Wigwam Auction--March 2019

1. Westend, Angora & Park Passenger Railway Co., I/C, #149 for 3 shares @ $50 par, issued July 19, 1879 for Nathan J. Campion. Signed by presi...

1. The Wilmington and Northern RailRoad Co. I/C, #64 for 2 shares @ $50 par issued April 2, 1877 to William Betts, signed Robert Frazer President. Bl

#340 i/c. 5% 50 yr First Mortgage Gold Bearer Coupon Bond, issued June 1, 1892. President signature obscured. Green vertical format, embossed corp se

#2435 $100 7% 32 year bearer bond issued March 1 1870 signed by Hugh Estule President, black, embossed seal, 100 red underprint, four vignettes: Pen

Chartered in 1863 and Consolidated in 1866. # 183. Second Mortgage bond 7% 32 year bearer bond. Issued March 1, 1870. Black border, large format,

I/C 355 for 20 shares @ $50 par, issued to Daniel Sourbeck July 11. 1872. Signed Jonah Woodruff, President. Black, embossed seal w/cherub vignettes o

$1,000 Dallas Consolidated Traction Railway Company Trustee Certificate, 1st Consolidated Mortgage 30-year 6% Gold Bond cert # 1003 with 57 coupons.

1 cancelled share at $100 of Ft. Worth and Denver South Plains Railway Co. cert. #9 issued to T. B. Yarbrough on Nov 14, 1927. Assigned Nov 21, 1927

1 cancelled share on Apr 22, 1901 @$100 each issued to Lee Higginson and Co. issued May, 1899. Signed by Geo Shrona, secy. and D. B. Nielen VP. Gra

1) 1 share at $100 for Fort Worth & Denver Terminal Railway Company cert #61 issued to T. B. Yarbrough on May 19, 1921. Assigned to John N. Spa...

1 cancelled share of Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway Company cert. # 519 issued to E. N. Brown issued Dec 4, 1919. Assigned. Signed by J. A. H...

2 Certificate of One Obligation of $100. 1) 18 coupons @ $100 each cert. # 12579 include $40 "share to bearer" bond. One side is print...

Galveston Houston and Henderson Rail Road Co. bonds with 39 coupons. Blue company seal. Vignette of railroad traveling along flat land behind trees.

$100 1st Mortgage 8% Bond Trustee Certificate #1 with 36 coupons of Georgetown Rail Road Co. principal due July 1, 1898. Signed by M. E. Steele, t

$100 certificate of Stock for Georgetown Railroad Company, cert. #1 issued to Rucker Hodges on Aug 19, 1878. Assigned. Signed by Moses. E. Steele, S

13 cancelled shares @ $100 each of International Railroad Co cert. 22 issued to Harry Marquand in Nov, 1871. Assigned Nov, 1871. Orange border, gr

2 shares of stock @ $100 each for Deep Creek Railroad Company, an extra rare Nevada Railroad. Grey border with gold company seal. Inc. UT. Vignette

1,000 cancelled (Nov 26, 1926) shares @ $100 each of Eureka Nevada Railway Company cert. # 28 issued to Edward H. Watson and John H. Sherburne, dated

1. Winchester & Wardensville Railroad Co. I/U #140 $50 5% First Mortgage, 30 yr gold bearer bond due 1960, Issued Jan. 1, 1930, signed Hubert S...

5 Western railroad stocks. I/C National Coal Railway 1927, I/U Arizona and Swansea Railroad 1931, I/C Utah Railway 1946, 2 different Western Pacific R

Unissued 8% 10 yr First Mortgage bearer bond. Odd number and "$" amount. 185_ printed, black, vignette 4-4-0 loco and passenger cares...

Four bonds: Two green $100, one brown $500 and one orange $1000. All the bonds : 5 1/2 % , 20 year, First Mortgage Gold bearer bonds, issued July 1. 1

1. Wisconsin Western Railroad, I/C #1 for 1 share @ $100 par issued Nov. 3, 1899 to Horace A. J.Wibarn (?) also president, signed. Black, no vigne

1 - stock certificate and 1 bond for Denver, Laramie & Northwestern Railroad Co. located Denver, CO.: 1) 10 shares stock of Denver, Laramie &...

3 certificates of stock for Denver & Rio Grande Spoorweg-Maatschappi stock from Amsterdam. Cert # 2707 Preferred stock issued Dec 10, 1907 wi...

8 red L 100 5% Hukuang Railways Sinking Fund Gold Loan of 1911. First Series for L 6,000,000 Sterling. Edge wear Date: 1911 City/County: State: z

4 green L20 Imperial Chinese Government 5% Hukuang Railways Sinking Fund Gold Loan of 1911, First Series for L6,000,000 Sterling Date: 1911 City/Co

Approx 40 red 100 pound bonds issued 1911. 5% Hukuang Railways Sinking Fund Gold Loan of 1911. Some edge wear and small tears. Issuing Bank: HongKong

Founder's Share. Certificate #2, 1 - $100 share Cptl. Stock. Cancelled. Green. Issued to company President Hale Holden. Issue receipt affixed...

Logging Along the Denver and Rio Grande, Tracking Ghost Railroads in Colorado, South Park Line Annual #12, Short Line to Cripple Creek, Colorado Rail

Approx 80 Great Northern Railway Journals Date: c 1973-95 City/County: State:

1001pp plus advertisements .Cover is mostly detached. Spine has damage. Date: City/County: State:

By Henry Poor. 907pp. Date: City/County: State:

By Henry Poor, cover and spine are detaching. 1055pp. Date: City/County: State:

By Henry Poor. Date: City/County: State:

By Henry Poor, 1439 pages, spine and rear cover are detached. Date: City/County: State:

By Henry Poor 1232 pages, front and rear covers are detaching. Date: City/County: State:

By Henry Poor. Cover is detached from spine in front. Date: City/County: State:

By Henry Poor, front cover and spine are detached. 1492pp. Date: City/County: State:

By Henry Poor, front cover and spine are detaching. 1562pp. Date: City/County: State:

Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow by Brown; Southern pacific by Wilson; Early American Steam Locomotives by Kinert. All books in good shape with dust co

Rip Van Winkle Railroads-ripped dust jacket, Railroad Names, Burlington Northern 1973 Annual, Chasing Trains, signed by Richardson Date: City/Count

Two albums containing 79 photos of railroad engines, all about 3 x 5" or less. The photos are all pre-WW2, most clearly shot by a RR fanatic ...

Hardcover 262pp. Allied Telegraph Cipher with interesting code words. The purpose of this book was to maintain secrecy in transmitted messages and bre

Railway Express Agy. / 119 / Police. Six pointed star. Two and a half inches tall. Possible repro. Salvatore Falcone Collection. Date: City/County

Six Southern Pacific Company Railroad lamps with globes. All but one marked with embossed tops, four small lettering and one large lettering. One lamp

Framed photo of a SP RR conductor. Frame 23.5x13" Date: City/County: State:

4 hardcovers. Pacific Slope Railroads by Abdill1. 959 181pp, Henry Huntington and the Pacific Electric by Crump, 112pp. California Railroads by Fickew

Rare and rebound. Library copy. A Catalogue of Engraved Gems in the British Museum. 244pp with index, plus plates. Mackie Collection Date: 1888 City

Magazines & catalogs of Rocks, Minerals & Mining journals, gems & gemology. Interesting lot. Approx. 40 magazines & journals. Date...

28 trilobite fossils gathered in Utah. 1 still in rock. Nice examples from .6-2.25". Trilobites went extinct about 250 million years ago and mo...

This fossil is millions of years old. 7.5" x 5" Diplomystus is an extinct genus of freshwater clupeomorph fish distantly related to modern...

Unusual colored picture rock slice with roadrunner or lizard image in lower right. Beep Beep! 6.5x9" Date: City/County: Fallon State: Nevada

Drill core with crystalline calcite in vein, RMC-69, down-hole depth 546. 4 ft. 2.5" diameter. 4" long. (This specimen was found at the mi...

# 115 for 5 shares to AP Bouton. SInged by Robert T Polk and president MA Braly. Dateline San Francisco 1863. Incorporated May 1863. Revenue stamp on

Beautiful. Drill core with crystalline barite in vug, RL-264, down-hole depth 833.3 ft. 2.5" diameter. 8.5" long. (This specimen was found...

Clay altered rhyolite with marcasite ± barite-clay-gold mineralization on fractures. 4x6x4.5". Field Guide: staff. (This specimen was foun...

Probably Landside blocks containg banded potassium alunite-KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6-vein material very similar to that found on Alunite Ridge. 4.5x8.5"....

High grade specimen from Deer Trail Mine, UT. 4x2.75" Date: City/County: State: Utah

Base metal ore sample with locally complex mineralogy, note galena in vugs & fractures. 4x2.5x2". (This specimen was found at the mine by a...

Rare 2 cancelled stock certificates for Colombia Emerald Development Corp. 1) 100 shares, cert # J2907 issued, countersigned and registered to Herma

Eighteen specimens, all about four inches square from numerous locales. Several are particularly nice, some containing other minor minerals. Crystal

Legal cover sent by Wells Fargo Express from San Francisco to Nevada City. Addressed to renowned gold geologist Fred Searles, the first geologist for

These tools are unknown for their use. One end is pointed and tapered, interlocked to wood or the ground. One is wound with typical Chinese red chord.

