"Raise a Glass to Yesteryear" 2023 August Auction

Mounted underground mining shot at Victor, CO., 3.45x4.75" 2 small residue spots on photo. Framed reproduction of Amethyst Tramway, Creede, Col...

"The Gold Regions. No. 20. Arrastre in Motion and Arrastre at Rest. Near Stirling, with snow-clad Mountain in the distance." Two early Arr...

Helens Mining District, Montana, Scratch Gravel, Marysville, Rimini, Corbin, Lump Gulch, Unionville, Clancy, Wickes. Compiled and drawn by the Enginee

About 75 correspondences in binder related to Garnet Gold Mining Co. c. 1909-17. Letterheads, receivership, legal proceedings as the company failed et

Very rare and interesting L H Hershfield 1873 payment draft to Anglo merchants to all be paid in gold coin thru Bank of California, San Francisco with

Lot of 76. All are Banking House of LH Hershfield & Bro., Helena, Montana checks issued to Chinese merchants. Includes 57 RN-B, 2 RN-C, and 17 w...

Very rare and interesting L H Hershfield 1873 payment drafts to mining Chinese to all be paid in gold coin thru Bank of California, San Francisco with

About 12 different 1870s-1881 banking documents from teh height of gold mining in Montana. These bank statements all carry full letterhead of the bank

North Horn Silver Mining stock issued to Thos. Couch, 1882. Couch wrote the included 12pp mine report with color maps. 1885 Couch note book with hand

Document of pledges signed by the United Merchants of Austin, Nevada for a “Sack of Flour” auctioned for the U.S. Sanitary Fund by R

Assessment receipt from the San Francisco office for the Independent Gold & Silver Mining Company, June 22, 1864. Received of WC Ralston, $1,000...

Assessment of 11 mines. Listed by owner. Wilson & Brothers and A. J. Homes owned the mines with the greatest yield; over $11,000. Has a 5c green...

G.W. Bell Assay Office, Savage Mine, Dalls Mill, Franktown, NV, 1864. Nevada territorial deposit of Silver Bars (bullion crossed out) deposited for th

This territorial Comstock COD is dripping with history. It is issued to JC Clark, who was a cousin of mining magnate George Hearst. Jacob Clark came w

14.5 x 23.5" black and white litho by Oakley and Thomson Boston. Survey July 1864 Westcoatt on claims located in sept and oct of 1859. The map ...

A collection of 35 photos of various sizes showing life at the Yellow Pine Mining Company in Goodsprings, Nevada. Black & white photos show cand...

For March of 1870. Three mines are listed by owner. The Ely & Raymond “ one of Lincoln County's most famous mines “ was the main...

Lot of 4 labor receipts from superintendent RH Morrow, all dated 1862, Virginia City, N.T. Black print on blue paper. 4 x 7.5" The White & ...

Territorial. Includes a California State Telegraph envelope address to Day. Telegram is dated July 6, 1864. "Send no more bars to Theall, loss ...

The original large format color lithograph by African-American artist Grafton T. Brown. Professionally and beautifully framed in black tones. Outer di

Rare mining deed between James Anderson, William T. Barboun, Philip W. Keyes (who purchased the claim from Sandy Bowers and James Rodgers) and the Sav

Lot of 2 Bank of California items. 1) Bank of California Note to pay Union Mill & Mining Co. $7500.00 dated May 9th, 1870 in Gold Coin. Signed b...

Bank of California promissory note for $100,000, issued to William Sharon by the Union Mill and Mining Company, Nov. 1st, 1871, San Francisco. Signed

Very rare. 1873 Annual report printed by "Stock Report" Print in San Francisco. JA Pritchard is president and AC Hamilton is superintenden...

Bank of California Note to pay Union Mill & Mining Co. $40,000.00 dated November 20th, 1876 in Gold Coin with interest to accrue at one % per mo...

Lot of 2 for Bonanza King mining millionaire and US Senator James G. Fair. 1) Letterbook copy of letter sent by Fair in the 1860s when he was superint

Lot of 3 different. 1) Very early 1861 blue form (Excelsior Print, SF). Issued to John Smith by RN Graves. At this time, Graves was supt. of the Empir

Lot of 10 different. Fantastic group! 1) Best is a Union Mill & Mining Company, Bank of California check issued to and signed by William Sharon ...

Lot of 7 different. 1) Union Mill & Mining Company. One of the great Comstock check rarities. Only 5 examples currently known. This check is iss...

Lot of 12. Includes: Ophir Mining Co. (rare James G. Fair, 1878, and WH Patton, 1879); Potosi Mining Company (1889); and Savage Mining Co. (numerous s

Lot of 4. 1) Mariposa Mill Company. Very rare RN-B16a imprinted revenue. Issued in 1870 to NN Humphrey. Signed by "Bonanza King" mining mi...

Lot of 2 different, both rare. The California and Con. Virginia were adjacent mines controlled by the Bonanza Firm and the site of the Big Bonanza dis

Lot of 2 different for this famous mine owned by the Bonanza Kings and the site of the Big Bonanza discovery. 1) Report Upon Proposed Exploration on t

Lot of 3 Wells Fargo & Co. Express bullion receipts for the Con. California & Virginia Mining Company, the mines that were the site of the B...

Excellent early view of the main street in Virginia City, with Gillig, Mott & Co. hardware building identified on the right (makers of the famou...

Very rare CDV by Lawrence & Houseworth showing the mill in full production, c.1864. "726. The Patio Process--Gould & Curry Mill." ...

Label on the back provides identification: "Northern part of Virginia City, from the Combination Shaft." Part of the Views of the Great We...

Noe's Views, No. 29 South C Street, Virginia, Nevada. Reverse has paper label identifying this as the Utah Mine Hoisting Works. The contrast is ...

Lot of two different from a series of Comstock photographs taken about c.1900 from an unidentified photographer. These two identify the mine in white

Mounted photograph of building with faint "Combination Shaft" visible on side (also matches earlier views of this structure). 5 x 8" ...

Lot of 2. The Empire State Mill was located in Sixmile Canyon at foot of Sugarloaf. In the early 1870s, it had 15 stamps a 40-ton-a-day-capacity. The

Undated map on vellum that shows claims patented by the California MC, Con. Virginia, Ophir, JB Overton, Union Consolidated, Mexican, and Central Silv

Abstract, title, claim and Conveyances for the Imperial Silver Mining Co. White Pine Mining District, Lander County, Nevada. 8 pages. Starting Novemb

About 1 cubic foot of technical mining reports on Nevada properties. Includes The Black Hawk in Pershing County; Floating test for Consolidated Copper

Silver King Mining Company, Elkhorn, Oregon, Photograph and Prospectus. Nice pairing. The photograph is 4 X 6 inches mounted on a decorative card and

Prospectus of the Deadwood Gulch Hydraulic Mining Company, 1882. ìOf Deadwood Gulch, Lawrence County, Black Hill, of the Territory of Dakota. P...

Four high quality albumen prints mounted on buff board, one on each side of two pages that may have been part of a folio of the mining activity at Par

"Importers and Manufacturers of Chemical Apparatus and Assay Materials." Located at 205, 207, 902, & 211 Third Avenue, New York. 36 pa...

Treatise on the Assaying of Lead, Copper, Silver Copper, Gold, and Mercury: T-H. Bodermann & Bruno Kurl Ò 1868 Publisher: John Wiley & ...

Author's copy! Explorers' and Assayers' Companion: Rocks, Veins, Testing, and Assaying: Phillips, J. S., M.E., London, Trubner & Co....