"Christmas Chronicles", 2023 December Live Auction

Philip Richards Banker - Nevada City, California ñ Memorandum of Gold Dust Purchased from: A. K. Cowger for Oz. 6.25 at $17.75 per oz., a total...

Gold Dust Receipt from Bank of Nevada County Nov. 18, 1874, Card 2.5 x 4 inches dated Nov. 18th, 1874; “Memorandum of Gold Dust Purchased fro

About 18 pieces of Nevada County mining ephemera, c. 1860-1905. Legal docs, assay card "not a trace on this cupel." Magenta Con. Gold 1883...

14 pieces of Nevada County ephemera. 2 8x10" photos of Gracie Mine, 1 has a corner chip. Murchie Ext. Gold Mining prospectus. 2x 3.25x5.25"...

1) Map of the Manzanita Mine. 1882. 18x14”. 2-4) Golden Sheaf Mining Company. Located Michigan Bluff, Placer County. 15 photos. 16 pages. 5)

Ledger and letter from Red Dog, a California gold rush mining town in Nevada County. The ledger is a time book from Red Dog Mine showing a list of min

Very rare; this is the only one we know of. Memorandum of Gold Bullion Deposited at CJ Arvidsson's Assay Office. Dateline Placerville, February ...

Lot of 8. Includes report on the Alturas Slate Creek Bed Placer and Gravel tailings Mine. 43 pages. Plates are missing. Also Smuggler Mining Company 1

A very rare Prairie City, California dateline. Promissory note No. 17, datelined Prairie City, Cal., March 25th, 1854. Promise to pay $893.73 to D.B.

This is a stock cert issued to F. Cayot for $1 and signed by Samuel Murphy (?) president and William Watson, secretary.. It is dated September 1, 1

An assortment of papers and booklets related to mining in California, including reports from The Golden Sheaf Mining Company, The Eagleville Mine in Y

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,

3 property documents pertaining to John A Sutter for buying 10 acre tracts of property in Sacramento in 1850 and 1865. No Sutter signatures found, how

Assay Office of Waters & Co. 5252 J Street, Sacramento, CA, April 4, 1859, No. 9656, Certificate of Gold, deposited by D.O. Mills & Co. This...

Assay Office of Geo. E. Rogers, Successor to G.W. Bell. G.W. Bell had an assay office in the Wells Fargo office on California St. On April 16, 1866, a

This is the rare form for this San Francisco assay office. California Assay Office, No. 512 California Street, J.A. Mars, Assayer (R.H. Lawrence cross

Very Rare c. 1859 assay report trio from E. Justh of San Francisco, formerly of Justh and Hunter of SS Central America ingot fame. All 3 are signed by

The check is a nice revenue imprinted L. H. Hershfield & Bro. of Helena. Dated 1870. Signed by W. C. Ralston on reverse. In the early 1860s, Lew...

Interesting group of 3 assay reports from Rogers showing the variability of the companies submitting deposits and samples for assay, ranging from 31

Lot of 12. Fantastic collection. This assayer is known to collectors for his unique use of Egyptian assay motifs for his business documents. Henry G.

Paper delivered before the Society of California Pioneers in Pioneer Hall on the 45th anniversary of the discovery. Printed by Sterett. JW Killinger

About 21 pieces of mining equipment and early drilling billheads, mostly pictorial, c. 1867-1903. Safety Nitro Powder, Golden State and Miners Iron Wo

Lot of 4. Includes 3 different assay memorandums and a modern print of a 19th-century photo. Pacific Refinery & Assay Office, 404 Montgomery St....

This is an exceptionally rare bullion receipt originally sold out of the John J. Ford Collection. The officers of the company--listed in the upper lef

9 pieces of c. 1898-1920 assay and assay equipment ephemera. 3x American Smelters, Returns of Gold Bullion. Pacific Chemical Works gold assay receipt.

Lot of 3 documents that tell a story. 1) Memorandum of Gold Bullion deposited at the San Francisco Mint, July 1882 by Chas. F. Vott. 1.96 ounces of gr

Lot of 3 different. Selby took over the Pacific Refinery & Bullion Exchange business in 1879, which had been owned by the Bonanza Kings (Fair, F...

Lot of 6. The State Assay Office in San Francisco was owned by Louis Falkenau and HW Reese. It was located in the Safe Deposit Building, Room 16, SE C

2 checks signed by W C Ralston, Bank of California. 1869 2nd of exchange with oval Bank of California cancel over Internal Revenue stamp. Paid in New

Bank of California check signed by W C Ralston, July 29, 1873 made out to Mission & Pacific Woolen MIlls for $306, 211.06, perhaps for the purch...

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...

4x Mining Documents out of the Sierra County. 1. Prospectus of Plumbago-Eldorado Gold Mines Company, incorporated in California, April 1934; 4 pages

4.5x7.25" photo of Excelsior Mine in Sierra County. The gold mine was located on Goodyears Creek, four miles northwest of Downieville, near Mon...

About 32 pieces of Sierra County ephemera, c. 1855-1902. Several Alleghany El Dorado Mine booklets, billheads, multiple M W Ham in Port Wine unused bi

3 Sierra County letters c. 1892-99. 2 are addressed to Fred Searls attorney who practiced law in Nevada City and was President of the Zeibright Mine.

The collection has an 18x22” hand drawn map for the Faith Mine, 1902 Geologic Survey, Calumet Gold Mining 1889 letter about mining property,

Todd Valley, CA, Placer County - c1867 - Hall & Allen, Bankers, Gold Dust Receipt - Gold dust receipt for gold purchased by J.M. Miner, an agent...

Choice and important early map of Tuolumne county mines printed by Bancroft, SF. with data by J. P. Dart. The map shows the holdings of various minin

Siskiyou County Sheriff's certificate of sale dated April 30, 1857 for a parcel of land in Yreka City (Yreka). There's also two letters to a...

2 page handwritten document directing and instructing the District Attorney to prosecute persons, companies or corporations who engage in hydraulic mi

Interesting album of about 70 b/w 3.5x4.75" mostly related to Yuba Manufacturing Co. and a dredge for tin mining used in Malaya c. 1916-28. Bin...

About 25 pieces of Yuba County Gold Rush ephemera, c. 1855-58, mostly on blue paper. Land transactions, quit claim, letterhead, mostly Marysville, bil

1) Banking House of Palmer,Cook & Co., #399, 1854 for $100. Very early excample. 2) Wells, Fargo & Company, SF; #114, 1862 for $100. 3) Bank...

Collection of various documents out of the Northern Californian Gold Region including: 1) 20x Bank Checks from Bank of La Porte, all signed by Dixon B

Collection of Various Bank Checks (x9) and 1x Bank Exchange Note from the Central Mother Lode in California from 1853-69: 1) Sacramento City Bank, #?

Mostly for the Utica Mining Co.~ 8 ½"x 14" (9), 8 ½"x 11" (3), Smaller sizes (21) ~ No Duplicates~ 1889-1904 Califo...

Four checks from the 1860s drawn on the account of the Blue Ledge Gold and Silver Mining Company. Printed by Towne & Bacon of San Francisco. C...

17 California geology references by county. Mono 1888, Santa Clara 1954, Contra Costa 1958, Calaveras 1936, Sierra 1942, Stanislas 1947, San Luis Obis

Lot of 8. 1) Anglo-California Gold Mining Company stock. Mariposa County. No. 6309, issued in 1853 for one share. Signed by two directors and the comp

Lot (x126) of California Mining Journal. Professionals in the mining industry referred to these as 'the California Scandal Sheets'! Not all ...

Nice group of ephemera from The California Powder Works. 14 covers c. 1894-97 addressed to S R Buford, Virginia City, Montana. 2 receipts for payment

Superb collection relating to D.O. Mills and the first banking house in California. Includes: 1) 3x company check No. 186 (June 29th, 1859), 221 (Augu

Hardcover Gold Dredges by Yuba Manufacturing, 1927. Lots of dredge and dredge parts photos of the bucket line machine that harvested California gold.

20 volumes of publications c. 1918-57 about the geology and production of mercury in California. New Almaden, Mayacamas, Parkfield, economic aspects,

Hardcover book in original cardboard mailer. Gold Dredges by Yuba Manufacturing, 1927. Lots of dredge and dredge parts photos of the bucket line machi

The long tom is a small sluice that uses less water than a regular sluice. It consists of a sloping trough 12 feet long, 15 to 20 inches wide at the u

These are 2 key California gold mining publications. 1895 California Gold Practices by Preston, the early development and use of milling equipment dur

Two mining equipment auction broadsides._x000D_ A) Broadside for the auction sale of mining and milling equipment from the Markall Machinery Company.

By Thomas Houseworth of San Francisco. Location of placer mining arrastra is not identified. Very rare! The arrastra was an early method of crushing o

Rare Chinese Ticket for Silver to Hong Kong Chinese ticket regarding silver being shipped from California to Hong Kong! We have never seen anything li

Lot of 2. 1) Taylor & Brunton Sampling Works Company assay memorandum. Dateline Aspen, Colorado, Nov. 7, 1894. This piece has two important thin...

Framed 1881 photo of Bonanza, Colorado taken from Mineral Hill in 1881 by William Dulles as per back inscription. Mining camp buildings in a valley. P

Lot of 4 assay memorandums, 3 different styles, for the Boulder Agency of the Boston & Colorado & Smelting Co. Reports for mines are in Suns...

Stereoview by Underwood and Underwood. C. Bierstadt, Publisher. Sharp and contrast and clear photographs. Titled "Brownsville Mining Camp on th...

4 original patent plats, Griffith Mining District, Clear Creek county, Colorado. "In 1859 George and David Griffith found gold in the Georgetow...

Lot of three. 1) 1897 results for the Colorado Springs M&L Co., Roy Gold Crater Mining Company. SP Duff was treasurer of the Pride of the Rockie...

Hardcover 1895 Annual Report of the USGS to the Secretary of the Interior, Part II, Papers of an Economic Character, 598pp with index. Softcover 1906

Assorted Cripple Creek ephemera. Croesus Gold Mining stock, 1900. Bank of Goldfield 1902 pictorial check. 3 postcards. Arbuckle Coffee trade card. Cr

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

Lot of 11. 1) A particularly excellent business card for R. R. Waitz, fire assays, electro-lixiviation, chemical analysis, etc. 2) Omaha Grant and Sme

Lot of 5. 1-2) 1887 assays. One for Hodges with five samples. Best had 0.20% gold and 0.24% silver. Company stamp. Second to Gregory Bowre. Five sampl

Lot of 4. Three different Georgetown assay works. 1) Rarest piece is 1872 Colorado Assay Office. Assay report for the Silver Wing in the Snake River D

Cabinet card photo of three miners, their stone cabin, and six fully loaded pack mules in the snow. Some discoloration. Crisp details. Revere has prin

Lot of 3 different. 1) Kilburn Bros. No. 4401. Looking down a main street. Nice contrast. 2) W. H. Jackson, Denver. No. 1720. Clear Creek Series. Ove

Colorado Gold Rush Stock Certificates and Ephemera, Gilpin District, Colorado. One of the the first gold mining companies on/near Gregory Gulch, part

Lot of 7. 1) J. J. Elliott Assay report with 18 lines. Although this is unused, it might be the most interesting for rarity. 1880s. 2) JJ Elliott blu

Very rare territorial claim document for Lake County dated July 18, 1865. Charles L. Wall discovery claim. Eldorado Lode. La Plata District. Lists 8 c

Lot of 3. 1) 1896. #2681. For the Silver Cord Mining Company (Royalty in Yak M&M). Net value $310.36. Signed by Ferree. 2) 1897. #933. For the Y...

Prospectus of the Chippewa Consolidated Mining Company Incorporated January 3, 1881. Capital stock, $2,500,00 in shares of $10 each. Leadville Co. ; F

Lot of 2 different. 1)J. Thurlow Photo, Manitou, Col. No. 188. "Chestnut street, looking west." Fantastic early view with easily readable ...

This is an original prospectus of the Consolidated Yankee and Breece Hill's Mining Company, Leadville, Colorado. Incorporated June 29, 1880. Cap...

Lot of two different receipts from scarce Colorado assayers. 1) Colorado Smelting Company. South Pueblo, Colorado. Assayer A. Wright, For the D. Wood

Rare printed map of Jessie & Dania Gold Mining Companies claims by Thos. Perry, Chicago, c. 1893. Claims are colored by "group". 9.5x1...

Shortly after gold was discovered in the Cripple Creek area, Victor was born. Although poorly processed, this 6.5 x 4.25" photograph clearly sh...

Seven documents from various smelting companies or sampling works, c 1897-1911. Includes ASARCO Denver (1900, Habendum MC, Leadville); Arkansas Valley

Colorado United Gold Mines Co., Colorado Springs, Feb. 1, 1911. ~ Letter to stockholder's announcing absence of dividends. Includes stamped cove...

Dated Feb. 10, 1883. The Captain has spoiled the author's chances in Virginia. It seems he wasn't willing to write a letter of support. The ...

"The Gold Regions. No. 20. Arrastre in Motion and Arrastre at Rest. Near Stirling, with snow-clad Mountain in the distance." Two early Arr...

Ramshorn Mining District ephemera group (30) The Ramshorn Mine is a silver and gold mine located in Custer County, Idaho at an elevation of 7,799 feet

Collection of Mining Documents from the Atlanta Lode out of Middle Boise Mining District, Idaho; All papers are regarding John H. Downing, a miner who

1863 report from Hampton Mining and Smelting. Located in boston, they formed in 1863 when it purchased lead mining properties in 1863. in North Hampto

5 Michigan mining reports with assets and liabilities, shaft info and expectations. 1886 Osceola Cons. Mining-vertical crease. 1886 Quincy Mining-vert

1896 and 1897 annual reports from Osceola Cons. Mining, a Michigan copper mining company. 1896 has foldout shaft map. 1897 has a vertical crease. Mi

3 reports from Tamarack Mining, 1886, 1896, 1897. Copper mining assets and liabilities, discussion of yields, machinery etc. Vertical creases. Michi

Thomas Couch was a Butte, Montana, miner and Great Falls, Montana, rancher and had mining interests all over the state, including the Huron, also know

Annual reports of Boston and Montana Cons. Copper and Silver Mining, 1890-92 and 1897-97. 1890-92 have foldout mine maps. They were a major Montana co

Collection of Butte Highlands Mining Co. ephemera. Maps, stock receipts, assay receipts, 1920's correspondences, bond agreement etc. Butte Mont...

About 40 pieces of Butte Highlands Mining ephemera. Includes promo sheets, map, correspondences, several mining reports with claim info etc. Butte M

Very rare letter to Henry Elling (later working for the USAO) on a SF Molitor letterhead in 1870's asking for an assayer job. Letter is unsigned...

About 75 correspondences in binder related to Garnet Gold Mining Co. c. 1909-17. Letterheads, receivership, legal proceedings as the company failed et