Large cast-iron artifact from major stamp mill recovered from an Etowah River mine site near Dahlonega, Georgia. Mines on the river generally existed

Here is something special. Very early, triple flavored canteen, that held three different liquids !! Appears to be made of steel, but lead coated, to

Wood from Cave Mine beam with 1879 written in 2.5" pencil. 8.75x7" Date: City/County: Cave Mine State: Utah

2 choice giant wood axe heads, approx 8x12", rusty. Wood box end fragment addressed to Frisco Mining and Smelting Mining Co/Cave Mine 3.5x14&qu...

6 wooden rectangles ilkely made from box ends, used to keep track of loads of ore going out of the mines. 1 is an explosives box fragment. Found in a

Items recovered from Utah underground mines. Car labels for ore cart loads, carved wood labels for ore cart loads, wedges with sketches of timber plan

Old and nicely patinated copper 15.5" gold pan. Wigwam Collection Date: City/County: State:

Classic red tin by Leidersdorf Co. 6.5x5". Bottom and interior rust. Date: City/County: State:

Three miner's personal effects baskets by three different manufacturers. One with a brass company tag, two without, and one with a rusted out ho...

2 metal candle Holders used in mines in the 1800's. Approx. 10" length. Date: c1800's City/County: State:

Black painted miner's lunch pail with missing cup and Union Carbide miners lamp tin-dents and some rust Date: City/County: State:

Mostly rusty collection of mining antiquities found in UT mines. Cast iron horse, clamp, lunch pail, brass candle holder, web belt, red high voltage s

Model M402 methanometer in box with instructions. Date: City/County: State:

John Chatillon brass laundry scale-front dents. RR and Simmons locks-corroded. Unmarked brass tool with lever, perhaps for crimping? 13.5" Dat...

3 brown Skullgard hardhats. 2 with webbing, used condition Date: City/County: State:

Three vintage thermometers for measuring temperature in pipes, etc. 1)Tel-Thru, 5" x 12"; 2) Consolidated Ashcroft Hancock Co. Inc. /Brid...

Canvas assay bag, Pueblo Brand 50 lbs. 14.5x11.75" Date: City/County: Denver State: Colorado

For 125 pounds from the Eureka Mill. Bullion to be delivered to the Bank of California. J. B. Winters listed as superintendent in fancy script. The Wi

Fred Holabird exclaimed, " This is a collection I never thought I'd see". A fine collection of assay crucibles collected from around ...

Denver Fire Clay Co-3" tear and light stains. Case Muffler Type Assay Furnace sell sheet-corner damage Date: City/County: State:

Hardcovers. Minerals of California Bulletin 113 by State Division of Mines, Minerals of California Centennial Volume 1866-1966 Bulletin 189 by Divisio

Hard covers. The Gold Rushes by May. The Old West Sourcebook, A Travelers Guide by Lawliss. Ghost Towns of the Old West by Florin. The Settlers West b

The History of the San Francisco Stock Exchange by Joseph l. King 1910. Chronicling the boom of the Comstock during the 1870s and 1880s as it related

Softcover UNR Bulletin, October 1948 Vol.XLII, A contribution to the Published Information on the Geology and Ore Deposits of Goldfield, Nevada by Sea

Rare 30pp booklet about a body that turned up in the Sutro Tunnel Sump. By Sam Davis, no date Date: City/County: Virginia City State: Nevada

Seems to be an 1872 abstract authorized by John Mackey and James Fair in 1872 when they formed the Silver Hill Mining Company. The Lucerne Mine formed

History of Mineral Collecting by Wilson. The Opening Of the West booklet. Rocks and Minerals in Color by Fortey. Mining History in America. Mines of t

A Very Rare copy of the 1906 reference book by D. Houston and Co. on the properties of Copper. Excellent shape . Referencing “Copper Mines, Copper Sta

15 volumes including Rogers Machinist Guide by Rogers, Audels Wiring Diagrams by E.P. Anderson; Pocket Companions from Carnegie Steel. Two Volumes I.C

Nine different works on various aspects of mining metallurgy. Includes handbook of mineral dressing by Taggart, manual of flotation processes, nonferr

Eight books: "Soils and Soil Engineering," "Mining Methods and Equipment," "Surveying," "Industrial Minerals and ...

Prospecting for Uranium by USGS 128pp plus plates. Small b/w photos of a young man using an early style Geiger Counter, Round Mt. placer mining etc.

Screen Scale Sieves made to a fixed ratio by Disbro, Testing Sieves by WS Tyler Date: City/County: State:

Hardcover "How and Where to Find Them". 211pp with index plus ads. Foxing. Date: 1901 City/County: State:

Rare Bacon Mill 1872 to J Fair and signed by J Fair on front and rear. Large stain Date: 1872 City/County: Virginia City State: Nevada

2 RN imprinted check from Woodworth Mill to Devil's Gate Toll Road and Wells Fargo signed by James Fair Date: 1872-1875 City/County: Virgi...