Great American July Auction

Store sample of a miniature miners wick lamp on hardhat. The hardhat measures 3.5 x 5" complete with miniature. Wick lamp classic store sample....

Two store sample miniature wick lamps and a miniature brass safety lamp. All classic store samples. State: City: HWAC#: 47012 Date:

6.75 inches tall, screw on cap and large metal reflector. Not marked and unique to this extensive collection. State: City: HWAC#: 48754 Date

4.5 inches tall. Classic Mason jar style closure. Similar to HFJ Co. State: City: HWAC#: 48775 Date:

Three unmarked lamps. These three lamps were labeled princess in this major collection but these lamps have no marks found anywhere. More information

Two nice brass and copper oil wick lamps. One completely in copper, the other with a brass body and copper spout. No markings of any kind anywhere. S

Two unmarked curved top lamps. The tops of these lamps are similar to early helmets. One of these has a very crude construction. The other has a very

Unusual cast-iron heavy duty foreign underground lamp. One of our collectors might be able to tell us where this unusual piece somes from. State:

Reflector at top says GLUCK – AUF with crossed hammers underneath. State: City: HWAC#: 47013 Date:

Ornate lamp with reflector and fancy handle. State: City: HWAC#: 47274 Date:

Five different long squib holders, some with matches. Measures 7 1/2" each. State: City: HWAC#: 47236 Date:

An eclectic collection of mine lighting equipment. Includes a mine safety lamp, blasting tin, carbide lamp base and an unusual oil wick lamp or two.

Approximately 20 rusty underground mining artifacts, all lighting devices of some sort. Includes Wolf lamps, standard carbides, teapot and other treat

A manufactured mechanical candlestick. This candlestick may be the end of the candlestick era, made of lightweight steel probably in the 1920s. Not se

Unmarked miners candlestick that is clearly a store sample. Approximately 5 inches long make that 4 inches long inch and a half tall. This is a choice

Four small to medium sized miners' candlesticks. One has a broken candleholder. State: City: HWAC#: 48655 Date:

Two small mining signs, red lettering on white enamel, both 8 x 4 inches. One says "Blasting / Switch;" the other "disconnect / blast...

Grey lettering on red enamel, 10 x 7 inches. "Keep Away / Danger / High Voltage Electric Line / Peligro / Miami Copper Co." Located 90 mi...

Black printing on white enamel. "DANGER-WARNING / dangerous conditions / no person other than the / operator or authorized personnel/ shall ent...

Large metal sign. Black red and white on metal. Danger not room enough here to clear man on side of car. Excellent condition. 14 x 20". No loca...

Red printing on white enamel, 14 x 10. "Check air with / candle / before entering / any active or / abandoned workings / Stonehouse Signs Inc. ...

Black lettering on white enamel, DANGER in red, 10 x 7 inches. "DANGER / Blasting / Keep Away." State: City: HWAC#: 47443 Date:

Lot of two: 1) DANGER / Bad Air; 10 x 7 inches. Consignor says from the Homestake Mine. 2) DANGER / Open Mine / Workings; 10 x 7 inches. Both signs bl

Lot of two, black lettering on white enamel with DANGER in red. 1) DANGER / Slushing; 10 x 7 inches. 2) DANGER / Watch Out / For Cars. Consignor attri

Lot of three, black lettering on white enamel, each 10 x 7 inches. Two are attributed to the Homestake Mine. 1) DANGER / Men Working / Above; 2) DANG

Two "Danger" signs, both 10 x 7 inches. One says "KEEP AWAY" (made by Safety Supply Co.) and the other "Do Not Pull Switch...

Two mining signs, black lettering on white enamel with danger in red. Both 10 x 7 inches. "Open Mine Workings" on one "Do Not Pull Sw...

Black lettering on white enamel, DANGER in red, 10 x 7 inches. State: City: HWAC#: 47442 Date:

Red lettering on white enamel, 18 x 12 inches. "DANGER ' no trespassing / blasting / heavy equipment / Golden Reward Mining Company." ...

White lettering on blue enamel, 10 x 7 inches. From the Old Dominion Mine, Globe, Arizona according to consignor. State: City: HWAC#: 47422

Red printing on white enamel, 14 x 10 inches. "MOTORMAN / to come to / FULL STOP / at this point / Stonehouse signs Inc. Denver. State: Cit...

White lettering on blue enamel, 14 x 10 inches. "NOTICE / to call chippy / use / telephone." The "chippy" hoist was an auxiliary...

Blue lettering on white enamel, 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. "The Teck-Hughes Gold Mines Ltd. / Signal Codes." 9 lines of bell codes. Bottom ...

