Treasures from Pacific Shores: Numismatics, Mining, & Americana

25c blue stamp. This definitely appears to be genuine. We have examined it closely and cannot find the tell-tale signs of a reprint. Further, under br

Includes Wells Fargo by Loomis, Wells Fargo by Hungerford, All the Way Bills by Harlow, Wells Fargo Detective by Dillon, Treasure Express by Wilson, a

1) 6.25 x 2.25 Purchasing and Commission Business envelope. 2-3) Two note pads form the Purchasing and Commission Department. One has one page. One ha

Rare, Wells Fargo, Company Property Reference Book 1852-1918, with Price Guide by James Lynn Bartz.pp.155, paperback book with illustrations &ph...

Wells Fargo, Advancing the American Frontier by Hungerford. Tiffany & Gaylord Express & Exhibition Belt Plates by Seibert Date: Location:...

4 Wells Fargo historical booklets. 5 Wells Fargo receipts- San Francisco 1860, Nevada National Bank 1912, Express Eureka, Nv 1896, Express Stockton, C

Lot of seven. 1) 1912 Application of Albert Billings Mullineaux to work in San Diego. He had worked in Youngstown, Ohio as a driver, money collector,

3 c. 1860's blank Wells Fargo receipts. 1915 Wells Fargo issued shipping receipt. 1908 Nassau, Bahamas? shipping letter with large stain, 4867 C...

Lot of 7. Six are certificates of deposit issued in 1854. All feature a vignette of a building and prospector. The seventh piece is a Second of Exchan

Lot of 3. 1) Adams & Co. Express Office Second of Exchange issued July 15th, 1853 for $200. Allegorical and mining vignettes. 4.25 x 8.5" C...

Lot of 3 Seconds of Exchange. All have condition issues. Same allegorical and Gold Rush vignettes. 1) San Francisco, May 5th, 1852, $350. Folds, creas

Lot of five pictorial certificates of deposit for Adams & Co. dateline Philadelphia. Issued 1853-54 (Gold Rush Era). Identical design with alleg...

Two sided circular, 7 1/2 x 10 inches, listing offices of the Adams Express Company West of Pittsburgh. Far West for this circular meant Ohio and Illi

3 Adams Express warrants. Date: Location: HWAC# 64318

From Eureka (Nevada crossed out), Cal. to North Bloomfield. Dec. 17, 1878. Checks and coin sent from J.F. Cline to Ah Jim at Columbia Hill. 4 x 14&q...

September 9th magenta double circle. Two tape marks on reverse where ti was glued. John Bamber first advertised July 12, 1858 as the only authorized C

Gold Rush banking and express collection. Lot of 17. Best three pieces are 1854 & 1855 Certificates of Deposit (Shasta) and an 1854 draft (Weave...

Lot of 5 Gold Rush-era Certificates of Deposit issued in Shasta, 1854. Identical design printed on blue paper with Native American and bear vignettes

1890's. Five 1890's receipts from Clifton, South Carolina. One 1878 bill of lading from Columbia, South Carolina. Twenty-four bill of lading...

Includes United Express Company from Stockport, Ohio. Also Northern Express receipt and way-bills. 13 Unused Hope Express Company 186- receipts. One O

Pacific Express Bill of Lading, SLC, UT, Feb 27, 1894. Folds and some edge damage. Date: 1894 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah HWAC# 63170

The very first number of this monthly publication dedicated to expressmen. Includes article on Transportation and the Chicago Convention, The Adventur

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Hardcover 1945. Stories of gold discovery and stagecoaches. Date: Location: HWAC# 62178

A fine example of the yellow "triphane" variety of the mineral spodumene. The varietal term "triphane" is derived from the Greek...

This is a WOW specimen. Kunzite is the pink to lilac colored gem variety of the mineral Spodumene. Spodumene is a common mineral in gem-bearing pegmat

This fine elbaite (tourmaline) specimen from the famous Barra de Salinas District (mouth of Salinas river) in the Coronel Murta district of Minas Gera

Choice. Enargite copper-ore with minor quartz & pyrite, Viento vein, 4050 level. 4.5x2.5x2.5". This is the El-Indio copper-gold district. E...

A large, colorful specimen of azurite (blue) and malachite (green) crystals from the underground workings at the now exhausted Liufengshan Mine in Anh

An electric-blue specimen of crystallized azurite from a now-closed underground copper mine in Anhui Province, China. The color and condition of this

A fantastic combination specimen featuring the three most important collector species found at Mt. Xuebaoding. The specimen features: several gemmy, l

An attractive specimen featuring a "matrix" of light green fluorite crystals upon which has grown a lustrous, flattened, translucent, colo...

Two large, sharp, lustrous, bi-colored (white and brick-red) calcite crystals are perched on a matrix rock covered by smaller, off-white, scalenohedra

This specimen features interesting and attractive, stacked crystals of light pink manganoan calcite on a matrix of well-crystallized quartz. The manga

Mount Xuebaoding literally means "Snowy Treasure Peak" in Mandarin Chinese. The mountain (18,333 ft) is located near the easternmost edge ...

A brand new occurrence for fluorite in Fujian Province, China. This attractive specimen features a complex cluster of greenish fluorite crystals havin

An attractive, collector-quality specimen from a currently active deposit in mineral-rich Hunan Province. This specimen is from a large crystal-lined

This specimen features an extremely rare indigo-blue color of the mineral fluorite. Additionally, the crystal habit is very unusual. The crystals are

Fluorite is a very popular mineral, and it naturally occurs in all colors of the spectrum. Pure fluorite is colorless; the color variations are caused

An attractive, new discovery from Fujian Province, The specimen features bright purple, lustrous, dodecahedral crystals of fluorite on a matrix rock c

A recent find from Henan Province are attractive, reniform masses of emerald-green fluorite. The fluorite masses have small, but, well defined crystal

Fluorite is the mineralogical form of calcium fluoride. Fluorite crystallizes in the isometric system, this specimen demonstrates quite well the &qu...

The Huanggang Iron-Tin Deposit in Inner Mongolia is perhaps the most prolific mineral specimen producing locality in China today. The locality has bee

An unusual specimen of fluorite (light green), calcite and quartz from Jiangxi Province, China. located in the southeast of the country. Jiangxi, loca

The Xianghualing Mine is a skarn-type, Tin-Lead-Zinc deposit located about 70 km southwest of Chenzhou, China. The mine is most famous to mineral coll

The Xiefang Mine is a volcanic-hydrothermal fluorite deposit possessing a fluorite vein system of 10 kilometers in length. The mine has yielded numero

Well-formed, colorless to white, prismatic quartz crystals form the "matrix rock" for numerous, lustrous, transparent, light-purple, cubic...

Numerous intergrown, lustrous, color-zoned (blue-purple), cubic fluorite crystals reaching 1" across which are associated with colorless quartz...

Yaogangxian is a huge, underground tungsten-tin deposit. The mine covers an area of about 4 x 2.5 km and includes two large deposits of distinct type

An outstanding example of the garnet family species, Andradite. Andradite is a calcium iron nesosilicate mineral which occurs in skarns developed in c