"Autumn Gold" 2024 November Auction

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

1863 G W Bell assay receipt for silver bars received from Dall's Mill, Savage Mine. Left paper loss and small stain. [ Virginia City Nevada

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

Lot of 32. All are on the same Ore Assay Report form. Reports are from April to May 1867. Ore samples coming from a huge number of different mills: Bo

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

1) Daily Record of Operations at the Mine - Men employed and in what capacity (List of 15 shown on report) - Also provides space for Waste Hoisted, Wo

Bank of California promissory note for $20,000 issued in 1870 in San Francisco to A(lvinza) Hayward. Signed by Hayward on reverse. Signed by William S

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...

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 ...

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

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

June 1874 White Pine County abstract statement. Include Chihuahua Mine producing $15,800 and strangely they are not listed anywhere! [ White Pine Coun

A mining claim for two mines from the early White Pine District, Nevada, discovery period, c1868-69. The hand-penned documents are for Niantic Ledge a

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...

A collection of 16 includes 13 warrants and 3 mining papers from Northern Nevada, c1883-1910. The State Controllers Warrants, circa 1883-4, have vign

A collection of approximately 60 Nevada mining company stock certificates, some with notable autographs. Lot includes three Montgomery Shoshone Conso

Real Photos (23) - B & W (9) - No Duplicates - 1906-1939 [ Lead South Dakota 1906-1939

Two reports. 1) 1917. 23 pages. Includes 6 page colored fold out map showing geology, principal workings, ore body and surface improvements. 2 page co

3.75x6" c. 1900 photo of miners and a horse beside 2 mine train tracks, used for transporting ore in the pictured ore car. Likely in Utah or ma...

A booklet, "Utah - A Peep into a Mountain Walled Treasury of the Gods," Copyright by S.K. Hooper, General Passenger Agent, 1903. "Pub...

Original photo of a minor wearing a cloth minors hat with a very rare arrow brass manufacturing company lamp on top. Excellent focus and contrast. Thi

A library of 5 standard texts on assaying: 1) A Manual of Practical Assaying, H. Van F. Furman, E.M., Fourth Edition, 1896. 437 pp. 6" x 9"...

Collection of Assay Offices in Western States (6): 1) The Cripple Creek Sampling & Ore Co., Colorado for Mary McKinney Mine, July 12, 1898; 2) T...

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

Oscar Lieber's first work on a gold and silver. This is a practical directions to assayers, miners and smelters. for tests and assays by heat a...

1877 Western Union Telegraph, bottom portion missing. 1868 from Charles Bonner supt. of Savage Mine. 1864 California State Telegraph referencing McLan

Early mining-related billheads (7): Oversized (8 1/2 x 14) - CA (4) - NV (3) - 1867-1893. [ 1867-1893

Miscellaneous Gold Mining Prospectuses (4): "Goldfield Deep Mines Co. of Nevada," circa 1910 - two fold 25" x 14" proposal inclu...

A set of 15 books published by the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America. The incomplete set includes M.M.S.A. Bulletins for the years 1932-59 a

Both photos are matted, but of a different origin. The first one has an image size of 4.75 x 3.75" and is an exceptional photograph of two mino...

Western states mining company letterheads (26): NV (7) - AR (6) - CA (3) - CO (3) - OR (2) - MT (2) - ID (1) - WA (1), no duplicates, 1896-1918.

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Comstock checks, prominent signatures (4): 1) Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Co., Agency of the Bank of California, No. 927, July 8, 1878, ...

Comstock checks with prominent signatures (4): Best & Belcher Mining Co., Agency of the Nevada Bank of S.F., No. 651, June 5, 1879, pay to Gould...

Extremely rare. Baird p. 24, N7. Baird calls this ad advertising piece, which FH does not agree with. Blue paper, black print. Banking House of Page,

Lot of 4 different. 1) Memorandum of Gold Bullion, E. Lewin & Co.'s Assay Office, Shasta, 1863. Deposit of 16 ounces by CC Bush. Gold finene...

3 blue Weaverville Gold Rush era checks. 1854 Rhodes, 1853 signed by F W Blake who made silver ingots in Silver City, ID. 1853 Rhodes & Lusk'...

Two exchange notes from Drexel, Sather & Church, Bankers and Dealers in Bullion and Bills of Exchange. The partners in this bank covered the cou...

2 c. 1880-81 F Berton & Co. checks. They were the successor to Hentsch & Berton of SS Central America gold ingot fame. Both have rare RN G i...

Three checks dating from 1854-1855, issued by banks associated with the California Gold Rush. Two of the checks -- one filled out, one blank -- are is

Two Wells Fargo docs from the Comstock, each one important. Gold Hill Certificate of Deposit for $350 dated May 1863. This certificate was issued in t

24 c. 1865-1941 mostly older Virginia City checks. Bank of California, VC Bank, Dayton Mines etc. [ Virginia City Nevada

Lot of famous Nevada Mining checks, lot of (9). Checks from the who's who of the Comstock, including the Savage Mining Company, Bank of Californ...

9 c. 1859-1906 mostly older checks payable in coin, silver, gold, silver trade dollars and Mexican silver.Carson, Bisbee, Sacramento, San Francisco, H

Drexel, Sather & Church Bank Exchange Note, # 25761 issued to D. A Cox for $150 on Jun 29, 1855 in San Francisco. To J.W. Clark & Co. Banker...

1927 Financing an Empire, Banking in California by Cross. This is a rare and important history of California banks. Volume 1 has a torn but attached s

1869 First National Bank of Helena check. This is the famous check with 3 pokes of gold and ingots in the bank teller desk vignette. Imprinted RN B st

Very rare 1868 First National Bank of Helena check. Green vignette has piles of gold dust pokes, ingots at tellers cage. Center triangular tear with v