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DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Automobile Lot# 1326 California Seyler-Seely Motor Lot# 1332 1916-1923 Four early 1900’s Car Co. Inc. Stock 20 shares of Seyler-Seely Automobile Stocks: Duesenberg, Woods, Motor Car Co., Inc cert. #5 issued to and signed Elgin, Columbia 1) Duisenberg Automobile by, pres. Howard Seely and Edwin L. Seyler. & Motor Company. Early #73 for 1 share. Assigned May 29, 1922 by Howard Seely. Signed by Newton Van Zandt. Good condition. Blue border and raised company seal. Unique 2) Woods Mobilette. Great vignette of the vignette of women with staff, shield and wolf automobile. #1976 in 1916. Two ten cent with workers and boat in background. Inc CA. revenue stamps. Folds and discoloration. 3) Small tears, one on seal, staple and taped areas. This company, like Elgin Motors. #4493 in 1923. Signed by president Duffie. Elgin Motor many others of this time period, started small and may have only lasted Car Corporation was formed in 1916 by several executives from the a few years and maybe in a limited number of states. No information Elgin Watch Company. The company was based on the former New Era on the company as to dates of operation, owners, even states in some Motor Car Company of Joliet. Large rips. 4) Columbia Motors Company. cases, earlier name and if they consolidated with another company, #C7360. Issued to Minnie M LaHuis in 1923. Nice condition. Ken Prag went into bankruptcy or just closed. Prag collection. Est. $60-200 Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 130164 HWAC# 135370 Lot# 1333 International Cycle Car & Lot# 1327 Denver, Colorado 1919 Baker Accessories Company Stock, 1915 A Steam Motor Car & Manufacturing Stock cyclecar was a type of small, lightweight and Certificate The Baker Steam Motor Car & inexpensive car manufactured in Europe and Manufacturing Company operated from 1917 the United States between 1910 and the early to 1924. It produced steam cars designed by 1920s. The purpose of cyclecars was to fill a Dr Hartley O Baker, who has handsigned this gap in the market between the motorcycle and document as president. The company operated the car. A key characteristic was that it could out of Pueblo and Denver, Colorado. Nice only accomodate two passengers sitting tandem style or passenger orange underprint of a four door convertible touring car. Est. $150- behind the driver. The demise of cyclecars was due to larger cars – 250 HWAC# 131870 such as the Citroën Type C, Austin 7 and Morris Cowley – becoming more affordable. Small, inexpensive vehicles reappeared after World Lot# 1328 Flint, Michigan 1924 Flint Motor War II, and were known as microcars (wikipedia). Cycle cars are highly Company Common Stock Number 16452 for 6 collectible and prized by collectors. It is very rare and unique to see a shares. Comes in original envelope. Advertises stock certificate from one of these companies. There are fold splits at the Durant Plan where people invest a few the folds. Uncanceled. Est. $50-150 HWAC# 111894 dollars a month as a way to save for the future. The company produced their first car in 1923 Lot# 1334 Pan Motor Company Stock and was out of business by 1927. Flint Motors Certificate With Auto Vignette, 1918 Cert. was a wholly owned subsidiary of Durant #33317, issued for 10 shares to J.W. Gessford in Motors Company. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 130217 1918. Signed by John Barnett as secretary and S.C. Pandolfo as president. In 1918, the first Lot# 1329 Ohio Fisher Body Ohio Stock Pan automobile rolled off the assembly line Certificate Signed by F.J. Fisher Scarce auto in St. Cloud, Minnesota. It was the beginning certificate issued in 1922 and signed by F.J. of the short and controversial existence of the Fisher as president. Seven Fisher brothers Pan Motor Company. By the end of 1919, its president, Samuel (Sam) including Frederick John Fisher were part Connor Pandolfo (1874-1960) was fined $4,000 and sentenced to of the Fisher Body Company of Detroit. The ten years in prison for mail fraud. Car production stopped and the St. company sold out to General Motors in 1926. Cloud community lost its bid to become a premier auto-manufacturing General Motors used to advertise “Body by Fisher” until the 1990’s. city (wikipedia). VF. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 There are punch cancel holes but the signature is clear. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 111857 HWAC# 111874 Lot# 1335 Rickenbacker Motor Company Lot# 1330 Automobile Company Stocks Stock Certificates (2) Two varieties, one for 100 Group (5) Certificates from Hudson Motor Car, shares and the other for 25 odd shares. Allegorical Nash Motors, American Motors, Lincoln Motor figures holding gears and wheels. The company Company and Stevens Duryea Inc. All are was located in Detroit from 1922 to 1927. The canceled except the Stevens Duryea certificate. company was established by Eddie Rickenbacker, In average condition. The Lincoln Motor who used his World War I 94th Fighter Squadron certificate has a couple of small tears in the border. Ken Prag Collection emblem depicting a top hat inside a ring. The Est. $150-250 HWAC# 111864 emblems were located both on the front and the back of the cars. The certificates are issued in 1926 Lot# 1331 Automobile Stock Certificate and 1927. The company made sporting coupés, touring cars, sedans, Group Including Early Packard Forerunner and roadsters. Four wheel inside brakes were introduced in 1923. (4) Lot includes Stevens Duryea issued in Rickenbacker made an unsuccessful attempt to merge with Peerless 1920, Rickenbacker Motor Company, 1926, around 1924. Both certificates are in better than average condition Kaiser Motos Corporation, 1953, and Ohio and are uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 111861 Automobile Company (unissued) circa 1900- 1901. The company became Packard Motor Car Company in 1902. The company operated in Warren, Ohio where the Packard Brothers produced the first Packard Motor car in 1899. Although the Ohio Automobile Company certificate is unissued, it is very rare and in excellent condition with three hole punches at the bottom right. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 111865 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 49

