May 2019 Auction Catalog

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 General Americana Lot# 1378 VirginiaCity, Nevada Lot# 1384 , Nevada Corporate c1955-1980 RPC’s (5)Linnen (6) and Sealers, Real Estate (5) The Modern Approx. 50 fantastic collection Estates Co May 31, 1930. lake Luring of Virginia City post cards. Some of the Hotel Nevada, incorporated Jan 21, post cards in this lot are: Old Washoe 1928. Sierra Holding May 31, 1930. Club, VC, Nevada; Sandy Bowers & Mrs. Professional Building Inc, Dec 23, 1948. Bowers; The Famous Crystal Bar; The Ridgeway Apts. Nov 4, 1926 Est. $100- Silver Dollar Hotel; Interior of Piper’s Opera House; & many more. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 101724 200 HWAC# 91230 Lot# 1385 , Nevada 1800’s Savage Lot# 1379 , Nevada Assortment Mining Co. Checks & Photos 7 checks of Nevada Postcards Assortment drawn from Agency of the Nevada of approx. 40 postcards. Mostly Bank of San Francisco to Albert Hines modern from Wells, Overton featuring (canceled); Agency of the Bank of Petroglyphs , Elko, The Leington California to D. McMahoni(?) ; Wells Arch in Eastern Nevada, a few RPC’s. Fargo & Co.’s Bank check from Savage 1 RPC of Stoke’s Castle near Austin, Mining Co. to J.A. Johnson. All have NV; La Moille Canyon Ruby Mts., Elko protective plastic covers, all in nice condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# County; Schoer’s Ranch House and Outlbuildings Clover Valley near Wells 82047 Nevada & so many more. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91229 Lot# 1386 , Nevada Small Town Nevada Check Collection Thirteen Lot# 1380 , Nevada 1800’s Checks (3) checks: Hamilton (2), Tybo, Tuscarora, Northern Sierra 3 checks with original Treasure City, Sutro, Rawhide, Pioche, signatures from small gold camps in the Ludwig, Italian Ranch, Royal City, Northern Sierra. The Decker & Jewett Hawthorne, Seligman. c1870-1906. Bankers (with pictorial). The Decker Est. $200-300 HWAC# 82435 & Jewett Bankers came from the east to California in & around 1850 arriving Lot# 1387 , Nevada Sutro Tunnel Books and at Yuba City with a train of pack mules Nevada/ Utah County Map Two copies of from Sacramento, then traveled across Adolph Sutro’s 1872 closing argument on the the river to Marysville, where Jewett was made president of the Committee bill before Congress to aid The Sutro Tunnel. of Vigilance in the newly created town of Marysville. Check signed by L. Beauchamp; 2) Treasurer of Sierra Buttes Quartz Co. signed by 96 pages, hardbound, one blue, one green. A Gus Reis (1861); 3)Check from Bank of La Porte, (before La Porte was referred to as Rabbit Creek). Est. $200-300 HWAC# 82050 framed County Map of Utah and Nevada, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Undated, but has the Overtrail and Telegraph routes depicted. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 103174 Lot# 1381 , Nevada 1940’s-1960’s Lot# 1388 , Nevada / California Corporate Sealer Group (12) Hand Handwritten Shipping Record held-1 illegible, Carol J Inc Feb 1967. S Notebook 1892 record of shipping & S Foundation 1957. Jet Restaurant. 1 eggs, wool, alfalfa, etc. Shipped to Wood missing 1 plate. Lever- 6 missing 1 plate, Spring, George C Turner Spring, Boca NV Society for Visually Handicapped MIll Company, AE Murdock, Flanigan Children Feb 5, 1956 Est. $100-200 Warehouse, etc. My favorite is Hatch HWAC# 101725 brothers of Virginia City. Shipped 90 dozen eggs one day. The next day shipped an additional 120 dozen Lot# 1382 , Nevada 1920’s-1930’s eggs! Shipped 7000 pounds of flour to DW Earl one day. Includes Corporate Sealers (7) Scanlan Corp, shippers mark - which was used by shippers to make it easier to track Silver State Motors, Wilson Noe Sales, their packages. Includes shipping information, such as DW Earl & Co. Vogue Inc, Western Construction, and a rare railroad. Cost is included on some of these. Much of this is Mackenzie Leeper, Spaeth Corp Est. lined through (probably when completed). Great historical resource. $140-200 HWAC# 101722 Fun and challenging to get through. Small size 6x4”. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 90527 Lot# 1383 , Nevada Corporate Sealers (9) Hand held-HHE Inc May 28, 1956. Lot# 1389 , New Hampshire New Lindsay Construction Nov 25, 1958. Hampshire RPC’s 6 nice New Purple Sage Inc, Nov 1965. Lever- Hampshire RPC’s-Bretton Woods, Pine Frank Moore Enterprises-missing 1 Grove Springs Hotel, New London plate. Reno Petroleum. Vanderbilt Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $90- Enterprises Mar 24, 1954. Cut Rate 120 HWAC# 102384 Drug July 30, 1925. Rollalong Cassidy- missing 1 plate Est. $120-200 HWAC# 101727 See lot 1054 for more Corporate Sealers Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 49

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 General Americana Lot# 1390 Atlantic City, New Jersey Lot# 1394 San Miguel County, New c1900’s Atlantic City, New Jersey Mexico 1882 Boston and New Postcards Approx. 25 Chromolitho’s Mexico Cattle Company Stock - with & RPC’s of Atlantic City New Jersey Fraudulent Surveyor General # 667 including: Princeton, Madison Hall; for 1000 shares to GH Peck treasurer. Looking West off of Million Dollar Signed by HB Clark and HN Atkinson Pier - Ocean One Today; Airplane view president. Dateline 1882 Santa Fe. showing hotels and steel pier. Salvatore Offices in Boston and Santa Fe. Not Falcone Collection Est. $100-150 cancelled. Cattle Drive vignette above HWAC# 91324 a large town. J Knauber printer of Milwaukee. Cut short on left. No edge, corner pin hole or discoloration Lot# 1391 Lake Valley, Dona Ana issues. Extra fine. Atkinson and his company were heavily involved County, New Mexico 1885 “Mimbres in land grant speculation in the territory. Atkinson was New Mexico’s River Cattle” Company Stock # 11 surveyor general at the time. “Atkinson proved to be more corrupt for 40 shares to EE Burdick. Signed than Proudfit (previous surveyor general). He entered into investment by DE Hathaway and president EE relationships with land grant attorneys, purchased deeds for land Burdick. Organized January 1, 1884. grants under consideration by his office and actively recruited buyers Incorporated July 7, 1885. Dateline for land grant investments.” [Natural Resources Journal, Land Grant 1885. Location Lake Valley,Dona Ana County. Not cancelled. Crocker Speculation in New Mexico during the Territorial Period by Correia] & Co San Francisco printer. Red ink has run. Small stains and nicks at Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 90553 borders. By 1890 the Mimbres owned a home range in Grant County and also additional acreage in Lake Valley. The Lake Valley property Lot# 1395 , New York c1800’s Harpers was excellent rangeland. Burdick was described as a pioneering mining Prints (3) of Firemen on Duty Lot of 3 and cattleman in New Mexico in his obituary. Ken Prag Collection Est. prints of firemen marching; firemen at $100-150 HWAC# 90556 work & firemen saving baby & woman from burning tenement. 1 reads “The Lot# 1392 Lincoln County, New Mexico Life of a Fireman in New York - A 1885 El Capitan Land and Cattle Company Conflagration in the Tenement District Bond # 49 for $1000. Dated Fort Stanton, - The Rescue. 14.5” x 21”; Firemen at Lincoln County, New Mexico, July first, 1885. Work Drawn by T. De Thulstrup; 14.5” Issued to Horace K Thurber. Countersigned x 19.5”; “Grand Torch-Light Parade of by Thurber. Thurber was said to have “The the New York Firemen...” 15” x 10”. 2 heaviest grocery firm in the United States” mounted on cardboard. 1 matted &put on cardboard. Est. $120-180 in 1885 [Las Cruces Sun-news] Issued and HWAC# 91498 uncancelled, no coupons. Black on white with large steer on upper left with ornate Lot# 1396 , New York 1903 Photos / title to right. Cut unevenly at bottom. One Cabinet Cards / 38 Items Here we have small hole at fold intersection. Otherwise a very interesting and personal item. It very nice. Today the El Capitan Land and is a collection of antique cabinet cards Cattle hws 27,000 acres valued at $13,250,000! (No, this certificate . It is of a hunting, camping, fishing , does not have any value!) Ken Prag Collection Est. $180-250 HWAC# swimming excursion in the Adirondack 90557 mountains, in upper New York state. Very good quality on most of the photo. Lot# 1393 Lincoln County, New Mexico Only a few are faded some. There are 25 1885 Lea Cattle Company Bond - cards.. 5” tall x 7 1/4”wide, 9 cards...6” RARE # 3 of this $1000 six percent tall x 4 1/4” wide , and 4 cards...4 1/2” tall x 5 3/4”wide. Explore the bond. Coupons 16 to 30 still attached. adventure yourself, and get this collection. Also, good for framing in a Signed by president Thurber.Excellent man cave !! ( RH). Est. $400-800 HWAC# 102090 condition. Joseph Lea was a Confederate guerilla who became a New Mexico Lot# 1397 , Oklahoma 1894 & 1907 Two partirach. Lea set his sights on a cattle Oklahoma Stock Certificates Lot of 2 empire and contacted Thurber with different. 1) Oklahoma Townsite Company. an optimistic proposal for another big No. 763, issued for one share in the townsite ranch (he was involved in the El Capitan of Tonkawa City to JJ Fountain on April 2nd, Land and Cattle Company, also in this 1894. Signed by the president and secretary. sale) at the same time that Thurber and Not cancelled. Brown border and print. Folds DeLany were forming their company. The articles of incorporation with some separation and tape repairs, toning. of Lea Cattle Company include the names of Horace Thurber, Lea, 2) North American Industrial Company. DeLany, and Charles S. Thurber, Horace’s brother. The document, Incorporated under the laws of the Territory dated April 20, 1885, declares that the purposes of the corporation of Oklahoma. No. 44, issued for 25,000 shares were ‘… breeding, raising, buying and selling cattle and other domestic to secretary HH Hyde on June 15th, 1907 in animals, and buying and selling merchandise.’ The capital stock was Houston. Also signed by president Burchfield. $1,000,000 in ten thousand shares. The letterheads and bonds of the Not cancelled. Black border and print, eagle vignette. Folds with company pictured cattle and horses bearing the ‘L-E-A’ and ‘H-K-T separation. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 100995 brands. They called the ranch ‘Agua Azul Ranch,’ after a pool where one Jesús Maes had settled in 1878 at the eastern foot of the Capitán Lot# 1398 Pendleton, Oregon Mountains. The letterhead defines the company range as ‘Agua Azul, Pendelton, OR Rodeo Roundup Rio Hondo, and Rio Pecos, Lincoln County.’[Joseph C Lea an d the Postcards, RPC’s 5 Pendleton, OR Lincoln Connection by Fleming online] Ken Prag Collection Est. Rodeo RPC’s- GB McCullough, Davey $200-400 HWAC# 90559 Traub, Herb Owens, Blancett, Emery Moore Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 102363 50 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 General Americana Lot# 1399 , Lot# 1404 Lawrence County, South Dakota 1879 $1,000 Lawrence Oregon 1884- County, Dakota Territory Bond Gorgeous $1,000 bond No. 134, issued 1892 Four July 1st, 1879 to S.N. Wood. Punch cancelled through signatures of county Industrial clerk and Chairman of Board of County Commissioners. Green border and Oregon Stocks background. Three mining vignettes: underground (left), stamp mill (center), and surface mining (right). 1) 1884 Portland RN facsimile underprint. Printed by St. Joseph Steam Printing Co., St. Joseph, MO. Folds, some creases 11.5 x 17” Ken Prag Collection Est. Flouring Mills $100-150 HWAC# 100811 with magnificent vignette of the Lot# 1405 Lawrence County, South Dakota 1883 & 1887 Two Lawrence plant. Number County, Dakota Territory Bonds Lot of 2 different. 1) $50 bond issued 30. Cancelled. in Deadwood, 1883. No. 460. Punch cancelled. One coupon attached. Black Anderson border, green background, and mining vignette. Pioneer Print, Deadwood. printer. 2) 1885 2) $500 bond No. 93, issued in 1887. Punch and pen cancelled. Green border, black print, birds-eye view Astoria. Thistle vignette of Deadwood. ABN. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 100813 Packing Company. Lucky number 13. Halloran printer. VIgnette of thistle? 3) North Pacific Industrial Association. 1888 Portland. Lewis Lot# 1406 Lawrence County, & Dryden printer. Number 115. 4) 1892 Roseburt. Umpqua Valley South Dakota 1879 & 1883 Two Canning Company. Burgundy on off white. Number 48. The first Lawrence County, Dakota Territory Bonds Lot of 2 three are in very nice condition; the last has some issues. Ken Prag different. 1) Gorgeous $500 bond No. 346, issued July 1st, Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 91950 1879. Punch cancelled through signatures. Green border and Lot#1400,Oregon Potland Industrial background. Three mining Exposition stock incorporated vignettes: underground (left), Portland State of Oregon. Cert # 94 for stamp mill (center), and surface 2 shares of common stock @ $100 per mining (right). Printed by St. share issued to Thos. Whalen May 29, Joseph Steam Printing Co., St. 1891 signed V.M Richardson President, Joseph, MO. Folds, some creases corp seal lower left, black, small 11.5 x 17”2) $500 bond no. 20, horizontal format, vignette top left of issued 1883 in Deadwood. Signed office in Portland, Oregon, center vignette of tools, music stand, tools,, by the county clerk and chairman drawing board, mannequin . not tears or stainsPrinter: Lith. Lewis & of board of county commissioners. Dryden PRTG Co Portland, OR., iu Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 Punch cancelled. Black border and print, green background, small HWAC# 82741 mining vignette. Two coupons attached. 9.5 x 17” Pioneer Print, Deadwood. Folds, creases. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-180 HWAC# Lot# 1401 , Oregon Gen Three Oregon 100810 Stock Certificates: Bank, Homestead and Water 1) Union Savings and Loan Lot# 1407 , South Dakota 1886- Association. Number 3284 for 10 1899 Dakota Mortgage & Real shares. Green on white with underprint Estate Stocks & Bond Lot of 5. 1) of a sailing ship on the water. Portland. Northwestern Mortgage Trust Co. of 2) Installment Homestead Association. Redfield, Dakota stock. Issued in 1899, Portland. Number 44. The house of not cancelled. 2) North American Loan your dreams vignette. 3) Applegate and Trust Company stock. Inc. in South Water Company. Number 11 to Frank neil. Dateline Jacksonville. Ken Dakota. Issued in 1893, not cancelled. Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 91949 Offices in Redfield and Huron, South Dakota. 3) Two stocks for the Dakota Lot# 1402 , Pennsylvania 1890-1944 Farm Mortgage Company. Issued in Padlocks/ Antique /4 Items Great collection Huron in 1888 and 1890. Neither cancelled. 4) 1886 bond for Dakota of early padlocks. Item # 1 of 4: Unlisted Real Estate Coupon Bond. Issued in Madison. Stamped cancelled. steel, heart shaped ,embossed “ Conoy” (cu Three detached coupons included. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection ) (1900’s). Item # 2 of 4 : W. Pinson & Son Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100836 Limited/ 1944 / Willenhall // ( Armored Car Style ). Item # 3 of 4: Pre-1925 Fraim, brass and steel combination. Item#4 of 4: “ Aero” brass lock early. All locks in great condition, but no keys. Nice decoration for your “man cave”, to show your strength ( RH). Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 102089 Lot# 1403 Pittsburgh, Philadelphia Pittsburgh, PA and Embossed Postcard Collection Approx 250 postcards, some embossed, holidays, animals, numerous Pittsburgh, PA and more Est. $250-400 HWAC# 101788 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 51

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 General Americana Lot# 1408 , South Dakota 1883-1899 Lot# 1413 , Texas 1846 New Four Dakota Stock Certificates York & Texas Land & Emigration (Banking, Mining, Etc.) Lot of 4 Association Stock Certificate Capital different. 1) The Lead City Bank of Lead 2,026,200 acres (printed upper right). City, Dakota. Stock No. 34, issued in No. 32, issued to Joseph L. Williams for 1883 for 10 shares to Baldwin. Signed five undivided two thousandth parts by president Sparks and the cashier. of all the right, title, and interests... on Pen cancelled. Mining vignette. 2) June 23rd, 1846 in New York. Signed Northwestern Construction Company by president James Phalen (or Phalon) of Dakota. Stock number 2, issued in 1889 to the company secretary. and secretary William H. Paine. Not Also signed by president Schuler. Not cancelled. 3) The Eureka Milling cancelled. Black border and print on thin paper. Seven vignettes, Company of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. No. 70, issued for 5 shares in mostly allegorical women, but also Native Americans hunting (bottom 1892. Signed by president Hamilton and the secretary. Not cancelled. left). Also circular symbol with star (bottom center). No printer listed. Gilt border, blue print. 4) Eureka and Mound City Telephone Company. 7.5 x 11” Folds with some separation, creases, toning. James Phalen, Eureka, SD. No. 12 issued in 1899. Not cancelled. Black border and John Paine, and William H. Paine, all of New York City, were hired by eagle vignette. Good condition overall, with folds and some separation. JR Reynolds of Texas to purchase headrights (a legal grant of land to Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $130-180 HWAC# 100812 settlers) in Texas after a decision by Judge John C. Watrous ensuring it as legal. Watrous, Reynolds, and a third member, J.G. Miner, owned half Lot# 1409 , South Dakota 1883-1888 Three of the company. A Texas statute required that rail companies dispose Dakota Territory Banking Stock Certificates Lot of patented lands. Railroads used Eastern lawyers to get around the of 3 different. 1) Deadwood National Bank. No. 23, statute. The Illinois & Great Northern used this company as a land issued for 5 shares to Chauncy Abbot on Oct. 27th, trust, “selling” them their scrip land. Records also show that the Rio 1886. Signed by president Hickok and the cashier. Grande and Texas Land Company merged their 400,000 acres of land Not cancelled. Very good condition. 2) The Lead in Texas with this association. [Ref: Texas Land Grants, 1750-1900, City Bank of Lead City, Dakota. No. 31, issued for Davis] Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 102167 40 shares to the president PE Sparks on July 20th, 1883. Not cancelled. Also signed by the cashier. Not Lot# 1414 , Texas 1889 Two Texas Stock cancelled. Mining vignette. Staining on left border. Certificates: Lumber and Flour Mill Lot of 3) The Bank of Minot. No. 208, issued for 1 shares 2 different. 1) East Line Lumber Company. to Ives Monroe on Sept. 25th, 1888. Signed by Low No. 9, issued to George Brown in 1889 the president and secretary. Not cancelled. Black at Jefferson, Texas. Signed by president BF border, green seal, and farming vignette. Folds, very good condition. Orr and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 100815 border and print on brown paper. Deep folds, toning. 6.75 x 10.25” 2) Texas Star Lot# 1410 Brownsville, Texas 1880 Flour Mills of Galveston, Texas. Not issued. Rio Grande Ice Company Stock Black border and print, allegorical vignette. Certificate No. 10, issued for one share Colored star. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- to B.O. Hicks on April 3rd, 1880 in 150 HWAC# 101563 Brownsville, Texas. Signed by president GW Rindall and secretary William Kelly. Lot# 1415 Eureka, Utah Tintic Not cancelled. Green border and print. Lumber Co Sign Yellow and red paper Small vignette of house. No printer sign. 9x23”. Left side fold and a few listed. 4.5 x 7.75” Folds, toning. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 mall tears. Geff Pollock Collection Est. HWAC# 101565 $120-250 HWAC# 101775 Lot# 1411 Galveston, Texas 1883 Lot# 1416 Salt Lake City, Utah Mormon Texas Star Flour Mills Stock Related Utah Postcards Approx 80 Certificate No. 99, issued for one share Mormon related mostly chromolitho to I. Reymershoffer on March 1st, 1883 postcards. Salvatore Falcone Collection in Galveston. Signed by Reymershoffer Est. $100-150 HWAC# 102398 as president and Jno. Reymershoffer as secretary. Pen and punch cancelled. Lot# 1417 Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake Black border and print. Allegorical City, UT Postcard Collection Approx 125 farming vignette. Blue and red star at non Mormon Salt Lake City, UT postcards. bottom left. Printed by Robert Clarke, Galveston. Rough left border and Mostly chromolitho, buildings and streets other light wear. 8.25 x 12” Founded by John and Gustav Reymershoffer Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $150- in 1879, the Texas Star Flour Mills was the largest plant of its kind. It 200 HWAC# 102395 could mill 125 barrels of flour a day with its 137 horsepower engine. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 101564 Lot# 1412 Houston, Texas 1966-67 NASA Astronaut Space Files Lot of 33. Includes sixteen 8x 10” black and white photos of astronauts and 17 sheets with biographical data on the pilots. Yes, Neil Armstrong is included. Information sheets are dated either July 1966 or April 1967. Two-three years before the US would land on the moon. Fascinating group of early space ephemera! Houghton Estate Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 102485 52 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 General Americana Lot# 1418 Zion/Brice, Utah Zion/ Lot# 1423 , Washington 1880s-1890s Brice, UT Parks Postcard Collection Five Different Washington Stock Approx 100 modern and chromolitho Certificates (Not Mining) Lot of Zion and Brice Parks postcards 5 different issued in Washington. highlighting natural wonders. 3 RPC’s Included: The Puget Sound Co- Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. Operative Colony (Port Angeles, $240-300 HWAC# 102393 1890, not cxl, scenic vignette); Fidalgo Improvement Co. (1891, not cxl); First National Bank of Port Lot# 1419 Spokane, Washington Townsend, Wash. Territory (unissued 1880s, soiling); Seattle Trust 1906 Colville & Columbia River Company (189, not cxl); and Groveland Improvement Company Transportation Co. Stock Certificate (Dungeness, 1890s, unissued, ship vignette). Ken Prag Collection Est. Riverboat company! Inc. in Washington. $150-200 HWAC# 100969 No. 19, issued for 300 shares in 1906 at Spokane. Signed by president G.H. Lot# 1424 , Washington 1892-1906 Three Different Smith and secretary J.A. Elliott. Not Non-Mining Washington Stock Certificates Lot of cancelled. Black border and print, gold 3 different. 1) Northwestern Commercial Company. seal, and allegorical vignettes. Deep Issued in 1906, not cancelled. Green border and folds, staple hole. 8.5 x 11” According vignette of the Seattle harbor. Folds, creases. 2) to the Railway Age, Volume 43, the company ran from Meyers Falls Northern Pacific, Yakima and Kittitas Irrigation to Steamboat Landing, 9.5 miles. The Railway Review Vol. 46 says the Company. Issued in 1892 at Tacoma. Not cancelled. company has completed 7.5 miles of line from Meyers Falls to Kettle Pinholes, folds. 3) Peshastin Development Company. River, their objective being to connect the Columbia River with the Port Townsend. Issued in 1894, not cancelled. Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad. Two 130 ft. steamers have been Washington, Lincoln, and eagle vignettes. Folds. Ken ordered. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100973 Prag Collection Est. $150-180 HWAC# 100970 Lot# 1420 Spokane Falls, Washington Lot# 1425 , Washington 1892 Two 1887 Concordia German Singing Different Non-Mining Washington Society Stock Certificate ”of Spokane Stock Certificates Lot of 2 different. Falls, W.T.” Hall Building Stock no. 1) Commercial Electric Light & Power 39, issued for one five dollar share Company of Tacoma. No. 41, issued for to Nathan Toklas on Aug. 31, 1887 in 21/40 of a share to company secretary Spokane Falls. Signed by president Hill on June 20th, 1892. Also signed by Adolph (illegible) and secretary Ferd. president Potter. Not cancelled. Black Haase. Black border and print. Fancy border and print, fancy logo. Folds. 2) fonts. 5.25 x 8.5” Horizontal fold. The Concordia Hall was located on Unissued but gorgeous stock for the Puget Sound Commercial Company Second Avenue near Jefferson Street. Haase was a Spokane pioneer, of Port Gamble. Inc. 1877. Two different vignettes of waterfront scenes arriving in 1883 and working for the First National Bank, then as a incl. one large vignette that takes up the entire center of the stock. contractor and builder, finally opening his own liquor business. He Britton & Rey. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100971 was also a member of the Hook & Ladder Company and served as president for this important singing society. [Ref: An Illustrated Lot# 1426 , Washington 1887 & 1894 Two History of Spokane County, Edwards, 1900] Ken Prag Collection Est. Washington Printing Company Stock $100-150 HWAC# 100972 Certificates Lot of 2 different. 1) The Mail Publishing Company. No. 55, issued for one Lot# 1421 Tacoma, Washington 1885 & share to F. Leroy Carter on Feb. 25th, 1887 1890 Two Tacoma Stock Certificates Lot of at Laconner, Skagit County, W.T. Signed by 2 different “Tacoma” stocks. 1) Tacoma Light president BL Martin and secretary Perry and Water Company. Tacoma, Washington. Polson. Not cancelled. Folds, tear along No. 26, issued for 100 shares to Charles B left fold. 2) Queen City Printing Company. Wright in 1885. Signed by the president and Low number 2, issued for 10 shares to the secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and company president, Frank H. Van Brocklin, print. Vignette of water/power plant. ABN. on Aug. 10th, 1894 in Seattle. Also signed by Folds. 2) Tacoma Improvement Company. secretary Wilson. Not cancelled. Blue border Tacoma, Virginia. No. 137, issued for one and print, red title, gold seal, underprint vignette of printing press. share to SD Jones in 1890. Signed by the Horizontal fold. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 100974 president and secretary. Not cancelled. Red border, pink paper, black print. Red vignette Lot# 1427 , Western States c1960’s of farmer. Folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100975 Topography Maps & Flat Maps of Western U.S. 3-d relief Topography Lot# 1422 Yakima, Washington 1891-1893 map is 20” x 23” of Snake River; 3-d relief Topography map of Spokane Two Yakima, Washington Stock Certificates is 27” x 21”; 3-d relief Topography map is 28.5” x 21” of Pullman, Lot of 2 different. 1) Yakima Irrigating and Washington; flat maps are Winnemucca & surrounding Quadrangle, Improvement Company. No. 140, issued for Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, California, Montana, Utah, & many more maps five shares to Henry Durk on Dec. 26th, 1891 in in this lot. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 102794 Tacoma. Signed by the president and secretary. Punch cancelled. Black border and print. Lot# 1428 , Wisconsin Wisconsin Vignette of cowboy wrangling cattle. 2) The Postcard Collection Approx 125 Yakima Investment Company. No. 11, issued Wisconsin postcards. Oshkosh, for 90 shares to Hall on June 7th, 1893 in Kewaunee, Madison, Dells, Milwaukee, Tacoma. Signed by the president and secretary. Sheboygan and more. Mostly Not cancelled. Black border and print. Staple chromolitho, a few RPC’s and modern. holes, deep folds with some soiling. Ken Prag Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. Collection Est. $160-200 HWAC# 100976 $120-250 HWAC# 90757 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 53

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 General Americana Lot# 1429 Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia 2000 Photo / Lot# 1431 Pearl Islands, Panama Landscape / “The Great South Land” Here is a very beautiful 1867 Pacific Pearl Company Stock photograph, taken by the famous Ken Duncan. He is a well known Certificate--Julius Kroehl, First pioneer in the Limited Edition Art field, in Australia since the 1980’s. It Submarine Wow! This company was is entitled “ The Great South Land , Uluru, N.T” and is located in Uluru- a venture to harvest pearls and pearl Kata National Park. Now a days, the government owns everything in shells in the Pacific Ocean. The first that area. But, according to the original Aboriginal concept called “ site chosen were the Pearl Islands in Tjukurpa”.... “ We do not own the land; the land owns us ! “. It is 15” Panama. The company formed in New tall x 35 1/8” wide, and is # 59/ 200 produced. Perfect condition , set York and had Julius H. Kroehl as their in black multi colored diamond type frame, and signed by the artist.. Chief Engineer. For the company, Kroehl invented and built the first Excellent opportunity to get a great piece of art !! ( RH) Est. $2500- submarine able to dive and resurface on its own, the Sub Marine 3500 HWAC# 100710 Explorer, in 1866. It operated as a diving bell, but was autonomous as a submarine propeller. The submarine was dispatched to Panama in See our Art section on Day 4 also! December 1866. After arriving at Aspinwall, the vessel was transported via railroad to the city of Panama. It was reassembled, tested, and then Lot# 1430 Cocos Island, Costa Rica 1864 Cocos Island Treasure & shipped to the island of St. Elmo. Harvesting continued through the Guano Exploring Co. Stock Certificate Fabulous! Cocos Island in summer, resulting in thousands of pounds of pearl shells and many Costa Rica has long been connected to tales of hidden pirate treasure. pearls. As the crew was staying in Panama to return the season’s harvest, Kroehl had a fatal recurrence of malaria. He died on Sept. The most famous is 9, 1867. With no funds to continue harvesting, and without Kroehl’s the fabled Treasure of leadership, the crew returned to the New York. In Sept. 1869, they Lima. In 1820, with resume harvesting, but many workers became ill and died using the the army of José de San submarine, probably from decompression sickness. The company had Martín approaching plans to harvest off Baja California, but nothing ever came of it. On Lima, Viceroy José April 2, 1924, the Company was involuntarily dissolved. This stock de la Serna allegedly is No. 125, issued for 25 shares to C.A. Morris on March 28th, 1867 entrusted treasure in New York (before Kroehl’s death). Signed by Mark Brumagim as from the city to president and George Wrightson as Treasurer. Not cancelled. Purple British trader Captain border, black print and two vignettes: mermaid with pearl necklace William Thompson for (top center) and nude allegorical woman sitting in giant shell (bottom safekeeping until the center). Printed by The Major & Knapp Eng, Mfg & Lith. Co., NY. Spaniards could secure the country. Instead of waiting in the harbor as Pinholes, folds, clean. 7 x 10.5” Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 they were instructed, Thompson and his crew killed the viceroy’s men HWAC# 101537 and sailed to Cocos, where they allegedly buried the treasure. They were soon apprehended by a Spanish warship. All of the crew except Lot# 1432 , cearly 1900’s African Thompson and his first mate were executed for piracy. The two said American Postcards Approx. 50 they would show the Spaniards where they had hidden the treasure in postcards, chromolitho’s & RPC’s: return for their lives, but after landing on Cocos, they escaped into the “Fishing and He Got a Bight; Is Weuns forest and were never recaptured. The treasure has never been found. Too Late to Get Us’s Marriage Papers?” This company was incorporated November 4, 1864. This stock is No. Tobacco Harvest Down South. Salvatore 61, issued for 2 shares to HF Hall on Nov. 22, 1864 in San Francisco. Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 Signed by the president (illegible) and secretary S.C. Gardner. Not HWAC# 91329 cancelled. Patriotic printed stock in blue and red print. Two American flag vignettes and also a ship vignette in blue. Printed by Sterett. One Lot# 1433 , Bear Postcard Collection 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached at bottom left. Folds, toning. 5.5 x Approx 90 bear postcards. 3 with real bear 10.25” Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 100966 fur!, koala, brown, panda and black. RPC’s, chromolitho and modern Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $90-180 HWAC# 102686 Lot# 1434 , Bird Postcard Collection Approx 110 bird postcards. Parrots, ibis, condor, turkey, flamingo and many more birds. A few RPC’s, mostly chromolitho and some modern Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 102658 Lot# 1435 , Cast Iron Figures (3) 3 original cast iron figures. Cat with red tie bank 4” tall, white dog bank 4.5” tall, guitar playing cowboy 5” tall. Normal wear for age. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 87412 54 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 General Americana Lot# 1436 , Christmas Post Card Lot# 1442 , Horse Postcard Collection Collection Massive Christmas post Approx 100 horse postcards. RPC, chromolitho card collection, mostly c1904-1910. and modern Est. $120-200 HWAC# 102679 About 1000-1500 cards, please inspect. Includes all or most of the great colorful publishers of the c1906 period, a really nice collection. Est. $2000-4000 HWAC# 10330 Lot# 1437 , c1910 Classic Vintage Lot# 1443 , c1900’s Levis Authentic European Postcard Album Approx Denim Western Men’s Shirt & 125 postcards, mostly German Wrangler Shirt Vintage Cowboy appearing with other unidentified Denim. 1 Levis Strauss of California, locales. Several naval warships. Cards authentic men’s shirt. Has big “E” & are generally mint. In album Salvatore pearl buttons. Has some wear, hole in Falcone Collection Est. $200-300 left side at seam approx. 2” . Two slight HWAC# 101770 fray areas on back. Please inspect. 29.5” length from nape of neck. Shoulder Lot# 1438 , Colt family Tablecloth measures from nape of neck, 9.5”. This 36 in. X 36 in. tablecloth Sleeve length is 23.5”. Authentic Levi Strauss apparel hard to come by! belonged to Francis Colt of Pittsfield, 1 Wrangler men’s shirt, very good condition, darker blue with pearl Massachusetts . The fabric is sand buttons, 32” length from nape of neck. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 102740 colored linen and beautifully embroidered. The quality of the Lot# 1444 , c1873-75 Massachusetts embroidered flower and vine pattern is and Connecticut Color Billheads exceptional. The bordering is also hand (6) 6 color billheads. Japan Tea Co., sewn but can only be determined to be Bridgeport, CT. JD Cadle Westfield, MA-mounted to paper. 3 Taylor & hand work by close examination. The Freeman Westfield, MA-2 mounted to paper. Lamberton & Loomis, overall appearance is a beautiful pattern of representational flowers Westfield, MA-mounted to paper. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 101774 and scrolling including a basket-weave. The cloth is used with one very small repair in one corner. The Massachusetts Colt clan were Lot#1445, MineralBeltConstruction well aware of the Colt family name and repeated the name Samuel for & Improvement Co Ten share of capital generations to follow. The is believed to be made in 1809 by a member stock for Mineral Belt Construction and of the Colt family household but deserves further research. Est. $200- Improvement, number 327, issued to R. 500 HWAC# 75664 L. Hanks, dated August 25, 1884, state of Mass. Printed American Bank Note Lot# 1439 , Dog Postcard Collection Approx Company, New York & Boston. Vignette 100 dog postcards. Humorous, husky, German Indians overlooking miners. Ken Prag sheppard, beagle and many more. RPC, Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 81868 chromolitho and modern Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 102697 Lot# 1440 , c1923 Game Well Glass Battery Lot# 1446 , c1923 National Cash Holder Rare Game Well purple glass battery Register Autograph Register Rare holder. Nice condition Geff Pollock Collection National Cash Register Autograph Register. Model 53 in original oak Est. $100-200 HWAC# 87432 case. Includes 2 plus rolls of paper. Paper emerges from a slot likely for the purpose of the buyer signing for his items. Approx 20” x 16” x 9”. Has a strange round window, its purpose is unclear. Possibly missing a piece on front panel. Rare item. Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 58900 Lot# 1441 , Greetings From Post Lot# 1447 , Post Card Group About Cards, Vintage A nice collection of 1000-1500 post cards of a variety of vintage greeting cards in post card topics, a complete cross section of post cards, mostly 1960’s-70’s. One full 15” form, mostly c1904-1910. Does not include Christmas, New Years, long box. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 103302 Valentines Day, St Pattys day, Thanksgiving or Halloween. About 600- 700 cards. Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 13304 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 55

