"March Madness" 2024 March Auction

Several shells, rocks and crystal samples. Please see photos for more details. Bracken Estate

Calcite blade w/mass crack. 9x8x12. China Chunlin Zhu Collection

Gobi view stone w/custom base. 6x6x9 China Chunlin Zhu Collection

Sandstone view stone 10 x 3 x 10 w/wood base China Chunlin Zhu Collection

Gobi stone 11 x 3 x 17î w/custom base China Chunlin Zhu Collection

Dark grey rounded limestone with white calcite veinlets and custom-carved wooden base. 6x3x12 inches. Nice display piece for desktop or bookshelf.

Gobi stone w/wood base 10 x 7 x 8î China Chunlin Zhu Collection

Gobi stone 6 x 4 x 16îw/custom base China Chunlin Zhu Collection

Lingbi Viewing Stone, irregularly shaped, dark limestone. 24x7x13 inches. China Chunlin Zhu Collection

Flat gray view stone 9x3x9. China Chunlin Zhu Collection

Large brown smooth surface view stone from China, part of the Chun-Lin Zhu Collection. 12 x 10 x 8" with carved wood stand. 30 pounds Chin...

Gobi stone w/base 12 x 3 x 10î China Chunlin Zhu Collection

Dark Brown view stone 10x9x11" w/ base China Chunlin Zhu Collection

10x8x9". Limestone with carved root w/ custom base. China Chunlin Zhu Collection

Gray layered viewing stone viewing stone, 6x4.11" with custom-carved wooden base. Resembles an hoo-doo (a tall, thin spire of rock created by e...

Lot of four, small Chinese viewing stones with custom-carved wooden bases. These are an ideal size for your desktop or bookshelf. Largest is a highly

gobi.8x4x11 200-300 China Chunlin Zhu Collection

Yellow quartz view stone 9x3x5 not varnished w bases China Chunlin Zhu Collection

Lot of 2. Nor crated, good features partially exposed. 10x1x11" and 11x1x8". Chunlin Zhu Collection China Chunlin Zhu C...

Pick and Hammer Club presents The Last Days of Pomp or Jason's Golden Fleecing in 2 acts and 9 scenes. Mostly song lyrics from this play.

Found in the Nevada ghost town of Candelaria, these six crucibles made in France, measure in the range of 2.5"x 2" to 4"x 3". Th...

Baby Comstock miners candle holder, 6". Rusty. Virginia City Nevada

This is a mine tally board. It is on a plain plank of wood off a box that contained Hercule's Powder Company explosives .and measures 9.5"...

Lead handle with molded J Jones(backwards S) Jr/Gold Hill Nev and button? hook. 4.5". Gold Hill Nevada

5" copper slag from McGill. McGill Nevada

Calumet Mining and Refining corporate sealer in working condition, 9.5" tall Pioche Nevada

Comet Mines corporate sealer in working condition, 8.25 tall. Pioche Nevada

Nevada Zinc Smelting corporate sealer in working condition, 8.25" tall. Pioche Nevada

Sleeper Mine belt buckle in original unopened plastic package. Footwall Breccia mineral specimen with very minor visible gold, 3x4.3". Winnemu...

Joseph William Taylor corporate sealer in working condition, 9.75" tall. Was this company related to Combined Metals Inc.? Utah

Elite Mining corporate sealer. No info found on this company, possibly a subsidiary of Combined Metals Inc. 8.25" tall, working condition. C...

Outline Map of Washoe Dist. Nev., showing Comstock Lode. Prepared under the Command of Capt. Geo. M. Wheeler, U.S. Army, Corp of Engineers, 1876 &am...

3 vintage wood tripods for surveying or use with other instruments. About 36" tall. 18 lbs.

Unissued Gillson & Barber, Merchants check with mining vignette. Bodie Bank charge. 1874 mining mill letter. Bodie California. The letter is a...

Lot of 2 c1884-85 Bank of La Porte checks to Britten & Rey. Where these checks to pay for the printing of the banks checks? These checks do have...

8 Bank of La Porte c. 1876-85 checks issued to mining merchants. La Porte was a major Blue Lead California ming camp. Caire, an assayer. Safety Nitro

Two rare imprinted revenue stamped checks from the Bank of La Porte, 1876: "Pay to Coin". One for $10,000: 9000 in large gold, 800 in smal...

Lot of 14 mining related vintage post cards from Oroville California: gold dredging, Cherokee Mine, rock crusher plant, Diamond Mine. Oroville Cali

Calif. Famous Mining Town & Mine Booklets (7): 1) "Mines of the Eastern Sierra", 1966, (72 pg); 2) "Gold Rush Days in Nevada City...

