SS Central America Shipwreck Artifacts Auction, Part I (December 2022)

Australian gold in quartz. Total weight 48.3g, gold weight about 39.3g. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian gold in quartz. Total weight 85.77g, gold by weight 35.9g. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian gold in quartz. Total weight 34.7g. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian gold in quartz. Total weight 27.56g. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian gold nugget on quartz. 34.1 grams total weight. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Nevada Ore Specimen Collection, Most with Old Labels An old ore specimen collection from a house in Jack’s Valley, Nevada. Most with orig

Lot of 3 different for William T. Coleman & Co.'s California Line at their 161 Pearl St. location. All have a fairy-tale or play theme. All ...

Lot of 2. 1) Extremely rare advertising broadside for George D. Sutton's Clipper Line. "First Clipper to Sail For San Francisco!" Ship...

Spectacular California Gold Rush-era document. $500 Bond of the State of California for War Indebtedness incurred in "Expeditions against the I...

Experiences of a Forty-Niner, by Wm. G. Johnson, a Member of the Wagon Train First to Enter California in the Memorable Year 1849. Published in Pittsb

10 slabbed gold nuggets from the Perth Mint. About 39 grams of gold. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian gold on quartz nugget. 32.0 grams total weight. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

10 Australian crystalline gold specimens mostly nuggets. Total weight 33.95 grams. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenan

San Francisco straight line postmark with magenta manuscript date. Matching 40 rate. Written in two parts. First is North Bend March 3 at Sea and seco

Stock Certificate of the Enterprise Quartz Company, issued in Nevada City, California on November 21, 1851. Printed by the Nevada Journal Print Co. En

Group of Australian gold nuggets. Gold weight 33.36 grams. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

California Gold Rush genuine gold nugget. 12.3 grams. Certified genuine by American Appraisal Institute; signed certificate is adhered to reverse of f

Australian crystalline gold on quartz and nuggets. Nuggets 16.8 grams. On quartz 12.7 total grams. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State:

3 Australian gold in dark matrix. 34.29 grams total weight. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

1.45 troy oz. crystalline and gold leaf in quartz. About 35% gold by weight. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Crystalline and gold wire attached to quartz. Total weight 95.63g, gold weight about 13.4g. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenan

Crystalline gold in nice bright white quartz, 2.49 troy oz., about 30% weight by gold. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

One of the better Gold Rush letters we've come across. 4 pp. letter. Dateline La Porte March 1st, '59. From A.G.M. Craft to John D. Briggs i...

Very rare. H. Harris, along with his partner D. Marchand, had ingots found on the SS Central America. This letterhead lists his offices at the top: Sa

Lot of 2. Cover with corner ad for Page & Bacon Bankers St. Louis plus letter. Page, Bacon & Co. was composed of Daniel Page and Henry D. Ba...

San Francisco letter dated March 28, 1857. Interesting combination of two letters concerning the disposition of over 38 oz. of gold dust to the San Fr

True 49er letter. 3.5 pages. 2.5 pages about the voyage over. Stampless cover with San Francisco, Oct. 1 stamp. Handwritten 40 for postage. The letter

Datelined Sonora April 9th, 1854 Three bags of gold dust valued at $5400 (300 oz.) for assay at the U.S. Mint which just opened. Very early! Earliest

Very rare to find a Gold Rush era bond for a mining camp other than SF or Sacramento. City of Sonora Bond, $100. No. 39, issued May 4th, 1853, in acco

Blue paper lease between William Coleman of San Francisco and Henry Corbett of Portland. William Tell Coleman was a shipping magnate, politician, and

Lot of 2. These are the only two Coleman California Line clipper cards in this group for his location at 117 Front Street in New York. According to NY

"Bond of the State of California for War Indebtedness in Conformity with An Act Authorizing the Treasurer of State to Issue Bonds for the payme...

California and New Mexico- Message from the President of the United States to the 31st Congress, 1850. Ex. Doc. No. 17. First edition. Covers the Mexi

Geology and Industrial Resources of California by Philip T. Tyson. Published by Wm. Minifie & Co., 1851. Second edition. Expanded version of thi...

California and Its Resources: A Work for the Merchant, the Capitalist, and the Emigrant by Ernest Seyd. Published by Trubner and Co. in 1858. First ed

A Collection of Mining Laws of Spain and Mexico. Compiled and translated by Henry W. Halleck. Published by O'Meara & Painter in 1859. Mining...

The Miner's Guide, and Metallurgist's Directory by J.W. Orton. Published by A.S. Barnes & Co., 1849. First edition. Rare. Title page wit...

Australian gold in quartz. Total weight 23.1g. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian gold nugget on quartz. 23.9 grams total weight. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian quartz with crystalline gold. Total eight 23.25 grams. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian gold nugget on quartz. 24.5 grams total weight. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

5 Australian crystalline gold on quartz specimens. 42.2 grams total weight. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian crystalline gold in quartz. Total weight 24.11g. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

10 slabbed Perth Mint gold nuggets. About 14 grams of gold. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

California Gold Rush genuine gold nugget. 9.8 grams. Certified natural and authentic by American Appraisal Institute. Signed appraisal certificate aff

Australian gold on black quartz. Total weight 22.0 grams. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian gold nugget 16.8 grams. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian gold on quartz. 46.0 grams total weight, 23.0 grams gold. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian crystalline gold, 17.91 grams. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

11 Australian crystalline gold specimens. 22.31 grams. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance: