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Group of 81 cards from the Prag collection. Butte, Montana was once known world-wide as "The Richest Hill on Earth." The mile-high basin,...

Nine issued stocks. 1) Butte Copper Mining & Smelting Co., 1905, elk vignette. 2) British Butte Mining Co., 1907, three vignettes and foreign re...

Two issued and punch-cancelled stock certificates for Moulton Mining Company. Inc. in Territory of Montana. Different color borders (one black, one gr

Inc. in Montana Territory. No. 1967. Not cancelled. Issued for 100 shares to H.R. Swift on April 13th, 1881. Signed by Snow (president) and Brooke (se

Great, albeit blunt name for a mining company. Inc. in Utah Territory. Dateline Salt Lake City, April 12th, 1889. No. 344. Not cancelled. Issued for 8

Neihart mining district is located in the center of the Little Belt Mountains. Group of two, incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana. Both

Large, attractive document. Chartered by the state of PA March 23, 1865. Bond No. 46. The company is indebted $500 to Dana Goodsell. Dated March 31st,

Four issued stocks. Includes: The Bonanza Chief Gold Mining Co. (1894 with vignette), Butte Ramsdell Copper Mining Co. (1919 with vignette), Eastern M

Four different issued stocks. Includes: Legal Tender Cons. Mines Co. (1920), Davis-Daly Copper Co. (1923 with stunning vignette), Montana Cons. Copper

Four issued stocks. 1) Eastern Montana Mining and Smelting Co., 1877, Bozeman, vignette of miners hoisting ore bucket. 2) National Boston Montana Mine

Three Montana gold mining certificates: High Ore Gold and Copper Mining Co., 1896, No. 80, issued by M. L. Hewitt, Vice-President. Adhesive Revenue St

Gold Creek 1930, Original Bannack 1916 with unique background for title, Damours Gold 1905, Montana Consolidated 1934, Basin Gold and Silver 1919 earl

Six Montana mining certificates: Montana Mineral Land Development Co., 1907, No. 2493, Issued by Alfred Taber, President. Uncancelled. Montana Metals

1) The Alps Mining Co. Inc. in Montana Territory. No. 175, issued for 500 shares on Feb. 24th, 1890 in Butte, Montana. Corporate signatures, orante bo

1) The Montana Mica Co., Inc in Montana Territory. No. 142, issued for 10,000 shares on June 30, 1890 in Dillon, Montana. Corporate signatures. Green

1) Legal Tender Mining Co. Inc. in Territory of Montana. Signed by corporate officers. No vignette. Not cancelled. Folds, but crisp. 2) Penn Yan Minin

Group of 21, including: 1) 14 from the North Butte Mining Company, dated 1915-1931; 2) The Mining Development Corporation, unissued; 3) Liberty Montan

Rare. Location: Lander Hill, Reese River District, Nevada. Inc. in New York in 1866. Uncancelled. No. 90, issued to Wm. Wright for 1,000 shares on Mar

Rare. Mining Works, Austin City, Lander Co., Nevada. Inc. in New York. Uncancelled. No. 28. Issued to Benj. Coates for 68 shares on Jan. 5th, 1867 in

Rare Austin stock certificate. #110 for 5 shares to Thomas Messinger. Signed by Walton Ferguson and SH Holmes. A hand written note on back states thes

Scarce. Location: Reese River Mining District at Austin, Nevada. Inc. in New York. Uncancelled. No. 1464, issued for 500 shares to Childs & Seym...

Two fantastic items from Austin. 1) Unused Territorial ledger for the Manhattan SMS, Allen A. Curtis, Agent. All pages unused. Many are mint condition

Lot of six. 1) Unused. Number 609. An appropriate mining vignette is at center with an arm holding a hammer on bottom left. Handling is found near the

No. 14. Dateline Austin, Lander County, Dec. 24th, 1867 (Christmas Eve!). W.H. Clark is being issued 4 shares. Signed by D.W. Heely (president) and J.

Lot of two. 1) Stock # 181 for 10 shares to Henry Handy in 1866 Signed by Charles Gray and F. Mackin. Large brown US 25c stamp. Stock is stamped &qu...

Location: Lander Hill, Reese River District, Nevada. Inc. in New York. Uncancelled. No. 47. Issued for 200 shares to S.K. Raymond on June 10th, 1868 i

Inc. in Philadelphia. Mine location: Reese River Mining District, Lander County. No. 11, issued for 20 shares to James H. Tull on August 23, 1867 in P

Inc. in New York. Uncancelled. No. 632, issued for 50 shares to A. Bayles on April 10, 1868. Signed by Thomas S. Smill (?) (president) and R.E. Brigha

Reese River Mining District. Early number 86 for 400 shares to Victor Vogel in 1880. Signed by Jno Benson and EM Howie. Orange under print that reads

Inc. in New York. No. 255. Issued for 50 shares to Thomas J. Harlan on April 24th, 1869 in New York. 25 cent Internal Revenue stamp attached bottom ri

Reese River and Union Districts. #25 (EARLY!) for 10 shares to HH Locklin. “Preferred to the extent of sixteen cents on the dollar.” Stamped in red. S

1) Reese River Consolidated Company stock certificate. #229 for 500 shares to J. Kennedy Smyth. 1866. Brown 25c large US Revenue Stamp tied by the Tre

#79 for 5 shares to William Haines. Signed by Philips & Cresson. 25c large brown US Internal Revenue document stamp. Condition issues include ho...

Yet another rare Lander County stock certificate. This stock was issued on the first anniversary of the statehood of Nevada. #347 for twenty shares to

1) 1865 agreement between The Washington Silver Mining Co. and ______. The other party and exact date was left blank. The agreement is setting up a $1

Lot of 11. 1) Postcard of the Clifton Mill, Austin, Nevada. Mailed to Spokane, Washington. Toning. 2) Two modern photographic reprints of Austin minin

Three pieces. 1) Rare Report of Con O'Donnell, General Manager of Homestake King Consolidated Bullfrog Mining and Milling Co. of Rhyolite, Nevad...

Rare Bullfrog certificate! Inc. in South Dakota in 1905. No. 299. Not cancelled. Issued for 1,000 shares to Clay Fallinan on Jan. 19th, 1909. Signed b

Early Tonopah pieces. Two cards to teamsters: Lindsay and Edwards. One for 55 sacks and one for 198 sacks. Note on back of one states that some sacks

Blueprint map "Plan of Fairview Treasure Hill Group, Fifteen Lode Mining Claims." Churchill County, Nevada. January 1909. Drawn by E.P. Os...

Located in Gold Hill District. Inc. in California, Jan. 1874. It's rare to find certificates from this company in this good of condition (relati...

Location: Gold Hill District, Storey County, Nevada Territory. Dateline Virginia, N.T., Feb 13, 1864. Inc. Feb, 1864. No. 15. Issued for 20 shares to

Group of four from the Prag collection, including: Two from "Merger Mine Mill, Gold Hill, Nevada. 69."; "Belcher Mine, Gold Hill, Nev...

Location: Gold Hill, Storey County, Nevada. Inc. 1866. Rare. No. 17136. No. 17136. Stamp cancelled. Issued to Rehfisch & Co. for 200 shares on O...

1) Two prospectuses: The Forward Mining Development Co. and The Goldfield Mascot Co. 2) "Facts" About Goldfield booklet created by The For...

1) Second annual report of the Goldfield Consolidated for 1908. 40 pages, nice pictures. 2) 1911 report of the Florence-Goldfield Mining Company. 16 p

List of stocks sold to Charles Sprague of Goldfield. Date: 1917 City: Goldfield State: Nevada ID: 21435

Mounted photograph print. Image is 6" x 8" on 8" x 10" paper, mounted on 10.5" x 13.75" cardboard. Titled "Miner...