This silver colored (added later) dynamite spoon was used to clean out a hole before the dynamite stick was put inside! State: City: HWAC#: 48

Pull-up. Dominion Electrical Works, Halifax, Novia Scotia. 13.25" x 8.25" 5.5" HWAC ID#: 46443

A rare Aetna wood blasting powder box, 50 pound. Well used. State: City: HWAC#: 46451 Date:

1920 catalog "Aetna Explosives and their Characteristics." 155 pages, 6 x 9 inches. Rubber stamped by the Denver Colorado representative f...

One large American Cyanamid explosive box, 50 pounds, tongue and groove construction, wood. State: City: HWAC#: 46450 Date:

Three different blasting cap tins. One is a Nobel in a blue rectangular box. The second is American Blasting Caps in a orange rectangular. Lastly ther

Atlantic Dynamite Company. Possibly only one known. State: City: HWAC#: 46855 Date:

Six different wood atlas powder boxes. A nice collection, includes one box with red inked ends, all boxes have the famous atlas globe logo. State:

Softcover 1882 guide by Sampson's Agency of Boston. 20 page pamphlet, 6 x 9 inches. "Gunpowder for Sporting and Blasting" State: ...

Original box full of 10 atlas powder rectangular orange tins. Excellent. State: City: HWAC#: 46873 Date:

Original box of Atlas Powder Company tins. State: City: HWAC#: 46874 Date:

Atlas blasting cap tin collection. Nine different. Includes four rectangular tins, two round tins, three cardboard tins. State: City: HWAC#:

Original box with 10 green Atlas powder no. 8 blasting caps. The box originally held 12. All in excellent condition. State: City: HWAC#: 4687

All red and orange. Includes two different Dupont, two different Atlas, Illinois, MC Manufacturing Works. All excellent. State: City: HWAC#:

Austin. Scarce. The only one in this collection. State: City: HWAC#: 46856 Date:

Black diamond blasting powder box, 50 pound, nail construction. State: City: HWAC#: 46449 Date:

California Company collection. Six different tins. Two with Lions. Includes the rare extra triple X and 4X. State: City: HWAC#: 46870 Date:

California Company duplicate round tins. Six. Four are different. State: City: HWAC#: 46871 Date:

Two different boxes for the Canadian industries Limited Blasting Powder Company. One red tin rectangular box and one brown cardboard box. State: C

Issued by Canadian Industries Limited. 4 x 7 inches, 219 pages. State: City: HWAC#: 47459 Date:

Unused label from the company established in 1802, Wilmington, Delaware. Manufacturers of explosives of every kind. Patent date on label 1908. Five an

Collection of DuPont blasting cap tins. 11 different pieces, including some rare tins. Includes the round tin with paper label, blue tin, embossed tin

The four different square orange DuPont blasting cap tins. This is the successive generation of different cap tins that look the same but are all diff

Original box with original content of 10 blasting cap cardboard boxes. DuPont. Nice condition. State: City: HWAC#: 46878 Date:

Three different DuPont 25 pound boxes. Red Cross extra, GELOBEL, special gelatin. All three same size, 9.5 x 7 x 13.5", tongue and groove wood,...

Eight different wood DuPont explosive boxes. Contains a number of different types of explosives from special gelatin to extra dynamite, blasting caps,

Four hardback volumes of DuPont's "Blasters' Handbook". Editions of 1930, 1949, 1953, 1958. First two are 4 1/2 x 7 inches. Last t...

Five items concerning explosives. Two copies of "Blasters' Handbook" copyright 1932 and 1938; hardcover, 279 pages, 4 1/2 x 7 inches....

Four DuPont brochures "Blasting Ice"; "High Explosives"(1921); "Ditching with Dynamite"; " Explosives for Qu...

Softcover, copyright 1925 by DuPont, 6 x 9 inches, 101 pages, with photographs and drawings explaining uses for explosives by farmers. State: Ci

Softcover, 172 page, 6 x 9 inch book with many photographs of the use of explosives including demolition of buildings and its use in oil wells. Dynami

Two choice Gold Medal wood explosives boxes for 50 pounds. Classic red and black print. Nail construction. State: City: HWAC#: 46453 Date:

Original Hercules Powder Co letter opener, possibly silver plated brass. "Du Pont Explosives" on die struck handle, "Hercules Powder...

Three pieces: 1922 letter from Hercules Powder in the Chronicle Building in San Francisco with with six pictorical vignettes showing uses for their po

A rare 25 pound box for explosives. 9.5 x 7 x 13.5 would tongue and groove. State: City: HWAC#: 46445 Date:

Three different wood Hercules blasting boxes. All different sizes. Blasting caps, etc. Please inspect. State: City: HWAC#: 46446 Date:

By Theodore Marvin, published in 1928 by Hercules Powder Company. Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 197 pages. "This compilation of drilling and blasti...

Two copies of "Modern Blasting in Quarries and Open Pits," by J. Barab. Published 1927 by the Hercules Powder Company, 169 pages, 6 x 9 in...

10 Hercules blasting cap tins. Yellow. Cardboard. In original box. State: City: HWAC#: 46875 Date:

Small collection of Hercules cap tins. Seven different. Includes the rare number eight top on a mismatch number six bottom. Please see photo. Nice col

Three small tins. Two Hercules and one DuPont. Scarce in the small sizes. State: City: HWAC#: 46854 Date:

Small collection of scarce blasting cap tins. 1) Hercules 25 count small round. 2) Hercules 100 count brown round. 3) Nobel 100 count blue rectangle.

Two rectangular blasting caps for the Illinois Powder Company. A tall and a shorter box excellent condition. State: City: HWAC#: 46858 Date:

Two different rectangular blasting cap tins for the MC Manufacturing Works. Both no. 6 caps. State: City: HWAC#: 46857 Date:

Two different blasting cap tins for the MC Manufacturing works. Scarce. State: City: HWAC#: 46859 Date:

An unusual blasting cap tin and an original wood box holding blasting caps. MC Company Gold Medal. Lastly a rare paper label from the Eagle blasting

Four different Nobel cap tins. The best is a mint condition blue paint square tin, followed by three different cardboard tins, red, blue, and white. N

Rare Red Diamond explosives blasting powder box. Tongue and groove construction, wood, 50 pound box. State: City: HWAC#: 46452 Date:

Two embossed early blasting caps for the Repauno Chemical Company. Scarce. State: City: HWAC#: 46861 Date:

Two blasting powder boxes, one of vertical Trojan powder box for 50 pounds, the other an unmarked company box. State: City: HWAC#: 46454 Date

Western Powder Company of Salt Lake City issued this 77 page book "Detonators for High Explosive: A handbook on blasting caps electric blasting...

Six different blasting cap tins from seven different companies. MC, Gold Medal, Hercules, Brown, Illinois, Nobel, Atlas. All nice. State: City:

Collection of 14 miscellaneous blasting cap tins. Dupont, Atlas, Hercules. State: City: HWAC#: 46876 Date:

Nice collection of 10 different tins. Collection includes six round tins, three rectangular, and one cardboard. Excellent condition, please inspect.

The most interesting tin is the 1.25" diameter "100 Primers, No.2.' From the U. C. C. Company. 2) Hercules #8 Blasting caps in a large...

Explosifs Minelite, Societe Anoyme Francaise. Issued in 1928. State: Foreign City: HWAC#: 47854 Date:

"Colliery Explosions and Recovery Work" By J.W. Whitaker, c.1946, hardback, 230 pages, 5 1/2 x 9 inches. Textbook in the Mining Certifica...

Three old advertising pieces for explosives: 1) "Explosives for Blasting: How to use them what they will do" a brochure by Arthur Kirk &am...

Two dynamite boxes, one DuPont tamping bag, and two Justrite Lamps. State: City: HWAC#: 47272 Date:

Five pieces of explosives brochures. Atlas Powder Company, Dallas, Texas pamphlets "Prevention of accidents in the use of explosives." &qu...

Seven publications on explosives. 1) Copy of Alfred Nobel's patent application for dynamite. 2) Tennessee Copper Company's "Electric Bl...

Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 84 pages. "Manufacture of Explosives Twenty Years' Progress" by Oscar Guttmann. Copyright 1909, formerly in ...

Three issues of "The Explosives Engineer Magazine" "A Magazine for users of explosives" or "Fore-runner of progress in mini...

Utica Mining Company, Memorandum of Gold Bullion (Duplicate), Angels Camp, Mar. 4th, 1897. State: California City: Angels Camp HWAC#: 38278 Dat

These are both for Roy King in 1924 and 1931. Gold Values are high in 1924 - highest being $153 per ton. In 1931 there was no value. Signed by Emil J.

Very rare 1870s Colorado assay from the US Mint at Denver. No. 757, issued Oct. 21st, 1878 for a deposit by the City National Bank. Produced a 20 ounc

Goodall Brothers Assayers and Chemists, 46 S. Main Street, PO Box 537, Phone 628, Helena, Montana. Pictorial of a prospector with two mules. Governmen