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 General Americana Lot# 1448 , Postcards of and for Lot# 1455 , c1905-1915 RPC’s of Ladies Approx 90 postcards featuring Ladies Approx. 45 RPC’s of historical ladies with their men, flowers and overview representing women from more Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. Germany, California, Illinois & more. $180-300 HWAC# 101787 These RPC’s have women doing different activities from Spinning Lot# 1449 , cearly 1900’s Religion at a Mountain Cabin, there is a nun Post Cards Approx. 80 chromolitho posing, so much more. Nice collection. postcards, ranging from Madonna Delle Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100- Grazie; San Giovannino - Bernardino 150 HWAC# 91218 Luini; Guardian Angels; La Virgen de los Dolores & so much more! Salvatore Lot# 1456 , cearly 1900’s RPC’s of Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 Ladies with Children Approx. 20 RPC’s of women & children posing HWAC# 102796 for postcards in late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 91211 Lot# 1450 , c1900’s Religious Post Lot# 1457 , c1905-1915 RPC’s of Cards Chromolitho’s & RPC’s Approx. Little Girls Approx. 35 RPC’s. Some 60 chromolitho’s & RPC’s of Religious, fading on a few. Children posing. Christ themed, Madonna & Madonna Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91214 & child: The Hope of the World by Harold Copping; Quentin Massays/ Adoration of the Kings (Flemish 1510- 1560. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 102797 Lot# 1451 , c1905-1915 RPC’s of Lot# 1459 , Sant Fe Industries Inc Babies Approx. 25 RPC’s of babies stock specimens incorporated State being posed from many different of Delaware 1967. Specimen #0000, countries. 1 is particularly cute “The 013-2350-68 6 1/4 % debenture Nightingale”. Adorable babies from so bond issue August 1, 1968, due long ago! Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91217 1998for $100 illegible signature, cancel hole punch at bottom,voilet, Lot# 1452 , c1905 - 1915 RPC’s of vignette surveyor with mine, trains, Children Approx. 35 post cards of factory in background Sant Fe logo children posing for pictures. Some foreground. Printer : American Bank Note Co. Not in Cox ref. uu are from Germany, some are from Specimen #no number , 000-2251-68 common stock for less than Canada, there is 1 from Kathmandu, 1,000 shares illegible signature, “CERTIFICATE OF STOCK” brown Nepal, & many more. Salvatore Falcone underprint, cancel hole punch at bottom, stock counter right side, Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91216 brown, vignette surveyor with mine, trains, factory in background Sant Fe logo foreground. Printer : American Bank Note Co. Not in Cox ref. uu Lot# 1453 , c1905-1915 RPC’s of Specimen #no number ,000-2251-68 preferred stock for less than 100 Children with Messages on the Back shares illegible signature, “CERTIFICATE OF STOCK” red underprint, Approx. 20 RPC’s: “If Me Mudder Could cancel hole punch at bottom, stock counter right side, red, vignette See Me Now” written to Porterville, surveyor with mine, trains, factory in background Sant Fe logo California; 1 written to Lillian Anderson, foreground. Printer : American Bank Note Co. Not in Cox ref. uu Ken Salt Lake City, Utah & so many more! Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 81770 Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $90- 140 HWAC# 91215 Lot# 1460 , 1868 Senate Speeches on “Peace or War” Delivered in the United States Senate, Lot# 1454 , c1905-1915 RPC’s of July 9th and 10th, 1868 on the bill offered by Couples Approx. 25 RPC’s of couples. Senator Edmunds of Vermont, to regulate the (Happy & not so happy) “The Male is counting of the Electoral vote. Speeches of Late”, “A Teaspoon” Tijuana a couple Senators Morton of Indiana and Stewart and being pulled on a cart by donkey, Nye of Nevada. Eight pages, 5 3/4 x 8 inches. & many more. Salvatore Falcone Rare discussion of post Civil War reorganization Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91213 issues. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 81410 56 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 General Americana / Tools Lot# 1461 , 1853 Three Issues of the Lot# 1466 , Nevada 1920’s -1930’s Millennial Star, Pages are 5 3/8 by 7 7/8 Sickle / Antique tool, hand made inches, from a disbound volume of issues. The Here is a really nice item. It is a farming dates are: 1) August 20, 1853; articles on The tool for cutting grasses or other tall Italian Mission, The East India Mission and plants. It is called a “ Sickle” But, this the History of Joseph Smith; 2) September one is made of a unknown metal, and 24, 1853; articles on Five Cases of Miraculous has a very unusual 1/4” bevel around Healing, The Pacific Railroad, and the Blurality the whole outside edge of the blade. of Worlds; 3) October 1, 1853; articles on Utah- The blade is 3 3/4” wide at the center. its governor, society and institutions; Salvation Hand forged metal, with wood spun and Spiritual Manifestations. Est. $100-300 handle, enclosing the shank. 18’ from HWAC# 81415 the handle to the tip of the blade . Really good condition. Very ominous, and evil looking, if used as a weapon. Lot# 1462 , 1930’s-1940’s Ventriloquist Doll / Really nice condition, fine aging ( RH) . Est. $70-100 HWAC# 102146 Western Cowgirl Very interesting, and unusual Vaudeville, ventriloquist doll. Blue eyed “ Cowgirl” Lot# 1467 , Metal Shop Anvil dressed in a pale shirt, with orange corduroy vest and Metal bench anvil. 5.5x11”. Additional skirt with with beige tassels, and a black cowgirl hat. shipping will apply. Est. $100-150 Also black fancy boots. Once owned by Fe Brown , of HWAC# 91317 Lawrence Kansas ( Embossed on the back of the dolls neck ). About 40” tall, not counting the hat. Very good condition, with the exception of a few fingernails are missing the red polish, on the right hand. A very rare item , as not many of theses items have survived till now !! (RH). Est. $250-300 HWAC# 100715 Lot# 1463 , Vintage Showgirl & Nude P Photographs Lot of 4. 1) CDV of Arline Stanley, actress from the 1890s known for GRASS VALLEY her racy outfits. 2) CDV of Dolly Adams, showgirl made famous by wearing a semi- OLD WEST ANTIQUE SHOW transparent swimsuit. Died in 1888. Crease. P 3) Vintage real photo postcard of woman posing nude. c.1910-20s. 4) Unidentified small CDV of woman. Damaged. Says “Admiral “on the bottom. Est. $120-150 HWAC# 77612 Lot# 1464 , cearly 1900’s Wagons Join us this May 10th and 11th & Buggies, RPC’s 22 RPC’s in this lot in the heart of Northern California Gold Country for representing buggies & wagons, horses, the 20th Annual Grass Valley Old West Show. people & their homes.There are a few This show features the *Best of the Best* in genuine with some fading due to age. Please fine antiques and collectibles from some of the most inspect. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 91259 prominent dealers in the country. Lot# 1465 , Nevada 1920’s-1930’s. This show coincides with the 150th Anniversary of Scythe/ Tool / For Harvesting. Here is the Promontory Gold Spike which was one of the most it ...Watch out !! Beware...It is a Scythe, iconic and life altering events in America’s history, the like the Grim Reaper uses, to harvest souls... It is also a farming tool, completion of the Transcontinental Railroad!! used to cut down wheat grass. Metaphorically, a scythe was wielded by Visit a display inspired by the anniversary and explore the wide range of fine antiques for your collection. the ancient Greek Kronos, the Titan God Of Time. He.... was credited for influencing, the “Grim Reaper”. Hand carved wooden handle This is a show you will not want to miss!! and center grip, 55” high, with a 37 1’2” nasty blade. Copper band For more information and discount tickets please go to reinforcing the blade Small age crack in the wood, but still really nice. www.grassvalleyshow.com Could be glued and tightened easily. But, will leave that...up to you. Show Host Mike McDowell Unusual outside bevel on the blade, which is still sharp. Nice aging, [email protected] great looking piece. ( RH). Est. $200-250 HWAC# 102147 Visit the Holabird booth! We’ll be showcasing items as well as offering consultations and accepting consignments for future sales. Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 57

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Numismatics / Books Lot# 1468 1951 Auktion Von Lot# 1473 San Francisco, California Goldmunzen Auction catalogue 1870 H. & W. Pierce Third of from the company of Adolph Hess, of Exchange, San Francisco, 1870 Extra Lucerne, May 1951. Twenty four page rare banker and third of exchange! descriptions, fifteen pages of black and No. 71. Dateline San Francisco, July white photos. 8 x 11 inches. Founded 11th, 1870. Pay 60 days after sight to in 1870, the company was with Spink’s the Bank of California 10,000 pounds of London, the leading numismatic firm sterling. Instructions bottom left to pay of its time. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 81310 at the Pierce office in London. Signed by Pierce, pen cancelled. Reverse has stamp indication to be paid by Lot# 1469 1884 The Current Gold the Oriental Bank Corporation for Account of Bank of California. Ship and Silver Coins of All Nations vignette. Black print on gray paper. Printed by Edward Bosqui & Co., Extremely rare hardcover volume, SF. 5.25 x 8.75” Folds, some staining. In the 1869 & 1871 Langley SF inscribed by the publisher to Robt. Directories, Henry & William Pierce are listed as working in loan and S. Davis in 1884. 147 pages, 9 x 12 commission, located 728 Montgomery Street. (Potter Collection) Est. inches. Fifth edition by Ivan C. Michels, $120-250 HWAC# 59131 Ph.D., M.A. published by R.S. Menamin, Philadelphia. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 81321 Lot# 1474 San Francisco, California Hentsch & Berton Revenue Imprinted Check (SS Central America Ingots) Different check for Lot# 1470 Sacramento, California 1855 Two Page & Bacon First of this San Francisco Exchanges, Sacramento City, 1855 bank and assay firm EARLY! California Gold Rush era. Both with ties to the SS are identical form. Dateline Sacramento Central America. Also City, January 3rd and February 15th, 1869, though this is a 1855. No. 16513, pay to Ben Smith San Francisco dateline. at sight $500. No. 16551, pay to A. RN-B revenue imprint. Hopkins at sight $700. Drawn on the Written for $8,340 St. Louis Page & Bacon office. 4.25 x to A. Borel & Co. by 8.5” Allegorical vignette. Folds, creases, Dubois. Handwritten staining, metal clasp attached upper “good Hentsch & Berton” on the left side. back is signed and stamped left corners. (Potter Collection) Est. $100-250 HWAC# 59118 by Borel. Fold, spindle hole and some soiling on left. Very rare! The Borel family were important financial figures in San Francisco, helping Lot# 1471 San Francisco, California to expand the Cable Street Car line. The Borel & Co. building is a 1871 Bank of California 2nd & landmark. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 50919 3rd of Exchanges, Oriental Bank Corporation, 1870s Lot of 2. 1) Lot# 1475 San Francisco, California Rare Third of Exchange, dateline San 1863 Meader, Lolor & Co. Second of Francisco July 15th, 1871. No. 9691. Exchange, San Francisco, 1863 Extra Sixty days after sight pay Rafaela C. de rare. No. 1094, issued in San Francisco Temple 14,041 pounds sterling, to the on November 25th, 1863 to Ames Oriental Bank Corporation, London. for $550. Signed Meader, Lolor & Co. Reverse has an orange $1 Foreign Two different ship vignettes. Fold and Exchange revenue stamp and green $3 heavy toning. 4 x 9” C.T. Meader and C.P. Lolor were shipping and Manifest revenue stamp. Lith. Britton & commission merchants located at the NW corner of Front and Clay Rey. Folds. 4.255 x 8.5” 2) Second of Exchange. Dateline San Francisco Streets. Agents for Glidden & Williams’ lines of clipper ships from April 18th, 1871. Pay to the order of D.P. Mannix $400 Local Currency Boston to San Francisco. “Goods for this line received at Boston, and to The Oriental Bank Corporation, Shanghai. Signed by Murray Jr. carefully forwarded free of charge by First Class Clipper Ships.” (Potter Folds. 4 x 8.5” The Oriental Bank Corporation was first established in Collection) Est. $90-180 HWAC# 59190 India in 1842. Its main office was moved to London in 1845. It was the first bank in Hong Kong to issue banknotes there. The bank failed in Lot# 1476 Gold Hill / Virginia, Nevada 1863, 1892. (Potter Collection) Est. $120-250 HWAC# 59124 1866 Two early (Territorial) checks 1) Maynard and Flood, Bankders. #1302 for$1350 from the Lot# 1472 San Francisco, Imperial Silver Mining Company to Nichol & McCall. California 1880 Bank of Territorial. 2) Bank of California Green Gould and California Telegraphic Curry Silver Mining Company check. # 7814 for Transfer of Funds We $94.50 to LA Gillig. Signed by Louis Janin. Comes have not seen one of with a seven page biography of the Janin Brothers these before! Transfer by Spence. Est. $70-100 HWAC# 102251 from Saul McGanney of $203.00 to Edward J McGanney of New York. Printed “W. C. Ralston, cashier” Stamped over with “Bank of California.” Signed by SH David. Edward was a New York lawyer. Crack in glass. Excellent condition. Slight foxing on bottom right. (Potter Collection) Est. $100-300 HWAC# 56048 58 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Numismatics / Coins Lot# 1477 Goldfield, Nevada HWAC# 102263 Lot# 1481 Washington, D. C. 1839, 1906 John S Cook checks 1856, 1864 Three Official United States with the ‘Red Top’ and Numismatic Pieces 1) 1839 Bank of ‘Elephant’ Logos These the United States Second of Exchange. are two of the most sought Accepted and paid to Dennison & Co. after Nevada Checks. They Cancelled with large hole punch. For $2800. are certainly the two most 2) 1856 United States Post Office check recognizable with the ‘Red to postmaster of New Bedford, Mass. For Top’ vignette for the Red $216.63. Signed by Phillips auditor for the Top Mine and the ‘Elephant’ Post Office Department and James Campbell vignette for the Jumbo Postmaster General. 3) Assistant Trearuer Mine. Both mines were very of the United States check for $48.00 Singed successful and profitable. by Hinsboro, postmaster. Est. $100-150 Taylor located them originally, but by now were under George Wingfield ownership. Both are signed by CD Taylor. Charles D Taylor Lot# 1482 United States 1904 $2 1/2 was an important mining man in Goldfield. AD Myers located the Gold Piece in Bezel VF-EF 1904 $2 1/2 first claim on the Grandpa Ledge or Goldfield. Taylor was second. He Liberty gold piece in bezel. Est. $200- located the Jumbo, Florence, Red King and Firelight claims on October 400 HWAC# 103091 19, 1903. (He would locate other claims later.) But it was the Jumbo and Florence that would make Taylor a millionaire. It started in the Lot# 1483 United States 1914 $2 1/2 Fall of 1903 when a rich pocket of gold was discovered while doing Indian Head Gold Piece in bezel VF location work on the Jumbo. According to Church & Carpenter the 1914-D $2 1/2 Indian Head gold piece Jumbo yielded $1,371, 165 between 1904 and 1909 and the Florence in bezel. Est. $280-500 HWAC# 103090 over $6,000,000. The Florence was located in MIlltown and the Jumbo in Jumbotown. These were two early suburbs of Goldfield. He was later associated with the Red Top Mine which was another $1,000,000 producer. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 60213 Lot# 1478 Virginia, Nevada 1876 Bank Lot# 1484 United States $2 1/2 of California Duplicate of Exchange, Indian Head Gold Piece in Bezel VF Current Funds # 2302 for $955.32. 1927 $2 1/2 Indian Head gold piece Signed by Signed by agent JP Martin in bezel. Total weight: 4.9 grams. Est. and and cashier JW Eckley. Underprint $300-500 HWAC# 103093 ‘Currency Funds.’ We don’t see that very often. The 1878 Nevada directory lists Lot# 1485 United States 1880 $5 Gold Martin as a bookkeeper for the Bank of California. Eckley was the State Piece in Bezel VF condtion $5 Liberty Britton & Rey San Francisco printer. Est. $100-180 HWAC# 102246 Head gold piece in bezel. Total weight: 9.1 grams. Est. $500-800 HWAC# Lot# 1479 Virginia City, Nevada 1864, 103095 1869 Gould & Curry Check and Receipt The 1864 receipt is dagtelined Lot# 1486 United States Bill of Rights Virginia, N. T. It is a receipt for one load Commemorative 3 Coin Proof Set of gold and silver ore weighing 6010 Contains the gold $5 (quarter ounce), silver pounds - three tons. The American Flat dollar and the silver half dollar. Original Mill is rare and not listed in Ansari! Ore case and holder. Est. $300-500 HWAC# is being sent to the American Flat Mill 75538 for processing. 2) The iconic green Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company check. Singed by Isaac Requa Lot# 1487 United States California of ming and railroad fame. Issued to the lawyer of the major mining Gold Rush Era Large Cent Collection companies - William Stewart for $120. Imprinted Nevada green 2c Lot of 21 large cents: 8 - 1847; `11 - Revenue Stamp and United States 2c Check Revenue Stamp. Est. 1848; 2 - 1849. Est. $150-300 HWAC# $100-150 HWAC# 102255 103098 Lot# 1480 Mohawk, New York 1846 Francis E Spinner Group Lot of two. 1) Check from Mohawk County Bank signed by FE Spinner. Francis Elias Spinner was an American politician from New York. He was Treasurer of the United States from 1861 to 1875. He signed the first United States Greenbacks. He was also the first administrator in the federal government to employ women for clerical jobs. Check was for $247.78 and issued on August 18, 1846. 2) Letter addressed to Spinner. June 21, 1845. Stampless, coverless letter from New York. On American Exchange Bank letterhead. List receipts for money. Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 102262 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 59

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Numismatics / Coins Lot# 1488 United States Georgia Gold Rush Period Large Cent Collection Lot of 28 large cents from 1827-1845. 5 - 1837; 6 - 1838, others scattered throughout the years. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 103097 Lot# 1489 United Lot# 1495 United States 1857 Three Dollar Gold Piece Indian States 1852 Gold Princess Head gold piece, EF-AU, possibly cleaned. Mintage 20,891, Quarter Eagle VF weight: 5.015 g., 0.900 gold, 0.1451 oz. AGW, 20.5 mm. Est. $1000- 1852 $ 2 1/2 Liberty 1500 HWAC# 101719 gold piece. Est. $300- 500 HWAC# 103092 Lot# 1496 Australia 1931 Gold Sovereign KM # 32, 7.9881 g., 0.9170 Lot# 1490 United States 1855 Indian gold, 0.2355 oz. AGW. Ruler: George V. Princess Head One Dollar Gold Piece Est. $500-700 HWAC# 103167 VF condition. 15 mm, 0.04837 AGW. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 103094 Lot# 1497 Australia 1928 Gold Lot# 1491 United States Large Cent Sovereign KM # 29, 7.9881 g., 0.9170 Collection Thirty three large cents gold, 0.2355 oz. AGW. Ruler: George V. from the 1850s, some better pieces. 5 Est. $500-700 HWAC# 103168 - 1850; `12 - 1851; 4 - 1852; 6 - 1853; 3 - 1854; 1855; 1856. Est. $150-400 Lot# 1498 Austria 1915 Gold Ducat HWAC# 103096 KM #2267, 3.4909 g., 0.9860 gold, 0.1107 oz. AGW. Prooflike, BU. Est. Lot# 1492 United States Large Cent $200-400 HWAC# 103155 Date Set 36 different dates from 1816- 1856, missing only five dates:1821, 1823, 1825, 1830 & 1833. Est. $150- 400 HWAC# 103099 Lot# 1493 United Lot# 1499 Austria 1915 Gold Ducat States 1903 Louisiana in Bezel Austrian gold, 4.0 grams total Purchase Exposition weight including bezel. Est. $200-400 Gold Dollar The first HWAC# 103154 commemorative U.S. gold coins were issued Lot# 1500 China 1988 Gold Panda for the Louisiana 1/10th Ounce Coin .999 gold. 1/10th Purchase Exposition, ounce AU, 18 mm. Est. $200-400 held in St. Louis in HWAC# 103109 1904. There are two varieties of the gold Lot# 1501 Columbia 1919 Cinco dollar, each dated 1903--one with the head of Thomas Jefferson, Pesos Gold Coin KM # 201.1 5 Pesos. who was president when the Louisiana Territory was purchased 7.9881 g., 0.9170 gold, 0.2355 oz. AGW. from France, and the other with President William McKinley, who Obv.: Simon Bolivar. Est. $500-800 sanctioned the exposition. The reverse is the same for each variety. the HWAC# 103115 design were by Charles E. Barber. Each had a distribution of 17,500. This Jefferson piece is AU. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 101699 Lot# 1502 Cuba 1916 Dos Pesos Gold Coin KM # 17, 2 Pesos. 3.3436 Lot# 1494 United g., 0.9000 gold, 0.0967 oz. AGW. Est. States 2001 Platinum $200-400 HWAC# 103113 Bullion Coin Liberty one quarter ounce .9995 platinum United States piece. $25 face value. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 103151 60 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Numismatics / Coins Lot# 1503 Cuba 1916 Dos Pesos Lot# 1510 France 1877 20 Franc Gold Gold Coin KM # 17, 2 Pesos. 3.3436 Coin KM # 825, 6.4516 g., 0.9000 gold, g., 0.9000 gold, 0.0967 oz. AGW. Est. .1867 oz. AGW. Almost uncirculated. $200-400 HWAC# 103114 Est. $300-500 HWAC# 103108 Lot# 1504 Denmark 1900 10 Kroner Lot# 1511 France 1869 Napoleon Gold Coin KM # 790.2, 10 Kroner, 20 France Gold Piece KM # 801.2. 4.4803g., 0.9000 gold, .1296 oz. AGW. 6.4516 g., 0.900 gold, .1867 oz. AGW. Ruler: Christian IX, Mint: Copenhagen. The Second Empire. Est. $300-500 Est. $200-400 HWAC# 103110 HWAC# 103103 Lot# 1505 Foreign Foreign Coin Lot# 1512 France 1907 Rooster 20 Hoard Fifty pound bag of foreign Franc Gold Coin KM # 857, 6.4516 g., coins, mostly a better sort without 0.9000 gold, 0.1867 oz. AGW. Almost the half pennies, pennies, etc. In one uncirculated. Est. $300-500 HWAC# random pull, we found 132 coins in 2 103106 pounds, which is about 3300 coins. The majority appear quarter size and Lot# 1513 France 1908 Rooster larger, but there are many nickle size. 20 France Gold Piece KM # 857, 20 Many are bimetallic. In this sample, Francs. 6.4516 g., 0.9000 gold, 0.1867 countries represented are: Ireland, oz. AGW. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 103104 Greece, a California token, Gambia, Ecuador, TurkeyGreat Britain, India,New Zealand, United Arab EmirateIsland, China, Italy, Norway, Lot# 1514 France 1912 Rooster Cuba, Argentina, Germany, five diff US tokens, Magyr, Fiji, Australia, Twenty Franc Gold Piece KM # 857, Japan, Jordan, Zimbabwe, Sweeden, Mexico and more. In this group, 6.4516 g., 0.900 gold, 0.1867 oz. AGW. 22 of 132 are US tokens. Est. $500-800 HWAC# 91179 Fine example of the French “rooster” Lot# 1506 Foreign Foreign Coin gold piece. Est. $300-500 HWAC# Hoard Fifty pound bag of assorted 103101 foreign coins. In a two pound Lot# 1515 France 1896 Ten Franc sample, there are 195 coins, or about Gold Piece KM # 830, 3.2258 g., 0.900 4875 coins. this group is a broad gold, .0933 oz. AGW. Est. $120-240 representation of foreign coins of all HWAC# 103100 sizes, including some bimetallic and US tokens. In this sample group of 195 Lot# 1516 France 1893 Twenty Franc coins, only three US tokens were found. Gold Piece KM # 825, 6.4516 g., 0.900 Sample countries found are: Columbia, gold, .1867 oz. AGW. Est. $300-500 France, Italy, far east(?), Great Britain, HWAC# 103102 Kuwait, Bahrain, Mexico, Jamaica, Chile, Argentina, Portugal,Turkey, Austria, Quatar, Australia, and more. Est. $500-800 HWAC# 101658 Lot# 1517 Germany 1874 10 Mark Lot# 1507 Foreign Foreign Coin Gold Coin KM # 504, 10 Mark. 3.9820 Hoard Fifty Pounds of foreign coins g., 0.9000 gold, .1152 oz. AGW. Ruler: and tokens. Mostly all quarter size Wilhelm I. Est. $200-400 HWAC# and less. In a two pound sample, 103150 we counted 185 coinsabout 4625 coins in the bag. Sixteen coins in this Lot# 1518 Germany 1891 20 Mark sample were US tokens. Large variety Gold Coin KM # 521. 20 Mark. 7.9650 of countries represented here, from g., 0.9000 gold, .2304 oz. AGW. Ruler: Qatar to Mexico. Est. $500-700 HWAC# Wilhelm II. Est. $500-700 HWAC# 101669 103117 Lot# 1508 France 1855 20 Franc Gold Lot# 1519 Germany 1910 20 Mark Coin KM # 781.1, 6.4516 g., 0.9000 Gold Coin KM # 521. 7.965 g., 0.9000 gold, .1867 oz. AGW. Est. $300-500 gold, 0.2305 oz. AGW. Ruler: Wilhelm II. HWAC# 103105 Est. $500-700 HWAC# 103118 Lot# 1509 France 1866 20 Franc Gold Coin KM # 801.1. 6/45216 g., 0.900 gold, 0.1867 oz. AGW. Mint: Paris. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 103107 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 61