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1) The Forward Mining Development Company of Goldfield and Bullfrog. Prospectus. 2) By-Laws of the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company. Date:

#87 issued to S. M. Sproul for 50 shares in 1867. Signed by J. Bidwell president and Jas. C. Martin secretary. John Bidwell was a California pioneer w

c.1916. Prospectus for Eldorado Enterprise Gold Mining Company. Foldout pages. Four pages of text plus map of mining claims. Back has photograph of Ra

Lot of 3. Two blank assessment forms for the Manhattan Mother Lode Mining Co. and a 1906 American Securities "Manhattan, Nevada Edition" n...

Group of 7 postcards from the Prag collection, including: 3 from Nevada Con. Mill; Nev. Con. Smelter; Reverbatory Furnace, N.C.C. Co.; Concentrator at

This panorama is most assuredly connected to the four from the Toulon / Nightingale / Mill City area. Has been noted on back "Crew at Mill City...

27 ½ x 5 ½”. Shows two miners on each side of a mining and milling operation that looks very much like National. Frame is old and shows so...

Postcard from "Ramsey Comstock at Ramsey, Nevada, 200 x 19 feet, Value, $450,000.00/ The largest Deposit of Uncovered Gold yet discovered in th...

Early map of "Rawhide, Nevada, Gold Camp," "The Heart of the Producing Area of Rawhide." "Showing the Relative Positions of...

Vellum. Cross section map of sections 1A, B,C, and D. Done by W. A. Schaffer. Shows values at different levels to 410 feet. According to the Los Angel

Group of 8 including: "Veteran Townsite, Cumberland - Ely Mines, Ely, Nevada;" "Giroux Consolidated , Kimberly, Nevada;" " ...

Lyon County. Group of 4 from the Prag collection, includes: Dayton Mine, Silver City, Nevada; "New York Mine," near Silver City, Nev.; &qu...

Silverado and Kentuck Mines of Sweetwater. Signed by TA Rickey. Date: 1925 City: Sweetwater State: Nevada ID: 21431

Two boxes full of Tonopah mining documents. First box: many assay settlement sheets and documents for the Tonopah Belmont Development Company. Most ar

While it is "embossed" "Tonopah Mining Co. 1908" we are unsure if this is original, since it is hand done with a torch. But it i...

Lot of 7 pieces. 1) Annual report of the Tonopah Divide Mining Co. (1927). 3 pages. 2) Weekly Market Letter, dated Tonopah, Nevada, May 20, 1905. Reve

Group of 23 postcards from the Prag collection, including: 17 from Tonopah; 2 from Blair stamp mills; and 4 from Goldfield. Date: City:

Four 17 x 6 1/2" panoramas. 1) Toulon Mill on the Southern Pacific railroad line. 2) Nightingale [or Mill City area] These came from an archive...

Nice view of relationship of railroad to the Flotation Mill. 45". Date: 1933 City: Virginia City State: Nevada ID: 22126

See Number 1. Date: 1933 City: Virginia City State: Nevada ID: 22127

This is a different view. The railroad is still in the picture, but in he bottom right. The tailings and plant are more prominent. Date: 1933

Two smaller panoramas. 1) The crew. 2) Mill building - Change Room. Date: 1933 City: Virginia City State: Nevada ID: 2212

No. 987. Agency of the Bank of California. Dated Virginia, Nev. Aug. 5th, 1873. Made out G. Mott & Co. (well-known hardware merchant) for $869. ...

96 pages. Blue covers with gilt lettering and miner vignette on front. "Closing Argument of Adolph Sutro on the bill before Congress to aid the...

A group of six postcards from the Prag collection, including: 1) "Main Tunnel 4 1/2 Miles Long Drains Mines of Comstock lode to 1750 Foot Level...

Very rare! Certificate No. 68. Dateline New York, October 18, 1868. Solomon Haas of New York is issued 85 shares. Signed by Adolph Sutro, "Duly...

Section along the line of the Sutro Tunnel. Scale: 1 inch=600 feet. Drawn by T.D. Parkinson, C.E. in July 1871. 29" x 8.75" Folds with som...

Group of 19 varied Comstock-related postcards from the Prag collection. Images represented include stamp mills, Union Mine, C & C, Consolidated ...

A group of 11 postcards from the Prag collection, including: two from the Union Mine, two from the Consolidated Virginia Mine, James G. Fair Mansion,

Dateline Virginia, Nev., July 12, 1880. Location: Lyon County, Nevada. Patriotic eagle vignette. Issued to H.D. Grop for 500 shares. Signed by J.J. Co

A 1870 Gould & Curry Silver Mining check with US revenue imprint. Signed by Philip Deidesheimer. Deidesheimer was the brilliant German mining en...

Lot of 5. 1) Rare. No. 581. W.S. Hobart, Ophir Mill check signed by John Mackay. RN-B17b revenue imprint. Portions missing upper left, folds, and bits

Lot of 8 that has key signatures and represents a variety of the important Comstock mills. 1) A pair of Pacific Mill and Mining Co. checks, one signed

Lot of 6 checks that were all issued to pay mining payrolls! 1) Pacific Mill & Mining Co. No. 267. Issued for $2,140 to Cal Mill Construction Pa...

Lot of 8. 1) Two Gould & Curry Silver Mining checks with orange 2 cent Nevada and US IR adhesive stamps. One has the stamps in the appropriate b...

Two different style Bacon Mill checks signed by two of the most famous Comstock mining figures. 1) 1871. No. 99. Issued to Mercer & Zucker for $...

Two famous Comstock mining figures, James G. Fair and John Mackay, included in this lot! Both are Mariposa Mill Company checks w/ rare RN-B16a revenue

No. 4. Issued to Andrew Fraser for $200 on August 3rd, 1875. Signed by John Mackay. Enterprise Steam Print. RN-D1. Cut cancel, otherwise clean! Da

No. 57. Signed by John Mackay. RN-D1. Clean! Date: 1875 City: Virginia City State: Nevada ID: 21842

Purple/blue. Wells, Fargo & Co. No. 189. Date Oct. 5th, 1861. Virginia City had just become part of Nevada Territory that year (in March). State...

1) Two Empire Mining Company checks from Virginia City (dated 1866 and 1869). Both have state and US adhesive revenue stamps and are signed by R.N. Gr

Both of these checks have the RN-C21 US IR imprint. Both also have Nevada revenue: one is an orange 2 cent adhesive. The other is a red 2 cent imprint

Lot of 3. Two ore receipts with N.T. datelines, March 9th and 15th, 1864. One is purple, the other is white. Both have soiling. Also included is a Ban

Lot of four great Wells Fargo Territorial Comstock checks! 1) 1861. Signed by Charles Strong (superintendent of Gould & Curry). 2) 1862. Signed ...

1) The Walker Lake Copper Mining & Smelting Co./ The Thorne Copper Mining & Reduction Co.15 pages. Walker Lake District. c.1906. 2) The Gold...

Group of 19 postcards from the Prag collection, including: Ruby Hill Mine Eureka Nev; Panning Gold; Rio Tinto, Nev.; Clark-Fletcher Mill, Jarbidge, N

Stock certificate from Santa Rita Copper and Iron Company, Santa Rita, New Mexico, 1881, No. 155, issued by J. P. Whitney. Issued to George A. Alden.

Nice vignette of an Indian Chief in top center. Number 1982 for 250 shares to Augustus Macomb. Signed by Bigelow and ?. According to the Copper Handbo

Three New Mexico stock certificates from: The Peralta Canon Consolidated Gold Mining Co., 1905, No. 383, issued by Chauncey Sheldon, President. Issued

Early New Mexico stock certificate from Manzano Gold Mining Company, 1888, No. 63, issued by A. Erimosley (?), President. Issued to A. M. Codington. U

Eleven stock certificates from: The Colorado Copper Mining Company, 1900, No. 1411. Issued by J. R. Palmori (?), President. Issued to Dill Southwick.