American History & Hall of Fame Showcase, June 2024

Native Sons of the Golden West breast badge for the Lake Tahoe Parlor (328). Silver Plate. "328/ Delegate/ N. S. G. W.//(hanger) Grand Parlor/...

Six Months in the Gold Mines: From a Journal of Three Years' Residence in Upper and Lower California. 1847-8-9. By E. Gould Buffum, Lieutenant F...

Stratton's Independence Mines Ephemera Lot of 6 items, all revolving around W.S. Stratton and his investments. Winfield Scott Stratton (1848...

Hardcover, 495 pages; 8 x 11 inches. "The Official Manual of the Cripple Creek District Colorado, U.S.A." by Fred Hills, 1900. No map, b...

Silver Mining Regions of Colorado by J.P. Whitney 1865. The preface claims that while the book (Or pamphlet) was hastily written, its aim was more me

About fifteen Location Certificates for mining claims in the Tulford Mining District of eagle County, Colorado. Most dated 1892 & 1893. Colorado

c. 1875-80 albumen photo on board of Dade Coal Mine in Ellijay, GA.The name of the town may have changed. Features the mine and North Georgia Railroa

Original ledger , 9.5 x 14", 250pp from assayer S. H. Johns. In this ledge, he records over 7,000 assays from hundreds of different customers, ...

Document of pledges signed by the United Merchants of Austin, Nevada for a ìSack of Flourî auctioned for the U.S. Sanitary Fund by Reuel C...

Goldfield Black Buttes Mining Company undated prospectus. 1909 USGS Geology and Ore Deposits of Goldfield, Nevada by Emmons and Garrey. Unbound 20th A

4 framed letters from notable Goldfield lawyers and brokers related to Goldfield stocks. 1919 Zadig & Co. regarding Goldfield Dev. Co. with ille...

One page (8 x 11 inch) 1906 letter from the Goldfield Investment Company to a man in Montana concerning the purchase of "Great Bend" minin...

Lot of 2 different mills. These mills were in the vicinity of the original discovery site for the Comstock by the Grosh brothers. Both stereoviews are

Two old and historic steroviews. 1) GL Hepburn. Hand written No. 3, Silver City, Nevada. Shows mine in front of city. 2) Handwritten ëSilver Ci...

8 Tonopah to Bullfrog mining publications. 1910 USGS Bullfrog Geology, Rhyolite, Underground Geology of Tonopah, USGS Ore Deposits of Tonopah, Placer

31 x 56" black ink on velum original claim map, 1" to 100', for the Comstock Merger Mines Inc. this map shows the gut of the Comstock ...

Down Memory Trail to The Comstock in Pictures - by John J. "Count" Mahoney. No date listed, but its publication is mentioned in the Nevada...

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

About 20 c. 1867-1907 mostly Savage Mine and some Virginia City checks. Virginia City Nevada

1864 Savage Mine production report, 104.92 Ag/+. Signed by assayer Kuh. Left edge issues. Virginia City Nevada

1872 Mission Candle Works letterhead with choice content. Letter relates to a Savage Mine order for 500 boxes of miner's candles and an order fo...

2 c. 1886 receipts, 7 billheads, 6 c. 1870's letterheads. All business related ephemera for equipment etc. Virginia City Nevada

3 Savage Mine insurance policies, expires in 1875, 1887, 1894. Virginia City Nevada

c. 1864-70 Savage Mine tax paid on bullion in currency and 2 unrelated tax assessment docs. Virginia City Nevada

1872 Closing Argument of Adolph Sutro...Before the Committee on Mines and Mining... The Sutro Tunnel would become a major break though to evacuation t

1866 Sutro Tunnel hand colored map with rare longitudinal section of the Comstock at top. 21x13.5". Tears and several tape repairs, scale 2&q...

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

Extremely rare Comstock autograph. Virginia & Truckee Railroad receipt, Carson, March 14th, 1872. Issued to E. Penrod for 9 7/8 cords of nut pin...

11 different c. 1865-76 VC billheads. Enterprise Publishing, Foster & Strouse, Jas MacDonald, H C Lillie etc. See photo. Virginia City Nevada

Assortment of Virginia City ephemera. Original newspaper clipping including Gen. Grant visit, billheads, receipts, letterheads, legal docs., original

1865 Globe Silver Mining report of the General Superintendent and Trustees. First edition in original wrappers. Large 19.25x8.5" folding map of...

8 pieces of Nevada ephemera. Gold Creek Placer's 1938 4 panel prospectus with dredge and other photos. Pioche Mines Co. 1928 report and nice 4 p...

28 x 20" Map of the State of Nevada to accompany the annual report of the Commr.genl. Land office. 1866. This is an exceptionally rare and impo...

Published by Bacon & Company, Book and Job Printers, San Francisco., 305 pp, illustrated with 17 plates with 6 pgs. of advertisements at end; no...

Practical Miner's Guide A Treatise for Mining Engineering. Copyright 1858, first gathered and published by J. Budge in 1856. this book is 191 pa...

The Miner's Guide & Metallurgists Directory 1849 by J.W. Orton. The table of contents has the book divided by the types of metal. Because ...

By D MacVhie. December 1, 1908. Twenty-seven pages. 12 page foldout map of the underground workings. 6 page fold out map of the Coalition and adjacent

"The Horn Silver Mine Report," W.A. Hooker, E.M., March 1879. 14 maps & plans, most with color; 5 duotone lithographed plates with vie...

An historically important letter from Virginia, detailing the development of the coal mining industry in the state. The owner of a Richmond mine write

Large collection of assay reports and records from Northport Smelting and Refining. c. 1910's-1920's. Assays show high grade silver ore, abo...

Silver Commission reports from 1876 & 1877. The 1876 volume is 208 pages, has some staining on pages. The 1877 volume is 574 pages, bump damage ...

"United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel," "III. Mining Industry," by James D. Hague with contributions by...

Assay books include Sulphurets What They Are copyright 1867, 120 pages, Hints of Amalgamation 111 pages, copyright 1899, Western Mill& Smelter M...

Rich Lingenfelter's classic two volume treatise on "Gold Lust and Silver Sharks" and "Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies". This...

The two classic, first-ever for the government reporting of mines and mining in the West. One of the great parts about these two volumes is that Cong

Horatio Burchard's follow-up to Ross Raymond's Minerals Resources West of the Rocky Mountains series. In this critical series, the Bureau co...

A pair of nineteenth century books on gold and silver metallurgy. Includes: "The Metallurgy of Silver, Gold, and Mercury in the United States,&...

Gold Mining Machinery by W.H. Tinney. This is a rare book, published in 1906. It's 300 pages, plus the advertising pages in the back. The book h...

A library of seven books about global discussions of the mineral industry, . Includes: "Economic Relations of Silver to other metals in Argenti...

Lot of two: 1) "Hydraulic and Placer Mining," by Eugene B. Wilson; hardcover, 234 pages; 1898. 2) "A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic ...