2019 December Auction

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2116 Silver Mountain, California 1863 “The Pearl” Gold & Lot#2119 Silver Mountain, Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate, Silver Mountain, 1863 ”Silver California 1865 Lady Franklin Mountain” Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock printed on Certificate Inc. April 16th, 1863. the bottom Silver Mountain Dist., California of the stock. (printed under title). No. 190, Inc. three issued for 3 shares to John Pardsley mo nth s on June 2nd, 1865 in San Francisco. before in Signed by president Joseph O’Neill and the secretary. Not cancelled. 1863. No. Black ornate border and print. Vignette of well-dressed lady. Printed 51, issued by Dronaillet, SF. One 25 cent adhesive IR stamp attached at bottom for 10 shares right. Deep folds with other light wear. 5.25 x 9.75” Lady Jane Franklin to Frank was the wife of the English explorer who discovered the Northwest Cooper Passage. The Lady Franklin was located in Scandinavian Canyon and on Sept. may have been worked as early as 1858. Was in the same vicinity as 28th, 1863. the Buckeye No. 1 and 2, IXL and Exchequer. The newspaper noted the Signed by Lady Franklin mine was the first patent application made in Alpine J.O. Eldrige, president, and James C. Dayley, secretary. Not cancelled. (1872 Nov. 30 Chron). Est. $400-600 HWAC# 107717 Vignette of young woman (top center) and man with fancy hat (top left). Printed by Waters Brothers & Co. One 25 cent adhesive revenue Lot#2120 Silver Mountain, stamp at bottom left. Folds. Very fine. 5.25 x 9.5” The Silver Mountain California 1863 McGregor Gold camp was probably discovered in the late 1850’s but no intense & Silver Mining Company Stock activity until 1863. (Ref. Holabird Americana Auction 11 Part I, Certificate Gorgeous and very rare. May 2001, item # 207). James O. Eldridge is listed in Langley’s San Location printed on certificate: Francisco Directory for 1865 (p. 166 & 366) as working for the firm of Forest Queen Lode, Silver Mountain H. M. Newhall & Co., auction and commission merchants. The firm was District, California. Inc. July 28, located on the SW corner of Sansome and Halleck Streets. He was also 1863. No. 15, issued for 25 shares to identified as President of the S. F. and San Jose R. R. Co. James C. Dayley Chas. Bailey on Dec. 26th, 1863. Signed by Josiah Hewes as president is also listed in the same directory (p. 145) as a mining secretary and the secretary (illegible). Not cancelled. Ornate black border and at 338 Montgomery and residing in Oakland. Frank Cooper was a print. Red underprint. Vignette of paddle steamer. No printed listed. partner in Stroebel, Fleig & Co. a meat market and pork packer at 1129 25 cent adhesive stamp at left. Folds, pinholes. Very fine. 5 x 10.25” Folsom. Cooper was one of the original Commissioners charged with Not in Filer. No additional information found on CDNC. Est. $400-600 designating the election precincts in newly-formed Alpine Co. [Thank HWAC# 107724 you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book “Silver Lot#2121 Silver Mountain, California 1864 Saginaw Consolidated Mountain City” (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 100987 Gold & Silver Mining Co. Lot#2117 Silver Mountain, Stock Certificate California 1863 Crinoline Gold Very attractive & Silver Mining Company Stock certificate from the Certificate ”Silver Mountain Raymond District of Alpine County. District, Amador County, Cal.” The certificate printed at bottom center. Inc. Sept. identifies the 1863. No. 101, issued for 5 shares mining location as to Jas. M. Connell on Sept. 26th, Raymond District, 1863 in San Francisco. Signed by president IB Purdy and secretary Amador County Thomas Owens. Not cancelled. Black border and print, vignettes of (printed along the man looking down at mine and and eagle on shield. Printed by Water top), but this was right about the time this area of Amador County Brothers & Co. 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp attached on the left. became part of Alpine County. Very low certificate No. 5, issued for 80 Folds, creases, heavy toning and some soiling. Wear to edges. 5.5 x shares to Thomas Dillon on May 10th, 1864 in San Francisco. Signed 10” The Crinoline Company patented their property. Located on the Crinoline Lode. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 107710 by Stephen Otis as president and William Smith as secretary. Not cancelled. The certificate incorporates an ingot design for the number Lot#2118 Silver Mountain, of shares and the share certificate number, complete with assay chips California 1864 Granite State in the ingot corners. Very rare style! Ornate logo and small eagle Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock vignette. Printed by Boswell & Co., SF. Two adhesive revenue stamps Certificate Silver Mountain District, (20 and 5 cent) attached at left. Folds, pinholes, some staining. 5.25 x Amador County, Cal. (printed along 9.25” The Raymond District was formed in late 1863. It was half-way the top). Inc. April 1864. Low No. 6, between Silver Mountain and Markleeville. The Saginaw was just a issued for 25 shares to John Dillon prospect, with little long-term stability. The 1866 report of the district on May 10th, 1864 in San Francisco. by state assessor S.A. Hawkins mentions two active mines in this Signed by president Stephen district (Illinois-California and General Grant), but not the Saginaw. Otis and secretary William Smith (same officers as the Saginaw A.C. Perkins was a carpenter, then clerk, and finally mining speculator Consolidated). Not cancelled. Ornate border and design incorporating in SF (according to Langley Directories). Stephen Otis is listed as a real ingot vignettes. Printed by Boswell & Co. One 5 cent stamp attached estate agent and stock speculator working for Farnum in SF. William at left (20 cent missing?). Pinholes, folds. 5.25 x 9.25” Rare. Est. $400- Smith was a mining and petroleum investor in SF. Est. $400-600 600 HWAC# 107728 HWAC# 107726 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 99

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2122 Silver Mountain, Lot#2126 Silver Mountain, Silver California 1863 Scandinavian Mountain District, California Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock 1863 Occidental Gold and Silver Certificate Silver Mountain District, Mining Company Stock - Mines Amador County, Cal. (printed at Located in Mono County? # 226 upper right). Inc. May 1863. No. for 5 shares to GE Walker. Signed by 112, issued for five shares to B. James Gage and president Leedham. Curran on Oct. 19th, 1863 in San Dateline San Francisco 1863. Francisco. Signed by president Thomas Bridges and secretary James Incorporated December 5, 1862. 25c Warehouse revenue stamp. Not Dayley. Not cancelled. Ornate black border and print, red underprint, cancelled. Eagle and shield vignette. Britton & Co printer. Small edge and paddle steamer vignette (plus two smaller vignettes). No printer issues lower right and upper left. Dog ear upper right. The Occidental listed. 25 cent adhesive stamp attached at left. Folds, creases, toning, had a tunnel in Silver Mountain Mining District in 1863 100 yards and soiling. 5.25 x 10.25” B. Curran is listed as a merchant tailor in the west of James E. White’s claim. Stock certificate says, “Located on the 1863 SF Directory. Neither Bridges or Dayley are listed. Not in Filer. Emma Frances Lode, Silver Mountain District, Mono County!” [Thank We have not sold this before! Scandinavian Canyon was a location at you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book “Silver Silver Mountain. Silver Mountain was a western mining camp with a Mountain City” (Clairitage Press) for background information on the rare Scandinavian influx. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 107725 mine and signatures.] Est. $400-600 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 80340 Lot#2123 Silver Mountain, Lot#2127 Sonoma, California 1863 California 1865 The People’s Sonoma County Coal Mining Gold & Silver Mining Company, Stock Very Rare. I/U #210 JD Monitor District, Amador County Fowler 1 share 1863. Signed by Number 1587 for two shares to president Tustin. Toning Est. $400- Rosa A. Heammony. Datelined San 600 HWAC# 108185 Francisco June 30, 1865. Signed by secretary Herb Reau and president Lot#2128 J. Patter. Incorporated in December Sonoma County, California 1864 Woodstock of 1863. Not cancelled. 25c Power of Atty Revenue Stamp. Crude Copper, Gold & Silver Mining vignette of very early steam engine. Location at “Monitor District, Co. Stock Certificate Location Amador Co., California.” No printer. Good condition. Shares are $5 Each. “Fully Paid Stock Unassessable” stamp on stock. Est. $400-600 printed on stock: Blue Buck Ledge, HWAC# 108000 Healdsburg. According to Sonoma Democrat articles in July 1864, the Lot#2124 Silver Mountain Eureka, property was in the Derrick District of Sonoma County. Inc. Sept. California 1863 Eureka Gold & 1863. No. 205, issued for 20 shares to J.G.McManus on July 7th, 1864. Silver Mining Company Stock No. Signed by president H.M. Willson and secretary Joseph Albertson. 45 for 10 shares to Frank Cooper. Not cancelled. Blue border and print, pink background. Allegorical Signed by JW Clark and FJ Owens(?). vignette of woman on buck. Printed by Towne & Bacon, SF. 4 x 9.25” Dateline San Francisco August 19th, Deep folds with a few tiny tears. 25 cent adhesive IR stamps on front 1863. Incorporated August 3, 1863. and reverse. Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. Est. $400-600 Ken Prag California seal vignette. No printer. Collection HWAC# 101498 25c Protest revenue stamp. Location of mine; Silver Mountain District, Lot#2129 Sonoma County, Russian Amador County, Cal. Not cancelled. No pin hole, edge, corner or River District, California 1864 Olive discoloration issues. A claim identified as being in the Silver Mountain Copper, Gold, Silver Mining & Mining District in 1864 [per Calif. Division of Mines & Geology listing in Tunneling Co. Stock Certificate “Mines and Mineral Resources of Alpine County” by William B. Clark]. Olive, Ben Franklin, Lady Franklin, Frank Cooper was one of the original Commissioners charged with and Lady Washington Ledges, designating the election precincts in newly-formed Alpine Co. (1864 Russian River District, Sonoma “Alpine County Bill”; see 1864 Aug 11; see also Board of Supervisors County (printed at left). Inc. Fenruary 10, 1864. Dateline Windsor, Minutes, Book “A”, page 1; and see text of “Alpine County Bill” printed Sonoma Co., Cal., March 5th, 1864. No. 55, issued to A.C. Bledsoe in 1864 July 30 MG). [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian for 20 shares. Signed by president Thompson and secretary AJ and author of the book “Silver Mountain City” (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Est. $400-500 Meathersead(?). Not cancelled. Black border and print, small eagle HWAC# 106536 vignette. Printed by Sonoma Democrat print. One 25 cent adhesive IR stamp attached on the left. Folds with tape repairs, other nicks and Lot#2125 Silver Mountain, Silver light wear. 4 x 9” A July 9th, 1864 Sonoma Democrat article reports Mountain District, California 1863 the mine is situated on the west side of the Russian River, 6 miles from McGregor Gold and Silver Mining Windsor. A shaft is currently 55 feet deep, with the plan to sink it to 300 Company Location: Forest Queen ft. and connect with a tunnel. The ledge is 6 ft. thick, containing green Lode. Not listed in Dustman. # 50 carbonate and concentrated gray copper, “of exceeding richness.” Est. for 20 shares to Sophia D Folsom. $400-600 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 101497 Signed by Josiah Hewes president and secretary (?). Dateline 1863 San Francisco. Incorporated July 28, 1863. Not cancelled. 25c Protest revenue stamp. Paddle wheel steam ship vignette. Well aged and difficult to read. Much writing on back about buying and selling. Includes Sophia’s ‘mark.’ Sophia may have been married to George W, who worked several mines at SIlver City: Wuakegan Tunnel, Lady Franklin, Medina, etc. Hewes was a stockholder inthe IXL. His certificate was delinquent in 1868. [Thank you to Karen Dustman, local historian and author of the book “Silver Mountain City” (Clairitage Press) for background information on the mine and signatures.] Est. $400-600 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 80333 100 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2130 Stanislaus County, Lot#2133 Virginia, Placer County, California 1863 San Joaquin Mining California 1863 Fifty-One Union Company Stock Certificate Polo Mining Company Stock, Virginia, District, Stanislaus County (printed Placer County # 121 for 25 shares in stock text). Inc. September 1863. to George D Aldrick. datelined No. 115, issued for 105 shares to C. Virginia, California 1863. Signed Ralph on Dec. 1st, 1863 in Stockton. by secretary William H Hunt and Signed by president Martin president Geo. Glass. Incorporated (illegible) and secretary A. Smallfisle(?). Not cancelled. Black border March 13, 1863. Printer HS Crocker. and print. Two different mining vignettes: hydraulic mining (left) and 25c US Certificate Revenue Stamp. Uncancelled. No edge, corner, two miners underground (top center). Printed by PL Shoaff, Stockton. discoloration or pin hole issues. Vignette, showing a miner with Folds, heavy toning, some wrinkles. 5.25 x 9.5” Not in Filer or Holabird a pick axe, in front of a mine entrance. And another of a woman at indexes. No additional info located on CDNC. Est. $400-800 Ken Prag left. A red brown 25 cent “Protest” Internal Revenue stamp is affixed. Collection HWAC# 101506 Printed by H.S. Crocker & Co., Sacramento. Virginia (or Virginia town) was founded in June 1851. The want of water during the dry season Lot#2131 Tuolumne County, retarded the work of miners for two or three years subsequent, which California 1866 Oak Hill Gold was finally remedied by the introduction of water by the same canal Mining Company Stock Certificate which conveyed water into the Gold Hill district. In 1853, a company Location: Sugar Pine District, of miners built a railroad track from Virginia Hill to the Auburn Tuolumne Co., California (printed ‘ravine, for the transportation of ore. This road was certainly the at top center). No. 110, issued pioneer railroad of Placer, if not the first laid down in the State for for 100 shares to Robert Solefree any purpose. The work was finally abandoned by the company, and on Nov. 19th, 1866 in New York. its labor was redirected towards the introduction of water, through Signed by president Dewey and canals, direct to the tops of the various hills lying in and composing the secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Three vignettes: the Virginia district. [Ref: Bancroft] Est. $200-425 Ken Prag Collection miners underground, mine hoisting scene, and prospector with dog. HWAC# 79704 Printed by Hatch & Co., NY. 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp attached at bottom left. Deep folds, pinholes, and some toning. 6 x 10.75” Lot#2134 Volcano, Amador County, According to Mineral Resources of the United States (1929), the mine California 1857 Open Cut Fluming was located 4 miles SE of Cooperstown. Worked first as a gold mine Company Stock Certificate Ultra- and “the oxidized portion of the vein paid well to a depth of about 100 rare Volcano stock! No. 58, issued feet where sulphide ore containing pyrite and chalcocite was found for one share. Dateline Volcano, and at greater depth chalcopyrite. After this early work it lay idle until October 30th, 1857. Signed by 1901.” Est. $400-600 HWAC# 107709 president S. Hale and secretary H.R. Elwell. Not cancelled. Brown print Lot#2132 Tuolumne County, on blue paper. 4 x 7.25” A few small tears, toning. A May 16th, 1859 California 1853-1898 Three Sacramento Daily Union article reports that: “The Open Cut Fluming Tuolumne County Mining Stock Company completed, on Friday, the excavation of the canon into the Certificates Lot of 3 different Volcano Flat, and turned the water into it Saturday morning. The including a Gold Rush era piece! 1) miners are already opening their claims near the head of the cut.” No The Albion Gold Mining Company. other references found. Not in Filer or other Holabird indexes. Volcano, No. 134, issued for 50 shares in located in Amador County, is named for its setting in a bowl-shaped London in 1853. Signed by directors valley which early miners thought was caused by a volcano. The area Price and Nightengale. Printed on linen. Foxing. Property located at was worked by men who mined Soldiers Gulch in 1849. In 1851 a Shawmut near Chinese Camp and it produced for a number of years post office was established and by April 1852 there were 300 houses. (Logan, plate 8). 2) Homestake Gold Mining Company of Tuolumne. Hydraulic mining operations, begun in 1855, brought thousands of No. 176, issued for 100 shares to Emanuel Grant on July 20th, 1898. fortune seekers. Est. $1000-2000 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107031 Signed by the president and secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Background photo vignette of mine entrance! Two adhesive Lot#2135 Yuba County - McCortney revenue stamps attached. Folds. 3) Unissued stock for Morse & Evans District, California 1863 Chollar Gold Mining Company, c. 1870s. Tuolumne District printed at top. Copper Mining Company Stock Heavy toning and portion missing on the bottom right. Est. $160-200 Early # 17 for 90 shares to Hasey. Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 100845 Signed by WL Kirby and president G King. Dateline 1864 San Francisco. Incorporated July 1863. Not cancelled. No revenue stamp. California seal vignette, Towne & Bacon printers. Location: McCortney District, Yuba County. Exact location was not found by us. Est. $280-350 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 77039 LOTS OPEN FOR BIDDING Lot#2136 California 1866 Albin AT HALF THE LOW ESTIMATE! Gold Company of California Stock Certificate This company is a mystery to us. Not in Filer, Browne, or other Holabird indexes. VIEW CURRENT BIDS AT No reference could be found online including CDNC and newspapers. com. Not listed in the 1866/67 NY WWW.FHWAC.COM Directory. Stock cert. No. 71, issued for 100 shares to Justice Steinberger on November 2nd, 1866 in New York. Signed by the president (illegible) and secretary W.F. Rowland. Pen cancelled on reverse. Black border and print. 6.5 x 9.5” Horizontal and vertical folds, creases. Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 100830 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 101

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2137 California 1855 Lot#2143 California 1854 The California Coal MC I/U #161 Sierra Nevada Lake Water & Francis Le Roy 1 share 1855. This Mining Co. Incorp 1853.#1414, is possibly the earliest known coal I/U, one share issued to James mining certificate out of California. W. Denver Aug. 3, 1857. Signed Several folds, some foxing. Rare! Joseph Bates/R.H. Wallen Trustees. Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 106607 embossed seal w/state seal center, no vignette, unknown printer. Lot#2138 California Gold Rush Stocks (2) i/u Excellent condition in protective Ave Maria Gold Quartz mine undated, i/u Anglo cover. James William “Jim” Denver Californian Gold Mining 1853 Est. $150-300 Ken (October 23, 1817 – August 9, 1892) Prag Collection HWAC# 105590 was an American politician, soldier and lawyer. He served in the California state government, as an officer in the United States Army in two wars, and as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from California. He served as secretary and Governor of the Kansas Territory during the struggle over whether or not Kansas would be open to slavery. The city of Denver, Colorado, is named after him.. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 110845 Lot#2139 California 1851 Le Nouveau Monde Stocks 5 Le Nouveau Monde, 1851 Est. $300- Lot#2144 California 1877-1893 Three California 500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 105483 Gold Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3 different. 1) California Dredging & Mining Company. Issued in 1877, not cancelled. Pinholes, folds. Early dredging operation on the Feather River near Oroville using a boat with suction pipes (according to the History of Butte County). 2) California Gold Mining and Lot#2140 California 1894 Development Company. Stock number 3. Issued Martha Washington Mining in 1895, not cancelled. Pinholes, deep folds. 3) The Company Stock - A RARE Women California Milling & Mining Company. Issued in 1893, Speculator Mine # 203 for 625 not cancelled. Folds, some soiling. () Est. $150-200 shares to Mary B Smith. Signed Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 100746 by EJC Gilbert and president S Gertrude Smyth. Dateline 1894 Lot#2145 California 1874-1899 Three Different Oakland. Incorporated Sept. 23, California Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3 1983. Not cancelled. Black and gold on pink. Gold seal. Quite pleasing different. 1) North-western Gold and Silver Mining to look at. No pin hole, edge of corner issues. Some very light coloring Company. Issued in 1890 in San Francisco. Not at the fold edges. It was a drift and hydraulic mine. Located at Table cancelled. Blue print. Folds, creases, toning. Not Mountain about 5 miles west of Chinese Camp. A report from the located. 2) Oakland Consolidated Gold Mining state mineralogist in 1894 declared it to be idle! That didn’t last long. Company. Issued in 1899 in Oakland. Not cancelled. George had many a mine named for him - Martha not so much. Est. Black border and print. Four 10 cent stamp $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 90448 attached. Folds, toning. Owned the Texas Mine in the Blue Canon District, 4 miles south of Emigrant Lot#2141 California Rare Southern Calif Mining Gap. 3) Redman Mining Company. Issued in 1874 in Stocks (2) Basalt Quarry Co. (1912), datelined Los San Francisco. Not cancelled. Black border and print, mining vignette. Angeles. This may be one of the basalt quarries Heavy toning and folds. Not located. Est. $150-250 Ken Prag Collection along 395 between Mojave and Owens VAlley. HWAC# 107035 Assets Realizing Mines Co. (1917) - became the Mojave Gold MC (Mines Handbook 1931 p1432) Lot#2146 Aspen, Pitkin County, Est. $100-120 HWAC# 104914 Colorado 1891-1945 Aspen / Pitkin County Mining Stock Certificate Collection Lot of 17, many different. Rare! Includes: Aspen Smelting Lot#2142 California 1860’s Sierra Company (1945); Aspen Mines Nevada Gold, Silver, Copper Company (1924); Stewart Mining Mining & Pacific Coast Dual signed Co. (1931, Italian Mountain); Spar but possibly Britton & Co., San Gulch Mining Co. (1890, Roaring Francisco 1860’s. Sierra Nevada Fork District); Plumas Tunnel, Gold, Silver & Copper Exploring Drainage, Mining & Exploration Co. (1911); Bushwhacker-Alpine MC Company. Possibly Silver Mountain? (1911); Park Tunnel Mining & Milling Co. (three stocks, 1918-1923); “Dividends paid in gold coins” This Brant Gold & Copper MC (1914); Brant Independent MC (1912); is possibly the only one known. Yellow Boy Group Mining Co. (1891 signed by Wheeler and unissued Signed by President James B. Bidlack. Has some tearing in left upper 1890s); Statesman Mining Co. (1891 plus unissued); Delta S. Cons. MC corner approx. .75” & fold creases, please inspect. Est. $800-1000 (1911); and Silver Moon MC (1900, poor condition). Please inspect. HWAC# 106647 Est. $300-600 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107700 102 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2147 Black Hawk District, Gilpin Lot#2150 Central City, Colorado County, Colorado 1906 MAGNIFICENT 1896-1938 8 Different Central Fifty Gold Mines Stock Certificate City, Colorado Mining Stocks incl. Extremely Rare! This certificate is sure a #1 Lot of 8 different. Includes: The to catch your attention as an investor. Saratoga Mining Company (stock Large size. Four real photo vignettes. number ONE, 1912, not cancelled); Fifty-four individual mines listed in Gold Dipper Mines, Inc. (1938, Circles on border. Gold Seal. Fancy allegorical vignette, not cxl); The Script. Number 2078 for 20 shares to Little Kingdom Mining Co. (1906, Sarah E Brown. Signed by A Hayward multiple mining vignettes, not cxl, and president F Wilson. Dateline 1906. very attractive); Chain O’Mines, Inc. The Smith Brooks Printing Company of Denver outdid themselves on (1931 voting trust certificate and 1935 $50 Gold Production Warrant this one! Uncancelled. Heavy folds, staple holes three large holes for with photo vignette!); The Gold-Coin Mines Company (1896, vignette storage. Still a striking piece. Mining near Blackhawk on the Gregory, of bag of gold coins!, not cxl); Quartz-Hill Central Mining Co. (1928, Fisk, Cook, Bobtail and Mammoth veins and their branches and on eagle vignette, not cxl.); and Ivanhoe Gold Mining & Milling Co. (1905, several minor veins has in recent years been controlled by the Fifty not cxl, mining vignette). Nice group! Est. $140-200 Ken Prag Collection Gold Mines Co. The properties under this management have been HWAC# 107674 among the most productive in the district but were unfortunately closed down. [Professional Paper - United States Geological Survey] Lot#2151 Chaffee County, Colorado The 1909 Moody’s said this about the Fifty Gold Mines Corporation Twelve Different Chaffee County in 1909. The Fifty Gold Mines Corporation is an enterprise which has Mining Stocks Vesper Gold Mining gone through some difficulties but being a property which is well and Milling # 96 in 1904, Hidden considered it has a chance to come out successfully thought it must Treasure Mining and Leasing # have more capital. When a mine is in a difficult position it is more 47 in 1916, Great Central Mining frequently brought to worse than better conditions. In 1910 the and Milling in 1905, Unissued company was in bankruptcy court. . Est. $400-1000 Ken Prag Collection Revine # 36 in 190-, Annie C Gold HWAC# 81907 Mining in 1896, Colorado-Arizona Mines in 1910, Telma Gold Mining in 1907, Princeton Mining in 1907, St. Elmo Queen Mining in 1914, Lot#2148 Boulder County, Colorado 1894-1960 Boulder County, Camilla Gold Mining in 1904 issued to Frances Moffat, Vivandiere Colorado Mining Stock Collection Consolidated Mining and Shareholding stock in 1906, and Vivandiere Lot of 15, most different. Includes: Consolidated Mining and Shareholding bond in 1904 Est. $140-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 109052 Springdale Gold Mining & Milling Co. (1894); Redemption Mines Co. Lot#2152 Clear Creek, Colorado (1904, Magnolia District); Colorado 1865 South Clear Creek Gold & United Mines Co. (1920); Mogul Drainage & Transportation Tunnel Silver Mining Company Stock #is not listed??? 200 shares to Damon & Mining & Milling Co. (2x1900); Wells. Datelined Canastota 1865. St. Joe M&MC (1905); Taylor GMC (Canastota is a small village that was (1907); Livingston GMC (1932); Up To Date MC (1917); Ottumwa incorporated in 1835. It is located M&MC (three, 1904-1905); The Forest Queen Gold Mining & Tunnel Co. (1904); and American MC (2 different, 1960). Please inspect. Est. along the banks of the Erie Canal.) $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107667 Signed by secretary D Hasbach and president OB Thomas. Not cancelled. Large vignette of an allegorical Lot#2149 Boulder County, Colorado 1891 Crown Point Cons. Mining woman looking over miners in the field. Small vignette of miners & Milling Co. Stock Certificate working in the field. Printed by Major & Knapp. Location of mining works is Clear Creek Co. Pin holes especially at fold intersections. Caribou, Boulder County, Colorado Some corners are dog eared. Heavy folds with very small issues at (printed under title). Inc. in Colorado. edges. According to Hollister (1867), the company’s works were No. 104, issued for 50 shares to located above Spanish Bar on the north side of the creek where the Lizzie Leach on Sept. 17th, 1891 Lincoln Ledge crosses to become the Oro. They have an adit at creek in Denver. Signed by the president level that has been run in 135 feet to intersect a shaft 65 feet deep. (Nicholson) and secretary (Powell). The ore vein is 8-10 inches in width, with 50-60 tins of ore being taken Not cancelled. Very attractive design out. A substantial dam is giving them 900 feet of water power with with gilt border and background, a 550 ft.long flume race, 15 feet of fall, and a 100 horse centervent black print, and two different mining vignettes: underground (left) turbine wheel. Their stone mill has 20 stamps, two Freiberg pans, and and surface operation (right). No printer listed. 9 x 11.75” Folds with a Crosby & Thompson desulphurizer. D.B. Myres serves as agent for minor separation, as well as creases and some soiling. Not in the 1883 the company. It is a “promising mine” [pg.235-36]. Est. $700-1400 CO Mining Directory or Filer. Not listed as one of the mines in Caribou in the 1898 Colorado State Mining Directory. Caribou is now a ghost Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 79739 town. It peaked in 1870, but a fire in 1879 burned down most of the town. At one time, it had as many as 3,000 residents. () Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91627 HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT AN ITEM OR ITS CONDITION? 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DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2153 Clear Creek, Colorado Lot#2157 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1864 Star Gold Mining Company 1900-1977 12 Cripple Creek stock #250 for 50 shares to Julia Mining Stock Certificates Lot of Wadsworth. Datelined New York 12, all listed by Hills. Includes AE 1864. Signed by secretary John N Carlton autograph. 1) Cresson Cons. Power and president Nathaniel GMMC: seven issued stocks, 1916- Comsten(?). 25c Life Insurance 1977. One is signed by AE Carlton Revenue Stamp. Allegorical as president (punch cancelled). 2) vignette. Howe & Ferry printers. Not Midway GMC. Issued 1901, not cxl. 3) cancelled. No edge, corner, color or Sheriff GMC. Issued 1900, stamp cxl, pin hole issues!!! Hollister [Mines of Colorado, 1867] writes “”The Star eagle vignette. 4) The Midget GMC. Gold Mining Company” own 1200 feet on the Crystal, west of Virginia Issued 1933, not cxl, eagle vignette. 5) Princess Alice Cons. GMC. Kanyon, from which they have run an adit west 200 feet, intersecting Issued 1910, not cancelled, mining vignette. 6) The Pharmacist GMC. a shaft 153 feet deep, showing, said the agent to us* a fair crevice. Issued 1912, not cancelled. Issued to A.E. Carlton, mining, banking, Three hundred feet west is another shaft 123 feet deep, in cap; and and railroad millionaire known as the “King of Cripple Creek.” Fair to 300 feet further is another 65 feet deep, also in cap. They have a water good condition for the group; please inspect. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag power 1500 feet long, 18 feet head, upper end of Payne’s Bar, wooden Collection HWAC# 104244 mill building 55 by 100 feet, raised, and enclosed, machinery for forty stamps on the Missouri River. They have besides a great deal of lode Lot#2158 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1896- property from Idaho to Empire, and other valuable water powers.” 1898 5 Different 1890s Cripple Creek Est. $350-700 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 79741 Mining Stocks Lot of 5 different. Included: Sunlight Mining Company (1896, eagle Lot#2154 Clear Creek Co., Colorado vignette); True Fissure Gold Mining & 1876 Helmick Tunnel Co. of Milling Company (1897, mining vignette); Colorado Stock Certificate from Toronto Mining & Milling Co. (1896, the Helmick Tunnel Co. of Colorado, mining vignettes); Tejon Mining Company located in the Clear Creek, certificate (1898, floral vignettes); and The Virginia number 50, issued in 1876, issued M. Consolidated Mining Co. (1897, eagle to W. W. Bundette, signed by M. H. vignette). Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Collection Hebuieh, and A. P. Lacy, size 11 by 8 HWAC# 107698 inches, in Average condition, issued. $500 6% mtg bond. The Helmick Lot#2159 Cripple Creek, Colorado Tunnel Company was incorporated 1901 Cannonball GMC Stock on January 20, 1876. [Corbett, p155] Est. $300-800 HWAC# 104758 Certificate from the Cannonball GMC, incorporated in Wyoming, Lot#2155 Clear Creek County, located in the Cripple Creek, Colorado 14 Different Clear Creek certificate number 48, issued in County Mining Stocks 1) Q & S 1901, at Denver, Colorado, issued Mining. 1902. Number 79 located on to Hautt Intyre, trustee, signed Red Elephant Mountain. 2) Orange by L. E. Kimball, and Frank N. Clear Creek Gold Dredging. 1904. Fish, printed by Denver Litho Located at Golden. Number B19. 3) Co. Denver, Colo, size 38231 by 6-10/ inches, in Average condition, Green Clear Creek Gold Dredging. issued. Countersigned and registered June 24, 2901. Adhesive gold 1904. Located at Golden. Number seal. Vignette of cannon with cannon balls--one of the all-time great A 28. 4) Silver Creek Mineral. 1920. mining stock vignettes! According to Hills, they owned the Lizzie M # 31, 5) Continental Mines, Power and Reduction. 1907. 6) Gold and Cannonball mining claims on Big Bull Hill. They have sunk a 150 Exploration. 1897. Gold bond. Coupon 2 of 2 remaining. 7) NUMBER ft. shaft [pg. 104]. Est. $300-700 HWAC# 104787 1 Senator Mining and Leasing. 1916. Signed, Cancelled. Unissued. 8) Itha Belle Mining and Milling. 1903. Seaton Mining and Milling. 1897. Lot#2160 Cripple Creek, Colorado Number 56. 9) Sceptre Mines and Mills. 1920. 10)Gold and Silver Coin 1899 Cripple Creek Bullion Gold Mining. Number 27. 1903. 11) Seven Metals Mining. 12) Blue Ridge Mining Co. Stock Certificate Inc. in Gold Mines and Milling Company. Bright red on white. 1913. 13) Two Colorado. No. 163, issued for 1,000 American Sisters Mining, Milling, Power and Electric Company. 1907. shares to the company secretary, 14) Dorit Mining, Milling, Tunnel and Transportation. Idaho Springs. J.D. Niederlitz, on Oct. 23, 1899. Prospectus. 8 pages. 8.5 x 3.75”. Est. $180-300 Ken Prag Collection Signed by Niederlitz and the vice- HWAC# 109048 president Mitchell. Not cancelled. Maroon border, print, and vignette Lot#2156 Clear Creek County, showing a locomotive moving Colorado 1902 Coronation through the mountains. Printed by Western Litho. Co., Denver. 8.25 Gold Mining & Milling Co. Stock x 11.5” Pinholes, folds. Owned the northern portion of the Venus and Certificate Inc. in Wyoming. No. the western portion of the Toll Road placer on Squaw Mountain; the 136, issued for 1,000 shares to Kansas City on Womack Hill; the Hub, J.C. and Panorama on Carbonate R.W. Happersett on Feb. 3rd, 1902 Hill. [Ref: Cripple Creek Manual, Hills, pg. 138] () Est. $150-300 Ken in Colorado Springs. Signed by the Prag Collection HWAC# 91634 vice-president (Paul illegible) and secretary (Richard Willis). Not cancelled. Unusual design with red print over an orange background that contains a full size vignette of a royal coronation scene. Folds. 7 x 10.75” Owned numerous claims in the Freeland, Trail Run, and Coral Mining Districts, Clear Creek County, Colorado. A tunnel was being currently driven. [Ref: Hills’ Official Manualette, 1902, pg. 30] () Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91635 104 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2161 Cripple Creek, Lot#2165 Georgetown, Colorado 1873 Colorado 1900-1907 Herrmann Silver Mining Company Eleven Cripple Creek Stock Certificate Inc. in New York. No. Mining Stock Certificates 64, issued for 25 shares to Geo. E. Abbe Lot of 11, most different. on June 9th, 1873 in New York. Signed Includes: Lady Campbell by president Ford William Herrmann Gold Mining Co. (1900, and secretary L.W. Winchester. Not damaged); Clinton Gold cancelled. Ornate border and logo, no Mining Company (1901, vignette. Folds, creases, pinhole. 9.25 x mining vignette); Empire 10.5” The company owned the Dunkirk State Gold Mining Co. (1902, Mine located on Republican Mountain mining vignettes); Republic in the vicinity of Georgetown. In 1879, they had 40 men employed Gold Mines Company and were managed by Charles Morris. Ore was high-grade galena and (1902, allegorical vignette); zinc. [Ref: E&MJ, Vol. 28, 1879, pg. 221] Est. $150-300 HWAC# 107712 Gould Consolidated Mining Co. (1901); Copper Gold Lot#2166 Georgetown and Clear Mines Leasing Co. (1907, mining vignette); Argonaut Gold Mining Co. Creek, Colorado Colorado Mining (1904, mining vignette); Arapahoe Gold & Copper Mining Co. (1900, Certificates (4) 2 from Steele Gold mining vignette); and Clinton Consolidated Mining Company (three, and Silver Mining#404 i/u to Evan two varieties, 1902-1903, mining vignette). Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Julian 1881, 10 shares, #515 i/u ti Collection HWAC# 107696 Evan Julian 1881, both signed by president, incorporated in CO. 2 from Democrat Mountain Tunnel, Lot#2162 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1895-1899 Five 1890s Cripple Creek #43 i/u to G. Walker 1883 4 shares, #121 i/u to G. Walker 1888 119 shares, both signed by president Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 5 Wheelock, incorporated in CO Est. $240-320 HWAC# 58904 different. Includes: Cripple Creek Bullion Gold Mining Company (1899, Lot#2167 Georgetown, Clear mining vignette); St. Louis & Cripple Creek, Colorado Georgetown, Creek Mining & Tunnel Company (1899, Clear Creek Mining Stock Group eagle vignette); Isabella Gold Mining Lot of five. 1) Benton Gold and Company (1898, eagle vignette); Volcano Silver. First Mortgage Convertible Gold Mining Company (1899, mining Bond. Early 1876. Only one coupon vignette); and the Vulcan Mining & is missing. 20 x 15.5”. Number 120 Milling Company (1895, allegorical vignette). Est. $200-400 Ken Prag for $1,000. Signed by president Collection HWAC# 107697 AL Evans. 2) Southwestern Mines Corporation. # 381 for 100 shares Lot#2163 Custer County, Colorado 1881 Darby Mine Stock Certificate in 1910 to Carlton Slack(?). Signed by president Whitcovich and Rare. According to 1889 articles secretary Slack. 3) Philadelphia in the Silver Cliff Rustler, the Mining and Tunnel Company. # Darby Mine was located in the 226 for 1000 shares. 1907. 4) Hardscrabble Mining District of Boston Mining, Milling and Transportation Company. # 15 for 67,240 Custer County, Colorado. Inc. in New shares to Henry Hardon. Signed by president Bullock and secretary York. No. 71, issued for 50 shares Marcy. 1909. 5) Denbigh Mining Corporation. # 1085 for 50 shares. to Thomas Nelson in 1881. Signed by the president and secretary 1920. Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 109051 Barnes. Not cancelled. Black border and print, vignettes of miners with shovels and an eagle on a shield. Folds, light stains. Nice. 5 x 9.25” Lot#2168 Gilpin, Colorado 1864 Not listed in C&L. An 1891 article says parties out of Canon City are Cook Gold Mining Company of operating the mine whose silver-copper ore is running as high as 600 ounces per ton. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 107704 Colorado Stock We have never seen this one! Number 27 for 50 shares t Lot#2164 Eagle County, Colorado RP Smith. Datelined Boston 1864. 1882 Tellurium Mining Company Signed by treasurer Joseph Hayden Stock Certificate Great name! Inc. and president Bay. Not cancelled. in Colorado. No. 279, issued for 25c Life Insurance Revenue stamp. 50 shares to Sol Levy on March Organized in Massachusetts in 2nd, 1882 in Leadville. Signed 1864. Compared to other Colorado stocks from this era, this is very by president James Streeter and plain, but quite striking. Printed by Mudge & Son. “The Cook Gold Mining Company own 66 feet on the Gunnell ; have a shaft 250 feet secretary CF Lee. Not cancelled. deep, and sinking — in cap at present. The surface has been worked Black border and print. Two vignettes: allegorical woman out to a depth of 150 feet. The shaft is doubtless on a pinch in the (bottom left) and underground mining scene (center). Printed by vein, as well as in cap. There is on the mine an engine house, with Collier & Cleaveland, Denver. Pinholes, folds. 6.5 x 10” They owned engine and hoisting machinery — no mill. Charles Crosby is the agent. 15 claims on the south-west slope of the Holy Cross spur of the Rock The Company have some other slightly developed mining property.’ Mountain range in the Tellurium District, Eagle County. Assays are 20 [Mines of Colorado by Hollister] Est. $350-700 Ken Prag Collection ounces silver and $25 gold per ton. Developed by 15 shafts ranging HWAC# 79742 from 15-95 ft. deep. [Corregan & Lingane, 1883, pg. 252-253] Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 104330 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 105

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2169 Gilpin, Colorado 1867 Lot#2173 La Plata County, Colorado Reynolds Gold Mining Company 1904-1947 Six La Plata County, of the city of New York Stock # Colorado Mining Stock Certificates 159 for 500 shares to Charles Hill. Lot of 6, most different. Best is: Signed by secretary Charles Hill and Invincible Gold & Silver Mining & Milling president AZ Huggins. Datelined Co. (Durango, 1904, mining vignettes). New York 1867. “Property located Others: Delaware Mining and Milling in Gilpin County, Colorado.” Printer Company (stock No. 1 and No. 41, Bowne & Co. 25c Insurance Revenue stamp on reverse. Not cancelled. both issued 1947, mining vignettes); Bottom right corner torn. Pin holes and two small nicks on edges. Cumberland Mines Company (1923, Slight staining on right. Still very nice. We did not find any information mine drilling vignette); Columbus on this mine. Est. $350-700 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 79746 Mines Co. (1911, California Mining District); and Consolidated Gold Producers, Inc. (1938, eagle vignette). Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Lot#2170 Gilpin County, Colorado Collection HWAC# 107701 1864 Rocky Mountain Gold Mining Company of Colorado Lot#2174 Leadville, Colorado Bond Very early! Incorporated in 1896-1922 12 Different Leadville 1864. No. 38, issued for $500 on Mining Stock Certificates Lot of November 15th, 1865. Signed by 12 different. Includes: Canterbury president H. Beach and secretary MC (1900 with castle vignette!); Bolles. Reddish-brown print and Leadville & Mosquito Range border. Green seal. 11 x 17”. Vertical M&MC (1915); Dunkin MC (1919); and horizontal folds with some toning along fold lines. Very fine. Keystone MC (1903); Stem-Winder Located on the Gregory lode next to the Benton, the principal lode of Mining & Leasing Co. (1909); Big Chief MC (1900); Pacific M&MC the Black Hawk district. In 1867 they had 2 shafts, one of which was (1902); Stormy Petrel M&MC (1896); Golden Chain MC (1903); more than 200ft deep. Both shafts were run on narrow gold quartz Grafton Consolidated MC (1901); Leadville Mine Development Co. veins. They owned a 20 stamp mill in Black Hawk. Also owned 250 (1922); and Cloud City MC (unissued). Nice group, please inspect. Est. ft. on the Bates Lode in Gregory Gulch. and 3,300 ft. in the Empire $280-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107692 District, Clear Creek County. The mine and mill were inactive in 1863- 6 with no local agent when Hollister reported them. Not reported in Lot#2175 Leadville, Colorado 1889 Wallihan, 1871. [Ref: Hollister, pg. 150] () Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Amity MC of Leadville, CO Stock Collection HWAC# 91827 I/U #368 RL Griffen 100 shares 1889, signed by president Keeler. 2 Lot#2171 Gold Hill, Boulder County, nice vignettes-underground mine Colorado 1898 Eldorado Tunnel, and above ground scene. Some Mining & Milling Company Stock toning Est. $300-500 HWAC# 108109 Certificate ”Operating Tunnel Under Gold Hill, Boulder County, Colorado” (printed on left margin). Inc. in Colorado. No. 211, issued to Lot#2176 Leadville, Colorado 1854 Arkansas River Mining Company Earl Coe for 25 shares on May 18th, Extra Rare! This river hosted one 1898 in Boulder, Colorado. Signed of the main routes to Leadville, CO. by president W.H. Nicholson and I/U No. 164,for 2000 shares to L. H. secretary William Coe. Not cancelled. Lehersey(?), signed by President, Black border and print, gold seal, and floral vignettes. Folds, pinholes, signature illegible. Manuscript date creases, some toning. 8.75 x 11” From newspaper articles, it appears the company had numerous accidents. In December 1899, a fire lined Leadville, Dec. 8, 1853. Caw broke out in the tunnel house at Sunshine and spread to the office Valley Chief Mine - Near Leadville, where it detonated 200 pounds of explosive powder. No one was CO. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 106643 injured because the miners were home for Christmas. In April 1900, Lot#2177 150 pounds of giant powder exploded, killing a father and son at the Leadville, Big company’s shaft house near Sunshine. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 107730 Colorado 1880 Pittsburgh Con Silver MC Stock Very rare. I/U Lot#2172 Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County, Colorado Large #614 A Turner & Co 50 Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County shares 1880. Mine on Yankee Hill in California Mining Stock Collection 28 Stock District. Creases, a few Certificates. Some of the most staple holes. Est. $300- interesting are early numbered Clear 600 HWAC# 108106 Creek Mining and Milling # 11 and Philadelphia Gold Mining, Milling and Tunneling # 17. There are four stocks with intricate tile bars with mining vignettes worked into them: Pittsburg Consolidated Mining, Milling and Tunnel Company, Gold Glen Mining, Milling and Tunnelling Company, Chicago Mountain Tunneling Company, and Sunset Gold Mining and Milling Company. Thirteen are dated 1911 or earlier. Three dups. This is a great starter collection or a way for a current collector to pick up many missing pieces for his/her collection. Est. $320-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 109050 106 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2178 Leadville, Colorado Lot#2182 Ouray County, Colorado 1881 Leadville Mining & Stock 1903-1931 Ouray County, Colorado Exchange Assoc. Stock Signed by Mining Stock Collection Lot of 21, Tabor Very rare. Inc. in Colorado. most different. Includes: Vernon No. 34, issued for one share to MC (1916); Flint Bonanza King TB Hill on May 13th, 1881 in MC (1903); Polar Star Cons. Mines Leadville. Signed by HAW Tabor Co. (1907 plus unissued Voting as president and secretary Wm. A. Ellis. Not cancelled. Black border Trustee’s Cert.); Wanakah MC (1915); and print. Vignette with Colorado state seal. Folds. Horace Austin Amity GMC (Camp Bird, unissued); Warner Tabor is known as the Bonanza King of Leadville. He was Golconda-San Juan Mines, Inc. (1930); a United States for three months replacing Henry Teller. He was Atlas Mining & Milling Co. (1912 stock also the second Lt. Governor of Colorado. This stock exchange was and 1920 $500 bond); Mono-Baltic Mining and Smelting Co. (1909 incorporated in 1879. Re-incorporated in 1881. This exchange had $100 bond); Mountain Top MC (1910 and 1915, two different); a short life and was finished in 1882. [Mining Stock Exchanges and Camp Bird Extension MC (1902); Bachelor-Khedive MC (1922 and Financing the Colorado Mining Industry: 1864 - 1900 by Copeland] unissued); Bachelor Cons. MC (1926); Revenue MC (1903); San Pedro Est. $500-1000 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107691 GMC (1905 and 1912); Silver Queen MC (1931); and Silver Mountain MC (1920). Please inspect! Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# Lot#2179 Leadville, Colorado 1881 107703 Silver Rock Mining Company Stock Certificate ”California Mining Lot#2183 Park County, Colorado 1896- District, Lake County, Colorado” 1944 Park County, Colorado Mining (printed under title). No. 162, issued Stock Certificate Group Lot of 11 different. for 1,000 shares to Jas. L. Groeb Includes: Alma Gold Corp. (1944); Alma on Sept. 19th, 1881 in Leadville. Prospecting, Mining & Investment Co. Signed by president Geo. V. Magee (1906); Belle of Buckskin Mining Co. (Alma and secretary W.J. Radcliffe. Not District, 1925); Snowstorm Hydraulic cancelled. Ornate design with black Company (Alma, 1904, placer mining); border and print, underground Sarsfield Consolidated Mining & Milling mining vignette. Printed by Geo. V. Magee, Philadelphia. Rare that the Co. (1930); The Ondrejick Gold Mining engraver is also the company president! Folds, wrinkles. 9 x 11.75” Company (1909); The South Mosquito Not in C&L. No references found. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection Mining & Milling Co. (1917); The Winrow Gold Mining & Milling Co. HWAC# 104311 (1896, Alma); The Viking Gold & Silver Mining & Milling Co. (1899, Alama); Clipper Cons. Mining Co. (Mosquito District, 1908); and the Lot#2180 Leadville, Colorado 1893-1932 Goldore Mining Company (1899). Please inspect. Est. $150-250 Ken Ten Different Leadville Mining Stock Prag Collection HWAC# 107687 Certificates Lot of 10 different. Includes: Stormy Petrel Mining & Milling Corp. Lot#2184 Rosita, Colorado 1866 (1898, not cxl., mining vignette); Star of Cosmos Silver Mining Co of NY Hope Mining Co. (1893, not cxl., eagle Rare choice stock with imprinted vignette); Blaine Electric Mining & Power revenue. #52 I/U Wm Yoorhis Co. (Twin Lakes, 1901, eagle vignette, not 10 shares 1866, signed by Vice cxl.); Cloud City Mining Co. (1901, mining President Ezra Woolsey. Originally vignettes, stamp cxl.); Banker Mining purchased in 1999 for $1175. Great & Milling Co. (1900, mining vignettes, for RN collectors. Fantastic! Est. not cxl.); Monitor Rock Mining, Milling & Power Co. (1902, mining $1000-2000 HWAC# 106603 vignettes, not cxl); Leadville & Mosquito Range Mining & Milling Co. (1912, mining vignettes, not cxl); Leadville Merger Mines, Inc. (1932, Lot#2185 Rosita, Colorado 1876- mining vignettes, not cxl.); Dinero Cons. Mining & Tunnel Co. (1907, 1879 Virginia Mining Co. of Rosita mining vignettes, not cxl); and Wapiti Mining Co. (1894, elk vignette, Stock & Bond Lot of 3. All issued to pen cancelled). Est. $280-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107689 B. Paul. Inc. 1876. 1) Stock no. 10, issued to 20 shares to B. Paul on Lot#2181 Leadville, Colorado August 23rd, 1876 in Rosita. Signed 1881 Victor Mining Company of by the president and secretary. Not Colorado Stock Certificate Rare. cancelled. Heavily toned, pinholes, Inc. Feb. 1881 in New Jersey. No. folds, pieces missing. 7.5 x 9” 2) 606, issued for 1,000 shares to $100 bond No. 32, issued to B. Paul Mrs. Caroline Hallowell on August on Oct. 15th, 1877. Signed by president M. Cuthbert and secretary 3rd, 1881 in Camden. Signed by Thos. Parish. Not cancelled. Red border, black print, and vignette president Sprogle and secretary Jos. including the Colorado state seal. 13 x 11” Pinholes, folds, some toning. Fryer. Not cancelled. Black border 3) Manuscript promissory note to HS Paul for $86.60, dated July 14th, and print, green background. Two 1879 in Philadelphia. 5 x 8” Fossett (1880) reports that the Virginia mining vignettes, including one of has a shaft 355 ft. deep, 700 ft. of levels, and 465 square fathoms of Leadville(?) Printed by Geo. V. Magee, Philadelphia. Folds, wrinkles, stoping (pg. 463). Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107079 dog eared corners, some toning. 9 x 11.75” Not listed in C&L. Located in Leadville, according to a prospectus for the company found online. Their Victor claim was located on Long and Derry Hill, close to the Little Canada and Ready Cash mines. Development included a 20 ft. tunnel. [See: https://mountainscholar.org/handle/11124/172206] Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 104389 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 107

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2186 Rosita & Silver Cliff, Lot#2189 San Juan County, Colorado 1888 Security Mining Red Mountain Mining District, & Milling Company Stock Colorado 1884 Solid Gold & Silver Certificate ”of Rosita, Custer Mining Co. Stock Certificate ”Red County, Colorado.” Inc. in Colorado. Mountain Mining District” (printed No. 4124, issued for 100 shares to at top center). Inc. in Colorado. James N. Ham on March 30th, 1888 Issued for 50 shares to Samuel T. in Rosita. Signed by president A.A. Richards. Signed by president O.D. Rowe and secretary Jas. Cartwright. Levis and secretary R.R. Lowry. Not cancelled. Black border and Not cancelled. Attractive design with red border, black print and two print, green background, ornate logo. Pinholes, folds, some soiling. different mining vignettes. Printed by ABN. Pinholes, folds, small 4.75 x 9.75” Not listed in C&L, on CHNC, or newspapers.com. The ink stain. 7 x 10.75” Not listed in Corregan & Lingane. The company Red Mountain Mining District lies between Ouray and Silverton on was founded in 1884 and ran the Leavenworth, Plymouth, and Julian Highway 550 (also known as the Million Dollar Highway) in the San mines in the Rosita area. In 1885, they purchased the Silver Cliff Juan Mountains. Est. $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 104321 MC properties at Silver Cliff (8 claims and two stamp mills). They developed an open pit mine there and worked it through 1887, even Lot#2190 Silverton, San Juan County, though they started to receive bad press and rumors that they were a Colorado 1901-1947 Silverton, Colorado scam. They reported a bonanza discover in 1887 and decided to drive Mining Stock Certificate Collection Lot a shaft called the Geyser Shaft in July 1887. They continued working on of 11 different. Includes: Lewis Mountain it until June 1888 when they shut down. The shaft had reached a depth Mining & Milling Co. (1922); Mystery of 440 feet. Many of the same people who had formed this company Gold Mining Co. (1934); Gold Hub Mines then formed the Geyser Mining & Milling Co. to continue the shaft. Company (1936); Aztec Gold & Copper They dug into the 1890s, reaching an impressive depth of 2,600 feet Mining Co. (1902); Intersection Mining & before closing in 1900. [Ref: https://www.mininghistoryassociation. Milling Co. (1906); Golconda Mines, Inc. org/Journal/MHJ-v15-2008-Copeland.pdf] Est. $150-200 Ken Prag (1947); Syndicate Gold Mining Co. (1901); Collection HWAC# 104299 Henrietta Milling & Mining Co. (2x1909); North Star Sultan Mining Company (1933); and The Consolidated Lot#2187 Russell Gulch, Colorado Gold & Silver Mines Company (1901). Please inspect. Est. $140-200 1864 Rocky Mountain Gold Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107685 Mining Company Mortgage Bond Number 69. Signed by EL Bolles Lot#2191 South Park, Colorado secretary and HC Beach president. 1870 Colorado Gold Mining Co. Also trustees George B Satterlee of Philadelphia Stock Certificate and Martin Howell trustees. 11 x Incorporated in Pennsylvania. 17.5”. Stamp cancelled. Striking red Located at South Park. Certificate print. Heavy folds, a few holes at number 425, issued for 100 shares intersections. Good condition. William Greeneberry Russell, a miner to Sam. Diehl on March 8th, 1870. from the gold fields of northern Georgia, had come to the vicinity of Signed by president W. Haseltine present-day Denver, then part of western Kansas Territory, in 1858. and treasurer James Clayton. Not Russell discovered placer gold deposits in June 1859 in the valley that cancelled. Black border and print, was soon named Russell Gulch in his honor. By the end of September, eagle vignette (center) and underground hoist vignette (left). Heavy 1891 men were mining gold in the gulch, and the eponymous town folds and soiling, toning. Please inspect. 7 x 10.5” The company had was built near the head of the gulch to serve the miners. Russell Gulch 300 feet east of the Clark-Gardner, one shaft 250 feet deep, one 80 feet is about two miles from present day Central City. Est. $300-500 deep; a drift 220 feet from the surface, runs 25 feet from the surface, HWAC# 55071 runs 25 feet either way, exposing a pay vein eighteen inches in width. On the mine was an engine house with a small engine for hoisting. Lot#2188 San Juan County, They had a large stone mill in Nevada Gulch, 70 ft. By 70 ft., exclusive of Colorado 1901-1953 San Juan the engine house 34 by 35, an assay office 20 feet square, and a recess County, Colorado Mining Stock on one side for a quartz room. The company built a lean-to on the side Group Lot of 9, most different. of the mill 25 by 112, and a brick muffle 80 feet long, 6 by 9 feet in size, Includes: San Juan Smelting & with a stack 50 feet high. [Ref: Hollister, The Mines of Colorado, p. 182, Refining Co. (1904); United Mining 1867] Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107151 & Leasing Corp. (1953, Eureka Gulch); Inter Ocean Mining Co. Lot#2192 South Park, Colorado (Eureka District, 1905); The Ross 1869 Colorado Gold Mining Mining & Milling Co. (3 stocks, two Company of Philadelphia Stock different, 1907-1916); Highland # 337 for 500 shares to William Mary Mines Company (1916, Animas District); The Sun Flower- S Grant. Datelined Philadelphia Columbine Mining & Milling Company (Bear Creek District, 1908); 1866. Signed by treasurer (?) and and The Syndicate Gold Mining Company (stock number ONE, 1901). president Haseltine. JF Pinkeldey Fair to good condition. Please inspect. Est. $140-200 Ken Prag Collection printed. Eagle vignette and one of HWAC# 107686 miners mining underground and using a bucket to get up and down. 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. Shares are$3. Not cancelled. Corners and edges have no issues. Hollister (mines of Colorado, 1867) states that this is one of two mines working in the Buckskin area (the South Park Gold Mining and Exploring Company being the other). The Colorado Company is the only one of the two that has “gone on their nerve and built a large mill.” They were currently working the Excelsior Lode which they owned 1000 feet. They were only working 200 feet. Silver and lead. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 106538 108 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2193 Summit County, Colorado Lot#2196 Summit County, Colorado 1881 Boston & Sheep Mountain Mining The Square Deal Mining, Milling, Company Stock Certificate Not seen Drainage Tunnel & Transportation before by FH. Location of Mines: Ten Mile Co. Stock Certificate, 1912 Frisco, Consolidated Mining District, Colorado Summit County. Very rare and unique (printed at lower left). The Tenmile style mining stock. Vignette photos of District was first identified by Hollister the mine and machinery incorporated (1867) and described as all the sections into the border. Orange underprint drained by Tenmile Creek. It was listed by Henderson (1926) as the map.No. 2144, issued for 6,500 Consolidated Tenmile, and he included within it the Wilkinson, Frisco, shares to William Walton on Jan. 9th, Robinson and Kokomo Districts. No. 274, issued for 1,000 shares to 1912. Signed by Frank E. Wire as A.W. Powers on Oct. 7th, 1881 in Denver. Signed by Edward Heloff (?) president and Seth Atwood as secretary. Not cancelled. Folds. Very as president and H.E. Irons (?) as secretary. Not cancelled. Ornate logo. nice condition. 9 x 10.75” According to Mining American, 1908, the Printed by Hamilton Print, Boston. Deep folds with some separation, company had recently installed an electrically-powered compressor pinholes, and areas of heavy toning. SEE FULL DESCRIPTION ONLINE plant and drills. Out of operation by 1915. Est. $160-320 HWAC# 58572 Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91564 Lot#2194 Summit County, Lot#2197 Summit County, Frisco, Colorado 1912 Square Deal Mining, Colorado 1879 Greenleaf Mining Milling, Drainage Tunnel & Company Stock # 1288 for 100 Transportation Co. Stock Certificate shares to HS Paul. Signed by SA Located at Frisco, Summit County. Very Norton and president William rare and unique style mining stock Downing. Dateline St. Louis 1879. that includes photo vignettes of the Incorporated January 3, 1873. Not mine and machinery incorporated into cancelled. Nice wood mill scene. the border and an orange underprint Considering Greenleaf’s hsitory map! No. 2005, issued for 7,000 shares with ditches and fuming, most appropriate. (See Greenleaf stock in to William Walton on Jan. 9th, 1912. this auction for more information.) Fancy left side scroll work. A Gast Signed by Frank E. Wire as president and Seth Atwood as secretary. printer. Small edge issues. Otherwise very nice. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 89429 Not cancelled. Folds, glue residue on reverse. 9 x 10.75” According to Mining American, 1908, the company had recently installed an Lot#2195 Summit County, electrically-powered compressor plant and drills. Out of operation by Colorado 1881 Monte Cristo 1915. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 104198 Mining & Milling Co. Stock Lot#2198 Telluride, San Miguel County, Certificate Inc. in Colorado. No. Colorado 1897-1913 Telluride, Colorado 6055, issued for 20 shares to Parish Mining Stock Certificate Collection Lot on Aug. 8, 1881 in Denver. Signed of 10, most different. Included: Valley View by MM Pomeroy as president and Gold Mining Co. (1897, not cxl, allegorical secretary AS Whitaker. Not cancelled. Small certificate designed to vignette); Mount Wilson Gold & Silver look like currency. Black border and print, green background, and Mining Co. (1913, not cxl, mining vignette); Colorado state seal vignette. Printed by Collier & Cleaveland, Denver. Black Bear Mining Co. (1902, not cxl, 3.25 x 7.5” Folds, very fine. Mark “Brick” Pomeroy (1833-1896) mining vignette); Telluride Gold Mines Co. was a newspaper tycoon who moved to Denver and started a new (1905, mining vignettes, not cxl.); Telluride newspaper called The Great West. This paper eventually had the Mining, Milling & Development Co. (1910, largest readership in the Rocky Mountains. His greatest undertaking stamp cxl, mining vignettes); The Gold Development Company of was to build a five mile long tunnel between Georgetown and the Utah ($500 bond, 1904, mining vignette); San Juan Gold Mining Co. western flank of the Rocky Mountains to Denver; a tunnel that would (1903, Native American vignette, not cxl.); Smuggler Union Mining Co. find rich veins along the way and later serve as a railroad tunnel. It (two issued in 1909, not cxl); and The Weller Mining & Milling Co. was called the “Atlantic-Pacific Tunnel Co.” An estimated $3,000,000 (unissued). This is a good group. Please inspect. Est. $180-260 Ken was raised and construction was underway. The giant project started Prag Collection HWAC# 107684 well and one mile of tunnel was completed. Several ore bodies were found. Pomeroy’s three story mansion in Denver became the talk of Lot#2199 Colorado and contained a theater, art and mineral gallery, lecture Uniont o wn, hall, and imported furnishings. The tunnel project eventually came 1863 Colorado to a halt when technical problems occurred, followed by the Bank Marshall Mining panic of 1893. Once Colorado’s most popular and wealthiest citizen, Company Stock Pomeroy was left destitute and forgotten, dying a few years later Number 9 for in 1896. An important western figure who was dubbed “Colorado’s 20 shares to JW Fabulous Failure” [Carl Swift]. Not listed in C&L. According to a Feb. Bulgar. Signed 19th, 1880 article in the Fairplay Flume announcing its incorporation, by HK Stowe the company had purchased the Monte Cristo Mine and adjoining and president Comstock Mine in the Pollock District, Summit County, Colorado. WR Gallther(?). The company also held bonds on the Alma and Warren, two adjacent Dateline 1863. Incorporated December 1, 1863, dated December 16, claims.The properties were located at the headwaters of the Blue. 1863. Office listed in Uniontown, El Dorado County, Cal. Uniontown The Monte Cristo is described as having a vein of ore 300 feet wide was named for the nearby Union mine and was located on Martinez with 40 percent galena, 16 ounces of silver, and $6 of gold to the ton. Creek 2 miles southeast of El Dorado. United States Constitution with There are 80,000 tons of ore in sight. The article ends with this: “If two hands shaking vignette. Printer: H.S. Crocker & Co.’s. Large tears. this property is as represented, it is, in its richness, one of the great Some discoloration. Good Condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 85248 marvels of Colorado.” Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 104450 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 109

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2205 Colorado 1865 Gold Mountain Combination Mining Company of Colorado Stock Early Colorado stock certificate. # 75 for 1500 shares to Michael (?). Signed by WH Sturdevant and president CW Ric-tsow. Dateline New York 1865. Not cancelled. For the purpose of purchase and payment of mining property. (Since we found no record of this company, we are not sure they ever really purchased anything?) Underground mining vignette, Native American vignette and allegorical vignette. Hatch & Co., New York, printer. No edge, corner pinhole or discoloration issues. Quite excellent. [More 1860’s Colorado stocks in the next auction] Est. Lot#2200 Colorado Blue River Mining District Territorial. Very $180-350 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 86027 rare. Inc. in Colorado on Sept. 8th, 1864. No. 454. Uncancelled. Issued for one share ($100) to Abram H. Davenport on Dec. 4th, 1864. Signed Lot#2206 by Edwin Scudder (president) and J.G. Wiley (secretary). Reverse has Colorado 1864 notation from Davenport authorizing _____ to act on his behalf, dated Invincible Gold Sept. 12, 1866. Blue text on white paper. The mine was located in Mining Company Summit County. The name appears in the 1883 Congressional Edition, The two Invincible Volume 2113, listing R.A. Sanky as president. Measures 8”x 5” Fold mines we found line and tear forming at fold (center right), plus some light toning that make sense to around edges. Very nice example of a scarce certificate. Unknown us were in Summit printer. VF. Est. $700-1500 HWAC# 110848 and Teller County in Colorado. Lot#2201 Colorado 1882 Colorado Unfort una tely the date of the & New England MC Bond Red stock is not easily underprint $500 bond 1882. readable, so the Possibly in Leadville. 2” tear and 5 smaller tears, creases Est. $200- exact mine is difficult to determine. # 177 for 25 shares to Smith. 400 HWAC# 106627 Signed by treasurer (?) and president FB Ray. Datelined December 31, 18-- in Boston. Printed by Mudge & Son. Minor discoloration near bottom. Otherwise very fine. Est. $200-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 80458 Lot#2202 Colorado 1903-1935 Lot#2207 Colorado 1896- Colorado Gold Placer Mining Stock 1899 Three 1890s Colorado Certificates & Bonds Lot of 10, most Mining Stocks with the different. Included: The Gold Nugget Same Vignette All have an Mining & Leasing Co. (stock issued ornate gold border with 1903); The Snowstorm Hydraulic mining vignettes and a Co. (stock issued 1906); South Park central vignette of a cabin and Dredging Company (stock issued stagecoach in the mountains. 1922); Iver Placer Mines (uniss. stock); 1) The Justine Gold Mining Colorado Gold Dredging Co. (stock Company. Mines at Cripple issued 1906); The Gold Pit Placer Co. Creek. Issued for 250 shares (two different stocks, 1932 and 1935); and The Buffalo Placer Mining to Mabel E. de Kay in 1896. and Milling Company (three different bonds, $100 and $500, 1913). Signed by the president and Please inspect. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 104183 secretary. Not cancelled. Folds Lot#2203 Colorado 1880 Colorado with some separation. 2) The Adelle Mining & Concentrating Company. Issued at Leadville in 1898 for 1,000 shares. Not cancelled. Folds. 3) Mining & Discovery Stock I/U The Bull Hill Gold Mining & Tunnel Company. Mines at Cripple Creek, #17 RW Sparr 2 shares 1880. Very Issued for 2,000 shares in 1899. Not cancelled. Est. $240-400 HWAC# nice unique frontier vignette with 58554 Connestoga wagons, a concord stage coach, railroad and Indians Lot#2208 Colorado 1896-1955 in a canoe. Est. $200-500 HWAC# Twelve Colorado Stocks - 108097 Three in the 1890’s 12 different Lot#2204 Colorado Colorado mining certificates incorporated in Colorado. Tembourine Gold Mining Stock Group (9) Nine Mining and Milling Number 24 in issued, uncancelled mining or 1896, Samson Gold Mining and related stocks. Arsenic Prod. Co. Milling 1897, US Automatic Ore (1923), Apex Copper Co. (1916), Reduction Company 1898, Wilgus Silver Cycle MC (1926), US Mineral Leasing number 4 in 1907, Torrey Exploration Company 1904, Gold & Chem Mfg Co (1922), Livingston Exploration Company 1912, Mayflower Quartz & Channel Mining GMC (1922), Gold Medal MC (1927), number 46 in 1909, Precious Metals Corporation 1913, Clarendon Leadville Leasing Co (1921), Swift Mining number 14 in 1927, unissued Gold Exploration, Big Lick Sure MC (1928), Consolidated Mines & reduction Co. (1916). Est. $100-150 HWAC# 104913 Uranium 1955 and 1955 Cherokee Uranium with fabulous PICTORIAL vignette. Est. $140-220 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 105968 110 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2209 Colorado 1882 & 1892 Two Lot#2213 Connecticut 1867 Colorado Mining Stock Certificates Lot Charter Oak Copper Mining of 2 different. 1) The Electro Magnetic Company Stock # 38 for 100 shares Mining & Development Company of Denver, to H Black. Signed by secretary Colorado. No. 50, issued for 1,000 shares in Milspaugh and president (?). Issued 1882. Signed by president Robert Brown in New York on March 1, 1867. and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black Not cancelled. 25c Power of Att’y border and print. Allegorical vignettes revenue stamp. Green on white. and orange RN facsimile underprint. Deep Vignette of oak tree and one of copper bars. Discoloration on left. folds with soiling, small tears. 2) The Some wrinkling. Generally fine. By May of 1867 it was reported that Gregory Leasing Company. Black Hawk. No. one could not find this for less than $20.00 a share [Pittsburgh Daily 581, issued for 8,000 shares to company Commercial]. We found no more reference to trading this stock after president RC Bogg in 1899. Not cancelled. July of 1862.Seems to be in Connecticut. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 104005 Green border, black print, eagle vignette. Folds, toning. Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Lot#2214 Dakota Territory c1884 Deadwood Stock Collection HWAC# 104357 Certs (3) Albe Mining Company, I/U No. 82 shares for 1000 to (signature illegible) signed by President Albe F. Erricks(?); Monitor Mining Company I/C No. 226 Lot#2210 Colorado 1870 for 2500 shares to D. M. Laughlin, signed by President, United States Freehold Land D.M. Laughlin; General Crook Silver Mining Company and Emigration Certificate I/U No. 222 for 1396 shares to John Wringross(?) Ephemera from the United States signed by President S.M. Marukin(?). Est. $250-300 Freehold Land and Emigration HWAC# 108154 Certificate, incorporated in July 8, 1870 in Colorado (By Special Act Lot#2215 Nacoochee, Georgia of Congress), certificate number 1879 Nacoochee Gold Mining 703. Signed by C. A. Lumbard, and Company Stock # 138 for 10 William H. Reynolds. Holland 1 25 revenue stamp. Printed by Major & shares to George A Root. Signed by Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co. 71 Broadway, NY, size 11.25” by 7.75”. Heavy Wilcox and president Josiah Curtis. folds with holes at intersections. Coupons 8 through 49 attached. Dateline New York 1879. Miners on Ornate border with an eagle vignette. Printed on top: “Incorporated break vignette. Some foxing on top by a Special Act of Congress of the United States. Approved July 8th, left. Very Nice Condition. Located 1870.” The United States Freehold Land and Emigration Company near the gold discovery sites in was established in 1869 to promote and encourage emigration to and Georgia. Dukes Creek (originally called Nacoochee Creek) is the creek establish settlements on the 500,000 acre Costilla Estate in the San in White County, Georgia, on which gold was found in 1828. Either Luis Valley, in the Territories of Colorado and New Mexico. Est. $140- Frank Logan or one of his slaves is typically given the credit for this 200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 105952 find. The discovery of gold in White County and neighboring Lumpkin County led to the Georgia Gold Rush. Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Collection Lot#2211 Colorado Ward, HWAC# 81960 Boulder Colorado Big Five Mine Certificates This comprehensive Lot#2216 Alturas County, Idaho collection contains fifteen stocks. Columbia Gold and Silver Mining Big Five Investment Company # Co, Idaho Territory Stock 116 10, 1908, pink Big Five Mining Located in the Saw Tooth District, Company # 207 in 1914, Central Alturas County, based on a different Consoldiated Tunnel, Mining and stock we have sold for this company Milling Company 3225 1918, Ward that had the location printed on it. Success Gold Mining Company #116 issued to John Gordon, 1866, #397 1910, Ward Mining & Milling Company 1919. Seven small certs: 1000 shares, signed by secretary Hudson Big Five Tunnel, Ore Reduction and Transportation, three Big J.K. Sellnick and president Jas. Five Mining, and two Belman Mining. Finally five Big Five Tunnel, Ore M. Chesney, incorporated in NY. Pretty red seal. Some toning, small Reduction and Transportation bonds: two gold $1000, green $100, crease and tiny chip on top, paper fracture on bottom. Same form as brown $50 and blue $10. Est. $170-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# HWAC# 58906. Est. $300-600 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 108205 109085 Lot#2217 Alturas County, Idaho Lot#2212 Hartford County, Columbia Gold and Silver Mining Connecticut 1867 Charter Oak Co, Idaho Territory Stock 120 Copper Mining Company Stock Located in the Saw Tooth District, Certificate Location printed Alturas County, based on a different on certificate: Hartford County, stock we have sold for this company Connecticut. Inc. in New York. No. that had the location printed on it. 67, issued for 100 shares to August #120 issued to John Gordon, 1866, Jaeger on March 6th, 1867 in New 1000 shares, signed by secretary York. Signed by the president J.K. Sellnick and president Jas. (illegible) and secretary Milspaugh. Not cancelled. Green border and M. Chesney, incorporated in NY. Pretty red seal. Some toning, small print. Vignette at center of an oak tree. Vignette at bottom left of a crease and tiny chip on top, paper fracture on bottom. Same form as stack of copper ingots. No printer listed. 25 cent adhesive revenue HWAC# 108205. Est. $240-480 HWAC# 58906 stamp attached on the left. Pinholes, folds, areas of heavy toning around edges.6.25 x 10.75” By May of 1867 it was reported that one could not find this for less than $20.00 a share [Pittsburgh Daily Commercial]. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 107752 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 111

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2218 Alturas County, Idaho Lot#2222 Idaho 1906-1937 1875 Monarch Gold & Silver Mining Idaho Mining Stock Certificate Company Bond Rare. County of Collection Lot of 9 different. Alturas, Territory of Idaho (printed Included: Tamarack & Chesapeak under title). $1,000 bond No. 19 issued MC (Burke, 1911, mining vignettes); to Daniel Yandes Dr. on March 15th, Gertie MC (1923, elk vignette); 1875. Signed by president William C. Orogrande GMC (1918); Great Smack and secretary H. Knippenberg. Dunker Mining & Milling Co. (1924, Not cancelled. Black border and print. locomotive vignette); Patterson Small patriotic vignette of eagle and Mines, Inc. (1936, mining vignettes); another of a Native American. “One Acme Cons. Silver-Lead MC (1906, Thousand Dollars” printed in green. Eight coupons attached. Folds 3 mining vignettes); Senator MC (Coeur D’Alene, 1920, allegorical with some separation, other light wear. 17 x 13” The Monarch was vignette); Hecla MC (1937, mining vignette); and Idaho Hewer Mines, a successful mine at the head of Quartz Gulch at Atlanta, Idaho. Est. Inc. (1926). Est. $160-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107639 $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 100954 Lot#2223 Idaho 1881 & 1888 Two Different Lot#2219 Boise Basin, Idaho New Idaho Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 2 York & Idaho Gold MC Stock, 1864 different. 1) Philadelphia Mining and Smelting Issued to C.S. Pell for 100 shares on Dec Company. Location: Alturas County, Idaho 29, 1864, sifned by O.W. Woodford as (printed under title). No. 49, issued for 1,000 president and EB Fellows as Secretary. shares to F. Murphy on July 4th, 1881. Not Godess og Gold vignette at left. I/ cancelled. Black border and print, fancy logo. uncancelled. Three holes punched at Pinholes, folds. 5 x 9.5” 2) Shoshone Gold top (for notebook insertion by an old Mining Company. Location of Mine: Cassia colletor) Exceptionally rare piece from County, Idaho (printed under vignette). No. Idaho.Not in the Prag Collectcion, 513, issued for 100 shares to Hotchkiss on Feb. to our recollection. This is from the 8, 1888. Signed by president Close and Hotchkiss. Not cancelled. Black very early gold rush at the Boise Basin. There are probably less than border and print, green background. Great western vignette showing six different pre-1865 Idaho pieces known. Est. $750-1200 HWAC# gold panners and a locomotive. 5.5 x 9” Tiny pinholes and folds. Est. 110202 $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 101569 Lot#2220 Lemhi County, Idaho Lot#2224 Maine 1880, 1884 Two Maine Silver 1886 Beaver Head Hydraulic Mining Stocks: Sullivan and Stover Hill 1) Mining Co. Stock Certificate Stover Hill of Blue Hill, Maine. # 330 for 37 1/2 Properties located in Lemhi County, shares. Green on white. 2) Sullivan. # 1552 for Idaho (printed at top). Great 100 shares. Stamps for six assessment shares on hydraulic mining vignette! Inc. in front. Both have underground mining vignettes. New York. No. 124, issued for 50 Both are in fine condition. Two of several Maine shares to Livingston D. Smith on silver mining stock certificates offered this August 3rd, 1886. Signed by president Dudley Tailin and secretary auction. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# Cyrus M. Ward. Not cancelled. Black border and print, red seal. 81955 Hydraulic mining vignette. Printed by AC Goodwin, NY. 6.75 x 12” Horizontal and vertical folds, bent corners. Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Lot#2225 Eckhart, Maryland 1838 Collection HWAC# 100952 Maryland Mining Co. Stock # 358 for 1 share to D Thomas Sewell. Lot#2221 Owyhee Signed by president Matthew St. County, Silver Clair Clarke (see below). Dateline City, Idaho 1867 Washington 1838. Cut very Poorman Gold unevenly. Rips center left and lower & Silver Mining left. Fair condition, but very early Company Bond and very important historically. FH says this bond Not cancelled. The Maryland Mining Company was incorporated in is a must for ingot 1828 to mine coal in the Eckhart area. The prototype of all future collectors, as coal companies in the Georges Creek region, Maryland Mining was several ingots are eventually permitted by the Legislature to hold up to five thousand known (of F. Blake) acres of land and to build a railroad from its mine to Cumberland. A from the Poorman. stock issue of $200,000 was authorized, later increased to one million Major Silver City dollars in 1853. The land was acquired by Matthew St. Clair Clarke, mine. Bond no. 369, president of the Maryland Mining Company; he did not deed it to issued for $100 on the company unitil 1837, after which time Maryland Mining began Dec. 2nd, 1867. Signed by president Hiram A. Johnson, treasurer H. to acquire property on its own. Mine No. 4, one of the few extant Wells, and secretary Deater. Not cancelled. Ornate green border, black deep mine openings in the Georges Creek Valley, was opened by the print and vignette of prospectors sluicing. Printed by Hatch & Co., NY. Maryland Mining Company shortly after 1835. It and other mines in Poor condition. Heavy toning, large tape repairs, rough edges. 14 x the immediate area operated more or less continuously for more than 13.5” Five coupons remaining. Described in great detail by Browne a century. The town of Eckhart originated as a company town for the (1868, See pgs. 523-528). It was discovered in the summer of 1865. Maryland Mining Company when it opened the Eckhart mine in 1835. Raymond (1877) reported that the Poorman and other Owyhee mines Est. $400-800 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 81607 suffered because of the failure of the Bank of California. However, the mine had a good body of ore (pg. 226). Est. $500-1000 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107078 112 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2226 Grand Rapids, Michigan Lot#2230 Butte, Montana 1881, 1882 Muskegon Iron Mining 1885 Moulton Mining Company Company Stock (Crystal Falls) Stocks One of the great Montana This is the last Michigan mining Stock Certificates. Three stocks: company stock we have from the black, green and blue. Issued and . And it is a beaut! # 121 for 400 punch-cancelled stock certificates shares to Taylor & Luton. Signed for Moulton Mining Company. Inc. by PH Brown and president in Territory of Montana. Same cert George S White. Dateline Grand except color. Mining and allegorical Rapids, November 23, 1882.”Location of mine Crystal Falls, Mich.” vignettes the same. Two are signed by William A Clark. Small issues Underground mining vignette. orange appled seal. Cut unevenly, but with each one - light staining and dog ears. Overall in nice condition otherwise excellent condition. We found no information on this mine. and make a nice set. Clark worked mining in Colorado before heading Est. $200-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 105975 for the Montana Gold Rush. He was more successful as a trader than miner at first. Later, he went into banking in Deer Lodge, Montana, Lot#2227 Ontenogan County, repossessing defaulted mining claims. Slowly, he became a powerful Michigan Minnesota Mining Co. mining force and was known as one of the three “Copper Kings” from 1856 Stock This spectacular stock Butte. Est. $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 90405 is from an old collection in the East. It represents a new discovery to Lot#2231 Helena, Montana 1910-1937 15 the Michigan colletors, not listed Different Helena-area, Montana Mining in Degood. It was the first mine in Stock Certificates Lot of 15 different. All Ontanogan County. It was the north post-1900. Included: Montana Cons. Mines half of an original 3 mile square Corp. (1934); Montana Clinton Copper lease, and by about 1850 the lease had been split up into parts, with Co. (1910 plus unissued); Montana Mines the Minnesota Company retaining about half, and the Rockland MC, Company (unissued); Montana Mines Flint Steel MC and Penninsula MC occupying parts of the southern & Power Co. (1933); Montana Mines (2 half. The main vein was rediscovered in 1847. When miners began diff. 1927); Montana Mines Corp. (1929); work on the vein in early 1848, they discovered ancient workings, Helena Gold & Iron Company (1910); Rex including a 26 foot deep shaft. When they got down 18 feet, they hit a MC (1937); Jefferson Mines Co. (1922); solid mass of copper that the ancients couldnt get out of the hole. The Jefferson & Teton MC (unissued); Helena Montana GMC (1916); mass had been hammered to death, and many stone and copper tools Wickes-Corbin CMC (1917, poor condition); and Amalgamated Silver were found around or near it. By 1854, the mine had become one of MC (1918). Please inspect. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# the major copper producers. It drew the attention of JD Whitney, who 107111 did a considerable writeup on it in his Metallic Wealth of the United States published in 1854. That led investors into a new incorporation Lot#2232 Spring Gulch, which resulted in this stock certificate, signed by Joseph henry De Montana 1867 Montana Gold & Palm as president and James D. Mansfield as treasurer. It is a one sgare Silver Mining Company Stock free trading certificte, #178, issued in 1856. Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# Certificate Chartered by the state 109375 of PA, March 23, 1865. Certificate No. 326, issued for 50 shares to Lot#2228 Saginaw, Michigan AK McClure in 1867. Signed by Saginaw & Canada Oil Co. Stock William McClellan, president Certificate, 1866 Spectacular early and CM Kibbins, Treasurer. Not oil certifictae for Michigan, possibly cancelled. Black border and print. the earliest known. Unique to us. Oil Vignette of hoisting works & mill.Folds, some toning.7 x 10.25” The was discovered in Michigan Basin company built a quartz mill and a one-story residence in Spring Gulch, in 1858, and exploration continued Summit District in 1866. [Ref: http://deq.mt.gov/abandonedmines/ into the mid 1880’s until actual linkdocs/129tech.mcpx] Est. $150-300 HWAC# 107734 regular production began. This uncancelled cert was issued to EH McTuigg for ten shares JAnuary 26, Lot#2233 Montana 5 Montana stock 1866, signed by James L. Kitcham as president and CF Robinson as certificates 5 stock certificates from secretary. Printed in Detroit by CAlvert & Co. Litho. Est. $600-1500 Montana: 1) 50 shares of Triangle Mining HWAC# 110208 and Development Co. @ $1 each, cert. # 276 issued to Sam Redmond, signed Lot#2229 Bannack, Montana March 1, 1912. Inc. Missoula, MT. In 1865 East Bannack Gold & Silver business 1906-1923. Signed Frank Robb, Mining Co. Stock Certificate Very pres and Hy Gephart, secy. Assigned. early Montana mining certificate! 2) Unissued and uncancelled stock of Inc in New York, Oct. 1864. No. 71, Montana Fire-Clay Co cert. # 221. 3) 100 issued for 5,000 shares to company shares of Parrot Silver and Copper Co. 4) president George W. Abbe on July Algonquin Co. 5) St. Helena Gold and Silver Mining Co. @ $10 each. 20th, 1865 in New York. Signed by Inc. MT. Mines located 3 miles from Helena. SEE FULL DESCRIPTION Abbe and secretary Jos. Grady. Not ONLINE Est. $160-200 HWAC# 100418 cancelled. Detailed allegorical vignette and fancy logo. Printed by Koeff Brothers, NY. Folds, some toning. 6 x 10.25” According to The American Mining Gazette Vol. 2, the company owned 1,300 feet of gold lodes 3,700 feet of silver lodes, and 80 acres of valuable timber land in the vicinity of Bannack City. The company owned a mill in 1866 located on the Shober ledge and managed by David Worden. [Ref: Washington, Idaho, and Montana, 1890, Bancroft] Est. $300- 400 HWAC# 107706 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 113

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2234 Antelope Mining District, Lot#2237 Austin, Lander, Nevada Nevada 1872 Batavia Gold & Silver 1865 Combination Silver Mining Mining Company Stock # 658 for Company of Nevada Stock # 237 214 shares to Coppenstedt. Signed for 16 shares to Caroline Waller(?). by HM Warren and vice president Signed by president and secretary. B Bliss. Datelined Batavia, New 25c Power of Att’y revenue stamp. York, 1872. 25c blue large Internal Not cancelled. Miner on knee Revenue stamp. Allegorical female chipping away at tunnel. Also two vignette. No printer. Some staining allegorical vignettes. One fold is upper left from paper clip. Edge and starting to rip apart near bottom. Other minor issues: heavy folds, corners are strong. Nice! The exact location of this mine is difficult to rounded corners, discoloration. Incorporated in 1865 in New York. find. We believe the best possibility is in the Antelope Mining District Stock wiped out by foreclosure in 1870 [Obsolete American Securities in Pershing County, Nevada. It would be a reincorporation of the Relief and Corporation] Most likely an Austin / Reese River stock since it Canyon mine in Pershing County, Nevada. There was a Batavia Gold & is listed as ‘silver’ and in 1865 New York companies were investing Silver that incorporated in Nevada on October 17, 1863. It may have heavily there. Est. $240-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 90512 also been a Californian mine with the word ‘Pacific’ in it and the date of the cert. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 80464 Lot#2238 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906-1923 “Mayflower” Bullfrog Mining Stock Lot#2235 Aurora, Nevada 1866 Collection Lot of 7. Included: The Mayflower Enterprise Gold & Silver Mining Mines Consolidated (1923, pen cancelled, Co. Stock Certificate Inc. March mining vignettes, deep fold); Mayflower 21, 1865 in Pennsylvania. No. Bullfrog Consolidated Mining Company 164, issued for 15 shares to James (1911, not cxl); Bullfrog-Mayflower Extension M. Martin on March 8th, 1866 in Gold Mining Company (1907, not cxl, mining Philadelphia. Signed by president vignette); Consolidated Mayflower Mines H.G. Sickel and treasurer John L. Company (two issued in 1919, one unissued); Thackeray. Not cancelled. Blue seal, and Nevada Black Swan Gold Mining Company red print and two mining vignettes (surface and underground). Printed (1906, not cxl, mining vignettes, deep folds). Est. $150-300 Ken Prag by John Alexander, Philadelphia.7 x 11” Twenty-five cent IR stamp Collection HWAC# 101629 attached at right and bottom left. Deep folds, pinholes, tape repair. The Enterprise owned a claim of the same name on Last Chance Hill in Lot#2239 Bullfrog, Nevada 1903-1906 Aurora, Esmeralda County during 1865-66. Not surprising to see the “National Bank” Bullfrog, Nevada company incorporated in Pennsylvania, as this was an active period of Mining Stock Certificate Trio Lot investment in Nevada mines by Pennsylvanians. [Ref: Stretch, Angel] of 3 different. 1) Shoshone National () Est. $300-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91549 Bank Mining Company. Issued in 1906 for 500 shares to D. Davis Wilkins in Lot#2236 Aurora, Nevada 1861 First North Extension Esmeralda Goldfield. Signed by president Marks Mining Co. Stock Certificate Inc. March 2nd, 1861. No. 85, issued and secretary Champion. Not cancelled. for five shares Black border and print, fancy logo. to Isaac Folds, toning, bent corners. 2) Bullfrog Ki rkpatr i c k National Bank Gold Mining Company. on July 15th, Issued in 1906 to Goldfield Investment 1861 in San Co. Signed by the president and asst. F r anc i s co . secretary. Not cancelled. Black border, Signed by black and green and red print. Three pr esident mining vignettes. Pinholes, folds. 3) Alex Gamble National Bank Gold Mining Company. and secretary Issued in 1903 for 500 shares to Sol on Thomas St. John. Signed by treasurer Pattee. Not Henry Brendenburg and president William Morrow. Not cancelled. cancelled. Gray Green border, black print, and vignette of capitol building. Folds. Est. border and $180-350 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 101633 background, black and white print. Vignette at top of a cherub-like child with dog and safe. White underprint. Britton & Company. 5 x 9”. Folds, small Lot#2240 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905-1907 stain. Very Fine. This is an incredibly early Esmeralda stock! Pattee Bullfrog Mining Stock Certificates: was secretary for a number of Aurora mining companies including the Daisy, Gold Bar, Homestake Lot of Wide West also sold out of San Francisco. Gamble was listed as being 5 different. 1) Bullfrog Daisy Mining a mining business man in San Francisco. The original district was Company. Issued 1906, not cancelled. ten miles square and named by M. J. Corey, one of the three original Folds. 2) The Gold Bar Annex Mining discoverers int he summer of 1860. James Braley, ER Hicks and Corley Company. Issued in 1906, not cancelled. were camped at Esmeralda Hill when Hicks went to shoot some game Allegorical vignette. Folds. 3) Bullfrog for breakfast. He noticed the quartz outcrop, broke off chunks and Gold Bar Mining Company. Issued in hauled them back to camp. His partners tested the quartz for silver 1906, not cancelled. Eagle vignette. and gold. The first claim was the Old Winnemucca ledge, located Pinholes, folds. 4) The Homestake King August 25, 1860. The first mil was built in June of 1861, and within a Consolidated Bullfrog Mining & Milling Company. Issued in 1907, year there were nine more mills. Clemens never wrote a word about not cancelled. Allegorical vignette. Pinholes, folds. 5) Homestake this company. Its activity is unknown. Several of these certificates Extension Mining Company. Issued in 1905, not cancelled. Three came out about 16 year ago and are now dispersed. (Ref: Kelley, Angel, mining vignettes. Folds, pinholes. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 102196 SF 1862 Directory,History of San Luis Obispo County and Environs California with Biographical Sketches.) Est. $400-800 HWAC# 107721 114 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2241 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906- Lot#2244 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906-1909 1910 Bullfrog Mining Stock Bullfrog, Nevada Stock Certificates- Group Group: Gibraltar, Tramp, Bonanza 10 Six Bullfrog district certificates. The most Mountain Lot of 8. 1) Gibraltar rare is the Shoshone Annex Mining Company, Mines Syndicate. Issued in 1906 issued in 1906. This company was listed in for 500 shares. Punch cancelled. the Rhyolite Herald in 1909 (Filer II). Very Red border and Native American good condition. Uncancelled. Also rare is vignette. Pinholes, folds. 2) The Pocahontas Gold Gulch Mining Company Bonanza Mountain Mining & Milling issued in 1908. States mines in Bullfrog Company. Issued for 2,000 shares District, Nevada on the masthead. Other in 1907. Not cancelled. Black border and print, allegorical vignette. stocks include Pittsburgh Bullfrog Mining Pinholes, folds, light wear. 3) Philadelphia Bonanza Mining Company. Corporation, Ltd., 1906, Peerless Bullfrog Mining Company, orange Issued in 1906 for 25,000 shares to the company president. Multiple variety, 1906, Peerless Bullfrog Mining Company, issued 1906, Goes mining vignettes. Poor condition with rips and huge repairs to back. variety with large fold splits, and an unissued Rhyolite Rose Gold As is. 4) Tramp Consolidated Mining Company. Four different, issued Mining Company certificate. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 1906, 1907 (x2), and 1910. Pinholes and folds. Three have a mining 110066 vignette. 5) Tramps Consolidated Extension Mining Company. Issued in 1907 for 1,00 shares. Not cancelled. Folds with separation. Est. Lot#2245 Bullfrog, Nevada Bullfrog, Nevada $300-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 102186 Stock Certificates- Group 11 Nice group of five rare Bullfrog, Nevada mining stocks. 1) Lot#2242 Bullfrog, Nevada Bullfrog Stocks Datelined Rhyolite, Bullfrog- Red Oak Mining Company, issued Nevada Nice group of six stock certificates from the Bullfrog district at Los Angeles, Cal. in 1907. Eagle vignette. datelined Rhyolite. 1) Bullfrog Belle Mining Company, issued in 1908 Uncancelled. 2) Bullfrog- Rush Mining at Rhyolite. Company, issued in 1906. Mines Located at Mining vignette. Bullfrog, Nevada printed on the masthead. Unc. 2) Bullfrog This one is very rare. 3) Bullfrog Central Alli anc e Mining and Development Company, issued in Gold Mining 1906. Three mining vignettes. Uncancelled. C o m pan y , 4) The Bullfrog= Comstock Mining and Milling Co., issued at Denver, issued at Colorado in 1906. Five mng. vignettes. Unc. 5) The Bullfrog= Colorado Rhyolite in Mining Co., issued at Denver, Colorado in 1906. Mng. vignette at top 1907. Seven left. Uncancelled. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110236 mining vignettes. Mines Lot#2246 Bullfrog, Nevada Bullfrog, in Bullfrog Nevada Stock Certificates- Group 12 Nice Mining District, group of five different Bullfrog, Nevada Nev. printed at top left. 3) Granite- Contact Mines Company, issued stocks. 1) The Bullfrog Charter Mining and at Rhyolite, Nevada in 1906. Seven mng. vignettes. Signed by Clay MIlling Co., issued in 1905 to David Prosky. Tallman as vice president. Clay Tallman was a Democratic politician Three mng. vignettes. 2) Bullfrog Great from the U.S. State of Nevada. He was Commissioner of the United Bend Mining Company, issued in 1907. States General Land Office from 1913 to 1921.4) Vulture= Nevada Gold Three mng. vignettes. Unc. 3) Bull Frog Mining Company, issued in 1906. This one’s not issued at Rhyolite, Gold Mountain Mining Company, issued Nevada but Main office: Rhyolite, Nye County, Nevada is printed on the in 1906. Vignette of a woman sewing at masthead. Has a nice mng. vignette. 5) Nebo Mining Company, issued top left. Unc. 4) Bullfrog Gold Note Mining at Rhyolite, Nevada in 1907. Issued to Clay Tallman and signed by him Company, issued in 1908. Allegorical female. Uncancelled. 5) The as company secretary. Clay Tallman was a Democratic politician from Bullfrog Apex Mining and Milling Company, unissued by signed by Clay the U.S. State of Nevada. He was Commissioner of the United States Tallman as secretary. Clay Tallman was a Democratic politician from General Land Office from 1913 to 1921. 6) Lost Bethune Mining the U.S. State of Nevada. He was Commissioner of the United States Company, U/I. Would have been datelined Nevada if issued. Est. General Land Office from 1913 to 1921 (wiki). Nice green bullfrog a $250-350 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110234 the center of the certificate. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110237 Lot#2243 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905-1926 Lot#2247 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905-1907 Bullfrog, Nevada Stock Certificate- Bullfrog, Nevada Stock Certificates- Group 2 Group of six rare Bullfrog certificates. 1) The Group 1 Nice group of seven stocks from LIttle Bullfrog Gold Mining Company, issued Bullfrog, Nevada. Includes two very rare 1906, ex cond. U/C 2) Goldfield Bull Frog certificates. 1) The Little Bullfrog Gold Mining Co., issued 1906, mines in Goldfield Mining Company, issued in 1906 for 200 and Bullfrog mining districts printed at the shares. Cert. #213. Edward Patrick the top. Extra horizontal fold across the center mining promoter signs as secretary. Issued and tight trim on right border. 3) White to Anna Moore. Ex. condition. Uncancelled. Water Bullfrog Mining Company, issued 2) Gold Mountain Consolidated Mines 1906, three mining vignettes. Ex. cond. U/C Company, issued in 1907 for 20,000 shares 4) The Goldfield and Bull Frog Co-Operative Prospecting Mining Co. to J.T. Mitchell. “Principal Office, Bullfrog, Nye County, Nevada” printed issued 1907, ex. cond. U/C 5) Montana Bull Frog Mining Company, on the masthead. Nice mining vignette in ex. uncancelled condition. issued 1905, Location of works, Bull Frog mining district printed top The other certificates include Montana Bull Frog Mining Co., issued in right. Ex. cond. U/C 6) Goldhill Bullfrog M.C. unissued. Est. $200-300 1906. Ex.cond.U/C., Lige Harris Bullfrog Gold Mining Company issued Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110058 1905, fold splits, U/C, Spearhead Mining Company, issued in 1906. Ex. cond., U/C, Sunset Mining& Development Co. issued 1920 and Revert Mining Company issued 1926. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110057 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 115

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2248 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905-1908 Lot#2252 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905-1907 Bullfrog, Nevada Stock Certificates- Group Bullfrog, Nevada Stock Certificates- 3 Group of six Bullfrog stock certificates Group 7 Five certificates from the with some rare ones. Bullfrog Jumper Mining Bullfrog district. 1) Rhyolite Townsite Company issued 1907, ex. cond. Rare. Also, & Mining Company, issued 1906 and Bullfrog=Monitor Mining Company, cert. signed by Sol Camp as vice president. #5, issued for 80,000 shares in 1905. Rare. Principal office: Rhyolite, Nevada Ex. condition. Unc. 3) Fortuna Gold Mining printed at the top. Nice certificate is Company, issued in 1908. Principal office: ex. condition. Unc. 2) United Mining & Bullfrog, Nye Co. Nevada printed on the Exploration Company, issued in 1905. masthead. Rare. Ex. condtion. Unc. Other Mines at Goldfield and Bullfrog, Nevada. stocks include Bullfrog Pedestal Mining Co. issued 1906. MINES AT Uncancelled with fold lines. 3) Bullfrog Columbia Mining Company, BULLFROG, NEVADA printed in bold diagonally across the certificate, issued in 1906. Small size certificate. Office at Colorado Springs.Listed Gibraltar Mines Syndicate, 1907 and Bullfrog Red Mountain M.C. as Bullfrog in Polk, 1907. 4) The El Oro Mining and MIlling Company, unissued. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110059 issued in 1906. Three mining vignettes. The company operated the Mocha and Java mines and the Oro claims in the Bullfrog district. Lot#2249 Bullfrog, Nevada Bullfrog, 5) The Magnet Gold Mining Company, issued in 1907. Properties, Nevada Stock Certificates- Group 4 Six Tonopah, Goldfield, Bullfrog, Nev. printed on the certificate. Large fold certificates from the Bullfrog district with splits. Uncancelled. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110063 three very rare ones. 1) Ohio Bullfrog Gold Mining Compahy, cert. #84, issued for 3000 Lot#2253 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906-1930 shares in 1905. Mines and works at Rhyolite, Bullfrog, Nevada Stock Certificates- Group Nevada printed on the masthead. Large size 8 Six Bullfrog district stock certificates, some certificate. Photo like vignette of miners rare. 1) The Magnet Gold Mining Company, outside portal. “Property is on Bonanza issued 1908. Mines at Tonopah, Goldfield and Mountain on the Famous Bullfrog Golden Bullfrog, Nevada printed on the certificate. Horseshoe” also on the masthead. Very nice. Nice mining vignette. Ex. cond. Unc. 2) Tramp 2) Bullfrog Mining Syndicate, issued in 1910. Three mining vignettes. Consolidated Mining Company, issued in 1910. Ex. cond. Uncancelled. 3) Bullfrog Pilot Mining Company, issued in Large size certificate and the much scarcer 1906. Mines at Bullfrog, Nevada printed diagonally across certificate. variety than the engraved ones. Rough top edge Other certs. include the Bullfrog North Star Mining Company, issued with large tears. 3) Bullfrog Banner Extension 1906 and (2) Gibraltar Mines Syndicate issued 1906 and 1907. Est. Mines Company, issued 1907. Not listed in Filer II. The Bullfrog Banner $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110060 MC was located near Beatty, so this was likely as well. Nice condition. Unc. 4)Syndicate Mines Company, issued 1906. Not listed in Filer II. 5) Lot#2250 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905-1909 Goldfrog Big C Mining Company, issued in 1907. “Mines at Goldfield Bullfrog, Nevada Stock Certificates- and Bullfrog, Nevada” in large print at the bottom. Heavy wear at folds Group 5 Group of five Bullfrog district and large fold splits on left fold 6) Banner Development Company, mining stocks with some rare ones. 1) issued in 1930. Uncancelled. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# Lucky- Jack Shoshone Mining Company 110064 of Beatty, Nye County, Nevada, issued to the Hobart Estate Company, owners Lot#2254 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905-1908 of the Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Bullfrog, Nevada Stock Certificates- Group Company at Hobart Mills, California. 9 This group has six Bullfrog certificates and Location, Bullfrog district printed at top most are very rare. 1) The Gold Bull Frog left. This certificate was issued for 213,750 Mining and Milling Company, issued at Bull shares or over 20% of the authorized float. Three mining vignettes. Frog, Nevada in 1907. Do not recall if we have This company is not listed in the Filer II Bullfrog company listings. ever had a certificate issued at “Bull Frog” It was likely closely held as evidenced by this certificate. Very rare. before. Nice certificate with miners working 2) Bullfrog Steinway Mining Company, issued in 1906. Listed in Filer underground. Ex. cond. Unc. 2) Courts Bull as located on divide north of Shoshone. Very rare. Others include Frog Mining Company, issued in 1905 and Bullfrog Syndicate Mining Company, issued 1909. Fold splits. Unc., signed by John Court as president. Not listed Bullfrog Victor Mining Co. 1905 and Spearhead Bullfrog MC issued in in Filer II. Uncancelled. Don’t believe we have seen this one before. 3) 1906. VF. Unc. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110061 The Magnet Gold Mining Company, issued 1905. Small size certificate is a different format than the others in this auction. 4) The Mattie Lot#2251 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905-1907 Bullfrog Mining and Milling Co., issued 1906. Listed in Polk, 1907 Bullfrog, Nevada Stock Certificates- (Filer II). Nice condition for this rare certificate. Unc. 5) Maryland Group 6 Nice group of six Bullfrog district Bullfrog Mining Co., issued in 1907. Home office: Rhyolite, Nevada stocks with some rare ones. 1) Bullfrog printed at the top. Very good condition. Unc. 6)Bullfrog-Jumbo Mining Hondo Mining Company, issued 1905 for Company, issued in 1906. Large size certificate. 1” fold splits on the 6250 shares. Market capitalization of this top of the two fold lines. This company is not listed in the Bullfrog company was only $1,500, so this certificate companies in Filer II. Another rare one to finish off this fine group. is extremely rare. Not listed in Filer II list of Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110065 Bullfrog mining companies. 2) The Bullfrog- Independence Mining Company, issued in Lot#2255 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906. Nice mining vignette. In excellent, Bullfrog, NV Stock Suite (5) 5 uncancelled condition. 3) The Rhyolite Rose Gold Mining Company, I/U. Sunset MC 1919, Montgomery issued in 1907. The company owned multiple properties including at Shoshone Con MC 1910, Diamond Gold Center and 2 mi. north of Rhyolite (Filer 2). Ex. condition, Unc. 4) Queen MC 1908, Shoshone National Yankee Girl Gold Mining Company of Bullfrog, issued 1905. Mine was Bank MC 1906, Tramp Con MC located on Ladd Mountain n. of National Bank mine. Ex. cond., unc. 1909, Est. $200-300 HWAC# 108112 Others include Peerless Bullfrog MC issued in 1906 with large fold splits and Ajax Bullfrog MC issued in 1905 with large tears and some paper loss at left edge. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110062 116 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2256 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905- Lot#2260 Carrara, Nevada American Carrara 1911 Montgomery / Shoshone Marble Co stock American Carrara Marble Co Bullfrog Mining Stock Collection stock to Chas Berry for 60 shares Oct 7, 1911 Lot of 8 stock certificates plus 4 i/u and a cert for the United MArble Co (1917). pieces of ephemera. Stocks include: Very rare marble stock from the tiny mining Montgomery Mountain Mining camp of Carrara, located right on the LV & T RR Company of Bullfrog (1905, not cxl, line just south of Beatty. all that is left now are pinholes, folds); The Montgomery concrete foundations. Today, the marble would Mountain Mines Corporation (1910, be in demand, except for the possible ptroblem not cxl, mining vignette, folds); of fracture density. The marble is mottled gray Montgomery Shoshone Consolidated and white. In 1919ish, the public wanted all white Mining Company (three issued 1910-11, drilling vignette, folds, marble, and this was mottled. Today, tastes have changed, and i am pinholes); Montgomery-Shoshone Extension Mining Company (two surprised someone has not gone back for a second look (fh). Est. $80- different, both issued in 1906, mining vignettes, folds, separation, 120 HWAC# 103136 toning); and The Montgomery-Annex Mining Company (1909, not cxl, mining vignette, folds, toning). Ephemera: Montgomery Mountain Lot#2261 Churchill County, La Plata, Mines Corp. two 1910 letterheads and two pages of official documents. Nevada 1866 La Plata Liver Mining Est. $300-500 HWAC# 101635 Company of Nevada Bond (loan) # 22 for $1000. To bearer. Signed by Daniel Hunter Lot#2257 Bullfrog, Nevada Pioneer & and president Hose(?). Directors: Dr. CH Mayflower Stocks, Bullfrog District, Hunter, EL Richie, John L Hoffman. Loan Nevada This lot has Bullfrog stocks with $1000. Six $20 coupons attached. JOurnal a couple more thrown in. 1) Bullfrog Office printer. One small rip at upper left Mayflower Extension Gold Mining Company, fold. Otherwise in very nice condition. 8.5 issued in 1906. Nice mng. vignette. 2) Ruby- x 9”. This was issued during the two years Frontier Mines Company, issued in 1908. La Plata was the county seat of Churchill Pioneer district (Bullfrog), Nye County. 3) County. La Plata never reached a population of more than a couple The Puritan Consolidated Mining Company, of hundred. On top of that it was, like most Nevada mining camps, in issued in 1912. Principal office: Pioneer, Nye a remote mountain area. La Plata was given the county seat, because County, Nevada. Plus two certificates from the current county seat was Buckland Station. That’s right a wagon the Indian Mines Corporation, issued in 1932, and 1933. Large Indian station in an area with a few ranches - and, oh yes, Fort Churchill - was vignette. In 1930, the company purchased the Mary mine, on which the first county seat. In 1867 the county seat was moved to Stillwater, Lucky Boy Divide MC has a long lease. The mill on the property was a small town with a lot of ranches. The ore was surface, ran out quickly, built by Indian Mines Corporation. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection and by 1867 there was little population left and no real mining! Est. HWAC# 110233 $240-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 90509 Lot#2258 Bullfrog, Nevada Rare Lot#2262 Comstock, Nevada Bullfrog, Nevada Stocks, 2 1906-1933 Comstock Tunnel datelined Bullfrog A group of four & Drainage Co. Stock & Bond rare Bullfrog mining stocks with two Collection Lot of 6. Three stocks of them issued at Bullfrog, Nevada and three bonds. This was the later which is quite rare. 1-2) Bull Frog renaming and reorganization of the West Extension Mining Company, Sutro Tunnel Company. 1) Three 1907 and 1909, issued at Bull Frog stocks, two different varieties. One is (two words), Nevada. Location of issued in 1906, not cancelled, eagle Works: Bull Frog, Nevada, printed at vignette. The other two are issued the top right. Three mng. vignettes. 3) Bullfrog Alta Mining Company, in 1932 and 1933, one punch cancelled, both with eagle vignettes. 2) issued in 1907. Principal office: Bullfrog, Nevada. Mines located in Three bonds. One is issued in 1920 for $250 of the First Mortgage Bullfrog Mining District, Nevada printed on the masthead. Eagle and 30-Year Gold Income Bonds; stamp cancelled. The other two bonds globe vignette. Unc. 4) Bullfrog- Banner Mines Company, issued in are of the same design (drilling vignette) but different denominations 1908. The co. incorporated in South Dakota in 1906. No vignette, but ($500 and $1,000) and border colors. Both issued in 1919, full page still a nice stock and pretty rare. Uncancelled. Est. $150-250 Ken Prag of coupons, stamp cancelled. Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# Collection HWAC# 110235 102197 Lot#2259 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905 and 1907 Two Lot#2263 Comstock, Nevada 1889 Three Different Shoshone Bullfrog Mining Stock Different Comstock Tunnel Company Stock Certificates Lot of 2 rare stocks. 1) 1) The Shoshone- Certificates Lot of 3 different for this later Bull Frog Gold Mining Company. Incorporated reorganization of the Sutro Tunnel Company. 1) under the laws of the State of Wyoming, 1905. No. Certificate by the Union Trust Company of New 63,.issued for 1000 shares to J.W. Taylor on Sept. York for $100 of First Mortgage Income Bonds 18th, 1907. Signed by T.F. Bonneau (vice president) of the Comstock Tunnel Company. Issued Dec. and E.H. Sanford (secretary). Not cancelled. Reverse 17, 1889 in New York. Signed by the president is endorsed. Green border with top vignette of deer of the Union Trust Co. Not cancelled. Pinholes, with antlers and bottom vignette of hut. Printed by folds. 2) Two different Comstock Tunnel Out West Co. Print, LA. Folds, light wear, 8.25 x 10” Company stocks signed by Theodore Sutro as 2) Shoshone Bullfrog Mining Company. Inc. in Arizona. No. 159, issued president (brother of Adolph). Issued in 1889 for 100 and 500 shares, for 1,000 shares to JH Walton on April 10th, 1905. Signed by president neither cancelled. Also signed by secretary Thayer. Orange or red W. Booth and secretary G.P. Helfrich. Not cancelled. Gold border. Three borders, eagle vignette. Pinholes, folds, some separation. Est. $200- mining vignettes. Deep folds with minor separation, toning. 8.25 x 300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107238 10.75” Est. $200-400 HWAC# 102182 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 117

