Pioneers & Patriots Auction: Americana, Militaria, Mining, & More (2025 March)

Rough turquoise - raw nuggets. Untreated. Approximate weight 13.4 pounds. Pieces range from around 1" to 3" in length, largest piece in lo...

Rough turquoise - small-medium sized nuggets and pieces, untreated. Powder blue in color. Approximate weight 11.2 pounds. Pieces in the lot range from

Rough turquoise - small-medium oxidized nuggets, light green color with some spiderweb. Untreated. Approximate weight 18.8 pounds. Pieces in the lot r

Rough turquoise - small-medium oxidized nuggets and other pieces, light blue with a green cast. Untreated. Approximate weight 19.8 pounds. Pieces rang

Rough turquoise - small-medium oxidized nuggets and chunks, medium to pale green color. Treated. Approximate weight 17.4 pounds. Pieces range from aro

Rough turquoise - medium-large oxidized nuggets, light green color with some spiderweb. Untreated. Approximate weight 7.2 pounds. Pieces range from ar

Turquoise slabs -- pale blues and greens, mix of treated and untreated. A few pieces in the lot have some spiderweb pattern. Approximate weight 5.6 po

Turquoise slabs -- generally pale blue, a few with a deeper color or green cast. Mostly untreated. Approximate weight 2.2 pounds. Pieces range from ar

Turquoise slabs -- generally pale blue, a few medium blue. Many in the lot have spiderweb patterning. Mix of treated and untreated pieces. Approximate

Turquoise slabs -- generally dark/medium blue, a few with a green cast. Mostly untreated. Approximate weight 1.2 pounds. Pieces range from around .5...

Rough turquoise - stream cobbles, mostly untreated. Pieces range from medium to light blue in color, greenish cast. Approximate weight 12.2 pounds. Pi

Rough turquoise - stream cobbles, mostly untreated. Cobbles are light blue and light green in color. Approximate weight 5.6 pounds. Pieces range from

Rough turquoise - hand selected, solid color - veining, etc. Approximate weight 2 pounds. From No. 8 turquoise mine, located in Nevada, often consider

Rough turquoise - hand selected, high grade, deep blue, spider web. From No. 8 turquoise mine, located in Nevada, often considered one of the top turq

Rough turquoise - large, selected, blue (rough). Approximate weight 4.6 pounds. From No. 8 turquoise mine, located in Nevada, often considered one of

Rough turquoise - medium grade, spider web. Approximate weight 3.2 pounds. From No. 8 turquoise mine, located in Nevada, often considered one of the t

Rough turquoise - better quality spider web. Approximate weight 3.4 pounds. From No. 8 turquoise mine, located in Nevada, often considered one of the

Rough turquoise - slabs, several large. Light green-blue. Approximate weight 2.4 pounds. From No. 8 turquoise mine, located in Nevada, often considere

Rough turquoise - lighter green-blue, variety. Approximate weight 5.2 pounds. From No. 8 turquoise mine, located in Nevada, often considered one of th

Ivanhoe district, Elko County. 5 x 3 x 2.5" Quartz and calcite with ruby silver minerals in a banded breccia with quartz pseudomorph of calcit...

From the Personal Collection of Fred Holabird. This piece (an one other in this sale) are from the Green River Formation. Excellent contrast and qual

From the Personal Collection of Fred Holabird. This piece (an one other in this sale) are from the Green River Formation. Excellent contrast and qual

Blue Gray Botryoidal Chalcedony Crystal Geode from unknown location. Natural Art. Round shaped rock broken in half to reveal inside crystals. 6 inch

Unusual, naturally sculpted Chinese viewing stone with an anthropomorphic shape of lighter, sandstone nodules securely affixed to a darker black limes

About 40 c. 1911-29 photos of Seattle and the Klondyke. Bridges, street scenes, buildings, Sterling Mine, mine wood buildings etc. About 3.25x5.25&q...

Rare. Selby Smelting & Lead Co. Gold Bullion Assay Memorandum for Alvinza Hayward for the Utica Mining Co. (of Angel's Camp, CA). 480.95 oun...

A promissory note from the Miners' Cosumnes and Deer Creek Water and Mining Company, issued in 1854 to D.D. Munger. No. 17 issued. Note promises...

California gold rush lettersheet in the form of a 4pp, blue wove paper introductory first page, testimonials and list of prices on the second page, fo

Lot of 3 different. 1) Memorandum of Gold Bullion Deposited at the Branch Mint of the United States at San Francisco. Sept. 20th, 1867. Deposit by Wil

2 c. 1880-81 F Berton & Co. checks. They were the successor to Hentsch & Berton of SS Central America gold ingot fame. Both have rare RN G i...

Only known, 3 1917 Hugh Fraser, General Merchandise billheads to Carbonate Lead Mines Co. "Zabriskie's life took on new meaning in 1885 whe...

Undated Shelby Smelting gold bullion deposit slip-1.25" tear and toning, 1878 Vulcan Blasting Powder letterhead, undated financial report of Bu...

2 California Gold Rush Receipts. White 1879 Kentuck(sic) Flat for quartz, located in El Dorado County 16 miles NNW Of Pollock Pines. Blue 1862 for old

Ex. Ron Lerch Collection. Rare cabinet card by JB Sturtevant, known as "Rocky Mountain Joe", active from 1870s on in Boulder. He died in a...

4x 1898-1908 A E Carlton Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs checks. Carlton was a prominent mining figure and millionaire. He was an investor in Colo

Rare and important early Colorado mining directory, "History and Description of the Cripple Creek Mining District, Mining and Business Director...

Bound original undated Geology and Mining of the Cripple Creek District in two parts with foldout map, fine condition. Bound 1895 16th Annual Report o

Bound 1935 Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings, Geology and Ore Deposits of the Cripple Creek District Colorado, 43599 with foldout map-writing on

By W. S. Burbank. Six fold outs. All in excellent condition. All 4 maps in the back pocket. Includes the first 166 pages, appears additional end pages

1914 Report of the Bureau of Mines of the State of Colorado for 1913-14, gilt cover-title page has 1.5" lower tear, binding has wear. 1926 USGS...

1874? telegraph signed by J P Whitney, often confused with J D Whitney the mining engineer in California. J P of Colorado helped secure the first gold

Silver Mining Regions of Colorado by J.P. Whitney 1865. The preface claims that while the book (Or pamphlet) was hastily written, its aim was more me

c. 1875-80 albumen photo on board of Dade Coal Mine in Ellijay, GA. The name of the town may have changed. Features the mine and North Georgia Railro

1899 map of Coeur d'Alene mining district by Henry C Ihrig, draughtsman. 1"=1 mile. Blue printing on buff paper. 24x38". .5" lowe...

Rare pictorial The Great Western Rock Breaker advertising handbill. They made gold and silver stamps mills, crushers etc.11x8.25", 2 horizontal...

Original ledger , 9.5 x 14", 250pp from assayer S. H. Johns. In this ledge, he records over 7,000 assays from hundreds of different customers, ...

1879 Henry Elling in Virginia City sent to Kountze Bros. in NYC, 538 oz gold and 367 oz silver. 1888 US Assay office, Helena memorandum of bullion, $4

For mineral collectors: Two large jacket patches, nine inches in diameter. Blue ink on yellow background. Montana Council / of / The Land of Shining M

2 brass or bronze equipment plaques, discovered in an old Anaconda warehouse in Butte. A similar thing happened at the Homestead Mine in Lead, SD. 3.5

Manhattan Silver Mining Company of Nevada three page corporate letter datelined New York in 1869 from the corporate secretary Morgan L. Ogden to Allen