Great American July Auction

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

The “KK/NV/13.” embossing on this ingot refers to the K.K. Consolidated Mining Company that served the Eureka Mining District. The KK CM Co was declar

30 mines are represented on this display. The Old Royston, Inspiration, Egyptian, Kingman, Candelaria, Cedar Mountain, etc. Each has one raw sample an

A nice group of antique Assay office material. Includes very large tongs for ingots, a rusty Mercury flask, heavy iron cupel mold, numerous ceramic an

Lot of nineteen.1) "Battersea Round / 'F' /Morgan / England" clearly printed on side. Excellent condition. 5" tall. 2) Bottom...

Gorgeous Christian Becker, New York, assay balance, c1915. About 10 x 15 x 20". According to Shannon (The Assay Balance), Becker had this speci...

Great historical piece. Not only does it come in a very nice box with paper conversions and seven weights, it comes with a handwritten note with a rec

Pans measure 5" in diameter. Still well balanced! State: City: HWAC#: 47322 Date:

All are heavy metal and painted gold. Largest measures 20". Impress your friends! State: City: HWAC#: 48442 Date:

Painted silver. 10" long. The four molds are all different sizes. State: City: HWAC#: 48443 Date:

About 15” x 6” x 5”. This particular mold is part of a stacking multi-pour mold series. This is the first of this kind we’ve handled. This is the

A group of about five nice rusty belt wheels, from about ten inches to about two feet in diameter. All from the Cambridge Mine, Nevada. The Cambridge

A group of four underground drills used at The Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nevada by the Rink family. They do not come with drill steel. Their operative

A group of about eight cog wheels from machinery at the Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nevada collected by former mine operators the Rink family. They rang

Sturtevant Mine Fan Co., Boston, used at the Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nev. This historic fan is not without a marvelous history. Ben Franklin Sturtev

Large headframe wheel from the Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nevada. These classic remnants of Nevada’s proud mining history are gone from the landscape n

This classic mine artifact from the Cambridge Mine, Lyon Co., Nevada is perfect for any museum quality display as a mining relic. FOB Carson City, th

About nine small dredge buckets from a Link Belt unit. These typically ran small placer operations. The buckets are only about ten inches across and s

Four are identified by the experienced desert collector. 1) Johntown double pick. 19". Johntown was the first city on the Comstock - before Vir...

Location noted on very old tape inside hole for wood. 7.75". One side is chipped at end from use. In the 1870's this was the center of East...

1) Stamped with the number '5'. 21, 75". 2) 18.75". Both have a pick and chisel. Information we have found indicates the company w...

This pick and chisel axe is 15.25" long. A handmade 'T' is etched into the axe. Location is unknown - probably from Nevada. State: ...

This mounted KL6 pickaxe is a pick and chisel.It measures 18" and is in very nice condition. Makes a nice display! State: City: HWAC#: ...

This pickaxe is engraved "North.' It is 15.5". State: City: HWAC#: 49073 Date:

34.5". Well used! Authentic! State: City: HWAC#: 48820 Date:

Includes: 2 smelting crucibles, 4" and 5", a steel Ingot mold, 4 decorative imitation ingots, 2 varieties of miner's candlesticks, a l...

Well used by someone - probably a miner. We found no gold residue inside, sorry! 9" tall. State: City: HWAC#: 47321 Date:

Good Hope Lode. Inc. 1863. Rare, early Alpine Mining District stock dated Nov. 18th, 1864. Issued to E.K. Swain for five shares. Signed by the preside

1) Formed in 1863, this was the district's first corporation. This receipt from The Bullion & Exchange Bank stating that Assessment No. 6 fo...

Very early #16 for 5,000 shares to Paul Cromnell. Signed by Edward (?) and Clinton Gurnee. Nice vignette in the lower right-hand corner of a miner swi

Bodie Mining District. The Mono Gold Mining Company is just over Convict Pass on the left-hand side of the highway (where the gravel pit is now). This

Lot of six. Five green and one orange. 1927-1931. Signed by BC Austin. Acme Mines and Mill Inc, owned several mines in California. Including the Oat H