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Numismatics / Coins Lot# 1520 Germany 1872 20 Mark Lot# 1531 Isle of Man 1986 1/10th Gold Coin KM # 501. 7.9650 g., 0.9000 Ounce Platinum Coin These bullion gold, .2304 oz. AGW. Ruler: Wilhelm I. pieces were minted for the Isle of Est. $500-700 HWAC# 103119 Man which is a self-governing British Crown Dependency. It is located in the Lot# 1521 Great Britain 1809 1/3 Irish Sea between the islands of Great Guinea Gold Coin KM #650, 2.7834 g., Britain and Ireland. It is a legal tender 0.9170 gold, 0.0820 oz. AGW. George coin produced by the Popjoy Mint in Surry, England which was in III. Est. $120-240 HWAC# 101715 production from 1983 through 1989. Est. $120-240 HWAC# 103152 Lot# 1522 Great Britain 1880 Gold Lot# 1532 Various Locations, Half Sovereign KM735.2, 3.9940 g., Italy c330 AD. Ancient Coins 0.9170 gold, .1177 oz. AGW. Ruler: / “Constantine The Great “ / Victoria. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 103164 12 Items. Here we have a nice collection, of ancient copper coins. Lot# 1523 Great Britain 1874 Gold They are from the Roman Empire Half Sovereign KM # 735.2, 3.9940 when “Constantine The Great” g., 0.9170 gold, .1177 oz. AGW. Ruler: was ruling there c. 330 AD. They Victoria. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 103165 are all in average condition for their age, and a little hard to read. Professionally graded and cased by the International Numismatic Bureau, and numbered as well (RH). Houghton Estate Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# 102115 Lot# 1524 Great Britain 1914 Gold Lot# 1533 Mexico 1919 Cinco Pesos Half Sovereign KM # 819, 3.9940 g., Gold Coin KM # 464, 4.1666 g., 0.9000 0.9170 gold, 0.1177 oz. AGW. Ruler: gold, 0.1206 oz. AGW, 19 mm. Est. George V. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 103166 $200-400 HWAC# 103158 Lot# 1525 Great Britain 1965 Gold Lot# 1534 Mexico 1959 Diez Pesos Sovereign KM # 908. 7.9881 g., 0.9170 Gold Coin KM # 473. 8.3333 g., 0.9000 gold, 0.2355 oz. AGW. Ruler: Elizabeth gold, 0.2411 oz. AGW. Rev.: Miguel II. Est. $500-700 HWAC# 103160 Hidalgo y Costilla. Est. $500-700 Lot# 1526 Great Britain 1925 Gold HWAC# 103159 Sovereign KM # 820, 7.9881 g., 0.9170 gold, 0.2355 oz. AGW. Ruler: George V. Lot# 1535 Mexico 1920 Dos Pesos Est. $500-700 HWAC# 103161 Gold Coin KM #461, 2 Pesos. 1.6666 g., 0.9000 gold, 0.0482 oz. AGW. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 103156 Lot# 1527 Great Britain 1890 Gold Lot# 1536 Mexico 1945 Dos y Medio Sovereign KM # 767, 7.9881 g., 0.9170 Pesos Gold Coin KM # 463 2 1/2 pesos, gold, .2354 oz. AGW. Ruler: Victoria. 2.0833 g., 0.9000 gold, 0.0603 oz. AGW. Est. $500-700 HWAC# 103162 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 103157 Lot# 1528 Great Britain 1872 Gold Lot# 1537 Netherlands 1917 10 Sovereign KM # 752, 7.9881 g., 0.9170 Gulden Netherlands Gold Coin KM gold, .2354 oz. AGW. Ruler: Victoria. # 149. 6.7290 g. 0.900 gold. 0.1947 Est. $500-700 HWAC# 103163 oz. AGW. 22.5 mm. Queen Wilhelmina, mintage 4 million. AU condition. Est. Lot# 1529 Great Britain 1845 Gold $300-500 HWAC# 101707 Sovereign KM #736.1, 7.9881 g., 0.9170 gold, .2354 oz. AGW. Ruler: Lot# 1538 Netherlands 1912 10 Victoria. Est. $500-700 HWAC# 103169 Gulden Netherlands Gold Coin KM # 149. 6.7290 g. 0.900 gold. 0.1947 Lot# 1530 Hungary 1905 10 Korona oz. AGW. 22.5 mm. Queen Wilhelmina, Gold Coin KM # 485, 10 Korona. mintage 3 million. EF-AU condition. 3.3875 g., 0.900 gold, 0.0980 oz. AGW. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 101708 Ruler: Franz Joseph I. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 103111 Lot# 1539 Netherlands 1897 10 Gulden Netherlands Gold Coin KM # 118. 6.7290 g., 0.9000 gold, .1947 oz. AGW, 22.5 mm. Mintage 453,696. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 101712 62 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Numismatics / Currency Lot# 1540 Netherlands 1831 Gold Lot# 1550 Turkey 100 Kurush Gold Ducat KM # 50.1 or 50.2. 3.5 g. 0.9830 Turkish Coin KM # 754. 7.2160 g., golf. .1106 oz. AGW. Est. $160-300 0.9170 gold, 0.2127 oz. AGW. Est. HWAC# 101713 $300-500 HWAC# 101710 Lot# 1541 Newfoundland 1882 Two Lot# 1551 Token Dispensers Two Dollar Gold Coin KM # 5, 2 dollars. Transportation token dispensers. The May Weight: 3.3284 g., 0.917 gold, .0981 oz. Company, Los Angeles and Samuel H. Moss, AGW. Mintage of just 25,000. 1882H. Inc. New York City. Both rare pieces. Est. $100- Est. $200-400 HWAC# 103112 200 HWAC# 102830 Lot# 1542 Peru 1906 1/2 Libre Gold Coin KM # 209 1/2 Libra (Pound). 3.9940 g., 0.9170 gold, 0.1177 oz. AGW. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 103116 Lot# 1543 Russia 1898 5 Rouble Lot# 1552 Two Blue Whitman Gold Coin Y # 62. 5 Roubles, 4.3013 Folders with Coins Type Collection g., 0.900 gold, .1244 AGW. Struck at of Twentieth Century United States St. Petersburg. Est. $200-400 HWAC# Coins (Whitman No. 9046): Only 101706 the cents and nickels are missing. Coins include: Barber dime (1915), Lot# 1544 Russia 1979 Chervonetz Mercury dime, Roosevelt dime, 10 Rouble Gold Y #85.Chervonetz (10 Barber quarter (1909), Liberty roubles). 8.6026 g., 0.9000 gold, 0.2489 Standing quarter (1929); Washington oz. AGW. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 101704 Quarter (1964), Barber Half (1905), Walking Liberty Half (1943); Franklin Half (1963); Morgan Dollar (1921); Peace Dollar (1922). Lot# 1545 Russia 1899 Nicholas II 10 “Mercury” Head Dime Collection 1916 to 1945 (Whitman No. 9014): Rouble Gold Y # 64 10 Roubles, 8.6026 24 Mercury dimes: 1 1917; 7 in the 1930s; 16 in the 1940s; 4 Roosevelt g. 0.9000 gold, 0.2489 oz. AGW. Est. pre-1964 dimes stuck in random holes. Total bullion value is $100 $300-500 HWAC# 101705 with silver priced at $15.78. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 101232 Lot# 1546 South Africa 1980 South Lot# 1553 1987 US African Two Rand Gold Coin KM #64, 7.9881 G, 0.9170 gold, 0.2355 oz. Constitution UNC Silver/ AGW. Mintage 12,000. Obv.: Springbok; Rev.: Bust of Jan van Riebeeck. EF- Gold Coin Set Lot of three AU condition. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 1987 U.S. Constitution Silver 101703 Dollar with Gold Five Dollar Lot# 1547 Spain 1863 40 Reales Gold Mint Proof Sets, Vintage Coin KM # 616.1. 3.3349 g., 0.9000 Historic Commemorative gold, 0.0965 oz. AGW. Est. $180-300 Coins with Certificate of HWAC# 101717 Authenticity. Two are marked marked “unc” (uncirculated) Lot# 1548 Switzerland 1922 10 Franc and one “proof” on Certificate Gold Coin KM # 36, 10 Francs. 3.2258 of Authenticity. Each one has g., 0.9000 gold, 0.0933 oz. AGW. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 103153 one ounce silver round and a quarter ounce of gold. Est. Lot# 1549 Turkey 100 Kurush Gold $1100-1500 HWAC# 75907 Turkish Coin KM # 754. 7.2160 g., 0.9170 gold, 0.2127 oz. AGW. Mintage Lot# 1554 1801/1845/ & 1863 3769,100. Est. $300-500 HWAC# Fractional Currency / 4 items. Item 101709 #1 of 4: 50 Cents, with picture of Samuel Dexter, Secretary of the Treasury 1801 ( FR # 1379). Item # 2 of 4: 25 cents, with picture of Robert J .Walker, Secretary of the Treasury 1845 ( FR# 1309 ). Item # 3 of 4 : 10 cents, George Washington March 3, 1863 ( FR # 1245 ). Item # 4 of 4: 10 cents, George Washington March 3, 1863 ( FR# 1244 with #10 stamped on the back. Fair to average condition, and look pretty good. Already sealed, for your consideration. Nice grouping for your collection ( RH) Houghton Estate Collection Est. $75-125 HWAC# 102109 Lot# 1555 Three Pieces of US Fractional Currency Lot of 3 different, all uncertified. Includes: FR#1266 1874 10 Cents Fractional Currency; FR# 1255 3rd Issue 10 Cents Fractional Currency; and March 3, 1863 Twenty Five Cents Fractional Currency. Please inspect. Houghton Estate Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 102489 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 63

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Numismatics / Currency Lot# 1556 Three US Currency “Poker Notes” Lot of 3 $1 dollar “poker notes”: 1999 with two “555” sequences; 2003 quad center radar (“4444”); and 2013 with six consecutive “7s”. Please inspect. Houghton Estate Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 102482 Lot# 1557 US & Foreign Currency Lot# 1560 New York, New York 1971 Extremely Rare MACo 10- Group Lot of 12, all uncertified. 1) pc Framed Remington 6-inch Medallions This is a very rare and US: Series of 1928C Red Seal $5 Bill; complete set of ten, framed, six-inch medallions created for the 21 Club and four $1 silver certificates (1935 E, 1935 F, and two 1957 B). All Restaurant in New York City by Medallic Art Company in 1971. Each circulated. 2) Seven foreign pieces:1951 Bulgarian 100 Cto Neba frame displays a 6-inch diameter, silver-plated copper galvano-positive Banknote; 100 Cto Pybaey; 1937 ten yuan Bank of China; 20 Abauuaub version of a set of ten commemorative medals representing works Pybaey; Ten Pesos The Japanese Government; 5 old Leva banknote by the famous Western sculptor, Frederick Remington. These 6-inch Bulgaria (1951 issue); and one unidentified. Please inspect. Houghton medallions are mounted on a brown-tanned leather background in a Estate Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 102490 10.5 x 13-inch, antique-silvered wooden frame. Medallic Art lore is that Lot# 1558 c1970’s-1980’s “The General” MACo president Bill Louth would walk from his Manhattan office to Silver Bars Lot of three: two one ounce the 21 Club for lunch and soon struck up a friendship with the owners. rectangular bars. One marked “error” (they They developed a plan to promote the 21 Club’s vaunted collection of used the wrong locomotive). Also a round original Frederick Remington artwork by producing a set of 10 unique piece appears silver, but not marked. The medallions in bronze and silver in 1.75- and 2.5-inch sizes. Each of the General on obverse; the reverse features a pieces would portray a distinctive sculpture by Frederick Remington mounted horseman and “Confederate States on the obverse (front side), and a different Remington artwork on of America February 1862”. Est. $100-200 the reverse overlain by a portrait of the artist himself. Sculptor Avard HWAC# 571726 Fairbanks was chosen to design the entire ten-piece set. The obverse of each design also includes a small incuse circle bearing an image Lot# 1559 Father Kino Fantasy Ingots Two of the “Father Kino” of the distinctive iron gate that has become a signature logotype for ingots. One in classic rectangular form (1695), and the other in a cross the 21 Club. The medals were sold in green-velvet-lined boxed sets (1707). We previously wrote up these ingots in our 2011 November to Club 21 patrons and Medallic Art Company customers until the catalog, where we also had two of the ingots tested for metal content. limited edition was exhausted. But that isn’t the end of the story. A Interestingly, a number of these have a whiteish patina, and the two set of 10 six-inch copper galvano-negatives was created from original here are dark. The small ingot is 16.8g, 1 x 0.75”; the cross 26.0g, 1.6 obverse plaster models, and these were used to reproduce fifty sets x 2.75”. The results of the 2011 examination yielded 50-60% silver. of 6-inch copper galvano-positives. These were trimmed round, silver These ingots are thought to be a 1960’s creation out of Arizona. Est. plated, and mounted in frames along with a 1.75-inch, silver-plated $1000-2000 HWAC# 81121 bronze version of the corresponding reverse design mounted at the bottom of the frame. These rare sets are rumored to have been sold to Western aficionados such as Bob Hope and Gene Autry, among others. This set was sold back to the Medallic Art Company Archive Collection in around 2008 by an anonymous, original owner in Oklahoma. It was then acquired by a private entity in the 2018 post-bankruptcy liquidation of Northwest Territorial Mint / Medallic Art Company. The Remington artworks represented in the set include The Bronco Buster, The Sergeant, The Fallen Rider, Coming Through the Rye, The Scalp, The Rattlesnake, The Cheyenne, The Norther, The Mountain Man, and The Outlaw. The full set of ten frames is in good condition, although some of the small medallions show a bit of tarnish and thinning of the silver plating. Altogether, this is a stunningly beautiful presentation of both the work of Frederick Remington and Medallic Art Company. We have never seen a set like this at auction, and it is unlikely for another set to appear on the market any time soon. Est. $5000-10000 HWAC# 103123 View High Resolution Images, Register, Place Bids, See Current Opening Bids Visit the online catalog at FHWAC.com 64 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Numismatics / Medals Lot# 1563 1973 Nixon/Agnew Inauguration Medals (2) 2 different Franklin Mint medals in original boxes. 68 and 70mm, bronze proof and traditional finish Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 101728 Lot# 1564 Nixon/Agnew Inauguration Medals (2) 2 Franklin Mint solid bronze proof editions Lot# 1561 1976 Franklin Mint “Genius of Michelangelo” in original boxes. 68mm. Salvatore Complete 60-Coin Sterling Set FRANKLIN MINT “The GENIUS OF Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 MICHELANGELO” STERLING SILVER Art Medal Set - COMPLETE In 1976, The Franklin Mint issued a set of sixty 925-Sterling-silver HWAC# 101729 medallions they titled “The Genius of Michelangelo.” The coins were bound in a leather-like volume with ten coins per page. Each 45mm Lot# 1565 US Navy Fine Silver Iron Horse Commemorative - 100 coin features a design that commemorates a well-known work of pieces in cases This lot contains 100 complete sets of one-troy-ounce, art by the great Renaissance master on the obverses. The reverses Fine Silver medallions by Northwest Territorial Mint commemorating have the title of the piece surrounding a geometric web-like design the USS Scranton (SSN 756), nicknamed the “Iron Horse” and the first centered on a small bas-relief of Michelangelo’s head. The total weight submarine built at Newport News using modular construction. The of all sixty coins is approximately 75.5 Troy ounces. Research indicates obverse of the medallion shows the nickname at the top, the outline of that The Franklin Mint acquired the first 29 or 30 coin designs and the submarine behind a steam locomotive, and proclaims, “On Time, struck coins in the purchase of another minting operation, then struck On Track, On Target” in celebration of this construction milestone. The the remainder of the set in their own facility. Those latter strikes were reverse is a very detailed official seal of the United States Navy. Each coated by Franklin Mint to prevent tarnishing, while the first portion medallion has a brilliant proof-like, mirror finish for the background were not. Hence, the first 29 items in this set have developed some with the raised relief in a frosted, matte finish. Each is encased in a beautiful toning features as well as some tarnish, but those in the protective crystal-clear plastic capsule to prevent tarnishing and latter portion are bright and shiny. All 60 coins are in otherwise great nestled into a navy-blue leatherette-like clamshell case with matching condition. The leather binder has some wear as would be expected for velvet lining. The white satin of the inside cover is gold-foil embossed its age. The thick leatherette-like cardboard pages all turn smoothly with an anchor and “U.S. NAVY.” Each leatherette case has a white with no cracking, and all the coins are securely mounted, ten to a page. cardboard protective sleeve with the same gold-foil-embossed anchor The page are titled at the top, and the medallions are arranged in two design. These are spectacular, display-ready pieces commemorating columns of five rows with the name of the represented artwork and an historic breakthrough in submarine manufacturing. See photo for the location of that artwork are listed in the margins to the left and details.This lot comes from the liquidation of Northwest Territorial right. PAGE 1: Frescoes from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling 1. The Creation Mint. Est. $2000-3000 HWAC# 79552 Of Adam 2. The Temptation 3. The Delphic Sibyl 4. The Universal Flood 5. The Gathering of the Waters 6. Judith and Holofernes 7. Noah’s Sacrifice 8. The Death of Haman 9. The Prophet Jonah 10. The Head of God PAGE 2: Frescoes from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling 11. Creation of the Sun and Moon 12. The Cumaean Sibyl 13. The Prophet Jeremiah 14. The Expulsion 15. David and Goliath 16. The Prophet Isaiah 17. The Creation of Eve 18. The Libyan Sibyl 19. Ignudo 20. The Forefathers of Christ PAGE 3: The Last Judgment, Other Paintings and Drawings 21. Christ the Judge with Mary 22. Angels Supporting the Cross 23. Charon’s Boat 24. St. Bartholomew 25. The Doni Tondo 26. Crucifixion of St. Peter 27. Tityus 28. The Damned Man 29. The Resurrection 30. The Fall of Phaethon PAGE 4: Sculptures based on Classical Themes 31. David 32. Little Satyr of Bacchus 33. Battle of the Centaurs 34. Day 35. Dawn 36. David-Apollo 37. Mask of Night 38. Kneeling Angel 39. The Bearded Prisoner 40. The Dying Slave PAGE 5: Sculptures of Famous People 41. Moses 42. St. Peter 43. Rachel 44. Giuliano de Medici 45. Lorenzo de Medici 46. Leah 47. St. Petronius 48. St. Matthew 49. St. Paul 50. Brutus PAGE 6: Sculptures of Christ and the Madonna 51. Pieta 52. Madonna of the Stairs 53. Risen Christ 54. Head of Child from Bruges Madonna 55. Taddei Tondo 56. Pitti Tondo 57. Medici Madonna 58. Pieta of Florence 59. Bruges Madonna 60. Head of Santo Spirito Crucifix Est. $2200-4000 HWAC# 79500 Lot# 1562 1795 George Washington Medal Obv.: George Washington / (portrait); Rev.: Liberty and Security / (eagle and shield) / 1795. Edge: Payable at London Liverpool or Bristol. Br., rd., 29 mm. Est. $80-160 HWAC# 101714 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 65

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Numismatics / Scales Lot# 1566 Trommner 500-Ounce Bullion Scale, Philadelphia Mint Very fine 500 troy ounce bullion scale made by Trommner of Philadelphia for the US Mint. SN 10-57-13, CAD 084500, Model 751.Blue paint on base as original. Approximately 50” long, 3.5’ high, 14” deep. This is a bullion scale made for the US Mint, perhaps within ten or twenty years of the demonetization of silver in 1964. This is a historic rarity in any form, and a great display piece for any museum, major numismatic collection, or mining office. Est. $6000-8000 HWAC# 82912 Lot# 1567 Trommner Scale large capacity This Trommner scale is a large capacity scale (at least 500#); formerly of the Philadelphia Mint. It has a beautiful glass enclosed top where the beam is 8 ft. 3 in.long. It is 32 in. wide and 102 in. tall. The pans are 21 in. in diameter with ingot guides. c. 1920’s-1930’s. Provenance is the North West Territory Mint bankruptcy. This would make a true statement of your success as a business when displayed in your lobby of office. FOB Reno shipping. Est. $10000-15000 HWAC# 103376 Lot# 1568 Trommner Scale large capacity This beautiful Trommner Scale is vintage 1947 with a large capacity (over 500#). Formerly of the Philadelphia Mint it has a covered top with a beam of 8 ft. 3 in. long; 34 in. wide, and 99 in. tall with base. The pan flats are 21 in. diameter with no ingot guides. The total weight capacity is unknown. Provenance is the North West Territory Mint bankruptcy. Make a statement of your business success and display proudly in your foyer or large office. Weigh your 401K but do not invite the IRS. Shipping is FOB Reno. Est. $10000-15000 HWAC# 103377 66 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Numismatics Lot# 1569 New York 1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration Commissioner’s Badge HK 379. R-6. Minted by Medallic Art Co. in silver, designed by artist Chester Beach, this Commissioners’ Badge is in it’s original case. The medallion is 38mm in diameter, suspended from an orange, white and blue ribbon (the colors under which Hendrik Hudson sailed), which when worn was suspended from a silver bar bearing the word “Commissioner,” and all of which was backed by a broad blue ribbon about six inches long. The obverse portraits of Hudson and Fulton, surrounded by the legend: “Henry Hudson 1609. Robert Fulton. 1807, and the date of the celebration, 1909. The reverse features a standing, draped, female figure, wearing a winged cap, and holding a model of the Half Moon ship in her right hand and in her left hand a model of the Clermont steamboat. The medal weighs 54.2 grams. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 88212 Lot# 1570 Fireman and Field Day Lot# 1573 Georgia Calhoun Mine Gold Calhoun Mine gold, mined Medals with Ribbons (3) S. Berwick by Jesse Austin, c1980’s. Austin was also the owner of the Turkey Hill FD Field Day July 23, 1932(So Called mine near the Calhoun. This is just about 1.5 ounces of fine gold. Est. Size). Brockton Fair Muster Oct 3, 1920. $2800-4000 HWAC# 61629 Massachusetts State Fireman’s Assoc Boston 1902 convention with ribbon. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 101737 Lot# 1571 Slug Facsimile with Bezel Minature replica of an 1852 $50 gold slug, mounted in bezel. 18 mm. 3.8 grams. Est. $80-160 HWAC# 101718 Lot# 1572 San Francisco, California c1867 Kohler & Ritter Silver Flatware Kohler & Ritter were successors to Fred Reichel in San Francisco in 1867. Both worked as silversmiths with Reichel, and Gotthard Kohler was Lot# 1574 Spectacular Silver Rare Coin Belt Made by and for Reichel’s someone with numismatic interests, this belt made of silver coins is 30 m a n a g e r. inches long and contains 25 coins . An 1878-CC Morgan Dollar anchors Gotthard one end and an 1883 Hawaii Dollar anchors the other. Other coins Kohler’s include: 1874 British Shilling, 1879 Chile 20C piece, 1872 Canadian relationship with Gold Rush assayer F. D. Kohler is unknown. Kohler Quarter, 1881 Guatemala Quarter, 1895 Costa Rica Quarter, 1881 & Ritter silver are found with two different hallmarks, a “K & R” and Canadian half dollar, 1840 India Rupee, Chinese 50 Sen, 1842 French “Kohler & Ritter” This group of rare early San Francisco silver has 4 5 Francs, 1879 Mexican 8 Reales, 1879 Filipinas Peso, 1875-CC U. S. pieces marked K&R and six pieces marked Kohler & Ritter. Of the K Trade Dollar, 1870 Peruvian Un Sol, 1884 Honduras 50 Centavos1887 & R pieces, there is a dinner fork, tea spoon, and two serving pieces, a Brazilian 500 Reis, British Shilling, 1873 Guatemala 2 REALES, 1866 berry spoon and a fish fork?, both about 9” long. The Kohler & Ritter Hong Kong Twenty Cent, 1835 One Franc, 1875-S U. S. Twenty Cent, prices are 5 teaspoons and a very large soup ladle (14”). These are 1883 Hawaiian Territory Dollar. Stamped “S. Samuels / Oakland.” on some of the few known such marked pieces. Est. $800-1260 HWAC# the clasp. Est. $1500-3000 HWAC# 102841 49148 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 67

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining / Artifacts Lot# 1575 Rocklin, California Big Lot# 1583 Miner Candle Gun Quarry Shadow Box Impressive Holder and Blasting Cap Tin 9” oak and glass shadow box displaying candle holder, has been cleaned. Rocklin Big Gun Quarry artifacts including 4 metal bits and chisels, Red tin with lid rust. Est. $100- 3 big chain links, Rocklin White and Sierra Gray granite specimens. 150 HWAC# 102640 32x22” Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 91516 Lot# 1576 California Gold Rush Era Lot# 1584 Miner’s Lamps Iron Doors from Jackson, Cal. Two (3) Guy’s Dropper carbide w/o large iron doors from the Spagnoli reflector, Justrite large 6” carbide, building in Jackson, California in the center of the California Mother Wolf safety lamp with key Est. Lode. These rare original doors will make a perfect addition to any $150-200 HWAC# 102643 western museum, public facility or private display. They measure 20” wide x 92” long and 22.25” x 92”. Green with black trim, strong iron “latch”. Est. $1000-2500 HWAC# 103317 Lot# 1577 California SS Central America Gold and Gold Rush Bottle Framed 1gram nuggets from the SSCA, the most famous treasure ship in historyfrom shipofgoldinfo.com #12083 plus a cobalt blue California soda bottle from C & K Soda Works (Casey & Kelley), Sac City (Sacramento) (chip on lower lip), with large bubbles. Beautifully presented in 20 x 24” frame. Est. $220-400 HWAC# 103311 Lot# 1578 Denver, Colorado 1927 Lot# 1585 Bodie, California 1878 Bodie and Esmeralda By Jos. Mine & Smelter Supply Co. Catalog Wasson Original 1878 copy.”An account of the revival of affairs in No. 76 Distributors of Electrical two singularly interesting and important mining districts, including Supplies and Equipment. Blue something of their pasts.” With 2 folding maps. Rare pamphlet about cover. The Electrical Jobbers Catalog the early history of these two California mining districts at the height Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, of their boom. Profitable deposits of gold-bearing ore were discovered Publishers. 560 pages. This catalog in Bodie in 1876, and the population soared. This once small town focuses on electrical, rather than mining supplies. General index bustled with activity, boasting over 60 saloons spread along a one mile located in the middle of the catalog. Stamp from previous owner: “El strip. Details on more than twenty mines, as well as tunnels, railroad Paso Cotton Mills Co./ Received Oct. 31 1927” Measures approx. 7 routes, and other information useful for the prospective investor or 1/2” x 11” Condition: Scattered writing. Some pages have tears. Foxing settler. 60pp. Est. $1200-2000 HWAC# 81412 and wrinkles Est. $70-120 HWAC# 19281 Lot# 1579 Brass Safety Lamps (2) 6” E Thomas & Williams. 6.5” Ferndale Coal and Mining. Both appear to be unfired Est. $100-200 HWAC# 102641 Lot# 1580 Graphite Crucible for Lot# 1586 Bodie, California Bodie, Gold/Silver Large graphite crucible CA Books (5) Bodie and Esmeralda from a mine in the Hawthorne area Account of the Important Revival of (collected by longtime Hawthorne collector). 11” diameter, 14” tall. Mining Interests 1963 reprint 60pp, Heavily used. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 103313 Bodie Bonanza by Loose with detached front cover, Story of Bodie by Cain, rare Lot# 1581 Graphite Precious Metal Bodie 1859-1900 by Wedertz 212pp with Crucibles Two large graphite crucibles index, Guide to Bodie by Williams with collected in the Hawthorne area. 12.5” autograph Est. $120-150 HWAC# 90990 diameter, 16” tall and 9” tall 6.5” diameter. Est. $240-300 HWAC# 103314 Lot# 1587 California California Gold Rush Volumes Two choice showy California gold Lot# 1582 Large Graphite Gold/ rush works with colorful covers. “Gold” by Silver Crucible Large graphite crucible Stweart Edward White, 1913, Doubleday. with cap found somewhere near Fallon. 438pp plus 38pp bio of White in the back. 11” diameter, 15” high. Used at an unknown western Nevada mine. Beautigul cover, illustratedexcellent condition, Est. $150-300 HWAC# 103312 no apparent problems. Fiction. The second volume is The Gold Hunters of California by For more mining lamps see Lots 4240 & 4241 Thomas Edwin Farish, Donohugh & Co., 1904. 246pp, illustrated. Wear to extremities, slight soiling of covers. Est. $160-240 HWAC# 103306 68 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining / Silver/Flatware Lot# 1588 California El Dorado - Lot# 1593 Salt Lake, Utah Salt Lake Adventures in the Path of Empire Mining Review Run Nine volume run - Taylor, 1850 Bayard Taylor’s epic of this important mining reference work in second edition, two volumes, work. Each volume indexed in the very well illustrated. Inscribed in front. Volumes 23 (1921-2), 25, 26, 32, frontspiece “E. Whitney”. Edge wear, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38 (1936). Hard bound, foxing throughout, but rare. Taylor’s indexed in the front, X-Mechanics work on the early mining regions is so Institute (book plate in front). Generally well known that it has been reprinted fine. Approximately one cubic foot. about a dozen times. But finding a first This reference contains tidbits on the or second edition is really tough, and major and minor mining camps of Nevada, Utah and the West. Rarely here is one! Est. $500-800 HWAC# referenced by authors. Est. $800-2000 HWAC# 81147 103308 Lot# 1594 New Brunswick, Canada Albert Coal Mining Co. 1851 Report Lot# 1589 California Three Years (Pumpelly’s Copy) with Map 48 in California - Borthwick, 1857 pages w/ large map (25” x 19”) of Extremely rare volume on the claims. Personal copy of famous California Gold Rush, 384pp, vg=, geologist Raphael Pumpelly (based on minor wear along all edges.Original red handwriting comparison with other cloth, but expert rebacking. Zamorano signed copy). “Report on the Albert Coal 80. Borthwick moved from New York Mine, Containing an Account of the Situation and Geological Relations (an Irishman) to California in 1851. It of the Rocks, including and accompanying the coal; with Lithographic has all the classic stories about Indians, Drawings of the fossil fishes and plants found in the mine, together bear dancing, table gambling, saloons, and of course mining in many with descriptions of the specimens, chemical researches on the coal, of the mining camps of the Mother Lode. Extremely well illustrated and tables of comparison with different varieties of asphaltum. By with detailed drawings of mining works and daily adventures. a fun Charles T. Jackson.” The lithographs of the fossil fishes and plants are and fascinating read. Est. $800-1100 HWAC# 103309 NOT present in this copy and must have been previously removed. There are small cross-section illustrations of the formations. Printed Lot# 1590 California Three Years in by George F. Nesbitt & Co., New York, 1851. Disbound. Map is fragile California - Colton, 1850 One of the with separation. Toning to pages and rough edges. 9” x 5.5” Est. $150- many choice books on the California 600 HWAC# 34839 Gold Rush written by a pre-’49er and Lot# 1595 Mexico c1992-1994 published in 1850. Inscribed in front 22 Different Volumes Geological piece “Warren Nix, San Fran.” probably Monographs of Mexico 22 different from the 1850’s. First edition, Barnes & volumes of Geological-Mining Co., New York. Colton was in California Monograph of various Mexican states. for three short years. The book is his Mostly in Spanish. Baja California, diary of daily events, starting with July 27, 1846, just 17 days after the Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Coahuila Union Jack was raised at Monterey and San Francisco. Colton was a de Zargoza, Colima, Durango, Estado Navy man, based at Monterey for some time, until brevetted out to find de Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco(1 each English and his way among the gold seekers. The book is a marvelous read, talking Spanish), Michoacan de Ocampo, Nyaerit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, about major places and personalities. An early map of California San Luis Potosi, Sina loa, Sonora-1 English,1 Spanish, Veracruz de is found opposite page 2, along with many illustrations inside. The Ignacio de la Llave, Zacatecas Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 87420 representations in illustration form of the gold inspections is worth Lot# 1596 1914-1916 Mining the price alone.Wear to spine ends, bottom of covers, some foxing. Est. and Scientific Press 6 Volumes 6 $240-400 HWAC# 103307 hardcovers volumes 108-113. An important source of mining info in the Lot# 1591 Cripple Creek, Colorado day. Est. $500-1200 HWAC# 86644 1892 Alexander, John - Rare Biographical Work Rare biographical Lot# 1597 Virginia City, Nevada Silver work for John Alexander and the Flatware of the Comstock Nine pieces families of Alexander, Wilkinson, Sparr, that came with the M. M. Frederick, and Guthrie. by Wm. G. Alexander of Eaves & Co., and Nye silver flatware Cripple Creek, Colo. The Xl Job Printing from Virginia City. These pieces are Office, Cripple Creek, 1892. Only 600 NOT MARKED. Two pieces are berry copies were made for the family of serving spoons, one with the initials John Alexander and others. Different “A.W.”, a third is a large butter knife, historical perspective. Est. $140-420 HWAC# 40868 and six are “pearl” handled knives. The pearl handled knives are marked “1884 Lot# 1592 New York 1867 The J. Russel & Co. #12”. All may date to the Romance of the Age / The Discovery early 1870’s to 1880’s. Very nice group, please inspect. Est. $450-900 of Gold “The Romance of the Age / The HWAC# 49154 Discovery of Gold / California / Dunbar. Book by Edward E. Dunbar. Published by D. Appleton and Company, 1867. 7.25” x 4.5”. 134 pp. Dark red cover embossed title in gold. Very good condition. Nice Illustrations. Rare. Est. $300-420 HWAC# 55176 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 69

