Million Dollar Auction

EARLY! #322 for 15 shares to HP Coleman in 1864. Signed by Thomas Gardiner and RT Brown. 25c United States adhesive revenue stamp attached. (Prag coll

Letter on assessment to A Cochran of Philadelphia. Marked "Sacramento [steamer name] via Panama" City: San Francisco State: California Da...

53 pages of 2 unfilled assessment receipts per page. Printed by Agnew & Deffebach of San Francisco. The exact location of this mine may have bee...

1) Lucas Mining Company #59 for 250 shares to CE Gillett in 1881. Signed by Gillett and Walker. 2) Taylor Plumas Mill and Mining Company #1830 for 100

Lot of three. 1) William Tell Consolidated Gold Mining Company. #46 for 2,000 shares to RA Grass in 1890. Datelined Sierra City. Signatures worn off.

Stock no. 3213, issued to J. W. Sparks for 1910. Signed by Nelson Z. Graves, vice-president. Secretary, Illegible signature. This historic document ha

1) South Hite Gold Mining Company #856 for 100 shares to John Bothwell in 1881. Signed by JF Towle and D Osborne. 2) North Hite & Yosemite Gold ...

$500 First Mortgage Deed of Trust signed by B.F. Hastings, trustee. 14 1/2 x 10 1/2". City: State: California Date: 1862 HWAC#: : 29036

Lot of 3. 1) The Giant Powder Co. of San Francisco. Billhead dated April 21st, 1877 for 10,000 caps ordered for the Eureka & Palisade Railroad (...

Lot of 3: hydraulic mining views from Yuba and Greenwood, CA and from Gold Run NV. The Yuba County shot is from the Palm Claim, in Timbuctoo, from Tho

14 carat gold pin, James Marshall's cabin in a mining pan with nuggets below, a pick and shovel. A 6.7 gram memento of the 1849 gold rush in Cal...

2 smelting crucibles 4" and 5", a steel Ingot mold, 4 decorative imitation ingots, 2 Varieties of Miner's candlesticks, A large 16&quo...

1) Sierra Nevada Consolidated Mining Company #48 for 1,000 shares to HC Breeden(?) in 1886. Signed by L Goldsmith and B Smith(?). Cancelled. 2-3) Gren

1) Tecopa Consolidated #4661 for 100 shares to John Neal in 1912. Signed by Hyden and Graves. Bishop. 2) Champion #821 for 1,000 shares to DJ Lyons in

1910 photos identified on the back. 9 x 11". This was a monstrously large dredge. Interior photos of the dredges are rare. City: State: Cali...

#4427 for 500 shares to James Walbrook in 1899. Signed by AH Shoup and L L Aitkens. One of the most interesting and delightful vignettes that one can

Certified by the Cripple Creek Mining Stock Association. History from 1891 to 1909. Includes a brief summary of all mining companies. GREAT resource.

#512 for 200 shares to Elroy H Davis in 1910. Signed by FA Joslin and J Jay Joslin. Fabulous Gold Hammer Vignette. By 1915 this company was defunct. T

Collection of (6) bills and receipts from Cripple Creek, Virginia City, NV and San Francisco, CA. The Virginia City document is from the Savage Mining

Early number 84 for 100 shares to Thomas M Bowen in 1875. Signed by Thomas Bowen as secretary and Charles Markenley(?) as president. Bowen would go fr