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

Australian crystalline gold in quartz with brown stains, typically of jewelry quartz. 1.51 troy oz. about 30% by weight gold. Date: Country (if not

Small gold spoon, handle is 10k gold, bowl is gold plated. 4-1/8" long .75" wide bowl, .5" wide at top of handle. Engraved with &quo...

Dated Sept 16, 1849. Dateline American Fork, Sacramento River. Location; Camp 3 miles above Mormon Island. Four pages of historic information Talks ab

A very rare Prairie City, California dateline. Promissory note No. 17, datelined Prairie City, Cal., March 25th, 1854. Promise to pay $893.73 to D.B.

Rare San Francisco Wharf stock tied to the Gold Rush. Certificate No. 457, issued for 46 shares to Alfred Poett on May 1st, 1865 in San Francisco. Sig

Lot of 2. Both are related to Gold Rush SF banker and commission merchant Abel Guy. 1) Abel Guy check for $10,420 (listed in FRENCH COIN), San Francis

Choice ingot mould from John Taylor & Co., San Francisco. This is an old multi-ingot mould that allowed for small pours of gold ingots of rough...

Lot of 3. 1) Extremely rare billhead for A. Kuner, Seal Engraver & Die Sinker, No. 611 Washington Street, 3rd Floor. Dateline San Francisco, Dec...

Very rare. Pictorial lettersheet for the Tehama House, Corner Sansome and California Streets, San Francisco, G.W. Frink, Proprietor. Great large vigne

This is the only card for Coleman in this group that lists his address as 71 Wall Street. According to NY directories, this address only appears in 18

California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants by Henry Vere Huntley. First edition published by Thomas Cautley Newby in 1856. Two volumes rebound together

This is a collection of letters from Chauncey Clark looking for gold in the Yukon Territory to his mother, brother, and sister in Rochester, New York.

4 Australian gold nuggets, 20.62 grams. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

4 Australian gold on quartz. 21.24 grams total weight. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian crystalline gold on quartz 11.76g total weight. Boot shaped gold nugget 2.8g. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Pr

Australian gold on quartz. 85.33 grams total weight, 15.7 grams gold. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian gold in quartz. Total weight 25.6g, gold by weight 15.3g. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian gold nugget. 14.3 grams weight. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian small gold nuggets, 18.83 grams. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian crystalline gold on quartz. 15.7 grams total weight. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

El Dorado County, California (printed under title). Unissued for one share, but signed by Jacob A Shorb as president and E.H. Cornwall as secretary in

Stampless cover with a straight line San Francisco postmark. Handwritten 40 for cost to mail. One page. Letter has staining and tape to keep the conte

A Tour of Duty in California; Including a Description of the Gold Region: and an Account of the Voyage Around Cape Horn; with Notices of Lower Califor

Australian crystalline gold nugget. 13.3 grams. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Australian gold on quartz. Total weight 14.87 grams. Date: Country (if not USA): Australia State: City: Provenance:

Crystalline gold and leaf in quartz, .46 troy oz. About 70% weight by gold. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

California Gold Rush genuine gold nugget. 6.7 grams. Certified natural and authentic by American Appraisal Institute. Signed appraisal certificate aff

Lot of 4: three stocks and a Water Collector's Weekly report. The American River Water and Mining Company was formed in 1854 to build a ditch to...

We have not offered this before. "West Point D., Calaveras C. Cal." (printed under title). Incorporated May 19th, 1863. No. 240, issued fo...

Extremely rare Gold Rush location. Dateline Iowa Hill, Cal., Dec. 2nd, 1855. No. 41.302, issued to TB Hotchkiss at the office of the American Express

A choice certificate. No, 1655. Issued to I.C. Woods for one share. Signed by Henry Eno (president) and E.H. Pomeroy as secretary. Not cancelled or en

This c1850's cover is for a Wells Fargo Express Steamboat. Nevada regular Wells Fargo stamp cancels 3c Pink stamp. Stamped PAID on upper right.

Very rare. $1,000 bond. No. 61. Oct. 1st, 1859. The company owes the money to A. Boody of New York and James Lawrence English of Sacramento. "B...

Beautifully engraved partially-issued certificate. No. 321. Placerville, El Dorado County, Cal. Dec. 9th, 1852. This item has been hand signed by the

Very rare. No. 618, issued for one share to Lewis Cooper on March 21st, 1856 in Philadelphia. Signed by president FN Buck and secretary William Lippin

Freeman & Co's New York & California Package Express, Successors to Adams & Co. Dateline New York, May 1st, 1856. Two cases sent fro...

San Francisco Vigilance Committee of '56 with Some Interesting Sketches of Events Succeeding 1846. Edited by Frank Meriweather Smith. Published ...

Hentsch & Berton were the successors in 1863 to Henry Hentsch's banking and assay business in San Francisco. Hentsch was born in Geneva in a...

Tables of the Value of Gold and Silver per Once Troy, at Different Degrees of Fineness. Also tables showing the net returns from gold and silver of di

Rare Treasury of the United States Second of Transfer for $10,000 to the Ast. Treasurer US at San Francisco. Dateline Washington, October 1st, 1858. S

One page letter sent from Greenway & Co. of Baltimore, Aug. 29, 1850 to Ludlow Beebee & Co. in Philadelphia. Message states that they have s...

Wow! Mailed from San Francisco. Addressed to W. H. English care of Winslow, Lanier & Co. Wall Street, New York City. Winslow, Lanier & Co. w...

State of California, Office of the Board of Examiners. Dateline Sacramento, August 15th, 1861. Issued to A. Pool for $273.33 for "his services ...

Lot of 5. These warrants tell the story of how the California state capital location was in flux during the Gold Rush. The meetings of the State Legis

This is the only clipper card for this firm in the group we received. Platt & Newton (Successors to Wm. T. Coleman & Co.), 117 Front Street....

This is the only card for Edward Mott Robinson in the collection we received for this sale. Robinson's California Line for San Francisco. The A1...

The Gold-Seeker's Manual; Being a Practical and Instructive Guide to All Persons Emigrating to the Newly Discovered Gold Regions of California b...

Report of Hon. T. Butler King of California printed by Gideon & Co. in 1850. This report relayed the first official information about the gold r...

Scenery of the Plains, Mountains, and Mines: or A Diary Kept Upon the Overland Route to California, by Way of the Great Salt Lake: Travels in the Citi

A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Law, in Relation to Mines, and Titles to Real Estate, in Force in California, Texas, and New Mexico; and in the T