"Fred Holabird's Grand Finale": Mining, Americana, & Numismatics Live Auction (2025 October)

Carcharodontosaurus Teeth Lot of 3. Cretaceous, Bahiriya Formation from Taouz, Morocco. Charcharodontosaurus has features of both the Allosaurid and t

Fantastic mammoth tusk found at the Fox Coal Mine northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. 8 feet long, 60 lbs. Approx. 20,000 BC. Comes with wooden wall mount

Dinosaur gembone, also known as agatized or fossilized dinosaur bone, is a rare and highly prized material formed when the porous structure of dinosau

Dinosaur Gembone Fully Polished Spectacular Red and Green Agate. We saved the best for last. This is the creme de la creme of the beautiful gembones

Dinosaur Gembones Lot of 2 - RARE. Two more beautiful fossilized, agatized dinosaur bones. We learned our lesson and chose NOT to research the specie

A dinosaur coprolite is a fossilized piece of dinosaur feces, providing direct evidence of an animal's diet, behavior, and environment. The word...

From the Personal Collection of Fred Holabird. This piece (an one other in this sale) are from the Green River Formation. Excellent contrast and qual

From the Personal Collection of Fred Holabird. This piece (an one other in this sale) are from the Green River Formation. Excellent contrast and qual

Lot of (6) large stone formal dinner plates. Very unusual, both in appearance and shape. The stone composition is swirls of multiple colors. Measuring

Extra fine Alaska placer gold. Approximately 17.4 grams. **Important Note Re Gold and Silver Sales: All sales of gold and silver items will not

Attractive Alaska Gold Nugget Pendant .26 troy ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: Alaska City: Provenance:

Gold nugget (12.2 grams; about 18 mm wide and long) with 20 inch necklace. Total weight 25.5 grams. Necklace chain is not marked ^ Date: Country (i

Copper Crystal Leaf Display Specimen from Ray Mine. Fine, high-grade crystallized specimens, metallic red crystals. Measures approx. 12 inches x 7 in

Lot of 3. Native Copper Crystal Leaf from the Ray mine Gila County, Arizona. Very good condition. The leaves have a wooden base they mount in. ^ Da

King Tut Mine Drywash Placer Gold 12 grams, .385 troy, about 85% gold. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City: Provenance:

King Tut Mine Drywash Placer Gold 8.3 grams, .26 troy, about 80% gold. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City: Provenance:

King Tut Mine Drywash Placer Gold 7.6 grams, .234 troy, about 99% gold. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City: Provenance:

King Tut Mine Drywash Placer Gold 23.2 grams, about .52 troy contained, about 70% gold. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City: Pr

Stunning native gold specimen from the "million dollar pocket" at the Original Sixteen to one Mine. The specimen shows bright wire and cry...

Collected in the 1960's at Bodie, CA by a young Robert Stewart (Nevada History Author). This quartz shows classic leached boxwork from what was ...

Inyo county has some of the most productive silver mines at Darwin and Cerro Gordo. 6 specimens general high grade collected underground at various mi

Near Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California. 168 grams. Perhaps 25 grams of gold? 2.5 L x 1.75 W x 1.75" H. Native gold in quartz. Vein was 1.7...

Lake County California Gold in Quartz About 8 slabs, varying size about 1 1/2" - 2" square each. Jewelry Grade. 111.4 grams. The McLaugh...

Lake County California Gold in Quartz About 8 slabs, varying size about 1 1/2" - 2" square each. Choice Jewelry Grade. 187 grams. The McL...

Lake County California Gold in Quartz About 7 slabs, varying size about 1 1/2" - 2" square each. Jewelry Grade. 130 grams. The McLaughli...

Lake County California Fine Wire Gold Slabs About 5 pieces, varying size about 2-3"square each. Choice Jewelry Grade. 157.8 grams. The McLaugh...

Lake County California Gold in Quartz Slabs, Jewelry Grade. 83.5 grams. Slabs vary in size. Generally 1" plus. Fine Gold in quartz unpolished. ...

Lake County California Gold in Quartz 2 Slabs, about 2" square each. Jewelry Grade. 93.7 grams. Fine Gold in quartz unpolished. ^ Date: Cou...

Lake County California Gold in Quartz small mixed slab group. 7 slabs, varying size about 1 1/2" - 2" square each. Jewelry Grade. 97.2 gr...

Lake County California Raw, Uncut Gold in Quartz About 3 pieces, varying size about 1 1/2" - 2" square each. Choice Jewelry Grade. 87.5 g...

California Fine Gold About 1 ounce. Jewelry grade. Size #14. About1/8" minus. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City: Pr...

California Gold Nugget Group About 1 ounce. Jewelry grade. Size #6. About 1/4" each. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City...

California Gold Nugget Group About 1 ounce. Jewelry grade. Perfect for rings and pendants. Size #10. About 1/8" to 1/4" each. ^ Date: ...

California Gold Nugget Group About 1 ounce. Jewelry grade. Size #8. About 1/4" each. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City...

California Gold Nugget Group, 1 ounce. About 15 Nuggets, size #4 about 1/4 -1/2" each. Jewelry Grade. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): Sta...

Attractive gold nugget: 20 x13 x 10 mm; 19.2 grams. From a mining geologists personal collection! ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: P

Beautiful gold piece 3/4 of an inch by 1 1/4 inch. 7.9 grams, with unknown black mineral. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Pro

1 piece broken into 2 pieces of cobaltite with visible high grade silver from Sunshine Mine in Idaho. About 885 grams total weight. Total measuremen

Presented to Shaddrick by Formation Capital Corporation with a brass tag. From the Shaddrick collection. Very heavy pair of bookends. Probably about 1

Northern Minnesota high grade iron ore. Weight about 8lbs 4" x 4" x 3 and 3 x 3 x5" ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: Min...

Eureka Ore Sample Collection - About 5 pounds of varying ore and rock samples from the Eureka District, Nevada. Little Rosa Mine and Eureka Tunnel. Th

This is a lot of six high-grade specimens that were collected by hand by James Quirk, a miner and Sheriff in Virginia City, around 1890 to 1900. The s

Lot of 12 ore specimens from Comstock mines that came from the Crystal Bar collection. Mine supt. TF McCormick, who ran many of the major mines in the

Comstock ore specimen from unidentified locale. Proustite with chlorargyrite, native silver, and arsenopyrite. 472g. Approx. 3 x 3 x 2" Nice sh...

Lot of 13. Ore specimens: four specimens collected at Washoe Lake; rose quartz from Crown Point (Gold Hill), 3.5 x 3"; piece marked as high gra...

4.2 lbs. of bagged turquoise experimental , stabilized. From around 1970 by a UNR professor at the time. ^ Date: 1970 Country (if not USA): State:

Black plastic case (13 x 9 x 3 inches) entitled "Nevada Mining And You," containing twelve kinds of Nevada rocks: Barite; Fluorite; Garne...

1.) 2 specimens of mill run Homestake ore (12"x6"x2" and 7x6x2") both dark shist with sulfides 2.) cut face sample of the Poorm...

Penasquito High Grade Ore Sample. Pyrite in quartz 1.5" slab 6x9" ^ Date: Country (if not USA): Mexico State: City: Zacatecas Prov...

Lot of 36. Includes 11 real photo postcards. Rest are early printed cards. Views include: Treadwell Mine (numerous), Alaska-Juneau Mill, Yukon Gold Co

Old Alaskan gold miner photos, including one of the Henry Alexander Mine in Nome. Photos measure 7"x 9" and in decent condition. Please se...

Distinctive Gold Rush commemorative spoon. Quite ornate, has a chain twining up the neck to a gold pan with nuggets at the handle top. Behind the pan

About 30-50 pages of correspondence from a miner working in Alaskan mines, likely written to his brother, Arnold. About half the pages are typed, and

Lot of 5. Includes: two real photo postcards of dredges; Bonanza, Klondike stereoview; souvenir spoon in the shape of a mining shovel; and a nice book

Heavy 4 1/2 inch tall miner panning for gold. "Alaska" in the pan. Suitable for your Willys Jeep. The miner is packing a side arm. ^ Date...

Very rare. This is an 8 x 10" press photo by Underwood & Underwood identified on the reverse as "Near Chow Time: Group around the new ...

AZ mining postcards, no duplicates (group of 50). 1906-1913. Includes Real Photos (8), Color (23), B/W (19), & Sepia (4). Areas as follows: Jerr...

1932, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Gold Quartz Veins Of The Alleghany District California, 140 pgs., hardbound, good condition. Photos and maps. In de

Lot of 4. 1) Silver Mountain manuscript document 1864, discussing boundary line between Mono and Alpine Counties. 2-3) 1893 and 1902 letters from Joe

Rare Calaveras County mine. Report of Theodore E. Schwarz, Mining Engineer to the Oro Plata Mining and Milling Company. Afred Mudge & Son Printe...

Britton & Rey SF Lithograph map of Calaveras county with mines, mining claims, wagon roads, etc. Published by J Agostini 1904. Scale 1" to ...

Britton & Rey SF Lithograph map of Calaveras county with mines, mining claims, wagon roads, etc. Published by J Agostini 1904. Scale 1" to ...

Map of the vicinity of Grass Valley and Nevada City, compiled from the map of Chas. E. Uren, CE. Scale 4 inches to 1 mile. Color map shows nine mining

Geologic Map of Grass Valley Nevada City, c1920. 41" x 38" Original hand drawn map using multi colored ink and colored pencil. Principle g...

Incredible group of seven original stereoviews of the Johannesburg area, approximately 1895-1897 immediately after "discovery." These are ...

