Million Dollar Auction

5 Sheets of Foreign Mining Stocks and Bonds. City: State: Date: HWAC#: : 32806

Over 300 1" diameter white buttons printed with the caption "Gold Discovery Days 1848-California-1948" and a red white and blue pictu...

Silver spoon, bowl shaped like a shovel engraved "Denver". Elaborately cut designed handle depicts a winch pulling up an ore bucket and a ...

Sterling silver spoon with 1902 patent date on reverse. Hand engraved mining scene with gold wash. The windlass at top has a movable sinking bucket an

Stamp mill was used in West Point California at the Lockwood Mine (Calaveras County). It was carefully removed by the property owner, whose family las

Large and small cast iron mortar & pestles. The large one is possibly 1870's, 8.5" diameter and 9" tall. It was used to crush ore ...

City: State: California Date: HWAC#: : 11635

Original photograph of a new invention: a gasoline powered tractor of sorts used to haul heavy loads of ore. The photo measures 11 x 14" and ap...

We haven't seen anything like this in 40 years. It is a magnetic device to lock and unlock miner's safety lamps. After a series of serious d...

Banking and Express Office of early San Francisco dated October 3rd 1854. Note attached by pin "Margin of certificate book calls for $200, amt....

Old Adams Express bag, approx. 14" x 7.5". In 1839, Alvin Adams, a produce merchant ruined by the Panic of 1837, began carrying letters, s...

Collection includes: Adams Express Official Gazette; two covers; note; 18 receipts: 1845 early receipt with vignette of train crossing bridge, 1849--t

Seven horsemen dressed in uniforms with feathered hats in front of the Adams Express Office. City: State: Date: HWAC#: : 32123

American Express Co. meeting of Gen. Supt. Hughes and Staff at the Colonial Hotel Cleveland, Ohio 1904. Includes 2 group photos and 1 photo of R.E.M.

Twelve passes. The early passes are on cardstock, while the others are on thin paper. Years included: 1910, two for 1913, 1914, two for 1915, four for

Collection includes: Receipt book blank except for first page; two bags, Property of American Express Co. City: State: Date: HWAC#: : 31648

Early 1850 American Express (Wells, Butterfield & Co.) receipt for $2991; 1853, American Express receipt; other receipts: 1855, (2), 1856, 1865,...

Ten package passes: early 1891 pass (blue with dog and key vignette), 1905 (issued to D.T. Mervine, supt. of Wells Fargo Express), 1910, two from 1911

#3073 for 5 shares to William B Conant on December 19, 1857. This is our earliest certificate. Nice clean certificate. City: State: Date: 1857 HWA

Early certificate with nice steam engine vignette. Signed by Timothy H Loomis (Springfield, Massachusetts) on November 25, 1858. (Prag collection) C