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

Fantastic scene photographed by Thomas Houseworth & Co. "736. Hoisting Works of the Bullion Mine--Gold Hill." View shows man with ore ...

Nice view of multiple people standing on porch of home with mine tailings on the hill to the right and trestle in the background. Identification on re

No. 927. "Foreman[sic.] Shaft, Gold Hill, Nev." No photographer listed. c.1900. 5 x 8" photo on 7.75 x 10.75" mount. Contrast an...

Thomas Houseworth & Co., No. 9 Montgomery St. "743. GOLD HILL--From Fort Homestead, Bowers' Canon." Built in the late spring of 18...

Stereoview from Continent Stereoscopic Company, New York, Descriptive Views of the American Continent (active c.1870s-90s). This view is mislabeled as

"Peeps at Scenes in Washoe." J.C. Scripture, Publisher, Big Trees, Cal. Active c.1868-77. No. 3439. Yellow Jacket Mine, Gold Hill, Nevada....

"1223. A A Mule Team--Ore from the Silver Mines, Virginia City, Nevada." Continent Stereoscopic Co., Publishers, No. 60 Nassau Street, New...

Fantastic CDV by Lawrence & Houseworth. "738. Quartz Mills at Gold Hill." Two cent orange US IR Bank Check stamp attached, but the dat...

Fantastic stereoview by Lawrence & Houseworth. "738. Quartz Mills at Gold Hill." 1865. View is sharp with great contrast and detail! S...

Lot of 3 different. 1) View identified on reverse as the famous Yellow Jacket Mine. Stamped G.L. Hepburn, Photographer. Light contrast, medium focus.

Lot of 3 different from Watkins New Series. 1-2) Two very similar views looking down on Gold Hill from Ophir Grade. Crown Point Ravine Virginia &...

Lot of 3 different. All are bird's-eye views of Gold Hill from the reservoir. All are from Watkins' New Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast, ...

Lot of 2 different, mid-1860s. Opposite views. 1) Lawrence & Houseworth, Album Views of Nevada, 317 & 319 Montgomery St., SF. "737. Gol...

Lot of 2 different. 1) Watkins' New Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast, 26 Montgomery St., SF. "Gold Hill. View down the Canon." Virgi...

Lot of 2 different, both published by Thomas Houseworth & Co. 1) 745. Bower's Canon--Gold Hill. This is a reprint of one of the earliest vi...

Lot of 2 different. These mills were in the vicinity of the original discovery site for the Comstock by the Grosh brothers. Both stereoviews are publi

Fantastic early (c.1864 or earlier) view by Lawrence & Houseworth as part of the Album Views of Nevada. "233. Silver City from the Devil...

No. 3443. Devil's Gate, Devil's Gate Toll Road, Nevada." J.C. Scripture, Publisher, Big Trees, Cal. Part of the series "Peeps at S...

Lot of 2 different by Lawrence & Houseworth. 1) CDV. "748. Silver City, from the Devil's Gate, looking South." c.1864. Contrast un...

A key, historically important view! "746. Canon at Silver City." Lawrence & Houseworth, Album Views of Nevada. 2 cent US IR Proprietar...

Lot of 2 different. This is the area of Silver City near the intersection of American Ravine and Gold Canyon where the Grosh Brothers made their silve

Watkins' New Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast, 26 Montgomery Street, and Woodward's Garden, S.F. "Silver City, Nevada 4166" View...

Lot of 2. The Brunswick Lode (previously called the Occidental or Monte Cristo Lode) was 1.25 miles east of Virginia City and Gold Hill, parallel to t

c.1910 view with the company name clearly visible on sign on the top of the building. No photographer listed. Mostly good contrast, sharp focus. Creas

Lot of 4 different. Some of the largest Comstock mills were built along the Carson River from Empire to below Dayton. Harnessing the water for power (

Fantastic! View shows two empty wagons and men in the Carson River loading timber that has been floated down to the mill. Good contrast and focus. Lab

Watkins' New Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast, 26 Montgomery St, SF. "California Pan Mill, Virginia City, Nev. 4126" Impressive view...

No. 14. Chollar Mine, VA City, Nev. 5 x 8" Undated and photographer not listed; probably c.1900-10. Good contrast and focus. The Chollar Mine i...

Lot of 2 different Lawrence & Houseworth (San Francisco) of the mine office of the Chollar Mine in Virginia City. Both stereoviews are dated 186...

Choice mounted photograph of this joint shaft, also known as the Combination Shaft. Two men pose in front of the building with the company name in cle

Label on the back provides identification: "Northern part of Virginia City, from the Combination Shaft." Part of the Views of the Great We...

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

Comstock Mining and Miners by Lord. Original 1883 printing as a monograph of USGS. 451pp with 117 illustrations. 2 maps, 1 folding. A comprehensive vo

Down Memory Trail to The Comstock in Pictures - by John J. "Count" Mahoney. No date listed, but its publication is mentioned in the Nevada...

3 Comstock geology books. Nevada Bureau of Mines, 1969 Geology and Mineral Deposits of Washoe and Storey Counties Nevada, 140pp with detached cover. A

The Silver Mines of Nevada-1865, Wm. C Bryant & Co. 1865, 77pp. plus folding map. Original printed wrappers. In chemise and half morocco slipcas...

Published by Bacon & Company, Book and Job Printers, San Francisco., 305 pp, illustrated with 17 plates with 6 pgs. of advertisements at end; no...

1931. In American Fork Canyon about half way between South Fork and Deer Creek.. Five different locations listed for the Gold Ledge: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

25 pages. Includes a 5 page photograph of mine near Bingham. Looks hand colored. 5 page photo of Carr Fork Canyon and mining property. Fold out maps i

Two reports. 1) 1917. 23 pages. Includes 6 page colored fold out map showing geology, principal workings, ore body and surface improvements. 2 page co

Color panorama of the Kennecott copper works. Facts about the mine and its value included on the verso. Located in Bingham County. c1930 Date: c1930

About 25 pieces of Camp Floyd mining ephemera. Camp Floyd was a very early Utah mining district. Mainly notices of location-White Cap. Golden Bell, Un

Economic Geology of the Mercur Mining District, Utah by J. Edward Spurr. The Mercur mining district lies on the southwestern flank of the Oquirrh Moun

By D MacVhie. December 1, 1908. Twenty-seven pages. 12 page foldout map of the underground workings. 6 page fold out map of the Coalition and adjacent

15 pieces of Rush Valley mining ephemera, mostly Notice of Location-Royal Mining, Ada No 2, April Fool, Viper, Orient, Eureka, Pluto and more. c. 187

Proposal from the Norberg Company through Kaiser Steel for a Cylindrical Drum Mine Hoist for the Sunnyside Mine. Estimated shipping weight 171,000 pou

Includes an archived photograph, billheads (Mountain State Rubber, Hooper Building, Shields Stationary, Garlock Packing, Johns-Manville, Utah Fuel, et

Contract between the Mammoth Mining Company and the International Smelting Company on the transfer of ore from the mine to the smelter (no more than 5

The story of Andrew Steedman as told through the Mammoth Mining Company. Large stack of papers c1920. Many of them specifically mentions Steedman...

Almost 100 years old! Eight pages. Two pages of pictures of the Horn Silver Mine and Mill at Frisco. The Tintic took over the famous Horn Silver. Thre

Lot of four. 1) Utah-Apex Mining Company 1918 annual report. Seven pages with financial reports and information on the last year. 2) 50th Anniversary