.5") of the property at the front of the report (Lit...

Both sheets frameable. 1) Split view showing the Bullion Mine (Alturas County, Idaho) and the May Flower Mine (Bullion, Idaho). Possibly out of a book

Two later reports for the Monte Cristo Mine, a gold mine located at Loon Creek, Sea Foam Mining District, Custer County, Idaho. 1) Report by A.G. Burr

Bunker Hill & Sullivan Company. The BH & S was the scene of major mining problems in the 1890's. April 8, 1909 "Mining Science"...

1-10)Ten receipts for billing payments from the Poorman Gold Mines of Silver City Idaho. 11) Cupric Mines. Unissued stock. # A28. c1900's. Sta...

Group of about twenty photographs from various locations in Idaho. Includes Ima Mine and Murray Idaho. Photos taken in 1939 by Professor Paul Kerr of

1) De Lamar Gold & Silver Mine. 15 page report by Robert N. Bell, State Inspector of Mines in Idaho. Mine located on Jordan Creek seven miles we...

Archive of material from Eliza R. Sutton. 1) 26 x 12" broadside with plenty of photographs and maps. 2) 31.5 x 11" broadside promoting Bea...

12 pages. Offices at Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine. Organized in Maine. No date. Printed by Commercial Print, Bangor. As these are by-laws, there is

Reports from: 2 reports from Tapley Copper Mine, 1880; 3 reports from Manhattan-Tapley Copper Mines, 1883; Small drawings of Tapley and Manhattan mine

2 Annual mine reports for the Mountain View and East Colusa mines in Silver Bow County Montana. Pertains to the United States Census Office for Gold,

3 Blue print maps of mines near Butte Montana. Includes shaft map of the Gen'l Pettit Mine, overhead map of Mt. View, Litttle Idol, Johnstown, R...

Letters, map, and abstract for the Badger State Lode near Butte Montana. The letters are to Butte lawyers Mr. John F. Forbis and Charles E. Goodale ab

Mining report on the Lynchburg and John Emmit Lodes near Butte Montana. Describes the layout of the mine and vein locations in one and a half pages an

5 Different House Bills with duplicates from the Montana state legislature. Contains bills relating and originating from mining along with other unrel

5 Mining surveys dated from 1890 from Helena and Deer Lodge. Surveys for the George Henry Lode, Redemption Lode, and the Union Lode. 2 Different vari

By FV Hayden, Washington. 538 pages of text with it including index. Includes for numerous foldout maps (5) and illustrations (64) throughout. Tight b

1) This plat book is from the mine and mill in Silver Bow County, Montana. The Societe Anonyme des Mines de Lexington’s annual report of 1891 states t

Lot of 4. Included: 1) Hider Nevada Copper Company (Lander County). No. 61, issued for 3,000 shares in 1907. Punch cancelled. Three mining vignettes.

The first glass negative was produced in 1839 by John Herschel, the English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, experimental photographer and inventor

1) Corporate Sealer Plate of the Missouri-Bullfrog Mining & Milling Co. of Nevada, Incorporated June 1905 Under the Laws of South Dakota. Brass,...

This is a lot of four Nevada stocks. 1) Nevada Hills Florence Mining Company, stock #136 for 1,000 shares to H. B. Davis in 1906. Signed by S. Tucker

Rare. This was a major Fairview mine. Inc. in South Dakota. Location of Mines: Fairview Mining District (Churchill County). Nevada Hills was a smaller

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Issued at the end of the Great Comstock Silver Strike. This is stock no. 10; it was issued to Trustee William McLaughlin for 50 shares on October 16,

1) Consolidated New York Mining Company. Incorporated in 1887. Cert. #1839, issued to Siguf, Copper & Redlick, Trustees, in 1893 for 30 shares. ...

Hundreds of Goldfield Deep Mining Co. of Nevada pamphlets that expound upon a variety of topics in a 6 page fold-able. c. 1900-1910. State: Nevada

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Over 200 stock certificates from the Round Mountain Mining Company of Goldfield, 1907-1909. Back cover missing, front cover separated from the certifi

Incorporated April 15, 1905 (does not specify where). No. 419 issued May 18, 1906 to Peter Neeson for 1000 shares. Signed by the President, Jno Cook a

The Knickerbocker & Nevada Mining Company came to life in 1865. On March 20th a meeting was held in New York to discuss offering stock options. ...

Jarbidge mining map. 1911, by WW Fisk, made for the Twin Falls Development Company, Twin Falls, Idaho. 14.5 x 21", black on brown paper. Scarce...

This is a historical artifact begging for an article. It is chalk full of transactions relating to the company including expenditures for the janitor