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2264 Comstock, Nevada 1879 Lot#2268 Comstock - Virginia District, & 1896 Two Mining Stocks for Nevada 1878 Solid Silver G. & S. Mining Comstock Mines Run by John Mackay Company Stock # 281 for 25 shares Lot of 2 different. 1) California Mining to George B Child trustee. Signed by Company. Virginia Mining District, JJ Applegate and president H Cox. Not Storey County, Nevada (printed under cancelled. Fancy allegorical vignette on left. title). No. 96517, issued for 5 shares to Location: Virginia, Storey County, Nevada. E.A. Richardson. on Dec. 23, 1879 in SF. $100 each share. Dateline San Francisco 1878. Incorporated Feb. 23, Signed by president Chas. Wallace and 1878. One assessment stamp on reverse. Printer: Bruce’s Sac., Below secretary. CP. Gordon. Not cancelled. Montgomery Street, S. F. Well worn with larger rips at fold edges: up to Black border and print on yellow 5/8”. Other border issues. Good. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 88130 paper. Britton & Rey. Pinholes, deep folds. 4.25 x 9” The California Mining Company was split from the major Consolidated Virginia Mining Company in January of 1874 to speed up exploration. The Lot#2269 Comstock, Flowery Lode, Nevada 1877 gamble paid off with the discovery of the ‘Big Bonanza.’ The California Lady Bryan Mining Company Bond Printed Mine was the 2nd largest producer on the Comstock. Mackay (and by G.T. Brown Bonds for this company have not Fair, Flood, O’Brien) owned the Con. Virginia and California Mines. seen by us before! The Lady Bryan was a mine 2) Bullion Mining Company. Located in Gold Hill Dist. (printed above located on the Flowery District, Six Mile Canyon, title). No. 34216, issued for 100 shares to McDonell & Ryan on July Storey County. This 4100 bond, No. 169, is issued 9th, 1896. Signed by president Thomas Cole and secretary William to Wheeler Hall & Co. on July 9th, 1877. Signed Bowers. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Pinholes, folds, soiling. by president Martin Jones and secretary John FULL DESCRIPTION ONLINE Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# Crockett. Not cancelled. Printed by G.T. Brown & 100941 Co., S.F. Two bond coupons attached. G.T. Brown was a noted African- American lithographer in San Francisco. This bond is not listed in Lot#2265 Comstock, Nevada Chandler. Bond states that it will be repaid from 1/10th of funds from Virginia City, NV Stocks (4) I/U assessments and bullion. 13 x 12.5” Horizontal and vertical folds. () Goodman Gold and Silver Mining Est. $200-300 HWAC# 91548 1881 unsigned. Unissued Governor Low Gold and Silver Mining. I/U Lot#2270 Comstock, Gold Hill, Nevada Curtis Consolidated 1880. I/U 1878 Bullion Mining Company Stock Comstock Tunnel 1907 Est. $200- Certificate (GT Brown) Lot of 2. 1) 250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 105498 Stock no. 9113 issued for 10 shares to Jas. Coffin on Dec. 23, 1878 in SF. Signed Lot#2266 Comstock - Flowery, by vice-president William A. Schultz and Nevada 1876 Queen Mining secretary Joseph Gruss. Not cancelled. Company Stock - GT Brown Pinholes, folds. Printed by GT Brown, Lithographer Location: Flowery noted African-American lithographer. District, Comstock Lode, Storey 4 x 9” 2) Assessment receipt for the County. Nevada. Inc. Dec. 6th, 1875. company and the certificate issued to No. 866, issued for 100 shares Coffin. The Bullion Mine, staked in 1859, was located 1/2 mile north to William McClintock (company secretary) on April 7, 1876. Also of Gold Hill on the north side of Bullion Ravine. It was promising signed by D.L. McDonald as President. Vignette of queen lower left. property because it had rich Comstock mines on either side: the This piece was illustrated by the famous lithographer Grafton Tyler Chollar-Potosi and Consolidated Imperial. The Bullion absorbed Brown. Brown was one of the first African American artist in the West the Corser, Eastern Slope, Wellington, and Fairview claims; 944 ft. to illustrate several important scenes. No edge, corner, discoloration total. No recorded production, even though the mine was operated or pin hole issues. 4.25” x 9.25” () Est. $150-300 HWAC# 88120 from 1862 to the early 1900s. John Mackay was first a trustee of the mine in 1863, then superintendent in the late 1860s. As a trustee, Mackay teamed up with J.M. Walker, who took on the role of supt. Lot#2267 Comstock - Virginia Unfortunately, even Walker and Mackay could not make it profitable. District, Nevada 1875 Leviathan Before giving up, Mackay had the mine explored to a depth of 1,400 Mining Company Stock This stock feet. Please also see our very rare Mackay signed Bullion stock in this certificate was issued in the middle of the Comstock ‘Big Bonanza.’ sale. [Ref: Ansari] Est. $200-300 HWAC# 100824 # 225 for 3,194 shares to Leviathan Mining Company of California. Signed by Burbock(?) and president LT Hap. Dateline Virginia 1875. Lot#2271 Comstock, Star District, Not cancelled. Nevada state seal vignetted. Purple on left is from Nevada 1867 (1870) American signature of EO Lutz. Overall very nice. In July of 1863 the Leviathan Mining Company Stock # 775 for commenced suit against the Segregated Belcher to recover 2,000 10 shares to BF Sherwood trustee linear feet of their mining lode. Since this is the earliest information I . Signed by J. M. Buffington and could find on this mine, it makes this look like a mine gegun for the sole president AK Harmon. Dateline purpose of suing a major mining company and getting a settlement San Francisco December 22, 1870. and making their money! The mining company incorporated in Incorporated June 27, 1867. 25c January 1874. “The Leviathan Mining Company keep as large a force Certificate Revenue Stamp. Not Cancelled. Eagle Vignette. Britton & at work as they can running the northerly and southerly drifts and are Rey printer. Small hole bottom right. No edge, corner or discoloration making good progress. In about forty feet more the north drift will issues. Finding the exact location is problematic. But when this mine reach the same ore body which was found on the 625 foot level and was incorporated San Francisco held sway over many Comstock I have no doubt but that it will be found in sufficient quantity and companies. I found reference to the American Mining Company quality to start the mills on it. SEE FULL DESCRIPTION ONLINE Est. as early as 1867 in the Virginia Evening Chronicle. Buffington was $200-300 HWAC# 90519 a mining secretary in San Francisco for at least two decades. B.F. Sherwood was an early important figure on the Comstock. He was one of the original incorporators for the Gould & Curry Mine and a business associate of George Hearst. He was also supt. of the Central Mine. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91944 118 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2272 Comstock, Virginia, Lot#2276 Comstock, Virginia City, Nevada 1863 Eastern Company, Nevada 1875 Ural Cons. Silver Front Ledge Stock # 25 for 10 Mining Co. Stock Certificate (GT shares to WR (?). Signed by John S Brown Lith.) Ultra-rare. Location: Davis and William Laugererwau(?). Storey Co., Nevada (printed under Dateline San Francisco 1863. title). Inc. 1874. No. 51, issued for Incorporated May 1863. Location: 25 shares to A.C. Farno on Feb. Front Ledge, Virginia Mining District, Storey County, N. T. Not 2nd, 1875 in San Francisco. Signed cancelled. 25c Certificate revenue stamp. Circular vignette of miner by by president C.F. Brown and secretary JM Buffington. Not cancelled. tunnel in setting sun. Towne & Bacon printer. Small edge tears, folds, Black border and print. Yellow background inside border. Fancy rips. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91919 company logo and mining vignette. Printed by noted African-American lithographer G.T. Brown. Folds, many creases, some edge wear. 5 x Lot#2273 Comstock, Virginia City, 9.25” Not listed by Ansari. The Ural was north of and adjoining to the Nevada 1875 Beach & Paxton Sutro Mine on the Western ledge (Cedar Hill area). “Little has been Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock done in developments except to hold the claim.” [Ref: Annual Mining (GT Brown Lith.) Virginia Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1876, pg. 71] Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100959 District, Nevada (printed under title). Inc. June 5th, 1872. No. 38, Lot#2277 Cornucopia, Nevada issued for 100 shares to E. Fisher 1875 Panther Mining Company on Jan. 22nd, 1875 in San Francisco. Signed by president R.Bunker Stock - GT Brown Lithographer. # and secretary M. Landers. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Two 464 for 100 shares to WG Crandall vignettes: allegorical woman with phoenix (left) and small vignette of trustee. Signed by secretary and two birds (bottom). Lith. G.T. Brown & Co., SF (noted African-American vice president. Dateline 1875 San lithographer). Pinholes, folds, bottom right corner missing. 4 x 9” Not Francisco. Incorporated April listed in Filer or other Holabird indexes. The Beach & Paxton was next 21, 1875. Not cancelled. Panther vignette. Pin holes, nick top right, to the Cons. Virginia (on the west) and the Andes (on the north). It is aging discoloration. Printer and lithographer San Francisco’s famous prospected and worked through the same shaft. Prospected by drifts black G. T. Brown. Make sure you also see Brown’s tiger vignette in on the 150 and 350ft. levels. Very promising. (Annual Mining Review this auction. Office, 310 Pine Street. C. J. Shaw, president; J. W. Pew, and Stock Ledger, 1876, pg. 38] Est. $160-200 HWAC# 100919 secretary; J. M. Wilson, superintendent; C. J. Shaw, M. J. Hussey, A. C. Taylor, L. Vesaria, C. B. Gould, trustees. Annual meeting, third Tuesday Lot#2274 Comstock, Virginia in April No. of shares, 60,000. No. of feet, 1,600. No. of assessment, 9. City, Nevada 1880 Phil. Sheridan Assessment stamps for 1 and 2 on reverse. Amount, 10 cents. Bullion Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock yield, $21,720.45. Listed on San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board. Certificate Virginia Mining District, The Panther mine is located east and adjoining the Hussey mine [also Storey County, Nevada (printed at in this sale]. “During the past year new hoisting works have been bottom center). Inc. April 1872. erected and considerable dead work done. The main shaft has been No. 3466, issued for five shares to sunk to a depth of 360 feet, and a crosscut run to the main ledge. Drifts W. Smith on August 23, 1880. Signed by president George W. Dixon are now being run east and west, following the ledge, which is seven and secretary David Wilder. Not cancelled. Black border and print feet wide. Stringers of ore have been met with, carrying mineral, from on yellow paper. Vignette of Civil War general Sheridan. Lith. by W.T. which good assays have been had. The management hone to find the Galloway, SF. Folds, light wear. 4 x 9.25” This claim was first staked same chute of ore at this depth as was found on the upper level Work in 1861. The mine was located between the Sierra Nevada and the is being vigorously pushed ahead at the present time. Total bullion Sacramento & Meredith. The first developments included running a product since incorporation, $21,720.45.” [United States annual tunnel one-third the distance from the base to the summit of Cedar mining review and stock ledger, 1879 and scripophily.net] Est. $200- Hill, 540 ft. One hundred feet in, they hit paying ground. In 1876, the 400 HWAC# 88119 shaft was down 150 ft. [Annual Mining Review & Stock Ledger, 1876, pg. 65] Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 104343 Lot#2278 Elko County, Nevada Elko County Stock Certificate Collection Ten Lot#2275 Comstock, Virginia City, mining stocks from Elko County, Nevada Nevada 1864 United States Mining from nine different companies. 1) The Company Stock Certificate Denver Nevada Cons. Gold Mining & Virginia District, Story [sic.] County, Milling Company, issued in 1905. Three N.T.” (printed at top). Inc. in 1862. mng. vignettes. Aura, Elko County. 2) No. 108, issued for five shares to Spruce Standard Mining Co., issued at CA Crane on May 25th, 1864 in San Elko in 1936. Eagle vignette. Sprucemont Francisco. Signed by president Knox district. 3) Gibraltar Mining & Developing and secretary Buffington. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Two Company, issued in 1907 at Cobre, vignettes: US Capitol building (center) and battle scene (Civil War?) Nevada. Mng. vignette. Unc. 4) Owyhee River Copper Company, issued (left). Designed and Engraved on Stone by Fishbourne, SF. 25 cent 1938. Mng. vignette. Unc. 5) Crescent Cons. Mines Company, issued stamp at bottom right with bold cancel from Buffington--perhaps 1917. Mines near Crescent Peak, Nevada printed at the top left. 6) the first time we have ever seen this cancel? Pinholes, folds, toning. Silver Circle Mining Company, issued 1927. Thunder Mountain, Elko 5 x 10.5” This company was listed in the Filer Collection. Listed in County. Mng. vignette. Unc. 7) Sleepy Hollow Mining Company, issued the 1864 Collins VC Directory. The 1863 Langley directory does not 1939. Lone Mountain district. No vignette. Unc. 8-9) Two from Nevada list the company. Charles A. Crane is listed as a State Stamp Inspector. Packard Mines Co. issued around 1915. One isn’t dated, but the cert. We have previously offered a different variety of this stock, but not number is lower than the one that’s dated 1915. Elk vignette at top this one! According to a March 28th, 1868 article in the Daily Alta left. Uncancelled. 10) This is a cool rarity. Certificate from the Vestalee California: “The United States Mining Company, located on the range Uranium & Thorium Corporation, #5, issued in 1954. This may be the of the Comstock, near Cedar Hill, yesterday commenced finking a first certificate we’ve ever seen with Thorium in the title. Thorium is large new shaft to the east of the croppings, intended to develop and one of three radioactive elements, #90 in the periodic table. Thorium work their ledge at a great depth. Their prospects are very flattering fuels can breed fissile Uranium-233 to be used in various nuclear for a good paying mine.” Est. $400-800 HWAC# 107738 reactors. Seven mng. vignettes. Operated in the Kingsley district, Elko County. Stamp cxled. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110137 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 119

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2279 Esmeralda, Nevada 1863 Lot#2282 Eureka, Nevada 1882-1884 Eureka Antelope Silver Mining Company Mining & Tunnel Stock Certificates Lot of Stock - Mark Twain Related No. three, two different companies. 1) Eureka Tunnel 3213 for two shares to Alf Gamble. and Mining Company. Inc. 1878. No. 1192, issued Share numbers 444 to 445. Signed for 100 shares to ER Grant on Feb. 11, 1882 in by Solan Pateco and president Alex Eureka. Signed by president Wm. Bishop and Gamble. Dateline San Francisco the secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and 1863. According to the Sacramento print, mining vignette. HS Crocker, SF. Pinholes, Daily Union an Antelope Silver Mining Company of San Francisco folds. 4 x 8.75” 2) Eureka Tunnel Consolidated with the same $600,000 capital stock. This would actually put this Mining Company. Location: Prospect Mountain, stock certificate in the Utah Territory! Antelope vignette. Britton & Eureka, Nevada. Two certificates, one unissued Co. printer. Mark Twain in a letter of May 4, 1862 writes his brother, and one issued. No. 22, issued for 20 shares to Huller on July 22, 1884 “Yesterday we took a spirit level and got the angle of the celebrated in Eureka. Signed by the president and secretary Pardy. One signature “Antelope” ledge, and tomorrow we shall commence a hunt after the is pen cancelled. Black border and print on yellow paper. Folds, some second E. extension of it. We may find it and we may not. The thing has glue residue on reverse. 4 x 9” Est. $200-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# often been tried before, but with no success. If we find it, our fortunes 107016 are made - if we don’t, - they ain’t. I have 75 feet in a spur of the “Antelope,” which promises nothing save that it is an offshoot from a Lot#2283 Gold Creek, Nevada 1897-1898 The Gold good family - and I am aristocrat enough to attach some importance to Creek, Nevada Townsite Co. Stock Certificates Lot that sort of thing.” On May 5 he writes, “Hunted for “Antelope” today, of 3. Inc. in Colorado. Located in Gold Creek, Elko and found a ledge - but hardly think it is the right one. Four of us boys County, Nevada. 1) One is Gold Creek, Nevada Townsite have dug two trenches, each 20 feet long and 6 feet deep, to-day, in the Company. No. 816, issued for 10 shares to LC Hopkins gravelly hill side. Finally, if we do find the “Antelope,” we shan’t care on Feb 26th, 1898. Signed by the president, Franklin a d—n any more.” [Letters from the Mark Twain Project] Est. $500- Hopkins, and the secretary, Francis Dickson. Not 1000 HWAC# 108063 cancelled. Vignette of surveyors overlooking a mining camp. Printed by ABN. Folds, very fine. 2) The other Lot#2280 Esmeralda County, two are for the Gold Creek, Nevada Consolidated Lodes Nevada Silver Peak Mining Stocks Company. No. 473 (50,000 shares) and No. 98 (2,500 Include Two Signed by Tasker shares), both issued in 1897. Green border and print, underground Oddie Seven stocks from Silver mining vignette. ABN. Different corporate signatures on each. Not Peak, Nevada. 1) Silver Peak and cancelled. Folds, pinholes. Gold Creek was the name of an area Drinkwater Gold Mining Company, close to Bruno City that was the center of a number placer mining issued to S.S. Oddie in 1907 and operations. In 1869, the first discoveries were made at a site called signed by T.L. (Tasker) Oddie and Island Mountain. This certificate dates to the second mining boom of president. Mines: Silver Peak, 1896/97 for Gold Creek. SEE FULL DESCRIPTION ONLINE Est. $300- Nevada at the top. No vignette. Unc. 500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107318 2) Silver Peak Valcalda Gold Mining Company, issued in 1908. Silver Peak Mining District printed on the Lot#2284 Gold Park, Nevada masthead. Vignette of an elk at the top. 3) Blue Jay Silver Peak Mining Gold Park Mining & Milling Co. Company, issued in 1907 and signed by T.L. (Tasker) Oddie. Mines: Broadside & Stock Certificate Silver Peak, Nevada printed on the masthead. Large eagle vignette. Rare pairing. Gold Park, Jackson 4-6) Black Mammoth Cons. MC, 1927, 1945, and 1960. Three different Mining District, Counties of Nye & formats. 7) Calumet Gold Mines Company, issued in 1945. Eagle Lander. 1) Notice printed by H.N. vignette. Unc. The first three certificates in this lot, the rare ones are Morse, Bank of Austin, Trustee, in ex. condition. The last four in fair to average condition. Est. $160- April 2nd, 1909. Giving notice that 250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110232 the San Francisco, Star of the West, Arctic, and Irene claims, along with the mill site, water works, one ten Lot#2281 Esmeralda County, Gold stamp mill and building, are all being leased to W.E. Cook of Boston or Mountain District, Nevada 1881 his assigns, the Gold Park Mining & Reduction Co. for two years. Claims State Line Gold Mining Co. No. 1 also known as the Harry N. Morse Mines. Printed on cloth. Worn spots, Stock Certificate This is the extra stains. 12x 8.75” 2) Gold Park Mining and Milling Company stock rare version of these certificates. certificate issued in 1902 to G.A. Engle for 5,000 shares. Signed by Location of Mine, Gold Mountain Thos. H. Dalton, president, and John W. Cliff, secretary. Not cancelled. District, Esmeralda County, Nevada Green border and seal, three mining vignettes. Folds, very fine. Est. (printed on cert.). Inc. in New York. $240-400 HWAC# 58478 No. 1513, issued for 50 shares to secretary D.F. Verdenal on May Lot#2285 Goldfield, Nevada 1905-1961 6th, 1881. Also signed by president Lee R. Shyrock. Not cancelled. Goldfield Consolidated Mines Stock Red border and print. Printed by David H. Gildersleeve, NY. 7.5 x Collection Lot of 18 stocks and one letter 10.25” Folds, creases, pinholes, small tear, two small punch outs. The with map. Stocks issued 1905-1961. One company owned claims No. 1, 2, 3, and 4. Balch (1882) discusses assay unissued Goldfield Cons. East Extension results, noting the quartz “is of peculiar structure, showing no free Mines Company. Nine different varieties gold” (pg. 1146). () Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91865 represented, most with mining vignettes. Fair to good condition. According to the Mines Directory, Vol. 1 (1910), the company had 400 acres of mineralized land and 3,000 other acres including mill sites and water rights. Formed from a consolidation of the Mohawk, Jumbo, Laguna, and Red Top mining companies. Properties include a 100-stamp mill, 20-stamp mill, and employ 350 men. Est. $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 102510 120 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2286 Groom District- Area 51, Lot#2289 Humboldt County, Nevada Nevada 1902-1957 Rare Groom 1883 Humboldt Nickel & Copper District, Area 51 Nevada Mining Mining Company Stock VERY RARE. Group Four certificates from the Number 45 for 40 shares to Albert Groom district near Groom Lake in Larrabee. Signed by N Whitman and the restricted Area 51. Lot includes: president Joseph Schroeder. Dateline Groom Creek Gold Mining Company, Chicago 1883. Incorporated in Illinois. issued 1902, three mining vignettes, Very strong gold seal. Not cancelled. Groom Southend Mining Company, Underground mining vignette. The issued 1916, Mines in Groom Milwaukee Litho & Engr. Co. printer. District, Lincoln County, Nevada Nicks at fold edges. Nice condition. In on the masthead. Also, two certificates from the Mullen-Buckley 1883 Benjamin Goodhue advertised mining properties with a Chicago Uranium Company issued in 1955 and 1957. Operated in the Groom Connection. The Humboldt Nickel and Copper Company had 12 range, Lincoln County, Nevada. The Groom district is off limits as it is properties in Churchill & Humboldt counties in Nevada. The Monarch in the restricted Area 51. These certificates are extra rare! Est. $150- and British Queen mines are the most remarkable known to have 300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110070 been discovered! They average from 39% to 65% nickel. [Chicago’s First Half Century, 1833-1883 by Inter Ocean Publishing]. Est. $150- Lot#2287 Hamilton, Nevada 1877-1946 300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 81614 Hamilton, Treasure Hill Mining Stocks Lot of six. 1) King Ming and Smelting. # Lot#2290 Humboldt County, 220 for 500 shares. Issued to and signed Nevada 1866 Nevada Star Mining by Charles Clark secretary. also president Company Stock Certificate Extra Wumms. Dateline San Francisco 1877. 2) rare! Star District, Humboldt Self-identified Treasure Hill Mining and County, Nevada (printed on either Milling. # 71. Issued in 1925. 3) White side of vignette). No. 132, issued Pine Mining Company. NUMBER 8! 1924. for 2 shares to CH Sweetman of Cancelled. Mill vignette with flatbed train California on Jan. 1st, 1866 in New cars loaded with sacks of ore. Shows cars York. Signed by president John Number 1043 and 1430. 4-6) Argyle Mining Company. # 22 issued in Travers (?) and secretary Nichols. Not cancelled. Black border and 1925. Same cert issued in 1930. Different cert numbered 28 issued in print. Two mining vignettes: hoisting scene (left) and surface works 1946. Est. $140-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 105946 (top center). Printed by Ferd. Mayer & Co., NY. One 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached at bottom right. Folds with some separation, areas of heavy toning. 6.75 x 11” Not in Filer or other Holabird indexes. Nothing found in CDNC. Est. $400-800 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 100992 Lot#2291 Humboldt County, Nevada 1878 Seminole Silver Mining Company Stock Certificate Property situated in Buena Vista District, Humboldt County, Nevada (printed above vignette). Inc. in New Jersey (New York crossed out). No. 32, issued for 14,300 shares to Janet Schenck on May 23, 1878. Signed by president George Schenck and secretary GC Shenck. Not Lot#2288 Humboldt County, Nevada 1864 Eclipse Tunnel Company cancelled. Black border and print. Two allegorical vignettes. Folds, Stock Certificate Territorial Nevada stock issued in San Francisco light other wear. 6.5 x 11” According to an archive of Seminole Silver on May 27th, 1864. Location printed on certificate: Sierra District, Mining Co. material at Yale, the mine was at Unionville. It appears they Humboldt County, Nevada Territory. Ledges listed on the side: Thomas owned the Sunset Lode. Not listed in Filer or Holabird indexes. Est. Jefferson, Granite, Lady Washington, Lady Madison, Lady Franklin, $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 100963 Eclipse, and Eclipse No. 1. Incorporated in 1863. Cert. #186, issued Lot#2292 Humboldt County, Sierra to Brown Irvin for 5 shares. Signed by John M. Henry, president, and Mining District, Nevada 1866 by Wetzlan or Wetzlar as secretary. Vignette of ore cart being pushed Humboldt River Gold & Silver out of the mouth of a tunnel. Black border on light pink safety printed Mining Co. Stock Certificate Rare! paper, with black print. Uncancelled. Printer: Towne & Bacon, S.F. “Situated in Sierra Mining District Applied 25ct revenue stamp at left. 5.5 x 10.5.” Very fine. The secretary Humboldt County Nevada” (printed could possibly be Gustavius Wetzlar. There is an Irvin Brown listed under vignette). Inc. in New York. as a real estate and money agent in Langley’s 1864 directory. There No. 590, issued for 240 shares to I. are several listings for John M. Henry. This one was possibly a street contractor, according to the same reference. The Sierra District was Grashon Herriot on Dec. 18th, 1866 in New York. Signed by president organized in 1863 across the Buena Vista Valley to the east of Star Jno. Hogeboom and secretary F.F. Borrell. Not cancelled. Black border Peak at the north end of the East Humboldt Range, 10 miles northeast and print. Vignette of three prospectors working on the surface. of Mill City. Dun Glen (later named Chafey—or Chaffey—for the mine Smaller vignette of dog next to safe. Printed by ES Dodge & Co., NY. there) was the business center for the district. The district has been a continuous producer and fairly profitable. Est. $300-500 Ken Prag 7.75 x 11.5” Pinholes, folds. According to Thompson & West (1881), Collection HWAC# 104378 the Sierra District of Humboldt County “was organized in January, 1863, and is one of the cluster in the vicinity of Unionville, which is about twenty-three miles to the southwest. The Central Pacific Railroad and the Humboldt Canal run through the district. The town of Dun Glen, in the center of the district, is about five miles from the river.” Est. $500-1000 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 104443 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 121

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2293 Humboldt County, Sierra Lot#2296 Lander County, Nevada Mining District, Nevada 1866 1877 Orange Consolidated Humboldt River Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock Certificate Mining Co. Stock Certificate Eureka District, Lander County, ”Situated in Sierra Mining District, Nev. (printed at upper right). Humboldt County, Nevada” (printed Incorporated December 30, 1872. under vignette). Inc. in New York. Cert # 78, issued to company No. 576, issued for three shares president JA Nesbitt on March 9th, to Theodore Young on Oct. 31st, 1877 in San Francisco. Signed by 1866 in New York. Signed by Secretary E. N. Rixford and Nesbitt. Not cancelled. Black border and president Hogeboom and secretary F. Borrell. Not cancelled. Black print. Very fancy logo with man on horse. Folds, light wear. 5.25 x border and print, vignette of three prospectors. Small vignette of dog 9.25” The Daily Alta California reported on June 10, 1873 that the next to safe. Printed by ES Dodge & Co., NY. 25 cent adhesive stamp Orange Consolidated had found a ledge at the 350’ level. The vein attached at left. Deep folds, creases, toning. 7.75 x 11.5” According was white quartz with bluish silver ore. It will assay for about $100. to Thompson & West (1881), the Sierra District of Humboldt County The Eureka Mining District was located on September of 1864. The “was organized in January, 1863, and is one of the cluster in the curious prospectors took some the specimens and ran a test in their vicinity of Unionville, which is about twenty-three miles to the fire. The result caused them the shout the Greek word “eureka!” and southwest. The Central Pacific Railroad and the Humboldt Canal the name of the area stuck [Ref: Carlson, Nevada Place Names, 1974, run through the district. The town of Dun Glen, in the center of the p. 110]. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 107741 district, is about five miles from the river.” This mining district is not described by Tingley. No articles found on CDNC or newspapers.com. Lot#2297 Lander Est. $400-600 HWAC# 107737 County, Austin, Nevada 1866 New England & Lot#2294 Lander County, Nevada Silver Mining Nevada 1863 Guttenberg Co. Stock Certificate Not Gold & Silver Mining seen before. Organized Company Stock with the secret intention Certificate Guttenberg of raising money to Ledge, Lander County, N.T. build a church in (printed under title). Inc. Austin, Nevada! Inc. in August 12th, 1863. No. Massachusetts. No. 298, 36, issued for ten shares issued for 50 shares to to I. Monroe on Oct. 22nd, Charles E. Richardson on 1863 in San Francisco. May 4th, 1866 in Boston. Signed by president William Sias and Signed by president S. De Wolfe and secretary William T. Stanford. treasurer William J. Osborn. Not cancelled. Ornate black border and Not cancelled. Black border and print, vignette of hunting dog in tall print, pink corp. seal. Two vignettes: allegorical woman (left) and grass. Printed by Kenny & Alexander, S.F. 25 cent US IR adhesive stamp miners (top center). Printed by A.R. Gay & Co., Boston. One 25 cent attached at lower left. Crease, light toning, uneven left border. 5.5 x adhesive revenue stamp attached on the right side, stamp cancelled. 9.25” W.T. Stanford is listed as a mining secretary with an office at 605 7.5 x 10.75” Deep folds with 1.5” separation along one fold. Other light Clay in the 1864 Langley SF directory. DeWolfe is listed as a stock and wear. The main reference to this company we could find mention that money broker. The company is not listed in Langley. No records found one of its principal backers was Austin religious figure J.L. Trefren. on CDNC. DeWolfe and Stanford were also the corporate officers of Trefen organized the company to raise money to build the Austin Batavia Gold & Silver Mining Company on the Guttenberg Ledge. Est. Methodist Church (built in 1866)! The church was built and a fine $500-900 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107038 organ was purchased (possibly the first church organ in Nevada) before the scheme collapsed. It appears the company dissolved in 1872. No production information located. [The Works of Hubert Howe Lot#2295 Lander County, Nevada Lander County, Nevada Stock Bancroft: History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming. 1890, pg.295] () Certificate Group Eight certificates Est. $300-600 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91857 from Lander County, Nevada. 1) Phenix Silver Mining Company, issued in 1879 for 100 shares. Lot#2298 Lander County, Austin, Nevada Lander County, Nevada printed on 1865 & 1881 Two Nevada Mining Stocks: the top border. Cool vignette of a Austin (w/ Governor Sig.) and Eureka Lot large bird with wings spread. Very of 2. 1) Bunker Hill Silver Mining Company ornate certificate. Britton & Rey. Uncancelled. 2) Nevada-Omaha of Reese River. No. 18, issued in 1865 for 50 Mining and MIlling Company, issued in 1910. Principal office, Battle shares to William Bigler, former governor of Mountain, Nev. printed at the top left. Eagle vignette. Unc. 3) Iron Pennsylvania and brother to John Bigler, third Canyon Gold Mining Company, issued in 1911. Mines at Iron Canyon, governor of California. Signed by William Bigler Galena district, Lander County. Eagle vignette. Unc. 4) Gold Deposit on the reverse. Also signed by the president Mining & Milling Company, issued in 1909 at Logan, Utah. Mines at (David Lasy?) and secretary A.B. Cochran. Battle Mountain, NV. Co. name in gold gilt. Very attractive. Unc. 5) Not cancelled. Black border and print, mining Metals Exploration and Mining Company, 1907. Operated 2 miles w. vignette.Folds, red ink stain on reverse. 2) Bowman Silver Mining of Bannock, Lander Co. No vignette. Unc. 6) Cortez Associated Mines, Company. Eureka, Nevada (printed under title). No. 213, issued for 1910. No vignette. Mines at Cortez, Nv. 7-8) Nevada Birch Creek 200 shares in 1881 in Kittery, ME. Signed by president Wiley and Mining Company, issued 1919 and 1920. The 1919 stock is cert. #2 treasurer Fisk. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Pinholes, folds, issued for 50,000 shares. Has a large split at bottom of left fold and is some soiling and toning. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# uncancelled. The 1920 certificate is stamp cxled. Est. $140-200 Ken 100924 Prag Collection HWAC# 110148 122 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2299 Lander County, Reese River, Nevada 1866 Consolidated Silver Mining Company Stock Certificate Reese River and Union Districts, Nevada (printed under title). Inc. in New York. No. 18, issued for 10 shares to Albert S. Pratt on April 20th, 1866 in New York. Signed by the president, John H (illegible) and secretary FF Gould. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Two vignettes: mine hoisting scene (left side) and allegorical vignette with settlers, Native Americans and miners (top center). Printed by Slote & Janes, NY. 25 cent IR stamp with tied cancel attached on the right. Folds, light wear. 7 x 12” No additional information located. Est. $200- 300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107320 Lot#2300 Lander County, Reese Lot#2302 Lander County, Reese River, Nevada 1866 Revenue River, Nevada 1864 Mills, Post & White Consolidated Silver Mining Extension Silver Mining Co. of Nevada Stock Certificate Wow! This is one of the most striking mining stocks we’ve ever seen. Co. Stock Certificate Reese River No. 89, issued for 5 shares to Julius Georgii on April 7th, 1866 in Mining District, Lander County, Philadelphia. Signed by president Geo. P. Fisher and secretary Wm. N.T. (printed at top center). Many Kite. Not cancelled. Highly illustrated brown border with mining and of these are blank or issued post- smelting vignettes along the bottom, an allegorical woman on the Nevada statehood. This stock, No. 108, was issued for 15 shares to left, and a prospector on the right. Company title and text printed AN Smith in Austin, N.T. on June 1st, 1864 (during Nevada Territory). in black. Stein & Jones Lith, Philadelphia. One 25 cent IR adhesive Signed by president E.S. Davis and secretary William Pardy. Not stamp with tied cancel at bottom center. Deep folds, a few ink stains. cancelled. Green border and background, black print. 25 cent adhesive 6.5 x 9.5” All of our information for this company comes from a very US IR stamp attached on the left. Enterprise Print. 4 x 9” Folds, light wear. Est. $200-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107101 detailed advertisement of theirs in the Oct. 25th, 1865 Philadelphia Age newspaper. The mining claims were in the Reese River Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, one-half mile from Austin on Lander Lot#2301 Lander Hill. They claim the Revenue Ledge has provided the richest ores in County, Reese Nevada, and cite assay results from Theall & Co. and Orlando Jennings River, Nevada 1865 New York showing assays of up to $11,000 in silver per ton. The ad also features Silver Mining analysis and praise of the property by Professor CP Williams and Company of mining engineer J.E. Clayton, who says “other mines may surpass it in Nevada Stock quantity of ore, but none can surpass it in quality.” Company president Certificate Inc. George P. Fisher was nominated by President Lincoln on March 10, 1863, to a seat on the newly created Supreme Court of the District of in New York. No. Columbia. He was confirmed by the United States Senate and received 272, issued for his commission the next day. In 1867, Fisher presided over the trial 5 shares to D.W. of John Surratt, one of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. In May Chambers on 1, 1870, Fisher resigned as judge to accept an appointment as United September 21st, 1865. Signed by Thomas Sproull as president and S.R. Hutchinson as States Attorney for the District of Columbia, serving until 1875. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 107743 secretary. Not cancelled. Unusual vignette at top center showing three miners working a drill into the surface. Second vignette at the bottom Lot#2303 Lander County, Reese right showing miners lowering a windlass to other miners working River, Nevada 1866 Spanish Gold underground. Printed by Henry Siebert & Bros. 25 cent revenue & Silver Mining Company Stock stamp attached lower left. Folds, light other wear to corners. 6.75 x Certificate ”Wachusetts Nos 1 and 11.25” This company is likely related to the New York & Austin SMC, 2 & Spanish Ledges Nos 1 &2 in Big the Plymouth SMC, and the New York & Boston SMC; all New York Creek Mining District, Reese River, financed mines in Reese River at Austin. They leased the Troy Mine on Lander Co, Nevada” (printed at Lander Hill in the gut of the district. It had a 500’ deep shaft in 1869. bottom center). Inc. in Pennsylvania They produced 26 tons of ore with a yield of $6,500 between January May 1865. No. 327, issued for 2,000 and July, 1869. The mine produced $83,000 through 1877. Not listed shares in 1866 in Philadelphia. in Abbe, Brown, or Ross. [Ref: Raymond 1870]. Thomas Sproull Signed by vice-president AS Sinall and treasurer E. Linnard. Not (1803-1892) was a theological professor, editor of the Reformed cancelled. Attractive design with purple border and print. Three Presbyterian, and was well respected. His business interests clearly vignettes: mining hoisting scene (left), eagle (center), and allegorical turned to mining but it is doubtful he would have made it out to woman (right). Printed by JS Helfenstein, Philadelphia. Pinholes, Nevada. His name would have helped attract money to the company. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 107750 folds. 7.5 x 11.25” Not in Filer or other Holabird indexes. Est. $300- 500 HWAC# 107735 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 123

