Great American July Auction

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