Connecticut mine agreement, abandonment, and location letter related to Ben Crisman, hand drawn 3.5x6" claim map etc. c. 1890-1904. California

Dutch Flat & Vic., Placer Co., CA Mining Maps (3) 1) Dutch Flat Townsite, from a survey by E.C. Uren in 1871 ~ Located in Sec. 4, T-16-N, R-10-...

This is a 1932 reprint of the 1850 Rocky Bar Mining Company, California; Circular, Articles of Association, resolutions, etc., 1850.Big Bar, along the

Unissued Tuolumne Copper Mining stock, frame 14x18". California MacKenzie Collection

Unissued Allegheny check. 1860's? letter with 5c adhesive agreement stamp-a few tears, largest is 3". Allegheny & Forest Mining Distric...

Mining items include a brown time book dated 1906, a copy of the Mining News, miners' metal tags (5) and an ore sample from Cripple Creek. Pleas...

Three different mining spoons from Colorado. "Cripple Creek" "salt" spoon. Another with gold wash slightly larger. Gold Coin Gol...

Miners Union newspaper checks Montana Labor News out of Butte, Montana. Dated c. 1940. Over two dozen. Hole punched as paid. Montana Butte Butte

Two inch high stack of handwritten correspondence from Silver Star, Montana Territory in the 1870s-1880s. Many addressed to Henry Elling or S. R. Bufo

7x undated blueprint style Carson City Land District maps, 13.5x15.5" Carson City Nebraska

1864 letter from an Austin miner regarding gun powder on verso end. Austin Nevada

1876 and 1890 billheads. Empire City served the Comstock Mills after the construction of quartz mills on the Carson River. Empire City Nevada

Phone directory of the Kennecott Mine from 1954. 15x9", tape repairs, please inspect. McGill Nevada

1869 Gould & Curry Silver Mining, 1872 and 1874 Bank of California, 1864 Stateler & Arrington, 1864 Wells Fargo & Co. Virginia City Ne...

2x 1955 Virginia City tourist pamphlets with historical photos. 1" and 5" verticals tears. Virginia City Nevada

Group of 17 of the 27 issued folios for Pennsylvania, including edge folios. Dates from c1902-c1930. Includes:Accident 1908; Amity 1907; Barnesboto 1

Approx 15 booklets on UT mining, minerals and geology Utah

Angel's Camp, Calaveras County, CA ephemera (45): Utica Mining Co. billheads (38); & check receipts (7), 1889-1902. Please see photo(s) for ...

The Mineral Industry During 1929 by Roush, 845pp. Copper, iron, quicksilver etc. Nice condition.

1911-70's About 25 mining journals and magazines from 1911-70's. Mining Science, California Mining Journal, Mining Engineer, Science and Tec...

Late 1800s. Framed Print. In the latter half of the 19th and the early 20 centuries, the American magazine Harper's Weekly published foreign and...

Engineering Drawing by French, Intro to Mine Surveying by Stanford, Theory and Practice of Surveying by Johnson, Mine Surveying by Durham, Standard Fi

U.S.G.S. Mining Dist's for Utah, Idaho & Colorado (3) 1) "Mercur Mining District, Utah," by J. Edward Sputt - 16th Annual Report, ...

10 issued c. 1927-30 Bolivia Gold Exploration stocks. Bhutan Ken Prag Collection

Issued 1886 Brunswick Antimony scrip certificate. Several tears, largest 1.5". Issued 1887 stock. Canada Ken Prag Collection

About 30 Canada mining stocks with some duplicates. Bison, Rocher DeBoule Mountain, Aaron, American Canadian Gold, International Nickel, King Edward S

10 different International Nickel stocks, c. 1912-56. Olive, green, blue, mauve, brown etc. Canada Ken Prag Collection

5 different styles of International Nickel stocks, c. 1912-26. 100 total. Olive, brown, green, blue, mauve. Canada Ken Prag Collection

International Nickel stocks in five styles, 10 each, 50 total. c. 1912-25. Olive, brown, green, blue, mauve. Canada Ken Prag Collection

About 50 of the scarce International Nickel stocks from the Prag archive. Green 1930, brown 1917-21, olive 1928, green 1912-25. See photo for vignette

Issued 1925 orange and 1932 green, Ahumada Lead Company stock. "The Los Lamentos deposit was covered by two claims originally owned by differen...

10 issued c. 1921-24 and unissued Guanajuato Mining stocks. Mexico Ken Prag Collection

Lot of 6. 1863-1916. The Minas Prietas Mining Company Stocks (2) incorp. 1880 New York. #A361 and A365, I/U, to Lee Higginson & Co. Jan 2...

