August 2018 Auction

The Walker Lake Copper Mining & Smelting Co. / The Thorne Copper Mining & Reduction Co. Promoted by the Patrick Investment Company (who prom...

Lot of 5 incl. Monnette autograph. 1) Monnette Wonder Mining Company. Mines in the Wonder Mining District, Churchill County. No. 134, issued for 1,000

1) Nevada Wonder Mining Company. No. 2527, issued in 1912 for 5 shares. Not cancelled. Brown border, ornate logo. Folds. 2) Wonder Extension Mining Co

Lot of 4 different including a Jack Davis signed piece. 1) Daisy Wonder Mining Company. No. 1426, issued for 500 shares in 1911. Signed by Jack Davis

Lot of 6. 1) Four different mining stock certificates: North Star Mining Company of Wonder (issued 1906, not cancelled, multiple mining vignettes, pin

1) Chino Mines smelter interior 32" x 25". 2) Mega dump truck in pit 29" x 24". 3) Bird's eye of Liberty Pit & New Ruth,...

Beautiful Stock Cert. with vignette of eagle, & shield, No. 87 for 200 shares. This is not listed in Mines Handbook. Date: 1921 City: Stat...

Lot of 8 different. Included: Ajax-Nevada Gold Mining Co. (1912, not cxl, mining vignette, Delaware Mining District); Western Empire Gold Mines Inc. (

Lot of 8 different. 1) The Aurora Bullfrog Mining and Exploration Company. No. 418, issued for 1,000 shares in 1909. Not cancelled. Multiple mining vi

2 Stock Certs. 1) No. 88 for 50 shares, beautiful vignette of woman holding shield & grape leaves. Orange border, 8.5" x 11". Date: ...

Partially issued & voided (hand signed by the officers & owner's name filled in) with a beautiful vignette of Santa Clause holding a gol...

Lot of 4 different. All inc. in Maine but mining works in Nevada. 1) Goldfield & Eastern Mines Co. Issued for 40 shares in 1906. Not cancelled. ...

Lot of 7 different. Included: California Diamond Oil Company (1906, not cxl, derrick vignette); Goldfield Berkeley Mining Company (1906, not cxl); Gol

Preferred Stock under Act of February 9th, 1849. No.3953, issued for 10 shares to Chandler Darlington on November 8th, 1867. Signed by president W.H.

In Wigton-Abbott, NJ wood box. Interior label for Charles Prandoni, repair service of surveying instruments, Hoboken, New Jersey, circa 1930. Approxim

I/C #3 Wm. Newcomb 16600 shares 1879 with glued note on rear assigning to Annie Newcomb. Date: 1879 City: State: New Mexico HWAC# 72042

Rare Stock Cert, Monitor Silver,Lead & Zinc Mining & Milling Co., New Mexico, No. 293, for 100 shares. Brown filigree border. Slight tearing...

I/U #89 Ferd. Stitzer 2 shares 1877, signed by VP Morris. Date: gen City: State: New York HWAC# 72053

Incorporated in 1838 (with charter amended 1851 and 1853). No. 1626, issued for 25 shares to C.B. Churchill on October 26th, 1852. Signed by Henry Sta

Wells Fargo & Co. Bank (Manhattan) check, datelined El Oro, Mexico, signed by mining magnate Rossiter Raymond March 11, 1918. Raymond (1840-1918...

I/U #796 George Gooteers 100 shares 1867. Smelter vignette. Lower left corner clipped. Date: 1867 City: State: North Carolina HWAC# 72055

Real photo card, c1910 of the Black Eagle Mine. Unused. Uneven contrast, otherwise fine. Two miners in front of mine entrance, mine identified in the

I/U #687 John Rose 200 shares . Nice 4 miners vignette. 1903. Date: 1903 City: State: Oregon HWAC# 72049

I/U #1147 Geo Tolley 1902 2000 shares. Nice lion head vignette. Date: 1902 City: State: Oregon HWAC# 72059

1) White Horse Mining Company. Number 64 for 10 shares to Frank Dayton in 1912. Signed by secretary JF Booth and president Davidson. Three mining vign

Number 245 of 1,400 shares. Signed by Hurley. One share in all the Mineral Property of W. R. Hurley & Co. Also the bearer is to pay $100 to the ...

"A New Process for the Extraction of Copper from Its Ores" by Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, F.R.S.; and James Douglas, Jr. Esq. 13 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 ...

Lot of 5 from either the Gold Mountain Mining District or the Ohio Mining District, both in Piute County. 1) Prospectus for The Gold Mountain Consolid

Mine was located on the east side of the Big Bird Creek in Goochland County, Virginia. i/u to Smith #3171 100 shares 1878. Signed by President Jno E N

#191 i/u HC Denning? 1885 4000 shares. Signed by president Wills. 3 nice vignettes of miners. Nice condition. Date: 1885 City: State: Virginia

Rappahannock Gold Mining Co. Stock Cert, I/U No. 3339, for 100 shares, signed by MacPherson(?). Gray border, vignettes of woman holding gold scales,...

I/u #3331 George Phipps 100 shares 1888. Signed by President McPherson. Date: 1888 City: State: Virginia HWAC# 76500

No. 103, for 1000 shares, signed by president, no condition issues noted. I/U. Date: 1898 City: State: Washington HWAC# 76251

Mine in Carbon County, WY. I/U #4408 to faded,Creases and foxing. 5 shares. Signed by President McCall Date: 1877 City: State: Wyoming HWAC# 720

Lot of 2. 1) "Letter and Report of Managing Agent to the Stockholders of the Great Cariboo Gold Co. From Camp Wingdam, Lightning Creek, BC.&qu...

48 pages w/ large map (25" x 19") of claims. Personal copy of famous geologist Raphael Pumpelly (based on handwriting comparison with othe...

Early German work on the metallurgy of copper ores, published Hamburg, 1864. 5 1/2 x 9", 45 pages. Date: 1864 City: State: Germany HWAC#...

Stock Cert, #C1155 for 100 shares, signed by President, vignette of miner working underground. 11.5" x 8.5" Date: 1918 City: State: Me...

I/U #436 WT Hotchkiss 500 shares 1892. Date: City: State: Venezuela HWAC# 72079

Du Pont Tamping Bag & small writing tablet. Date: City: State: HWAC# 77909

I/U #57 Colonial Commercial 50 shares 1908.Signed by president Don??? Date: 1908 City: State: HWAC# 76507

I/U, No. 523 for 1000 shares, beautiful vignettes of mountain with train running through, & miners at work underground. Signed by W. C. Tower(?)...

I/U #35 Sue Frantz 100 shares 1893. Signed by President Davis. Date: City: State: HWAC# 72078

Stock Cert. No. 2207, for 400 shares, I/U, slight staining in 2 folds. Date: 1909 City: State: HWAC# 76254

No. 375, for 100 shares, nice vignette of hydraulic mining scene. I/U. Date: 1881 City: State: HWAC# 76249

I/U #221 Clara Jansen 5 shares 1899. Nice hydraulic vignette. Date: 1899 City: State: HWAC# 72044

Possibly Klondike. Would have held 100-120 oz of placer gold. Date: c 1897-1910 City: State: HWAC# 76059

Pre 1900. To hold about 20 oz of gold/ Date: City: State: HWAC# 76079

Preferred stock, signed by Robert Barbour, President, No. 6, for 200 shares. I/U. Vignette of 1 mule & 4 miners working in wilderness. Date: 1...

I/U #260 to James West 500 shares 1891. Here is your Wild Wild West stock! Date: 1891 City: State: HWAC# 72048

Original tin can with red black and white, 6“ diameter, 7” tall with original bale handle. “Miners and Puddlers long hot smoking tobacco”, Milwaukee,

Philadelphia Smelting and Refining 1897? assay report, Dawson YT 1905 Margaret Barrett savings bank note. Hardcover Deep Enough by Crampton 281pp, Ha

Mining crucible tht would be used for 100-500 oz. pours. Approx 11.5" x 10" Date: City: State: HWAC# 58716

Lot of 4. 1) Large albumen photograph showing big group of men, one armed, standing at what appears to be a mine entrance. Also a man appears to be op

Lot of 7. 1) Letterhead for the Custer Mining Syndicate, Winston, Montana, 1893. Sent to AM Holter in Helena re: pump valves and wrenches. Signed by C

9 b/w, chromolitho, and RPC's. PA, NV. Lead SD, OR hydraulic mining stereoview by Keystone. Date: City: State: HWAC# 72045

Rare Stock Cert., No. 88, Shares 5000. Beautiful Vignette of eagle with brown border. Embossed Nov. 13, 1902. No condition issues noted. 11.75"...

Stock Cert. No. 3688, for 20 shares. I/U, vignette of miners working in mine shaft, signed by Jos. McNeal (?) president. Date: 1906 City: State:

No. 112, for 100 shares, I/U, vignette of miners working working in tunnel. Signed by Isaac Van Deuseu (?) President. Date: 1898 City: State:

Beautiful blue border, No. 3810, for 30 shares Issued to Daniel Perry. Unusual vignette of porcupine with a crown on top of quills. 11.5" x 8&q...

Unissued, red color with vignette of miners working, train & smelting factory. Date: City: State: HWAC# 76257

Beautiful, clean stock cert. No. 23 for 1 share, vignette of two women with shield & eagle w/ background of steamer ship & train. Incorporat...

Lot of 5: four different stereoviews and one mining postcard. Stereoviews include: Copper Smelters & Mine, Butte, Montana Keystone; Shaft House,...