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining / Tools Lot# 1598 New Almaden, California Lot# 1601 Mercury Flasks (3) from New Almaden, California Three quicksilver Hawthorne, (mercury) flasks made of solid iron, heavily rusted from exposure. Two of them are approx 5 inches in diameter, 12 inches from the Nevada Large bottom to the curved top, and 14.5 inches overall length. The taller one is 4 inches in diameter and 14.5 inches tall. One of the 12-inch Bellows from flasks has “N ALMADEN” cast into the top. This most likely refers to the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine in Santa Clara County, California Mining Assay -- the oldest and, at one time, the most productive quicksilver mine in the United States. The mine is named for the Almaden Quicksilver Furnace This Mine in Spain. The New Almaden Quicksilver Mine began operations almost coincidentally with the onset of the California Gold Rush. large wooden and New Almaden was able to supply copious quantities of mercury that leather bellows many of the processing mills used to amalgamate gold and separate came from one it from crushed ore. The standard measure of commercial mercury sales is the “flask” which is defined to hold 76 pounds of the liquid of more than metal. All three flasks are empty and the one marked “N ALMADEN” 300 abandoned has a reddish, rust-like material around the mouth of the flask that mining operations could be the mineral cinnabar -- a mercury sulfide. This might be the result of a common treatment for spilled mercury which involves in the vicinity of tossing elemental sulfur powder on the spill. Sulfur reacts with the Hawthorne, Mineral County, Nevada. It is approx 39 inches from the mercury to reduce potentially toxic vapors from forming, and some of exhaust to the opposite end, 30 inches across between the two iron the sulfur may have reacted to form HgS which deposited around the support pegs, and about 9 inches thick when closed. The leather is flask opening. New Almaden operated from 1847 to 1976 when it was present but brittle and split. Bellows like this were built with two purchased by Santa Clara County to create the Almaden Quicksilver chambers, one on each side of a central baffle, so that the bellows County Park. The property was remediated after being declared a could blow air with each up and down motion. This one was likely Superfund site, and the county now operates the Casa Grande Almaden used beside the small furnace where mining samples were prepared Quicksilver Mining Museum in one of the large houses originally built for assaying. See photos for additional design details. Est. $300-500 by the mine. These three flasks are significant historical artifacts of the mining history of the West. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 130132 HWAC# 103121 Lot# 1599 New Almaden, California Lot# 1602 Utah Steam Gauge from Quicksilver Flasks (2), New an Old Utah Mine This is a 10.5-inch Almaden, California Two quicksilver diameter brass steam pressure gauge (mercury) flasks made of solid iron, heavily rusted from exposure, from an underground mine in Utah, approx 5 inches in diameter, 12 inches from the bottom to the curved possible the Mammoth Mine. Made top, and 14.5 inches overall length. One of them has “N ALMADEN” cast by Federal. Cover glass is broken and into the top. This most likely refers to the New Almaden Quicksilver interior dial is rusted. Brass rim is in good Mine in Santa Clara County, California -- the oldest and, at one time, condition and the iron frame is still intact the most productive quicksilver mine in the United States. The mine is with minimal rust appearing through the named for the Almaden Quicksilver Mine in Spain. The New Almaden glossy black paint. A brass valve remains Quicksilver Mine began operations almost coincidentally with the attached to the steam inlet at the bottom, onset of the California Gold Rush. New Almaden was able to supply and the indicator is still in place. This copious quantities of mercury that many of the processing mills used could put an impressive style in your to amalgamate gold and separate it from crushed ore. The standard steam punk collection display. Est. $100- measure of commercial mercury sales is the “flask” which is defined 200 HWAC# 103130 to hold 76 pounds of the liquid metal. Both flasks are empty. New Almaden operated from 1847 to 1976 when it was purchased by Santa Lot# 1603 c1860 Ingot Mold Cast iron Clara County to create the Almaden Quicksilver County Park. The 4 section ingot mold. Silver painted? property was remediated after being declared a Superfund site, and 10” long Est. $200-400 HWAC# 101780 the county now operates the Casa Grande Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum in one of the large houses originally built by the mine. These Lot# 1604 Lead Pot and 2 Ladles Cast two flasks are significant historical artifacts of the mining history of iron lead melting pot, 8x4” plus handle the West. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 130131 and 12 and 15” ladles. Pot has interior residue. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 102390 Lot# 1600 California Miners’ Improved Gold Scale Miners’ Improved Gold Scale with “Manufactured expressly for California.” printed right on the lid of the hinged, green metal box approx 5.625 x 3.125 x 1 inches. Brass equal-arm balance has a beam approx 5.5 inches long with pans approx 2.625 inches in diameter that hang on brass chains approx 5 inches below the beam. The full set of weights include 3- and 5-grain thin brass squares, 1, 2, 5, and 10 dwt round brass disks, and 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 Troy ounce cylindrical weights. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 103305 70 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1605 Dawoon, Alaska 1898 Lot# 1608 Holcomb Bay, Alaska 1894 Joseph Ladue Gold Mining and Troy Mining and Development Development Co. Stock Number 443 Company Stocks Numbers 40, 41 and for 10 shares to Oscar Washburne in 42. For 160, 200 and 500 shares (hand 1898. Incorporated in New Jersey. written) of 10,000 shares total to M Business conducted in Jersey City. Greenberg. Signed by secretary Otto Signed by vice president (?) and Ryst and president Ernest H Ludwig. secretary (?) Vignette of a state capital. Dateline 1897. Incorporated July 8, 1895 (handwritten). Printer Wrinkles and tears at fold edges (up to Paydt, Epham & Co. of San Francisco. Not cancelled. One cert is in 13 mm). Black with brown underprint. two pieces. All have corner and edge issues. Reverse has handwritten Ladue was a prospector, businessman and founder of Dawson City, confirmation of two assessments paid. Original incorporators: Max Yukon, Canada. He found employment mining in Deadwood, South Greenberg, Emil Hirschfield and Emil Stezner of Alameda; WF Miels Dakota, beginning as a general labourer and working his way up to of Holcomb Bay, Alaska; and Otto Ryst of San Francisco. Mines located engineer, foreman and superintendent. In August 1896, a few days in Holcomb Bay, Alaska per San Francisco Call of November 30, 1898. after the discovery of gold in the Klondike, he staked a claim to either It is at the entrance to Endcott Arm. Looking a photographs today - 160[1] or 178[2] acres (65-72 hectares) of boggy flats at the mouth it looks far more suited to glaciers than mines. Letter accompanying of the Klondike River as a townsite. In January 1897, he named the the stock from the State Department of California says the company new town Dawson after Canadian geologist George Mercer Dawson. was incorporated in 1895 and was forfeited in 1905 for not paying By July, about 5000 people lived there. Ladue could sell town lots for taxes. The California newspapers speak of multiple assessments, as much as $5000. He relocated his saw mill to Dawson where it ran but no production! Includes a 1930 letter fromt eh Calironia State continuously night and day in response to the extreme demand. He Department confirming that the company lost its charter in 1905 for a also set up a store and the first saloon in town. In addition, he acquired failure to pay taxes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91964 a number of rich gold claims. All this enabled Ladue to leave the north a rich man that year. [wikipedia] The Joseph Ladue company was Lot# 1609 Juneau, also noted for the ‘Morgan City’ which made her initial departure for Alaska c1910-1920 Copper River from San Francisco. There is was advertised that the Joseph Ladue company, “...owning and operating the Ladue-Yukon Alaska-Gastineau Transportation Co., sole owners of the magnificent triple-expansion, highly powered, electric lighted, steam heated, fast sailing steamship Mining Co. Morgan City.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 103554 Ephemera This is a Lot# 1606 Douglas Island, Alaska 1895 Alaska United Gold Mining Company collection of items Blue Stock group of 25 All blue related to the Alaska- stocks. All hole punch cancelled. With Gastineau Mining and without English revenue stamps. Co., which operated Vignette at bottom of four prospectors a gold mining and above ground with mule and jagged peaks of mountains in background. The milling operation Alaska United GMC held property on on the outskirts of Douglas Island, becoming the Alaska Juneau, Alaska, from Juneau MC following its merger with 1911 to 1934. The the Treadwell GMC in 1928. Condition varies. Ken Prag Collection Est. collection includes several stacks of Receiving Reports dated between $250-350 HWAC# 101437 1919 and 1920, eight wood-framed signs from different levels in the underground gold mine, two metal hoist signs, a square wooden level Lot# 1607 Douglas Island, Alaska 1895 sign, and five, hand-carved, wooden hoist level markers. Small-scale Alaska United Gold Mining Company gold mining began east of Juneau in Alaska’s Silver Bow Basin with the Blue Stock group of five All blue acquisition of the Perseverance claims by Joseph Gilbert around 1900. stocks. All hole punch cancelled. All With the help of Col. W. J. Sutherland, they began mill operations in with English revenue stamps. Vignette 1907. In a 1910 reorganization, the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Company at bottom of four prospectors above was created, and the new company incorporated in New York by ground with mule and jagged peaks of 1911. The next year, the Alaska Gold Mines Company was organized mountains in background. The Alaska as a holding company to finance expanded mining and milling which United GMC held property on Douglas began in July of 1912. October 31, 1913, saw the groundbreaking for a Island, becoming the Alaska Juneau MC large, new mill that began operations in February of 1915, even while following its merger with the Treadwell GMC in 1928. Condition of all it was still under construction. Construction of the mill was supervised five is quite nice! Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 101439 by Daniel C. Jackling, the original company’s managing director who had previously developed the large-scale open-pit copper mining at Bingham Canyon, Utah. By November, the Alaska-Gastineau mill was in full operation and processing 6,000 tons of ore per day and was regarded as one of the modern and efficient facility of its kind. Six thousand horsepower of electricity for the mine and mill were supplied by the construction of a concrete arch dam, built in 1914 across Salmon Creek, as the world’s first constant-angle arch, variable- radius dam. The Company operated before World War I as the largest gold-mining operation in the world. The mine and mill employed around 900 people, but the Great War sapped the mining operations of manpower, and post-war inflation, coupled with gold prices fixed at just over $20, made the mine unprofitable. The entire operation closed in 1921, and the facilities were scrapped and salvaged. Today a private company offers tours of the mill site and a portion of an underground tunnel, teaching the history of this once-great gold mining operation. Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 103122 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 71

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1610 Juneau, Alaska 1900 Last Lot# 1613 Nome, Alaska c1910 Chance Gold Mining Co. of Alaska Consolidated Alaskan and Nome, Stock $ 789 for 100 shares. 1900. Sinook Company Stocks and Two Issued to George Higbie. Signed by RPC’s Lot of five. 1) Consolidated Henry Kile and William Reeker. Not Alaskan Company. #7066 for 60 shares cancelled. Red-brown border. Miners to TJ Cooke. Signed by president Radcliff working with sluice vignette. Small fold and secretary (?). Dateline Chicago tears at edges. One pin hole. Very nice! 1903. Black on light green safety Gold Seal. Incorporated in New Jersey. paper. Brown border and scroll work. . Goes style certificate. Incorporated “The Consolidated Alaskan Company New Jersey. SO Oliver was manager. The principal property is situated was a reorganization of the Alaskan Bonanza Mining, Trading & one half mile from Juneau and consists of a basin of gravel 9 feet deep Transportation Company. The authorized capital was $2,600,000, par where the tunnel taps it. It comprises about 130 acres. The average value of shares $1. The company held 200 claims, of 20 acres each, value of the gravel where the tunnel breaks through is claimed to be on the Seward Peninsular, Alaska. The stock was sold to raise money $1 per cubic yard. The company also owns the Lurvy basin of nine to complete a system of ditches on the property, and when the offer acres with an average depth of 50 feet. At the head of Gold Creek the was completed they planned to sell water to other parties for dredging company also owns 30 acres of quartz property adjoining the Lurvy purposes.” [scriphily.com] 2-3) Two unissued Nome and Sinook basin. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 103558 stocks. #’s 153 and 154. Consecutive numbers of two pristine stocks. Would look nice together and framed. Vignette of miners flanking Lot# 1611 Keniai Peninsula, Alaska 1906 sluice box. Two side mining vignettes. The only information we found Turnagain Arm Gold Mining Company Bond on this company was a lawsuit vs. William Snyder in 1911. 4) Unused Mines probably located in the Hope-Sunrise Birch Creek Hydraulic Plant RPC postcard. Atlin, British Columbia. area on the Turnagain Arm side of the Kenai 5) Unused glossy RPC of Mammoth GOld Dredge on tghe Klonkie at Peninsula, where gold was discovered in 1895. Dawson City, Yukon. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 102310 This area is not far from the very first discovery of gold in Alaska by the Russians in 1849. Hard- Lot# 1614 Nome, Alaska 1909 Gold to-find Alaska mining bond. Six percent, 10 year Dredge Mining Company Stock bond. # 3215, signed by president Lee. 14.75” x Includes a fabulous ocean going 9.25”. Coupons 2-10 still attached. Extremely nice dredging scene just off of the coast condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 with a few buildings pictorial vignette! HWAC# 101453 # 153 for 2300 shares to FF Evans. Signed by SE Futty and president H Lot# 1612 Netherton, Alaska 1898 Blackwell. Dateline Seattle 1909. Not Arctic Mining & Development cancelled. What a marvelous, creative, Company Stock # 383 for 200 shares and innovative dredge. Using a large to Adolph Heller. Signed by president barge a caisson weighing five town was lowered by steam power WF Simmons and Robert S Disney. through a rectangular section in the barge. Once down to sand level Dateline 1898. Incorporated 1897. the water would be forced out and a worker could then work the sand Eagle vignette. Black and brown on to bedrock by hand. It was tried off of the Nome beaches and at the white. Very fine (some staining top). In mouth of Daniels Creek at Topkok, but the lack of any ongoing mention 1897 Dr. Ernest Rowe and WM Scott, of this contraption would indicate that this became yet another mining expert, went to Alaska for this addition to the scrap heap along the Bering Sea. [The Northern Gold company to scout a new mining field. It was previously unknown and Fleet: Twentieth-century Gold Dredging in Alaska by Spence] Ken Prag they are sure it will be bigger than the Yukon strike. There is no trading Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 103563 post within 500 miles of where they head. They will create a city and call it Netherton and it is sure to be bigger than Dawson! [Morning Lot# 1615 Nome, Alaska 1902 Twin Astorian, Astoria, Oregon] Scott reported back in 1898, around the Mountain Gold Mining & Milling time our cert was sold, about the richness of the Koyukuk strike. He Company Stock EARLY NUMBER 2! For reports that they took out $30,000 in gold in two weeks. That makes 100 shares to Mrs. FH Martin. Signed this stock quite a buy. But this is also the last we find of this company by president A Melldahl, secretary in newspapers. [newspapers.com] Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-140 Chirstoferson and treasurer S John HWAC# 103555 Johnson. Dateline 1902. Incorporated in 1901. Not cancelled. Horizontal and vertical folds. No edge, corner or discoloration issues. Two pin holes where folds intersect. Milling plant along river flanked by underground miners vignette. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-140 HWAC# 103565 Lot# 1616 Rossland, Alaska 1901 Norway Mountain Gold and Copper Mining Company Limited Stock # 313 for 200 shares to Philip Dindeman. Dateline Rossland, B. C. 1901. Not cancelled. Seven stock mining vignettes. Black on brown safety paper with a blue tile and red note. Vertical folds. One pin hole. Overall extremely nice! British Columbia Company. Printer WH Jones of Rossland, British Columbia. In 1899 the Spokane Daily Chronicle reported that Mr. Griswold, who is in charge of the property, has made a discovery on the Mohican claim of more importance than anything found there before. It is a five-foot ledge of Number 1 quartz assaying at $100 a ton. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-140 HWAC# 101464 72 May 2019

Lot# 1617 Turnagain Arm, Alaska DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining 1904-1907 Three Different Alaska Mining Stocks Three different Lot# 1621 Alaska Alaksan Gold Mines Turnagain Arm Gold Mining Company Co stock Two stock certificates from Alaska pieces. 1) 6% bond. 1906. Number 131 Gold Mines Company. Vignette of eagle with for $10.00. Striking green on white. spread wings. Peter Periconi, collection. 1) Excellent condition Coupons 2 through Ten shares of Alaska Gold Mines Company, 10 still attached. Signed by president number N.Y.O.7687 dated March 14, 1916 JO Lee and Edward Rosing treasurer. issued to Edna S. Campbell, signed by J.J. 2) Black on brown certificate. Gold Sherman, vice-president, countersigned seal. 1907. 10000 shares to MS Meyer. Signed by Charles Curtis and March 14, 1916. 2) One hundred shares president Alexander Johnson. Dateline Chicago 1907. Rips at fold of Alaska Gold Mines Company, number edges. Otherwise nice. Seven small mining vignettes. 3) Black on green N.Y.15347 dated February 23, 1921. Printed safety paper certificate. Green border. Gold seal. Dateline Minneapolis Republic Bank Note Co. Est. $100-200 1904. Eage vignette. # 1739 for 10,000 shares to CC Hammond. HWAC# 82361 Signed by Lee A Owen(?) and Joseph Luichano(?). Small rips at fold edges, otherwise extremely nice. Turnagain Arm is a waterway into Lot# 1622 Alaska Alaskan Bonanza the northwestern part of the Gulf of Alaska. It is one of two narrow Mining, Trading & Transportation branches at the north end of Cook Inlet, the other being Knik Arm. Co $5 Profit-sharing Development Turnagain is subject to climate extremes and large tide ranges. Bonds of Alaskan Bonanza Mining, [wikipedia] This area is not far from the very first discovery of gold in Trading and Transportation Company, Alaska by the Russians in 1849. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-300 number 21909 issued to Lervis HWAC# 103567 Russell, incorporated in Illinois, dated September 13, 1897. Peter Periconi Lot# 1618 Yukon, Alaska 1902 Gold collection. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 82357 Run Placer Mining Company Stock This is a beautiful certificate. Black on Lot# 1623 Alaska Bonanza Creek gray safety paper. Center underpring Gold Mining Co Bonanza Creek gold “shares / $100 / each” Rays Gold Mining Company Limited. Rare. emanating from the undeprint. Actual Bonanza Creek is a water way in the gold seal. Green border, # 899 for Yukon Territory in Canada. It runs 25 shares to NS Birkland. Signed by approximately 20 miles from King Frederick C Clark and president J Solomon’s Dome to the Klondike River. Martin(?). Dateline Columbus, Ohio At the end of the 1900’s and into the 1902. Not cancelled. printer Stephens Litho of St. Louis. Incorporated 2000 the Bonanza Creek was the center in Washington. A letter to the magazine believes the company of the Klondike Gold Rush. Vignettes with eagle on top of a globe on succeeds the Rob Roy Mining Company and comprises some 500 North America. 1) One Hundred shares of Bonanza Creek Gold Mining acres of producing territory near Yukon. The magazine could find no Company, Ltd incorporated under the laws of Ontario, Dominion information on the Gold Run Placer Mining Company. [United States of Canada, number 1494 dated January 14, 1908 issued to Gaylord Investor, 1902] The company was licensed March 24, 1902. Agent is Wilshire. Registered January 14, 1908. 2) $500 bond number 405 William T Lory of Dawson. [Report of the Secretary of State, Canada, with coupons. Printed: American Bank Note Go. New York. Litho. for the year ending March 31, 1916] Ken Prag Collection Est. $80- Peter Periconi collection. Est. $250-300 HWAC# 82362 120 HWAC# 103564 Lot# 1624 Alaska 1929-1947 Pacific Lot# 1619 Yukon, Alaska 1903 Klondyke American Fisheries, Inc. Stocks Lot Consolidated Gold Fields stock In English of six. Three green and three blue. and French. Share Warrant to Bearer. Has All with the fabulous port vignettes. an English revenue stamp. # 2008 for Printed by Security Banknote Company. 5 shares.Issued in 1902. Licensed June Incorporated in 1928 in Delaware. All 11, 1902. Manger in the Yukon Territory hole cancelled. condition varies. Ken was William T. Laoy at Dawson. Coupons Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 1 through 20 still attached. Overall nice 101443 condition. Not cancelled. Fancy scroll work and underprint ‘Klondyke Consolidated Lot# 1625 Alaska Reynolds-Alaska Gold Fields.’ Ken Prag Collection Est. $80- Development Company One hundred 150 HWAC# 103557 shares of founders capital stock of Reynolds-Alaska Development Lot# 1620 Yukon, Alaska 1905 Two Golden Company, number A2578 issued to Alaska Mining Stocks 1) Ophir Creek Hydraulic W. Blair Stewart. Incorporated under Mining Company with Large gold seal over a laws of Washington. Vignette of lady piece of purple ribbon. # 63 for 200 shares with American flag and others. Mine to Cora Baker. Signed by Getz and president was developed in the early 1900s in (?). Dateline 1905. Incorporated 1904. Not the Copper River districtNow inactive. cancelled. Three standard mining vignettes. The Printed: Albert B. King & Co. N. Y. Peter Periconi collection. Est. $100- area was the site of a gold rush in 1906. Ophir 150 HWAC# 82358 reached a peak population of 122 in 1910. Ophir is now abandoned, but serves as a checkpoint in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. [wikipedia]. 2) Klondike-Yukon Mining and Development Company with gold print. Clearly marked printer’s sample. Seven mining vignettes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 101450 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 73

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1626 Alaska 1917-1921 Three Alaska Mining Lot# 1631 Amole Mining District, Stocks with Great names 1) Northern Light Mining Pima County, Arizona 1884 Buena Company. # 543 for 28 shares to August Hinz. Signed Vista Mining Company of Arizona by president Bennett. Incorporated 1899. Dateline Stock Certificate 1884. Amole District, 1921. Location of works was at Golovin Bay, Norton Number 35 for 500 shares to HH Sound, Cape Nome. 2) Granite Gold Mining Company. Person. Signed by Daniel Buck and # 1272 for 100 shares to Harvey Willis & Co. Signed Thomas Caswell(?). One vertical fold. by president Hansan(?). Head office was at Valdez. Slight discoloration along the bottom border of the fold. Excellent Incorporporated 1913. 1917 dateline. 3) Lucky Jim condition. The Amole District was an unorganized Pima County Lead and Zinc Company. # 978 for 1000 shares to mining district. The Amole Mining District had small deposits of low MW Lee. Dateline 1925. Signed by president Carson. grade ore although the only profit made there was from the sale of Office at Zincton, British Columbia. Generally in good claims and not from mining.1 Minerals sought in the district included to nice condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-150 copper, lead, silver, and molybdenum. This company was patented in 1880 when the Southern Pacific Railroad arrived in Tucson. This (and HWAC# 101446 other mines) were hoping to take advantage of the increased metal prices and the cheaper transportation to a closer train stop. (Laguna Lot# 1627 Alaska 1913-1917 Three Alaska River Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 59683 Dredging Stocks 1) Nome RIver Gold Dredging Company. # 150 for 12 1/2 shares to Dr. Sample. Lot# 1632 Bisbee, Arizona 1905, 1911 Dateline 1915. Signed by president Schuick and Two Bisbee Stocks 1) Bisbee Quincy White. Black on green safety paper. Gold Seal. Nicks Copper Mining Company. Beautiful looking at fold edges. 2) Forty-mile Dredge and Hydraulic stock certificate: brown, green and black. Company. Hydraulic vignettes. Tears at fold edges. Brown underprint “Shares $1.00 each.’ # One bent corner. 3) Lightning Creek Gold Gravels 75 for 100 shares to George Schweiger. and Drainage Company. Located in British Columbia. Signed by president Frank Leabest(?) 1913. # 368 for 20 shares sto HS Woodman. Signed by and secretary Barkley. large size 12.5 president Carpenter. Has a heavy fold. Works situated x 9”. Organized in 1903. Dead by 1908. at Wingdam. Overall this lot is in very nice condition. Nicks at fold edges. 2) Bisbee Extension Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 101445 Mining Company. # 284 for 150 shares to Ella Richardson. Signed by Moody and Lot# 1628 Alaska Two certificates president Joslyn. Hole where seal was of Alaskan stock Two Alaskan stock applied. No edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration issues. Neither are certificates: 1) Two thousand shares of in Garbani. Don’t forget to check out the Bargains and Dealer Lots Alaska Windham Gold Mining Company section from great deals on Arizona stocks. Ken Prag Collection Est. under the laws of the Territory of Alaska, $100-200 HWAC# 91656 number 108, dated January 5, 1935 issued to E. F. O’Flynn. The company’s filing status Lot# 1633 Fort Yuma, Arizona 1886 is listed as involuntarily dissolved 2) Fifty Arizona Copper Mining Co. Stock shares of Alaska Mexican Gold Mining Certificate Inc. in Illinois. Number Company, number 8028, dated December 1, 90, issued for 500 shares to company 1908. Filed for incorporation on November president DC Kling on Feb. 12th, 1886. 17, 1891. Company’s filing status is listed Signed by secretary CA Schnake and as Involuntarily dissolved. Peter Periconi DC Kling. Three mining vignettes and collection. Est. $100-120 HWAC# 82359 fancy scroll work on left. Horizontal and vertical folds. 6.5 x 10” Printed by Lot# 1629 Alaska 1906-1920 Variety of Alaska C. Hamilton & Co., St. Louis. “Arizona Copper Mining Company; the Stocks Lot of three. Overall - no edge, corner, pin bad administration and the difficulties of transportation have been hole or discoloration issues for all three! One has the main causes why this mine, so rich, and which created so much deep folds. 1) California-Nevada Copper Company. excitement in California two or three years ago, has not given any # C1445. they had property in Madera County, good results. Its oxides and copper sulphurets are excessively rich, California and Alaska. Dateline 1909. Incorporated the extraction exceedingly easy, and the veins are numerous. Works at 1906. [Mines Directory] 2) McKinley Gold Placers, this present moment are suspended. This mine is situated 120 miles Inc. # T63. 1920. To Hussey and signed by vice southeast from Fort Yuma. It was opened in 1855, and the company president Hay. 3) Enterprise Mining Company. # was incorporated in San Francisco.” [“History of Arizona, Volume 2, 399. Dateline 1905. Underground mining vignette. 1915” by Farish, 1915] Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 101451 100897 Lot# 1630 Ajo Mining District, Arizona 1916-1921 New Cornelia Copper Company Stock Group Lot of four. All have been punch cancelled (stars, hearts, B’s). Includes a 1920 purple and 1921 green. Both have a picture vignette of ore cars being loaded. One of the best vignettes of it era. The 1916 and 1917 version: one in black blue. THis company held claims covering the main part of the Ajo porphyry copper deposits. In 1910 the company reported 25,000,000 tons of ore in site. By 1918 this was an open pit operation with 1.53% copper and over 53,000,000 tons of ore in site. [Copper Handbook, 1910, 1912, and 1918] Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-120 HWAC# 91713 74 May 2019

Lot# 1634 Gila County, Arizona 1881 DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Howard Mining Company Stock Certificate Location of Mines: County Lot# 1638 Globe, Arizona 1907-1928 of Gila, Territory of Arizona (printed Globe Mining Stock Group Lot of five. on either side of vignette). No. 108, 1) Globe Mining & Investment #317 issued for 2,000 shares to Dan. P. Eills, for 1000 shares to OS Potter. 1904. company president, on Nov. 22nd, Signed by president EW Ervin. Fancy 1881. Signed by Eills and the secretary. octagonal goldish tan seal. 2) Superior Pen cancelled. Black border and print. and Globe Copper #5382 for 50 shares Vignette of two miners. Printed by Collins & Sesnon, NY. Pinholes, folds, to Carl B Knapp. 1907. Signed by president John Daniel. 3) Globe large old tape repair on the reverse. 7 x 11” The Howard vein was at Mines Exploration #175 for 10 shares to CS Hackman. 1911. Signed Pioneer, Gila County. Three companies were working the Pioneer and by CS Jackman. 4) Inspiration Central MIning #851 for 1000 shares to Howard lodes, incl. the Howard MC, Pioneer MC, and South Pioneer Larsen. 1919. Signed by president Festes. 5) Arizona Globe #13,430 MC, all under the same management. This property was taken over by for 66 shares to EA Pierce & Co. 1928. Overall nice. Ken Prag Collection the White Metal MC. The Howard Mining Company is also reported to Est. $100-150 HWAC# 91709 have worked the Great Republic Lode in the Tucson District [E&MJ Vol. 37]. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 100904 Lot# 1639 Globe, Arizona 1907-1971 Globe Mining Stock Group Lot of five. Lot# 1635 Gila County, Arizona 1) Old Dominion #48 for 65 shares to 1882 Old Dominion Copper Mining Jno. A Ely. 907. Signed by president Company Stock Certificate Location (?). 2) Inspiration Mining - stamped of Mines: Gila County, Arizona (printed Majestic Copper Company. #3170 at bottom center). No. C81, issued for 1000 shares to James Pollock & for 10 shares to Mary J. Ringwall on Co. 1909. Signed by president Hosier. 3) Globe Consolidated #82 for Oct. 19th, 1882 in New York. Signed 250 shares to Margaret C Sutton. 1912. Signed by vice president and by vice-president Hamilton and the secretary Craig. 4) Globe Dominion Copper #5963 for 100 shares secretary. Not cancelled. Green border to Luke, Banks & Weeks. 1918. Signed by vice president Jenks. 5) and background, black print. Vignette of miners using drill. Printed Newer Inspiration Consolidated Copper. # D 68,142. 1971. Ken Prag by ABN. Pinholes, folds, clean. 7 x 10.75” In 1878 copper was first Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 91710 discovered in the Globe District at Bloody Tanks. In 1882 that venture failed, but with plenty of money still in the bank they bought the Old Lot# 1640 Globe, Arizona c1930 New Globe Copper Mine. And the rest, as they say, was history. For the next Dominion Copper Company Stocks 50 years the Old Dominion was the barometer of Globe’s economy and Three different: red, orange and well-being. This certificate was sold when the Old Dominion was still green. Yellow has minor aging, green struggling. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 101481 is unissued and the brilliant red has pin holes. OVerall very nice. Three Lot# 1636 Globe, Arizona 1879 different secretaries; one president. Arizona Consolidated Gold & Silver Numbers N12,898; D3161 and B2605. Mining Company Stock # 62 for 25 Adjoins the Old Dominion mine on the shares to DB Smith. Signed by Calkins north, Iron Cap on the south and Big Johnnie on the east. Located in Big and president LW Sapp. Dateline Johnnie Goldch about 1.5 miles north of Globe. Early mining happened Cleveland 1879. Location Globe in the 1870’s and 80’s. In 1923 a shaft of 1,200’. Ken Prag Collection District, Arizona Ter. Quartz mining Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91707 vignette. WJ Morgan & Co. Engravers, Cleveland. Not cancelled. Dog ear bottom right and pencil notes top Lot# 1641 Globe, Arizona 1907- right. Excellent condition. Very Rare. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- 1923 Superior and Boston Copper 500 HWAC# 81647 Company Stocks Lot of three different. 1) #532. Signed by president Lot# 1637 Globe, Arizona 1900-1917 Chenoweth and secretary Price(?). Globe Mining Stock Group Lot of four. Green safety paper. Not cancelled. 1) Eureka Copper. # 201 for 500 shares 2) Blue. # 3033. 1909. William Rice to Thomas Young. 1900. Signed by J president. 3) Orange. #A13267. 1923. Warren Young and president Bartell. Drummond president. Overall excellent Two documentary stamps on back. 2) condition. Some small border rips on earliest and pin holes on latest. Superior and Globe Copper. Calumet, “A former surface and underground Cu-Ag-Au-Mn mine located in Michigan. # 7925 for 10 shares to about ½ mile NNE of the Buckeye Mountain, about 1 mile E of the Herman Oppel. 1911. Signed by Copper Hill ghost town, on the Great Eastern claim, which includes Charles Chynoweth and president (?). the continuation of the Great Eastern vein east of the Eureka and 3) Southwest Inspiration Copper. # 115 for 7500 shares to Putmon. Black Hawk Mines of the Arizona Commercial Mining Co., on. The Signed by secretary and president (?). 1917 4) Miami Consolidated location is for the Superior and Boston shaft; the Black Oxide adit is Mines #4597 for 100 shares to FA Donou. 1916. Signed by president located about ½ mile S of the Superior and Boston shaft. This is one JH Thomson and secretary Weeks. Overall no edge, corner or of a large group of claims originally owned by the Globe and Arizona discoloration issues. Some pin holes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- Development Co. Very little work was done on the claims before 1906, 150 HWAC# 91708 when the property was taken over by the Superior and Boston Copper Co. Development was begun in 1907. Closed in 1910 but reopened in March 1913. This firm ran the mine until 1929.” [mindat.org] Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 91706 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 75

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1646 Jerome, Arizona 1907- 1918 Jerome, Arizona Mining Stock Lot# 1642 Heintzelman, Arizona 1910 Group Lot of four. 1) Verde Grande Cerro Colorado Mines Company Copper. #4086. 1907. Brown safety Stock (Not to be confused with the paper with three vignettes. 2) Verde earlier and more common Cerro Combination Copper Company. # Colorado Mining and Milling Company. 17728. 1918. Miner and mules taking This is the re-incorporation.) # 120 a break vignette. 3) West United Verde for 2 shares to JH Caldwell. Signed by Copper. #T171. 1918 Eagle vignette. Charles Udall and president Whitney. 4) West United Verde Copper. # A34. Dateline 1910. Not Cancelled. Eagle 1917. Underground air drill vignette. Fair to very nice condition. Ken vignette. Nicks at borders. Heavy Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 91712 folds. “The properties owned by the Cerro Gordo Mines Co. have been celebrated as producers for a long time. In the early history of Lot# 1647 Mohave County, Arizona western mining hundreds of thousands of dollars were taken out of 1900 Grand Gulch Mining Company the upper workings. Later the operators ran into a leached zone the Stock Certificate Rare. Mines located mine became unproductive and for a time was not operated....The in Mohave County, Arizona (printed Management is found to be conservative and energetic A proof of fair upper left). Inc. in Utah, 1874. No. 26, dealing and proper intentions is presented by their offer to sell stock issued for 100 shares to Isaac Jennings on subscriptions the subscription payable only when enough has been on Jan. 11th, 1900. Signed by president pledged to guarantee that the shaft can be sunk to water level and on Thomas Jennings and secretary such a basis it would seem very proper to take a chance in the Cerro Jennings. Not cancelled. Black border Colorado subscriptions at fifty cent’s a share.” [Moody’s Management, and print. Two mining vignettes. 1910 - response to inquiry] Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 Printed by Utah Litho Co., SLC. Pinholes, folds, some toning. 8 x 11” HWAC# 91688 Property was located on Shiwits Plateau, Bently Mining District, Mohave County. Discovered in 1871. Developed until 1884, then went Lot# 1643 Jerome, Arizona 1902- idle until 1899. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100911 1919 Five Jerome Stocks 1) Verde Apex Copper. 1902. Star hole cancelled. Lot# 1648 Mohave, Cedar Mining Signed by John McBride president. District, Arizona 1902-1911 Four Issued to Mrs. Isabella Chase. 2) Venture Mohave Mining Company Stock Hill Mining of Jerome. # 1424 for 2000 Certificates 1) Yucca Cyanide Mining shares to Charles Asp. Signed by George & Milling. 1904. Number 1228 for 1000 Avery vice president. 3) Verde River Copper # 146 for 50 shares to JR shares to Theodore Chester. Signed by Kyle. Signed by president Lee (?). 4) Arizona-Jerome Copper # 184 for CD Pickering and NT Lewis(?). Gold 500 shares to HJ Cashman. Signed by president JH Tribby(?). 5) Verde Star Mining Company. 1902. Number Combination Copper # 14224. Miner and mules taking a break. Signed 135 for 4000 shares issued to John by president Dyer. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 91704 N Bensen. Signed by Peter Brick and SC Robinson. 3) Yucca Mining Company. 1911. Number 271 for 500 Lot# 1644 Jerome, Arizona 1908-1920 shares to Edward E Truck. Signed by JH Coleman and (?). 4) Arizona Jerome Copper Stock Group Lot of Southwest Copper Company. 1907. Number 120 for 1000 shares to four. 1) Verde Grande Copper. #8331 Daisy Hoffman. Signed by JH Hoffman and George L Hibbs. These are for 14 shares to Dr. John F Rose. Signed all in extremely nice condition. In 1907 the Cedar Valley Gold & Silver by Kinley as president. 1908. 2) Arizpe Company along with the Yucca Cyanide Mining & Milling Company Gold and Copper. NUMBER 10 for reported that about 200 people lived in the town, within a decade later 10,000 shares to WM Adamson. Signed the site was abandoned. A half mile area inside Cedar Valley is littered by Neslet and president Allen. c19009. with stone ruins and foundations of the mining buildings. [wikipedia] 3) Arizona Jerome Copper. # 70 for (Laguna Collection) Est. $80-150 HWAC# 59583 5000 shares to Frank Goudy. Signed by Gilmore and president JH Tribby(?). 4) Verde Copper Development. Lot# 1649 Mohave, Cedar Valley NUMBER 6 for 10,000 shares to JE Lieper. Signed by Miller as president. Mining District, Arizona 1881 Arnold 1920. OVerall these are in excellent condition. All uncancelled. Ken Gold & Silver Mining Company Prag Collection Est. $100-120 HWAC# 91703 Stock and Receipt This is unusual in several ways. This is stock number Lot# 1645 Jerome, Arizona 1905-1932 147 for 180 shares to Philip L. Horn. Jerome Verde Stock Group Lot of six. Signed by A Isador and Edward P Bates. 1) Black Hills Copper of Jerome. # 85 Britton & Rey lithographers. Unusual for 10,000 shares to JN Vaner. Signed design. ‘ARNOLD’ dominates this small by president RA Thomas. 1905. 2) certificate. Unusual in that the receipt Green Monster Mining. # 11703 for 100 for the stock is included! Incorporated shares to Hayden Stone & Co. Signed by in California with a home base in president Bailey. 1916. 3) Pittsburgh-Jerome Copper. # 4004 for 300 San Francisco. The stock is in nice condition. Fold bottom right, and shares to MA Mann. Signed by vice president. 1916. 4) Jerome Gande some coloring issues. Heavy ink on the top has run. The following are Copper. # 1769 for 400 shares to WP Teegardin. Signed by president excerpts from the James A Pritchard Report on the Arnold in November Wykoff. 1928. 5) Unissued Verde Apex Copper. # 2376. 6) United Verde of 1888. “On the Arnold mine there appears two ledges on the surface, Extension. #45,532 for 100 shares to Elsbeth Israel. 1932. Ken Prag distant from each other about 100 feet....The vein or ore channel Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 91705 extends nearly north and south, it is of great width and remarkable in extent, it being traceable by bold croppings for a distance of six miles....The shaft is 110 feet deep or near 200 feet below the highest croppings of the ledge....The actual bullion produced by Ore crudely treated at the mine was at the average rate of $70.00 per ton.” (Laguna Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 59589 76 May 2019