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2304 Lander County, Reese River, Nevada 1863 Stearns Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock Certificate Location: Umatilla Ledge, Reese River Mining District, Lander County, N.T.” (printed under the title). Inc. Oct. 1863. No. 46, issued to AK Stearns on Dec. 29th, 1863. Stearns was the superintendent and the founder of the important Clyde Ledge! Signed by secretary James S Pond and president G Cushing. Not cancelled. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue Stamp. Ornate logo and border, no vignette. Printed by Kenny & Alexander, SF. Folds, pinholes and an ink stain. 4.25 x 8.25” A. K. Stearns was an original discoverer of the Clyde Ledge in the Amador Mining District. The oldest mining district in eastern Nevada. The Amador portion, 6 miles north of Austin around New York Canyon, joined and was later incorporated into the Reese River district. Stearns was a trustee of the Butte Gold & Silver mine. He was also a superintendent of the Stearns Gold & Silver mine in this same area. Pond was a secretary of several Lot#2308 Lincoln County, Nevada Pioche, Nevada Stock Certificate Austin, Nevada mining companies. In 1876, with the help of London Collection Approx. 24 stocks and 1 bond certificate from Pioche, backers, he purchased a large acreage of mining land on the Feather Nevada in Lincoln County, 1) The rarest and best certificate in this River. He became the superintendent of the Tsabinda Mine. Est. $400- lot is from Newark Silver Mining Company, issued in 1877. The stock 800 HWAC# 107744 certificate for the Newark Silver Mining Co. is dated Dec. 22, 1877, and Lot#2305 Lida, Nevada 1905-1912 is for 50 shares for owner H.A. Sweet. It is “a great example of how G.T. Lida, Nevada Stock Certificates- Brown creates a picture without pictures” with “fancy letters, etched circles.” Brown designed the certificate in 1872. G.T. Brown is the (or Group of 9 Different Nine, rare at least one of the) most important West Coast lithographers during stock certificates from the Lida, the 1800s. He was a self-trained artist and pioneer lithographer. He Nevada ghost town. 1) Lida Standard took on the largest San Francisco lithographic firms in the 1860s and Mining Co., issued in 1906. Seven 1870s and equaled them in design. This is a beautiful certificate in mining vignettes. 2) Lida Gold very good condition. Unc. 2) Some of the more rare certificates in this Mining and Reduction Company, lot include: The Eastern Prince Gold and Silver MC, 1912, Deer Lodge issued in 1905 at Colorado Springs. Gold Mining and Milling Co., 1909, The Lyndon Mines Company, 1908, 3) Lida=Wisconsin Extension Mines ta Comet district, Lincoln County, Nevada DesMoines MC, issued Mining Company, issued 1908. Eagle 1910, The Hillside Copper MC, issued in 1901, The Nevada Cons. vignette. 4) The Goldfield-Scorpion Mining and Milling Co., issued at Smelting & Refining Co., issued 1901, and Ohio=Kentucky Cons. MC, Colton, Utah in 1905. Miner working underground. 5) Nevada Florida issued in 1908. Others include Pioche X- Ray Mining and Milling Co., Mines Company, issued in 1907. Large oval mining vignette. 6) Indian Uvada Copper Co. (2), Silverhorn Mng. & Dev. (2), Nevada Silver Horn Springs Mining Company, issued in 1912 at Spokane. Mines located in MC (2), Cons. Nevada- Utah Corp. (4) and one bond. Amalgamated Lida Valley, Esmeralda County, Nevada printed at the top. 7) Nevada Pioche Mines and Smelters Corp. (lg scotch tape repairs), Pioche Last Copper Mining & Smelting Company, issued in 1906. Inc. in Maine with Chance MC, UI, Pan American Mines, Inc., Prince Cons. Mining Co., state seal at the top. 8) Nevada Copper Mining & Smelting Company, Mendha-Nevada MC and Nevada- Utah Mines & Smelters rounds out issued in 1907. This is the orange variety and the previous certificate the collection. Est. $300-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110238 is the green variety. 9) The Goldwait Mining and Milling Company, issued in 1908. Three mining vignettes. Some of the certificates have condition issues. Please inspect lot. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110086 Lot#2309 Nye County, Nevada Lot#2306 Lida, Nevada 1905 Two Rare Lida, Cotter Mines Company Stock, Arrow District, Signed by Tasker Nevada Mining Stocks Two mining certificates Oddie Very rare certificate signed from the Lida, Nevada ghost town. Both of these are by T.L. (Tasker) Oddie in 1906. extremely rare. 1) Lida Porto Rico Mining Company, A mining entrepreneur, Oddie cert. #55, issued in 1905 to W.H. Penfield for 500 was a principal player during the shares. Signed by James L. Crittenden as president Tonopah-Goldfield boom of the and Alfred D. Crittenden as secretary. Nice mining early twentieth century. He served vignette and pretty red lettering. 2) T.A. Cook Mining a term in the Nevada senate (1905-1909) and was elected governor Company of Lida, cert. #278, issued in 1905 to M.M. in 1910 (Nevada Online Encyclopedia). Mount Oddie near Tonopah Loughrey and signed by T.A. Cook as president. Nice is named after him, as is Oddie Blvd in Reno and Sparks. Oddie was lion head vignette. Both certificates are uncancelled. Est. $160-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110084 the president of many mining companies including the Trail Canyon Mining Company. The company operated in the Golden Arrow mining Lot#2307 Lida, Nevada 1905-1907 Two, Rare district at Gold Crater. The company owned 13 claims, employed 30, and operated the deepest shaft in the district, the Gold Bar ( Shawn Lida Area Mining Stocks Great lot with two Hall, Preserving the Glory Days, Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of rare stocks from the Lida, Nevada area. Lida, Nye County, Nevada. Oddie has signed other mining certificates as Nevada is now a ghost town. 1) Tule Canon Gold president, but this one is extremely rare. VF. Fold lines. Uncancelled. Mining Company, cert. #17, issued at Goldfield, Nevada in 1905. Mines: Tule Canon, Nevada Est. $160-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110325 printed on the certificate. Don’t think we have seen this one before. Very nice. 2) Lida Queen Mining Co., cert. #782 issued in 1907 to W.A. Croxall and signed by W. Loomis (?) as president. Tule Canon is located not far from Lida Junction southwest of Goldfield. Est. $160-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110085 124 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2310 Nye County, Nevada Lot#2313 Nye County, Nevada Three Fantastic and Rare Group of Tonopah, Nevada Rare Tonopah, Nevada Mining Stocks These are three Mining Stocks #2 Another group great ones and super rare. 1) Tonopah Golden Crown of very rare Tonopah stocks. 1) Mining Company, Inc. issued in 1905. Location of Mines: Tonopah and Great Western Mining Tonopah,Nevada printed at the top. Nice mining vignette. Company, issue in 1905. Issued for Issued for 215,000 of the 250,000 shares authorized property purchased. Eagle vignette. to Geo. A. Bartlett. So, this one was closely held as Uncancelled. 2) The Tonopah Apex Bartlett controlled the company. Unc. 2) Garnet Silver Mining Company, issued in 1904. Company, issued at Tonopah, Nevada in 1907. Vignette Seven mng vignettes. Uncancelled. 3) of a miner exiting the portal at top left. Silver colored Tonopah Central MC, issued in 1905. seal. Unc. 3) Honeysuckle Mining Company, issued in Cert. #14. Unc. 4) The New California- Tonopah MC, issued in 1927. 1907 at Tonopah, Nevada. Signed by Malcolm McDonald as president. Eagle vignette. Uncancelled. 5) Tonopah Gold Belt Mining Company, Macdonald was one of the greats of early Nevada. Trained in mining issued 1905. Mng. vignette. Located in Gold Mountain District, Nevada. engineering, Macdonald returned to Nevada after a prolific record Five unpatented claims. Gold and silver. Uncancelled. 6).Tonopah in Montana. He was consulting engineer for the Tonopah Extension Golden Crown Mining Company, issued in 1906. No vignette. Tonopah Mining Company with Charles M. Schwab as one of the largest Mining District, Nye County, Nevada printed at the top. Uncancelled. investors. Macdonald then took the reins of the great Montgomery 7) Independence Mining Company of Ellsworth, issued at Tonopah in Shoshone mine and developed it’s millions. This is a great lot of 1906. No vignette. Uncancelled. This is a nice group and none of these Tonopah certificates. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110322 certificates is common. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110327 Lot#2314 Nye County, Nevada Tonopah Midway Mining Co. Lot#2311 Nye Stock, 1906, Brougher, Douglass County, Nevada Signatures Beautiful signature Round Mountain, piece and extremely rare certificate Nevada Stock from the Tonopah Midway Mining Collection Eighteen Co. issued in 1906. Signed by H.C. certificates from Brougher as president and W. J. Round Mountain, Douglass as treasurer. Among Nevada. This is a other things, Brougher was the 1st owner of the Wieland Brewery great collection with in Tonopah in 1901. In 1916, he was one of the chief owners of the many very scarce Gold Mountain vein. Brougher decided to prospect the vein by sinking certificates. It would the shaft lower on the flank of the mountain. By the spring of 1919, take decades to put a large and valuable silver lode was discovered. This set off the great this group together. Divide disctrict boom. Brougher’s discovery was named the Tonopah This is your chance. Divide Mine (Knopf, The Divide Silver Disctrict, Nevada), According 1) The Lucky Joe to Paher, the Tonopah Divide Mining Company produced $1.4 million Mining & Leasing Company, 1907. 2) Smoky Valley and Round in it’s first four years. Most of the other Divide companies were Mountain Gold Mining Company, 1908. 3) Round Mountain Hydraulic merely stock speculations and were not producers. As for Douglass, MC, 1907. 4 The Round Mountain Lehigh Mining and Milling Co. 1907. he was a prolific Nevada mining man involved in many different 5) Round Mountain Central MC, 1908. “Mines at Round Mountain, Tonopah companies such as the Silver Glance M.C., The Tonopah Nevada” printed in red diagonally across the certificate. 6) Round Divide Mining Company, and Tonopah Midway Mining Company. Mountain Daisy MC, 1907. 7) Eagle Mining Company of Round The Douglass family made a lot of money in Tonopah. The style of Mountain, 1910. Three very nice vignettes. 8) Jefferson Apex MC, this certificate looks very much like the Tonopah Divide Mining 1906. Mines at Jefferson Canyon, near Round Mountain. Cxled. 9) Company certificates issued later. Headframe and miners in front of Round Mountain Mining & Exploration Co., 1906. 10) Round Mountain ore sacks vignette. Location of works: Nye County, Nevada at the top. Mining Company, 1916. Vignette of a little boy. Stamp cxled. 11) Round The Tonopah Midway Mining Company was located in the Tonopah Mountain Antelope MC, 1906. Principal office at Goldfield, Nevada. District, Nevada. 50 acres patented land. Gold producer. By 1910, the 12) Nevada Round Mountain Company, 1909. 13) Fairview Lone Pine company had paid $250,000 in dividends. By 1910, Tasker Oddie was MC, issued in 1907. Nice vignette of the lone pine tree. 14) Gibraltar vice-president of this company. Beautiful certificate. VF. Uncancelled. Silver Hill MC, 1920. 15-17) Three different from the Louisiana Cons. Est. $160-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110324 Mining Company, issued 1916-1919. One in nice condition. One with fold splits. An one that in pen says, “Not used. Sample for New York Lot#2315 Nye County, Nevada Curb Market Assn.” 18) Smoky Valley Mining & Milling Company, UI. Very Rare Tonopah Home Cons. Certificates are in average condition and uncancelled except where Mines & Exploration Stock, 1905 noted. Please inspect. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110214 Beautiful Tonopah stock issued in 1905. Issued at Tonopah, Nevada for 500 shares. Signed by W.J. Arkell, the San Francisco promoter of the company’s stock offering in 1905. Lot#2312 Nye County, Nevada Three Nevada Mining These shares are issued to W.J. Stocks, All Certificates #1 This is a great chance Arkell Company. Unusual to see to get three great #1 stock certificates from Nevada the underwriter of an offering issuing shares to themselves. Not sure miners. 1) Lafayette Central Mines Company, cert. we’ve ever seen this certificate before. Very attractive. Two vertical #1, issued in 1920. Principal office: Tonopah, Nevada. fold lines. VF. Uncancelled. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# Uncancelled. 2) Old Nevada Silver Mines, Inc, cert. #1, 110321 issued in 1929 for 340,000 shares! Small paper loss on top edge. Unc. 3) Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., cert. #1, Unissued but signed by the company officers. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110318 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 125

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2316 Nye County, Nevada Very Rare Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada Stock, Uncancelled, Issued in 1911 The Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada operated for decades making huge profits and paying great dividends. It is extremely rare to find one of these issued and uncancelled. Also, it was issued in 1911, so very early. It shows that this lucky shareholder was likely tickled to death to own stock in this great company for many years and get rich off of the dividends. It is cert. #34695, issued for 10 shares to Helen Miller. Usually, certificates from this company are issued in either 1945 or 1957 and are always cancelled. In 1902, the Tonopah Mining Company bought six claims from Jim Butler and Lot#2319 Pioche, Lincoln County, Nevada 1875 Meadow Valley associates for $336,000. By July, 1909, the company had already paid Mining Company Stock Certificate Location of Works, Lincoln $4.5 million in dividends. By 1916, the total dividends paid had risen County, Nevada (printed at bottom center). Incorporated May 15, to $13.3 million (1916 Mines & Copper Handbook) . The company held 1869. No. 15724, issued to CA Schmidt for 10 shares on Aug. 21st, 9 patented claims in Tonopah adjoining the Tonopah Extension on the 1875. Signed by president Beaver and secretary T.W. Colburn. Not east and north and Jim Butler Tonopah Mining Company on the north. cancelled. Green border and RN facsimile underprint; black print, and By 1916, the company owned the Desert Power & Mill Co. outright fancy logo with vignette of pan, pick, and gold bars. Britton, Rey & and controlling interest in the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad. In Co. Pinholes, folds, soiling and toning. 5.75 x 10” The Meadow Valley it’s history, the company produced roughly $50 million. What a great Mining Company was formed in 1869 by Francois L.A. Pioche, a San company! Don’t miss your chance to get this great certificate. Est. Francisco businessman. Pioche was an expert in extracting silver from $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110319 the ore. A small mining town sprung up from the mines, and dubbed the town of Pioche. According to mindat.org, the company operated from 1864-1876. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 107742 Lot#2317 Nye County, Nevada Montana Tonopah Mining Company Stock Group Great group of certificates Lot#2320 Rawhide, Nevada from this company that shows it’s c1909 Rawhide Stock Group # 1 progression over time. Cert. #7703, - Includes Proskey and Original from The Montana- Tonopah Mining Rawhide 1) Proskey-Regent Company was issued at Tonopah, Gold Mining. Signed by secretary Nevada in 1905. Tonopah Mining Proskey and vice president Proskey. District, Nye County, Nev. on the Regent refers to the Regent Mining masthead. Next, we have two issued District (Rawhide). Early # 9. 2) certificates from The Montana- Spectacular green on white Original Tonopah Mines Company, issued in 1912 abd 1913, blue and green. Rawhide. Early Number 7. 1908. Signed by Orson Smith - a Mormon Finally, two certificates from Montana Tonopah Company Reorganized, instrumental in moving the Mormon church into investing in Nevada. issued in 1923 in orange and brown. The company had about 200 3) Rawhide Balloon Hill Extension. Seems to have been incorporated acres of patented land in the Tonopah mining district. The property to sue the Rawhide Coalition. 4) Angelus Mining and Leasing. 5) was fairly well developed and the company was a producer. It paid Rawhide Red Top Mining Company. 6) Rawhide Royal Hercules. 7) out over $131,000 in dividends by 1910 (1910 Mines Directory). The Rawhide Royal Mines. Signed by Pelton as president. He would also 1905 certificate is countersigned and reissued. The others are all own mines in Seven Troughs and National. Est. $150-250 Ken Prag uncancelled and in good condition. Est. $200-250 Ken Prag Collection Collection HWAC# 105980 HWAC# 110320 Lot#2321 Rawhide, Nevada c1909 Lot#2318 Nye County, Park Canyon, Rawhide Stock Group # 2 - Nevada 1866 La Plata Silver Includes iconic Rawhide Mining Mining Company of Nevada Stock with a rope font 1) Rawhide Certificate Location of Works: Mining. Signed by Tonopah mining Nye Co., Nevada (printed under man AA Codd. Has the title in a rope title). Inc. in 1865. No. 160, issued scrip. Unique in Nevada. Red and for 20 shares to Michael Moyer black on white. 2) Rawhide Ogilvie- on Dec. 21st, 1866 in Reading, PA. Reynolds Leasing and Mining Company. Number 705. Signed by John Signed by president Isaac McHase Reynolds, a rawhide stock broker. The Reno Evening Gazette once and secretary G.W. Kinzer. Not wrote, “...excelled by that of few properties.” 3) Rawhide Coalition. cancelled. Black border and print. Two vignettes: mill scene (top Very popular stock. Promoted by George Graham Rice and actor Nat center) and Pennsylvania state seal (bottom left). Green seal over Goodwin. 4) Rawhide Big Horn Mining. Early Rawhide incorporation vignette at bottom. 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp at left. Printed and early cert number 86. 5) Rawhide Balloon Fraction Mining by John Alexander, Philadelphia. Folds with minor separation, other Company. It was purchased by San Francisco businessmen to sue light wear. 8 x 11” The Confidence Mill at Yankee Blade was sold in the neighboring Rawhide Coalition. 6) Angelus Mining and Leasing. February 1867 to the La Plata Silver Mining Company and moved to 1908. 7) Rawhide Hills MIning. Unissued, but striking red and black Park Canyon in Nye County [Ref: Romancing Nevada’s Past, Hall] Est. on white. Est. $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 105979 $300-600 HWAC# 107729 126 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2325 Reese River, Nevada 1863 Butte Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock Early number 17 to AK Stearns for 10 shares, Signed by James L Pond and president JWE Felt. Incorporated and datelined 1863. Location: Clyde Ledge, Reese River Mining District, Lander Co., N. T. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue Stamp. Not cancelled. Ornate logo and border, no vignette. Printed by Kenny & Alexander, SF. Pinholes left side. No edge, corner or discoloration issues. A. K. Stearns was an original discoverer of the Clyde Ledge in the Amador Mining District. The oldest mining district in eastern Nevada. The Amador portion, 6 miles north of Austin around New York Canyon, joined and was later incorporated into the Reese River district. Stearns was a trustee of the Butte Gold & Silver mine. He was also a superintendent of the Stearns Gold & Silver mine in this same area. Pond was a secretary of several Austin, Lot#2322 Rawhide, Nevada c1909 Rawhide Stock Group # 3 - Nevada mining companies. In 1876, with the help of London backers, Includes iconic Rawhide Queen collection Lot of seven. 1) Rawhide he purchased a large acreage of mining land on the Feather River. He Queen. Signed by EW King, the Montana mining man. Well advertised, became the superintendent of the Tsabinda Mine. Est. $200-350 Ken produced little. Actor Nat Goodwin also associated with tis mine. Prag Collection HWAC# 84522 Issued to LL Winkleman & Company, No date. 2-3) Two different Rawhide Coalition mines. One with mining vignette and the other with Lot#2326 Reese River, Nevada a crown. Closely associated with the Rawhide Queen. This was a George 1869 Empire State Silver Mining Graham Rice mine. 4) Nevada New Mines. This was a consolidation of Company Stock Very early # the Rawhide Queen and the Rawhide Coalition. Signed by EW King. 10 for 50 shares to Arnold Hart. All four related stocks in one lot!5) Rawhide Mining with the title in Signed by DA Clay and president AB a rope font. Highly collectable. Signed by AA Codd of Goldfield and Buell. Datelined 1869 Utica, New the district recoder there. 6) Unissued Rawhide Amalgamated Gold York. Three Vignettes including an Mining and Milling. 7) Grutt-Davis Mines Company. Unissued. Number underground above ground mining 89. Most of these were never issued. Est. $150-250 Ken Prag Collection scene and a mountain mill scene with a horse & wagon and train. 25c HWAC# 105978 Insurance Revenue stamp. Heary folds. Dog ear lower right. Printer Carlies, Macy & Co. Not cancelled. Alexander was a lawyer in Utica. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 80465 Lot#2323 Rawhide, Nevada c1909 Rawhide Stock Group # 4 - Includes iconic Lot#2327 Reese River, Nevada Original Rawhide and Rawhide Queen 1) 1867 Empire State Silver Mining Striking Original Rawhide Mining. Green Company Stock Certificate Inc. on white. No. 382 in 1908. Signed by Orson in New York. No. 92, issued for 80 Smith, a Mormon instrumental in moving shares to Arnold Hart on July 16th, Utah into investing in Nevada mines. 2) 1867. Signed by DA Clay, secretary, Rawhide Queen. Signed by Montana mining and president AB Buell. Not man EW King. King was also the man behind cancelled. Three vignettes including the ill-fated Rawhide Railroad. 3) Rawhide a mine hoisting scene, an allegorical woman, and a mountain mill Regent. Once advertised, “Mining not Dead scene with a horse & wagon and train. 25c Insurance Revenue stamp in Rawhide” in local papers. It was for this company, however. 4) attached at bottom right. Deep folds, pinholes. Printer Carlies, Macy & Rawhide Hills. 166 issued. 5) Rawhide Coalition. Signed by RM Van Co. Believed to be Reese River, though a mining company of the same Dorn. Van Dorn was the ORIGINAL LOCATOR of the town of Rawhide. name popped up on the Comstock in the 1870s. 6.25 x 11.25” Est. 6) Grutt-Balloon Mining & Leasing. Issued and not cancelled. Outside $200-400 HWAC# 107714 of pin holes in one of the certs, all of these are in excellent condition - no edge, corner, discoloration of pin hole issues! Est. $150-300 Ken Lot#2328 Reese River, Nevada Prag Collection HWAC# 105981 1864 Kingston Junior Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock Lot#2324 Rawhide, Nevada c1909 Early number 18 for 20 shares to Rawhide Stock Group # 5 - D Hogan. Signed by DM Dames(?) Includes Chicago, Denver and San and EC Dixon. Dateline Austin, N. Francisco datelines 1) Rawhide T. 1864. Incorporated November Metals. Dateline Chicago 1908. 2) 1863. Location: Marshall Canon, Rawhide Ratsnets. (What a name?). Reese River District, N. T. Not cancelled. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue Dateline. San Francisco. Number stamp. Fancy scroll work and scrip. SH Wade & Co printer. No edge, 23. 3) Rawhide Gold King. Dateline corner, pinhole or discoloration issues. Marshall Canyon is about 1.5 Denver 1909. 4) Rawhide Surprise miles southwest of Austin. D. Hogan worked at the Savage Mine in the Mining and Milling. Number 25. 5) Rawhide Operating Syndicate. Reese River (1866 Austin Directory). Est. $400-700 HWAC# 84530 1908. Discoloration issues. 6) Proskey-Rawhide Mining & Leasing. Signed by secretary Proskey and vice president Proskey. 7) Rull Rawhide Mining. Red and black on pink safety paper. Est. $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 105982 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 127

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2329 Reese River, Nevada Lot#2332 Reese River, Nevada 1866 Mettacom Silver Mining 1866 Pennsylvania Nevada Company of Reese River Stock # Mining Company # 32 for 5 shares 270 for 6 shares to Sarah Hughes. to Mathan B Broombale. Datelined Datelined New York 1866. Signed Doylestown, Bucks County by secretary Charles T Gray and H [Pennsylvania] 1866. Signed by Mackin. 25c Certificate Revenue treasurer George Lear and president stamp. MR Dennis & Company O James. 25c Certificate Revenue of Newark printers. Green seal, stamp. Underground mining allegorical vignettes. Folds, other vignette on left. Pennsylvania state light wear. 7.5 x 11” The Mettacom was located on Lander Hill next seal top center. Wm. F. Murphy and sons of Philadelphia printers. Not to the Florida Mine. It was a regularly producing mine from 1866-69. Cancelled. One vertical fold.No edge or corner issues. We could find no Blake’s 1869 report says they produced 26 tons. The mill was not information on this company. However, investing in Nevada by Eastern being used by the fall of 1869. Fuller & Lane refurbished the mill to firms either meant Lander County or Humboldt County. There was a use as a custom mill. All the outside ores from the small mines were Pennsylvania District in Lincoln County, but it wasn’t discovered until going to the Manhattan Co.’s mill, and Fuller thought he could force 1867 and no activity took place there until 1871. [History of Nevada the Manhattan to keep their prices down if he kept the Mettcom open. by Thompson and West and Mining Districts of Nevada by Tingley] It worked. A British company, The Pacific Mining Co., bought the Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 80405 Mettacom and mill in Oct. 1869. They were eventually bought by the Manhattan Co. in 1876. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 80400 Lot#2333 Reese River, Nevada 1866 Shoshone Chief Silver Lot#2330 Reese River, Nevada Mining Company Stock Certificate 1863 Minnehaha Gold and Incorporated in New York. No. 59, Silver Mining Company Stock # issued for 10 shares to JA Pelton 52 for 10 shares to John Lenhart. in 1866. Signed by the president, Datelined San Francisco 1863. Wm B. Hayward, and secretary L.R. Signed by secretary FM Truworthy Hutchinson. Not cancelled. Two and president John Cammet. nice underground mining vignettes. Incorporated August 1863. Located Green seal. Printed by Henry Seibert & Bros. 25 cent revenue stamp at Lander County, Reese River, N. T. Great vignette of two miners attached at lower left. 6.5 x 10.5” Folds. This was probably a Reese coming out of two tunnels pushing barrows and ore carts. Small 5c River operation given the time period and investors. However, we Exchange Revenue stamp (20c may have fallen off). Not cancelled. cannot conclusively locate it at this time. Not specifically mentioned Staining on center right and left edges where it seems to have been in the 1865 Austin directory or in Reese River Reveille archives. Not taped. One torn corner, small nick bottom left. Nice. Original trustees found on CDNC or newspapers.com Est. $300-400 HWAC# 107715 were Cammet, Truworthy, MJ Burke, William Murphy, and S Donnelly. Incorporated on August 18, 1863. The September 18, 1863 Marysville Lot#2334 Reese River, Nevada 1865 Daily Appeal reported that suddenly the Minnehaha Ledge has Silver Hill Mining Company of suddenly been resurrected. Rock that used to fo for $2 to $20 per foot New York and Nevada Stock # 76 now yields at the rate of $585 silver and $41.75 in gold. Hundreds for 20 shares to WIlliam D Sinclair. of other ledges are sure to be resurrected in the same way not that Signed by JG Hitchcock and Thomas everyone is found to be rich! This stock was sold one month after that Stevenson as president. Dateline article that probably was reprinted in newspapers around California. March 10, 1865. Not cancelled. Is that why this stock was purchased??? Est. $250-425 Ken Prag 25c Warehouse revenue stamp. Collection HWAC# 86061 Underground mining vignette. JO Seymour & Co. printer. One pin hole Lot#2331 Reese dead center. No edge, corner or discoloration issues. This company River, Nevada 1865 was incorporated in 1865 (in all likelihood). There is an annual New York and report printed in the New York Times in 1866. The report confirms Austin Silver Mining this company was located in Austin. IT also confirms Stevenson and Company Stock # 509 Hitchcock. The report says the company has just erected a stamp mill for 750 shares to John and shares are available at $25 each. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection Thompson. Datelined HWAC# 91912 New York Sept. 5, 1865. Signed by secretary Lot#2335 Reese River, Nevada James Chapman and 1865 Union Mining Company president S Lawrence. Stock # 262 for 50 shares to George No incorporation date, Hammersley. Signed by HB Leach but the certificate says and president Strickland Kneurs(?). of Nevada, so after Dateline November 30, 1865. November 1, 1864. Not cancelled. 25c Certificate Revenue Stap. No Chartered in 1865 in Pennsylvania. pin holes, edge or corner issues of discoloration issues! By 1869 this Vignette of miner at leisure with company was still going strong. J Ross Browne in his work “Resources axe. 25c Certificate revenue stamp. of the Pacific Slope” spends a lot of time on this company the Florida Not cancelled. “For gold and silver Shaft, Sherman Shaft, Burns Shaft, etc. The Florida Shaft at this point mining in the state of Nevada.” was 800 feet long. The Sherman Shaft has just commenced and the Although the exact location is unknown, foreign investors were mainly Burns Shaft is in the works. Browne reports that the value of the ore interested in Lander County and Humboldt County in 1865. Large rips removed is just about equal to the cast of machinery and manpower at at fold edges. Staining. etc. The Reese River makes the most sense as it this stage. Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 80356 was the largest mining district outside of the Comstock in 1865. There was a Union Mining District at Ione in 1865. Another possibility? Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91952 128 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2336 Reese River, Smoky Lot#2339 Searchlight, Nevada Valley, Nevada 1863 Illinois Gold Searchlight, Nev. Stock Rare and Silver Mining Company Stock Searchlight Parallel Gold MC Rare Smoky Valley Ledge, Smoky ceretificate issued to A.L. heisserer Valley Mining District, Lander for 100 shares on July 21, 1905, County, N.T. Incorporated June datelined Los Angeles. I/u. Est. $60- 30th, 1863. Dateline San Francisco, 100 HWAC# 103133 August 5th, 1863. No. 28, issued for 5 shares to Frederick C Waters. (interestingly Frederick C Waters was one of the Waters Brothers printers!) Signed by the president Wm. H. Stevens, and secretary, D. VanVleck. VanVleck is listed as Lot#2340 Seven Troughs, Nevada a wood engraver at 611 Clay Street.Not cancelled. 25c Insurance 1906-1934 Seven Troughs Mining revenue stamp. Three vignettes: mine with paddlewheel (top center), Stock Certificate Collection Lot of allegorical woman (left) and dog head (bottom). Printed by Waters ten. 1) Consolidated Leasing. Number Brothers & Co., SF. Edges are rough and there is some staining around 213. 1909. Mining vignettes. 2) Seven the edges. Not in Filer. Listed in the 1863 Langley SF directory with Troughs Daisy. Number 87. 1907. 3) an office at 611 Clay Street. A May 30th, 1863 Reese River Reveille Seven Troughs Knickerbocker. Number article details a meeting about amending the laws of the district. The 17. 1909. Underground mining vignette. boundaries of the district were set as follows: “On the west side by the 4) Seven Troughs Mining. 1916. Large dividing ridge between the waters of Smoky Valley and Reese River mill and railroad vignette. 5) Providence Valley; on the north by the Overland Stage road; on the east by Smoky Gold Mining. 1909. Underground Valley; on the south by a distance of ten miles from Birch Creek.” Est. mining vignette. 6) Gold Cord Gold Mining Company. Number 97. $400-600 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91901 Underground mining vignette. Later certs include Nevada State Gold Mines (two different) and Seven Troughs Gold Minds (two different). Lot#2337 Rochester, Nevada 1904- Most in excellent condition. Four show no edge, corner, discoloration 1920 Rochester, Nevada Stock of pin hole issues. Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 105985 Collection Nice group of 18 stock certificates from Rochester, Nevada. 1) Lot#2341 Starr City, Nevada 1869 Rochester Hills Mining Company issued Batavia & Humboldt Gold & Silver in 1913 and signed by A.A. Codd as MC Stock I/U #152 Flora Lewis 339 president. Codd was active in Goldfield shares 1869 signed by president and was the Chief Deputy Recorder there illegible. Mine in Unionville Starr in 1904 and 1905. Later was president City area. RN stamps, great vignette of the Rawhide Mining Company and of workers, horses and buildings. 3 heavily involved in Weepah. Nice .5” lower crease tears. Est. $400- signature piece. 2) Rochester Silver Cloud Mining Co. issued in 1914. 800 HWAC# 108103 Offices in Lovelock. 3-4) Two from Minnehaha Mining Company of Rochester, Nevada issued in 1914. 5) Rochester Gold Ridge Mining Lot#2342 Treasure Hill, Nevada 1878 Baldy Sour Mining Company Company issued in 1913. Three mining vignettes. 6) Rochester Mines of Treasure Hill, Nevada Stock Certificate Inc. in New York. Ultra- Company, issued 1915. 7-8) Rochester Merger Mines Company issued low stock in 1915 and 1916. 9) Rochester Goldfield Mining Company, issued in number 1904. Nice mining vignette. 10) Rochester Silver Corporation, issued TWO, issued in 1920. No vignette. 11) Argentor Rochester Mines Company, issued to company in 1917. Eagle vignette. 12) Rockford Gold Mines & Dev. Company, U/I, pr e s i d e nt jokingly filled out to Eilley Orrum and signed by Sandy Bowers in later E uge ne date pen by some smart aleck. Other companies include Pershing Robinson on Quicksilver Company, 1927, Nevada Silver MC, issued in 1920, Great May 29th, Western Mines Company of Nevada, 1920, Reorganized United Mines 1878 in New Company, 1918, and Limerick Consolidated Mines Company, 1914. York. Signed This is a great collection of Rochester that would take decades to put by president together. This is a once in a lifetime chance. Most of the certificates Robinson and are uncancelled and in decent condition. Some have fold splits. Please secretary OS review lot. Est. $400-800 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110088 Dawson. Not cance lle d . Lot#2338 Searchlight, Nevada Mostly Black border 191- 20 Different Mining Stocks and print, from the Searchlight, Nevada gold seal, and District Certificates issued before bald eagle 1910: Majestic Goldfrog Mining & vignette. Two mining vignettes printed on the reverse in green. Printed Milling, Santa Barbara=Searchlight, by The Geographic Company. Deep folds, creases, light wear. 8.5 x 11” Searchlight Quintelle Gold, two There is no record of this company in Raymond, Burchard, Jackson, Searchlight Consolidated Mine & or Hose et al. It was issued ten years after the initial rush to White Milling, Searchlight Treasurer Gold, Pine and after the boom had subsided. It was likely trying to ride the Searchlight Midas, Searchlight Gold coattails of ventures such as the Eberhardt and Eberhardt & Aurora, Dollar, Quartette, Quartette Extension which were British financed mining companies producing at Treasure Gold, two Searchlight Free Gold Mining and Milling including # 27, Hill. According to an article in the Daily Alta California (Feb.19, 1880), Searchlight Gold Extraction, Searchlight Gold Beam Mining and “a letter to the Sentinel says that Mr. Eugene N. Robinson, of the Baldy Milling, Searchlight Spokane. Also 1913 Gold Nugget Milling and Sour, is doing his utmost to further the development of the district.” Development Company of Searchlight, Neada, Riverview Gold Mining Est. $200-400 HWAC# 107733 and Milling with a great mining camp vignette New Era Mining, Searchlight Consoldiated Mining and Milling. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 105953 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 129

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2343 Treasure Hill, Nevada 1869-1892 Three Lot#2347 Washoe County, Nevada Different Treasure Hill Mining Stock Certificates 1900-1931 Washoe County, NV Great group including an 1892 stock issued to HG Mining Stocks incl. Peavine Blasdel, former governor of Nevada. 1) Accidental & Wedekind Lot of 8 Washoe Silver Mining Company. Chloride Flat, White Pine County mining stocks. 1) Nevada District, Lander County, Nev. (printed under title). Exploration and Development No. 35, issued for 83 1/3 shares on May 15th, 1869. Company. Peavine. Issued to FH Not cancelled. Native American vignette. Folds, Norcross in 1900 in Reno, not cxl. toning, creases. 2) The Baldy Sour Mining Company Signed by Norcross and president of Treasure Hill, Nevada. Low number 10 issued to Sunderland. Norcross was a United States District Judge of the the company president, Eugene Robinson, in 1878. United States District Court for the District of Nevada. Folds, tears. 2) Not cancelled. Eagle vignette. Deep folds. Bent upper right corner. 3) Standard Metals Company. Peavine. Issued in 1921, not cxl. Pinholes, Argyle Consolidated Mining Company. Southern Slope of Treasury Hill folds. 3) Copperfield Mining Company. Located 4 miles NW of Reno. White Pine Co. (printed at bottom left under mining vignette). No. 22, Four issued, two green border and two orange, issued 1928-1931. issued for 1,00 shares issued to H.G. Blasdel, the first governor of the Underground mining vignette. Not cxl. Folds, toning. 4) Reno Mizpah state of Nevada! (Not signed by Blasdel). Not cancelled. Black print on Mining Company. Issued in 1906, not cxl. Gold border and three blue paper. Est. $250-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 100930 mining vignettes. Folds with separation and toning. 5) Combination Metals Mining Company. Wedekind. Issued in 1927, not cxl. Brown Lot#2344 Virginia City, Nevada Comstock border and two mining vignettes. Folds, toning. Est. $150-250 Ken Mining Stocks (2) Con. Imperial MC 1881, Prag Collection HWAC# 101623 Curtis Con MC 1880 Est. $140-200 HWAC# 108114 Lot#2348 White Pine County, Nevada Rare Manhattan, Nevada Stock Group #1 All of these are rare. 1) The Manhattan Bob Roy Gold Mining Co., issued in Lot#2345 Virginia City, 1906. Eagle Nevada 1866 Croton vignette. Unc. Gold & Silver MC Stock 2) Manhattan Rare Comstock. I/U #83 Buffalo Mining Octavius Knight 5 shares, Company, issued Signed by Moore as in 1906 and secretary, and Pattee as signed by Sol president. RN stamp Est. Camp. Sol Camp $300-600 HWAC# 106605 was a mining engineer from Colorado and he teamed with L.L. Patrick to promote mining ventures. Patrick had made his name as one of the owners of the great Combination mine at Goldfield. The mine was sold to the Goldfield Consolidated for $4 million. The firm of Patrick, Elliot & Camp made their first $150,000 from their first three Manhattan promotions including the Manhattan Combination and the Manhattan Buffalo. The company’s office was in the Nixon Block in Goldfield. Unc. 3) Manhattan Blue Jay MC, issued in 1906. Eagle vignette. Unc. 4) Manhattan Cowboy Mining Company, issued in 1907. No vignette. Unc. 4) Manhattan Bull’s=Eye Minin Company, issued in 1906. Nice mng. vignette. Uncancelled. None of these certificates is common. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110328 Lot#2349 White Pine County, Nevada Rare Manhattan, Nevada Stock Lot#2346 Virginia District, Nevada 1876 Wells Fargo Mining Group #2 Rare group from Manhattan, Co. Stock certificate #2797, I/U, issued by the Wells Fargo Mining Nevada. 1) Manhattan War Eagle Company for 20 shares of capital stock, Jan 15, 1876. . Extremely rare Mining and Milling Company, issued with only 3 or 4 known. Vignette top stage coach w/four horse team, in 1909. Large size certificate. Eagle “W.F.Mining Co.” on coach. Signed S.M. McDouglas President. Black. vignette. Unc. 2) Manhattan Express The certificate was designed by G.T. Brown, one of the first African- Mining Company, issued in 1906. Americans lithographers to work on stocks and vignette designs in the Allegorical female at top left. Unc. 3) West during the mid-to-late 19th Century. Brown is considered one of The Perserverance Mining & Leasing the first to produce illustrations of California and the Pacific Coast, as Co. issued in 1907. No vignette. Unc. well as bird’s-eye views of Virginia City. Although it had no connection 4) Manhattan Mascott Gold Mining Co., issued in 1907. Three mng. to Wells Fargo & Company, the Wells Fargo Mining Company used the vignettes. Unc. 5) Dexter- Union Mines Company, issued in 1914. name and vignette to sell stock to hopeful buyers hoping to make it Transfer office and mines, Manhattan, Nevada printed in top right rich. Mining operations never took place. In EF condition. Est. $1000- corner. No vignette. Unc. None of these are common certificates. Est. 4000 HWAC# 110847 $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110329 130 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2350 White Pine County, Nevada Rare Manhattan, Nevada Lot#2353 White Pine County, Stock Group #3 Rare Manhattan, Nevada mining stocks. 1) Little Diamond District, Nevada 1874 Grey Mining Company Champion Consolidated Mining of Manhattan. Issued & Smelting Co. Stock Certificate at Tonopah in 1907. Rare. Diamond District, Nevada No vignette. Unc. 2) (printed under title). Inc. August Manhattan Express MC, 1872. No. 310, issued for 25 issued for 100 shares shares to J.L. Blethen on March 9th, 1874 in San Francisco. Signed but not dated. 3) Yellow by J.A. Albertson, vice-president, and J.M. Buffington, secretary. Not Horse Manhattan MC, cancelled. Black border and print, vignette of allegorical woman issued in 1906. Gold holding American flag. Printed by Bacon & Co.’s, Print. 3.5 x 8.75” colored horse at center. Pinholes, folds, some soiling, tear at corporate seal (in vignette). Eagle top left. Unc. 4) According to the Sacramento Daily Union, Sept. 2, 1872, the company White Caps Mining formed to develop the Champion, Patriot, Perseverance, and Hidden Company, issued in 1915. Treasure lodes, Diamond Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada. Transfer office and mine, By 1878, it was reported that the company owned the Champion lode Manhattan, Nevada at and mill site. [Ref: Hand-book of Mining Law, 1878, pg. 156] Tingley top right. Rare, early describes a Diamond district in Eureka County, discovered in 1864. issued stock from this one. Usually, only the much later plain ones Likely it was right on the border between the two counties. () Est. are seen. Signed by A.G. Raycraft as president. Raycraft was a banker $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91856 in Tonopah. Three mng. vignettes. Uncancelled.5) Atlas Manhattan Mining Company, issued in 1906. Mines located at Manhattan Mining Lot#2354 White Pine Mining Dist., State of Nevada at the top. Woman holding flag and shield at top District, Nevada 1869 Dolomite left. Unc. 6) Great Manhattan Cons. Mining Co., issued in 1906. Seven Consolidated Mining Company mng. vignettes. Uncancelled. None of these are commonly seen. Est. Stock Certificate White Pine $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110330 District (printed at top center). Inc. January 1869. No. 17, issued for ten shares to Mrs. ML Leonard on Feb. Lot#2351 White Pine County, Nevada 13th, 1869 in San Francisco. Signed Rare Manhattan, Nevada Stock by president JL Howard and secretary Wm. Higgins. Not cancelled. Group #4 Rare group of Manhattan, Black border and print. Mining vignette. Printed by RJ Betge, SF. 25 Nevada mining stocks. 1) Manhattan cent US IR adhesive stamp attached at upper left. Folds, light wear. 4.5 Surprise Mining Company, issued in x 9” No additional information found. Not in Filer or other Holabird 1906. Three mng. vignettes. Unc. 2) indexes. Est. $160-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107033 Manhattan Surprise Mining Company, issued in 1906. Eagle on globe top left. Unc. 3) Manhattan Rattler Mining Company, issued in 1909. Eagle vignette. Unc. 4) Manhattan Red Top Mining Company, issued in 1906. Location of mines: Manhattan Mining District printed at the top left. Three mng. vignettes. Unc. 5) Manhattan Rye Patch Mining Company, issued in 1906. Offices in Los Angeles. Allegorical females at each side. Very ornate. Uncancelled. Very nice group of seldom seen certificates. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110331 Lot#2352 White Pine County, Nevada Lot#2355 Wonder, Nevada 1906-1909 Wonder, Nevada Stock Rare Manhattan, Nevada Stock Certificates- Group 2 Nice group of nine Wonder, Nevada stocks and Group #5 Rare stocks from Manhattan, one bond certificate. Interesting certificates include Wonder Witch Nevada. 1) Manhattan Pine Hill Mining Mining Company, issued in 1907, Wonder Combined Mining Company, Company, issued in 1906. Nice green issued in 1908, The Churchill=Wonder Gold Mining and Milling and red lettering. Three mng. vignettes. Company, issued in 1907, The Saginaw Wonder Mining Company, Office at Tonopah. Unc. 2) Manhattan issued in 1906, The Wonderland MC 1907, The Alice MC of Wonder, Pine Nut Mining Company, issued at 1906, signed by Sol Camp, a Colorado mining engineer that teamed Tonopah in 1906. Eagle vignette. Unc. with L.L. Patrick to promote mining ventures. Also, Wonder Goldfield 3) The Manhattan Mammoth MC, Mining Co. issued in 1906. The last two stocks are from the Wonder issued in 1907. Three mng. vignettes. Queen MC and The Wonder Great Eastern MC. The Wonder Queen has Unc. 4) Mustang Manhattan Reorganized Mining Company, issued at a large fold split and the Wonder Great Eastern has large scotch tape Goldfield, NV. in 1917. Mines at Manhattan, Nevada at top left. Three repairs on the front. The bond certificate is from the Nevada Victor mng. vignettes. Unc. 5) Manhattan Big Four Mining Company, issued Mining & Reduction Company, issued in 1909 with nine coupons. in 1919. Mines at Manhattan, Nevada printed at top left. Nice mng. The rest of the stocks are in very good condition. All are issued and vignette. Unc. 6) Manhattan Whale Mining and Milling Company, uncancelled. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110078 issued in 1906. Three mng. vignettes. Uncancelled. All of these are seldom seen and are rare. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110332 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 131

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2356 Wonder, Nevada 1906- Lot#2359 Nevada 1863 (1866) 1917 Wonder, Nevada Stock Atlantic & Pacific Gold & Silver Certificates- Group 3 Ten stocks Mining Company Stock # 453 for from Wonder, Nevada. Included are 100 shares to NH Lyon Jr. signed Wonder Great Eastern MC, 1907, by J Sewell and Preston Hodges. in rough condition with tears and Dateline New York 1866. 25c scotch tape repairs, Christmas Power of Att’y revenue stamp. Not Wonder MC, U/I but signed by co. officers, Yankee Doodle Wonder cancelled. Two mining vignettes MC, issued in 1907, The Queen Wonder Mining Company, issued and one Native American vignette. in1908, Missouri Wonder Mining Company, issued in 1906. Low cert. Pinter Latimer Bros. & Seymour. #4, issued for 120,000 shares to M. Scheeline and signed by him as Tears and discoloration along borders. This has the look of a post- president. Also, Vulture Wonder Mines Company, issued in 1917, territorial stock. But an add in the Daily Alta California on June 19, The Doctor Mining Company, issued in 1907, Dexter Wonder Mining 1864 proves it is territorial. The trustees are mention and include Company issued in 1907, Little Wonder Mining and Milling Company, Preston H Hodges and list the secretary as JN Sewell. That makes this 1909, and Ruby Wonder Mining Company issued in 1907. Signed by a rare New York backed Nevada Territory mining venture. We did not Frank M. Ish as president. Most of the certificates except as noted find the exact location, but it is assuredly Lander of Humboldt County. are in very good condition. The Doctor Mining Company stock does Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91909 have some staining at the left. This is a nice group of stocks from ten different companies. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110079 Lot#2360 Nevada 1869 Batavia & Humboldt Gold & Silver Mining Lot#2357 Wonder, Nevada 1906-1909 Co. Stock Certificate Inc. in New Wonder, Nevada Stock Certificates- York. No. 109, issued for 100 shares to JC Pennewill on Oct. 30th, 1869 Group 4 This is a great group of ten in Batavia, NY. Signed by the president (Chanderlonk?) and secretary different Wonder mining stocks with HM Warren. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Vignette of active some rare ones. 1) Vulture Mining mining town. 25 cent adhesive stamp at left. Pinholes, deep folds, Company, issued in 1907. Mines at toning, repaired corner. 7 x 10.5” Not mentioned by Browne (1868) Wonder, Nevada at the top. This is one or Raymond (1870). No articles found on CDNC or newspapers.com of the most prized Wonder certificates that can add location. Not in Filer. Possibly Reese River. Also has with four vulture vignettes, one in been presented as Unionville/ Starr City area. There was a “Batavia each corner. Ex. condition with tiny & Pacific” mine in the Relief District of Pershing County, Nevada in hole cancels. 2) The Alice Mining Co. of the late 1860s-1870s [Raymond, 1876]. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 107736 Wonder, 1906, signed by Sol Camp as president. 3) Rich Gulch Wonder Mining Company, issued in 1907. This is a rare one. 4) Victor Wonder Lot#2361 Nevada 1925 Eldorado Mining Company, issued in 1907. Very nice vignette with a large Wood and Flume Co. Stock Issued mountain breaking thru the clouds. 5)The Jumbo Wonder MC, issued to Ogden Mills, son of Capitalist in 1906, fold splits. 6) Re-Organized North Star Mining Company of Darius Mills Eldorado Wood and Wonder, 1909, signed by Edw. Patrick as president. Some browning Flume Co. Stock Certificate issued at top right corner. 7) Monette Wonder Mining Company, issued 1907 to Ogden Mills (1856-1929), son of as signed by Monette as president. 8) The Sierra Nevada Mines Dev. capitalist Darius Ogden Mills (1825- Co. issued in 1906. 9) Ruby Wonder MC, issued 1907 and signed by 1910), Feb 9, 1925. Incorporated Frank M. Ish as president. Large fold splits. 10) Atlas Wonder Mining in 1875 in Nevada, EDW&F was a Company, U/I. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110080 major land, wood, and fluming company with vast timber holdings around Lake Tahoe and in Ormsby and Washoe Counties in Nevada. Lot#2358 Yerington, Nevada Owned principally by Henry M. Yerington of the Virginia & Truckee 1900-1932 Yerington, Nevada Railroad, William Sharon, D. O. Mills, Alexander J. Ralston, and J. W. Stock Certificates Group (18) Haynie. Signed by Enrico Swift Daugherty (b.1861 Watsonville, Eighteen different stocks from CA) as President and Frank E. Murphy (1868-1939) as Secretary. Yerington, Nevada with fifteen of Signed on the verso by the Estate of Ogden Mills. Black border, black them issued. The best ones include print on tan paper. Vignette at top center of what appears to us to Western Nevada Copper Company, be Spooner Summit. Measures 10” x 5-3/4”. Excellent condition- 1907, Calaverite Mining Company, -see high resolution image online. Rare, historic stock certificate. 1912, Nevada Calumet Copper Mining Company, 1909, Yerington Est. $300-500 HWAC# 110678 Golden Star Mining Company, 1907, and Yerington Mountain Copper Company, 1915. Others include Park City Copper MC, The Yerington Lot#2362 Nevada 1867 Great Mines & Exploration Company, 1911, East Yerington Copper Co. Republic Gold & Silver Mining 1908, Yerington Cons. Copper Co., 1912, Yerington Cons. Copper Co. Company Bond Rare certificate. 1911, Triple M MInes, Inc., also known as the Buckskin Consolidated, Operated gold and silver mines in Butte & Yerington Copper Co. 1912, Nevada Western Copper Mines Nevada. #1847. 50 pound bond. Company, issued 1913, Silver State Mining & Leasing, 1914, Montana 15.5” x 13” Heavy folds as you find Yerington Copper Co., 1932, and Nevada Cons. Copper and Gold Mining in bonds, but no intersection tears, and Milling Company, issued in 1900. Poor condition with large tape no edge of corner issues. Color is repairs. The condition of this group of certificates ranges from poor vibrant. Twelve attached coupons to very good. Please examine. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# worth 1 pound and fifteen shillings 110081 sterling each, with redemption dates from Jan 1874 to July 1879. Vignette of allegorical woman with eagle, flag, and U.S. Capitol in the background at center top; Queen Victoria at lower right; Abraham Lincoln at lower left, and smelting machinery at center bottom. This first mortgage bond paid 7 Per Cent, with principal payable on July 25th, 1873. Printed by the Continental Bank Note Co., New York. Although this company reputedly operated several gold and silver mines in Nevada, their location could not be verified. Est. $200-350 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 79244 132 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2363 Nevada Nevada Mining Lot#2367 Gold Hill, Nevada Stock Group Group of eight Territory 1864 Baltic Gold and different uncancelled stocks. Silver Silver MC stock I/U #795 Robert Pick, 1916, (Tonopah); Yellow Tiger Morgenstern 13 shares 1864. 1917 (best but damaged, Goldfield); Signed by president Kennedy. RN Goldfield Andes 1909; Aztec Divide stamp. Creases and toning. Est. 1919; Nevada Star 1906; Weepah $360-500 HWAC# 108095 National (x rare, Weepah, 1927); Nevada Capitol Gold 1907; Sinclair Lot#2368 Franklin, New Jersey Silver (1920, might be Unionville). 1867 American Zinc Co Stock Est. $120-180 HWAC# 108521 I/U #19 Edward Shelton 1000 shares 1867. We are unsure of mine Lot#2364 Nevada Nevada Mining location, possibly Franklin, NJ Est. Stocks (5) I/C Eureka County Bank $400-600 HWAC# 108108 1897. Unissued Seal of Nevada. Unissued Spanish Belle of Nevada. I/U Curtis Con Mining 1880. I/U Lot#2369 New Mexico Nice Group State Line Gold Mining 1882 Est. of New Mexico Mining Stocks $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 105501 Twelve mining stocks from New Mexico. 1) Revenue Gold Mining Lot#2365 Nevada New Monte Company, 1909. Seven mng. vignettes. Jicarilla District. Unc. Cristo Mining Co 100 shares of 2) The Pittsburgh Ore Reduction New Monte Cristo Mining Co cert. # Company, issued 1907 at Bonito, 15251 dated Feb 3, 1921 issued to N.M. Seven vignettes. Unc. 3) The Mrs. Julius Farrell. Inc. NV. Based in Copper Ridge Mining & Development Co., 1908. Nice mng. vignette. Reno, NV. Blue border and company Chipped top edge. 4) La Trinidad MC, 1926. Piece missing in top seal. Vignette of the company’s border. Unc. 5) Fluorspar Corporation of America, 1958. Lordsburg. logo, hand signed by C.C. Julian, Mng. vignette. Unc. 6-8) Dividend Mining and Milling Company, two pres., H.B. Flasher, secy. Julian was a issued in 1905 and one in 1908. Eagle. Unc. 9) Calumet- New Mexico swindler from LA which led to the MC, issued in 1921. Elk vignette. Unc. 10-11) The Santa Fe Dredging largest financial fiasco in Southern California history. Julian was main Company, two issued in 1914. Elk vignette. Unc. 12) The Socorro Mine character of the book “The Great Los Angeles Swindle.” Joined forces Company, issued in 1903. Seven mng. vignettes. Mogollon. Unc. Est. with a Texan named S.C. Lewis incorporating company to create an oil $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110335 refining company, The Julian Petroleum Company (known as “Julian Pete”). Lewis soon took control of Julian Pete. Put in play strategies Lot#2370 New York 1865 Eagle such as hiring one FBI accountant investigating the company. Things Gold Co. Black Hawk, CO.. Incorp were heating up at Leadfield, but commission put a stop to Julian New York. Extremely rare. #340, selling his mining company’s stock. That occurred as company hit the I/U, 250 shares issued Jan 16, 1865. ore it was looking for, but it was low-grade. Company did not get a Signed R. Emmett White President. chance to search for higher grade ore. C.C. Julian later pulled off some Black. Vignette top eagle wings scams in Arizona and Oklahoma with the C.C. Julian Oil & Royalties spread holding American Flag, left Company before he fled to Shanghai where he committed suicide in 25 cent revenue stamp. Ferd Mayer 1933. Scandal changed the state’s banking industry, influenced state & Co printer. Signed on reverse by law and helped alter the political face of LA and Southern California Burgess. Corporate officers in 1864 by reinforcing the powers of the regulators. SF’s Bank of America also received a salary of $35,000, causing a problem for the company. In won in this battle, for the scandal broke several banks in the southland 1866 the officers were replaced. Vf Est. $400-700 HWAC# 110840 (some of which were ultimately acquired by B of A) and changed the laws that had kept the northern bank to a very limited business in Lot#2371 New York 1864 Mount the LA region. Printed: Jeffries Lithograph Co. Los Angeles U.S.A. . Est. Alpine Gold Co. of Colorado $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91041 Stock Certificate from the Mount Lot#2366 Nevada 1879 Southern Alpine Gold Mining Co. of Colorado. Incorporated in New York. Located at Nevada Mining Company Rare Griffith. Certificate number440, I/U, Reno, Nevada dateline. Location issued in Sept. 28, 1864. Black. Two only identified by four ledges: 25c revenue stamp. receipt attached Sunrise Ledge, Badger Ledge, Jennie to bottom of cert. Henry Spear Ledge and London Ledge. Company printer, no vignette. The Mount Alpine owns 1,500 feet of each! # 67 for Company built a large handsome mill 100 shares. To DC Davis. Signed by with 24 stamps. It started them then stopped. They did a good deal secretary M Lippman(?) and George of work on the Griffith, Corisannie and other lodes. Subsequently the King vice president. Underground Company was reorganized and is now known as The What Cheer. mining vignette. Hatch Little Colonel Wm M Hale of Providence represents it. [Hollister p251] Est. Company of New York printer. Not cancelled. Rounded corners, $200-500 HWAC# 110842 smudges, heavy folds, etc. Still no major issues. The noted Techatticup mine in the district was a major producer for decades. Located 39 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the site of old Eldorado is submerged under Lake Mojave. Ruins of the Techatticup and other mines are left at Nelson (Paher). The certificate was issued in Northern Nevada at Reno as the company needed to raise financing in a population center. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 80454 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 133

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2372 Cabarrus Lot#2376 Cincinatti, Ohio 1847 County, North Carolina Ohio & Missouri Mining Company 1854 Vanderburg Stock # 2500 to JR Mott. Endorsed Mining Company on reverse. Signed by Jno. Kimball Stock Certificate and Charles Van Schaiek(?). Inc. in New York. Dateline CIncinnati 1847. Three No. 249, issued to J. allegorical vignettes and one of Elnathan Smith for George Washington. Printed on side is “The mineral locations of this 600 shares on Feb. Co. have been selected expressly for copper and lead & are among the 3rd, 1854. Signed by best.” Printer: Rawdon, Wright and Hatech, Cincinnati. Not cancelled. president William Wrinkles upper left, blue coloring bottom left. Very nice condition Furnils and secretary otherwise. Incorporated in 1846 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the company Jno. Bordman. Not owned and operated copper and lead mines in the nearby area. They cancelled. Vignette at focused on lead mining activities in Missouri. The mine was critical to top of seated robed the North in the Civil War for bullet and shot supply. Later acquired woman with a pot of by the Picher Lead Company. The Picher Lead Company of Missouri coins spilling out and stars and stripes, Also a bald eagle at her side. merged with the Eagle White Lead to form Eagle-Picher Lead shortly Steam train in background. Thin paper. Folds, pinholes, some creasing after the Civil War. Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 81972 and rough left border. 8 x 9.5” This property was located in Cabarrus County about 22 miles from Charlotte. It was adjoining the Phoenix Lot#2377 cincinnati, Ohio 1872 Mine. The mine exploited veins in greenstone that were several inches Crescent Silver Co of Cincinnati to 3 1/2 feet thick. Rich pockets yielded ores of both copper and gold. 1870, Colorado, Incorporated in [Whitney, p130-131] Est. $400-800 HWAC# 107708 Cincinnati, Ohio, Stock. Mines in Argentine District, Clear Creek County, Colorado. #72, I/C, 9 shares Lot#2373 Davidson County, @ $100 par, issued April 3, 1872. North Carolina 1867 Davidson Signed C.G. Peance President. Copper Mining Company, City Black, three vignettes; bottom state of Baltimore, State of Maryland seal, top miners workin in mine, left miners in shaft. revenue stamp, Stock This is the more common, but embossed seal, American Bank Note CO printer. Small cancel punch more striking of the two different holes, but in excellent condition. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 110844 certs. # 771 for 100 shares to George Gootee trustee. Signed by Lot#2378 Baker, Oregon 1888, Charles Brooks and president John 1890 Two Baker area Gold Mining L Williams. Dateline 1867. Mill and Company Bonds and Large Stock mine vignette. printed by A Hoen & 1) Oregon Gold Mining Company Co. 25c Insurance stamp on front and on back. Not cancelled. Trimmed of Louisville, Ky., 10% five year close on right. Very nice condition! dog ears or pinholes. Chartered bond. 1888. Coupons 2 through by the North Carolina Legislature in 1861 to mine and explore for 10 attached. 14x17”. See stock copper, lead, gold, silver, etc. Located in Davidson County. In 1868 the certificate lot for description on this company. Very nice condition. 2) legislature of North Carolina allowed for the increase of stock so they Eastern Oregon Gold Mining Company, Limited. Has English, French could extend the mine further, build a mill and build a line from the and German revenue stamps. Interesting??? 10x13”. This stock has mine ot the North Carolina Rail Road. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection discoloration edge and corner issues. Still the pair is bright and HWAC# 81903 pleasing to the eye. Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91973 Lot#2374 North Dakota 1902 Lot#2379 Douglas County, Excelsior Copper Chief MC Stock I/U #303 District, Oregon 1878 Tellurium Jared Sater 10000 shares 1902. Quartz Mining Company Stock Signed by president Relief Jackson. # 360 for 50 shares to FS Powell. Nice copper seal and Indian Signed by EH (?) and WF Briggs vignette. Some toning. Est. $200- secretary. Dateline Canyonville 400 HWAC# 106618 1878. Incorporated Nov. 6, 1876. Another striking cert. Black, red and green on white. DT Stanley Printer and Binder, Monmouth, Oregon. Lot#2375 North Dakota 1906 South Dakota Mining Seal, Native American and allegorical vignettes. No edge, corner or Stock Certs. (3) Globe Gold Mining Company I/U No. pin hole issues. IN Muncy was superintendent. Both the Corvallis 2065 for 100 shares to Mathilda Mareuson signed by and Albany newspapers reported fine specimens brought into their E.J. Helmans(?), slight tears in for (4) approx. .5” to newspapers in 1878. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91978 1” at crease, please inspect; Tornado Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company I/U Lot#2380 Jackson County, Oregon from Lead City, 1888, No. 93 for 1000 shares to J. 1877 Josephine Gold and Silver B. Cumisky signed by President Martin Chapman; Mining Company Stock # 24 for Archor Mountain Mining Company of Deadwood 100 shares to HP Stephens. Signed South Dakota Unissued. #744. Est. $180-250 HWAC# by Edward F Albright and WH 108152 Harris. Dateline Portland 1877. Incorporated December 22, 1876. Issued. Not cancelled. Allegorial vignette and mine to mill vignette. Crocker & Co. San Francisco printer. Toning upper border. Discoloration left center border. Nice! Original incorporators were Harris, Alexander ANkeny and JF Salmon. Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91977 134 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2381 Linn County, Oregon Lot#2384 Laurel Hill, Pennsylvania 1865 Lone star Gold and Silver 1839 Laurel Hill Coal Company MIning Company Stock - Extra Stock # 84 for 83 shares to Joseph Rare # 59 for 10 shares to CN Terry. D Murray. Signed by secretary Signed by Terry and president Hung and president Matthew C James Gasken. Dateline Slem Jenking(?). Slight edge issues on Aug. 17, 1865. Incorporated July right. Not cancelled. John C Clark, 6, 1864. Location of mines: Linn Philadelphia printer. Provenance: County. Has the Calf Lode for 1750 feet and the Lone Star Lode for The Hazleton Coal Company was 5250 feet. Nice and colorful with “Lone Star Co., Lone Star” yellow eventually authorized to exercise underprint. They were looking to lease out work to sink a shaft on all the privileges and powers granted by act of March 20, 1838 to the Santiam claim in March of 1865 [Weekly Oregon Statesman, the Laurel Hill Coal Company for the construction of a railroad from Salem] Santiam Junction is a highway junction and unincorporated the Hazleton Railroad to the River Lehigh. Est. $150-400 Ken Prag community in Linn County, Oregon, United States, at the intersection Collection HWAC# 80459 of U.S. Route 20/Oregon Route 126 and Oregon Route 22. The Santiam Junction vicinity is listed by the National Register of Historic Places Lot#2385 Wiconisco, Pennsylvania 1837, 1853 as the site of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Linear Historic District, Two Lykens Valley Coal Company Stock - which consists of roughly 20 miles (32 km) of the old railroad 1837! Two Lykens Valley Stock Certificates. One grade between Idanha and the line’s Cascade Range summit. cancelled the other not. Lykens was located at Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91957 Bear Gap between Coal (or Thick) Mountain and Big Lick Mountain. Dauphin County. The tunnel Lot#2382 Oregon 1890’s Oregon of the Lykens Valley Coal Company, which went Mining Group: Arlington, approximately 3300 feet into Coal Mountain. International Gold and This effort was made in order to reach the last International Mining 1) Arlington vein of coal. At the end of the tunnel, an air hole Mining Company Bond. 26x13”. was made to the surface. This air hole became Number 20. Coupons 5 through 40 somewhat legendary in that miners and school children from Gratz attached. Brown, green, blue and and Lykens Township used it to access the Bear Gap Tunnel and get red all used. Heavy folds, but no rips to the Lykens side of the mountain. [Lykens Valley website] 1) 1837! or tears. No corner or discoloration Number 42 for 50 shares to CR Thomson & Co. Signed by Isaac Prince issues. 2) International Gold Mining and president Simon Gratz (as in Gratz borough of which Simon was and Milling Company. Union, Oregon. # 145 for 5000 shares to David the founder!). Dateline 1837. Blacksmith shop vignette. 2) Same as R MIller. Signed by president and secretary. Reddish orange seal. number one. 1853. # 74 for 12 shares to Amos Phillips. Signed by Underground mining vignette. Dateline Chicago 1897. Incorporated WIlliam Hankins and president George E Hoffman. Cancelled 1857 1897. 3) International Mining and Development Company. # 345 for written in pen. Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 81958 100 shares to WM Cowell. Signed by WH Countiss and president M Reid. Dateline Portland March 30, 1896. Incorporated 1891. Overall Lot#2386 South Carolina 1873 these three items are in very nice condition. Est. $140-200 Ken Prag Wando Mining and Manufacturing Collection HWAC# 91969 Company Stock # 195 for 5 shares to Charles Listchgi. Signed by AB Lot#2383 Dauphin County, Lykens, Cadler(?) and president George Pennsylvania 1833 1833 Version E Gibbon president. Dateline of Lykens Valley Coal Company Charleston 1873. Not Cancelled. Stock: Very old and NUMBER 1 Hay gathering vignette. Printed by Yes, NUMBER 1 for a 1933 stock Walker, Evans and Cogswell. Two certificate! Issued for 540 shares vertical folds, one slight dog ear upper right and one very small nick to Dora Nash. Signatures are lower left. Great condition. Unusual stamp “Wando Fertilizer Pure pen cancelled. Dateline Dauphin Bone Phosphate “ in center. “The Wando clays and sands were located County, 1833. Small holes were around Corn Hill above the Acabee Flats on the Ashley. These lands writing has bled through. Otherwise, very nice! 5.5” x 8.5”. Onion were most extensively developed along the Foster Creek and Wando skin paper. Vignette of a blacksmith shop. Vignettes of Roman River. The clay is frequently stained red. These clays were extensively soldiers in each corner. On New Year’s Day 1877, the prosperous utilized in the manufacturing of brick.” [Holabird Western Americana community of Lykens, Pennsylvania was brought to its knees by Auctions] Est. $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 81952 a devastating mine fire in 1877. The disaster changed the lives of thousands of Dauphin County residents forever. A small number of Lot#2387 Deadwood, South Dakota workers entered the burning mine to assist in efforts to put the fire 1890-1937 Deadwood, South out, but the vast majority of the 800 miners and workers attached Dakota Stock Certificate Collection to the mines and related industries in Bear Gap were thrown out of Lot of nine. 1) Vulcan Mining work. The situation looked dire – damage was estimated in excess of Company. 1890. Number 42. Simple $1 million and fierce debate raged over whether the Lykens colliery design, but has a mining vignette. would ever reopen. It took six weeks for the fire to extinguish Center of seal is almost detached. itself. The town and its citizens were thrown into poverty Attempts 2) White Cloud Gold Mining and to reopen the mine were included drastic wage decreases. Life Milling. 1901. Mining vignette. Two would never be the same in Lykens Valley. [wynninghistory.com] pick and shovel vignettes. Number Est. $300-600 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 81678 58. 3) Hidden Treasure Gold Mining and Milling. 1906. Mining vignette. Number 15. 4) Lexington Hill Gold Mining Company. 1903. Mining vignettes. 5) Castle Creek Hydraulic Gold bond. Coupons two and three are attached. 1912. 6) Black Hills and Denver Gold Mining. 1906. Mining vignette. Located in Spruce Gulch. 7) Ruby Mining Company. 1896. Number 48. Mining vignette. Located in Ruby Basin. 8-9) Blue Bird Mining and Milling. Two different: 1916 number 60 and 1937 number 600. Est. $160-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 105967 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 135

