"Fall Frontier Fortunes" Numismatics & Americana Timed Auction (2025 September)

c. 1910s-40s Canyon Mines in Baxter, CA ephemera including 2 lode claims, 2 daily mill reports, letterheads etc. Original photos-2x 8x10". 6x 5...

Lot of 4. Three are Bullion & Exchange Bank receipts for sales of Bodie mining stocks, 1883-91, for the Bodie, Bodie Consolidated, and Bulwer Mi...

Geology and Ore Deposits of the Bodie Mining District, Mono County, California. Bulletin 206. California Division of Mines and Geology. Chesterman, Ch

Cerro Gordo mine specimen, nice Smithsonite , zinc ore sample. From the Inyo mountains of Calif. Mine operated from 1860-1957. 3 x 2.25" ^ Da...

1853 Corlis Andrews, Gold Rush, lumber receipt letterhead for lots of wood! What were there building? Maybe sluice boxes or houses? Wrinkles and light

Lot of 5 different framed Grass Valley mining photographs. It is unclear if any are reproductions. 1) Photo showing 14 miners of the Idaho Maryland Mi

Lot of 2 different. 1) Framed cabinet card by Taber (SF) of Glasson, who was part of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad, the Coleman Clothing Sto

A dozen receipts of bullion deposits from the Manhattan Mine in Knoxville, California. Owned by San Francisco businessman, R.B. Knox. it was involved

New Standard Concentrator and the Dimmick Tangential Sizing Launder, purports Up-to-Date Concentration, Clean Separation and Perfect Stratification. A

Framed sketches and photos showing a miner's life Nevada County, California. Frames measure from 12"x 14" down to 8"x 10". ...

Lot of 3 different showing miners. 1) Mounted photograph labelled "Mining Blue Canyon, Cal" on bottom in pencil. Shows 25 or so miners on ...

A large (over 2' wide) framed antique photograph, likely a reproduction, depicting an unidentified mine in Nevada County on a hill slope. The lo...

Western Federation of Miners. Booklet is 27pp. Rare, but heavily damaged (pieces missing, heavy stains). 3.25 x 5.75" Citizens Print Shop, LA. ...

224pp. General offices at Oakland, California. No date or catalog number. Perhaps 1940s or 50s. Company owned 1300 acres near Fontana, California and

American Smelting & Refining Company / Selby Smelting Works San Francisco. Catalog No. 25. 1925. "This book is published to aid mainly buye...

This is a very interesting catalog by Mining and Scientific Press on their technical publications. Undated but mentions that the Mining Magazine estab

Lot of 2 different. 1) Stockton Iron Works, Dredge Manufacturers. Catalog No. 13A. 1913. 92pp. with many B&W photos of dredges and testimonials....

Lot of 2 different. 1) Gold Dredging in California. California State Mining Bureau. Lewis E. Aubury, State Mineralogist. 1910. With fold-out relief ma

Rare 1918 catalog No. 12. Manufacturers and Contractors of Cyanide Plant Equipment, Mining Mill Supplies, & Wood Pipe. Factories in Oakland and ...

This is a custom-made "Jimmy Sierra Trophy" won by the "Nugget Ace" (who we've sold so many gold nuggets from in 2025). This...

Fred notes that this is a key reference as mining was down in this time period due to inflation and the cap on gold and silver. Much was done for the

A reprint copy of 'The Emigrant's Guide to the Gold Mines' by Henry I. Simpson, an 1848 book on the California Gold Rush. This copy was ...

Promotional brochure and document for the Smuggler Mining Company, 1926 (discusses assay results from fall 1925). Has photos of the mine property, his

A framed ad mounted advertising piece from Hendrie & Bolthoff MFG & Supply Company. It measures 14"x 38" and has a small damage ...

Lot of 18. Includes seven real photo postcards and 11 early printed cards, 8 in color. Views include: miners working a stope, using drills at Cripple

Lot of 23 early printed postcards; no RPPCs. Birds-eye views of mines, mills, and mining towns. Includes: Silver Plume, Leadville (multiple), Silverto

Private publication, inscribed by the author to Noel Kirshenbaum in 2014. This was reprinted from the California Historical Society Quarterly, Volume

Idaho's Coeur d'Alene mining district postcards, group of 26. Good condition. Includes Burke (7), Kellogg (4), Mullan (3), Wallace (9), Othe...

126g. About 3" long. Comes with brochure for Bunker Hill Smelter, a famous silver lead mining company. Kirshenbaum collected this ingot becaus...

This is a fantastic view of the destroyed Bunker and Sullivan Mill, "wrecked by two tons of dynamite, April 29, 1899, Wardner, Idaho." Tex...

No. 197 issued in 1872 to M. Herman for $50. Signed by the supt. RN-C imprinted revenue. The Owyhee Mining Company (previously the New York Gold and S

Lot of 4. 1) Little Eight Mile Mining Dist., Lemhi Co., Idaho, 1930. 20 x 14" 2) Mullan & Vicinity, Shoshone Co., Idaho, 1939. 7.5 minute s...

c. 1900 Homestake MC of Thunder Mt. prospectus. 1902 Thunder Mt. Gold District map. Fabulous Coeur d'Alene Mining District by Ojala 1972. 1926 C...

A copy of "Economic Appraisal & Evaluation of the Thorium Deposits in the Lemhi Pass Area of Idaho and Montana", a booklet published c...

Rare assay report from MIT for A(lexander) Agassiz, son of famous 19th century geologist Louis Agassiz. This assay was for a sample of gravel weighing

Lot of 13. Includes: 1874 Iron Cliffs Company pictorial check; three different stereoviews of copper ingots; five different postcards incl. one RPPC;

7 c. 1961 Anaconda Copper equipment mechanical drawings. 4x Copper concentrator, 2x Vacseal pump. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: Montana C

Rare! Established in 1862. Here are two assay reports about values of a 13.31-ounce gold bar and a 90.99-ounce gold bar. Both were supplied by J. C. R

2 2x4" Helena brass plaques. Caird Engineering Works and Kroll Electric Amalgamator. Nice condition. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: ...

1871 Placer gold claim plat in Kelly's mining district. Hand drawn on cloth. Scale 20 chains to 1". Upper water stains with some red ink bl...

Deposited on Sept. 20th, 1875 by the Kountze Bros. on behalf of Henry Elling (Virginia City, Montana banker). Description of bullion lists "Mon...

1915 Svenska Tribune and 1915 Germania, both sent to miners at Southern Cross Mine near Deer Creek, MT. Envelopes shows mine address. Folded. ^ Date:

A group of documents pertaining to several mines in the Madison County region of Montana. There are several Annual Representation documents, as well

This item is a pamphlet by Eugene Stebinger titled "The Montana Group of Northwestern Montana," which was published in Professional Paper ...

Blue print maps-2x Speculator plus 1 unidentified, near Butte-several tears and stains,1925 small Lamonta, Poser Shaft, drill bit extractor and top s

2x 1930 Butte checks, Old Settlers 11th annual reunion ribbon, 2x Gallatin Valley Milling price lists, 2x East Pacific Mining reports, MacDonald'...

Lot of about 30 billheads issued in 1868. Some are ore assay result billheads. All list Allen A. Curtis as agent. In 1865, the Manhattan Silver Mining

Lot of 3 different. 1868 issued to David Lundbom, assayer. 1868 issued to BF Sanborn, sheriff. And 1869 to John B. Jones. ^ Date: 1868-69 Country (if

Lot of 5 checks issued 1872-1879. Four have RN-D imprinted revenue, one has RN-G. All signed by Allen A. Curtis as agent. To be drawn on Paxton &...

Two page letter on company letterheads, 1907, to William Weaver in Los Angeles. Message is from Daniel W. Raymond, who discusses the sale of four mini