"Christmas Chronicles", 2023 December Live Auction

Very rare! Dateline Virginia, Nev., March 2nd, 1867. No. 1390. Pay $24 to L. Kuh. Signed by C.C. Thomas as superintendent. Orange Nevada and US IR sta

Down Memory Trail to The Comstock in Pictures - by John J. "Count" Mahoney. No date listed, but its publication is mentioned in the Nevada...

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

Very rare gilded cover, Bonanza Mines and the Bonanza Kings of California by S P Dewey, Their Five Years Reign. 1879. 87pp. Spine wear, repaired fron

Includes EARLY Nevada! Over half the 3 page paper is mining. Includes notes on the Silver Region of western Utah (soon to be Nevada). He highlighted t

Lot of 4 different. Some of the largest Comstock mills were built along the Carson River from Empire to below Dayton. Harnessing the water for power (

Excellent early view of the main street in Virginia City, with Gillig, Mott & Co. hardware building identified on the right (makers of the famou...

31 x 56" black ink on velum original claim map, 1" to 100', for the Comstock Merger Mines Inc. this map shows the gut of the Comstock ...

Lot of 2 different, both rare. The California and Con. Virginia were adjacent mines controlled by the Bonanza Firm and the site of the Big Bonanza dis

Lot of 3. 1) Check-sized receipt for the Comstock Lode Assay Office, DW Balch Proprietor and Assayer. Virginia, Nev., March 10th, 1876. Deposit of 9,3

Original pen and ink on linen 17 x 30" dated Nov 1922 for the Comstock Merger Mines. This important document shows the comparison of multiple a...

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 ...