1925 United Western Mines, 1916 Plutus Gold, 1916 Oatman Apex, 1910 Gold Range, 1916 War Eagle Gold. Oatman Arizona Ken Prag Collection

Incorp. 1901 Jerome Arizona. #25718, I/U, 100 shares @ $1.00 ea. to William A. Harrington Nov 15, 1922, signed Geo. W. Avery pres. and Geo H. Avery

New Monte Cristo Mining 1929 stock and 1928 bond with top, center and bottom stains. Both are signed by C C Julian. He was well known for over promot

Rare unissued stock certificate incorporated under the laws of Maine 1895; No. 424 for shares in the Vulture Mountain Mining Company, located in Maric

Mountain Gold & Silver Mining Co., Great Mogul District, Alpine County, CA, No. 71, 20 shares issued to John Putman, 1864, signed by Lawrence Gi...

#1025 for 100 shares to ER Grant trustee. Signed by FE Luty and vice president W Atkinson. Dateline San Francisco October 24, 1879. Inc. in Californi

1879 Tiger Gold and Silver Mining stock. No. 280, issued for 50 shares to company secretary Ellis Edwards on March 14th, 1879. Signed by president AJ

Rare issued-1914 Tecopa Cons Mining, 2x 1913 Greenwater Copper. Death Valley California Ken Prag Collection

About 20 mostly attached to pad c. 1900's stock receipts, 3.5x6". Death Valley California

Very rare issued 1906 Palmetto & Death Valley Gold Mining stock. Death Valley California Ken Prag Collection

Issued 1928 Champion Mining stock, fine condition. Inyo County California Ken Prag Collection

Issued-1933 Lookout Gold-fine condition, 1937 Cardinal Gold. Inyo County California Ken Prag Collection

Issued 1908 Wild Rose Mining stock. Inyo County California Ken Prag Collection

Issued-1905 Karma, 1909 Kern River Mining & Power-fair condition. Unissued-Merton. Kern county California Ken Prag Collection

Issued 1925 and 1933 Veta Grande Gold stocks. 1925 brown has bottom stain. Mono County California Ken Prag Collection

Lot of 3, two different mines. 1) The Needles Mining & Smelting Company. Two stocks issued and cancelled in 1909. Low numbers 7 and 9. Folds. 2)...

Issued-1946 California Keystone Placer, 1908 Sanhedrim-.5" tear. Unissued-Gruss. Plumas County California Ken Prag Collection

About 15 unissued brown and olive Phipps Quicksilver Mining stocks. San Benito County California Ken Prag Collection

Issued-1914 Tecopa Cons, 1905 Bullion Mountains Copper, 1916 Mojave Tungsten, 1903 San Bernardino Dev. San Bernardino county California Ken Pr

San Francisco Hetch Hetchy Water Bond#8508, I/C, $1000, 5%, Serial Gold bearer bond w/principal due 1964. Signed James Rolph Mayor, John E Douglas Tre

Issued-1900's? New Almaden Quicksilver, 1915 Quicksilver Investment-fair condition. Santa Clara/New Almaden California Ken Prag Collection

Issued-1911 Trinity Dredging-fair condition, 1909 Trinity Dredging-fair condition, 2x 1928 Pittsburgh & Mt. Shasta. Trinity/Shasta counties Ca...

Issued-1911 South Yuba, 1933 Wallberg, 1954 and 1955 Yuba Cons Gold Fields, 1927 Natomas, 1916 Yuba Construction. Unissued-Natomas, Marysville Tunnel

2 i/u from an area near Downieville. 1919 Allegheny Morning Glory, 1908 Allegheny Mining. California Ken Prag Collection

Incorp 1903 Rochester, New York. #585, I/U, for common stock 100 shares @ $5.00 ea. to Stuyvesant Fisks Jr. Apr. 16. 1909 signed by J.N Beekley Pres

Issued with dredge vignettes, 1910 Trinity Dredging, 1956 Natomas with 2 staples in vignette, 1910 Yuba Construction. California Ken Prag Coll

Issued-1914 and 1919 Major Gold, 1907 Richland Gold, 1904 Industrial Mining, 1905 Karma Mining, 1934 Cory, 1928 Central Eureka, 1904 Jack Boy, 1919 Sh

Lot of 2.1. Incorp. 1859 Calaveras County. U/U, dateline Mokelumne Hill, Ca. 188_. Capital stock @ $100 ea. Balk border/writing, same beautiful w