"Christmas Chronicles", 2023 December Live Auction

Lot of 11. All have different supt. signatures! All have RNs or adhesive revenue stamps. This is a handpicked group of checks that represent all the g

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...

Memorandum of Bullion for the Woodworth Sluice ("Consolidated Virginia Mining" crossed out). Consolidated Virginia Assay Office, Virginia,...

Three cubes of dense compressed wood from the square set which was used to support the mine walls at the Cons. Virginia Mine. About 1.5x2.5x2.5"...

Extremely rare; we've only offered a few of these over the past decade. Report of Bullion from the Assay Office for the Consolidated Virginia Mi...

Consolidated Virginia Hoisting Works, Virginia City Stereoview. Pacific Coast Views, C.E. Watkins, San Francisco. c.1876-79. "Consolidated Virg...

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

Memorandum of Bullion from the Savage Mining Co. Assayed at the Gould & Curry Assay Office. February 1867. At this point, the Gould & Curry ...

Memorandum of Bullion from the Savage Mining Co. Assayed at the Gould & Curry Assay Office. February 1867. At this point, the Gould & Curry ...

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

Guido Kustel was one of the most important mining engineers of his time, spanning the California Gold Rush, early silver mining days of Arizona and th

Great CDV of an unidentified Comstock mine or milling operation. View shows building with smokestacks and piles of wood out front. Medium contrast and

"Showing the Virginia, Gold Hill, Silver City, Silver Star and Six Mile Canon Mining Districts. Storey and Lyon Counties Nevada." 1923. Ra...

Two-page report of ore assayed in February 1894 for deposits by the Mexican Mill. These reports came out of the William Sharon Archive and were tied t

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. The Brunswick Lode (previously called the Occidental or Monte Cristo Lode) was 1.25 miles east of Virginia City and Gold Hill, parallel to t

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

Memorandum of Bullion from the Savage Mine, Assayed at the Savage Assay Office. Virginia, Nev., April 13, 1869. Deposits from the Atlantic Mill (Seven

Memorandum of Bullion from the Savage Mine, Assayed at the Savage Assay Office, Virginia, Nev., April 1, 1869. Nine deposits/ bullion bars from three

Memorandum of Bullion received at the Savage Co.'s Assay Office from the Savage Mining Company. Five deposits from three different mills: Atlant...

Memorandum of Bullion from the Savage Mine, Assayed at the Savage Assay Office, Virginia, Nev., April 15, 1869. Four deposits/ bullion bars from the E

Rare. Dateline Virginia, Nev., June 21st, 1872. Deposit of 870 ounces of bullion from the Evans Mill. 969 fineness silver, 24.0 fineness gold. Valued

Memorandum of Bullion received at the Savage Co's Assay Office, Virginia, Nev., July 3rd, 1872. Deposits from the Hoosier State Mill (located on...

Memorandum of Bullion received at the Savage Co.'s Assay Office from the Occidental Mill. Virginia, Nev., June 27th, 1872. Three bullion bars, 9...

About 21 Savage Mine and Virginia & Truckee Railroad etc items. c. 1866-88. Billheads, Western Union telegraph to H M Yerrington, Wells Fargo an...

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

Memorandum of Bullion from the Savage Mining Co. Assayed at the Savage ("Gould and Curry" crossed out) Assay Office. Assays in March--no d...

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

Photograph of the Sierra Nevada Mine in Virginia City, Nevada. Taken by William Cann around 1900. Nice birds' eye view of the mine. Mounted phot...

Hand drawn map of the Sutro Tunnel by Hoffman & Craven, c. 1878. Ex-Moran, Virginia City surveyor files. Shows 3 shafts intersecting including t...

Lot of 2. These important assay documents show James G. Fair "doing his job as superintendent," says FH. Fair is taking multiple samples o...

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 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 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...

This is a great companion piece for ingot collectors because it is for the Savage Mine having to pay tax on bullion (like the tax stamps on ingots). D

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...

Lot of 10 receipts. All are for bullion deposits by the Savage Mining Company. Almost as soon as the news of a strike in Esmeralda (Aurora) reached th

Twelve original assay certificates for Comstock Assayer Van Wyck representing ores sent to eleven different mills for reduction to bullion._x000D_ Thi

A large format timetable no13, Oct 1878 This time table registers the specific trains on this date, where they stopped, what they carried, from where,

Lot of 16. 1) Savage, Hale & Norcross, Collar and Potosi 1916 report to stockholder. 2-12) Post cards c1910. Includes Mexican Mill, Silver City ...

Virginia City Nevada mining stock certificates for the Con-Virginia Mining Company, The Ophir, The Silver Hill Ming Company, The Virginia & Truc...

Issued 1867 Bank of California check signed by William Sharon. US and Nevada adhesive revenue stamps. "William Tang Sharon was a United States ...

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

36 x 26". Has holes, tape, rips and red arrows - presumably from Shamberger on his trips to Wonder while writing his book. Printed by the Gordo...

Sierra Nevada Silver, July 1, 1886 ~ Overman Silver, July 8, 1871 Best & Belcher, July 7, 1885 ~ Union Cons. Silver, Feb. 13, 1886 ~ New York, S...

Stereoview of Quartz Mills at Gold Hill, Nevada, 1866. Fantastic stereoview by Lawrence & Houseworth. "738. Quartz Mills at Gold Hill."...

"The Bonanza West", the story of the Western Mining Rushes, 1848-1900, by Wm. S. Greever, published by the University of Oklahoma Press, 1...

#2 "Treasure Hill", Portrait of a Silver Mining Camp, by W. Turrentine Jackson, the University of Arizona Press, 1963 (6" x 9" S...

This lot is a unique pairing of two mining artifacts from one of the most obscure mining districts in Nevada, and at the time was one of the remotest