Lot# 1650 Mojave County, Arizona DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining 1918 Northern Consolidated / Yukon Gold Mining Archive Over 65 pages Lot# 1654 Pima County, Arizona 1890 from May and June 1918 as the mine Silver Bell Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd. transferred from John Creighton of Stock Certificate No. 42, issued for 25 Elko to JF Newsom of San Francisco shares to Alfred Simpson of Clarence to the Yukon Gold Company. Included House, Albington, Berks. on August letters, telegrams, one map, location of 22nd, 1890. Signed by two directors samples, assays, digest of preliminary and the secretary. Not cancelled. Blue date etc. This claim was originally print and ornate design on the left called the Old Klondyke Mines. Situated border. Horizontal and vertical folds, in the Weaver Mining District in Mojave County it had 21 lode claims. creased corner, and two rough edges. A great look at a Mojave mine in 1918! Est. $100-200 HWAC# 102314 7.5 x 10.25” Silver Bell Mining District, Pima County. The Mammoth, Union, Young America (aka Oxide), and other small prospects were Lot# 1651 Pima County, Arizona intermittently worked by a number of short-lived partnerships, 1889 Crocker Mining Company companies and lessees during the 1890s, including the Silver Bell Stock # 3003 for 50 shares to Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# Cullmann & Company trustees. 100901 Signed by Aug. Waterman and WS Lyle president. Dateline San Francisco Lot# 1655 Pima County, Arizona The 1889. Incorporated January 17, 1884. Gunsight Mining Company Stock Location Pima Co. Arizona. Not Cancelled. Eagle Vignette. Printed Certificate, Pima Co., AZ, 1883 by Bosqui. Very nice condition. Pin holes. The east cross cut from Unusual name for a mining company! the south lateral drift is still showing Devon vein matter but from Mine location printed on the certificate indications the next round will break into the country lying between as Pima Co. Arizona. No. 487, issued the Crocker & Devon veins close to the intersection. And them pay dirt! to Virginia Harper for 30 shares on We are not sure they ever hit it. Engineering & Mining Journal, 1887] Feb. 15th, 1883 in Camden, N.J. Signed Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 81645 by I.B. Baker as president and by Geo. Matthews as secretary. Nice vignette at Lot# 1652 Pima County, Arizona 1883 upper right of numerous prospectors working a rock face. Black border Gunsight Mining Company Stock with floral “buttons” and two floral arrangements within the border, Certificate Pima Co., Arizona (printed yellow safety print. “Issued for Property Purchased” in red script under title). Inc. in New Jersey. No. 192, diagonally across face of certificate. Datelined: Camden, N.J.Folds, light issued for 1,200 shares to M.J. Dohan toning around edges. Very fine. The story is told that the Gunsight on Feb. 16th, 1883 in Camden. Signed Mine was discovered by prospectors in November 1878 and so-named by president Baker and treasurer because the nearby mountain looked like a gunsight. Soon the miners Matthews. Not cancelled. Very ornate came for the rich silver ore and Gunsight camp was established. The black border and print with green Post Office was established in 1892, and at that time the mine was underprint design. Fancy logo and vignette of miners with headlamps. producing under the aegis of the Silver Gert Mining Company. There Folds, one spindle hole on the left side. Very nice. 7 x 11” This mine were 8 buildings at the site and 40 employees. The vein was over 4 was located at the north end of the Ajo Mountains. The district was feet wide, reached by a 340 foot shaft. It was the richest mine in the protected the the 1860’s, but it wasn’t until this mine began operations district. By 1896 the Post Office closed. [Ref: Mines Register, 1922]. that the district actually produced. The Gunsight was the major Est. $200-400 HWAC# 58571 producer when high-grade silver ore was discovered. The story is told that the Gunsight Mine was discovered by prospectors in November Lot# 1656 Pima County, Ajo Mining 1878 and so-named because the nearby mountain looked like a District, Arizona 1883 Ajo Mining & gunsight. Soon the miners came for the rich silver ore and Gunsight Development Co. Stock Certificate camp was established. The Post Office was established in 1892, and Inc. in New Jersey. No. 738, issued for at that time the mine was producing under the aegis of the Silver Gert 528 shares to M.J. Dohan on May 8th, Mining Company. There were 8 buildings at the site and 40 employees. 1883 in Camden. Signed by secretary The vein was over 4 feet wide, reached by a 340 foot shaft. It was the EG Hamersly and president JB Baker. richest mine in the district. By 1896 the Post Office closed. [Ref: Mines Not cancelled. Dateline 1883 Camden. Register, 1922]. [Garbani] Ken Prag Collection Est. $180-200 HWAC# Very ornate black border and print, underprint design. Underground 100896 mining vignette. Theo Leonhardt & Son printer. Heavy folds. Extremely nice. 6.75 x11 “ Not in Filer or other Holabird indexes. No additional Lot# 1653 Pima County, Arizona 1880 information located. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 100893 Huachuca Mining & Smelting Co. Stock Certificate Location of Property: Hartford District, Pima County, Arizona (printed under title). Inc. in New York. No. 73, issued for 100 shares to Maurice Ober on May 13th, 1880. Signed by president Pelton and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Underground mining vignette. Printed by ABN. Folds, creases, very large old tape repairs.7 x10.5” According to Mining & Scientific Press Vol. 42 (1881), the company owned a large number of claims in the Huachuca Mtns. but were also developing claims in the Silver Bell District including the Old Boot, Blue Coat, and Copper King. W.B. Scott was supt. They also appear to have owned the Mammoth Mine. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 100910 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 77

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1659 Pinal County, Arizona 1866, 1869 Specie Basis Mining Company Stock and Lot# 1657 Pima, Empire, Arizona Bond Choice mine with nice grouping of 1860’s 1881 Total Wreck Mining & Milling stock and bond. 1) Stock certificate. # 475 Company Stock Early # 57 for 500 for 5000 shares to George Meicke. Signed by shares to John Harvey in 1881. Signed secretary William Allen and president RB Gitts. by John McMillan and JM Requa. Pick Not cancelled. 25c Insurance revenue stamp. and shovel mining vignette. Faded Very attractive early certificate with vignette brown seal. Otherwise no edge, corner, of miners with headlamps and smaller US coin color or pinhole issues. The name of vignettes in the four corners of the border. the Total Wreck mine is rooted in the “Gold, silver and copper mines in Arizona.” FH origins of the mine’s original founders. It is believed that one of the says the name on this certificate is among the founders, J.T Dillon, remarked “well the mineral foundation is a total best in western American mines. 2) #386 $100 wreck” and the name stuck. The mine and its operations spawned first mortgage interest warrant. 2 coupons attached. Same signatures. the town around it, which had a post office and 4 saloons. The mine’s Waterfront vignette. “Gold, silver and copper mines in AZ.” Both have founders were Walter Vale, and J.T. Dillon, and was noted for its rich condition issues: Small tears, small holes. etc. Specie basis refers to silver production in its heyday. Black borders and a central vignette an antiquated monetary payment methodology revolving around gold of exploring miners. By 1884 the mines in the area had produced and silver, which were called specie. The term specie basis refers to $500,000 in silver. In the 1890’s mining declined steeply and by the payment “in kind” or payment in gold or silver. Unable to find specific early 1900’s it was fast fading into history. A nice, rare Arizona stock reference to the company in J. Ross Brown’s 50pp section on Arizona certificate with a great story! Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 mines published in 1868. There is a strong possibility, however, that HWAC# 91698 this company is directly related to the Specie Pay mine. In 1882, Lot# 1658 Pinal County, Arizona 1889 Burchard reported the Specie Pay mine was driving a new ore tunnel Silver King Mining Company Stock in 1881 averaging $42 per ton. It had apparently been reactivated Certificate Location: Pioneer District, after some time of dormancy. Hamilton, in 1884 cited this mine as Pinal Co., Arizona (printed above the the key mine in the district along with the Alice mine. The ore was title). Inc. May 3rd, 1877. No. 6618, reported to run $30 per ton, and a mill was erected on the Alice about issued for 50 shares to James Ralph 1882, producing pay ore on a regular basis. Burchard had noted that in 1889. Signed by secretary Joseph the district was in desperate need of a custom mill, and the Alice mill Nash and president H Noble. Punch must have been a welcome addition after years of prospecting with cancelled. Black border and print, no local reduction works. The district is about 15 miles northeast of ornate logo. Printed by Bancroft in San Florence in central Arizona. The chances of the Specie Basis Mining Francisco. Pinholes, folds, bent corner. Co and a Specie Pay mine being related are extremely high. These are 5.25 x10” Pinal County was formed in 1875 from three counties. About uncommon terms not used haphazardly. This Gitts may be related to this time word of a great discovery at a new mine called the Silver King the Gitts of the Casa Grande scam. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 was being circulated. The 6 x 9’ shaft only went down 42 feet with a HWAC# 90528 12 foot drift. But, “Great quantities of nearly pure silver is found in the little black nuggets of quartz” [Raymond] The company would go on to Lot# 1660 Pinal County, Arizona The become one of the great mines in Western history. By 1883 it had paid Tarantula Gold Mining Co. Stock $1,300,000 in dividends with an undisclosed amount after that! Ken Certificate, Pinal County, AZ 1898 Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 100902 Rare. Mineral Creek District. Inc. in the territory of Arizona. No. 61, issued for 1,250 shares to August Jorrs on April 22nd, 1898. Signed Register, Bid, by president R.F. Phillips and secretary J.H. Finnegan. Not cancelled. Brown border and background, black print. Underground mining & view opening bids at vignette. Folds, repaired tears. 8 x 11.25” The Tarantula mine was located by W.P. Dunham August 20th, 1897. Three other claims FHWAC.com belonged to the company: the Golden Gate, the Richardsand the Denver, all also located by Dunham 1897-1899. 82 acres. Est. $300- 500 HWAC# 59067 Lot# 1661 Pinal, San Pedro, Arizona 1881 Ferre Mining Company Stock Certificate Number 89 for 20 shares to TW Belcham. Signed by president P Whitmer and secretary JC McFarland. Incorporated in Illinois with headquarters in Bloomington. Vignette of underground mines and ore cart. Black border and print with green safety print on white paper. Very nice condition. Small dog ears upper right and upper left. Two heavy vertical folds. The San Pedro District was originally in Pima County until its redistribution over a period of 15 years. It was a copper and gold district in the early 1860’s and extensively reported by Browne in 1868. (Laguna Collection) Est. $90-180 HWAC# 59591 78 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1662 Pioneer District, Pinal Lot# 1667 Ray, Arizona 1883 Rare County, Arizona c1881 Hastings Ray Copper Company Stock Beautiful Consolidated Gold & Silver MIning black on clue with blue border and Company Stock Certificate Extra highlights. #344 for 500 shares to rare! Number 88 for 200 shares to EL Simon Suiteman. Signed by Zeekendorf Bolleo. Signed by secretary Charles H and president George H Sargent. Mann and vice president LW Trenton. Dateline New York 1883. Not cancelled. Incorporated in 1881. Hastings Triple tunnel vignette (one small tunnel Consolidated was located in Pinal County. Offices were on the corner of on bottom to two larger). Homer Lee Montgomery and Sutter. Although we could find little information on Bank Note printer of New York. Shows age: one pin hole, bent corners, this company, it does appear in McKenney’s Pacific Coast Directory for nicks at borders, very little discoloration. “Mines located in Pinal 1884 with C. Mann as secretary. In the 1884 Langley’s San Francisco County, Arizona.”Ray is a populated place in Pinal County, Arizona, Directory C. H. Mann is listed as the Manager of Hastings & Company. United States; it is mostly known for the large copper mine there. It They were importers, manufacturers and retailers of clothing and was named after the nearby Ray mine, which was begun by the Ray gent’s furnishing goods. Located on the corner of Montgomery and Copper Company in 1882, after the sister of one of the miner’s, whose Sutter. (Laguna Collection) Est. $180-300 HWAC# 59480 name was Bullinger” [wikipedia] Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 91715 Lot# 1663 Prescott, Arizona 190- Prescott Mining Stock Collection Lot Lot# 1668 Ray, Arizona 1918-1922 of seven. 1) Hassayamp Gold Dredging. Ray Hercules Mining Stocks Lot of 1902. 5000 shares to BJ Fine. Signed four. The first three are Ray Hercules by president Bragdon. 2) Pyramid Gold Copper Company. 1) # A5803 for 50 and Copper # 70. Mines in Copper shares to Ida Daniell. 1916. Signed by Basin, Yavapai County. 3) Cottonwood Dunham and president Reilly. Bright Copper. 1907. Property in Hassayampa red. Double tunnel mining vignette. District, Groom Creek, Yavapai County. 4) Western Queen. 1908. 5) American Bank Note Printer. Dog Pick and Drill. (What a great name for a mining company.) 1912. 6) ear left and two holes for storage. 2) Mitchell Mining. Crips green stock. 1906. 7) Butternut Gold and Copper Same as number one but bright green. 1918. Issued to John Macneil. # 100 for 34,583 shares to Mrs. M E Whittaker. Signed by secretary Mr. Pin holes. No other issues. 3) Orange. # 3142, Autosigned by Reilly. M. E. Whittaker and president Boggs. Interesting??? 1906. Ken Prag Discoloration and one large tear. 4) Ray Hercules Mines Inc. # 3580 for Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 91711 25 shares to Peter Cappuccilli. reddish brown. American Bank Note. No issues. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 91716 Lot# 1664 Prescott, Arizona 1892 Virginia Gold Mining & Milling Lot# 1669 Ray, Arizona 1909-1919 Co. Stock Certificate Inc in Arizona Ray Stock Group Lot of four. 1) Ray Territory, 1891. No. 25, issued for 500 Eastern Copper. 1909. # 69 for 1,100 shares to William Biedler on Jan. 21, shares to Sohlberg. Signed by president 1892 in Baltimore. Signed by president Hogeboom. Vignette of miners loading JS Barbour and the treasurer. Black an ore cart. Two small mining vignettes border and print, gold seal. Ornate logo. at bottom corners. Black and orange Pinholes, horizontal and vertical folds. on white. 2) Ray Silver-Lead. # 182 for 8.5 x 10.75” No information found. 500 shares to J Rowlands. Signed by Location printed on corp. seal. Not in Filer or other Holabird indexes. president McDermott. Eagle vignette. Black and brown on white. 10c Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 100913 documentary stamp. 3) Arizona Ray Copper. 1917. # 9135 for 1000 shares to HH Willard. Signed by president Dorsey. Black and brown on Lot# 1665 Quijotoa Minign District, white. Underground mining vignette. 4) Ray Central Copper. 1917. # Arizona 1885 Extra Rare Peer Mining 337 for 6375 shares to Lassen. Signed by president Weldon. Black on Company Stock Certificate Number brown on white. Underground air drill vignette. Stocks are generally in 1079 for 500 shares to George Grant, nice condition. Number four is in poor condtiion - see photo. Ken Prag Trustee in 1885. Signed by Aug. Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 91653 Waterman and RN Tollis. Printed by Britton & Rey of San Francisco. Vignette Lot# 1670 Santa Cruz County, Arizona of a place miner taking a break. The company was still going in 1891. It 1880 Patagonia Silver MIning was reported that ore had been transported to the mill last week. Next Company Stock Number 86 for 100 week they will start the mill up. Vignette has a placer miner taking a shares to Walter A Hamlin trustee. break. Grade VF by PASS-CO. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 59474 Dateline New York 1880. Signed by Hamlin and president HH Honore. Lot# 1666 Ray, Arizona 1917-1925 Incorporated 1880. Printed by Four Ray, Arizona Mining Stocks American Bank Note Company. Not 1) Ray Silver-Lead. 1919. # 1529 for cancelled. Two vignettes: underground 100 shares. Signed by McDermott mining and dog. Two pin holes are all that mar this cert. The original as president. Green border and Patagonia was purchased from a Mexican back in 1858. Raymond safety paper. 2) Ray Integrity Mining reported that the Patagonias and Cerro Colorado were the best known Company. 1925. # 77 for 1205 shares to mines in the county. When one of the old mines was cleaned out, two James Kosta. Signed by president James sacks of silver worth $7,000 was found. Skeletons were also found Vappas(?). Three mining and milling which lead to the story that the miners held up in here until they were vignettes. Black and green on white. 3) Arizona Ray Copper. 1917. # murdered by Indians. Mines in this area are reported to go back to 7676 for 1000 shares to JW Marsh & Co. Dateline Phoenix. President 1650 and are suppose to be the Planchas de Plate which contained Dorsey. Underground mining vignette. Green border and safety paper. about 5 tons of prime silver. Accounts are given in Mexican chronicles. 4) Verde Combination Copper. 1917. # 6371 for 500 shares to Thomas Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 91699 Maxfield. Signed by presdient Dyer. Three mining vignettes. The first three are in very nice condition. The last has major fold edge rips. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 91652 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 79

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1671 Santa Cruz Lot# 1675 Tombstone, Arizona 1905 County, Patagonia Contention Gold Mines Company District, Arizona 1880 Stock # 454 for 85 shares to John H Holtkamp. Signed by Lansford F Butler Santa Cruz Silver and president Sidney Tone. Dateline Denver 1905. Incorporated 1905. Not Mining Company cancelled. Double tunnel underground Stock Certificate Inc. in mining vignette. Black on brown safety New York. Number 81, paper. Located near Contention City. issued for 100 shares Prospectors Ed Williams and Jack Friday discovered what was to become the Contention and Grand to trustee and secretary Central mines when their mules broke free from a nearby camp one night. The mules, in search of water, dragged a chain behind them, WA Hamlin on Sept. which allowed Williams and Friday to track the animals the next 22, 1880. Signed by morning. As they walked, they noticed the gleam of metal where the Walter A Hamlin and chain had scraped away the overlying dirt, and upon investigation, HH Honore Jr. Shovel they found what would develop into a significant silver lode. The and pick mining vignette in upper left and dog on bottom center. Nude mules were tracked to the nearby camp of well-known prospector Ed winged angel on bottom right. Pinholes, folds. This company shared Schieffelin, who had been prospecting extensively in the area, and who the same officers as the Patagonia Mining Company. According to an had staked claims to many of the Tombstone area mines. Unhappy ad in E&MJ Vol. 31, the claims were in the Patagonia District. Ken Prag that two competitors had discovered a claim in what he considered Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 100903 to be his territory, Schieffelin disputed the ownership of the claim. Eventually, the claim was split in two, with the upper end going to Lot# 1672 Silver King, Pioneer, Williams and Friday, and named the Grand Central Mine, and the Arizona 1881 Windsor Consolidated lower end going to Schieffelin, and named the Contention Mine after Mining Company Stock Certificate the disputed ownership that earned him the claim. In the wake of the RARE! Number 253 for 200 shares to Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Ike Clanton attempted to have Wyatt Earp A Masterton. 1881. Signed by James and Doc Holliday tried in Contention City after a grand jury refused Hy. Greensward and John M Masterton. to indict them in Tombstone. It was never held. [wikipedia] Ken Prag Outside of a few pin holes and a small Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91714 color stain on upper right border, this is nearly perfect! Unusual mining vignette Lot# 1676 Tombstone, Arizona 1881 Plum Gold & Silver Mining of ore cars being loaded from a chute. Incorporated in Newy York. “In Co. Stock Certificate the vicinity of the King are the Last Chance and Mount View owned by Tombstone District, the Windsor Consolidated Mining Company. The former has a shaft Cachise [sic.] Co., 400 feet and has produced ore worth $100 per ton. It is a four foot Arizona (printed ledge. The Mount View is a three foot vein which has yielded $100 per along the top). Inc. ton.” [Resources of Arizona: its MIneral... by Hamilton, 1884] (Laguna Feb 25th, 1881. Low Collection) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 59587 number 4, issued for 1,000 shares to H.A. Lot# 1673 Tombstone, Arizona 1881 Charles, secretary, Bradshaw Mining Company Stock on March 11th, Certificate Rare. Location: Tombstone 1881. Also signed by Mining District, Arizona Territory president PJ White. (printed under title). Inc. in New York. Not cancelled. Black No. 774, issued for 100 shares to E.D. Barnes, trustee, on May 26th, 1881. border and print. California state seal vignette. 5.25 x 8.75” Folds, light Signed by Barnes as secretary and the toning. Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. The Plum Mine is on the list president (Dermott?). Not cancelled. of active mines on the Pacific Coast published by Charles Yale in 1882. Red border and print, no vignette. Pinholes, folds creases, soiling. 7.25 No additional information located. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 x10.75” According to Burchard in 1882, “The Bradshaw mine was a HWAC# 100900 valuable mine of the Tombstone District. It is located in the western part of the district near the San Pedro and opened by a shaft to a depth Lot# 1677 Tombstone, Arizona of about 400 feet. It’s vein was 2 o 6 feet in width. The ore is rich in 1882 Tombstone Favorite Mining chloride and carries horn silver, from which assays ranging from $80 Company Stock Certificate Inc. in to $100 per ton have been had. A ten stamp mill has been erected Colorado. No. 45, issued for 500 shares to JL Brown on July 7th, 1882. on the property. It has produced some $50,000 of bullion since first Signed by president John S. Brown and secretary J.D. Cruise. Not opened.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 100888 cancelled. Blue border and print, green background, underground mining vignette. Printed by Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, Kansas City. Lot# 1674 Tombstone, Arizona Folds, toning, tear on left border, chips to edges. 7.5 x 11” Not in Filer 1890 Cincinnati Mining Company or Holabird indexes. No information could be located. Rare! Ken Prag Stock Certificate ”Mines, Tombstone, Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 102494 Arizona” (printed at bottom center). Number 80 for 50 shares to NB Lazard on July 10th, 1890. Signed by AF McGrew (president) and JJ Scoville (secretary). Black border and print, fancy logo. Printed by Waugaman of San Francisco. Horizontal and vertical folds, Bottom torn a little roughly from book. This company was probably a reorganization of the Cincinnati Gold & Silver Mining Company which was incorporated in 1890. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 91812 80 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1678 Tombstone, Arizona 1895 Lot# 1680 Tombstone Mill & Mining Co. Stock Tombstone, Arizona Certificate Tombstone District, Pima 1881 Washington County, Arizona (printed at bottom center). Inc. in Connecticut. No. 3434, issued for 100 shares to JK Valance on Oct. 16th, 1895. Signed Mining Company by president Burnham(?), secretary Gilroy and treasurer JW McElwee. #B20. Not cancelled. Black ornate border and print, green background, and Stock two Native American vignettes. Printed by ABN. Pinholes, folds, scuffs Incorporated and to top center border. 7 x 11” Ed Schieffelin discovered rich silver Dateline New York ore in 1877 at what is now known as Tombstone. By 1878 a stamp 1881. Issued to ED mill was operating and the company was processing 15-20 tons of Barnes trustee for are a day, turning out $90,000 worth of bullion. In 1881 the Corbin mill, named in honor of the treasurer of the company, was operating. 250 shares in 1881. It became the property of TM&MC. In 1879 Governor A.P.K. Safford Signed by C. (?) as visited the camp and together with Frank Corbin on New Britain, president and E. Connecticut, he organized the Tombstone Mill & Mining Company and Barnes secretary. commissioned Richard K. Gird to erect a stamp and amalgamating No vignette. Blue mill, which was completed in 1879. In March 1880 the Schieffelin border and print. interest in the TM&MC was bought out by a syndicate consisting of Uncancelled. Printer the Corbin brothers and others. By 1881 the town had a population of - Dade H. Gildersleeve. 7 x 11”. “Location, Tombstone Mining District, 3,000, two daily newspapers, two banks, and many stores and saloons. Arizona Territory” printed at middle of certificate. Center fold shows Burchard (1883) states that the Tombstone Mill & Mining Company, holes. Some border rips and discoloration. Please see photo online. which comprises the Tough Nut, Good Enough, Lucky Cuss, D tense, . When the Washington mine was patented, it was owned by the Survey, Tribute, West Side, East Side, No.2, Owl’s Nest, and Owl’s Nest Bradshaw MC, according to patent papers. But within just a couple Last Hoot mines, and two mills located at Charleston, with a 30 stamp of months, the Bradshaw MC had split its properties, incorporating capacity It was one of the largest mining properties in the Territory. a company for each claim. The Washington mine wasn’t listed as a Its bullion output for the year was $840,000 (Refs: Blake, W.P. (1902) producerbeing absent from Burchard’s reports of Tombstone. Ken Tombstone and Its Mines. Butler, B.S. Geology and Ore Deposits of Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91700 Tombstone: 41,44,45. Williams, S.A. (1980) “The Tombstone Mining District [in the Mineralogical Record, Vol. 11, No.4, July-Aug 1980. Lot# 1681 Troy, Arizona 1906- (Arizona II issue): 251-257. Barnes, “Arizona Place Names”; Burchard 1918 Troy Arizona Mining Stock (1883) Precious Metals in the United States: 278.) Ken Prag Collection Group Lot of four. 1) Troy Manhattan Est. $200-250 HWAC# 100884 Development Company early number 14. 1907. To Ernest McWain for 100 Lot# 1679 Tombstone, shares. Signed by president Chapin and Arizona 1881 Tombstone asst. Sec. Barker. The mine was located 3 1/2 miles northeast of Erman on the Mill & Mining Co. Stock Arizona Eastern Railroad. The property Number developed several shaft 500’, with Certificate relatively minor production through 1920. [Weed] 2) Troy Manhattan Copper Company. # 3936. 1906. The Troy property consisted of 567 A847 for 75 shares to acres and 4 shafts (up to 500’) and 7000’ of tunnels. This property was A.K. Seymour on March promising, but continuing problems with equipment were an issue. 16th, 1881. Signed by Though 1906 production seemed minimal and in 1910 it was defunct. president Burnham(?), [Garbani] 3-4) Troy Arizona Copper. Brown 1917 and green 1918. Ken secretary Gilroy and Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 91694 treasurer Corbin. Lot# 1682 Verde, Yavapai, Arizona Two Native American 1901 Two Different Standard Smelting & Refining Company vignettes. Pinholes, folds. Stock Certificates 1) Green. Certs This mine was located in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona. Ed are for exactly 100 shares. Number Schieffelin discovered rich silver ore in 1877 at what is now known C394 for 100 shares to Albert H as Tombstone. By 1878 a stamp mill was operating and the company Collier. Signed by Brockett and was processing 15-20 tons of are a day, turning out $90,000 worth Douglas. Rare vignette fo the actual of bullion. In 1881 the Corbin mill, named in honor of the treasurer mill. Also vignette of man feeding of the company, was operating. It became the property of TM&MC. In coal to the furnace. 2) Same as 1879 Governor A.P.K. Safford visited the camp and together with Frank number 1, but number of shares is Corbin on New Britain, Connecticut, he organized the Tombstone Mill variable. This smelter would have & Mining Company and commissioned Richard K. Gird to erect a stamp been for copper mining. Number 371 and amalgamating mill, which was completed in 1879. In March 1880 for 25 shares to Helen Schaun. Both the Schieffelin interest in the TM&MC was bought out by a syndicate are in nice condition with no major consisting of the Corbin brothers and others. By 1881 the town had condition issues. (Laguna Collection) a population of 3,000, two daily newspapers, two banks, and many Est. $150-250 HWAC# 59484 stores and saloons. Burchard (1883) states that the Tombstone Mill & Mining Company, which comprises the Tough Nut, Good Enough, Lucky Cuss, D tense, Survey, Tribute, West Side, East Side, No.2, Owl’s Nest, and Owl’s Nest Last Hoot mines, and two mills located at Charleston, with a 30 stamp capacity It was one of the largest mining properties in the Territory. Its bullion output for the year was $840,000 (Refs: Blake, W.P. (1902) Tombstone and Its Mines. Butler, B.S. Geology and Ore Deposits of Tombstone: 41,44,45. Williams, S.A. (1980) “The Tombstone Mining District [in the Mineralogical Record, Vol. 11, No.4, July-Aug 1980. (Arizona II issue): 251-257. Barnes, “Arizona Place Names”; Burchard (1883) Precious Metals in the United States: 278.) Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-250 HWAC# 100934 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 81

