Treasures from Pacific Shores: Numismatics, Mining, & Americana

Receipt for Savage Mine, a few creases Date: 1863 Location: San Francisco, California HWAC# 65050

1860. This bar was not the best as there was an unusually large 7 ounce loss in the smelting process. Bottom of receipt says "Bars bad yet.&quo...

Earliest. Also written is Hardy & Kennedy. 10 ounces lost in melting process. Weight of bar was 351.80 ounces. Value of gold, even after the los...

Four assay receipts for gold bullion deposited with Stephen Molitor in San Francisco. 1860, 1861 (2), 1863. Molitor used a different receipt every ye

Assay report from Live Yankee ore signed by John Hewston Jr. Left edge has ripple from backing. Date: 1871 Location: San Francisco, California HWAC

1) Gold Bullion deposited with Selby Smelting & Lead Co.. 1896; 2) Densmore Cons. G. M. Co., Columbia, California, Reduction Works Report, 1901;...

Miner's Sampling Works and Georgetown Public Ore-creasing Date: 1888 Location: Colorado HWAC# 65045

1) Standard Assay Office and Chemical Laboratory--Gold and Bullion melted and Assayed, Central City Colo.,1903; 2) two from Assay Office of J.R. Reedy

Business card for A.P. Webster, Assayer and Metallurgist, Helena, Montana. Office No. 62, South Main St., Opposite Cosmopolitan Hotel. On the reverse

Two canvas bags, each 11 x 6 1/2 inches. Stamped each side: "H.W. Young / Assayer / Reno, - Nev." Date: Location: Reno, Nevada HWAC# 6...

Receipts from the Gould & Curry Silver Mining Co. superintendent's office for ore delivered by the Savage Mining Company for smelting and as...

Etched into the base of this large well-made scale is "CAP 100 OZ TROY" and "No. 147." It is a Williams Reynolds and Davis Hoppe...

16 space cupel tray for the assay department. Cast iron, made by Denver Fire Clay. Date: Location: HWAC# 56471

Leather bag used by miners to store their Gold Dust. Date: Location: HWAC# 64174

1886 Tosten Smelting letter, 1886 John Taylor billhead, memo of deposit Selby Smelting and Lead 1887, US Smelting Co. 1917 assay report with foxing, G

Inc. in British Columbia. No. 0574, issued for 102 shares in 1914. Signed by two directors. Green border, red corporate seal. Not cancelled. Folds, pi

Nome, AK stereoview of a miners house with fold, postcards, photos, RPC of men with horses and guns Date: Location: Nome, Alaska HWAC# 57217

Owned mining property in Alaska and California. Inc. in Maine. No. C1746, issued for 100 shares to Guy M. Spear on May 3, 1909. Signed by president Un

New York Bank Note Company produced printers plate for dividend warrants for the Treadwell Gold Mining Company of Alaska. Vignette of a lovely lady.

Not listed in Filer or the Copper Handbooks. "Property in Alaska" printed under title. Inc. in Arizona. No. 77, issued for 5 shares to Jam...

Issued at the height of the Yukon Gold Rush. Inc. in New Jersey. No. 272, issued for 60 shares to E. Addie Engle on March 15th, 1898 in Philadelphia.

The National Tribune Library. Vol. !. September 18, 1897. Published Weekly. Special Klondike Gold Rush issue is written by Byron Andrews. 32pp. Disbou

3 postcards, 1 is RPC of Alaskan hydraulic mining. Date: Location: Alaska HWAC# 64276

Lot of 5. 1) Treadwell Mines, Douglas Island. No postmark. No photographer identified. 2) Gold Mining, Thawing by steam points. Postmarked 1913. Publi

Issued at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Inc. in New York. No. 47, issued for 1 share to William Mason on August 13th, 1897. Signed by presiden

Extra rare, one of the first five stock certificates issued. Included is a brochure about the Meteor Crater of Arizona. Certificate issued January 27,

1) Leadville Mining Company. Owned the Leadville group which included the Maid of Sunshine and King Solomon mines. Ore was near 4% copper. The company

Lot of 3. Located in Huachuca Mountains. Mostly copper and silver. 1) Two certificates for the Hartford Mining Corporation. One Common, one Preferred.

Lot of 2. 1) Huachuca Consolidated Development Company. No. 143, issued for 50 shares to Marion McLain. Signed by president Jas. Wood and secretary Ha

Middle Pass mining district, Cochise County. Lot of 2 different. 1) No. 2035, issued for 100 shares in 1901 to William Crockard. Signed by Frank Croc

Lot of 6 from 5 different districts. 1) San Simon Copper Company. Paradise. No. A94, issued for 25 shares in 1907. Not cancelled. Folds. 2) The Silver

1) Cochise Consolidated Copper Company. No. 1332, issued for 1,000 shares in 1905. Not cancelled. Multiple mining vignettes. Folds, repaired separatio

1) Anita Copper Company. No. 834, issued for 50 shares in 1906. Signed by vice-president A.N. White and secretary H.I. Nesmith. Not cancelled. Has a m

1) Cracker Jack Mining Company. Green Valley. Issued 1907, not cancelled, mining vignettes. Folds. 2) American Mines Development Co., Ltd. Issued in

Location: Globe District, Pinal Co. Arizona (printed upper left). Inc. Oct. 1877. Dateline San Francisco, Oct. 8th, 1879. No. 671, issued for 1,000 sh

Lot of 6 different. Included: White Star Consolidated Mining Co. (1894, not cxl); Iron Hill Copper Co. (1906, not cxl., three mining vignettes); Warri

3 rare certificates. Gold Cliff Mining and Reduction Co. of Arizona I/U 1897 to Stephen Parrish #101 for 500 shares, #105 for 1000 shares, and #167 fo

Cave Creek Mining District, Maricopa, Arizona. Inc. in New York. No. 1556, issued for 100 shares to George Pike on March 7, 1887. Signed by president

I/U to FM Curtis #3357 100 shares. 6.75" x 11.25" "The company owned the Vulture mine located 14 miles by road from Wickenburg at the...

Round brass 39mm equipment tag. Bottom is kinked. Date: Location: Miami, Arizona HWAC# 64511

Lot of 2 early real photo postcards. 1) Birdseye View of the town. 2) Image of the Concentrator in the mining area of Miami. There is no photographer

Lot of 12 different. Included: Hualapai Mining Co. (1911, not cancelled); El Dorado Empire Mining Co. (1908, not cancelled, mining vignettes, Gold Ba

Location printed in the upper right: Owen Mining District, Mohave Co., Arizona. No. 1029, issued for 100 shares to H. Aug. Whiting, company secretary,

Mineral Park Mining District, Mohave, Arizona. This is not only a key Arizona Mine, but it is extra rare. And this certificate is in great condition!

Very rare and early. "Wauba Yuma District" printed under title. Incorporated in Pennsylvania. No. 33, issued for 5,000 shares to Joseph J....

1) Two issued certificates for the Gold Bug Mining Company of Arizona. Both issued in 1907: one to George Saunders for 20,000 shares and the other to

Lot of 5 different. 1) The Continental Exploration Company. Ni. 175, issued for 500 shares in 1906. Not cancelled. Eagle vignette. Staple holes, folds

Lot of 11. Eleven different districts represented! Included: Arizona Gold-Copper MC (1902, Tyndall, mining vignettes, i/u); Liberty Consolidated Minin

Mines Situated in Myers District, Pima Co., Arizona Territory (printed under vignette). Incorporated in 1881 in New Jersey as the Silver King Gold and

Very rare. Baboquivari Mining District, Pima County. Inc. in Iowa. No. 1085, issued for 500 shares to W.F. Witherell on Sept. 20th, 1880. Signed by