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

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...