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Aviation Lot# 1336 Detroit, Michigan Detroit Aircraft Lot# 1342 Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Corporation Stock Certificate Handsigned by Cons. Electric Railway Bond Signed by Sherman WB Mayo Vignette of oncoming single-engine (Sherman Oaks), 1892 A rare $1000, 6% gold bond plane with blimp in background. The Detroit certificate #9 from this famous company (lowest cert. Aircraft Corporation, founded in 1922, owned # we’ve seen from this company). Signed by president numerous aviation companies, including M.H. Sherman . Has a nice vignette of a streetcar, Lockheed, until it went into receivership when power house and dynamo. 17.5” x 11”. On October 14, Lockheed took over the heavier-than-air businesses of the company. 1890, Sherman founded the Los Angeles Consolidated Handsigned by William Benson Mayo as vice president, who was also Electric Railway in Downtown Los Angeles. He chief power engineer for the Ford Motor Company. Fold split at top, received a 50-year franchise from the city and sold tape reinforced on back, paperclip rust stain upper left. Est. $200-300 stock to help build his street car railroad. In January, 1891 Sherman HWAC# 131872 made his brother-in-law, Eli P. Clark, vice-president and manager of the Los Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway, the predecessor of Lot# 1337 Kalispell, Montana 1926 Aircraft the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad. The company built 47 miles of track Engine Invention 1926 Stock Certificate On radiating out around from Arcade Depot at 6th and Central Streets in Nov. 16, 1926, Ambrose C. DeLange applied for downtown Los Angeles. The new company did well. The power for the a patent for his 2-cycle radial engine, to be used street cars came from two Thompson-Corliss type oil steam engines, in aircraft. Up for auction is a stock certificate each with 700 horsepower, made by Golden State Miners’ Iron Works issued Dec. 21, 1926, by DeLange Improved in San Francisco. Joseph W. Wolfskill sold a lot to the Los Angeles 2-Cycle Motor Co., No 189, 5 shares to Marian Consolidated Electric Railway for the Arcade Depot. In 1899 the Los M. Thomson, signed by President F.O. Williams Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway became part of the Los Angeles and Secretary Dean King, transferred Jan. 1952 to Clara Thomson of Pacific Railroad, as steam trains and other rail lines were added to Kalispell, Mont., eagle vignette, ornate border, fine condition with 2 the system. Gen. Sherman purchased land that became the town the slight folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127968 bears his name: Sherman Oaks, his land deals made him more money than his railroading (wikipedia.com). The bond has nearly two pages Lot# 1338 Airline Stock Certificate of coupons. It has a purple stamp on the face which states that $400 Collection (9) Lot of 9 includes two from had been paid on the principal of the bond. VF. Est. $200-400 HWAC# World Airways, Fairchild Engine and Airplane 111882 Corporation. Commuter Airlines, The Aviation Corporation, Brewster Aeronautical Lot# 1343 San Francisco, Corporation, Tradewinds Airlines, Inc. (U/I), California Santa Clara WTC Airfreight, and a bond from United Aircraft Corporation. Ken Prag County Bond - in aid Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 111866 of San Francisco & San Jose Rail Road, 1862, Lot# 1339 Airline Stock Certificate Group Very Rare $1000 Bond Including TWA (9) Two varieties of common certificate #135, issued stocks from TWA (Trans World Airlines). Also, in 1862 and signed by the a $1000 bond from the company. Also a bond County auditor, treasurer, from Pan Am, and stocks from Hiller Aircraft, county clerk and the Custer Channel Wing, World Airways, Inc., WTC president of the Board of Air Freight, and a bond from United Aircraft. Supervisors. This bond Average condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 111867 was to finance the building of the San Francisco and Lot# 1340 Little Rock, Arkansas 1800’s San Jose Railroad. The Arkansas Railroad Aid Bond Unissued bond total float of this issue was for The Little Rock, Pine Bluff and New Orleans to be $200,000. The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad (SF&SJ) was Railroad Company. This is a Public Debt Adjustment Company and a railroad which linked the communities of San Francisco and San The Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company. Certificate is blank and has a Jose, California, running the length of the San Francisco Peninsula. The vignette of woman with basket of flowers. Please see photos for more company incorporated in 1860 and was one of the first railroads to detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 129755 employ Chinese laborers in its construction. It opened the first portion of its route in 1863, completing the entire 49.5-mile (80 km) route Lot# 1341 Bodie, California Bodie & Benton in 1864. The company was consolidated with the Southern Pacific Railway & Commercial Company Bond, Bodie, Railroad in 1870 (wiki). Large vignette of a train leaving the station at Cal. 1886 Bond #245, signed by H.M. Yerington as the top with a small steamer at right and a man on horseback herding president. The bond was issued for $1000 dollars cattle at the bottom. Tight trim on the borders and red pen canceled. in gold coin. The Bodie & Benton Railway was a 3 Britton & Rey, San Francisco, printer. One coupon is attached at the ft (914 mm) narrow gauge common carrier railroad bottom. Listed as variety SAN-833-B-40 in Cox. This bond is very rare. in California, from the Mono Mills to a terminus Est. $600-1500 HWAC# 129559 in Bodie, now a ghost town, in Mono County. It was unusual among U.S. railroads in that it was completely isolated from the rest of the railroad system. Printed by Britton & Rey, S.F. Hole punch cancels. VF. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 111879 50 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Railroadiana Lot# 1344 California San Pedro, Lot# 1347 Illinois Chicago & Alton Railroad Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Co Certificates Group from this railroad. 1) Specimen Bond Certificate Very Stock certificate issued in 1911 for 50 shares. nice specimen bond from the “Salt Olive. Black on creme. Small train vignette Lake Route” railroad. The Specimen at bottom center. Green underprint states, was dated 1911 and was printed “Common”. ABN. Uncancelled. 2-4) Temporary by American Bank Note. Steam Gen’l Mortgage 20 year 6% gold bonds. Two engine runs left to right. Stamped orange and a brown. No vignette. ABN. Hole “SPECIMEN” in red near the cxls. 5) Preferred stock issued for 100 shares in 1923. Green. Black on signature line with one hole punch creme. Small train at the bottom. Green underprint states, “Preferred”. there. Two full pages of coupons, ABN. Uncancelled. 6) Partially issued preferred stock (signed). 18xx. each with a small punch hole in Nice vignette of a multi-car train passing a worker with wooden each. The Los Angeles and Salt Lake barrels. Engraved by National Bank Note, N.Y. Nice condition with no Railroad (reporting mark SLR) was hole cxls. 7) Cert. of Deposit for Preferred stock, 1930. No vignette. a rail company that completed and Green. Bank of the Manhattan Company. Possibly cxled. Has two operated a railway line between different dates in 1930 stamped on certificate. 8-9) Two unissued its namesake cities, via Las Vegas, stocks from Chicago & Alton Equipment Association. Green one had Nevada. Incorporated in Utah in shares at $1,000 Each, 5%. Brown one had shares at $100 Each, 4%. 1901 as the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, the line was These two are stock certificate size, but functioned like bonds. Hole largely the brainchild of William Andrews Clark, a Montana mining cxls. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 135386 baron and United States Senator. Clark enlisted the help of Utah’s U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns, mining magnate and newspaper man, Lot# 1348 Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Bond to ensure the success of the line through Utah. Construction of the Group Plus Two from Chicago, Rock Island railroad’s main line was completed in 1905. Company shareholders & El Paso Rwy. Nice group of bonds from the adopted the LA&SL name in 1916. The railway was also known by two railroads. Two, I/C, $50,000 bonds along its official nickname, “The Salt Lake Route”, and was sometimes with two U/U $50,000 Bonds from Chicago, informally referred to as “The Clark Road”. The tracks are still in use by Rock Island & Gulf Rwy. Also, four I/C, $1,000 the modern Union Pacific Railroad, as the Caliente, Sharp, and Lynndyl bonds, all in different colors from Chicago,Rock Subdivisions (wiki). VF. Est. $240-350 HWAC# 129567 Island & Gulf Rwy. All of the above were issued in 1904. Also, two $10,000 bonds from Chicago, Rock Island & El Paso Railway Company, Lot# 1345 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1908, 1925 one issued in 1904 and cancelled and the other U/U. Total of 10 bonds Cripple Creek Central Railway Co. Stock in this lot. Est. $130-400 HWAC# 135392 Certificate Pair Lot of 2 different. 1) Issued in 1908 for 25 shares. Punch and stamp cancelled, Lot# 1349 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1835 red border, train and mining vignettes. 2) West Philadelphia Rail Road Company Stock Issued in 1925 for 2 shares, punch cancelled, green border with the Certificate Early. Certificate no. 71, issued to David same vignettes. Folds, creases, some soiling. Controlled the Colorado Hooper for 10 shares in 1835 in Philadelphia. Signed Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway and the Midland Terminal by president Henry Leech and treasurer Joseph Railway. Date: 1908, 1925 Country (if not USA): State: Colorado City: Frazel. Not cancelled. Lists the ten $5 installment Cripple Creek Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# payments made. Comes with stock transfer slip from Alexandra Hooper dated 1851. Folds, creases. 7.5 x 135434 7.5” The West Philadelphia Railroad was conceived of as a way to eliminate the use of an inclined Lot# 1346 Colorado plane (Belmont Plane) on the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad. In March 1835, engineer Henry Roe Campbell gave his engineering Atlantic=Pacific Railway Tunnel recommendations for the proposed railroad alignment starting near the Columbia Bridge over the Schuylkill River and converged with the Stock, Colorado, 1885 Cert. existing State owned railway on Lancaster pike. The total length of the #6315, issued in 1885 for 3 shares alignment was proposed varied from 8 to 9 miles with a practical grade of 40 feet per mile. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134138 and signed by H.S. Whitlake as Lot# 1350 Pennsylvania 1829 president. Not cancelled. Fabulous Pennsylvania Rail Road Bond Very early. No. 720, issued vignette showing Loveland Pass, for $1,000 in 1829 to Joseph Watson and William John Kelso Mt., Grey’s Peak, Mt. of Bell. Signed by David Mann as auditor general and Alex. Holy Cross, etc. The company worked on this railway tunnel through Mahoy as state treasurer. Pen cancelled. Black print, small the Divide for a twenty year period and never made it. While no allegorical vignette. 8.5 x 9.5” railroad was ever constructed, the five mile tunnel project was a huge Based on maps found online, the railroad appears to have run undertaking. About a mile was completed on the east side and some from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- work was done on the west side. The tunnel was to carry a railroad 400 HWAC# 134111 from Stevens Gulch through Kelso Mountain and through the Divide, exiting near Decatur on the Snake River. The company did acquire some mining claims near the east portal (Ellis & Ellis). Small vignette of a train going through the mountain and the names of the mountain peaks such as Torry’s Peak and Mt. of Holy Cross above. 8.5” x 4.5”. VF. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 111881 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 51

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Railroadiana Lot# 1351 Pennsylvania 1800-1900’s Pennsylvania Lot# 1356 1868 Three Different Railroad Stocks/ RR stock/bond Two certs. 1. Scranton, Montrose and Bonds with Imprinted Revenues 106821 Lot of 3 Binghamton Railroad Co. incorp. 1919. #C1451, I/U, $100 different. 1) Warren & Venango Railroad Company. 6%, 40 yr, First Mortgage Sinking Fund Gold bearer bond. Unissued stock. Three vignettes (two railroad, one Issued Oct 1. 1919 signature illegible, BROWN, embossed allegorical). RN-U revenue imprint. 2) Chicago & South gold seal, no vignette, coupons 47-55 attached. Scranton Western Railway Company. One unissued stock. Green Litho printer. 2. The Schuylkill Haven and Lehigh River border, black print, and 3 vignettes (railroad, Civil War Rail Road Co., incorp 1856. #384, I/C, 50 shares @ $50 par, soldier, and state seal). RN-U1 imprinted revenue. issued Feb 24, 1863 ( date is actually written Second Mo.) Punch cancelled. 3) Flint & Pere Marquette Railway signed Glen J. Derbyshire President. BROWN, embossed Company. $1,000 bond issued in 1868, pen and cut seal, vignette cab less loco and cars, revenue stamp lower right. cancelled. Two railroad vignettes and three imprinted revenue stamps: Unknown printer. Est. $100-160 HWAC# 135376 RN-P5 (front and back) and RN-W2. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 135380 Lot# 1352 Vermont Vermont Central Lot# 1357 New Orleans, Louisiana New Railroad Co Bond Signed by Charles Paine, Orleans Lightering & Wrecking Company 1850 Cert. #646, issued for $100 by the Stock, 1867 Very nice, early date New Orleans railroad. Signed by Charles Paine, the governor issued stock. Nice vignette of a tall ship with of Vermont from 1841-1843. Printed by Beals many masts. Cert. #384 from Book A. Issued & Greene. Black on white with state seal. Four to D. DeHaven and signed by E Farraner as coupons at the bottom. Uncanceled. Ken Prag president. The company was granted the rights Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 118364 to lighter, buoy, camel or dock vessels over the bars of the mouths of the Mississippi River. The company could also Lot# 1353 Wisconsin Wisconsin Railroad Stock wreck or salvage vessels beached or sunken (Act passed by Louisiana Group 1. Chicago, Portage & Superior Railway Co legislature in 1867). VF. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $260-400 $1,000 Land Grant Gold Bond- Cert. #3075, issued HWAC# 118372 in 1881. $1,000 Land Grant gold bond, 40 year, 6%, due 1921. 45 Coupons attached. Train in oval Lot# 1358 New York, New York 1815 War vignette runs right to left. Franklin Bank Note, N.Y. of 1812 Privateer Ship Stock Certificate Black on creme. 2. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Fantastic! No. 113, scrip for 20 shares, issued Pacific Railroad Co Specimen Bonds & Scrip - Four to Simon Lyman in New York, Nov. 10th, 1814. Specimen certificates includes two temporary Signed by Noah Brown and AAH Brown as bonds in blue and orange and two scrip certificates agents. Signed on the back by Lyman. $500 for bonds. All four have the date of February 2, 1925. The railroad was gives Lyman 20 shares of the “Private Vessel of incorporated in Wisconsin. ABN, printer. Hole punches at the bottom to War, Warrior” under the command of Guy Champlin, “and also to 20 cancel. 3. Chicago, Lake Geneva & Pacific Railway Co Stock Certificate- shares of whatever Prizes, Prize-Goods and Monies, that may be taken Cert. #4, fully issued but not dated to W.H. Conger and signed by John by said Vessel.” Black print and vignette of ship. 4 x 6.75” Folds. The E. Burton as president. Conger did endorse the certificate on the back privateer ship Warrior was built for use in the War of 1812 by brothers in 1887, so that narrows the date range. Black, issued for 5 odd shares. Noah and Adam Brown, who were noted shipbuilders in New York Vignette of two people watching passing train. Shares were $100 Each. City. During the War of 1812, they constructed the privateers General Total Capital Stock, $2,000,000. No sign of cancellation, but there is Armstrong, Paul Jones, Prince de Neufchatel, Warrior, Yorktown, and browning along the left border. Browning on the back side along that Zebra at New York and were then contracted to construct military edge as well. Est. $800-1200 HWAC# 135394 vessels for the U.S. Navy. The Warrior was a 430-ton armed privateer brig built on the swift pilot boat model, carried 21 guns and a 150 Lot# 1354 Electric Selector & Signal Company man crew. The Warrior was commanded by Guy R. Champlin, a Gold Bond Certificate Bond #43, issued in 1896 and respected and feared War of 1812 captain. The ship captured the signed by Thos. Sturgis as president. He and his brother brig Hope in 1814 (depicted in an oil painting by Thomas Birch now William moved to Wyoming in 1873 where they started at the Smithsonian), the 4-gun convict transport Francis and Eliza in the Northwestern Cattle Company and later the Union January 1815, the 8-gun Neptune, the brig Dundee, and an unknown Cattle Company. He was appointed the second New schooner. Privateer ships were a necessary way for the US to beef up York City Fire Commissioner by Mayor Seth Low on its Navy while fighting the British. The same tactic had been used January 1, 1902 and served in that position until the during the Revolutionary War. President Madison issued 500 letters of end of the Low Administration on December 31, 1903. marque authorizing privateers. It is estimated they were responsible Prior to this he served as a fire commissioner under for capturing and sinking as many as 2,500 British ships and doing William Lafayette Strong, replacing Austin E. Ford (newsbreak.com). approximately $40 million worth of damage to the British economy. We have seen Sturgis signature before in our auctions with the Union Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 134116 Cattle Company bonds. There are 8 coupons attached at the right. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 111873 Lot# 1359 1882 Early Underwater Breathing Apparatus Manufacturer Stock Cert Unique Lot# 1355 1800-1900’s Illinois, W. Virginia, stock cert #38, issued by The Diving and Canada, N.Y. and New Jersey RR stock 8 Breathing Apparatus Manufacturing Company for 20 shares at $50 certificates. All are are unissued/ cancelled per to William White, dated December 8, 1882 and signed by George except for one cancelled. Datelines are 1___, Gordon secretary and H.R. Meeker president. There’s a Greek woman 18___ and 19__. Green. black, brown. and vignette and no apparent cancelation. Breathing equipment was first blue. Example: Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo developed in the 1860’s in France to aid miners. Please see photos for Railway Co. Franklin Bank note co. Troy Hill more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# Passenger Railway . The Taylor Nut-Lock Co. 128262 Theo Leonhardt & Son printer. Terminal Railroad Co. S.D. Childs & Co printer. Trenton Transit Security Bank Note Co printer. Est. $100-160 HWAC# 135385 52 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Banking Lot# 1360 Hollywood, California 1928 Lot# 1366 New Jersey 1867 Morris Canal Bank of Hollywood Stock Certificate Inc. in & Banking Company Stock Certificate California in 1922. No. 1171, issued for two No. 3883, issued for 40 shares to Margaret shares to Martha E. Hill on March 13th, 1928. V. Underhill in Jersey City, May 15th, 1867. Signed by president John Camphouse and Signed by the president (WH Balcott) and secretary Charles Lumpkin. Not cancelled. secretary (John Rodgers). Cut cancelled. Four Orange border and black print. Deep folds. 9 vignettes with allegorical and canal themes. 5.75 x 9.75” Tear on top x 12” Date: 1928 Country (if not USA): State: center border. The Morris Canal & Banking Co. operated the Morris California City: Hollywood Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- Canal, used for transportation of anthracite coal from Pennsylvania’s 150 HWAC# 135437 Lehigh Valley to northern New Jersey’s growing iron industry and other developing industries in New Jersey and the New York City area. Lot# 1361 San Francisco, California California The canal also carried iron ore to iron furnaces in western New Jersey Building & Loan Society Stock Certificate, and eastern Pennsylvania until the development of Great Lakes iron 1866 Cert. #482, issued for one share to ore caused them to decline. It remained in heavy use throughout the George Best. Signed by Thomas Mooney as 1860s. In 1871, it was leased to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and taken president. Black on creme with revenue stamp over by the state of New Jersey late in 1922. Date: 1867 Country (if at bottom left. Eagle vignette. Dividends paid in not USA): State: New Jersey City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. gold coin twice a year. Printed by Fishbourne’s Litho, San Francisco. $100-200 HWAC# 135429 VF. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $260-400 HWAC# 118367 Lot# 1367 Cooperstown, New York 1830 Lot# 1362 Kimball, Dakotas Farmer’s & Otsego County Bank Stock Certificate Low Trader’s Bank of Kimball, Dakota Stock, D.T. number 6, issued to Erik Bradford for 20 shares 1886 Very rare stock certificate from Dakota on November 6th, 1830 in Cooperstown. Signed Territory. Cert. #60, issued for 5 shares to by president Robert Campbell and cashier H.M. Sprague in 1886, and signed by H.E. Gates H. Scott. Not cancelled. Transferred on the as president. Small float with only 250 total reverse. 