December Dreams Premier Auction: Western Americana, Mining, & Numismatics (December 2021)

Birchville is a historic mining and agricultural community in Nevada County, California. Birchville is located about 10 miles northwest of Nevada City

By Joseph Wasson, San Francisco. Spaulding, Barto & Co. Steam Book and Job Printers, San Francisco, 1878. 60 pp. With 2 folding maps of mining c...

Photo by R. E. Wood, who was a traveling a landscape stereo photographer from Santa Cruz active from 1875-1905. Each photo measures 3"x 4"...

Views show mining at the very rich Columbia area - now a state park near Sonoma on the south end of the Mother Lode. Notice the lifting wheel in each

Possibly unique. James Mills and brother Edgar arrived in California first. Darius Ogden Mills followed. In 1850 the company was listed as Auction and

Payroll log of Miners name, time pay rates and monthly pay. August 1912 to August 1913. Interestingly the pay rates varied from $2.50 to $4.00 per day

1) A draft of the Forest Hill Slope Company's stock options: for tunnel mining, $28,000, 10 years, 56 shares, seven trustees named. Unique and O...

This is quite possibly the same gravel cliff seen near the Gold Run exit on I-80. Reilly #345. J. J. Reilly Stereoview, Views of American Scenery Ser

Hand drawn longitudinal section map - very rare. Shows the ore bodies of the famous Kennedy Mine. Discovered in 1856 and producing up until 1942 reach

This is an important mine with a rare fabulous photograph!!! The Great Western Quicksilver Mine was a mercury mine in California, near Middletown in L

1) The Story of Early Mono County by Ella Cain. 166 pages. Photos. Excellent condition. 2) California Journal of Mines and Geology. April 1940. Articl

New York Flat is southeast of Oroville. Contrast is superb. Lindgren was a famous mining engineer. Photograph is 4 x 5". Mount is 7 x 9". ...

1) Watkins Stereoview – Pacific Coast #1819 Malakoff Diggings – North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co. Located 26 miles NE of Nevada Cit

1-2) Two 1884 papers relating to the San Andreas Copper Mining Company. The company was certified in California and a brief mention was made of it in

Recollections of California Mining Life, Henry DeGroot, 1884. Primitive Placers and First Important Discovery of Gold. The Pioneers of the Pioneers, T

"A Prospecting Party", illustrated gold rush letter sheet lithograph by Britton & Rey, San Francisco. Four illustrations in horizontal...

Britton & Rey lithograph Bar Room in the Mines and Long Tom. Two choice miners' life scenes. The top illustration includes gambling and salo...

"A Prospecting Party", illustrated gold rush letter sheet lithograph by Britton & Rey, San Francisco. Four illustrations in horizontal...

California gold rush lettersheet in the form of a 4pp, blue wove paper introductory first page, testimonials and list of prices on the second page, fo

Miners Life Illustrated California Gold Rush Letter Sheet, Baird 164, Britton & Rey. This untitled lettersheet has four illustrations in the hor...

Famous vigilante illustrated letter sheet showing the assassination of James King of William and the vigilante execution of Casey & Cora. Ullman...

Extremely rare, and possibly unique, fully issued James king of William Second of Exchange, June 15, 1853 payable to K.P. Smith via J. W. Clark, Bost

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Established in 1874 at Damon's Landing, on the San Leandro Creek, at an outlay of about one hundred thousand dollars. The broadside advertises t...

This is a stock collector's dream. All this information on one page!!! An early publication of the San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board just a...

In 40 years, we have never seen this before! This four page annual report dated December 31, 1877 (San Francisco) shows the gold and silver produced i

1) 1876 letterhead from Kruse & Euler in San Francisco. 209 & 211 Front Street. To Frank Litsch of Shasta. "The package of gold dust st...

Four mining related postcards of Shasta County mining. One shows the Keswick Smelter. A second shows the Great Western Smelter near Redding. Third car

The water flume would have been to provide water for elevated gravels. Smartsville is near Timbuctoo and just south of the Yuba River. During the Cali

1871. Yuba County. This stereoview shows the Blue Lead (lowest, richest of the 7 gravel units as defined by Whitney. It was taken after a major robber

1) Lawrence & Houseworth. Established 1855. Lawrence & Houseworth & Co. #798 California series - Timbuctoo Diggings, Yuba County –...

California Gold Rush Nugget from the wreck of the SS Central America. Authenticated and encapsulated in NGC Holder #2104565-332. The SS Central Americ

California Gold Rush Nugget from the wreck of the SS Central America. Authenticated and encapsulated in NGC Holder #2102101-081. The SS Central Americ

Lot of 7 different; six are real photo postcards. 1) RPPC. Mining at Gold Run, California showing hydraulic operation with miners posing. Mailed 1909.

Rocky Bar Mining Company, California; Circular, Articles of Association, resolutions, etc., 1850.Big Bar, along the middle fork of the American River

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

Choice! 1) Lawrence & Houseworth. Yellow. c1864. Shows a multi-hundred feet long tom in a deep channel which was cut into gravel. There is a bri...

This view shows hydraulic mining c1864. Three monitors, one hidden, are washing the banks to loosed the gravel. Shows a hand riveted pipe in the foreg

1) Small hydraulic cut. Two miners observe the monitor. Looks like foothill belt. Gravel & Schist of slate. Photograph is 4 x5". 2) Large b...

By Grove Karl Gilbert. Fold out maps, photographs, and diagrams throughout. This book has pencil notes in margins throughout from previous wonder. No

Wonderful caricature map of the Mother Lode region by the Creative Lithograph Co. of Oakland, 1946-1993. This company was best known for the printing

Boston & Colorado Smelting Company. Dateline Alma, Colo., Oct. 3rd, 1874. This receipt is for four ore samples ranging in weight from 2 to 8 to...

Nice view of hydraulic mining at Alma, Colorado. Backstamped by Miller and Nutt, Portrait and Landscape Photographers, Alma, Colorado. Period pen pinp

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

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

"Report of the Blue Bird Group of Mines and Mill, Boulder County, Colo." 1903. By A. J. Mitchell. Rebound. Original front cover is torn. 8...

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

Photograph by WH Jackson. Written in ink on reverse "Property of Miss Mary Mussina, PO Box, 67, Mt Gretua, Penna." and "9/5/1885.&quo...

Dateline Central City, C.T., Dec. 20th, 1871. Number 292. Specimens of ore from the Blue Ridge Lode in the Downieville District. Gold value $586.42 an

Colorado Assay Office. Dateline Central City, C.T., May 20, 1870. For the Dives Lode in the Griffith Mining District. Coin value $96.98 in silver. Sig