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Gold Rush Miner's Memorabilia - Lot of 2 (122328)

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Mining Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
SOLD
55.00USDto c****o+ buyer's premium (13.75)
This item SOLD at 2020 Dec 18 @ 09:46UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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This lot includes a 22 page leather-bound Hayward Bank book used as a personal notebook by miner John Nicholls in Dutch Flat, California. Nicholls worked at the North Belle Isle mine in Tuscarora as well as mines in Spring Valley, California. He may have also sold and delivered goods to the mines there as well as to San Francisco. This book measures to be 4-1/8 x 6-1/2 inches. Also included in this lot is a 3-1/4 x 4 inch photo is mounted on a 3-1/2 x 5 inch cutting from a poetry book that has text reading "Grandfather and Grandmother Robeat Thompson North Reading, Mass. 1849 Just before he started for California in the Gold Rush." along the bottom edge.

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State: California
City: Dutch Flat
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