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

Lot of 2. One is in wooden box with weights. The other is a pocket scale with no case. Both on good condition ^ Date: Country (if not USA): Stat

White enamel with black lettering, metal sign 13 x 5 inches, four corner holes for mounting. "Emergency / Pump Switch". ^ Date: Country ...

Lot of three wood tongue and groove dynamite boxes. All from Homestake mine. Dupont special gelatin 1933 50lbs; Dupont GelX no 2, 1949 50lbs; Dupont g

We've never had this. 120 candle box marked on both ends for Superior Candles made by Standard Oil Company of New York. 16 x 9 x 8" ^ Date:...

Lot of 3. These are box ends. 1. Western Candle Co, St. Louis. , yellow label, "Stearic Acid Mining Candles" "40 sets, 16oz, 6s, 240 ...

Lot of 2. 1) Old desert canteen with hand-sewn cloth to keep it wet and cool. 10" diameter. 2) Dietz Buck Eye Dash Lamp lantern. No visible pat...

MSA Dustfo Respirator in original box. Damage to top of box, see photo. Equipment in excellent condition. c1940 ^ Date: Country (if not USA): Stat

This is a miner's dip compass without any markings. The compass is in working order without any identification. Brass frame construction. Please...

This a miner's dip compass without any markings. The compass is in working order without any identification. Brass frame construction. One cover...

This is a Keuffel & Esser Co. miners Dip compass with two covers front hand back clear clean lens. 4 in. diameter. In excellent condition. From ...

This is a W.S. Darley & Co. miner's dip compass with case. In excellent condition. The compass is on a brass frame and machine turned intern...

This Darley dip needle is complete with box and instructions for use. At 3.5 in. One window is dirty. From the Popovich collection. Please see photos

This is a Darley miner's dip compass with case. At 3.5 in. diameter and needle stop. Please see photos for details. ^ Date: Country (if not...

This is a Short & Mason Surveying Android barometer used in the mining industry. Made in London and temperature compensated. Beautifully done wi...

Stereoscope and instruction booklet included. c1950. 18" x 7" x 7" ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: H...

Omano microscope from the Shaddrick collection. See photo. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Homestake Mine Geologist Da

early counter, rare. Key prospecting tool in the 1950s! by Model 107B called the professional by precision radiant instruments of Los Angeles. ^ Date:

Name plate from hydraulic monitor from the early1900's. Hendy Hydraulic Giant No. 6356, size 2. Plate is in excellent condition. No sign of w...

Small wood ore bucket, possible Eureka Nevada origin, Shaddrick collection. Original wooden staves in tact, needs some tlc. Comes with 2 antique miner

single bucket windlass 18" handle 36" barrel. timber made from local tree, is a 42" "fragment" with part of the timber brok...

Medium sized bellows in relatively excellent condition 52" x 32" x 6" with approx. 15' length of original rope. Leather intact. ...

Eureka County. Shovel 37" tall c1870. Wagon wheel c1900-1920 about 44" diameter. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: Nevada City: E...

Lot of 3. Miners hat and carbide lamp, a sample anvil and a scale in a wooden case. All in good cond. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State:

Misc mining equipment lot including K & E level in a wood box, microscope, mining tape etc. See photo. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: ...

Carbide lamps, 7. Appear to be in good condition, various sizes from 4-8.5" heights. See photo. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: City...

Cast iron. Furnace Lamp No. 2 from The Taylor & Boggis Foundry Company, Cleveland, Ohio. Reported to have been used in the Sadtler Mine in Duene...

Lot of 3 different. 1) Patented style wire miners candle stick. Similar to Wilson-Bobrink 82, 83, 84, 85, 87 but not the same. 8" 2) Varney sty...

Terrific Lot of (4) Mining Safety Lamps, from various manufacturers, all approved by the Bureau of Mines. Lamp #1 is a Koehler model, steel constructi

Lot of two. 1.) Discovery by Gar Prazent 1985, bronze 14" tall. 2.) Prospector on horse, arm broken, untitled, says Austin Prod Inc 1970, marke...

Mining group: carbide lamp advertisement boxes, children's literature, metal mining burro figurines ("Missouri" & "San Juan&q...

An interesting group of Homestake and Gold Bar mining geologist personal equipment and items from his desk. Classic hand forged miners candle stick. M

Shaddrick belt buckle collection. Includes 3 buckles from the black hills, 2 from Gold bar eureka county and others. See photo for details. 12 loose b

Life And Adventures Of A Gold-Digger by John Sherer , Charles H Clarke publisher London, 1853, paperback, binding has separated, 366 pages. Book is in

"Placer Mining: A Handbook for Klondike and Other Miners and Prospectors", published in 1897 by the Colliery Engineer Company of Scranton,...

Mining Engineers Reports On Mulatos Mines, c1905. The mines is located in the State of Mexico. The report is complete with photos and maps. The front

Choice and rare. "Being a yearly Compendium of Information on General Science with Tabular and Other Statistical Details Relating to the Mining...

Hardcover book, "Our Coal and Our Coal-Pits; The People in Them and The Scenes Around Them," by "A Traveller Underground." This ...

Extremely rare hardcover manuscript, "The Combustion of Coal and the Prevention of Smoke Chemically and Practically Considered,' with numer...

Important book on Western coal mines! AL Bancroft & Co., 1877. 153pp. Hardcover with gilt title. Chapters on California, Oregon, and Washington ...

