Desert Riches: Mining, Gold, Numismatics, Americana, 2025 January Auction

Folio of four large color prints by Adam Styka, printed by Donald Art Co., New York. The Donald Co. is a very long-standing art company with high qual

Print one: Rider on a bucking horse in the style of Claude Weisbuch. The print is an artist's proof and is signed, however we cannot determine t...

2 art deco ladies prints, about 15x10". At a mask party and Cordelia by Frank H Desch. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Prove...

2x about 15x9.5" lady Art Deco prints. Lady at a mask party and Cordelia by Frank H Desch. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: P...

3x 15x10" Art Deco lady at a mask party prints. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Acrylic painting, "jaman" by Stephen Woodburn. Framed, approx. 60" x 84". Woodburn, a very 'serious' painter explains: ...

A framed original watercolor painting entitled "Back to the Argo Mill" by American artist Carl J. Dalio, likely painted in the late 1970s....

Original landscape watercolor signed by D.D. Ingersoll. Not framed or mounted, approx. 16.5" x 14". Some burnishing on edges, and little ...

1989 original pen and watercolor nude by Leo Glueckselig, Vienna, 1914-2003. 15x11". Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Proven...

Collection of 4 includes art lithographs (3) and a cabinet card from France, c1800s. Artwork includes a pen and ink cityscape of a Parisian neighborho

XRARE collection of 6 hand colored glass plates featuring signed artwork by American illustrator and newspaper artist Charles Howard Johnson, c1892-93

Born in 1917, Edward "Ed' Dobrotka was a lesser-known founding member of the American comics industry. After graduating from the Cleveland ...

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Glass vial with rare placer gold flakes from Nome, Alaska. Total weight of the bottle is 20 grams. Gold is estimated at one half ounce. Eons of deposi

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A commemorative faux gold ingot, punched "Alaska 1980 / $5,873.46" On the reverse is "6.71 / FP" This appears to be a gold paint...

3.79 grams, 0.119 Troy. Largest is 10mm. From Gold Basin, AZ. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City: Gold Basin Provenance:

5.4 grams, 0.173 Troy. Largest is about 2mm. In Bayer aspirin bottle as located on site! Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City: Gol

Crystalline Gold. Vulture Mine, Vulture City, Arizona. XRARE. 0.46 Troy ounce. About 1-1/4" x 1" x 1/4". The Vulture Mine is a gold m...

7.0 grams, 0.224 Troy. Largest is 5mm. Placer gold from North Fork of American River in the Mother Lode. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Ca

5.0 grams, 0.160 Tr. Up to 10mm. Alabama Gulch, located in the Alabama Hills, was one of the very first placer gold discoveries near Lone Pine. The si

6.3 grams, 0.202 Troy. Up to 9mm. From Lone Pine northward, the prospector found a placer deposit at Bee Springs, nearly opposite Independence, signif

6.29 grams, 0.199 Troy. Up to 10mm. Inyo range, about 1/2 mile south of the mouth of Mazourka Canyon. The Nugget Acer calls the place "Hell'...

6.49 grams, .205 Troy. Largest is 8mm. Placer gold from Huckey House claim, Mazourka Canyon, which plays host to a myriad of geologic environments, mu

6.3 grams, .202 Troy. Placer gold from Red Chispas claim, Benson Gulch, El Paso Mountains in Kern county. Benson Gulch is another remote gold area nea

3.6 grams, 0.115 Troy, largest a fat 6mm. Bonanza Gulch in El Paso Mountains placer gold. Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City:

6.2 grams, 0.199 Troy. Largest is 8mm. Placer gold from Chucker Gulch, El Paso Mountain, Kern county. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Calif

Two nice small nuggets from Goler wash in kern County, one of the gold discovery sites from the Manley party, then rediscovered in the early 1860s. L

This is an incredible gold nugget found by the Nugget Ace in Goler Wash, the site of gold discovery by 1849 Death Valley Argonauts. It was originally

8.0 grams native gold and copper nugget. Goler wash is an important locale, discovered by California '49er John Goler (Goller) who crossed Death...

18.99 grams, 0.606 Troy. Largest is 10mm. Mega Bucks placer gold from a claim in El Paso Mountains in Kern County. A canyon that feeds into Goler Wash

5.49 grams, 0.1739 Troy. Up to 12mm. Placer gold from Summit Diggings in Kern county. Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City: Ker

21.4 grams, 0.686 Troy. Largest 10mm. Placer gold from Volcano claim in an ancient stream bed above Goler Wash. Date: Country (if not USA): Sta

7.09 grams, 0.224 Troy. Largest is 14mm, generally nice sized! Found in Merced River, Mother Lode south, deep inside Stanislaus Formation in black sla

4.99 grams, 0.157 Troy. Largest 10mm. From Red Spot in Kern county, know as Desert Tortoise area today. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Cal

18.8 grams, 0.603 Troy. Up to 7mm. Dry wash placer gold from El Paso Mountains near Randsburg. Date: Country (if not USA): State: California C

3.3 grams, 0.106 Troy, up to 4mm. Piru Creek in Ventura County. Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City: Ventura County Provenance

Nice iron meteorite specimen from the Canyon Diablo fall. This is the impactor that created Meteor Crater, AZ. 285g. 3.5" x 2" x 1" ...

4 small detected meteorites from Gold Basin, AZ not far south or the NV border. Largest is 1.25x1". These may have fallen 20,000-25,000 years a...

Green moss agate in clear quartz setting form Horse Canyon north of Mojave, CA. 2x2.75". Date: Country (if not USA): State: California C...

2 polished blue beryl from Haystack Mountain near Lone Pine. 1.25x.75x.38" and 1x1x1.75". Date: Country (if not USA): State: Califo...

3 Inyo county polished blue beryl. 1x1.75" to 1.5x2". Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City: Inyo County Provenance:

Glass jar with original paper label containing halite from Searles Lake, CA. American Potash & Chemical, Trona, CA. 3x2". Date: Country...

5 sulfite crystals from Trona Dry Lake. These are very rare crystals from Trona, only about .1% are sulfohalite. Date: Country (if not USA): St

11 High-grade pieces of gorgeous deep blue Natural Turquoise from the No. 8 Turquoise Mine, located in the Lynn Mining District in northern Eureka C

20 pieces of high-grade, gorgeous deep blue Natural Turquoise from the No. 8 Turquoise Mine, located in the Lynn Mining District in northern Eureka C