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1685 Weaver Lot# 1683 Vulture, Arizona 1881 District, Arizona Central Arizona Mining Co. Stock 1863 Henry & No. 3175, issued for 100 shares to D. Moff & Durant on July 8, 1881. Signed Barnard Gold, by the president (James Seymour) and secretary (M.A. Jones). Not cancelled. Silver and Copper Ornate border and vignette of Native Americana pointing at a locomotive. Mining Company Printed by American Bank Note Co. Folds and some toning. 6.5 x 11.25” Stock # 312 for 10 The company owned the Vulture mine located 14 miles by road from shares to JF Taylor. Wickenburg at the southern margin of the Vulture Mountains, and Signed by George about 9 miles west of the Hassayampa River. The Vulture mine was Gildersleeve and discovered in 1863 when a German named Henry Wickenburg and GH Blood(?). several companions discovered a butte of quartz with traces of gold. Dateline San Mr. Wickenburg processed rich portions of the outcrop in an arrastra Francisco 1863. at the Hassayampa River. The Apache Indians made mining difficult Incorporated November 10, 1863. 25c Power of Att’y Revenue stamp. and dangerous. In 1866, the Vulture MC acquired the property and 7760 shares ar 5 feet to a share. Lists the Copper Mound Lode, Blue built a 40-stamp amalgamation and concentration mill near the site Bell, Barnard, Lord Byron, Lindsay, Mary J Little, Flying Cloud, White of the present town of Wickenburg. All of the machinery for the mill Swan, etc. on left side of cert. Location: Weaver District, Arizona Terr. was shipped from San Francisco by water to Fort Mohave, a landing Mill vignette. Printer Robbins & Co. Stock is taped on left from what on the Colorado River, and hauled overland via Prescott. In 1873, P. seems to be a total separation. Sems to be museum quality as there Smith and P.W. Taylor located a claim on the western extension of the is no yellowing.Holes where ink has bled through. Still a rare and Vulture lode and built a 5-stamp mill at the Hassayampa River. They valuable certificate. Not Cancelled. Copper Mound Lode, Blue Bell, operated for about six years and produced about $150,000 worth of Barnard, Henry & Barnard, White Swan, Lord Byron. Mary J. Little, gold bullion. In 1879, the Central Arizona MC was formed by James New York, Lindsay, Michigan, Flying Cloud, Pride of our Country, M. Seymour of New York to work the Vulture and Taylor-Smith mines. Vermont, Rachael, Henry. Datelined San Francisco. Black border and An 80-stamp mill was built at the mine. The company treated a large amount of low-grade gold ore. It is estimated the company produced print on white paper. This company ran a copper mine at Weaver, ten about $2,000,000 worth of gold bullion during its operation. The miles from La Paz. In the 4/16/1864 edition of Mining and Scientific company lost the ore body at the 300’ level and the mine closed again Press, the company reported ore at 40% copper, silver $26/ton, and in 1888. The Vulture mine had been the most productive of Arizona’s gold mines. The town of Seymour was named after James M. Seymour, a trace of gold. The company was reportedly offered an advance signer of this certificate. (Ref: Browne, 1868, p477; Burchard, 1882, p302; Wilson, 1967, p137, 157; Dunning, pp62-3, 120-1; Barnes, on ores mined from San Francisco concerns. They had utilized the p196; Sherman, p136-7, 164-5; Spude et al, p5-6.) Est. $100-200 media to show off the ores at a local San Francisco office, trying to HWAC# 60641 raise cash to run a 200 foot tunnel to reach the ore at depth. The mine superintendent was I. M. Blood, brother of James Blood, president Lot# 1684 Wallapai District, Arizona of the company. [MiSciPr 5/7/1864] This was one of the most active 1892 Flores Consolidated Gold of the mining companies at Weaver, with prospecting at 15 different Mining Company Stock Number 743 mines in the district. [MiSciPr 6/4/64] A number of mines, including for 100 shares to WB Stoever in 1892. the Henry Barnard, were in operation at the time of Mowry s visit in Signed by Walter F Smith and M Smith. 1864 (Mowry, 1864, pp ). James Blood ran a coal and wood yard in SF. Underground mining vignette top Gildersleve ran the Occidental coal & Wood Yard. [ref: 1862, 1865 SFR center. Fantastic condition marred only directories] Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 81632 by two small dog ears on right. “The Wallapai mining district is in Mohave Lot# 1686 Whiteford, Arizona 1899 County, northwestern Arizona, near the Whiteford Gold Mining Company center of the Cerbat Mountains. The district is approximately 10 miles Stock Certificate Very rare! Inc. in long and 4 miles wide. In the early days (1863-1900) miners sought Territory of Arizona. No. 176, issued silver, and to a less extent gold, in the oxidized parts of the fissure for 2,000 shares on March 16, 1899 veins. Later, lead with a low silver content was mined, and still later to L.J. White. Signed by Crawley (vice the zinc and lead production became the most valuable, owing very president) and James White (secretary). largely to the combined output of the Golconda and Tennessee mines. Punch cancelled. Gilt border and gold From 1904 to 1948 the district had a recorded recovery of 54,760 tons seal. Vignette of miners underground. of zinc and 35,736 tons of lead.” [The Wallapai Mining District Cerbat Folds with separation and a very rough Mountains Mohave County Arizona by Dings] Ken Prag Collection Est. top border. 9” x 12.5”. Priced based on condition issues. Not in Filer. $100-200 HWAC# 81656 Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-180 HWAC# 100909 Lot# 1687 Wickenburg, Arizona 1904 Bisbee Belle Copper Company Unique cowgirl looking at a US coin vignette. In light blue this is very unusual and quite striking! # 1917 for 1000 shares to Peter French. Signed by D Cake secretary and George Cake president. Dateline Los Angeles 1904. Incorporated March 1901. Blue tile, black scrip, black border. No edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration issues. Slight break in paper where stamp was applied. Owned 25 claims in the Wickenburg area. There were 4 shafts and a 600’ tunnel. Ore assayed at 30% with $2 a ton in gold. The company also owned a few claims in the Bisbee area. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 91696 82 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1688 Yavapai, Arizona 1901-1920 Arizona Lot# 1692 Yuma, Arizona Stock Group 1) Gila Copper Sulphide Company Yuma Consolidated first mortgage convertible gold bond. # 813. Blueprints (19) Collection Signed by president, assistant president and of 19 blueprints: loading bin, secretary. Gold Seal. 50c documentary stamp. Quenner disintegrator, carriage 2) Same company. Extension certificate glued to first bond. Twelve coupons still attached. 3) Big frame, concentration plant and Ledge Copper Company stock. #51430 for 100 shares to Hary A Massey & Co. Signed by Bachow(?) and president AR many more Est. $300-500 Kent. Air drill mining vignette. 1920. Not cancelled. 4) Poland Mining Company special contract bond. 1901. Signed by secretary Leake and HWAC# 91487 president HM Robinson. 50c documentary a sailing ship stamp. # 589. All 20 coupons still attached. 5) Same company. “For Value Received”. Lot# 1693 Yuma County, Plomosa, For bond 389. Signed by president Whitaker and secretary White. Arizona 1902 Arizona Giant Copper Check online photo for condition. Est. $100-250 HWAC# 102311 Mining Co. Stock # 1032 for 500 shares to JW Veach. Signed by secretary Lot# 1689 Yavapai, Arizona 1907- Melvin R Gay(?) and president Nelson 1917 Consolidated Arizona Smelting G Douglass. Dateline Los Angeles Company Stocks Lot of six. 1-2) Thirty 1902. Incorporated August 24, 1900. year income bonds. 1909. Brown for 500 Not cancelled. Green vignettes (cactus shares. Blue for 1000 shares. 3) Fractional and milling man with copper bars) Scrip Certificate. 1909. Deep purple. 4) and border. 25c Documentary stamp. 1907 Gray cert. # 3458 for 100 shares Some border bolds and bends. Otherwise in very nice condition. to William Phillips. Signed by president Rick. 5) 1917 green cert. # “During the past year the property has been at a standstill, nothing B8416 for 50 shares to Anna Halsted. Signed by president Little. 6) being done excepting the assessment work. This has been caused by Brown cert. # C11059 for 100 shares to Sichel & Frank. Last three show a quarrel among the directors, being divided into two factions, each the Humboldt Smelter with hills in the background. Consolidation of fighting for control of the property. They have had one or two lawsuits the Arizona Smelting, Arizona Exploration and DeSoto Mining. They in los Angeles. Nelson G Douglass, 329 Byrne Bldg Los Angeles, is still would operate the Blue Bell and DeSoto Mines. In 1909 only 82,250 president. He states that the property is good and that he expects to be pounds of copper was produced. By 1911 that number was up to able to put the plant on its feet again in the next few months. [United 600,000 pounds. The company went into receivership in 1920. Ken States Investor, March 7, 1903] (Not to be confused with the more Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 91655 common company in Pinal County.) Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- Lot# 1690 Yavapai, Arizona 1886 Ida 200 HWAC# 91701 Gold and SIlver Mining Company of Lot# 1694 Arizona 1903-1930 Arizona Stock # 419 for 10 shares to Arizona Mining Group Lot of eight. Henry Hamilton. Signed by president A 1) Yeager Canon Copper Company Clement and secretary (?). Dateline 1886. first mortgage six percent gold bond. Incorporated in Wisconsin. Three vignettes: 1903. Yavapai County. #1094, Coupons two underground mining scenes and an 5 through 30 still attached. 2) United allegorical woman. Brown underprint that States Mining Company. # X2795. resembles a fancy revenue stamp. $100 for 50 shares to Wrenn Bros. & Co. per share. Shober & Carqueville printer, Two vertical folds. Border Cancelled by hole punch over names issues especially at corners and folds. Please see online hotograph. and blue crayon. Nice blue and black on white. 1903. 3) Gila River Ida was part of the Arizona Queen before it got split off or leased in Mining Company of New Orleans La. c1860. Unissued. Eagle and 1884. It was one of the best timbered and watered areas in Arizona. A statue of man on horse vignette. Mines iN New Mexico and Arizona. neighboring mine, the Chicago, was one of the best producing mines in Mayflower district. 4-6) New Dominion Copper Company stock. Blue the area. [Hamilton] Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 91702 (# C4551), orange (# D3124) and red (# N10381). Blue cancelled. Vignette of underground miner dumping ore from ore cart down a Lot# 1691 Yavapai County, Arizona chute. 1924. Printed by Hamilton and New York Bank Note Company. 1894 Rich Hill Placer Company 7-8) Hammon Copper Company. Orange (# 885) and green (# 5385). Stock Certificate Issued for Property Not cancelled. 1930. MIne and milling vignette. Printed by Western Located in Yavapai County, Arizona. No. 402, issued for 200 shares to Litho Co. of Los Angeles. Condition varies from nice to very nice! Est. John P. Gillis on April 4th, 1894. Signed by Wells H Bates and secretary $100-200 HWAC# 102312 Sterling E. Edmunds. Not cancelled. Green border, black print, and eagle vignette. Printed by Ketcham & Co., NY. One pinhole in seal, folds. 8 x 13” Tennessee-born mountain man Pauline Weaver worked for the Hudson Bay Co. in Canada before heading to the Rocky Mountains in 1830. Weaver explored much of New Mexico Territory and Arizona Territory, and in 1862 Indians led him to placer gold deposits near La Paz, Arizona Territory. The following year Weaver guided a party of gold seekers under Abraham Harlow Peeples into the Hassayampa River country of central Arizona Territory. The party camped at the base of a mountain south of present-day Yarnell, and while searching for lost livestock in a shallow basin atop the mountain, a Mexican member of the group unearthed gold nuggets the size of potatoes. The party members pried them from the ground with knives. Prospectors dubbed the basin the Potato Patch, the mountain Rich Hill and the mining region Weaver District No. 2. The district became Arizona’s richest producer of placer gold. The Weaver and Rich Hill area is still active by amateur prospectors today. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- 300 HWAC# 102523 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 83

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1695 Arizona AZ Lot# 1698 Arizona 1889 Old Jesuit mining stock - 4 4 AZ mining Mining Company Stock # 394 for stock: 1) Uncancelled Rio 300 shares to Henry Richman. Signed Plata Mining Company, 10 by CC Harris and president James H shares cert. # 8225 issued to Wangtu(?). Dateline East St. Louis, Amy E. A. Heterington, issued Ill. 1889. Incorporated June 1888. Oct 5,1911. In operation Underground mining vignette. Gold 1908-11. Green border seal. Not cancelled. Folds are tearing with raised company seal. and the center horizontal fold has large 3 Vignettes a) eagle with rips. Tear upper border. etc. We have spread wings, b) eagle with not seen this certificate before. Very RARE! Ken Prag Collection Est. snake in mouth c) working $200-500 HWAC# 81646 miners. Signed Oct 5, 1911 in NY. Signed by James H. Lee, secy and Henry W. Muller, pres. Printed: Lot# 1699 Arizona 1882 American Bank Note Co. 2) 100 shares @ $1 each of Copper King of Picacho Silver Mining Arizona cert. # 7715 issued to Charles T. Austin on June 17, 1899. Company Stock Very Copper King Mine is a copper mine located in Greenlee county, AZ, in early number 14 for 5,333 the Copper Mountain District.. Green border with orange company shares to Jacob Hilschler. seal. Inc. WV. Signed by L. A. Washburne, Pres. 3) 1,000 shares @ Date line Camden July $1 each of Todd Copper Co cert. # 138 issued to Paul L. H. Mathias on 15, 1882, Incorporated March 1, 1904. Green border with company seal. Vignette of eagle July 8th, 1882. (Stock on rock. 4) 100 shares @ $10 of Silver Nugget Mining Co. #2064 was issued one week issued to Alms & Selb on Aug 4, 1881. Registered and countersigned after incorporation.) Signed by secretary WIlliam Grahame(?) and Aug 5, 1881. Vignette of working miners. Location in Globe District, president JB Baker. One vertical fold which is starting to seperate at Maricopa Co, AZ. Inc Jan. 1881. Printed: The Mining Record Litho, 61 edges. Bottom right corner torn off. Some foxing. Not cancelled. Ken Broadway, NY. Est. $200-250 HWAC# 100421 Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 81639 Lot# 1696 Arizona 1908 Lot# 1700 Arizona Russell Coice, Rare Big Stick Consolidated Copper Co. Stock Gold Mining Company “Proof” Probably a “proof” sample Stock Named for Teddy from the printer. It is printed on a waxy Roosevelt’s, “Speak Softly paper. One of the vignettes is a c.1870s and Carry a Big Stick.” illustration of mining in Arizona. The Number 443 for 200 shares other is an underground scene. Inc. to Frederick E Hoyt Sr. Aug 6, 1883 in New Jersey. Large tape Signed by H Leon Haynes repaired tear. Portions missing along and JB Girard. Vignette of the border. 8 x 11.5” No information a big stick. Choice with could be located on this company. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 no apparent condition HWAC# 100908 issues! JB Girard is listed in Arizona’s “Who’s Who.” He started as Deputy Mineral Surveyor. Then Lot# 1701 Arizona 1882 The ws the Assistant Chief Engineer of the Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Town Site Mining Company Stock Railway. He started in mining at the Anita Copper. He held several Certificate Extra rare. Not in Filer or other mining positions. In 12908 he was in charge of designing and Holabird indexes. “Arizona Territory” constructing the twenty stamp gold mill and cyanide plant for the Big printed to the left of vignette. Inc. in Stick. His list of accomplishments are far too long to list here. The Big Connecticut, 1880. No. 142, issued for Stick Gold MIning Company was located in the Santa Maria District 100 shares to B.G. Bean on March 30th, about 20 miles northwest of Date Creek - the nearest railroad stop. In 1882 in Hartford. Signed by president March of 1909 the “Mining and Engineering World” reported 55 men Martin L. Keith and asst. secretary were employed. Drifts were being run a the 200 foot level at shafts Walter L. Keith. Not cancelled. Green border and print. Vignette of 2 and 4. “The showings in all the openings are excellent!” (Laguna miners working at the surface in the mountains. Printed by Page, Collection) Est. $300-400 HWAC# 59585 Spaulding & Co., Boston. Deep folds with dark toning along fold lines. 6.75 x 10.5” No information could be found on this company. Ken Prag Lot# 1697 Arizona 1905-1910 Four Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 100914 Michigan (Arizona) Related Mining Companies 1) Arizona & Michigan Lot# 1702 Arizona 1888-1891 Three Mining Company number 73 for 10 Arizona Stock Certificates: Mining shares to Frank Stickney. Signed by JC & Mormon 1) San Ricardo Mining Chymoweth and James Chymoweth. 2) Company. Issued in 1888 in Tucson, AT, Superior and Globe Copper Company, not cancelled. Blue border and print. Calumet, Michigan. Number 5348 Folds, toning. 2) Gila River Mining for 100 shares to Jerry Durand and Company of New Orleans. Unissued. 18- signed by Charles Cynoweth and John -. “New Mexico” and “Arizona” printed Davies. 3) Michigan-Arizona Mining Company number 209 for 20 on the left side. Vignettes of eagle on shares to Minnie Furlong. Signed by Thomas Swift and SH Hamilton. shield, statue of man on horse, and arm holding hammer. 3) Arizona 4) Wolverine and Arizona Mining Company number 6467 for 25 Co-Operative Mercantile Institution. Issued in 1891 in Holbrook, AT. shares to Ray B Krebs. Signed by Paul P Roehus and (?). Most of these Stamped cancelled. Black border and print. Folds and creases. Mormon certificates have rips at the fold edges. Some of them are over an inch. institution. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 100907 Some of these companies may have had properties in both Michigan and Arizona! (Laguna Collection) Est. $80-150 HWAC# 59490 84 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1703 Arizona 1881 Two Arizona Lot# 1706 Bodie, California Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 2 c1863 Bodie Bluff different. 1) Washington Mining Company. Location: Tombstone Mining District, Consolidated Mining Stock, Arizona Territory (printed under title). Inc. in NY. No. 62, issued for 10 0shares to ED Leland Stanford Signature Barnes, company secretary, on May 27th, Fantastic unissued stock with 1881. Signed by Barnes and the president (illegible). Not cancelled. Blue border and President Leland Stanford print. Folds, creases, old tape repair. 2) signature. Vignette shows Central Arizona Mining Company. Inc.in NY. mountain with shaft depths No. A28, issued for 50 shares to Henry Beard superimposed: Cumberland on Aug. 31, 1881. Signed by the president 600’, Bunker Hill, North America, St. Charles, New Mexico, Main and secretary. Not cancelled. Green border and print. Native American Top, Osceola, Mizen Top, Fore Top, and Oneida at 1,000’ and Isabella vignette. Pinholes, folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 1500’s. .Black on yellow with pale red$1000 underprint. This is one of Stanford’s least known ventures and was prior to his involvement with 100906 Central Pacific Railroad. No edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration issues! Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 82022 Lot# 1704 Amador Lot# 1707 Bodie, California 1878 County, California 1882- Handly Mining Company Very early 1903 Amador County #19 for 7,000 shares to William Ward. Nice vignette in the lower right-hand Mining Stock Certificate corner of a miner swinging a pick with the text “Bodie Dist./ Mono County, Cal.” Collection Lot of 6 Printed by Britton & Rey, San Francisco. different. 1) Bunker Hill Reverse is signed by William Ward and Consolidated Mining has some pencilled tallying in tabular Company. Issued 1902 form at one end. Measures 9 3/16” in Amador City. Punch x 4.” The Handly Mining Company’s mine was located between the cancelled. Miniature stock Goodshaw and the Bodie (to the south) and covered an area of 1,500 (3.75 x 6.5”). Pinholes, feet by 100. It “ranks as among the earliest locations made in Bodie’” fold. 2) Kelly Gold Mining and the “title is complete and unquestioned.” In 1878, a vertical shaft Company. Jackson had been sunk 70 feet and the ore was carrying from $300 to $400 District, Amador County, a ton in gold. [ref: United States Annual Mining Review and Stock California (printed on Ledger, pg. 202, 1879] Very rare, early Bodie stock! Fine Condition!!! cert.). Issued in 1882. Not cancelled. Yellow paper with black print Est. $500-900 HWAC# 88672 and mining vignette. Deep folds, crease corners. 3) Ione Coal & Iron Company. Issued in 1903. Punch cancelled. 1870s printed design with Lot# 1708 Bodie, California 1881 The mining vignette. 4) The Ivanhoe Gold Mining Company. Plymouth, Hidden Treasure Consolidated Mining Amador Co. (printed under title). Issued in 1899. Not cancelled. Gold Co. Stock Certificate ”of Bodie District, border and mining vignette. Deep folds, a few small tears. 5) Two California” (printed under vignette). Rare! unissued stocks: Bunker Hill Consolidated Mining Company (1899 Inc. in New York. No. 198, issued for 100 temp. cert.) and Industrial Mining Company (1890s, Jackson). Please shares to H.L. Underwood, trustee, on Jan. inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $220-400 HWAC# 100840 20th, 1881 in New York. Signed by the president (Chas. Bermer) and secretary Lot# 1705 Amador County, (Prescott Burbank), but their signatures California 1872 California are punch cancelled. Stock is also pen Mining Company Stock cancelled. Orange border, black print, and Certificate No. 65, issued vignette of miners wearing headlamps. to company president Printed by The Hatch Lith. Co., NY. 8.25 Camilo Martin on Dec. 17th, x 11” Folds. Not listed in Balch, 1882. Not in Filer. No additional 1872. Signed by Martin as information could be found in our Bodie references. () Ken Prag president and secretary H.K. Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 100748 White. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Vignette of Lot# 1709 Butte Co., California California state seal. Printed 1864 Porter G&S MC Certificate by Britton & Rey. 3.75 x 8.75” Issued and cancelled stock for the Pinholes, stain on left side Porter Gold and Silver Mining Co, Butte Co., Cal. Incorporated 1863 from when it was glued in in San Francisco, issued to S.L. ledger. Stamped “Bancroft Library.” According to a Daily Alta California Johnson for 25 shares, October article from April 25, 1871, this company formed to “mine for gold and 6, 1863, signed by Sidney L. Johnson as president and V. B. Post as secretary. Lithography by Drouaillet, SF. Red ink manuscript silver in Northern Amador Lode, on the north of the Amador Mine, cancellation across face. Cert #23. Original stub still attached. Sutter Creek Mining District.” Thus it is not to be confused with the The mines in Butte County were generally centered around Table California Mining Co. that formed in Virginia City, Nevada in 1874 to Mountain, which has a basalt layer that covers an important gold pursue the Bonanza ores. Camilo Martin was born in Cuba, educated in bearing Tertiary gravel. Important companies of the period included Germany, and came to the Pacific Coast in 1850 during the Gold Rush. the Oregon Gulch, Cherokee Blue Gravel. Other mines were located at He worked in the Rothschild banking house where he remained until Forbestown, Wyandotte, Bangor and a few other locales. Raymond’s 1865 when he left to become a founding partner in the Bank of San 1867 treatise does not mention the Porter, even though it discusses Francisco. In 1854, Martin was appointed as Spanish Consul, a position the active mines of the 1864 period. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 59500 he held for forty-two years. He was knighted by the Queen Regent of Spain in 1893. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 100754 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 85

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1713 Calaveras County, California 1864 Caledonia Mining Company Lot# 1710 Butte Co., Stock Certificate Rare and early California 1863 Porter G&S Calaveras County. The location is MC Stock Issued to Porter printed in the text of the certificate: Porter G&S MC, incorporated “...of the Caledonia Mining Company, 1863, issued Dec 9, 1863 to Calaveras County, Cal.” Inc. January J.G. Porter, signed by Victor 5th, 1863. No. 80, issued for 5 shares to Limmerman on Sept. 24th, B. Masson as president, 1864 in Stockton. Signed by president H. Hutchinsen and secretary E.P. cancelled with red ink at left. Rieux(?). Not cancelled. Blue border and print. Vignette covered up The mines in Butte County by 25 cent IT adhesive stamp. Printed by the Stockton Independent. were generally centered around Table Mountain, which has a basalt Folds, creases, nicked border. 3.75 x 9” Not in Filer or other Holabird layer that covers an important gold bearing Tertiary gravel. Important indexes. The Caledonian mine is listed as a copper mine located 4 companies of the period included the Oregon Gulch, Cherokee Blue miles south east of Valley Springs active in the 1860s and developed by Gravel. Other mines were located at Forbestown, Wyandotte, Bangor a 250 ft. shaft. [Ref: Mines and mineral resources of Calaveras County, and a few other locales. Raymond’s 1867 treatise does not mention California, Clark, pg. 131] Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# the Porter, even though it discusses the active mines of the 1864 100929 period. Mine specific design of vignette. we assume this Porter was the founder or a direct relative of the founder. Est. $300-500 HWAC# Lot# 1714 Calaveras County, California 59502 1875-1882 Three Calaveras County Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3, Lot# 1711 Butte two different mining companies. 1) County, California Calaveras Hydraulic Mining Company. c1857 Magnum Central Hill District, Calaveras Co., Cal. (printed under title). No. 66, issued for Bonum Quartz 1,300 shares to president William H. McKnight on March 11th, 1875 in San Mining Co. Francisco. Signed by McKnight and also secretary Abram Shear. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Blue 25 cent IR adhesive revenue Stock Certificate stamp attached on the left. Printed by Geo. B. Hitchcock & Co. Folds. Never seen by us. Rough left border with pieces missing. Some staining on that side too. 5.5 x 9.75” Central Hill is 1 mile south of Murphys. 2) Calaveras Water This company and Mining Company. One unissued and one issued. Issued stock is from 1882, punch and stamp cancelled. Green border and black print. operated on Poor Folds, pinholes. 5 x 10” The property was located 3.5 miles north of Man’s Ledge near Milton and included the Whiskey Hill gravel mine and a series of water Spanishtown (now Yankee Hill) in Butte County in 1857. A July 31, ditches 21 miles in length. The ditches cost $30,000 to construct and 1857 Daily Alta California article calls the Magnum Bonum quartz lode were supported by a series of reservoirs. (Burchard, 1881, p. 24.). Ken “one of the richest in the state” and that “a company has been formed Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 100860 who will shortly build a mill.” The Yankee Hill Historical Society has a database of mining claims where we also found references to this Lot# 1715 Calaveras County, California company and other claims owned by members of this company (D.H. 1876-1898 Three Different Calaveras Barney and H Childers) on Poor Man’s Ledge, Feather River, at Yankee County Mining Stock Certificates Lot Hill and Deadwood. One of the other claims is specifically mentioned of 3 different. 1) Grasshopper Gold as adjacent to the Magnum Bonum. All were also filed in 1857. This & Silver Mining Company. Calaveras stock is No. 17, issued to secretary Daniel H. Barney for one share. County, California printed under title. No date. Signed by Barney and Childers. Not cancelled. Red print on Inc. Jan. 1876. No. 45, issued for 250 light blue paper. 3.75 x 8.25” Folds, stains. The stock states that the shares to Lewis Shearer on June 21st, total number of shares is only 26, with Capitol Stock, $6,500. Yankee 1876. Signed by president JM Courrier Hill was first called Rich Gulch when it was settled in 1850. It was and secretary HH Russell. Not cancelled. Black border and print. renamed Spanishtown with the arrival of Chilean and Spanish miners Vignette of miner pushing ore cart out of mine. California state seal in the 1850s. It was finally renamed Yankee Hill after an influx on vignette at left. Printed by Crocker & Co. Deep folds with separation, New Englanders. {Ref: https://yankeehillhistory.com/wp-content/ rough left edge, some soiling. 5.25 x 9.5” According to Raymond (1874), uploads/2016/08/YHHS-Index-Mining-claims-Butte-County-by- the Grasshopper ledge was at Mosquito Gulch and was paying well. 2) Date-8-16-16.pdf; CDNC] Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000-2000 San Justo Mining Company. Location: Carson Creek, Calaveras County (printed at top center). Low number 9, issued for 14,000 shares to HWAC# 102170 Thomas Flint Jr. on Nov. 5th, 1897. Signed by the president (illegible) and secretary Edward Dexter. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Lot# 1712 Calaveras County, California 1881- Folds, blue ink stains. 3) San Domingo Gold Mining Company. Calaveras 1882 Calaveras Water & Mining Co. Stocks Co. printed below title. No. 109, issued for 200 shares to HG Reist & Rare Bond Lot of 3 for this Calaveras on Oct. 5, 1898. Signed by AB Thompson, president, and HP Veeder, County mining company whose property was secretary. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Hydraulic mining located 3.5 miles north of Milton and included vignette. Four revenue stamps attached along the top. Pinhole, folds. the Whiskey Hill gravel mine and a series of AB Thompson was involved in many Comstock operations in Nevada, water ditches 21 miles in length. The ditches including the Hale & Norcross. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 cost $30,000 to construct and were supported HWAC# 100861 by a series of reservoirs. (Burchard, 1881, p. 24.). 1) Rare 1881 $1,000 bond. No. 195, not cancelled. Signed by Marshall as president and R.K. Southwick as secretary. Brown border and black print. 56 coupons attached. Franklin Bank Note Co. Folds, toning. 2) Two different issued stock certificates for the company. Both issued in 1882. No. A326 for 5,000 shares and No. 1732 for 100 shares. Neither cancelled. Green and brown borders. Same corp. signatures as bond. Folds, pinhole. Ken Prag Collection Est. $220-300 HWAC# 100874 86 May 2019

Lot# 1716 Calaveras DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining County, Copper Canyon District, California 1863 Lot# 1719 Calaveras County, Wheehawken District, California Wide West Copper 1863 Picayune Gold, Silver & Copper Mining Co. Stock Certificate Mining Co. Stock Wheehawken District, Bear Gulch Copper (printed to the left of vignette). Dateline Certificate Copperopolis, November 25th, 1863. Canon District, Calaveras Inc. August 1863. Low stock number 4, Co., Cal. (printed at issued for 50 shares to HJ Thompson. bottom center). Inc. Signed by president CT Collier and secretary L. Hongsberger(?). Pen Sept. 10th, 1863. No. 35, cancelled. Black border and print. Vignette of patriotic allegorical issued for three shares woman with flag and shield. Printed by Agnew & Deffebach, SF. One to Mrs. J. Campbell on 20 cent and one 5 cent adhesive revenue stamp attached on the left, Oct. 1st, 1863 in San pen cancelled. Folds, bent corners. Left border trimmed tight. 4.75 x Francisco. Signed by president Jackson and secretary M. G. Elmore. 9” The Weehawken (or Wheehawken) District was located 10 miles Not cancelled. Black border and print. Two nice mining vignettes: NW of Copperopolis, according to copper ore specimens from the underground scene by Loomis (left) and surface entrance (top center). Suffolk Mine listed in Journals of the Senate and Assembly California Printed by Agnew & Deffebach, SF. One 20 and one 5 cent adhesive Legislature, 1864. Not listed in Filer or Holabird Indexes. No info. revenue stamp, both tied cancel. Folds, a few creases in corners. could be found on this company. Rare district! Ken Prag Collection Est. Very nice. Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. JM Pike of Copperopolis $400-600 HWAC# 100850 was superintendent according the Mining & Scientific Press, 1864. Copperopolis was originally known as Copper Canon. The district took Lot# 1720 Carson Creek, shape in 1860. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 100848 California 1854 London & Californian Gold Lot# 1717 Calaveras Quartz Crushing Co. County, Gopher District, Stock Certificate No. California 1864 Lotus 32,301-32,350, issued to Mining Company Stock bearer on March 25th, Certificate Gopher 1854. Signed by two District, Calaveras directors and a secretary. County, California Soiling, borders, cut (printed in between close. 7.5 x 8.75” This the vignettes). No. 380, was a London-based issued for 25 shares California Gold Rush to RO Tripp on Oct. scam! Referred to in 29th, 1864 in Stockton. “Money Pits: British Signed by president Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of Samuel Eldridge and secretary Aug. Weihe. Not cancelled. Black the 1850s” as a great disaster for London investors. According to an border and print. Three vignettes: allegorical woman (left), woman on article in the 1854 Magazine of Science, the company was “formed for reindeer (center) and Native American (right). Printed by Agnew & the purpose of possessing itself of the most approved Machinery and Deffebach. 5.75 x 11” Folds, large stains. Please inspect. Not in Filer erecting the same at important Stations the vicinity of the Cities of or Holabird indexes. Gopher Ridge near Copperopolis was the site of a and Stockton in California... and affording facilities to the vast number copper discovery in 1860 by Hiram Hughes. Ken Prag Collection Est. Miners in those districts to have their produce crushed and the Metal extracted in a state adapted for Market. It is not the object of the $400-600 HWAC# 100847 Company...to speculate in Adventures by renting or purchasing Lands where Gold is supposed to exist but merely to operate on the Quartz Lot# 1718 Calaveras County, Gopher Rock and Sands collected by various Mining Companies and Miners...” District, California 1863 Wee-Wee It later mentions they will set up their first machinery near the Carson Antic Gold, Silver, & Copper Mining Creek Mine and that they have formed an agreement to crush quartz Co. Stock Certificate Gopher District, for this mine. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 100990 Calaveras County (listed in text of the stock). Incorporated July 30th, 1863 Lot# 1721 Coloma, California and capitalized at $450,000; 4500 1854/ 1852 Early Lithographs / shares at $100 per. Certificate # 150- “ A California Cabin & Sutter’s 200, issued to T. J. Keys for 50 shares Mill” / 2 Items. Here is a nice pair on Sept. 4th, 1863 in Stockton. Signed by S.E. Yates as Secretary and of items . Item # 1 of 2: Very early, Wm. H. Lyons as President. Vignette of an Indian woman with bow and hand coloredlithograph entitled “ “ A arrows on the far left and a large mining mill in the center. Black ink California Cabin”( 1854). It depicts, printed on crème paper. Measures 5.25 x 9.5”Minor wear. Very nice! TJ 3 rugged gold miners, splitting up the days finds. Very good details. Keys came to California in 1850. He tried mining at Hangtown with no Lithograph done by W & P. Item # 2 of 2 : The most historical place success, then moved on to Sacramento, San Francisco, and Stockton. in California History ...Sutter’s Mill where gold was discovered on He formed a mining party of 23 men and headed to Chinese Camp, January 24, 1848. Another hand colored lithograph, framed in barn then Fine Gold Gulch. Not finding success in mining, he eventually wood.. A page out of history ( 1852), ( #292) originally from Gleason’s started a freight business that operated between Stockton and the Pictorial Drawing Room Companion. Both perfect condition, framed mining camps running 67 mules. The bulk of his freighting business in barn wood, and the same size..14 1/2” high x 17 1/4 wide” . Great was done with the Mariposa Estate. When the freight business failed, items for your collection, or your drawing room !! ( RH). Est. $120- Keys became steward of the Insane Asylum at Stockton. He also served 200 HWAC# 102131 as an assemblyman for San Joaquin. [Ref: An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California, 1890] Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100849 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 87

