December 2017 Premier Auction

Amazing contrast for this narrow canyon mill and town! Photo by Itabor of Wallace. Great card! Date: Location: Burke, Idaho HWAC # 54551

Lot of four. Three photos of underground mining at Bunker Hill. Photos are by Leo's Studio: numbers 281, 284 and 285. All are RPCs. One black an...

Lot of seven. Black & white and Color postcards. Used cards dated 1907 to 1911. Two very interesting Boise cards. One shows mule teams ready to ...

Inc. in Michigan. No. 259, issued for 100 shares to Thomas A. Alexander on August 18th, 1864. Signed by the president and secretary. Pen cancelled. Al

Inc. March 30, 1848. Very low No. 6, issued for 100 shares to Charlette Hicks on October 27th, 1851. Signed by Robert Davidson as president and Thomas

No. 2088, issued for 5 shares to George Lincoln on Deb. 12th, 1864. Pen cancelled. Allegorical vignette with ships and locomotive. Two 25 cent adhesiv

Located in Houghton, Michigan on the south shore of Portage Lake. Covers the Atlantic and Quincy-Pewabic lodes. According to the Copper Handbook, &q...

Highly pictorial Underground vignette at left. Allegorical and mining vignettes at top center. Inc. in Michigan 1853 & 1855. No. 290, issued fo...

1) Seneca Mining Company of Michigan. No. 1026, issued for 50 shares to John J Hill on Nov. 13, 1908. Not cancelled. Two underground mining vignettes

Lot of 8 Keystone mining stereoviews (7 different). Includes two underground views: 6147--Wilson Mine, Metcalf, Arizona and 22037--Calumet-Hecla Mines

8 Stereoviews - all are the same - Shaft House, Smelter and Tailing Pile. Zinc and Lead Mines, Joplin, MO. Date: Location: Joplin, Missouri HW

Metal 2 blade pocket knife with copper jacket "The Original Mine, Butte Mont." 3.25" with brass end ring. Old mining scene on both si...

All color. Dates identified are 1907 to 1916 (one outlier 1951). Mines include the Minnie Healy, Speculator, Moonlight, Anaconda, Neversweat, Original

Lot of five: outside scene, hand drilling (2 different), and taking a break. One scene of many miners in hard hats waiting to go down into the mine. W

Lot of 14 color postcards. All different. Publishers include Julius Fried of Butte (8 cards), WG McFarland, Detroit Photography copyright 1903, EH Mit

Rohn was the general manger. Includes a great biography. Nice photograph of him. Lists all (some, most) of the employees at the East Butte Copper Mini

c1908. FIve postcards showing the men (and the mule) of the mines. One Northwestern and one Post Card Shop published. Both from Butte. Mines identifie

Archive of mining and machinery related letters and many pictorial billheads sent to Holter Hardware in Helena, MT. from companies in Utah, Colorado a

Land patent from 1892 for a placer gold claim in the Pioneer District near Deer Lodge MT. 4pp 15" x 10". Date: 1892 Location: Pioneer ...

1) 11 unissued Gold Hill & Lee Mountain Mining Co. c. 1880's 2) 30 unissued Jay Gould Mining Co. 3) 28 unissued Middle Fork Minining Co. c. ...

Lot of 4. 1) 1866 billhead for McDaniel & Co. Groceries & Liquor, Austin, Nevada. Billed to Reese River Consolidated Co. for oil and a broom...

4pp. The First Year's Record of Bullfrog Nevada and its Marvelous Mines. Large green bullfrog on front and several green bullfrogs on other page...

Lige Harris Bullfrog Gold Mining Co. I/U to Geo. Gibson 1905 #330 500 shares 8.5" x 11", Greenwater Copper Mines and Smelter Co. I/U to Ba...

I/U to R Smith Gladding 1906 #432 100 shares. Signed by vice president Jack Bell. 5.5" x 10.25". "Jack" Bell, formerly a Denver ...

I/C 1910/1940 to Chas. M. Schwab #2880 100 shares. Schwab was a major investor in this mine and died in 1939 before this certificate was cancelled.

I/U 500 shares #2776 extra rare certificate with green bullfrog center vignette as underprint. Not to be confused with original Bullfrog. Signed by pr

Issued to J Elson Smith, October 2, 1910 for 5,000 shares. Number 226. Both signed by C. D. Van Suzer and Geo. W. Holmes. Vignette of underground mine

Extra rare certificate I/U to AJ Litz 1906 #384200 shares. Signed by president Jack Davis. Diamondfield is a ghost town near Goldfield. Date: 1906

Two certificates from January Jones Leasing and Development Co I/C to CM Cashion 1905 #275 300 shares and I/C to United States Bankers Corp. 1906 #385

I/U to FB Abbott 1905 #575 2000 shares. Extra rare. 8.75" x 11.5". Date: 1905 Location: Ely, Nevada HWAC # 53672

Prospectus from Fairview Lone Pine Mining Co. 8pp all detached with center double truck claim map. 2 folds with small tears on folds 11.75" x 9...

I/U to Geo. Gibson 1905, signed by president.1000 shares 8" x 10.25". Date: Location: Gold Mountain, Nevada HWAC # 53661

State Line Gold Mining Co. No. 2 U/I to LK Taylor 1881 #3490 50 shares signed by vice president 7.75" x 10.75". Gold Mountain (later renam...

12 pp Forward Mining Development Co., Goldfield and Bullfrog 9" x 4". 12pp Goldfield Mascot Mining Co. 9" x 4". 19pp Goldfield B...

52pp with articles including Pilgrims of the Desert, Nevada history, Bonanza Florence Mine, January Mine, The Jumbo, Capt. John A. Hassell, Albert S.

I/U 1906 to John Donnellan & Co. #265 1000 shares. Vignette of Goldfield, signed by president Smith. Extra rare, has small tears at top and bott...

I/U to Edward Jones 1914 #2118 100 shares, pink diamond vignette, 6" x 9.5". Date: 1914 Location: Goldfield, Nevada HWAC # 53671

Approx 32 items including Nevada Silver Centennial cacheted First Day Cover from Virginia City, 6/8/1959, receipts 1905-1920's from Western Ore ...

11 different Goldfield stocks. Goldfield Peerless Mining Co., Auxer Gold Mines, Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co., Goldfield Commonwealth Mining Co., G

All are related to mines in this area near McMahon Ridge in Goldfield, NV. Goldfield Daisy Mining Syndicate I/U to Seligman & Meyer 1907 #360310...

We have never seen this in 40 years. It is number 108 for 500 shares in 1904. Issued to PN Payne and signed by SW Payne as secretary and RW Payne as p

Black Butte Extension Mining Co I/U to WE Jiske 1906 #884 1000 shares signed by president 4.25" x 9.25". Goldfield United Mines Co. I/U AH...

Jumbo Extension Mining Co. U/I #71473 and I/U to Ralph Gallagher 1911 #54971 100 shares and I/U to Franklin Price Jr. # 62898 1917 100 shares.8"...

Promotional literature for Frances-Mohawk Mining and Leasing Co. in Goldfield, NV. 4pp newspaper style with information about mining in the area and c

I/U to JJ Coylan 1905 #411 100 shares, signed by president Bragdon. Mine is in the gut of Goldfield. 5.5" x 10", 1.25" left fold tear...

Printed 1909, USGS. Goldfield mining and geology info including rhyolite, andesite, latite and other deposits. Mines include Red Top, Mohawk, January,

Rare, i/u 1913 to Richard Reilly 100 shares, signed by president.8.25" x 11.75". Date: Location: Goldfield, Nevada HWAC # 53658

I/U to William Sulzer 1907 #E53 100 shares. Signed by AD Myers, one of the discoverers of Goldfield, NV. Date: 1907 Location: Goldfield, Nevada

Rare common stock cert. I/U to LH Van Wyck 1912 # A2515 500 shares. Signed by president Geo. Wingfield. 6.75" x 10.5". Date: 1912 Loca...

I/U 1905 to Jas. Rutherford #1054 100 shares. Mine is named after $20 US currency. Rare in this nice condition. 9" x 14". Date: 1905 L...