Gold in quartz and green schist from a collection in Washington, where may of the really good Alaska specimens are today. It is believed these specime

Nice Arizona Azurite specimen collected in 1960's in Bagdad, AZ. Approx 6" x 6". Date: City: Bagdad State: Arizona HWAC# 76941

Aquamarine is the greenish-blue colored variety of the mineral Beryl. The color of aquamarine is attributed to the presence of ferrous iron within the

The northern Sierra Nevada is home to numerous important gold deposits. These include the famous lode districts and placer deposits of Nevada County w

This fine, California leaf gold specimen was previously in the mineral collection of F. John Barlow (Specimen #G-157). Barlow was passionate about col

An important, rich specimen of wire gold in quartz from the historically significant Ibex / Little Jonny Mine area. Margaret "Molly" Brown...

This rich, wire gold specimen was uncovered by metal detector during the last 20 years. The specimen was most recently in the mineral collection of Br

This superb amazonite and smoky quartz specimen is from the Smoky Hawk Mine, Teller County, Colorado. Amazonite is a variety of microcline feldspar co

An exceptionally well-crystallized copper specimen from the historically important copper mining province of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. While c

This specimen demonstrates why crystallized gold specimens from the huge, open-pit Round Mountain Mine so highly prized by mineral collectors. Round M

Very nice, small agate. This specimen is know as " Blue Ellingsworth. The size is around 2". Very nice specimen with a light blue cast. Go...

An extremely attractive stream-worn gold nugget with minor quartz association. This nugget had previously been part of the world-famous gold collectio

A large, spectacular, water-worn, spinel-law twinned crystal of native gold. This specimen was formerly part of the world-famous F. John Barlow Collec

A well-formed, one-inch wide, neon-green colored fluorite crystal is the focal point on this fantastic collector quality specimen from Riemvasmaak, So

A superb example of crystallized gold in quartz from Venezuela. The area around Santa Elena de Uairen is currently a hotbed of gold exploration. The c

A fantastic specimen of wire gold in quartz recovered during the last decade from near surface, gold-bearing quartz veins during the last decade near

Eighteen specimens, all about four inches square from numerous locales. Several are particularly nice, some containing other minor minerals. Crystal

Gold nugget necklace--24 small nuggets (1.11 ozt) and one large nugget (1.91 ozt) set with a .5 carat round cut diamond on a gold chain necklace. 22...

Geode bookend pair. Beautiful blue died agate geode, ocean blue color, highly polished, each side with a wood base. Very attractive, the larger pieces

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Four color railroad lantern. Embossed from the Atkinson Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Blue, orange, blue, orange lenses, embossed along the bottom rim,

Three red globe caboose lamps. Two shallow flat bottom red Dietz lamp with red globes, number 40 traffic guard. No railroad markings. Both dirty but g

Two Dietz handheld lanterns with red glass insert on back panel. Two with clear globes, one turned purple. Two of these lamps with the globes have wha

Three railroad lamps. None of the lamps are marked from a specific railroad. Two with clear globes the third without. Patent dates of 1923, 1913. (Dan

Six Southern Pacific Company Railroad lamps with globes. All marked with embossed tops, small lettering and large lettering. One lamp marked on the cl

Three different railroad lamps. Atkinson Topeka and Santa Fe by Handlin, St. Louis, with an embossed clear globe. The second lamp by Adams and Westlak

Two red globe handheld railroad lanterns. One marked S.P. CO., the second marked A T & S F. Both globes unmarked and not embossed. Generally fin...

Missouri Pacific embossed railroad lock reverse side says section to house a one. Scarce, brass, good condition, no key. (Daniel Manassellkian Collect

Collection of 20 old locks, mostly rusty. Includes Liberty Saver, and AdLake with the Southern Pacific key. A number of locks that appear to be mailb

Eight Champion six lever brass locks. These ornate locks were are embossed, none of these marked on the back, two of the locks have keys. A good-looki

Collection of skeleton keys of all varieties. Approximately 75 keys ranging in size from the average skeleton key from 1922, larger more ornate keys o

Fancy Keen Kutter lock, embossed Southern Pacific on the reverse with the Southern Pacific logo. Brass, embossed St. Louis USA on HASP, SC Simmons. (D

Four locks that are modern made. All have fake plaques as seen on so many other items. these locks are "For Show Only". Locks come in a gr...

Pacific Electric Railway lock, embossed, switch CS 10. Brass railroad block with key. Scarce. Fine condition. (Daniel Manassellian Collection) Date:

Four classic railroad locks, from brass to iron. No markings from the railroad and no keys. Nice general collectors items. (Daniel Manassellian Collec

Lot of 3. 1894 patent No. 526191 issued to Miguel Morell and Ramon Ferrer of Santa Barbara for express cars. Includes diagrams and descriptions of the

Sent on stationary from Miguel Morell and Raymundo M. Ferrer. Dateline Santa Barbara, Feb. 13th, 1897. Addressed to Nunn & Co. in New York. Mess...