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: