"Holabird's High-Grade": Mining, Numismatics, Railroadiana, & Americana (June 2023 Live Auction)

Mounted photograph of building with faint "Combination Shaft" visible on side (also matches earlier views of this structure). 5 x 8" ...

Lot of 3 different. All are Carleton Watkins, part of the Watkins' New Series, Yosemite & Pacific Coast. The Con. Virginia Pan Mill was owne...

Lot of 4 different for the largest producing mine on the Comstock, the site of the Big Bonanza ore discovery in 1873. Located between the California a

Watkins' New Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast, 26 Montgomery Street and Woodward's Garden, SF. "C. & C. Mill, Virginia City. 4144...

Lot of 2. The Empire State Mill was located in Sixmile Canyon at foot of Sugarloaf. In the early 1870s, it had 15 stamps a 40-ton-a-day-capacity. The

Lovers of the Comstock and mining history could not ask for a better composed shot! Man pushing an ore cart on track (in foreground), mine and wagons

Lot of 2 different early CDVs of the Gould & Curry Mill by Lawrence & Houseworth, c.1864. This mill was built at considerable cost in 1862 a...

Very rare CDV by Lawrence & Houseworth showing the mill in full production, c.1864. "726. The Patio Process--Gould & Curry Mill." ...

Lot of 2 different stereoviews of the Gould & Curry Mill by Lawrence & Houseworth, 1865. This mill was built at considerable cost in 1862 an...

"No. 6 HALE & NORCROSS MINE VA CITY NEV" written in white text on the photo. No photographer listed. 4.75 x 7.75" photo on 7.5 x ...

Lot of 2 for this important Comstock mine. 1) Very rare Lawrence & Houseworth CDV. "730. Mexican Mine, Virginia City." View shows whit...

Lot of 4 different from Watkins' New Series. The Ophir Mine is one of the oldest claims on the Comstock and the discovery site for the Virginia ...

"No. 11. OPHIR MINE VA CITY NEV" in white print on photo. 4.75 x 7.75" photo on 7.5 x 10.5" board. Great contrast and focus exce...

Lot of 2 different. The Ophir Mine is one of the oldest claims on the Comstock and the discovery site for the Virginia City branch of the lode. It was

"No. 8. Savage Mine, VA City Nev." No photographer listed. 4.5 x 7.75" photo on 7.5 x 10.5" mount. Good contrast, sharp focus. S...

Lot of 2 different for this important mine. The Sierra Nevada Mine was located on the north end on the Comstock in Sevenmile Canyon and was its second

Lot of two different from a series of Comstock photographs taken about c.1900 from an unidentified photographer. These two identify the mine in white

Nice view looking down from B Street to C Street and Sixmile Canyon in the background. Thomas Houseworth & Co., 317 & 319 Montgomery St., SF...

"720. View Down Six-Mile Canon--from the Lower Dump of the Gould & Curry Mine, Virginia City." Thomas Houseworth & Co., 317 and 31...

Noe's Views, No. 29 South C Street, Virginia, Nevada. Reverse has paper label identifying this as the Utah Mine Hoisting Works. The contrast is ...

Great CDV of an unidentified Comstock mine or milling operation. View shows building with smokestacks and piles of wood out front. Medium contrast and

Lot of 2 different. Both feature political banners. Both by Continent Stereoscopic Co., Publishers, New York. Opposite views of the main street of Vir

This is an c.1860s view (see the CDV also in this sale) being reproduced on a stereoview in the 1870s. Excellent early view of the main street in Virg

Excellent early view of the main street in Virginia City, with Gillig, Mott & Co. hardware building identified on the right (makers of the famou...

Fantastic view by Lawrence & Houseworth, 317 & 319 Montgomery St., San Francisco (identified on reverse). 710. "Pioneer Stages, leaving...

Rare view looking down on Virginia City and down Sixmile Canyon." Watkins' New Series of Pacific Coast Views, 427 Montgomery Street, S.F. (...

This is a fantastic boudoir-sized photograph showing the amazing amount of mines, mill buildings, businesses, and homes that encompassed Virginia City

Possibly a Lawrence & Houseworth view. Reverse has the following pencil notations: "Virginia City looking west from mint, L&H." Po...

From Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, Portrait and Landscape, 26 Montgomery Street, opp. Lick House Entrance, S.F. Good contrast and sharp focus. ...

Watkins" New Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast, 26 Montgomery Street, S.F. "Panorama of Virginia City. No. 5. 4116" This was one of ...

"Panorama of Virginia City from the North End, No. 3. 4122." One view of a four part Virginia City Panorama with the California Pan Mill i...

Lot of 2 different. 1) Lawrence & Houseworth, 1864, 240. "Virginia City and Mount Davidson, from the East." Reverse is stamped with th...

Continent Stereoscopic Co., New York Publishers (active New York c. 1870-c. 1899). "475-Virginia-City, Nevada" 4.25 x 7" There appear...

DeGroot’s 1860 Map of the Comstock and Washoe Region, Original Fred N. Holabird This is one of perhaps five known copies of De Groot's...

14.5 x 23.5" black and white litho by Oakley and Thomson Boston. Survey July 1864 Westcoatt on claims located in sept and oct of 1859. The map ...

16.5 x 8.5" hand colored map of the lower Comstock and immigrant consolidated mining company mines, Lyon county Nevada limo by GT Brown and Co ...

Undated map on vellum that shows claims patented by the California MC, Con. Virginia, Ophir, JB Overton, Union Consolidated, Mexican, and Central Silv

"Showing the Virginia, Gold Hill, Silver City, Silver Star and Six Mile Canon Mining Districts. Storey and Lyon Counties Nevada." 1923. Ra...

Rare map not seen before by us. By E.R. Lovewell. Scale 1 inch=1,000 feet. Compliments of the Consolidated Chollar Gould & Savage Mining Company...

Lot of 15 different. Group has Bliss, Yerington, Mackay, and Fair autographs, plus other significant mining superintendents. Includes: Mariposa Mill,

Lot of 4. 1) Rare 1874 Bank of California check issued to the Carson Wood Company, signed by Fair. Manuscript "Pac. M&M Co." written n...

Lot of 2. Each is on the check form with green print and RN-D imprinted revenue. 1) No. 131, issued to the Virginia & Gold Hill Water Co. in 187...

Lot of 4 different. The Sapphire Mill was built in the early 1860s and was located 1/4 mile below Gold Hill. It was originally known as JB Gagnon &a...

Extremely rare Comstock autograph. Virginia & Truckee Railroad receipt, Carson, March 14th, 1872. Issued to E. Penrod for 9 7/8 cords of nut pin...

Three cubes of dense compressed wood from the square set which was used to support the mine walls at the Cons. Virginia Mine. About 1.5x2.5x2.5"...

So rare FH didn't even know this existed! This ultra-rare pamphlet originally went with the Vischer views. While it does not contain the views, ...

Rare. The Comstock Lode: Its Character, and the Probable Mode of its Continuance in Depth by Ferdinand Baron Richthofen, 1866. 83pp. First edition. Ri

Six key Nevada mining references, 1866-78. As per FH, "includes the single most important, original source material for mining of the period. E...

Carson City: John J. Hill, State Printer, SPO, 1875. First edition, limited to 3000 copies of which 500 were bound in cloth. 8 7/8 x 5 3/4. 191 pages.

Very rare gilded cover, Bonanza Mines and the Bonanza Kings of California by S P Dewey, Their Five Years Reign. 1879. 87pp. Spine wear, repaired fron