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1725 Contra Costa County, Clayton District, California 1863 El Lot# 1722 Contra Costa Dorado Gold, Silver & Copper Mining County, California 1863 Co. Stock Certificate Clayton District, Baron Rothschild Gold, Contra Costa County, California Silver, & Copper Mining (printed under title). Inc. July 1863. Co. Stock Certificate With No. 100, issued for 20 shares to Harvey a William Keith woodblock Grear on Dec. 5th, 1863 in Clayton. vignette! Diablo District, Signed by president William Morris and secretary Charles Rhine(?). Contra Costa County Not cancelled. Black border and print, grey design underprint. Two (printed under title). Inc. mining vignettes: underground scene by Loomis (left side) and birds- May 26th, 1863. No. 100, eye view of mountains (center). Printed by Contra Costa Gazette. Folds, issued for fifteen shares to Louis Levy on June 17th, 1863. Signed by creases, a few nicks on the edges, small stains, rough left border. 5.5 x president Dorr and secretary HC Keible. Not cancelled. Black border 10.5” Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. Not found on CDNC. Browne and print. Two vignettes: Native American (upper left) and classic (1868) lists no active copper mines that year in Contra Costa County. Western scene of tent camp next to mine entrance by Eastman and Clayton is at the foot of Mt. Diablo. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 Keith. 25 cent adhesive stamp at lower left. Pinhole, folds, creases, HWAC# 101495 some soiling and rough edges. Please inspect. 5.25 x 10” William Keith (1838-1911) was a Scottish-American painter famous for his California Lot# 1726 Contra Costa County, landscapes. When Keith came to SF, he formed a partnership with Clayton District, California 1863 Home Harrison Eastman in 1862 and with Durbin Van Vleck in 1864. During Copper Mining Company Stock the 1870s Keith painted a number of six- by ten-foot panoramas of the Certificate Clayton Mining District, High Sierra. He also formed a close relationship with John Muir. This Contra Costa Co. (printed to the left of mining company was not listed in Filer or Holabird indexes. Not found vignette). Dateline Benicia. Inc. May on CDNC. Ken Prag Collection Est. $700-1000 HWAC# 101510 29, 1863. No. 33, issued for five shares to company president Parker J. Merwin on June 8th, 1863. Signed by Lot# 1723 Contra Costa Merwin and also secretary A.J. Stile. Not cancelled. Black border and County, California 1863 print. Patterned underprint. Three vignettes: Native American (left), Coquette Gold, Silver mine entrance (center), and small deer (bottom). Printed by Towne & Copper Mining Co. & Bacon, SF. Deep folds, a few small tears along edge. Overall nice. Stock Certificate Great 5 x 10.25” Not in Filer or other Holabird indexes. On CDNC, we find colors! “Mine Located numerous 1864 references to a Home Copper Mining Company based in Contra Costa Co.” in the Alabaster District of El Dorado County, but none in Contra Costa. (printed at top center). Perhaps they relocated? Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# Inc. July 9th, 1863. No. 101496 99, issued for 50 shares to A. Shielding on July 29th, 1863 in San Francisco. Signed by president Lot# 1727 Contra Costa County, GB Davis and secretary E. Worth. Not cancelled. Green and purple Clayton District, California 1863 text and two small vignettes: dog next to safe and eagle. Printed by Last Chance Gold, Silver & Copper Calhoun. One 25 cent adhesive IR stamp attached on the left. Folds, Mining Co. Stock Certificate Clayton one missing corner, a few creases. Very attractive! 4 x 8.25” Not in Filer District, Contra Costa County (printed or Holabird indexes. Not found on CDNC. Ken Prag Collection Est. under title). Dateline Pacheco. Inc. May $500-1000 HWAC# 101501 1863. No. 32, issued for 15 shares to the company president, EB Renshaw, on June 6th, 1863. Signed by Lot# 1724 Contra Renshaw and secretary Saml. Bacon. Punch cancelled. Black border Costa County, Clayton and print, gray background. Four vignettes: allegorical women (upper District, California 1863 left), Native American (bottom left), dog head (bottom center), and Contra Costa Copper, mining scene (center). Printed by Contra Costa Gazette. Punch holes, Gold & Silver Mining deep folds, some staining. Stamped “Property of...” Please inspect. Co. Stock Certificate 5.2 5x 10.5” 25 cent adhesive IR stamp at bottom left. Not in Filer or With a William Keith Holabird indexes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 101507 woodblock vignette! Clayton Mining District, Lot# 1728 Contra Costa County, Contra Costa County, Clayton District, California 1863 Cal. (printed along Noonday Copper Gold & Silver the top). Inc. May 13, 1863. No. 20, issued for 50 shares to company Mining Co. Stock Certificate Clayton president Silas Fuller on May 22, 1863 in San Francisco. Signed by Mining District, Contra Costa County Fuller and secretary JW Crosley. Not cancelled. Ornate black border (printed under title). Inc. May 22, 1863. and print. Vignette of miners pushing cart out of mine next to tent No. 69, issued for 25 shares to S. Brown camp by Keith and Eastman. Printed by Valentine & Co. 25 cent on July 18th, 1863 in San Francisco. adhesive IR stamp, pen cancelled. Deep folds, small ink stain, and Signed by president William LaRoche and secretary Crosley. Not rough top edge. 5.25 x 10.25” William Keith was a Scottish-American cancelled. Black border and print, vignette of bald eagle on patriotic painter famous for his California landscapes. When Keith came to SF, shield. Blue underprint. Printed by Valentine & Co. 25 cent adhesive IR he formed a partnership with Harrison Eastman in 1862 and with stamp at left. 5.25 x 10” Deep folds, light wear to edges. Not listed in Durbin Van Vleck in 1864. During the 1870s Keith painted a number Filer or Holabird indexes. Stockholder meetings found on CDNC. Ken of six- by ten-foot panoramas of the High Sierra. He also formed a close Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 101511 relationship with John Muir. Silas Fuller is listed as a speculator in the 1864 SF directory. Ken Prag Collection Est. $700-1000 HWAC# 101509 88 May 2019

Lot# 1729 Contra DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Costa County, Mount Diablo, California Lot# 1732 Del Norte County, California 1863 Kentucky 1866 Alta California Copper Mining Gold, Silver & Co. Stock Certificate Located in Del Norte County, California, according Copper Mining Co. to 1874 Congressional Reports. Inc. in Massachusetts. No. 72, issued for Stock Certificate 100 shares to James Jarves on July Diablo District, 5th, 1866. Signed by treasurer Bacon Contra Costa Co. and president Henry Souther. Not cancelled. Black border and print, (printed under title). surface mining vignette. Printed by Cutter, Tower & Co., Boston & NY. Inc. May 26th, 1863. One 25 cent adhesive IR stamp attached on the left. Horizontal and No. 110, issued for five shares to Louis Levy on June 17th, 1863 in San vertical folds, some creases. 6.5 x 11.5” Browne (1868) mentions an Francisco. Signed by president JA Dorr and secretary HC Kibbe. Not Alta copper mine in Del Norte County, noting it is the only mine in cancelled. Black border and print. Vignette of eagle landing on nest the county operating, and that they “are engaged in developing their with baby birds. No printer listed. 25 cent adhesive IR stamp attached mine. They have sunk their main shaft down to the depth of 500 feet, on the left side. Deep folds, creases, large punch hole, rough edges, run their tunnel 200 feet, and drifted at several levels, finding bodies some staining. Please inspect. 5.25 x 10.25” Not in Filer or Holabird of ore which appear to be improve in quality as the workings progress. indexes. There are multiple Louis Levys listed in the 1863 SF directory. The disturbed and broken character of the formation ceases at 200 JA Dorr is listed as a stock broker. Notices of assessments can be found feet from the surface. The company has sent 400 tons of ore to San on CDNC. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 101499 Francisco since January, 1867, which has been reshipped to New York. The average of ore has been about 16 per cent; but the costs attending Lot# 1730 Contra its transportation to San Francisco, and reshipment thence to New Costa County, Mount York, absorbs the value in expenses.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $300- Diablo, California 1863 600 HWAC# 101494 Montezuma Copper & Silver Mining Co. Stock Lot# 1733 Del Norte County, California Certificate Mount Diablo 1863 Antelope Copper Mining Mining District, Contra Company Stock Certificate Low Costa County (printed Divide District, Del Norte Co. (printed to the right of vignette). upper and lower left). Inc. July 1863. Inc. June 13, 1863. No. 57, Dateline San Francisco, Sept. 16th, issued for 50 shares to 1863. No. 156, issued for 25 shares to D. Dr. JP Rogers on June 25, 1863 in San Francisco. Signed by president Tourtellotte. Signed by president Wm. O.T. Ames and secretary S.C. Gardiner. Not cancelled. Black border H. Sharp and secretary John Hunt Jr. Not cancelled. Elk and mountain and print. Vignette of Atlas holding up globe. Printed by Kenny & vignette, as well as floral pattern on the left border. Lith. by Drouaillet, Alexander. 4.5 x 7.5” Folds, small stains, right border trimmed close. SF. Folds, toning. The Low Divide District is in the Smith River basin at Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. Not found on CDNC. Dr. JP Rogers is the head of Copper Creek. It is the oldest copper mining camp in Del listed in the 1864 SF directory with an office at 4 Mercantile Library Norte County. Between 1860 and 1870, there was a prosperous mining Building. Orville T. Ames is listed as a stock and money broker at 618 camp located in the district. FH notes this may have been mining a Montgomery. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 101508 massive sulfide deposit. This company is not mentioned by Lowell in his Mines and Mineral Resources of Del Norte County, Humboldt Lot# 1731 Contra County, Mendocino County, but the district is described. William H. Costa County, Mount Sharp is listed as US District Attorney in Langley 1863. John Hunt Jr. is Diablo, California 1863 listed as a clerk with the district attorney’s office. Ken Prag Collection Unexpected Gold, Silver Est. $400-800 HWAC# 101483 & Copper Mining Co. Stock Certificate Mount Lot# 1734 Del Norte County, Diablo, Contra Costa California 1866 Del Norte County (printed under Comstock Company Stock vignette). Inc. Sept. Certificate Copper Mine, 1863. No. 86, issued for Del Norte Co., Cal. (printed 56 shares to C. Storm on under vignette). Inc. June Nov. 20, 1863 in San Francisco. Signed by president James Berry and 1863. No. 117, issued for secretary T.B. Robinson. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Fancy seven shares to Cornelius logo. Three vignettes: allegorical women (left), American flag (bottom Storm on March 29th, 1866 center), and dogs chasing buck (top center). Printed by Robbins & Co. in San Francisco. Signed by One 25 cent IR adhesive stamp at bottom left, pen cancelled. Folds. president (illegible) Storm (also Cornelius?) and secretary R.N. Van Very nice. 5.5 x 10” Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. Listed as one of the Brunt. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Light green background. copper mines in the Clayton District, on and near Mt. Zion and Eagle Three vignettes: eagle on shield (left), dog next to safe (bottom), and Peak. [Ref: Geology and mineral deposits of Mount Diablo, Contra allegorical woman next to horn of plenty (top center). Printed by Costa County, California, pg. 27] Not found on CDNC. Multiple James Towne & Bacon, SF. One 25 cent adhesive IR stamp attached on the Berry listings in the 1863 SF Directory, incl. blacksmith, shoemaker, left. Folds, some creases, and areas of staining. 5.5 x 10.5” Not listed and laborer. Thomas B. Robinson is listed as a stevedore. Browne in Filer or Holabird indexes. Browne (1868) only mentions the Alta (1868) focuses on the coal mines at Mt. Diablo. Ken Prag Collection copper mine as being active in Del Norte. Cornelius Storm is listed as Est. $400-600 HWAC# 100998 running a wholesale and retail coal depot in the 1867 SF Directory. According to advertisements in the Daily Alta California in 1864 and 1865, the company was located in the Low Divide District of Del Norte County. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 100999 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 89

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1738 El Dorado County, California 1882 Brass Wire Gold Placer Mining Lot# 1735 Del Norte Co. Stock Certificate Location of County, California 1863 Works: Cedar Creek, El Dorado County, Lady Bell Copper Cal. (printed at top center). Rare “wire Mining Company Stock gold” mining company! Inc. March Certificate Low Divide 1881. No. 240, issued for 10,000 shares District, Del Norte A.J. Burnett of July 1st, 1882 in Sacramento. Signed by the president County, Cal. (printed on (illegible) and secretary Carl Strobil. Not cancelled. Black border the top and bottom left). and print. Vignette of river winding through mountains. Printed by Inc. July 24th, 1863. No. Crocker’s Print, Sac. 4 x 9” 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp attached 95, issued for 50 shares on the reverse. Folds, heavy toning, tape repairs. Cedar Creek was to George Robinson on located 0.5 miles from Coyoteville. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $120- Oct. 15th, 1863 in San Francisco. Signed by president BH Freeman and 200 HWAC# 100749 secretary John A. Bray. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Vignette of woman (left), eagle head (bottom center), and mine (top center). Lot# 1739 El Dorado County, California Printed by Buswell & Co. Folds, creases, heavy toning. 5.25 x 9.75” Not 1880 California Water & Mining in Filer or Holabird indexes. Mentioned in a Daily Alta California Sept. Company Stock Certificate ”Mines, 24, 1864 report of the Del Norte Mines. The author visits the site of Canals, Timberlands & Other Property the Lady Bell, near the north fork of the Smith River. “This is quite an Located in El Dorado, California” important location, from the magnitude of the undertaking to open (printed at right). No. A59, issued for the mine, and the fact that the ground embraces two distinct veins— 500 shares to W.D. Hobbs on June one 600 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, the other 1,600... Both veins 5th, 1880. Signed by Fred Gilbert as seem reliable. Hence, the first will be cut at 600 feet below the surface; president and a different Gilbert as the second at 900.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 101500 secretary. Not cancelled. Brown border, eagle vignette. Printed by ABN. Folds, creases. Our company sold a prospectus from this company Lot# 1736 Del last year. From that prospectus: Company had a the right to over 700 Norte County, square miles of water rights on the Georgetown Divide in Eldorado California 1863 County, Ca. The area encompassed elevations between elevations 2500 Occidental Copper and 7500 feet between the middle and south forks of the American River. The area overlaps portions of the Placerville and Forest Hill Mining Company divides. 21 reservoirs, 41 named ditches running over 257 miles. Each of the 41 ditches are named and described in size and length Stock Certificate with the Main Ditch running 34 miles. The capacity of the company’s Del Norte County, reservoirs is calculated at over 10,000,000,000 gallons. Sales of water Cal. (printed to towns and mines yielded over $30,000 per month. Additional non- under title). Inc. mining revenue came from lumber sales of some $8,000 per month. March 30th, 1863. The Company also owns 16 placer mining properties, one quartz Dateline Crescent mine and one copper mine. Some of the placer mines cover very large City, Cal. No. 101, issued for 50 shares to L.S. Sandford on Nov. 20th, gravel deposits; the Mount Hope property is some 160 acres. Besides 1863. Signed by president Richard Dugan and secretary Colman. the Georgetown mining area, the area includes Michigan Bar, Mormon Not cancelled. Black border and print. Three allegorical vignettes, Island and Volcanoville. The Company was capitalized in New York at two with American flags. Red underprint. No printer listed. One 25 $10,000,000; 500,000 shares at $20 per. () Ken Prag Collection Est. cent adhesive IR stamp on the front and another on the reverse. 5.5 $120-150 HWAC# 100741 x 10.25”Folds, some toning on left side. Overall very nice! This mine was in the Low Divide District, one of only two 1860’s districts in Lot# 1740 El Dorado County, the county. It was located at the head of Copper Creek, 20 miles from California 1863 Harmony Crescent City. The company worked the Copper Creek Mine, which Silver & Copper Mining Co. later became the Alta group. Greatest production was during 1860-70. Stock Certificate Pilot Knob [Ref: Copper Res. of California, 1908, Aubury, pg. 136-37] Ken Prag Mining District, El Dorado Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 101482 County, Cal. (printed beneath logo). Extra rare dateline: Lot# 1737 El Dorado County, California Clarksville, Dec. 11, 1863. 1865 Blue Ledge Gold & Silver Incorporated Aug. 27, 1863. Quartz Mining Co. Stock Certificate No. 25, issued for 5 shares to John Evan. Signed by president Frisk Location: Kelsey Mining District, El and secretary John F. Bremer. Not cancelled. Red, black and gold print Dorado Co., Cal. (printed under title). with vignette of California state seal centered in a mining scene. Small Inc. May, 1863. No. 3111, issued for vignette of dog next to safe at the bottom of the certificate. Printed 11 shares to Wm. C. Flint on Oct. 20, by HS Crocker & Co., Sacramento. 25 cent IR stamp attached on the 1865 in San Francisco. Signed by the left side. Folds, chip on left and bottom borders. Small tears around president (illegible) and secretary JM the edges. 5 x 10.25” Not in Filer. Clarksville is located 14 miles west/ Buffington. Not cancelled. Black border and print with underprint southwest of Placerville. The Mormon Tavern was established there in pattern. Small vignette of California state seal. One 25 cent IR adhesive 1848/1849 during the California Gold Rush. A man named Clarkson stamp attached on the left. Printed by Agnew & Deffebach, SF. Folds. set up a stopping place near the tavern. It became known as Clarkson’s Left border trimmed tight. Small California Historical Society stamp Village. It was located near the junction of the stagecoach road from on reverse. 4 x 9” According to mindat.org, the Blue Ledge Quartz Mine Sacramento and the freight road east to the Sierra mines which brought was located at Willow Valley. The Kelsey district is in northwestern people, news, supplies, and mail to the gold fields. The town soon El Dorado County. It is that portion of the Mother Lode gold belt that became the commercial and social center for the area, and boasted of extends from the vicinity of the town of Kelsey northwest to Garden four hotels in its heyday. By 1855 a post office was established there, Valley. The area was placer mined shortly after Marshall’s discovery in and in the process the postal authorities renamed the town Clarksville. 1848. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100851 () Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100765 90 May 2019

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1741 El Dorado County, California Lot# 1744 El Dorado 1868 Hermitage Mining Company County, Clarksville, Stock Certificate Inc. 1866 in Boston. California 1863 The Low number 9, issued for 125 shares to Charles Maguire on August 19th, 1868. One Hundred & Ten Signed by G.E. Maguire, treasurer, and the president (illegible). Not cancelled. Mining Co. Stock Black border and print, red corp. seal. 6.25 x 9.25” Deep folds with separation Certificate Dateline starting. According to an article in the Sacramento Daily Union (Dec. Clarksville, Cal., May 25, 1868), the company’s claims were a gold-quartz vein known as 16th, 1863. Inc. March “Hermitage Ranch” and “Hermitage Quartz Mine” in El Dorado County. 1863. No.804-808, Browne (1868) discusses the claim, located 6 miles south of El Dorado at Sugar Loaf. $100,000 yielded. A second mill of 20 stamps was issued for 5 shares to erected in 1866 by a Boston company (our stock) who paid $38,000 HP Bence. Signed by for the mine. Shaft 175 ft. Vein 10 ft. wide. Tunnel being driven in (pg. president HB Bird and 88). () Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-400 HWAC# 100762 secretary John Bremner. Not cancelled. Black border and print, allegorical vignette of man Lot# 1742 El Dorado County, watching ship pass by. Also a circle with “110” at the bottom center. California 1863 New Sigel Printed by Britton $ Rey, SF. One 25 cent IR adhesive stamp at left, pen Copper Mining Company cancelled. Folds, creases, paperclip stain, light soiling. 5.5 x 9.5” Not in Stock Certificate Lot of 2; Filer or Holabird indexes. Not on mindat.org. Newspaper articles from one issued and one unissued. the 1860s only give notice of meetings held in Clarksville. Clarksville Slug Gulch District, El Dorado is 14 miles west-southwest of Placerville. Ken Prag Collection Est. County (printed on either $400-600 HWAC# 100854 side of vignette). Dateline Volcano. Inc. May 29th, 1863. Lot# 1745 El Dorado County, Placerville No. 200, issued for 1 share Mining District, California 1864 Young to Isaac Bloch on Oct. 22nd, Harmon Gold & Silver Mining Co. 1863. Signed by president J. Stock Certificate Placerville Mining McKnight and secretary Otto District, El Dorado County, Cal. (printed Walther. Not cancelled. Ornate along top). Inc. Feb. 10th, 1864. No 104, border and black print, light issued for 50 shares to BW Thomson green background. Three vignettes: soldier on horse (top center), on June 3rd, 1864 in San Francisco. paddle steamer (bottom center) and mine winch (left side). Printed by Signed by president G.S. Ashmead and H.S. Crocker & Co., Sacramento. One 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp secretary John Crowley. Not cancelled. Black border and print, grey attached at lower left. Also a pen notation from the secretary in pink background and red boxes for numbers and signatures. Small vignette ink. 5 x 10.25” Trimmed tight on left border. Folds. Plus one unissued of a young boy with an oar in his hand. Printed by Agnew & Deffebach, of the same design. Not in Filer. Browne (1868) mentions that at Slug SF. One 25 cent adhesive IR stamp attached on the left, pen cancelled. Gulch a shaft was sunk through solid limestone. Specimens from the Folds, a few nicks along the edges, small stains, and a couple of holes New Sigel Mine were sent to the California State Agricultural Fair in in the stock. 5.25 x 9.5” Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. Browne 1863. It was noted that the specimens were from the surface to a depth (1868) reports the Harmon Mine as being 1,400 ft. long, just north of of 45 ft. The claim is 7,200 ft. long. [Ref:Transactions of the California Placerville on a vein that is 100 yards west of the Pacific lode. The vein State Agricultural Society, 1864, pg. 115] Slug Gulch was located in the averages 4-5 feet wide, though reaches up to 30 ft. Browne says it was Fairplay Mining District, south central El Dorado County. () Ken Prag worked successfully with arrastras and paid well. They erected a 15 Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100766 stamp mill that was not profitable and is idle. They are having trouble reducing the undecomposed sulphurets found below the water-line. Lot# 1743 El Dorado County, The vein is quartz with seams of black slate and sulphurets of iron and California 1881 & 1887 Two El lead (pg. 87). Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100853 Dorado County Mining Stock Certificates incl. Number 1 Lot# 1746 El Dorado County, Lot of 2 different, both self- Wild Goose Flat, California identified as mines in El Dorado 1863 Down East Copper County. 1) Woodside Mining Mining Company Stock Company. No. 144, issued Certificate Alabaster District, for 1,000 shares to company El Dorado County (printed president Wm. C. Baird on on left border). Dateline Wild Dec. 10th, 1881. Signed by Goose Flat! Inc. May 1863. No. Baird and the secretary. Not 83, issued for 10 shares to D. cancelled. Mining vignette. Hoogins on Aug. 16th, 1863. Pinholes, folds, stains. There Signed by president J. McBride is a Woodside Mine near and the secretary (illegible). Not cancelled. Black border and print, Georgetown. 2) The True green background. Two vignettes: Native American (left) and small Consolidated Mining and Milling Company. Stock number one! Issued vignette of ships (center). Printed by HS Crocker & Co., Sacramento. for 30,000 shares to A. Melton on May 10th, 1887 in SF. Signed by One 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached sideways at upper left. Minor the president and secretary (signatures pen cancelled.). Stock is pen bleed-thru of ink from the reverse, otherwise excellent condition. 4.25 cancelled in red ink. Small allegorical vignette. Folds. Property situated x 9.25” Rare district and dateline! Wild Goose Flat was located on a on the mother lode, with the south end of the property within the city plateau above the American River near Georgetown. Raymond (1875) limits of Placerville. [Ref:California Journal of Mines and Geology, notes that it has contributed “vast sums of gold to the coffers of the Volume 8] Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 100819 world.” Burchard (1883) has only one mention of Wild Goose Flat, saying that Mr. Zentgraf has completed a 5-stamp mill on his quartz mining property there (pg. 46). Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100852 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 91

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1751 Grass Valley & Nevada City, California 1876-1899 Grass Valley & Lot# 1747 Fresno County, California 1879- Nevada City Mining Stock Certificate 1890s Three Fresno-Area Mining Stock Collection Lot of 6. Three are issued, Certificates Lot of 3 different. 1) Indicator three unissued. Nice group! 1) Bullion Mining Company. Location of mines: Fresno Consolidated Gold Mining Company. County, Cal. (printed at the bottom). No. 35, Issued in 1877. Grass Valley Mining issued for 100 shares in 1879. Signed by District. Issued to the president. Not president Miller and secretary Newlands. Not cancelled. Two mining vignettes. Very cancelled. Pinholes, folds, soiling. Printed by nice! 2) Homeward Bound Gold Mining Company. Grass Valley Mining W.T. Galloway, SF. 2) Wade Mining Company. District. Issued in 1876. Not cancelled. Locomotive vignette. Folds, Location of Works: Fresno Co., California very good. 3) Brunswick Cons. Gold Mining Co. Issued in 1899, not (printed top center). Low number 6, issued for cancelled. Very good. 4-6) Three unissued stocks: two different for 40,000 shares to the company secretary, WH the Gold Hill Mining Company and one for the Washington Mining Allen on April 8th, 1880. Signed by Allen and Company. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $250-350 HWAC# president W. Misers(?). Not cancelled. Very good condition. Printed by 100843 Britton & Rey. 3) Modesto Building and Loan Association. Unissued stock c.1890s. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 100889 Lot# 1752 Grass Valley & Nevada City, California 1877-1888 Grass Valley & Lot# 1748 Grass Valley, California 1855 Nevada City Mining Stock Certificate Helvetia & Lafayette Gold Mining Co. Collection Lot of 7 different. Included: Stock Certificate Extremely rare Gold Washington Mining Company (issued Rush era; 2-3 known. Grass Valley, 1881, pen cancelled); California Gold Nevada Co., Cal (printed under title). & Silver Mining Company (issued Dateline Grass Valley, Nevada Co., Cal., 1881, not cxl); W.Y.O.D. Gold & Silver July 24th, 1855. No. 2286, issued for five Mining Company (issued in 1888, not shares to George A. Montgomery. Signed by president Carvill Conaway cxl, dog vignette); Gold Hill Mining Co. (issued 1877, cut cxl, mining and the secretary (ink nearly gone). Not cancelled. Black print. Two vignette); Brunswick Gold Mining Co. (issued in 1888, not cxl); Wolf allegorical vignettes of women and a smaller vignette of an eagle. Creek Quartz Mining Co. (unissued 1890s, mining vignette); and The Printed by SF Butler. 3.5 x7.5” Significant condition issues: toning, Grass Valley Water Company (unissued, scenic vignette). Very good some foxing, large old tape repairs, small piece missing on left border. condition overall. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $260-350 According to Mining Magazine (1854), the company was formed in HWAC# 100842 April 1852 with E.R. Baxter president. They had 12 claims (80 ft. each) on Lafayette Hill, as well as claims on Gold and Massachusetts Hills, Lot# 1753 Inyo County, California along with an 18-stamp mill. The vein was originally located by a party 1884 California Chemical Company of Frenchmen who noticed a small piece of gold-rich quartz. The quartz Stock Certificate (Borax) Inc. No. was buried and thus had been previously overlooked. From April to 28, 1884. Stock number 11, issued for August 1852, $98,000 was taken out. From August 1852 to Dec. 1853, nearly all of the company, 9,975 shares, they took out $84,200 in gold. The Lafayette Hill vein is 2-3 feet in to William T. Coleman on Dec. 1st, 1884. thickness and encased in greenstone, making blasting a necessity. Also Signed by the president and secretary contains large volumes of sulphuret of iron. [Ref: Mining Magazine Vol. W.R. Townsend. Not cancelled. Red ink writing stating the number of 3, Tenney, 1854, pgs. 541-542] Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000-2000 shares. Black print on light green paper. Printed by A.J. Leary, SF. 4 x HWAC# 100905 9.25” Pinholes, folds, small stain. This company was one of the borax companies owned by William T. Coleman & Co. Coleman formed the Lot# 1749 Grass Valley, California 1889- company to process and package the borax mined in Death Valley. 1892 Idaho Mine Ephemera Collection It was later taken over by FM “Borax” Smith. This stock represents Lot of seventeen. Includes an 1892 Selby Coleman taking control of it for his borax empire. William T. Coleman Smelting & Lead Company refining sheet. was a California pioneer who came to San Francisco during the Gold Value $8,768.03. Grass Valley billheads to Rush, serving on the Vigilance Committee in 1851 and 1856. He ran a the Idaho Quartz Mine from James Lakeman steamship business during the 1860s, and then took over the Death foundry, Empire Market, JP Zipf drugs, Valley borax industry in the 1880s. [Ref:Daily Alta California,May 10th, Coleman & Glasson groceries, Ayer Bros. 1888] () Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 100750 stationary. Also two Idaho Quartz Mining Co. checks imprinted John C Coleman treasurer, Lot# 1754 Inyo County, California 1891 California Wire Works of San Francisco Henry Clay Mining Company Stock credit, pictorial Risdon Iron and Locomotive Certificate (Borax) Another great works billhead San Francisco, Coleman Borax stock from the . Incorporated receipt, two connected checks form Tatum & Bown (great for framing), March, 1883. No. 24, issued for 1 Rix & Birrell engineers San Francisco, Wells Fargo express billhead share to M.B. Kellogg on March 3rd, datelined Grass Valley. Est. $160-250 HWAC# 91945 1891 in San Francisco. Signed by the vice-president Coleman and secretary Newton M. Bell. Not cancelled. Lot# 1750 Grass Valley, California 1875 Eagle over shield vignette. Printed by A.J. Leary, SF. 4 x 9.5” Excellent Maryland Mining Company Stock 5 condition! According to the Inyo Independent March 5, 1887: H.B. shares of Maryland Mining Co., cert. # Spiller of Death Valley is the agent. Their property was 119 acres, 1651 signed August 21, 1875, issued to known as Loc. No. 1 of the Ancient Lake Borate Mine, Death Valley SP Drexler & Co., Trustee. Stock signed Borax and Salt Mining District, Inyo County. According to Copp’s Land by C. A. Saukey, secy and presdient Owner, Vol 13, 1886, the company worked the Winters Borate Deposit (?). Incorp. March, 1875. Imprinted Placer and the Amargosa Borate Placer Deposit in Inyo County (pg. 23, company seal. The date fits a Maryland mine located in Braddock Run pg. 196). The company later went under control of William T. Coleman. in Georges Creek Valley, MD. The dateline and printer fit a Grass Valley See our other William T. Coleman borax stock in this acution! () Ken company! Printed: Britton Rey & Co. S.F. . Ken Prag Collection Est. Prag Collection Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 100745 $100-200 HWAC# 91959 92 May 2019

