Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

Lot of 70+ pieces. Includes Western Union Telegraph receipts written in code! Perhaps you can decipher "Haunted cavern axle fin." Many pie...

Lot of five checks where five different mining superintendents are paying themselves. 1) Agency of the Bank of California. Dec. 22, 1870. John W. Mack

Various accounts payable, vouchers/receipts for supplies, transportation of merchandise, payroll, etc. Heavy soiling. City: Virginia City S

Agency of The Bank of California, Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company. July 3rd, 1874. Rare "buff" RN-D with James G. Fair's signa...

Bank of California, RN-B17c. Virginia, Dec. 17, 1869. Issued to Parke & Douglass for $6,324.35. Signed by Issac Requa as superintendent. Cut can...

No. 7747. Agency of The Bank of California, Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company. Virginia, May 3, 1870. RN-B and imprinted NV 2 cent on left ed...

Lot of nine Gould & Curry, Bank of California checks made out to Irish miners. All are from 1866, signed by Louis Janin Jr. as superintendent, a...

Inc. 1866. Issued to Alphonso Thill for 25 shares on Nov. 5th, 1868 in Philadelphia office. Three blue ten-cent revenue stamps lined up next to each o

Spectacular! Grafton Tyler Brown & Co. Map of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe Mining Claims in Storey & Lyon Counties, Nevada. Compiled fro...

Clean Pacific Mill and Mining Company check issued for $4,120 to California Mill Sluice on July 1, 1876. RN-G. Signed by James G. Fair. While payments

1873. Extremely rare certificate from the famous Comstock mine of Gould & Curry, with the signature of J.C. Flood. Flood was a Comstock financie...

A rarer variety of Gould & Curry check with the revenue imprint (RN-D) higher up on the check. August 10, 1875. Pay to the Virginia & Trucke...

Dateline Virginia, Dec. 28, 1872. Pay to Albert Lackey $250. RN-B. Signed by R.N. Graves a superintendent. Robert N. Graves was once superintendent of

Dateline Virginia, Nev. Dec. 5th, 1879. RN-G. Issued to Fred Boegle (noted Comstock printer). Signed by W.H. Patton as superintendent. Enterprise Prin

Lot of 12. 1) Gould & Curry Assay Office receipt, 1866, for 3 sacks bullion deposited by the Savage Mill. 2) Four different RN checks: 1876, RN-...

Lot of 38. Includes: 3 RN-G Wells Fargo, 1879, Gillette as supt.; 7 unused RN-G, Bank of California, 1876; 24 Bank of California, no RN, 1897-98, sign

Agency of The Bank of California, Savage Mining Company check, Virginia, Nev., Sept. 7th, 1897. Issued to noted Virginia City druggist A.M. Cole for $

1) Receipt , Sutro, NV. 1883 from Savage Mining Co. (Virginia City, NV) The Savage Mine in Virginia City, Nevada was an early and significant mine in

Lot of 36. Four superintendents are represented: Charles Bonner (1868), F.F. Osbiston (1876), A.C. Hamilton (1874) and T.B. Shamp (1869). There is als

Rare! California Steam Navigation Company, Steamer Yosemite, receipt of freight (600 boxes) transported for the Savage Mining Company of Virginia City