3.75 x 8” Campbell was a prominent attorney in Cooperstown shares authorized with total capital of $25,000. and one of the trustees when the town was incorporated. Ken Prag We don’t believe we have ever seen this one before. Journal Print, Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 134121 Sioux City. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 118582 Lot# 1368 New York, Lot# 1363 Atlanta, Georgia 1874 Atlanta New York 1824 Mohawk National Bank Stock Certificate No. 100, Insurance Company Stock issued for 10 shares to Cox & Hill on June 3rd, Certificate No. 57, issued 1874 in Atlanta. Signed by president Alfred to M. Myer for 20 shares on Austell and the cashier. Pen and cut cancelled August 30th, 1824. Signed signatures. Black border and print with eagle by president Jno. Brown. Not vignette. Printed by Bingham & Dodd, Hartford, cancelled. Not endorsed on Conn. 6.25 x 10” Folds, toning. This national bank opened in 1865 and the back. 5.5 x 6.5” Folds. It stopped printing money in 1935. They issued 12 different types and is possible that “M. Myer” is denominations of national currency. Alfred Austell organized the bank Mordecai Myers, the War of and served as its president until his death in 1881. He was also a major 1812 Jewish hero, for which player in the Georgia cotton industry, and helped build the Atlanta other certificates of this and Charlotte Air-Line and the Spartanburg-Asheville branch of what period in the Prag Collection was later the Southern Railway. The town of Austell in Cobb County is are issued to. This company was incorporated in April 1824. Ken Prag named after him. Date: 1874 Country (if not USA): State: Georgia City: Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134159 Atlanta Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 135439 Lot# 1364 Portland, Maine 1802 Portland Bank Lot# 1369 New York, New Stock Certificate Very early! This was the first bank York 1812 and 1814 New York in Portland, established in 1799. Stock number 1973, Manufacturing Company Stock issued to Isaiah Hacker for one share July 1st, 1802. Certificate Pair Lot of two Signed by cashier Joseph Swift and the president (High different issued certificates. 1) No. Lillan?). Not cancelled. Reverse has pen notations. 52, issued for 100 shares to IER Black print with the bank logo in the upper left corner. Birch on Sept. 9th, 1812. Signed by 11.75 x 7.75” Deep folds, some discoloration. Ken Prag the president . Not cancelled. 5 x Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134118 7” Some staining. 2) No. 345, also issued to Birch, for 50 shares on Lot# 1365 Marblehead, Massachusetts 1803 Jan. 31st, 1814. Signed by cashier and 1813 Marblehead Marine Insurance David Greene. Not cancelled. 4 x Co. Stock Certificate Pair Lot of 2 very early 6.5” Folds, some discoloration. This certificates. Certificate number 10, issued company was the early predecessor for 20 shares to Joseph Wilson in 1803. to Manufacturers Hanover Trust. Cut cancelled. Plus certificate number 159, Formed in 1812, the New York issued to John Russell, cashier of Marblehead Bank, in 1813. Also cut Manufacturing Company’s charter cancelled. Both certificates signed by Robert Hooper as president and included the authorization to conduct banking activities, even though John Bonde as secretary. 6.75 x 6” Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 it was technically a textile company. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 134119 HWAC# 134147 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 53

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Banking Lot# 1370 New York, New York 1825 New Lot# 1373 Harrisburg, York Loan Company Stock Issued to War of 1812 Hero No. 30, issued to Mordecai Myers Pennsylvania 1814 for 5 shares on August 6th, 1825. Signed by Myers on reverse. Also signed by the agent and Harrisburg Bank Stock cashier. 3.75 x 6.25” Mordecai Myers was born in Rhode Island in 1776. During the War of Certificate Very early US bank 1812, he became a captain in the 13th Pennsylvania Infantry. General John Parker Boyd sent Captain Myers to Sacketts Harbor, where two stock. No. 163, issued for ten boats loaded with more than 250 men and military supplies were wrecked. When he arrived to rescue them, he found the two boats shares to cashier John Downey were fast filling up with water and the crew in chaos. Risking his life, Myers and his men rescued more than 200 men and saved what was on August 1st, 1814. Signed by left of the military supplies. He was later severely injured in a different battle. After the War of 1812, he became involved in state politics (the president William Wallace and first Jewish member of the New York State Legislature, 1828-1834); local politics (the only Jewish mayor of both Kinderhook, in 1838, and Downey. Not cancelled. Black Schenectady, in 1851 and 1854); and national politics (candidate for U.S. Congress in 1860, at age 84). Myers was present when George print on thick paper. Signed on Washington was sworn in as president in 1789. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134158 the reverse. Some soiling. 5.5 Lot# 1371 Plattburgh, New York 1817 Bank x 7.5” Wallace was a wealthy of Plattsburgh Stock Certificate Issued to War of 1812 Hero Lot of 2. 1) Stock dateline ironmaster and chief burgess of Harrisburg. He died in 1816. The Plattsburgh, June 7th, 1817. No. 29, issued for 25 shares to Mordecai Myers. Signed by Alex. Scott, bank’s charter was secured in May 1814. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300- W.D. Ross, (illegible) Smith, and Peter Sailly. Not endorsed by Meyers. 5 x 6” Uneven left border, 500 HWAC# 134109 folds, some toning. 2) Sept. 10th, 1817 receipt for Myers paying $53.12 for 25 share of stock. Signed Lot# 1374 Harrisburg, by Sailly as clerk. 4.5 x 7.5” Mordecai Myers was born in Rhode Island in 1776. During the War of 1812, he became a Pennsylvania 1814 captain in the 13th Pennsylvania Infantry. General John Parker Boyd sent Captain Myers to Sacketts Harbor, where two boats loaded with Harrisburg Bank Stock more than 250 men and military supplies were wrecked. When he arrived to rescue them, he found the two boats were fast filling up Certificate Very early with water and the crew in chaos. Risking his life, Myers and his men rescued more than 200 men and saved what was left of the military US bank stock. No. 171, supplies. He was later severely injured in a different battle. After the War of 1812, he became involved in state politics (the first Jewish issued for ten shares to member of the New York State Legislature, 1828-1834); local politics (the only Jewish mayor of both Kinderhook, in 1838, and Schenectady, cashier John Downey on in 1851 and 1854); and national politics (candidate for U.S. Congress in 1860, at age 84). Myers was present when George Washington was August 1st, 1814. Signed by sworn in as president in 1789. At Plattsburgh, Peter Sailly was active in the lumber business, owned several stores, and was a successful president William Wallace fur trader and potash manufacturer. Through the fur business, Sailly formed a longstanding friendship with John Jacob Astor. In 1804, Sailly and Downey. Not cancelled. was elected to the Ninth Congress as a Democratic-Republican, and he served from March 4, 1805 to March 3, 1807. During the War of Black print on thick paper. 