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2388 Deadwood, South Dakota 1880s Eureka Mining Company Lot#2391 Nashville, Tennessee 1858 Stock Certificate Signed by Sheriff Seth Bullock Bold, uncancelled 1858 Nashville & Rowena Coal Company Bul l ock Bond # 29. $1000 First Mortgage Bond. aut ogr aph. All 20 coupons still attached. Pink seal Inc. in South (faded red). Dateline 1858. Incorporated Dakota. No. 1856. Object to mine and transport on 133, issued to the Cumberland River to Nashville. Coal BP Dague for train vignette. Signed by WH Smith and 500 shares president Michaels Burns. Heavy soiling. in 188-. Large rips. 21 x 14.5”. Est. $150-300 Ken Signed by Prag Collection HWAC# 81956 Seth Bullock as president Lot#2392 Beaver County, Utah 13 Certificates from Beaver County, and Robert Utah Lot of Driscoll as 13 certificates secretary. Not including one cancelled. Green border and print. Folds, pinholes, some staining. bond from 4.25 x 8” This is a choice Western autograph piece. Seth Bullock Beaver County. was the first sheriff of Deadwood. He came to the mining camp with A couple have his business partner Sol Star the day before Wild Bill Hickock was duplicates. 1) shot and killed in the camp. Bullock reluctantly became sheriff, but Bonanza Mining was also an accomplished hardware businessman. He later became Company, 1929. friends with Teddy Roosevelt and was appointed as a U.S. Marshall. San Francisco Uncancelled signatures are tough to come by! Est. $200-400 HWAC# mining district. 107705 Mng. vignette. Unc.2) San Francisco Mines, Lot#2389 Deadwood, South Dakota Inc. 1938. 1881-1908 Three Deadwood San Francisco Stocks 1) Great Eastern Gold. mining district. Property located at Black Hills, Lighted torch Lawrence County, South Dakota. # vignette. Unc.3) 7766 for 100 shares to Curtis Taft. Wasatch King Mining Company, issued 1904. Milford, Beaver County. Signed by president Farmington(?). Elk vignette at top left. 4) Federal Gold & Copper MC, issued 1903. Very nice vignette of ore bucket Large tear in the center. 5) Capitol Mining Company, cert. #2, issued being raised by a winze. Dateline in 1917. No vignette. Unc. 6-7) South Utah Mines and Smelters, 1912 1881. Incorporated 1879. Border and 1917. One blue certificate and one orange. Same vignette. Unc. issues: discoloration, dog ears, rips. 2) Homestake Belt Gold Mining 8-9) Moscow Silver Mines Company, issued 1929 and 1931. Mng. Company. # 94 for 1000 shares to RH Moore. Signed by Delos S Dunbar vignette. Unc. 10) Wah-Wah Mining Company, issued in 1941. Mng. and president CH Dunbar. Advertisement in local paper promotes it as vignette. Unc. 11) Cedar-Talisman Cons. Mines Company, issued in the southern extension of the belt of ore of the famous Homestake 1915. No vignette. Unc. 12) Magnolia Lead Company, issued in 1929. mine. Eagle vignette. Reddish brown safety paper with underprint Starr mining district. Eagle and flag vignette at the top. 13) South of ‘Shares $1.00 each.’ 3) Victoria Extension Mining Company of Utah Mines & Smelters, $1000 20 year gold bond, 1909. Very large Deadwood. # 217 for 1000 shares to Camele Rock. Dateline 1908. size bond with nineteen coupons at the right. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Incorporated 1905.Signed by president JC Carson. Valley mining Collection HWAC# 110132 vignette. Underprint of ‘one dollar / Shares $1.00 each / one dollar.’ Green and black on white. Nice condition. Organized to take 1,000 acres of the Ragged Top District. Includes the mines: Favorite, May Lot#2393 Bingham, Utah Bingham, Queen, Ulster, Little Bud and the townsite of Preston. Est. $150-300 Utah Stock Certificates- Group 2 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91680 Eight stocks and two bonds from Bingham, Utah. 1) West Mountain Lot#2390 Grundy County, Tennessee Placer Mining Company, issued 1859 Sewanee Mining Company 1909. Mines in West Mountain Stock Certificate Inc. in 1852--Rail mining district printed at the top. Road Privileges 1854. Cert. #116 2) Bingham Copper Hill Mining Co. issued to company president Samuel issued in 1906. Two holes at left. Tracy of New York for 337 shares 3) Bingham Copper Boy MC, issued 1910. Nice underground mining in 1859. Signed by Samuel Tracy, vignette. 4) Bingham Mary Copper Company, issued 1906. 5) Bingham president, and H. Ward Barnes, Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, issued 1904. Millsite and secretary. Not cancelled. Vignette at miners underground vignettes. 6) Bingham Metals Company, issued left of cross-section of a mining scene, 1946. Mining vignette. 7) Bingham Galena Mining Company, issued with miners on the surface hoisting up 1922. Mining vignette. 8) Utah Metal and Tunnel Company, issued buckets from below. “State of Tennessee” is printed above and below 1943. The two bonds are from the Utah Lead & Copper Company, this vignette. Another vignette at the center shows a coal train beside both issued in 1913. One is green, the $100 bond. The other is orange a mountain lake. Black border on creme paper. Printer: E.B. Clayton’s and is for $500. Both are 10 year gold bonds and both have coupons Sons, N.Y. Folds, a few tears and chips to edges. 7.75 x 9.5” In 1850, attached. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110090 when railroads were still in their infancy, an engineer by the name of A.E. Barney promoted the idea that steam locomotive equipment of the 1850s would be capable of ascending the Cumberland Mountains. READ FULL DESCRIPTION ONLINE Est. $300-600 HWAC# 107713 136 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2394 Bingham, Utah 1899- Lot#2398 Juab County, Utah Juab 1941 Bingham, Utah Stock County Mining Stocks- Group 1 Ten Certificates- Group 3 Eleven different companies. 1) The East Tintic certificates from Bingham, Utah. Mining Company, Springville, issued in 1) United States Mining Company, 1912. Mng. vignette. 2)Tintic Giant Mines trust certificate issued in 1902. No Company, issued in 1928, mining vignette. vignette. Cxled. 2) Gold Star Mining 3) Tintic Union Mining Company, issued & Milling Co., issued in 1913. in 1919. Mining vignette. Stamp cxled. 4) Allegorical female. 3) New Utah Bingham Mining Co. issued in 1912. Tintic Zenith Mining Company, issued in No vignette. 4) North Utah Mining Company of Bingham issued in 1919, nice mining vignette. Fold splits 1906. Great vignette of miners underground and mill above ground. and black spot left of co. name. Stamp 5) The Olympia Mining & Milling Company, issued 1899. Large fold cxled. 5) United Tintic Mines Company, issued 1912. Mining vignette. splits. 6) Park=Bingham Mining Company, issued in 1924. Mining 6) Utah Galena Corporation, issued in 1931. Large size certificate with vignette. 7) South Highland Boy Mining Company, issued 1899. three vignettes at top and bottom. 7) Opohongo Mining Company, Mining vignette. 8) Utah Apex MC, issued 1928. Stamp cxled. 9) Utah issued in 1913. Mining vignette. Unc. 8) Apex Standard Mining Cons. Mining Company, issued 1910. NIce vignette. Franklin Lee Bank Company, issued in 1921. Three vignettes. Stamp cxled. 9) Central Note Co. 10) Utah Copper Company, issued 1920. Mining vignette. 11) Standard Consolidated Mines, issued in 1927. Nice vignette. Tears and Utah Metal and Tunnel Company issued in 1941. Large mining scene scotch tape repairs. 10) South Sunbeam Mining and Milling Company, vignette. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110091 UI. The certificates are in average condition. Please inspect. Est. $150- 300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110102 Lot#2395 Bingham, Utah 1899-1930 Bingham, Utah Stock Certificates- Lot#2399 Juab County, Utah Juab Group 4 Ten certificates from Bingham, County Mining Stocks- Group 2 Utah. 1) Mount Aetna Gold & Copper Group of Tintic district stocks from Mining Company, issued in 1910. Notes, Juab County, Utah. 1) Uncle Sam “Mines at Bingham, West Mountain Consolidated Mining Company, mining district, Utah.” Allegorical figure issued in 1913. Mining vignette. Unc. and sailing ship at the top. 2) O.K. Silver 2) Tintic Paymaster Mines Co., issued Mining and Milling Company, issued at in 1925. Oval mining vignette. Unc. Bingham, Utah which is a rarity seldom 3) Tintic Union Mining Company, seen. Issued in 1916. Three mining issued in 1919. Mining vignette. vignettes. 3) New Utah Bingham MC, issued 1912. 4) North Utah MC Stamp cxled. 4) The Superior Mining of Bingham, issued 1906. 5) Park=Bingham Mining Company, 1923. Company, issued in 1901. Vignette with miners and flowers on both 6) South Highland Boy Mining Company, 1899. Torn piece at top right sides. Very nice. Small hole top left. Unc. 5) Sioux Mines Company, and splits at the bottom. 7) The United States Smelting Company, 1907. issued in 1918. Mng. vignette, unc. 6) Matilda Mining Co., issued 1901. Operated at Bingham Junction. 8) Utah-Bingham Mining Company, Cool vignette of a miner at top left. Pen cxled. 7) Beck Tunnel Cons. 1906. Nice vignette. 9) Utah Copper Company, issued 1915. 10) Utah Mining Company, issued 1907. Seven mining vignettes, unc. 8) Iron Metal and Tunnel Company, issued 1930. Stamp cxled. Est. $150-300 Blossom Consolidated Mining Company, issued in 1915 and signed Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110092 by Jesse Knight as president. Millsite vignette. Unc. 9) East Standard Mining Company, issued in 1930. Mng. vignette. Unc. 10) Central Hill Lot#2396 Bingham, Utah MC, issued 1915 on blue paper. Three mng. vignettes. Stamp cxled. 11) Bingham, Utah Stock Certificates- Opohongo Mining Company, issued in 1916. Mng. vignette. Unc. 12- Group 5 Eleven mining stocks 14) Three unissued stocks from the Tintic Empire MC, South Sunbeam from Bingham, Utah. 1) Bingham Mining & Milling Co., and Godiva Mining Company. The certificates are Mines Company, 1929. 2) The Inter- in good condition. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110103 Mountain Mining and Industrial Association, 1905. 3) Massasoit Lot#2400 Juab County, Utah 1903- Mining Company, issued 1905. 1940 Juab County Mining Stocks, Vignette of Abe Lincoln at top left. 4) North Utah Mining Company Group 3 Eleven stocks from the of Bingham, issued 1909. 5) Park=Bingham MC, issued 1936. Mining Tintic district in Juab County, vignette. 6) The Tomboy Gold and Copper Mining Co., 1902. 7) Utah- Utah. 1) Utah Galena Corporation, Bingham Mining Company, issued 1908. Nice mining vignette. 8) 1926. Mng. vignette. Unc. 2) Tintic Utah Apex Mining Company, issued 1916. Stamp cxled. 9) Utah Cons. Treasure Mining Co., 1940. Mng. Mining Company, issued 1923. Mining vignette. 10) Utah Metal and vignette, unc. 3)Tintic Central MC, Tunnel Company, issued 1935. 11) United States Mining Company, 1912. Allegorical female at top left, issued 1899. Hole cxls. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110093 unc. 4) Sioux Mines Company, 1928. Large scotch tape repairs on the back Lot#2397 Frisco, Utah 1884 Frisco on fold lines. Three mng. vignettes. Unc. 5) Raymond-Illinois Mining Consolidated Mining Company $100 Bond Company, 1905. Three mng. vignettes, unc. 6) The Raymond MC, 1903. Inc. in Illinois. No. 850, issued for $100 on Feb. Red pen cxled. Eagle. 7) Little Chief Mining and Milling Company, 1st, 1884. Signed by president Cyrus Cook and 1907. Mng. vignette. Cxled. 8) East Tintic Dev. Company, issued 1908 secretary Daniel Eyso. Not cancelled. Gilt border, at Provo. Allegorical female. Unc. 9) Godiva Mining Company, 1907. black print, and underground mining vignette. Mining vignette, unc. 10) East Standard MC, issued in 1928. Tear in Printed by Zeuch & Co., Chicago. 39 of 40 left margin, unc. 11) Matilda Mining Co., U/I. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag coupons still attached. 14.5 x 11.75” Horizontal Collection HWAC# 110104 and vertical folds with some toning. According to information on the bond, the company owned the Frisco Lode, the True Treasure Lode, the Cyrus F. Lode, and the Mammoth Lode. Frisco is now a ghost town in Beaver County. It was an active mining camp from 1879 to 1929. At its peak in 1885, Frisco was a thriving town of 6,000 people. Est. $150- 200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 100796 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 137

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2401 Juab County, Utah Lot#2404 Park City, Utah Park 1908-1972 Juab County Stock City, Utah Mining Stock Collection Certificates- Group 5 Seven Approx. 40 mining stocks from Park stocks from the Eureka district, City, Summit County, Utah, from Juab County, Utah. 1) May Day about 27 companies overall. Some Mining and Milling Co., issued in have duplicates or multiples or 1910. Tintic District printed on different colors. Includes 5 United the certificate. Flowers and fancy Park City Mines, 2 issued 1967, 1970 scroll. Very nice. Unc. 2) Victoria and three specimens, 2 Silver Star Gold Mining Company, issued Mining and Milling Co. 1 issued in 1916. Allegorical female at left. Eureka district. Unc. 3)Utah Minerals 1904, Uintah district and unissued, Concentrating Company, issued in 1914. Eureka district. The company 3 Park Utah Consolidated Mines Co. issued between 1925-1935 in was dead by 1917. 4) American Mines Syndicate, issued in 1908. two different colors, 5 Park City Mining & Smelting Company, 1922- Issued at Houghton, Michigan. Small size certificate with no vignette. 1925 in four colors, 2 Judge Mining & Smelting Company, 1916-17 in Stamp cxled. 5) Eagle & Blue Bell MC, issued in 1932. No vignette. Unc. two colors, 2 Bonanza Gold Mines Corporation issued 1925 and 1932. 6-7) Two different certificates from the Chief Consolidated Mining Others include Cons. Metal Mines Ltd. 1931, Flagstaff Bonanza Mining Company. Issued in 1950 and 1972. Both are cancelled. Est. $150- Company, UI, but signed, American Flag Mining Company- 1909, 200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110126 Paiute Oil & Mining Corp. 1979, Ontario Silver Mining Company- 1915, hole cxls., Park City & Midnight Sun MC- 1902, Park City Dev. Co.-1935, Lot#2402 Juab County, Utah Empire Canyon, Park City Cons. Mines Co.- 1950, Park City Coalition- 1901-1926 Seven High Grade 1929, Park Central MC, cert. #4- 1928, Park Standard MC- 1927, Park Tintic District Mining Stocks Premier MC- 1939, East Park City, Park Cummings MC- 1928, Wabash This lot contains some real MC- 1908, Valeo MC- 1900, Three Kings Cons. MC-1931, Scottish Chief beauties. 1) Yankee Consolidated MC- 1908, Queen Esther MC- 1929, Quincy MC- 1905, Thompson- MIning Company, not dated but Quincy Cons. MC- 1911, New Quincy MC- 1928. Most are in average countersigned by the transfer agent condition and most are uncancelled. Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Collection on the front in 1914. Nice vignette HWAC# 110099 we have not seen before. VF. 2) Carisa Copper and Gold Mining Company, issued in 1911, vignette titled, “Main shaft on the Carisa Property”. VF. 3) King William Mining Company, issued 1911. Nice certificate. Two holes in left border might be spindle holes. 4) Tesora Mining Company, issued in 1901. Mining vignette with fold splits. 5) East Tintic Development Company, issued in 1909 at Provo. Miners at both sides with a mining vignette at top left. 6) Silver Shield Mining and Milling Co., issued 1926. Mining vignette. Mines in Tintic and other districts is noted on the certificate. 7) Tintic Company, issued in 1909. Inc. in Maine. Eagle vignette. Don’t miss your chance on this excellent lot. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110101 Lot#2403 Park City, Utah 1914-1927 3 Rare Stocks from Ontario Mining Co. (Geo. Hearst) and 3 Others 6 Stocks in this group in the Uintah district, Summit County. 1) Ontario Silver Mining Company, issued in 1919. This was the Great Silver Mine controlled by George Hearst. The mine was purchased in 1872 by Hearst and his partners Lloyd Tevis and J.B. Haggin. The three also controlled the largest gold mine in the world, the Homestake mine in So. Dakota. The Ontario was purchased for $27,000. In the first three years, the mine almost drove Hearst to bankruptcy. But, by the time of his death in 1891, he had collected $12 million in dividends from it. This certificate is the orange variety. Lot#2405 Salt Lake County, Utah 1901-1955 Big Cottonwood District Issued to Chandler Bros. Hole cxls. Certificates from this company are Stock Group, Utah Group of 20 stocks from the Big Cottonwood extremely rare. 2) Ontario Silver Mining Company, issued in 1916, district with a few multiples. 1) Alta Tunnel & Transportaion Co., 1929, green variety. Issued to Arthur Lipper &Co. Hole cxls. Nice condition. this was the tunnel betweeen Big Cottonwood and Little Cottonwood. Very rare. 3) Ontario Silver Mining Company, issued in 1924. No Mng. vignettes. Unc. 2-3) American Metal Mining Co., 1922 and vignette. Brown color. Hole cxls. 4) Park King MC, issued 1927. Uintah 1934. 4-5) American Mining Co., 1901. Cxled. 6-7) Big Cottonwood mining district near Park City. Mining vignette. Unc. 5) Park City and Consolidated Mining Company, 1915, 1919. Big Cottonwood Canyon. Midnight Sun MC, issued in 1914. Mines in Uintah district printed on 8-10) Michigan-Utah Consolidated Mines Company, 1915,1916,1920. certificate. Eagle vignette. Stamp cxled. 6) Park City and Midnight Sun Big Cottonwood. Unc. 11) Cottonwood Metal MC, Cottonwood, 1916, MC, UI. Est. $300-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110112 unc. 12) Howell MC, 1929, Big Cottonwood Canyon, unc. 13) J.S. Scott Mining and Milling Co. 1905, Big Cottonwood, unc. 14) Cardiff Mining & Milling Company, 1955. Big Cottonwood Canyon. 15) Cottonwood King MC, 1917. Big Cottonwood., unc. 16) Reed’s Peak Cons. Mining Co. 1921. Big Cottonwood Cyn. Unc. 17) Reed’s Peak MC, 1917. Large splits. Unc.18) Wasatch Mines Company, 1916. Big and Little Cottonwood Districts printed on certificate. These certificates are in average condition. Some have tears and fold splits. Most are uncancelled. Please inspect for condition. Est. $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110109 138 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2406 Salt Lake County, Utah Lot#2409 Utah Utah Mining Stocks 1907-1924 Little Cottonwood, (2) I/U Atlanta Mining #598 AF McGrew Salt Lake County Mining Stocks 1879 100 shares signed by EB Gago Nice group of mining stocks from and AH Noon. I/C Daly Mining #3121 the Little Cottonwood mining Chambers Estate 1000 shares 1917 area. 1) Albion Mining Company, signed by GW Parker and Lewis Jeffe? issued 1915. Eagle vignette. Little Est. $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# Cottonwood district. 2) Alta 105493 Consolidated Mining Company, issued in 1915. Mines at Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon. Unc. 3) Alta Merger Mines Company, issued Lot#2410 Shenandoah, Virginia in 1924, American Fork mining district, Little Cottonwood. Unc. 4) 1859 Stony Man Mining Company Columbus Condolidated Mining Company, issued 1907. Nice certificate Stock Certificate Rare and very with a mining vignette at the top with an allegorical female on each early. Number 100, issued for 20 side. Unique. Little Cottonwood. Unc. 5) Emma Cons. Mines Company, shares to Martha Barker on May issued 1918. Signed by George Graham Rice, famous Nevada stock 16th, 1859. Signed by secretary promoter that wrote, “My Adventures With Your Money”. No vignette. WIlliam Danforth and president Little Cottonwood. 6) Mineral Veins Coalition Mines Company, issued Josiah Barker. Not cancelled. in 1926. MInes at Alta. 7) Rainbow Mining Company, issued in 1907. Unusual underground mining Little Cottonwood Canyon mining district aka Alta mining district. vignette! Folds, very nice condition. 6 x 10.25” “In 1854 Samuel and 8-9) Two beautiful certificates from the South Hecla Mines Company, Maria Williams of Brooklyn, New York purchased 21,371 acres of issued in 1910 and 1921. Mines at Alta, Little Cottonwood district. land in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for $4,750. One year Unc. The condition of this group is very good and none are cxled. Est. later the land was passed on to the Virginia Cliff Copper Company for $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110108 $1,000,000, although only $7,000 was ever actually tendered. Soon 5,371 acres of the tract were sold to the newly incorporated (January Lot#2407 Utah 1867 New York 1858) Stony Man Mining Company for $550,000 of stockholder funds. & Utah Prospecting Mining In 1866, the Miners Lode Copper Company (incorporated in NYC Co. Stock Certificate Rare. Inc. in 1865) purchased the property.” [nps.gov] Today this is all part of in New York. No. 92, issued for the Shenandoah National Park and Skyland. Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 1,000 shares to William H. Mailer 107707 on Oct. 10, 1867. Signed by the company president (Joseph Wilde) Lot#2411 Eureka Gulch, Washington c1910 and secretary (A. Higgins). Not Luxor Gold Mining Company Stocks and cancelled. Very attractive vignette Mining Deeds The Luxor Gold Mining Company of mine surface workings. 25cent adhesive revenue stamp attached at was located in the Eureka District in the left. Printed by Geo. F. Nesbitt & Co., NY. Very fine condition. According state of Washington. It was incorporated in to a prospectus previously sold by FH, the company’s properties were New Jersey. New Jersey records mention the located in Nevada and Western Utah: the Pah Ranagat Lake Mining Luxor in 1911, 1912, 1914, 1915, and 1916 District of Lincoln County Nevada, Mountain Lake District, the West that we could easily find. (Eureka Gulch is a Mountain District, Meadow Valley District and the Iron Mountain gorgeous route that climbs up to the location District. 7” x 11” Est. $200-400 HWAC# 107749 of one of the most disastrous mining accidents to ever happen in the mining industry; the Lot#2408 Utah Tooele County, Utah collapse and total drainage of Lake Emma. The Sunnyside Mine Stock Certificates- Group 1 Ten stocks had tunneled directly under Lake Emma, 70 feet above to reach from Tooele County, Utah. 1) Honerine a rich gold vein located there. On Sunday June 4, 1978, on the only Mining and MIlling Company, issued day of the week that the mine was completely shut down, the lake 1905. Mines in Stockton mining district. burst through into the empty mine shafts. This incident completely No vignette. 2) Hampton Mining drained Lake Emma and left the empty basin that still can be seen.) Company, U/I. Operated in Stockton mining district. Mining vignette. 3) Six mining deeds all revolving around Martha Adele Mallory. Also Western Utah Copper Company, issued two mining stocks. Stocks are for the British American Feldspar 1924. Operated Gold Hill mine, Clifton Limited: Numbers 2 and 7. These deeds are for the Luxor, Quilp mining district near the Nevada border. Faction and Alice Fraction. Date of last ore shipment was 1940. 4) New Sultana Mining Company, issued in 1905. Three mining One patented claim. Developments consisted of one 400-foot vignettes. Unc. 5) American Mining & Leasing Company, issued in shaft with several drifts and stopes. A winze was sunk from the 1917. Principal place of business, Lehi, Utah printed on the masthead. 400-foot to 500-foot level. The claim was originally located as Location was at Simpson’s Point, Tooele County. 6) Brewer Gold and the San Poil. Total reported production value was: $720,938 to Copper Mining Company, issued in 1920. Offices were at Ibapah. the end of 1920. Reported production was 22,402 tons in 1937; Held 11 claims on Dutch mountain in the Clifton district. 7) Silver 9,828 tons in 1938; and no total in 1939-1940 (Huntting 1956). Queen Mining Company, issued in 1903. Tears, fold splits and wear. 8) Imperial Lead Mining Company, issued in 1925. No vignette. Two One complete book of stock certificates: numbers 101 to 200. Vignette spindle like holes near left border. 9) Fireside Coal and Oil Association, of two allegorical women, liberty and prosperity, holding a shield. 1921. Splits. 10) Benmore Consolidated Mines, issued in 1932, Wear Excellent condition. Unused. Est. $250-375 HWAC# 57435 at folds. Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110097 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 139

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2412 Republic, Washington Lot#2416 Stevens County, Washington 1901-1903 Four Different Choice 1890-1947 Stevens County, Washington Republic, Washington Mining Mining Stock Certificate Group Lot of Stock Certificates Lot of 4 different. 7 different. Includes: Gladstone Mining Republic area, Ferry County. 1) Gold Company (1890, Northpoint Mining Bug Mining and Milling Company. District); Gladstone Mines & Reduction “Mines located in the Eureka Company (1923, globe vignette); District, Colville Reservation, Gladstone Mountain Mining Company Washington” (printed under title). (1925); Commodore Mines Corporation You don’t see many mining stocks (1928, elk vignette); Little Giant Mining, for companies located on Indian reservations! No. 44, issued for Milling & Smelting Company (1905, 8,500 shares to John Blackburn. No date. Signed by the president and mining vignette); Meyers Falls Copper Company (1923, mining secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print, gold seal and title, elk vignettes); and Germania Cons. Mines, Inc. (1947, mining vignettes). vignette. 2) Tom Thumb Gold Mining & Milling Company. Two (slightly) Fair to good condition. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107637 different. Issued in 1901 and 1903, not cancelled. Brown border, black print, and background vignette of miners. 3) Lone Pine Surprise Lot#2417 Washington 1896-1954 Consolidated Mining Company. No. 1916, issued for 1,000 shares in Eleven Different Washington Mining 1902. Not cancelled, Very attractive design with ornate border and Stock Certificates Lot of 11 different. title with tree and mountain vignette! Fair to good condition. Please Included: Lone Star & Lucky Boy MC inspect. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107645 (1896, Spokane); Bradshaw MC (1911, mining vignette, Seattle); Empire Lot#2413 Spokane, Washington 1897- MC (Spokane, 1902, eagle vignette); 99 Six Different Spokane Datelined Marietta M&MC (1936, Spokane, mining Washington Mining Stocks Lot of 6 vignettes); Judge MC (1905, mining different. Includes: Bounty Mining & vignettes); General Mines Corp. (1928); Smelting Co. (1897, not cxl, mining Gold Eagle MC (1954, eagle vignette); vignette); Butte & Boston GMC (1898, Fox MC (#5, Seattle, 1904, mining vignettes); Mutual Gold Corp. not cxl, mining vignette); Byrne Mining (1936, Spokane); Gold Bond MC (1937, mining vignettes); and Lincoln & Milling Co. (1898, not cxl, mining Placers Associates, Inc. (1941, eagle vignette). Est. $200-400 Ken Prag vignettes); The Capitol Mining Co. Collection HWAC# 107633 (1897, not cxl, allegorical vignette); Hartford GMC (1899, not cxl, mining Lot#2418 Washington 1901-1941 Ten vignette); and Gold Producer MC (1899, not cxl, elk vignette). Good to Different Washington Mining Stock very good condition. Please inspect. Est. $240-350 Ken Prag Collection Certificates Lot of 10 different. Included: HWAC# 104394 Ora Tahoma MC (#1, 1935, mining vignettes); Conquest Cons. MC (Spokane, Lot#2414 Spokane, Washington 1896- 1904, elk vignette); Byrne M&MC (1905, 1899 Six Different Spokane Datelined Spokane, mining vignettes); Planet G&S Washington Mining Stocks Lot of MC (1901, Seattle, mining vignette); 6 different. Included: King Grouse Western GMC (1922, Seattle, mining Mountain Gold Mining Co. (1899, not cxl., vignettes); Prize MC (1903, Seattle, elk vignette, Northport Mining District, mining vignettes); National Gold Corp. Colville Reservation); A.O. & F. Gold (1928, mining vignette); Pacific Cons. MC (1910, Seattle); The Great Mining Co. (1896, not cxl, allegorical Ledge MC (partially issued, mining vignettes); and Ymir Commodore vignette); Antle Gold Mining & Milling MC (1941, Spokane, eagle vignette). Please inspect. Est. $200-400 Co. (1897, not cxl, mining vignette, poor Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107631 condition); Aurus Mining Co. (1896, not cxl., mining vignette); B. & V. GMC (1899, not cxl, 3 mining vignettes); Lot#2419 Washington 1912-1947 and Boston Gold Mining & Milling Co. (1899, not cxl, mining vignette). Ten Different Washington Mining Fair to very good condition. Please inspect. Est. $240-300 Ken Prag Stock Certificates Lot of 10 different. Collection HWAC# 107081 Includes: General Mines Corp. (1926, mining vignettes); Standard Hydro Lot#2415 Spokane, Washington Amalgamator Co. (1915); Cornucopia 1896-1899 Six Different Spokane Gold Mine (1947); Hoover Mining Co. Datelined Washington Mining (1936 with map vignette!); Council Stocks Lot of 6 different. All pre-1900, Placer Mines Co. (1930, Seattle, mining corresponding to the Alaska Gold vignettes); Ora Tahoma MC (1936, Rush. Includes: Gopher Gold Mining mining vignettes); Overlook Cons. MC Co. (1897, not cxl, mining vignettes); (1920, mining vignette); National Gold Corp. (1930, mining vignette); Cleopatra Mining Co. (1899, not cxl); Jewel Mining & Mining Co. (1916, Spokane, mining vignettes); and Highland Light Gold Mining Co. (1896, Treasure Mountain Silver Lead Co. (1912, elk vignette). Est. $200- mining vignettes, not cxl.); Iron Hope 400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107632 Mining & Milling Co. (1896, not cxl, mining vignette); Canopy Smelting, Refining & Manufacturing Co. (1897, not cxl, waterfall vignette); and Index Independent Mining Co. (1899, not cxl., same waterfall vignette). Good to very good condition. Est. $240-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107083 140 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2420 Washington 1903-1958 Lot#2425 Wisconsin 1845 St. Croix and Ten Different Washington Mining Lake Superior Mineral Co. Stock I/U #1125 Stock Certificates Lot of 10 different. Robert Rantoul 1 share 1845. Signed by Included: Bellevue Mining Company Choate and Cushing trustees. A company that (1931, eagle vignette); Charlotte encountered nothing but trouble. Not listed in Ann Mercury Co. (1930); Kimberly Whitney. Corner crease, 3 small fold tears-1 Gold Mines, Inc. (two different, with back tape. . Est. $200-500 Ken Prag 1939 and 1958, mining vignettes); Collection HWAC# 82105 Kahchess Mining Company (1903, mining vignette, poor condition); Goldstream Mines Company (1907, Lot#2426 British Columbia, Canada allegorical vignette); Federal Gold Mining and Milling Company 1897-1935 British Columbia Mining (1907, mining vignettes); Golden River Mining Company (1903, eagle Stock Certificates Lot of 6 different. vignette); Eureka Gold Mining Company (1903, mining vignettes); Included: Ainsworth Mining & Smelting and Eliomachan Mines (1917, mining vignettes). Est. $200-300 Ken Company (1897, mining vignettes, punch Prag Collection HWAC# 107647 cancelled); Eden & Crescent Mining Co., Ltd. (1917); Consolidated Mining Lot#2421 Washington Washington & Development Co. (1902); Princess Mining Stock Group Ten Washington Royal Gold & Copper Mining Company mining stocks. 1) Union Mining & (1905, mining vignettes); Nicholson Milling Company, 1906. Issued for Creek Mining Company (1935, George 273,750 shares. Seven mng. vignettes. Washington vignette); and Great Northern Mines Company (1906, Unc.2-3) The Wolf Creek Mining Co., mining vignette). Fair to good condition. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag issued in 1908 at Spokane. Three Collection HWAC# 107642 vignettes. Unc. 4) Inter Ocean MC, Tacoma, Washington, issued in 1904. Lot#2427 Canada Canadian No vignette but mountain scene Mining Stock group Villamoro underprint in green and white. Unc. 5) GMC (1925), River Gold recovery Keywest Mining Company, 1928. Three vignettes. Unc. 6) Idaho Gold Co (1919), Victory Gold Minres and Radium Mining Co., 1914. Three vignettes. Unc. 7) Cedar Creek (1922), MAckenzie Henderson Coal Copper Co., issued at Spokane, 1907. Mng. vignettes. Unc. 8-9) Mineral Co (1922), Northern Production Development Company, 1912, 1915. Mng. vignette. Unc. 10) Spokane Co (1918), Nortehrn Coppeer & National Mines, Inc., 1969. Eagle vignette. Unc. Average condition. Est. Nickel Mines (1920), Mexerica $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 110334 MC (Mexico-1924). Est. $60-100 HWAC# 103134 Lot#2422 Wetzel, West Virginia 1867 Ann Arbor & West Virginia Lot#2428 Chihuahua, Mexico Oil and Mining Company Stock 1864 Cordillera Gold & Silver MC Early number 47 for 20 shares to Stock Choice I/U #161 Nathaniel SA Mattison. Signed by JH Burleson Page 104 shares 1864. Unique and and president EO Haven(?). interesting vignettes. Lower left Incorporated January 17, 1866. chip. Est. $380-500 HWAC# 106623 Dateline Ann Arbor 1867. Oil well and seal vignettes. Calvert & Company of Detroit printers. Not cancelled. 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. Major tear bottom right, Lot#2429 Sonora, Mexico 1886 San otherwise nice. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 81925 Ricardo Mining Company Stock Certificate Different variety than Lot#2423 Wisconsin 1867 other. Inc. in AT, Oct. 1883. No. 734, Silverthorn Lead Mining and issued for 100 shares to Elizabeth Smelting Stock I/U #309 N Johnson Seelbach on Dec. 28th, 1886. Signed 10 shares 1867. Signed by Wm. by secretary Louis Hoffman and the Geer president and David W. Ward president (illegible). Not cancelled. secretary. Vignette of a ore train Black border and print. Red title. with miners working outside and a Small vignette of Lady Justice. Deep folds, pinholes. 6.5 x 10.25” Not large mill in background. Vignette listed in Sonnichsen’s “Tucson.” While we are unsure if they had at left of miners underground. property in Arizona, they had claims in the Ures district of Sonora, Black border. Printer - Western including the San Ricardo Mine. [Ref: Engineering and Mining Journal, Engraving, Chicago. 25c revenue Volume 48, 1889, pg.168] Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# stamp. We found a Silverthorn mine located in the Shullsburg 100894 district, Iowa County, Wisconsin. Not listed in Whitney. . Est. $200-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 82101 Lot#2424 Wisconsin 1867 Silverthorn Lead Mining and Smelting Stock I/U #300 WJ Johnson 10 shares 1867. Signed by President Geer. 25c revenue stamp. 3 fold chips. . Est. $200-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 82108 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 141