Homer Mining News Vol 1. 1881 number 38, Feb 26th. Very rare issue in excellent condition. this newspaper covered the mines in the Lundy area and this

9 pieces from the Burt Lundy Estate. Includes 2 covers mailed from Lundy in 1893, one from the Bodie Consolidated Mining Company. Also a Lundy greetin

When I write descriptions, I often use words such as "spectacular" and "Fabulous." Sometimes these comments and adjectives are u...

Three copies of the very rare Mammoth City Times. Few papers from Mammoth survive today and if the Berkley archive that was sold in the 1970s containe

These three views reflect an unlabeled desert mining camp 1890-1900 from Burt Lundy estate of Lundy California. Photos show a camp in it very earliest

This is an underground map of the Zeibright Mine in Nevada County, California dated 1916. Detailed and colorized. Some tears at the folds. At 37 in. X

Lot of 2 different checks. Charles Burcham, Frederic Moores and John Singleton discovered gold in 1895 on what would become Rand Mountain. First named

These are three assays from Thomas Price of San Francisco dated 1879, 1883, and 1889. Thomas Price ingots are extremely rare: about four silver ingot

Memorandum of Gold Bullion deposited by the Citizens Bank on Oct. 6th, 1880 in San Francisco. Bottom left has notation indicating this is from the Rou

This assay is from "Kellogg & H" dated August 1854, for $1490.39. This is for a gold deposit received from Coloma, the discovery site ...

This is an early assay from Kellogg & Richter for 1479 dwt. dated 1854; producing $1245.19 in gold. This is for a deposit by Adams & Co. out...

Memorandum of Gold Bullion deposited at Kellogg & Humbert's Assay Office in February 1860 by DO Mills & Co. per Hardy & Kennedy. 117...

This pp.45 booklet offered by the John Taylor & Co. includes the tables for silver assay values. It is listed at their new (1894) Mission St. ad...

Not dated. Hansen Company Press. The bottom of the cover is the address of 573-575 Market Street San Francisco, Cal., 355 pages. Tan soft cover catalo

This receipt written by P.L.Parker for bullion deposited at the San Francisco Assaying and Refining Works on Jan. 7, 1867. Deposit #3874 for 27.03 oz.

This booklet is the Gold and Silver Tables for the San Francisco Assaying and Refining Works Co. formerly Kellogg, Hewston & Co. The booklet is ...

Very rare. Full of ads for Western mining machinery manufacturers. "Containing tables, rules, and practical information for the use of the owne...

The booklet "Hercules Powder Mining Dynamite San Francisco, CA" was first published in 1892 by the California Powder Works. The usage of ...

Rare original artwork, probably from the American Bank Note Company, for use on Atlas Powder Company stocks/bonds. Numbered Atlas BN29187. 9.5 x 6.7...

This is a very rare document from the San Joaquin County, Cal. Auditor on revenue received/distributed from foreign miner's license revenue. It...

Corporate seal stamp embosser from the Soledad Placer Company. Located in L.A. county, gold was first mined in 1864 for this area. This area was consi

Lot of 6. Ledgers are from 1876-1929. One ledger has no information recorded. One ledger on Liberty Hill (1875), one on La Grange Surveys (1893), on

Lot of 13. Most related to the problem of mine debris caused by hydraulic mining. Includes: Mining Debris Deposits, 1881, MM Chipman, MD; The Elephant

Published under the direction of Edward H. Benjamin, secretary, for the California Meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, San Francisc

Group of 6 volumes of the "California Miners' Association Annual", books documenting the minutes of the California Miners' Associa...

Edited by William J. Tenney aided by Stephen P. Leeds, Geologist and Chemist. May & June 1855. Over 100pp. Includes articles about the Canadian ...

Eldorado Adventures In The Path of An Empire, By Hayward Taylor. 1850 Vol 1, 2nd Ed., 251 pages. Four plates : San Francisco 1848, Monterey, The Volca

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

Group of 4 annual reports of the California State Mineralogist, published by the California State Mining Bureau, published 1885 to 1894. Reports inclu

Five key mining references from the Fred Holabird Collection. Includes: 1) California Journal of Mines and Geology Vol 49 Nos. 1 & 2, San Bern...

Lot of 2 different. 1) Joshua Hendy Machine Works, San Francisco, 1900. Illustrated Catalogue. Missing front cover. 72pp. Illustrations include hydrau

Over 35 items. Affidavits of Publication, Attorney letters of contracts, equipment. Registered mail receipts, headframe blueprints for Bunker Hill

Lapel pin, 1 1/2". Crossed shovels over wreath with Calif. bear between shovel heads. "'94" is on the shovel heads. "49&qu...

These are gold country trading cards printed in the 1880's depicting mining life in California. Several are printed by the Donaldson Bros. and n...

Lot of 16.. 12x15" framed poster "Survey's and Assay's L.B. Spencer & Co. Mina, Nevada". Nine mine maps I.E.; Rainbow E...