1812, Sailly was appointed keeper of the public stores, a position that gave him responsibility for all government warehouses in upstate Signed on the reverse. Some New York. He also provided U.S. commanders with intelligence about the Champlain Valley and British troop activities in New York and soiling. 5.5 x 7.5” Wallace southern Canada. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 134112 was a wealthy ironmaster and chief burgess of Harrisburg. He died in Lot# 1372 Germantown, Pennsylvania 1833 Bank of Germantown Stock Certificate Very 1816. The bank’s charter was secured in May 1814. Ken Prag Collection early, but does have condition issues. No. 508, issued to John Harvey for 12 shares on Sept. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134110 24th, 1833. Signed by president Sam Harvey and cashier John L. Watson. Not cancelled. Printed Lot# 1375 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1839 by Joseph Rakestraw, Philadelphia. 7 x 8” Folds, Schuylkill Bank Stock Certificate Early creases, large separations. As is. Ken Prag Collection bank stock with attractive design. No. 1728, Est. $150-300 HWAC# 134113 issued to Wm. Ashmead, MD, for 10 shares on May 28th, 1839 in Philadelphia. Signed by president Meredith and cashier HJ Levis. Not cancelled. Ornate border and design with multiple allegorical vignettes. Printed by Draper, Underwood, Bald & Spencer. Folds, creases, some staining. 7 x 9.25” Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134114 Lot# 1376 Newport, Rhode Island 1815 Marine Insurance Company Stock Certificate No. 327, issued to Samuel Vernon for one share in Newport on April 14th, 1815. Signed by president Chris Fowler and secretary Ben Peirce. Not cancelled of endorsed. 5 x 6.5” Creases, light wear. The company was chartered in 1815. No other information located. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134115 Lot# 1377 Providence, Rhode Island 1805 Providence Insurance Company Stock Certificate Very early! No. 41, issued to Samuel Butler & Son for 60 shares on Oct. 21st, 1805 in Providence. Signed by Otis Ammidon, president. Not endorsed. 4.75 x 7.75” Folds, rough edges. Ammidon was later associated with anti-slavery groups in Philadelphia in the 1820s. Samuel Butler was a successful ship owner and merchant in Providence. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134120 View High Resolution Images, Register, Place Bids, See Current Opening Bids Visit the online catalog at FHWAC.com 54 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Banking Lot# 1378 Charleston, South Carolina 1830 Lot# 1382 Burlington, Iowa 1850 and 1899 Bank of the United States of America Iowa & Ohio Plank Road Companies Stock Stock Certificate Early and rare stock from Certificates (2) Two plank road companies’ the Charleston, South Carolina branch of the stock certificates, from Iowa and Ohio, post second federally authorized Hamiltonian 1900. Included are: Burlington and Mount national bank. No. 2787, issued to Henry Pleasant Plank Road Company, Iowa, No. 134, O’Hara of Charleston for 82 shares on April 5th, seven shares issued to the company president, James W. Grimes on 1830 in Charleston. Signed by president Joseph Aug. 13, 1850, signed by President James W. Grimes and Secretary Johnson and the cashier (illegible). Punch cancelled (tape repairs). Geo. Snyder, embossed seal and decorative border left side, some Heavy toning, folds, holes lower left. 7.5 x 10” Transferred by O’Hara original writing and Grimes’ signature on rear, excellent condition on the reverse. Printed by Fairman, Draper & Underwood. Joseph with two light folds and two very small tears, 7.75” x 7.5”; and Clinton Johnson (1776–1862), physician and author. He was president of the and Blendon Plank Road Company, Ohio, No. 90, 14 shares issued to Medical Society of South Carolina, 1808–09. He may be best known for Frank C. Martin on Sept. 13, 1899, signed by President G.H. Vance and his Traditions and Reminiscences chiefly of the American Revolution Secretary A.T. Schrock, decorative border left side, pristine condition in the South (1851). Johnson was president of the Charleston branch with two very light folds, 7.5” x 4”. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 of the Bank of the United States, 1818–25, intendant (mayor) of HWAC# 127610 Charleston in 1826, and a longtime public school commissioner and steward of the South Carolina Society. This was the “Second Bank of Lot# 1383 Skowhegan, Maine 1811 & 1814 the United States of America,” founded in Philadelphia in 1816. As Skouheagan Bridge Stock Certificate Pair Lot a private corporation with public duties, the bank handled all fiscal of 2. 1) Share number 6, issued in 1811 to James transactions for the U.S. Government, and was accountable to Congress Bridge, Esquire, of Augusta. Signed by president and the U.S. Treasury. It was modeled on Alexander Hamilton’s First Judah McClellan, treasurer Daniel Steward, and Bank of the United States, which went defunct in 1811. The Second clerk John G. Neil. Not endorsed. 4 x 7.25. Bent Bank was chartered by President James Madison in 1816 and began corners, hole in right edge, some discoloration. operations at its main branch in Philadelphia on January 7, 1817. By James Bridge graduated at Harvard College in 1832, there were 25 branch offices nationwide, including this branch 1787 and was a classmate of John Quincy Adams. in South Carolina. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 134149 He was friends with Adams and a fellow-student at law with him in the office of Theophilus Parsons at Newburyport. 2) Lot# 1379 1884-1927 Lock Companies No. 56, issued to Seth Wyman of Bloomfield in 1814. Same corporate Stock Certificates and Safety Vault Receipt signatures. 6 x 8” Transferred on the reverse. Folds with tape repaired (5) Lot of five includes four lock companies’ separation, foxing. This company built 2 covered bridges over the stock certificates from east and west coast U.S. states, issued from Kennebec River in an area called Skouheagan. When the nearby town 1884-1927, and safety vault receipt. Certificates both canceled and was incorporated later in 1823, it did so under the name Milburn. In uncanceled. All in very good to fine condition. Certificates include: The 1836, it was renamed Skowhegan. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 European Lock & Time Lock Co., Covington, Ky., No. 242, 10 shares, HWAC# 134128 issued 1884, signed by President Joseph L. Hall and Secretary M.A. Dalton, vignette of farmers leaning on globe and clock; American Lot# 1384 Maryland Baltimore & Yorktown Cork Lock Company, Chicago, Ill., No. 50, 5 shares, issued 1889, signed Turnpike Road Stock Certificate, 1869 Cert. by President E.R. Paige and Sec. H.D. Turner; Best Universal Lock #239, issued for 35 shares. Signed by Chas. Co., State of Washington, No. 7141, 5 shares, issued 1926, signed by G. Wilson as president and Wm B. Wilson as President Frank E. Best and Sec. W.C. Erwin, with Bonus “C” Escrow secretary. Issued to D.L. Wilson of Baltimore Agreement attached; The Crown Lock Company, Delaware, No. 8, 1000 City. Great vignette of a horse drawn streetcar shares, issued 1927, signed by President and Sec., eagle vignette. Also and a covered wagon on the turnpike. A. Hoen, included is a Chamber of Commerce Safety Vault Company, Chicago, Balto litho. VF. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $160-250 HWAC# safe rent receipt, issued in 1896. No. 6410, for $5 received from Mrs. 118375 Maria B. Turck, signed by Manager, with ornate border and vignette of high rise building. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 127976 Lot# 1385 Dracut, Massachusetts 1823 & 1824 Central Bridge Corporation Stock Lot# 1380 Hartford, Connecticut Stock in the Certificate Pair Lot of 2 different. 1) No. 89, Hartford Bridge Company, 1793 Certificate issued to Nathaniel G. Upham for one share on issued to Peleg Kingsley. Certificate 198 in the October 11th, 1823. Signed by the treasurer Hartford Bridge Company issued June 5, 1809, (illegible) and clerk James Chase. Not cancelled. 5.25 x 7.25” Light signed by John Morgan president and SW Candee toning on the edges. 2) No. 10, issued to James Minot in Dec. 1824. as Proprietors’ clerk. Numerous transfers noted Also signed by Chase and by treasurer Solomon Davis. Not cancelled. on reverse as well as endorsement by the issuee. Some toning and stains. 5.5 x 7” In 1843, the citizens of Dracut, Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 132750 Massachusetts were asking for an investigation into the tolls charged by this company. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134142 Lot# 1381 Wilmington, Delaware 1814 Wilmington & Philadelphia Turnpike Lot# 1386 Worcester, Massachusetts 1807 Company Stock Certificate No. 541, issued to Worcester Turnpike Corporation Stock Thomas Smyth for one share in 1814. Signed Certificate Early and pictorial. No. 413, issued by president Hamilton and treasurer Joseph for one share to Asa Whitney of Boston on Feb. Guible. Cancelled by stamp on the reverse in 4th, 1807. Signed by president Simon West and 1913. Endorsed by Smyth. 6 x 11” Some stains, small tear. In 1813, clerk L. Richardson. Not cancelled. Beautiful the Wilmington and Philadelphia Turnpike Company was chartered to vignette of countryside scene. Deep folds, rough edges, and some build a turnpike running from the Brandywine Bridge in Wilmington staining. Please inspect. 5 x 8.5” Incorporated March 7, 1806 to erect a northeast to the Pennsylvania border, where the roadway would toll road from Roxbury to Worcester. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 continue to Philadelphia. A 3.75-mile long portion of the road near HWAC# 134125 Wilmington was finished in 1816 with the remainder completed in 1823. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134124 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 55

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Transportation Lot# 1387 Massachusetts Third Lot# 1392 Utica, New York 1840’s Two Plank Massachusetts Turnpike Share Road Company Stock Certificates Two Certificate, 1798 Share #1087 early stock certificates issued by plank road issued to Elihu Clapp in 1798. companies in New York State. First is issued by Signed by company president Ratavia Street Plank Road Company to Milo Hill Caleb Strong and the company for 12 shares at $25 per and is dated November clerk. In the late 18th century 20, 1849 and is signed by George Marvin, and early 19th century, turnpikes, secretary and president (illegible) It is cert 57 as opposed to ordinary roads and has a conestoga wagon vignette. Second of the same time, were roads is issued by the Bridgewater and Utica Plank where gates barred travelers Road Company to George Stanton for 40 shares at $50 per. It is dated from continuing and at which July 24, 1848 and is cert #4. Please see photos for more detail and payments were demanded for the condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 128265 use of the road. The turnpike era in Massachusetts began in 1796, Lot# 1393 Blendon Township, Ohio 1899 when the first act of incorporation Plank Road Company, Clinton and Blendon, for a turnpike was passed. The Ohio Stock Certificate Stock certificate for routing of the turnpike was the Clinton and Blendon Plank Road Company, Pittsfield Line- Worthington- Northampton. Current location is Grange Ohio, No. 88, 13 shares issued to Frank C. Hall Road/Robinson Road–Route 143–East Street/Chesterfield Road Martin on Sept. 13, 1899, signed by President (wikipedia). Printed on thick, heavy paper folded into sixths. Some G.H. Vance and Secretary A.T. Schrock, decorative border left side, small fold splits. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# pristine condition with three light folds, 7.5” x 4”. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 127613 111858 Lot# 1388 Bristol, New Hampshire 1824 Lot# 1394 Ohio 1846 Ohio National Road Central Bridge Company Stock Certificate Stock Certificate No. 45, issued for receipt of This is an early stock issued by Central Bridge $154.70 from R. Hume Jr., at a rate of 6% per Corporation of Bristol, New Hampshire. It is annum payable at the State Treasury. Signed stock No. 42 and is for one share. It is issued by EN Sill, commissioner of the Ohio Canal to James Minoit (sp?) and there doesn’t appear Fund. Pen cancelled. Black border and print on to have a dollar amount. It is signed by clerk thin paper, three vignettes (portrait of unknown man, allegorical, and James Chase. Other names are illegible. Please eagle). Toppan, Carpenter & Co., Cincinnati. Pinholes, folds, light wear. see photos for more detail. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 5 x 8.5” The National Road was the first major improved highway in 128267 the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837, the 620-mile road connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers Lot# 1389 Morris County, New Jersey 1810 and was a main transport path to the West for thousands of settlers. Washington Turnpike Company Stock Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134133 Certificate No. 331, issued to Benjamin Beach for one share on December 19th, 1810. Signed Lot# 1395 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1812 and by president David Welch and treasurer John Doughty. Not cancelled. 