Rare. Cover has gilt highlights with a mining safety lamp on the spine! "A Plain and Popular Work on Our Mines and Mineral Resources and a Text...

The History and Description of Fossil Fuel, the Collieries, and Coal Trade of Great Britain. Second edition, published in London by Whittaker and Co.

Chauncey C. Julian, The Great Swindler. This group covers the main swindles in which Julian was the promotor. 1) Julian Petroleum Corp., 1926 stock ce

Lot of 18. 1) Colorado: HH Miller Assayer billhead, Georgetown, 1905; Metallic Extraction Co., Cyanide, 1900; Isabella Mines, 1916; Victor Ore Samplin

Lot of 30. 1) California: Voorheis & Barney, Sutter Creek BH 1887; Stewart River Gold Dredging Co. letter to Stockton, 1910;Dunham, Carrigan &am...

Classic reference hardcover book by J.D. Whitney. The title page indicates "Described and Compared With That of Other Countries" below the...

Roasting of Gold and Silver Ores and the Extraction of their Respective Metals Without Quicksilver' by G. Kustel, published 1880 by A.J. Leary, ...

"L'Or: Ses Proprietes, Ses Gisements et Son Extraction." Very rare. Treatise of gold; its properties, occurrences, milling and mining ...

Lot of 14. Includes: Is San Francisco in Danger of a Water Famine? (c.1905); The Diving Rod: A History of Water Witching (1917); Routes to Desert Wate

Fantastic and rare! "The Facts and Figures, With a Brief Description of Mines, Miners, and the Art of Gold-Finding." By Capt. James Steele...

By John Arthur Phillips. Illustrated by Engravings. John Joseph Griffin & Co., 1852. 605pp. with index. Topics include: physical characters of t...

Very rare with fold-outs (like Nevada County hydraulic mining in front). Third Edition. 1866. 271pp. Chips on spine. Some discoloration of pages. Over

A Rigid Earth Being Devoted to Geology as Applied to Mining. Embracing a Review of Accepted Theories. By Stephen Barton. JC Ward, General Agents, Visa

Group of 4 issues of "Profit & Loss" magazine, which describes itself as "The Standard American Magazine for Mining Stock Buyers&...

Lot of (3) antique paper mining publications, "The Mining Magazine" edited by William J. Tenney. Published in July, September and October ...

Rare and important mineral catalog that includes promotional advertising and a card adhered to the inside cover that this copy is from author WM Foote

Spectacular and important. 640pp. 14 x 9" in custom slipcase. Choice condition with many illustrations. Originally written in Latin in 1556 by ...

Scientific American (2) & Mining Scientific Press (1) pages, framed. This set of 3 is in very good condition, with no apparent defects. The matb...

"From River to Sea; A Tourists' and Miners' Guide From the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean Via Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizon...

Copy of "The Concentration of Iron-Ore", a pamphlet by John Birkinbine and Thomas Edison, published 1889 by the American Institute of Mini...

Rare. Inscribed by owner in 1917. Published in 1913 by JB Lippincott Co. Blue hardcover with gilt lettering and color illustration on the cover. 337pp

532 pages plus 8 folding plates (incl. map of Grass Valley mining district) and a frontispiece; richly illustrated with scenes including the Morro Vel

1.) Emmons, Gold Deposits of the world, 1974 2.) Hoffman, Free gold the story of Canadian mining 1982 3.) Lips, Gold Wars, autographed 2001 4.) Tompk

Signed on inside page. Part I. Mining & Scientific Press, 1913. 94pp. Spine coming apart, some pages loose. Very rare. 8 x 5.5" Blank pages...

Group of fairly rare limited published books by major mining geologists and promoters. 1.) Poss, Stones of Destiny 1975 2.) Rice, My Adventures with y

Very rare reference on copper mining and smelting. "Including a Description of the Principal Copper Mines of the United States and Other Countr...

Two volumes of "Mineral Resources of the United States" by David T. Day, published by the U.S. Department of the Interior as part of the U...

Report of the Director of the Mint upon the Statistics of the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States. Washington: Government Printing

Lot of (5). The Copper Handbook, volumes VII through XI, considered the essential copper mining reference standard. This collection spans 1907 to 191

Multi-volume group of essential reference books. The Copper Handbook, by Horace J. Stevens, comprises critical information about the world of copper.

Lot of (10) total hardcover books. Multiple years represented, beginning with The Mines Handbook 1931 volume XVIII Part 1, Mines Register books includ

Lot of 6. The Mines and Copper Handbooks, 1926-26, by Weed, pages in volumes range from 1600-2125. Included : Vol XII 1916, Vol. XIII 1918, Vol XIV

Lot of 5. The Mineral Industry It's Statistics, Technology and Trade, 1892-1913 Very Good cond. ^ Date: 1892-1913 Country (if not USA): St...

Group of 7 reports from the United States Treasury on the "Production of Gold and Silver in the United States". Reports included in the lo...

"T. A. Rickard, formally known as Thomas Arthur Rickard, was born on 29 August 1864 in Italy. Rickard's parents were British, and he became...

Lot of 2 different. Rare. 1) Outlines of Physical Geography. By George W. Fitch. Illustrated by Six Maps and numerous Engravings. 1856. JH Colton &a...

Four, heavily used key mining references from the Fred Holabird Collection. Includes: 1) Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories