Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

Lot of 8: 1) silver and argentite from El Bote` Mine, 245.3 grams; 2) silver and silver pyrite from Fresnillo, 61.6 grams; 3) Argentite, Fresnillo, 12

This 1.25" x 1.75" x 0.25" mineral sample features fine gold figuring and was mined in Mariposa, CA. City: Mariposa County State:...

This is a fine sample of gold quartz from Fred Willoughby manager of the Midnight Mine in Aspen, Colorado. The rock measures 3.5”x 2.5” and is in a di

Student's Collection of Twenty Minerals, Ores, and Petrifactions Collected from the Mines, Mountains, and Gorges of Colorado. Each Specimen Corr...

Lot of 14 samples from various mining operations. Included are quartz from the Mad Mutha Mine, The 10 Mile District, Stonehouse, The Sleeper Mine, Gol

Quartz showing pyrite and other sulfides. One piece with native gold in the form of a small wire in tiny quartz crystals. City: Rawhide Sta

1-2) High grade Bullfrog gold ore. 79.2g, no label but probably Montgomery Shoshone. possibly an early collected sample. and 33.3 grams, another high

Lot of 4 gold samples from Round Mountain area. Included are an 0.3 troy oz. of gold, 13 small samples of gold ore from Round Mountain Mining Co. Prop

Original Great West Plug Tobacco Tin made by Empire Tobacco Co. with a Wells Fargo San Francisco label on the front used possibly as a shipping label.

Peacock Ore, also known as Bornite, is a copper mineral sometimes mined in Mexico. This stone was mined in Mexico at a mine in Cosalia in 1965 Known

Fabulous color map published January 1898 (during the Alaska Gold Rush). "The Gold and Coal Fields of Alaska Together with the Principal Steame...

Very rare scene! Nine miners pose for a photograph next to two crude rockers and a mammoth tusk! Snow on the ground behind them. Placer miners in Alas

Soft brown cover with black ink engraving of miner panning for gold. (6" x 4") 9 pp. first page: The purpose of the Golden Clean-up Editio...

10 x 57" panorama of Dawson City and surrounds, about 1920. Sheelor Photo. Generally very fine. Metal frame. City: Dawson State: Alaska

B&W period photo of gold mining in Alaska. This is a mammoth plate photograph, very rare. It measures 13"x10.7. Clarity & contrast are ...

Cert. #784 issued to E.T. Kurtz in 1903 for 5000 shares of the Rampart City Gold Mines Company, Rampart, Alaska. Signed by Tho. J. Gillespie as presid

Cert. #5181, issued to M.T. Jarrett for 1 share in 1905. Inc. in South Dakota. Mines near Wrangel, Alaska on the masthead. Signed as president by Harr

Lot of twenty-one. Inside and out, below and above, the Glory Hole and the mill. Cards published by Case & Draper, Winter & Pond, Lowman &am...

Lot of twenty-six. Includes miners on snow, pack trains, gold washing, pack trains in the snow, dredging for gold, sluicing, gold bars, gold bars at P

42 postcards: 6 old and 11 newer. Most c1920's-1940's. Dredging, nuggets, Soapy Smith, Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co., Chilkot Pass, logging ...

Photo album put together by James S. Wyatt of Sausalito, California of western travels--Alaska (mostly) to Mexico, and family from the early 1900...

Group of documents including a prospectus from the Leontina Development Company. Properties were in the Big Bug and Black Hills districts, Yavapai Cou

Cochise Development Company 2) ,Santa Rosalia Gold Mines Company, Bisbee Copper Mining and Developmeny Cp., Cadena de Cobre Mining Co., City:

Very late certificate # 4528 issued for 100 shares to Robert Young City: Dripping Springs State: Arizona, Date: 1922 FHWAC#:

Copper Emperor Mining Company cert. # 91 for 50 shares issued to Geo J Wenck. Excellent condition City: Globe State: Arizona, Date:

When Copper was King. Cordova Copper Company, The Pinal Mountain Copper Company, Limited, The Uneda Mining Company, Cactus Copper Company, Southwest

White Star Consolidated Mining Company cert. # 210 for 750 shares issued to Carrie A Sawyer. Sioux Gold Mining Company cert. # 130 for 2,000 shares i

Silver Nugget Mining Company. Two certificates. Green cert. issued to M L Earle, Brown cert. issued to J G Sands. City: Maricopa State:

Unissued certificate # 2471 of the Salero Mining & Manuf'y Company, Arivica, c.1875. This is one of the most famous of all Arizona stocks, w...

1,000 share certificate of The Arizona Giant Copper Mining Co. Number 254 issued to John S Cary. Perfect condition. City: Pinal Coounty

Progress proof on India paper. Title and date written in by hand. Vignettes of cattle drovers and a vertical mine shaft. There is a Santa Rita Lands a

Manager's (stock) reports, newsletters, letters, receipts, brochures with original covers. Some very fragile. Several letters from F. Ellswor...

By William P. Blake. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers, New Haven. Red hardcover. 47 pages, though pages 25-28, 31-32, and 41-47 are missing....

According to Langley's directories, Andrew B. Forbes also worked with Wells Fargo, Pacific Steamship Co., and Mutual Life Insurance Co.. He arri...

Central Arizona Mining Company cert. # 5000 for 100 shares issued to R Baudoin. This is one of the most famous mines in Arizona, named after several s

The Union Oil & Gasoline Company cert. # 165 for 3,000 shares issued to Thomas Williams. Believed to be the founder of Williams Arizona where o...

Certificate # 663 for 80 shares issued to Almira E Jobson and signed by H Holland & G Angell. Wonderful condition. Classic quality vignette stoc...

The Copper Belt Mining Company. From the Black Hills, Yavapai County, Arizona. Cert. #138 for 100 shares issued to Leyman J Baskin trustee for E J Ba

1) Consumption Copper Company.. Early number 10 to 50,000 shares To H. L. Boyd. Signed by president Judson Elliot and secretary Loyd Elliott. 1917. Vi

John H. Holtkamp was the holder of 400 shares of The Big Revenue Gold Bullion Mining Company stock via cert. # 951. Signed by Williamson & Grass...

William H Crocker was holder of 100 shares of the King Edward Silver Mines. Cert. # A5696 City: State: Arizona, Date: 1910

Mounted photo of a mining camp baseball team posing with a few bats, gloves and balls with an open pit copper mine in the background. No location note

Five certificates. The Cold Springs Quartz & Channel MIning Company, The Prospectors Gold Mines Company, Werdenhoff Mining & Milling Company...

Two fancy black cast iron corporate seal devices with the brass seals. Elzo Mining Co., 1936, Arivaca (Garbani); Hunker Ledge Mining Co., Prescott (Ga

Typewritten letter from one Wall Street firm to another asking for payment with enclosed stock certificate in the gold mine from Alleghany in Sierra C

125 pieces in this massive archive. Includes D. D. Demarest foundry and Altaville foundry. Work was done for the Thorpe, Utica, Madison, and Stickler

Cert. #41, issued to Archibald B. McCaw for 250 shares at New York in 1891. Signed by J.S. Cameron as president and William C. Simpson as secretary an

Cert. #30, issued to C.B. Rice for 200 shares at Chicago, Illinois in 1881. The Keystone Mine is one of the most famous and prolific producing mines o

400+ pieces. Many, many different billheads. This is the story of a company designed to support the Utica and other mines! Please inspect in person to

Letters and estimates from various mines, many to or from Angels Iron Works. City: Angels Camp State: California, Date: 1907/22