Lot# 1755 Inyo County, DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining California 1881 Two Inyo County Mining Stock Certificates incl. Lot# 1758 Inyo/Tulare County, California 1866 Oro Fino Gold & Panamint Lot of 2 different; Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate Extremely rare! We usually only one issued and one unissued. 1) see bonds for this company. Tulare County (printed at top), but this The Mineral Point Silver Mining was actually in Inyo County. Inc. in New York. No. 171, issued for 1,000 Company. Panamint District, Inyo shares to Benj. Lealey on February 3rd, 1866 in New York. Signed by Co. California (printed under president William S. Corwin and secretary W.C. Robinson. Not cancelled. title). Inc. in New Jersey. Low Very attractive certificate with black border and print. Three vignettes: number 7, issued for 5,000 shares miner working underground (left), nature scene with California state to A.J. Vollvath on Oct. 17th, 1881. seal (top center), and three miners working underground (right). Signed by Henry Tagg, president, Printed by Ferd. Mayer & Co., NY. One 25 cent IR adhesive stamp and E.R. Birchall, treasurer. Not attached upper right. 7 x 11” Folds, one hole in signature, some toning. cancelled. Black border and print, The company operated the Oro Fino, Mammoth, Knickerbocker and mining vignette. 7.5 x 10.5” Folds. Chrysopolis lodes near the Owen’s River in the Inyo Mining District. 2) Unissued stock for the Newton It also owned the town site of Chrysopolis. The lodes and the town Mining Company. Cerro Gordo Mining District, Inyo County, California site are listed on bonds we have sold from the company. Although the (printed at bottom left). No. 112. Dateline Carson City. () Ken Prag stock certificate (and bonds) states that the properties were in Tulare Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100753 County, Chrysopolis is listed in Inyo County in “Western Post Offices Volume 1”- The West by Helbock. Chrysopolis is listed under Aberdeen Lot# 1756 Inyo in California’s Geographic Names (Durham, p.1143). “A mining camp County, Darwin, called Chrysopolis flourished briefly in the 1860’s on the east side of California 1876 the Owens River south of Aberdeen”. Ken Prag Collection Est. $800- 1200 HWAC# 100984 Defiance Mining Company Stock Certificate This stock certificate is considered the important for the Coso Mining District. Number 344 for 100 shares to Brooks & Lee trustees. 1876. SIgned by NG Hughes and GH Willard. Names are faded. Folding at corners. PIn holes. One small rip bottom left corner. Overall, good condition. This is a hard to find GT Brown, African American, lithographer out of San Francisco. He designed this stock in 1875. One assessment stamp - paid. Brooks & Lee were stock brokers in San Francisco according to the Pacific Coast MInes Stock Buyer Manual of 1870. The Defiance was the largest and most important mine at Darwin. At one point in the 1870’s through the early 1900’s the company was so large and having so many employees that separate small employee bunk houses were constructed all over the hillside, below the mine, and in the upper part of Darwin.The mine was probably discovered in the 1860’s, during the activity at Coso and Cerro Gordo about 1863. By 1875 the mine was the largest producing mine in Darwin with major mining and milling works. (Laguna Collection) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 59687 Lot# 1757 Inyo County, Darwin, Lot# 1759 Lake County, California 1876 Albany Quicksilver Mining California 1876 Loretto Mining Company Stock Certificate Location: Lake County, California Company Stock Certificate - a G. (printed under title). Inc. January 1875. No. 113, issued for 200 shares T. Brown Lithograph Another nice to C. Klingenspoor on Jan. 18th, 1876. Signed by vice-president Horace Coso Mining District Stock Certificate. Hale and secretary J.G. Riley. Not cancelled. Silver border, black print, Number 37 (early) for 100 shares no vignette. Bacon & Co., Printers. 5 x 9.75” Folds, pinholes, toned area. to NG Hughes trustee. Signed by NG Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. No additional information located. Hughes secretary and GH Willard president. This is the same secretary Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 100828 and president of the Defiance Mining Company. Incorporated on December 13, 1875. Located out of Darwin in the heat of Death Valley. Pat Reddy famed lawman and gunslinger) incorporated the Loretto Mining Company which he sold in January 1876. A few months prior to the incorporation, with the help of Inyo County Sheriff Elder, the Reddy brothers wrestled control of the main Darwin mines from Raphael Cuervo, their first proprietor (“Darwin, California” by Robert Palazzo). This is a very fine specimen for this mine. No vertical folds, pin holes, discoloring, dog ears rips, or tears. Of great importance to this certificate it was a lithograph of G. T. Brown: the San Francisco African-American lithographer. (Laguna Collection) Est. $180-400 HWAC# 59688 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 93

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1761 Los Angeles County, California 1901 California Star Oil Lot# 1760 Lake County, Works Company Stock Certificate San California 1863 Lake Fernando Petroleum Mining District, Mining Company Stock Los Angeles County, Cal. (printed at Certificate Location: bottom center). Early oil stock. Inc. Lake County, California. June 1876. No. 69, issued for one Inc. April 17th, 1863. No. share to C.C. Miller on Jan. 14th, 1901 12(?), issued for 20 shares in San Francisco. Signed by president D.G. Scofield and secretary C.B. to George W. Gilman on Wheaton. Stamped cancelled several times. Black border and print, June 8th, 1863. Signed by no vignette. 5.25 x 9.75” Horizontal fold. This is the reorganization of president John Redington (a major drug manufacturer) and secretary the Star Oil Works that was so successful drilling in the Pico Canyon Horatio Livermore. Not cancelled. Black border and print, green Oilfield. They struck it rich with well No. 4 in 1876, igniting the second background. Small vignette of California state seal. Printed by Towne oil drilling boom. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-150 HWAC# 100876 & Bacon, SF. 25 cent adhesive IR stamp. Deep folds, some creases and nicks to edges. Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. John H. Redington and Lot# 1762 Marin County, H. P. Livermore were also officers of the Natoma Water and Mining California 1871 Pacific Company, the largest owner of water rights in the county, organized Powder Company Stock in 1851. Sometimes referred to as the father of Russian Hill in San Early certificate # 5 for 100 Francisco, Horatio P. Livermore, the son of industrialist, public-utility shares to James P Pierce. pioneer and state Sen. Horatio G. Livermore, acquired the “Livermore Signed by JF Nesmith and House” in 1889 at Florence and Jones streets and today remains one president Piece. Dateline of the oldest houses of the original enclave. Horatio was also a founder San Francisco November of the Olympic Club back in 1860 in a downtown firehouse. In 1888 he 3, 1871. Incorporated launched a lumber enterprise similar to the timbering plan designed October 2, 1871. Location years before by his father. Initially the log drives were difficult in the of works: Marin County, 25c Certificate revenue stamp. Ren cancelled. boulder-strewn river, and the expensive experiment was abandoned. Discoloration on left. Bright red company title. Handwriting is beautiful. But Horatio P. had another idea which paid off. In the late 1880’s he Geo. B Hitchcock & Co. printer. Endorsed on back. The company had a began to see that by the time the dam was finished water power as a bad explosion in November of 1867 that killed 3 men and wounded direct motive force for the wheels of industry would be superseded by one other. In 1865, the Pacific Powder Works were located on Daniels’ electric power. He believed that the water of the American River could or Paper Mill creek, where the company had purchased a tract of five turn generators for electricity in Sacramento, 22 miles downstream, hundred acres of land. Ken Prag Collection Est. $110-220 HWAC# in spite of the fact that up to that time electric power had never been 90460 transmitted more than five miles. His belief was not without foundation. It was obvious (to him) that the water power developed at Folsom Dam Lot# 1763 Marin County, should be used for production of electric power and that the market California 1880 San Pedro for that power was in Sacramento. But finding knowledgeable people Gold & Silver Mining Co. who would agree that electricity could be transmitted such a distance Stock Certificate Rare economically was not easy. Livermore learned of the advances made Marin County mining stock! by Frank J. Sprague in the development of a direct-current motor for Location printed at bottom operation of electric railways. This gave him an idea. Folsom power center. Inc. Oct. 1879. No. 45, could be used to operate the Sacramento street railways. Confident issued for 1,000 shares to that a way could be found, he went ahead. To arm himself with a Ai Peck on Feb. 23rd, 1880 negotiating weapon, he personally obtained a franchise to build an in San Francisco. Signed by electric railway system in Sacramento, regardless of the fact that the C.B. Higgins as president and Central Electric Railway Company had been operating its cars by E.A. Peck as secretary. Not battery for the past year. Livermore actually built a stretch of double cancelled. Simple design with black border and print, fancy company track on H Street. Next he wrote to Sprague, who had installed electric logo. Printed by AJ Leary, SF. 4 x 9.25” Folds. An article in the Marin streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, stating his problem in detail. Sprague Journal (Oct. 23rd, 1879) mentions three Marin County mining offered to design a workable system. Convinced then, that he was on companies forming, all with the same corporate officers: San Pedro, the right course, Livermore incorporated the Sacramento Electric San Diego, and San Carlos. An 1880 article pinpoints them at San Power and Light Company, November 5, 1892, to build the powerhouse Geronimo Station. Not listed in Filer or other Holabird indexes. Ken and construct the long-distance power line and a distribution station Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 100859 in the capital city. He also assigned to the new corporation the street railway franchise. Finally, the Westinghouse Company sent Engineer Lot# 1764 Mariposa, L. B. Stillwell to California to investigate. Armed with all the data, he California c1850 California returned to Pittsburgh and eventually his company submitted a plan, Gold Rush Stock Certificate: explaining meanwhile that the whole problem was theoretical and L’Aurifere French owned their suggested solution experimental. When General Electric heard Fremont Grant mining of the Westinghouse activities, it also developed a new interest in the stock: L’Aurifere Compagnie Folsom project and sent Engineer F. O. Blackwell and Professor Louis Universelle Des Mines D’Or Bell to study the problem. G. E., on the basis of its experts’ reports, de la Californie. Paris, January followed its competitor with an offer to build the Folsom system. 26th, 1850. Low number 1, Livermore had won his point. The new Sacramento Electric Power and Series 3202issued for 10 francs. Two signatures. Black print on green Light Company was to build and operate the system, taking its water paper with fancy border. 3.75 x 7.5” Horizontal and vertical folds, left on lease from the Folsom Water Power Company. Though Horatio P. border cut in wavy pattern, creases along top border. Listed in the plays a major role in the story of the Folsom Powerhouse, a principal Filer Collection, but additional information was not located. Ken Prag partner in Horatio’s ventures was his brother, Charles E. Livermore. Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 100943 Though both brothers had interests in the wholesale drug business and quicksilver mining, among others, their main concern was the development of water power at Folsom. Charles was at the head of the company when the plant began operations. Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 101513 94 May 2019

Lot# 1765 Mariposa, California c1851 Le Nouveau DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Monde Stock Certificate Trio--California Gold Rush Lot of 3 different! Pink, yellow, and blue Lot# 1767 Mariposa, California varieties. All have the same design. 6.25 x 10.25” 1856 Quartz Reduction Company Pinholes, folds, light wear. This was one of 18 early Stock Certificate Gold Rush era stock publicly traded stocks formed on the Mariposa issued in London. No 28962-28966, estate. The ‘London Times’ called this company issued to Charles T Wilson, esq., of “a nefarious Mining Company.” The name calling, Northhamptonshire on August 26th, however, went both ways. In a letter from Fremont 1856. Signed by directors Cooper and to his agent in London, Hoffman, on October 29, (illegible), as well as the secretary. Not 1851 he complains that the company men have cancelled. Black print and fancy fonts. arrived with no funds to even cover preliminary Left border trimmed. Folds, creases, work. He approved the company to get a lease, rough right edge. 7.5 x 9.25” This company was formerly the Agua but did not give them a location yet. Not until they had the funds to Fria. They worked the Agua Fria mine at Mariposa beginning in 1851 work a claim. They were however, an actual gold producing operation. whose richness had been confirmed by assays by the Philadelphia The Le Nouveau was the first organized, public company in John C. Mint. It was located within a lease granted by Fremont to San Francisco Fremont’s Mariposa District. These were probably issued before this bankers Palmer, Cook, & Co. over part of his Mariposa Estate. Palmer, company had any real properties because on the back it says “no deed Cook & Co.’s lease was for 7 years and 33,000 shares. Fremont was need be signed.” This was the first overseas company to formed by to receive a 1/6 royalty on gold produced. The property continued John Fremont and his London Lawyer David Hoffman. Fremont had to show promising results and Fremont visited the mine. He was rights to the Mariposa Land Grant which would become known as impressed enough to offer Palmer, Cook, & Co. “the entire upper range the Mariposa Estate. It comprised of 44, 386 acres. When Marshal of the Mariposa property in exchange for the Agua Fria Mine.” The discovered gold he began to explore his property for the ore. He company battled reports in newspapers that the value of the mine eventually sent two samples to the U. s. Mint in Philadelphia which had been faked, as well as further land transactions involving Cook, assayed at $3510 a ton and $242 a ton for the average rock. He hired and the Mariposa Estate. By Feb 1854, Captain Richard Williams had Hoffman to find European investors in California Gold. Fremont’s worked the property and raised 300 tons of rich quartz. However, royalty was 16.6% of the gross production. William K. Smith would water availability caused work to halt in April. The company also become the superintendent when the mine was put into operation. owned a processing plant at Gold Hill, Grass Valley. The company It was funded by French and English investors. [Ref: Filer] Ken Prag dissolved in 1856 and then became the Quartz Reduction Company. Collection Est. $300-800 HWAC# 100886 [Ref: Money Pits, John Woodland] Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 100883 Lot# 1766 Mariposa, California 1856 Merced Mining Company Stock Certificate California Gold Rush. Mariposa Estate. “Proprietors’ Lot# 1768 Mariposa, California 1851, 1872 Two Stock” No. Fremont Estate Stocks 17045, issued 1) Ave Maria Gold Quartz for 615 shares Mine. N;s 16221 to 16230. to Thos. H. 1851. 2) Anglo Californian Stevens on Bank Limited. # 343. 1872. Sept. 9th, Cancelled. Both have 1856 in San edge issues. According Francisco. to the company’s description detailed on the reverse of each stock, Signed by this London based association held half the rights to the Ave Maria secretary Gold Quartz Mine in the Mariposa District, California which would be Smyth Clark worked under a lease with the owner of the other half. The Ave Maria’s and president place is verified by a letter written from John Duncan to John Fremont John on December 26, 1851. In the letter he clearly states that the Ave Wates(?). Not Maria is located on the Mariposa Estate and on the Ave Maria River. cancelled, but much of the stock has been repurposed. They crossed [Ref: The Expeditions of John Charles Fremont, Volume 3, edited by out “New York” and “London” and “Paris.” They also crossed out Spence]. Today the Ave Maria River is known as the Stockton Creek “Mines under lease to Noveau Monde Gold Mining Company.” (See [Ref: Gudde]. There was a small town by that name at the confluence our listing in this sale of Noveau Monde certificates). Horizontal and of the Ave Maria and Mariposa. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 vertical folds. Creases. 5 x 9” 25 cent IR adhesive stamp attached on the HWAC# 91965 reverse. Not listed in Filer or other Holabird indexes. However, as the crossed out text on the stock refers to, this company worked with the Lot# 1769 Mariposa, California 1850 Le Noveau Monde, another Mariposa estate mining company. In 1852, Two French Issued Fremont Grant John Clement, supt. of the Noveau Monde, arrived in California to find Mining Stock Certificates Both that diggers had taken over the property that had been leased to the 1850! Lot of 2 different. 1) Le Mineur company. He secured a 10 year lease on the Merced Mining Company’s Compagnie Franco-Californienne Des mine and mill located at Mount Ophir, as well as their Josephine and Mines D’Or de la Californie. Paris, Pine Tree mines near Bear Valley. The Merced Mining Co. had been April 27th, 1850. Low number 3, operating for a year but were in debt. Under their agreement with issued for 10 francs. Two signatures. the Noveau Monde, the Merced Company’s debt would be repaid Deep horizontal folds and creases, left and all profits would go to Noveau Monde until that debt was gone. border cut. 3.75 x 7.5” 2) L’Aurifere Machinery was upgraded and work progressed on all three mines. Compagnie Universelle Des Mines D’Or It appears though that the partnership fell through by 1856. Merced de la Californie. Paris, January 26th, Mining Company continued to operate the mines. The Josephine vein 1850. Low number 4, issued for 10 francs. Two signatures. Black print was called “the richest in the State.” The Pine Tree-Josephine group on green paper with fancy border. 3.75 x 7.5” Horizontal and vertical ended up producing $4 million in gold. [Ref: Money Pits: British Mining folds, left border cut in wavy pattern, small tear along fold. Both Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s, were listed in the Filer Collection, but additional information was not pg. 70-75] Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 100887 located. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-800 HWAC# 100885 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 95

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1774 Monterey County, California 1863 Eureka Consolidated Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificate Chalone District, Monterey Lot# 1770 Mariposa, California 1851 Burns Ranche Union Mining Co. County (printed at Stock--One of the Earliest Known bottom center). Lodes are California Mining Stocks Location: listed on the left below Mariposa County. Dateline San the vignette: Last Chance, Francisco, April 2, 1851. No. 203. Roanoke, Excelsior, Issued to E.W. Kimball for one share in and Hudson. Rare the ranch and mines belonging to the Watsonville dateline. Inc. company. Signed by Wm. Gorham (president) and K. Root (secretary). Sept. 22nd, 1863. No. 34, Red font and border, no vignette. Gold was discovered in Burns Ranch issued for 20 shares to in 1849. The Burns brothers settled in the area in 1847 from New Nicholas A. Uren on Oct. England. Placer mining was tried at first before quartz mining. This 27th, 1863. Signed by company may have started operations in late 1850 or early 1851. The the president (illegible) other earliest California mining stock is from the Rocky Bar Mining Co. and secretary Henry Ferguson. Not cancelled. Black border and print. which inc. in 1850. So this may be the earliest, or at the very least, the Three vignettes: man looking down at mine (top center), eagle head second earliest. Wonderful!!! 6.75” x 3.5” Very light wear. [Ref: Gudde, (bottom center), and allegorical women (top left). Printed by Geo. H. pg. 53, 1975] Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 100873 Bell, Stationer. One 20 cent and one 5 cent adhesive revenue stamp attached at bottom left, pen cancelled. Folds, stain at center and in two Lot# 1771 Mariposa County, California corners. 5.5 x 9.5” The Chalone District was located near Soledad. No 1877 Jenny Glynn Gold Mining additional info located in our indexes or on CDNC. Ken Prag Collection Co. Stock Certificate Location: Est. $400-800 HWAC# 101505 Coulterville District, Mariposa County, Cal. (printed under title). Inc. Feb. Lot# 1775 Natoma, California American 1875. No 1120, issued for 500 shares to River and Natoma Water and Mining Map P. Weightsman on Feb. 20, 1877. Signed An early print that appears to be on linen. by the president (illegible) and secretary AW Robinson. Not cancelled. Has handwritten ink notes regarding origin Black border and print. Vignette of young girl (on left side). Printed date of map. 29x21” Est. $200-300 HWAC# by Benj. Dore & Co. Pinholes, folds, toning. 4 x 9.5” By August of 1877, E&MJ was reporting that the company owned a 10-stamp mill, 4 91508 mines, and 150 tons of ore, but in Tuolumne County. [Ref: Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 24, pg. 160] The Coulterville district is in Lot# 1776 Nevada County, California 1863 Nevada Gold, Silver and southwestern Tuolumne County and northwestern Mariposa County. Copper Mining Co. Stock Certificate Very rare. Location of Mine, Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 100821 Nevada County, Lot# 1772 Mariposa County, California Cal. (printed 1851 Mineral Mountain Gold Mining under title). Inc. Co. Stock Certificate Never seen by us. January 19, 1863. Fantastic California Gold Rush mining No. 54, issued stock issued in San Francisco in 1851. to Chas. Hosmer Location was determined based on an for 3 shares Oct. 24th, 1851 Daily Alta California on Feb. 17th, article that featured a lengthy report 1863 in Nevada of the mining activity in Mariposa County. They mention a Mineral (City). Signed by Mountain Mining Company forming in the neighborhood of the Merced the president, Mining Co. at Mount Ophir. The company has “expensive machinery” William Bourn, and will work by steam. No other reference to this company can be and secretary S. found. Not in Filer or other Holabird indexes. (Starting in 1863, a Pinkham. Not cancelled. Black border and print, yellow background. Mineral Mountain claim in Calaveras County is reported.) This stock Two vignettes: eagle on shield (top center) and miners pushing cart out is No. 1720, issued for 10 shares to LL Blood and Eugene B. Smith, of mine (by Loomis, left side). Printed by Towne & Bacon. 5.5 x 10.25” trustees, on Sept. 8th, 1851 in San Francisco. Signed by chairman Henry Folds, two nicked corners, and some small stains. Very nice overall. D. Hunter and secretary P.A. Hastings. Not cancelled. Black border and William Bowers Bourn was a very successful mining engineer who print on thin paper. Three different allegorical vignettes. Lith. of B.F. came to California during the Gold Rush. By 1866, he was president of Butler, San Francisco. Folds, creases, staining, large tape repair. 5.25 x both the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company and the Imperial Silver 9.75” L.L. Blood & Co. are listed as commission merchants in the 1850 Mining Company of Gold Hill, Nevada. Over the next three years, he Kimball SF directory. None of the others are listed. Ken Prag Collection added to his growing fortune with a series of lucrative investments in Est. $1500-2000 HWAC# 102168 eastern Nevada’s White Pine mining district. In 1869, Bourn capped his career by gaining control of the Empire Mine in Grass Valley. In Lot# 1773 Marysville, California 1874, however, Bourn shot himself in his SF mansion. His son (of 1890’s Four California Mining Stocks the same name) came to Grass Valley in the 1870s and picked up his 1-2) Turner Gold Mining Company. # father’s mantle. () Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-400 HWAC# 100764 68 for 10 shares to JR Young. Signed by Sawtelle and president JR Young! 1894. Incorporated 1892. A Carlisle & Co. printer. Also unissued # 74. 3) Yreka Gold Mining Company. # 37 for 5000 shares to GM Foote. Signed by secretary Foote and president ES Harrison. 1895. Eagle vignette. Le Count Bros. printer. 4) Sierra Madre Silver Mining Company. # 75 for 100 shares to Horteuse V Daniels. Signed by president MR Vernon and secretary (?). Nice river scene with dead volcano in background. 1892. OVerall, these certs are in quit nice condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 103550 96 May 2019

Lot# 1777 Nevada County, California 1864 Washington Gold, Silver DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining & Copper Mining Lot# 1781 Placer County, Newcastle, Co. Stock Certificate California 1880 Julian Gold Mining Company Stock Certificate Placer Downey House Mining County, California (printed to the left of vignette). Inc. in New York. No. 48, issued for 50 shares to R.C. Jackson on April 21st, 1880. Signed District, Nevada by president J. Augustus Johnson and secretary Thos. R. White. Jr. County, Cal. (printed Not cancelled. Black border and print, underground mining vignette. at top of certificate). Printed by Franklin Bank Note Co., NY. 7 x 10.75” Pinholes, heavy folds. Inc. Oct. 1863. No. 18, Not in Filer or other Holabird indexes. Likely named after Julian in issued for 100 shares San Diego County. Previously Inc in 1872. Length of Vein: 2500 feet. Location: One mile from the C. P. R. R. Station at Newcastle, and 113 to company president miles from San Francisco, via Vallejo, in the semi-foot hills, and on the James Monro on June main gold bearing belt extending in a southerly direction from Nevada 27th, 1864 in Nevada to Mariposa county. Lode is from 3 to 8 feet ; average thickness, 3 feet 6 City. Signed by Monro inches. “The mine was located in 1859 ; has been worked.. with a rude and also secretary Wm. Roberts. Not cancelled. Attractive design five-stamp mill and imperfect amalgamation, the ore yielding from $8 with a black border and print and three vignettes: small portrait of to $20 per ton. Recent and thorough mill tests assure an average value Washington (left), cannon (bottom center), and surface mining scene of $12 50 per ton. Present Developments:From the first or fifty foot (top center). Printed by H.S. Crocker & Co., Sacramento. One 5 cent level, workings have been extended 1,064 feet. The second or 150 foot adhesive revenue stamp attached on the left (part of the stamp is level has been driven northerly and southerly 520 feet. Down to this missing).5.25 x 10” Folds, some toning lower left. Not in Filer or level, three shafts have been sunk, and a fourth will soon be completed, Holabird indexes. Not in Browne. The only mine that we can find thus affording thorough ventilation and great facilities for the cheap numerous references to for this mining district is the Last Chance. extraction of large quantities of’ore. The main shaft is now down 330 Washington was a camp found in 1849 by miners from Indiana and feet, and drifts commenced northerly and southerly on the lode. The was originally called Indiana Camp. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300- developments in depth give assurance of greatly increased values in 500 HWAC# 100827 quality of ores upon further prosecution of the work. By tunnels and levels, the vein is proved to the extent of 1,100 feet ; and inclusive Lot# 1778 Placer County, California of shafts, 1,920 feet in length. Mill— A first class twenty-stamp Mill, 1911 California-Hawaiian with all modern improvements and appliances for saving gold, is now under contract, and will be immediately erected. Its crushing capacity Development Co. Stock Certificate will exceed 1,000 tons per month.” [Ref: The California Mail Bag, 1872] Operated the Ralston Divide Gravel Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 102200 Mine in Placer County, according to the California State Mining Bureau, 1922. Lot# 1782 Plumas County, California The Ralston Divide lies between Long 1877 Giant Gravel Mining Company Canyon and Middle Fork of American Stock Certificate Location: Plumas River. No. 129, issued for 5,000 shares County, California (printed at top to HMK Harrison on Nov. 18th, 1911. center). Low number 9, issued in 1877 Signed by president JSM Haidless(?) and secretary CG Bockers. Not for 50 shares in Sacramento. Signed cancelled. Green border, black print, and three different mining by president HB Welch and secretary vignettes incl. a hydraulic mining scene.Printed by the Union Litho Co., Smith. Not cancelled. Simple design with black border and printing by Oakland. 8.5 x 12” Folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# Bancroft & Co., SF. Horizontal fold. Very fine condition. 4 x 8.75” Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. No additional info could be found. Ken Prag 101545 Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 100820 Lot# 1779 Placer County, California Lot# 1783 Plumas County, 1880 Dardanelles Consolidated California 1866 Two Gravel Mining Co. Stock Location: Plumas County Mining Forest Hill District, Placer County, Stock Certificates Lot of 2 California (printed under title). Inc. Oct. different. 1) Cosmopolitan 1880 in Wyoming Territory. No. 464, Mining Company. Location: issued for 1,000 shares to treasurer Genessee Copper District, Peter W. French on Dec. 1st, 1880 Plumas County, Cal. (printed in Boston. Signed by French and also president Frederick O. Pierce. under title). Inc. August 1866. Not cancelled. Red and black print, red border and hydraulic mining Dateline Quincy, Sept. 7th, vignette. 5.25 x 9” Pinholes, deep fold, stains and soiling. Articles in the 1866. No. 19, issued for 193 E&MJ Vol. 31 (1881) indicate positive results from the superintendent. shares to Jay Archer. Signed Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 101488 by president NP Sheldon and secretary JR Buckbee. Pen Lot# 1780 Placer County, California cancelled. Black border and 1880 & 1894 Two Different Placer print. Vignette with California state seal and mining imagery. Printed by Towne & Bacon. 5 x 8.75” County, California Mining Stock Folds, small stain lower right. Left border trimmed close. One 25 cent Certificates Lot of 2, both self- adhesive revenue stamp. 2) Partially issued stock for the Whitney identified as Placer Co. 1) Wolverine Quartz Mining Company. Location: Indian Valley, Plumas Co., Cal. Gravel Mining Company. No. 75, issued (printed at bottom center). Three vignettes: two of allegorical women for 1,000 shares to T.J. Ables on Nov. and one of a Native American. Dateline SF 186-. Printed by A Shwartz. 3rd, 1880. Signed by president Dodge Toning. While there is no writing filled in on the stock, there is on its and secretary Blanding. Not cancelled. stub, indicating this is No. 7 being issued to R. Chambers to replace Black border and print. Native American vignette. Printed by A. Carlisle cancelled certificate No. 3 on Jan. 6, 1867. Ken Prag Collection Est. & Co. Folds, one bent corner. 4 x 9.5” 2) Haskell Gold Mining Company. $400-600 HWAC# 101485 Auburn. Issued in 1894 for 500 shares. Stamp cancelled. Black border, green background and eagle vignette. Folds, many creases and bent corners. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 100846 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 97

DAY 1 Thurs, May 16 Mining Lot# 1788 San Francisco, California Vallejo Signed Lot# 1784 Sacramento, California Document, 1853 Mariano 1854 Lithograph / The California Vallejo sold David Broderick Gold Distric / Kanaha Bar Here a lot on Vallejo Street, June we have a very fine item. It is a hand 7, 1853, and signed the colored, lithograph, out of Frank deed “M.J. Vallejo” at lower Leslie’s Illustrated Newspapers.It right. Vallejo is one of the shows the California gold district at most important people Kanaha Bar. It was located on one of in northern California the tributaries of the Sacramento river, history. Born in Monterey where cold was first found ( At Sutter’s in 1807, Vallejo found Mill ). It shows the miners working the himself well educated and bed of the American River, and a lot of other jobs as well. Really great a social climber. He became item, good colorization, and fine condition. Framed in old barn wood, commander of the San clear plastic cover, excellent job. Size is : 19 3/8” tall x 23 1/4” long. Francisco Presidio in 1833. Great for your man cave, or over your mantel. ( RH). Est. $150-250 In 1834 he was granted HWAC# 102118 Rancho Petaluma, he laid out the town of Sonoma in Lot# 1785 San Diego, California 1897 1835, and that year he was Venturina Mining & Milling Company put in charge of the entire Stock Certificate Inc. Nov. 1895. No. “northern Frontier” by 58, issued for 100 shares to JP Smith, the Mexican Government. trustee for the company secretary, on Vallejo quickly came to the June 23rd, 1897 in San Diego. Signed by conclusion that this area president J. Witherby and secretary Nat of California should not be governed by the powers in Mexico City, R. Titus. Not cancelled. Red border and thinking the US a better parent. in 1846 his patience was tested by print. 5 x 9” No printed listed. Folds, one creased corner. They owned the Bear Flag Revolt led by William B. Ide and his group of drunken the Fraction and the Cable mines, located 3/4 mile NW of Banner. [Ref: “hoods”, as would be said today. Vallejo, as a Claifornio, had to Report of the State Mineralogist, Volume 14] Ken Prag Collection Est. withstand the throng of lawsuits brought on by ‘49ers who wanted $80-100 HWAC# 100838 land for free and did not respect the Mexican Land grants. He went on to be a successful businessman and is laid to rest in Sonoma. Vallejo signed documents are very rare, and this may be the first we’ve had in decades. Est. $3000-6000 HWAC# 103310 Lot# 1786 San Francisco, California 1849 Gold Rush Property Grant Lot# 1789 San Ysidro, California This is a property grant for a real 49er. It was for a piece of land on Mammoth Consolidated Mining Post Street between James and Taylor and sold at public auction. Sold Milling and Smelting Co Fifty shares to Ard. Reynolds. Reynolds was the original Recording Clerk. Also of Mammoth Consolidated Mining, signed by J Heron Foster and HL Dodge. Foster was secretary of the Milling and Smelting Company, number 1849 legislative assembly on illness of the appointed secretary. HL 492, dated March 1881, signed William Dodge started his California career as a clerk in the courts. He later N. Loker, president. Printed: Rhoden & became a lawyer and a merchant under the name of Dodge, Sweeney & Allen. Ken . Ken Prag Collection Est. Company. He was a member of the state legislature and director of the $120-200 HWAC# 82329 San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. He was perhaps the ablest San Francisco Mint director. Foster and Dodge purchased lots together. Lot# 1790 Santa Clara County, Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 57350 California 1863 Kinsman Gold, Silver & Copper Mining Co. Stock Certificate Lot# 1787 San Francisco, California Issued to the engraver of the stock’s Selby Smelting & Lead Co. Assay illustrations! Redwood Township, Santa Memorandum, 1882 Very rare. Selby Clara County, Cal. (printed at bottom took over for the Kellogg & Houston assay operation. Gold bullion center). Inc. July 14th, 1863. No. 68, deposit (grains) on June 29, 1882 by H. Severring. After melting, issued for 100 shares to D. Van Vleck weighed 58.49 ounces, .9325 fineness, total value $1,127.48. Vignette on Aug. 21, 1863 in San Francisco. Signed by president JW Myrick at left of the building at 416 Montgomery Street. Britton & Rey, Lith. and secretary B. Briggs. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Gray Binding holes on left side, folds. 5 x 12” We could not find a listing for background. Two mining vignettes by Van Vleck! Durbin Van Vleck is H. Severring (or Sevenning?) in the 1882 Langley SF directory. Est. listed in the 1863 SF Directory as a wood engraver at 611 Clay Street $160-300 HWAC# 57674 (info confirmed on the stock). 25 cent adhesive IR stamp attached on the left. Signed by Van Vleck on the reverse. 5.25 x 9.75” Left border trimmed close. One small red stain. Not in Filer or Holabird indexes. No additional info found on CDNC. The Redwood township was bounded on the north by Fremont and Santa Clara townships; on the east by Almaden township; on the south by Gilroy township, and on the west by Santa Cruz county. Van Vleck (1833-1898) engraved the California grizzly bear on the Anchor California Lager label, courtesy of The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. First published in 1856 in San Francisco, it is a superbly crafted rendering of an original illustration by Charles Christian Nahl (1818–1878), who had painted both eastbound and westbound versions of this bear. We have sold other Western mining stocks with lithographs by Van Vleck. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400- 800 HWAC# 101504 98 May 2019