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot#2430 1860 American and Lot#2436 Oregon & Washington Mining Mexican Silver Mining Company Stock group Pacific Beach MC (1910-possibly This is extra rare. Possibly the only Gold Beach), grouse Mtn MC (1925), one known. I/U/ No. 188 for 100 Millionaire MC (Medford, OR 1920), Grand shares to N.P. Rice signed by H.D. Viwe Gold MC (Wash 1905) Chisna Consol MC Clapp, President. Shows Pueblo (WA 1907) Est. $100-120 HWAC# 104918 style village with Saguaro cactus. Probably New Mexico, but could be Arizona. It used to be part of Mexico. Gadsden Purchase of 1854. The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in Lot#2437 Penn-Wyoming which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 Copper Co - Wyoming One square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and hundred capital shares of stock for New Mexico. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 106644 Penn-Wyoming Copper Co., number 18794 issued to William E . Whiting Lot#2431 1887 Banner Gold on October 21, 1908 by E. M. Cobb, Mining and Milling Stock Choice president, C. A. Nomon, secretary. I/U $430 I Rascom 500 shares 1887, Vignette “Cedant Arma Toge”, 1869. signed by president Haase. Fabulous Printed: Western Bank Note Co. “gold leaf” or gold “foil” color with Chicago. STEELOGRAPH. Ken Prater underground miner vignette.. Office Collection. Est. $150-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 81830 in St. Louis, we are unsure if this mine is in Colorado or Butte County Lot#2438 1867 Rocky Mountain California. Very nice condition Est. Gold Mining Co. of Colorado Rare. $300-400 HWAC# 108098 Territorial. Incorporated February, 1864. Certificate # 489. Issued for Lot#2432 c1880 Columbus Black Hills South 100 shares to W.H. Lawrence on Dakota Stock Certs. (2) Columbus old Mining May 7th, 1867. Signed by Satherton Company Stock Cert I/U No. 308 or 50 shares (?) as president and Sam Bond as to R.M. Hamilton, signed by President Henry secretary. Twenty-five cent revenue F. Herkiner(?); Columbus Consolidated Gold stamp attached and pen cancelled. Mining Company I/U No. 3528 for 1000 shares No vignette, Reverse is endorsed. The mine operated 3 shafts in to F.J. Hearne signed by President (illegible Gregory Gulch in 1867 at depths of 150-175 feet. The company also signature) Est. $180-250 HWAC# 106028 owned 3300 feet of undeveloped property consisting of “the best lodes in Empire District, Clear Creek County” [Hollister, 1867, 193]. W.H. Lawrence may be the same W.H. Lawrence who went on to be Lot#2433 1903-1935 Fifteen U. a well-known photographer in Denver in the early 1890s [Mautz]. S. Metal Mining Stocks Congress Condition: very light toning. Mowpe & Co. Printer Est. $400-1500 Cons., Seymour M&D, El Fuerte, HWAC# 110843 Double O, Imperial Lode, Inter-State Mining, Century (1910 with mail Lot#2439 c1881 Stateline delivery by horse vignette), Satar Suite, 1-4 Stock Certs. State M&M (1905), New York & Boston, Line Gold Mining Company No. Phoenix, Harriman, Big-Kay, Trinity (two), and 1903 Greywolf. Est. 1. I/U No. A1625 for 50 shares to $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 104009 D.F. Verdenal Trustee, signed by President (illegible signature);The Lot#2434 1864 International Line Mining Company No. 2 I/U Gold Amalgamating Company No. A3489 for 50 shares, signed Stock # 337 for 500 shares to by President (signature illegible); August Motter(?). Datelined New State Line Gold Mining Company York 1865. Used for the purpose No. 3, I/U No. A5376 for 50 shares to Magen & Billing signed by of purchasing property. Signed by President Leo A. Shryock(?); State Line Gold Mining Company No. 4 William Cobb president and Samuel I/U No. A2112 for 50 shares to L. Turnbull, signed by President Leo A. Cooper treasurer. 25c Insurance Shryock(?). Est. $300-500 HWAC# 108155 Revenue stamp. Printed by Macoy & Herwig stationers. Not cancelled. Lot#2440 US Coal and Oil Stock Spectacular condition: no edge, group Continental Oil Shale Mining border, pinhole or discoloration issues. An 1865 resource puts the & ref. (great vignette under title. business office at 187 Broadway. We could not fin a location. Perhaps 1919), Consol Realization Co (1924), Colorado. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 80476 Consol Realization Co (1924 $10 10 year Gold Note, Powdered Coal Lot#2435 Misc. USA Mining Engineering (1917), Continental Stock Group (9) American Coal Co of ohio (1921), Monarch Sulphur & FC (1924), American Shale Oil (1921), Consumers Oil & Copper Co (1903), Southern Shale (1919) Est. $70-100 HWAC# 103135 Illinois Kaolin (1909), Keltner MC - Miami, Oklahoma (1917), World Gold Syndicate (1921), Verdiana Silver Copper Co (1920), Alvarez MC (1928), Atumba Minerals Co. (1926), General Minerals Co (1925) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 104916 142 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Other Lot#2441 Western Mining Lot#2444 San Francisco, Stock Group Montana, South California 1855 Mercantile Dakota, Utah, Wyoming. Pittsburgh Library Association Stock # SMC (American Fork, UT 1921), 89 for 1 share to J Warren Cox. American Fireproofing and Mining Signed by Gand(?), president Hale Co. (South PAss, WY 1915), Twin and countersigned by treasurer City Dev Co (Ellison- MT- 1903), Riddell. ‘Duplicate’ written in pen. Great Northern Copper Co (SD- Dateline August 14, 1855. Vignette 1919) Est. $80-100 HWAC# 104917 of wharf. Small border rips and tears Right shows aging. Wrinkling. Good condition. The San Francisco Mercantile Library Association STOCKS & BONDS (est. 1852) was a civic group organized in San Francisco, California, to “stimulate a generous rivalry in mental culture, by rendering it the fashion to read and converse on literary topics.” Its founders J.B. OTHER Crockett, F.A. Woodworth, and F.C. Ewer aspired to “make our infant city as distinguished for literature and science as it already is for its commerce and wealth.” By 1854 the group had collected for its library some 3,000 volumes. The library grew to 14,000 volumes by 1861, and to 36,000 by 1874. Holdings included travel writing, essays, plays, California history, American history, and literature by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Sainte-Beuve. In 1906 the association merged into the San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute. Later the same year an earthquake disaster ruined the combined collections. [wikipedia] Est. $600-1200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 88179 Lot#2445 San Francisco, California 1850 Societe de Commerce de San-Francisco Stock Certificate Lot#2442 Bodie, California 1892 Bodie & Hawthorne Telephone (Gold Rush) Extra rare--not seen & Telegraph Company Stock Yes, there are plenty of these stocks by us before. According to Rush around, BUT THIS IS CERTIFICATE #1. Issued to fanny Leggett and to Gold (Rohrbough, 2013), this signed by president Thomas Leggett. For 10 shares. Also signing was was a French company formed to secretary RL McCarty. Pen Cancelled.Stain on right. Small nick on exclusively pursue trade during the lower left. One pink paid J. S. Cain assessment stamp on reverse. While California Gold Rush. They billed Leggett managed the Standard Mine, two significant events occurred. themselves as a “grand exclusively commercial enterprise,” not a It became one of the pioneers in using cyanide for the recovery of bank or lending house (pgs. 133-34). This is stock No. 2767, issued gold and silver. In 1894, he built the first cyanide plant on the Pacific for 25 francs on July 29th, 1850. Text is is French, black print on blue coast at Bodie. The second event, with consequences far beyond the paper. 5.5 x 8.5” Folds, some staining. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection mining industry, was the long distance transmission of electricity. HWAC# 104421 Faced with having to use wood for fuel, Leggett searched for cheaper alternatives. He discovered that in 1892, alternating current had been Lot#2446 San Francisco, California 1866 successfully transmitted three miles at Telluride CO. He installed a & 1890 Two California Investment 250-kw Westinghouse generator powered by Pelton water wheels Company Stock Certificates Lot of 2 with a 300-foot head. The power generated was at 3000 volts and was different. 1) California Building & Loan carried 13 miles on a #1 bare copper wire. By late 1894, the system Society. Issued in 1866 to George Treat. was considered proven and the steam powered equipment removed. Signed by president Thomas Mooney Est. $300-700 HWAC# 79760 and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Eagle vignette. 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp, pen cancelled. Lot#2443 Fresno, California 1880- 1894 Fresno Area Mining & Non- Folds, creases. 2) California Guarantee Investment Company. Issued to COG Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3 Miller in 1890. Stamped and punched cancelled. Pinholes, folds. () Est. different. 1) North Fresno Mining $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 100757 Company. Low number 5, issued for five shares to Simon Reinhart on Feb. Lot#2447 San Francisco, California 11th, 1880. Signed by the president 1866 Warm Swimming Bath and secretary. Not cancelled. Black Association Stock Certificate Inc. border and print, mining vignette. 1865. No. 70, issued for 50 shares Britton & Rey. Pinhole, light wear. 4 to H.T. Holmes on Jan. 23rd, 1866 in x 9” 2) Porterville Land and Lumber San Francisco. Signed by president Company. No. 13, issued for 204 OP Sutton and secretary A. Badlam. shares to Thomas Palache on June Not cancelled. Black print on thin paper by LeCount & Co. 25 cent 2nd, 1888. Signed by president LL adhesive IR stamp at lower left. 3.75 x 8” Folds, toning. According to Baker and secretary Louis Monteagle. Daily Alta California 1865 articles, the purpose of this company was to Not cancelled. Black border and print, build a bath house and for purchasing real estate. 1866 articles detail vignette of tree. AJ Leary print. Folds, the property, now for sale, located at: Third Street to Ritch Street, ink smearing on reverse.4.25 x 9.25” 3) Raisin Growers’ and Packers’ and near the intersection of Powell and Filbert. Also for sale are gym Company. No. 636, issued for one share to James Bradley in 1894 in equipment, furnaces, life preservers and more. Est. $200-400 Ken Fresno. Signed by the president and secretary. Not cancelled.Dark Prag Collection HWAC# 103442 blue print. Pinholes, folds. 5 x 8.5” Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 107004 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 143

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Other Lot#2448 Todd’s Valley, California Lot#2452 California Spectacular 1854 Todd’s Valley Water California Oil Stocks Groups (5) Company Stock # 5! For 3 1/3 Really nice oil vignettes. Grand Pacific shares of the 320 shares available. Oil 1901, Oil Creek Petroleum, Sedalia To P Powell and Huber. Signed by and California Oil 1902, Morro Bay Oil HW Brown and president Huber. 1908-.33” tear, Potomac Oil 1901 Est. Located in Placer County. Reverse $200-400 HWAC# 108118 shows transfer of stock in 1865. Uncancelled, Small tears top and bottom edge. Very nice. Came with this history, Todd’s Valley was first settled by Dr. Todd, who built a log house for a store and hotel, on the site of his present residence, at his ranch in the lower suburbs of the Lot#2453 Denver, Colorado town, in June, 1849. The location at that time was the most eligible 1920 Denver Union Water one to be found north of the Middle Fork of the American River, and Company Stock Certificate from was the proper distance from the river to catch all the travel from the Denver Union Water Company, the old diggings in EI Dorado county to the new placers at Stony Bar incorporated in Colorado, certificate ,Horseshoe Bar and Rester’s Bar. We found a reference to Todds Valley number A2237, issued in 1920, at Ditch Company which built more than 12 miles of works with a 400 Denver, Colorado, issued to Dennis inch capacity operating between 1856 and 1859. The town of Todd’s Sheedy, printed by International Valley was nearly destroyed by a fire in 1859 and eventually lost out Banknote Co., N.Y., size 10.75 by much of its population to Yankee’s Fork, the nearest town. Apparently 7.25 inches, in Average condition, the company stayed alive for some ten years, at least. Est. $500-600 issued. Waterfall vignette. Formed in 1894 by merging competing Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 85241 Denver water companies. They held a monopoly over the Denver water system. In 1905, they built the Cheeseman Dam & Reservoir Lot#2449 Yuba County, California 40 miles upstream on the Platte. Most of their water cam from the 1852 Very Early Yuba County, surface. In 1918, Denver residents voted to form a five-member Board CA Bond Early Yuba County bond. of Water Commissioners and buy the Denver Union Water Company’s #43 to Arthur S Barber $500 7%. water system for $14 million, creating Denver Water. [Ref: Water and Signed by Judge Henry P Ham. Arid Lands of the Western United States, pg 339] Est. $500-1500 Neither Ham nor Barber are listed HWAC# 104912 in Bancroft. “Yuba County was one of the original counties of California, Lot#2454 Denver, Colorado formed in 1850 at the time of 1889 North Denver Bank Stock statehood. Parts of the county’s Certificate No. 44, issued for five territory were given to Placer County in 1851, to Nevada County in shares to Jas. F. Benedict on August 1851 and to Sierra County in 1852. The county was named after the 15th, 1889 in North Denver. Signed Yuba River by Captain John Sutter for the Maidu village Yubu, Yupu by the president (AE Gipan?) and or Juba near the confluence of the Yuba and Feather rivers. General cashier EW Ray. Not cancelled. Green Mariano Vallejo stated that the river was named Uba by an exploring border and background, black print. expedition in 1824 because of the quantities of wild grapes which Printed by the Denver Litho. Co. 9 x they found growing on its banks.” from wikipedia. Creases. . Est. 11.25” Folds with some separation, $500-1000 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 83214 creases. According to History of Colorado, Volume 1, the bank was incorporated August 15th, 1889 Lot#2450 California 1922 &33 (the date our stock was issued) with CF Ray as president. Located at California Brewing Assoc. This 15th and Central Streets. Closed in 1893, having paid all depositors is a lot of 2 very rare stocks! 1) in full (Stone, 1918, pg. 399). Est. $150-250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# California Brewing Association, 107185 stock no. C7 issued to L.G. Gasue for 1 share on October 10, 1922. Lot#2455 Colorado 1878 Colorado Note that there is a purple mark Cattle Company Bond Extra over the title. It covers the word with bottling with the word brewing rare. Issued during the Colorado gold embossed seal, Pernaue-Walsh printing Co., gold underprint2) Sheep & Cattle War period. Inc. in Another stock from the California Brewing Association. Early issued Connecticut. No. 115, issued for stock no. 2 issued/cancelled to Buttress & McClellan Ltd for 2,500 $1,000 to A.F. Freeman on Dec. shares on September 15, 1933. vignette of brewery, Goes printer, 18th, 1878. Signed by president orange embossed seal. Est. $200-350 HWAC# 106178 DW Sherwood and treasurer HB Hammond. Black border, gold seal, and large pink vignette of a cow Lot#2451 California 1879-1890 Four California in the background. Printed by National Bank Note Co. Seventeen Non-Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 4 different. coupons attached. 16 x 13.5” Folds with some separation occurring Included: California Sash Balance Company (issued and toning. The Sheep and Cattle Wars were a series of armed conflicts 1890, not cancelled); California Ramie Machine in the Western United States which were fought between sheepmen Manufacturing Company (issued 1879, not cxl); and cattlemen over grazing rights. The fighting between Colorado The Improved Machinery Company (1882, not and Wyoming was especially violent. The Colorado cattlemen did cancelled); and Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson (1880s, not want to share their pastures with the sheepherders, who were unissued, pictorial). Very good condition. Please crossing into the state from southern Wyoming. There were about inspect. Est. $180-220 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# twenty-four attacks and at least six deaths between 1879 and 1909 100823 in Wyoming. William Craig (the Hermosilla Estate), PT Barnum and David W. Sherman sold their ranches to the Colorado Cattle Company in 1878 for $320,000. By 1881, it had 30,000 head of cattle. Many of the investors were from Bridgeport, Connecticut. The enterprise was not successful and in 1880, the company was in court in foreclosure proceeding. () Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 91809 144 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Other Lot#2456 Colorado 1881-1894 Lot#2461 Hawthorne, Nevada- Colorado Manufacturing Stocks & California 1892 Bodie and One Bond Lot of 3 different. 1) The Hawthorne Telephone and Colorado Manufacturing Company. $500 Telegraph Co. Stock Certificate bond No. 53, issued in 1881. Signed by issued to Hawthorne I/C #73 vice president AH Garfield and secretary Wm. Hawthorne-namesake of the Wm. Todd. Not cancelled. Brown border, town with his signature on rear, 20 black print, combination vignette shares, 1892. Est. $200-400 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 79961 showing elk, eagle, and Colorado State seal. 13 coupons attached. 12.5 x 16.5” Lot#2462 New York Early American Folds, some toning. 2) The Curtin Anti- Lawnmower Stock with Vignette, 1887 Friction Roller Bearing Company. Stock no. 35, issued for 500 shares Stock certifcate for Chadborn & Coldwell in Denver in 1888. Signed by the president (Brasin) and secretary MAnufacturing Co. issued March 9, 1887 for (Riley), not cancelled. Black border and print, blue underprint 25 shares to Eliz. Gignon. Uncancelled, signed vignette of the device. Pinholes, folds.5.25 x 9” 3) The National Sheet by Thos Coldwell as president and Lewis m Metal Screw Pipe Company. Stock No. 26, issued for 30,000 shares in Smith as secretary. This pair reportedly began Denver in 1894. Signed by vp Rust and the sect. Not cancelled. Blue inventing and producing new forms of rolling border and print, Colorado state seal vignette. Pinholes. heavy folds. mowers in teh 1870’s, a full 40 years after 5.5 x 9.5” Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 104425 the lawn mowwer was invented by Edward Budding in England in 1830. This stock also Lot#2457 Colorado 1883 National comes with the orignal envelope which has the same vignette as the Land and Improvement Stock Rare. stock. Est. $800-1200 HWAC# 110207 I/U #832 Thomas Biddle 225 shares 1883. Signed by president Bele Vie. Lot#2463 New York Early Light Nice animal vignettes. Est. $300- Bulb Illustrated Stock, 1886 Vitrite 600 HWAC# 106611 and Luminoid Co., incorporated in new York, issued March 2, 1886 to FW Roebling as president. This cert was issued just a few years after Lot#2458 Dakota Territory County of Edison and his London counterpart Lawrence, DT Bonds (2) 2 paid $50 and $500 invented the light bulb. The key refunding bonds. 1 top crease. 1883. Est. $150- in this inventoion seems to be the 250 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 80115 attachment to the electrical system. This is a very special stock because there is very little available for collectors from this invention period of time. Roebling and his father both started and finished the Brooklyn Bridge, though not together. Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 110206 Lot#2464 New York 1867 RelianceGold & Silver Mining Lot#2459 Carson City, Nevada 1876 El Dorado Wood & Flume Co. Incorp 1867 New York. #40, Co. Stock Number 1 Issued to I/U, 200 shares issued May 13, DO Mills No. 1! Dateline Carson 1867. Singed F.E. Tucker President. City, December 15th, 1876. Issued Red Corp embossed seal, Vignettes: to DO Mills for 250 shares. Signed Top eagle wings spread, left by Henry Yerington as president miners holding bucket. Printer not and E. Niles, secretary. Signatures identified. VF. Corp. Seal impression are star punch cancelled. Not from being folded left/right. Est. endorsed by Mills. Black border and print on yellow paper with $200-300 HWAC# 106179 vignette of fluming operation (possibly meant to be Lake Tahoe in the Lot#2465 Pennsylvania Sibbald background). Printed by Geo. Baker Lith. SF. 6 x 9.75” Folds. Yerington Patent Steam Boiler Assoc Stock constructed the first flume for sending wood and timber down the mountains; built the Carson yard for the timber and flume companies, I/U # 147 Teo Brown 20 shares 1857. Signed by Aaron Lippincott including the Eldorado Wood and Flume Company, through which and Austin J. Montgomery. Ship, they delivered a large portion of wood and timber for the Comstock train and building vignette. Est. mining companies. The flume came into the valley at Brown’s Station $300-500 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# and Washoe City. Both of these locations were on the V&T Railroad 105631 that Yerington was the president of! The company also owned timber lands in Markleeville/Hope Valley. DO Mills was co-founder of Bank of California and part-owner of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad and thus had close ties to Yerington. () Est. $400-600 HWAC# 91821 Lot#2460 Virginia City, Nevada 1877 City of Virginia Water Bond Bond number 149 from the City of Virginia Water Bonds worth $1000 in “gold coin.” Issued Sutro & Company. Gold embossed seal in lower left corner. It is signed by Mayor and Clerk of Virginia City. Mayor red pen cancelled. Pen cancelled. Printed by AL Bancroft. One tear on vertical fold. Est. $200-300 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 80432 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 145

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Other Lot#2466 Lawrence County, South Dakota Lot#2471 China China 29th 1879 & 1883 Two Lawrence County, Dakota Year Military Supply Bond Suite Territory Bonds Lot of 2 different. 1) Gorgeous Three different bonds: Three of $500 bond No. 346, issued July 1st, 1879. Punch the Military Bond suite, $10, $100, cancelled through signatures. Green border $1000, all 1940. Each with a PASCO and background. Three mining vignettes: certificate of authenticity. Est. underground (left), stamp mill (center), and $650-1000 HWAC# 106479 surface mining (right). Printed by St. Joseph Steam Printing Co., St. Joseph, MO. Folds, some Lot#2472 China Chinese Bond creases 11.5 x 17”2) $500 bond no. 20, issued Group Five Chinese bonds. $5 1883 in Deadwood. Signed by the county clerk and $10 Liberty bonds, 1937 with and chairman of board of county commissioners. Punch cancelled. PAsco Certs; Reconstruction bond, Black border and print, green background, small mining vignette. Two 29th year, 1940 with PASCO cert; coupons attached. 9.5 x 17” Pioneer Print, Deadwood. Folds, creases. Tienstin-Pukow RR bond, von 1938; Est. $150-180 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 100810 Govt of the Republic of China, 1914 5% bond. Est. $350-850 HWAC# Lot#2467 Brownsville, Texas 106579 1880 Rio Grande Ice Company Stock Certificate No. 10, issued Lot#2473 China Chinese Bonds, for one share to B.O. Hicks on April Ten Different Ten different Chinese 3rd, 1880 in Brownsville, Texas. bonds of varying dates. Please refer Signed by president GW Rindall to the photographs of the bonds, and secretary William Kelly. Not as six are all in a Chinese dialect. cancelled. Green border and print. Includes a Hong Kong company, a Small vignette of house. No printer Belgian enterprise in China, and listed. 4.5 x 7.75” Folds, toning. Est. $150-200 Ken Prag Collection others. Est. $350-1050 HWAC# HWAC# 101565 106572 Lot#2468 Utah Antique Electric Lot#2474 China Chinese Gold Sconces and Ceiling Fixtures Loan Bonds for Russian Rubles An amazing find from a collapsed and French Francs Chinese Govt miner’s cabin somewhere in Utah, this is a set of five antique 120V 5% Gold ZLoan Bond for 189.4 electric wall sconces and two ceiling fixtures. The sconce bases are Russian Roubles 1913; Chinese hefty cast metal, and a rotating switch is mounted at the top of each Government 5% reorg gold loan base. All five sconces are complete with base, arm, rotary switch, bond, 1913. Est. $275-700 HWAC# standard Edison screw-type sockets and decorative shade ring holder 106578 ring. The two ceiling lamps each include a 5-3/4-inch diameter, 4-inch tall canopy, and ornamented, Edison-style lamp socket, and both Lot#2475 China Chinese should be easy to rewire and put on the wall with readily available Government $20, $100 Gold Loan contemporary mounting hardware. All seven lamps are definitely used Bonds, 1912 Pair of Chinese Gold and in good condition with minor spots of wall paint here and there. Bonds, 1912. The $100 bond has They will clean up nicely to use as is (rewiring is recommended), a PACSO certificate D16201. 5% and they are robust enough to handle full restoration. These will be Gold Loan of 1912 series. excellent spectacular settings for recently available antique style LED lamps -- a condition. Est. $350-700 HWAC# fitting mix of old and new. Est. $200-600 Geff Pollock Collection HWAC# 106475 107984 Lot#2469 Utah Sconces and Ceiling Lot#2476 China 1913 Fixtures, Antique This set of five Chinese Government sconces and two ceiling fixtures were Bond recovered from a collapsed miner’s cabin Bond No. 829213 Five Per Cent where there must have been the luxury of Reorganization Gold Loan electrical service at one time or another. of 1913. Bond For £100 These are Edison-base fixtures (same as Sterling. Hongkong and a normal 120v used today). Each sconce Shanghai Corporation in includes a rotating on/off switch at the London. Dated May 21, top, a solid cast metal base, and a metal 1913. Also denominated decorative ring around the socket. There in additional currencies: are two ceiling-mounted fixtures that complement the sconce design. 409 Marks; 505 Francs; You would want to re-wire these (a relatively easy task), and you can 189.40 Russian Roubles; use modern mounting hardware (readily available a store like Lowe’s or Home Depot) to affix them to your wall. Est. $200-350 Geff Pollock 195.92 Chinese Yen. Collection HWAC# 109784 Certificate of Authenticity from PASS-CO D22320. Lot#2470 China 27th Year Good condition. Est. Gold Loan Bonds, Three $1500-2500 HWAC# Denominations, 1938 Three 108048 denominations of the 27th year gold bonds in US Dollars. $5, $10, $50. Each has a PASCO certificate of authenticity. Est. $425-850 HWAC# 106477 146 December 2019

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Other Lot#2477 China 1925 Chinese Government Lot#2481 China Chinese Railroad Bonds Bond Bond No. 0026769. The Chinese Government. (4 different) Four different Chinese Railroad £1,000 Sterling Bond Bearing 8% Interest. Issued bonds. Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Ry, 1925, 500 under an agreement dated November 14, 1922 Francs, 8%. Same RR, 500 Francs, 8%, 1921. and a supplementary agreement dated September Pien Lo RY, gold loan, 500 francs, 5%. 1907. 30, 1925 between the Chinese Government and an Tientsin-Pukow Ry, 1910, $100 sterling. Est. Italian Bank for China. The loan was issued to refund $275-700 HWAC# 106577 a number of previous loans issued by the Chinese Government dating from 1912-1916. This bond was secured by tax revenues received on Property Transfers and Title Deeds. Dated September Lot#2482 China Chinese Railroad 30, 1925. Certificate of Authentication from PASS-CO D06842. Bonds- Four Four different Chinese Beautiful large bond (10” X 15”) printed on one side with attached full Railroad bonds. 5% Hukuang page of coupons. Red ornate border, black print and blue underprint. Railways Gold Loan of 1911, $100 Very decorative. £1,000 brown stamp at top right corner. Printer: sterling- 2 bonds of the same design. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Peking China. Est. $1500-2000 1912 bond to construct Lung-U- HWAC# 106529 Hai-Railway (pasco cert). same RR, 1920. (Pasco Cert). Est. $350-700 Lot#2478 China 1919 Chinese Government HWAC# 106575 Treasury Note Government of the Chinese Republic Treasury Not No. 3727 for £100 Sterling. 8% 10 Year Lot#2483 China Five Chinese Treasury Notes 1925/1929.” Issue of £1,803,200 Bonds Five Chinese bonds, one Sterling bearing interest at the rate of 8.0 per cent with a PASCO certificate. All are in per annum by virtue of an agreement between the a Chinese dialect. all but one have Government of the Chinese Republic and Messrs. coupons. Please see the photos. Est. Vickers Limited, dated the 1st day of the tenth $350-700 HWAC# 106573 month of the 8th Yer of the Republic being the 1st day of October 1919 and officially communicated Lot#2484 China Four Hukuang by the Wai Chiao Pu (Chinese Foreign Office) to the Railways Bonds, 1911 Four British Minister in Peking on the 11th day of the tenth month of the different Hukuang Railway bonds: 8th year of the Republic being the 11th day of October 1919.” Signed $20 sterling sinking fund gold bonds by the Minister of the Chinese Republic in London. “This bond has funded by Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, been issued in London and for such purpose is countersigned for $20 sterling funded by Banque de identification for Lloyds Bank Limited” Signed by Smanters? Signed L’Indo-Chine, $100 sterling funded and sealed by the Minister of Finance. Red embossed one pound by Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, $100 stamp/seal on top right. Tri-fold sheet of 73 Coupons is included, but sterling funded by Hong Kong and detached from certificate. Print is black with green border and safety Shanghai Banking Corp. Est. $550- print. Reverse is printed in green and red Chinese writing. Certificate 1050 HWAC# 106571 approximately 8” X 12”,. Multiple pin holes on top right corner. Creases and folds. Coupon sheet measures approximately 12” x 22” tri-folded. Lot#2485 China 1913 Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Railway Est. $800-1200 HWAC# 108052 Bond from the Republic of China Bond #B192009 Republic of China. Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Railway. £20 Lot#2479 China Chinese Imperial Sterling, 5% Gold Loan of 1913. Issued under a Govt Gold Bonds of 1898 Three resolution of the National Assembly of Peking bonds of the suite from 1898: $25, dated September 27, 1912, in accordance with $50, $100 pounds Sterling. Two with an agreement between the Chinese Government PASCO certificates of authenticity. and the Compagnie Generale De Chemins De Each with imprinted revenue Fer Et De Tramways in China. This bond was stamps from UK and Germany. Est. issued for the construction of the Kansuh to $550-850 HWAC# 106478 the Sea Railway. Dated at Brussels, January 1, Lot#2480 China 1907 Chinese Imperial Railway 1913. Authenticated and certified by PASS-CO D27181. Beautiful large sized bond ( Approx 11” X 20” with attached page of Bond Bond No. 23706. Imperial China. £100 Sterling. payment coupons -two have been removed from corner of coupon Chinese Imperial Railway 5% Gold Loan for the sheet) Ornate blue border with “5%” at corners and “£20” on each Shanghai-Nanking Railway. Authorized by an Imperial side, black print, round red stamp and round black stamp Green edict of June 9, 1903, this loan was issued to continue underprint . Printer J. Vershueren Anvers. Reverse is printed in blue the construction of the railway between Shanghai and with Terms of the Agreement and Memorandum and Amortization Nanking. These bonds were secured by a first mortgage table. Creases from folding, and slightly worn edge and corners, on the railway “now completed between Woosung and otherwise very nice condition. Est. $1500-2500 HWAC# 106528 Shanghai, and also on all lands, materials, rolling stock, buildings, property and premises of every description Lot#2486 China Republic of China purchased or to be purchased by the railways...and on Bond Bond No. 0023961. No PASS- the revenue of all descriptions derivable therefrom.” Dated at London, CO certificate. Printed in Chinese. June 1, 1907. Certificate of Authenticity from PASS-CO D17046. Black Est. $400-500 HWAC# 108049 print with pink ornate border and safety print. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 106601 View complete catalog, Regster, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 147

DAY 2 Friday, December 6 Stocks & Bonds / Other Lot#2487 China 1912 Republic of China Bond Lot#2493 Egypt 2 Egypt Maps Bond #1001 £500 Sterling. Chinese Government 1) Egypt, Abyssinia & Eritrea, 5% Gold Loan of 1912. Authorized by a special engraving and color lithography order of the President of the Republic dated by Cram c. 1885, pp 512-513 September 2, 1912. This bond was “issued to approx 20.5” x 14.5” double truck, provide capital for the repayment of existing Loans a few border dots. 2) Egypt by and for the reorganization of the Government and Cowperthwait, 1850, copper for productive works.” Payment on these bonds was engraved and hand colored, pp 73, secured by surplus revenues derived from the Salt 17” x 13.5” Est. $150-300 HWAC# Gabelle (Salt Tax). Issued in London, these bonds 63112 were to bear interest payable from September 30, 1912. Certificate of Authenticity from PASS_CO D14407. Edges are Lot#2494 Chinese Railroad Bonds (4) heavily creased and worn. Est. $800-1000 HWAC# 108050 Four different Chinese railroad bonds: $100 sterling 5% Government Tientsin- Lot#2488 China 1937 Republic of China Bond Pukow Railway loan, 1908 and another Bond No. M734 $1000 Secured Sinking Fund Bond of the same denomination from 1907; of 1937 bearing a step up interest rate beginning at Railway Equipment 8% loan, 1922; 2% to a maximum of 4%. The total loan issue was Tramway bond 1913. Est. $425-1050 $4,900,000 and was issued to fund the redemption HWAC# 106574 of the 1919 USD 6% Treasury Notes which carried a higher 6% interest rate. This loan was secured by a direct charge upon the “entire salt revenues derived Lot#2495 1923 Dusenberg and to be derived by the Chinese Government Automobile & Motors Stock Pink subject only to charges and liens existing on such I/U #3911 Dorothy Roat 2 shares, revenues as of May 14, 1937.” Dated at Washington 1923. Small creases. Est. $200-425 D.C., July 1, 1937. Certificate of Authenticity from PASS-CO D34413 Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 79919 Est. $800-1200 HWAC# 108051 Lot#2489 China 1912 Republic of China Bond Bond #685 £1000 Sterling. Chinese Government 5% Gold Loan of 1912. Series D. Authorized by Lot#2496 Santa Anna Autographed U.S. Bond $500 7% 1st a special order of the President of the Republic Mortgage bond dated September 2, 1912. This bond was “issued to #1177 issued to provide capital for the repayment of existing Loans J. Antonio Lopez and for the reorganization of the Government and de Santa Anna, for productive works.” Payment on these bonds was June 28, 1866 in secured by surplus revenues derived from the Salt New York City Gabelle (Salt Tax). Issued in London, these bonds while Santa Anna were to bear interest payable from September 30, was living in exile. 1912. Certificate of Authenticity from PASS-CO D15862. Discoloration. small tears and rips, worn edges. Est. $4000-5500 HWAC# 108047 Bond impressive and ornate. Santa Lot#2490 China 1937 Republic of China Anna (1794-1876) Liberty Bond Bond No. 054029 issued for was Mexican CN$100 bearing 4% interest. The repayment political leader, of principal and interest were to be secured by r e v o luti o ni s t , “appropriations from the National Treasury by pr e s id e nt , order of the Ministry of Finance as they fall due.” dictator and This was the first of a series of loans issued by general. Adhesive green notary public seal, orange seal of Santa the National Government to finance the war Anna and grey border. Vignette: top center “land and property in effort against Japan following the Battle of Lugou state of Vera Cruz” left side Palace of Turbaco, Palace of St. Thomas Bridge, also referred to as the Marco Polo Bridge and one other of his properties. 18.5” x 13.5” Printed: Nathan Lane Incident prompting the start of the Second Sino- 69 Wall & 91 Beaver Sts NY. Letter of authentication enclosed Japanese War. Dated September 1, 1937. Certificate of Authentication Est. $700-1500 HWAC# 106422 from PASS-CO D18766. Extremely fine. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 108045 Lot#2491 China Suite of Chinese Government Lot#2497 State of Mississippi Bond Loan Bonds, 1912-1918 Four different Chines 1838 Mississippi Union Bank $2,000 5% Government Loan Bonds, 19112-1918. $5 loan payable Feb 5, 1850 . 18 coupons (brown), $10 (purple), $50 (green), $100 (brown) 15” x 14 12”. Assigned. Mississippi Union (Sterling), each with the red block Chinese stamp Bank loan. Vignettes: 1) top center 2 in the middle, and each with the appropriate Allegorical people (man and women) adhesive revenue stamp in top right corner. seated with town in background 2) left - Excellent condition. Est. $750-1250 HWAC# 106476 eagle in flight with American flag shield and flower with “Mississippi” written 3) right - eagle in flight with American Lot#2492 China Tienstin-Pukpow shield with flower saying “state loan 4) Railway Loan Bonds, 1912 Three bottom center - 2 steam boats on body of water - 1 in front and 1 bonds related to this railroad. in background. Back of certificate designates agency of Bank of the The first two are $20 and $100 US in London place payment and interest and guarantee payment. pound sterling bonds; the third is a Est. $350-600 HWAC# 106420 supplemental bond, $20, 1912 Est. $425-850 HWAC# 106570 148 December 2019