1819 Harrisburg Turnpike and Bridge Stock Reverse has printed rules regarding transfers dated Morris-Town, Dec. Certificate Pair Lot of 2 different. 1) Harrisburg 19, 1810. Printed by HP Russell. 4.25 x 7.75” Fold. According to the Bridge Company (printed on illustrated seal). Morris County Library, “The length of this turnpike from Morris to No. 287, issued to Jacob Steigleman for one Easton is 40 miles, 59 chains and 20 links. From Morris to the Mineral share in 1812. Signed by president Tho. Elder Spring at Schooley’s Mountain is 19 miles, 71 chains and 80 links.” Ken and the treasurer (illegible). Endorsed on the Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134122 reverse. Not cancelled. “For erecting a permanent bridge over the river Susquehanna, at or near Harrisburg.” 10 x 8” 2) Harrisburg Turnpike Lot# 1390 Hillsdale, New York 1812 Hillsdale Road Company. No. 946, issued for one share to the Commonwealth of & Chatham Turnpike Corporation Stock Pennsylvania in 1819. Signed by president Benjamin Reynolds and the Certificate No. 1341, issued for one share treasurer (illegible). 1879 transfer notices on reverse. Not cancelled. to treasurer Bill Seymour on June 1st, 1812 8.75 x 7.75” Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 134131 at Hillsdale. Signed by president Peter Van Alstyne and Seymour. Not cancelled. Endorsed Lot# 1396 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1819 on the reverse. 3 x 6.25” Chartered in 1805. Ran 20 miles from the Harrisburg, Carlisle, & Chambersburg Massachusetts state line at Hillsdale to Albany. Peter Van Alstyne was Turnpike Road Co. Stock Pair Lot of two a major in the War of 1812 in Van Dalfsen’s New York Militia. Ken Prag stocks issued in 1819. No. 945 and 948, both Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134129 issued for one share to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Signed by Benjamin Reynolds as Lot# 1391 Kingston, New York 1808 Ulster president and the treasurer (illegible). Neither & Delaware Turnpike Road Company Stock cancelled. Both transferred with pen notations Certificate Low number 15, issued to Tobias on the reverse in 1879. 12.5 x 7.75” and 8.75 x 7.75” Toning, ripped Van Buren for 10 shares on June 22nd, 1808 and chipped corners. This toll road was part of the Pittsburgh Pike, in Kingston, New York. Signed by president an early toll road. The road was chartered as the Harrisburg and Samuel Hawkins and the treasurer. Not Pittsburgh Turnpike in 1805, and completed on May 20, 1818. In 1814, cancelled or endorsed. 4.75 x 8” with pictorial the company was split into five sections, including this one. It allowed seal. Creases, hole in seal. Chartered in April 1802. Ran 110 miles from travelers to go from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania over the the Connecticut state line to Bainbridge. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300- Allegheny Mountains. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134135 500 HWAC# 134127 56 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Transportation Lot# 1397 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1819 Lot# 1399 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Harrisburg, Carlisle, & Chambersburg Turnpike Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, Road Co. Stock Pair Lot of two stocks issued in 1819. Road stock certificate, 1795 Certificate 798 No. 886 and 1050, both issued for one share to the issued to George Bickham of Philadelphia Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Signed by Benjamin on March 16, 1795 for 278 shares. Signed by Reynolds as president and the treasurer (illegible). William Bingham as president. Printed on stiff Neither cancelled. Both transferred with pen notations parchment paper with a Beautiful Turnpike, on the reverse in 1879. 12.5 x 7.75” and 8.75 x 7.75” Road vignette at top center. An interesting Toning, ripped and chipped corners. This toll road was sidelight of this certificate is the reverse which shows a number part of the Pittsburgh Pike, an early toll road. The road of transfers on the backside here. There are at least eight transfers was chartered as the Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Turnpike in 1805, and from as early as 1810 all the way through 1899. Nice early American completed on May 20, 1818. In 1814, the company was split into five certificate. The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road was the sections, including this one. It allowed travelers to go from Pittsburgh first long distance stretch of broken-stone and gravel surface built to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania over the Allegheny Mountains. Ken Prag in the country in accordance with plans and specifications. It was Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134141 the first important turnpike road in the United States and the most important section of the famous of the Pennsylvania Road (which Lot# 1398 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1795 Philadelphia and ran to Pittsburg). This road provided cheap transportation between the populous coast regions and the “bread basket” of the newborn Lancaster Turnpike Stock Certificate Issued to the Bank of North Republic, situated in the vicinity of Lancaster. It was the first privately built road of importance and the beginning of organized road America Issued improvement after a long period of economic confusion following the American Revolution. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 132759 March 16, 1795, certificate 293 Lot# 1400 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1818 issued to the Bank Schuylkill Falls Bridge Company Stock Certificate No. 63, issued for one share to of North America, Conrad Carpenter on January 1st, 1818. Signed by president Peter Robeson and treasurer John who clearly invested Johnson. Not cancelled. Folds. 5 x 7” About the end of 1817, the Schuylkill Falls Bridge in this important Company completed a wooden bridge over the rive near Philadelphia, which lasted until 1822 when a flood destroyed Turnpike. Signed by it. The bridge which replaced this, in 1829, built by another company under the same name, remained until 1842 when it was destroyed by William Bingham fire. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134136 president. The Lot# 1401 Pottstown, Pennsylvania 1846 Schuylkill Bridge at Pottstown Company Philadelphia and Stock Certificate No. 81, issued for one share to Elizabeth Hendricks on April 20th, 1846. Lancaster Turnpike Signed by president George Richards and Road was the first treasurer Henry Potts. Pencil cancelled. Folds, heavy toning along borders. 5 x 8” The Schuylkill long distance stretch Bridge Company was incorporated in 1798. The Schuylkill River is a river running northwest to southeast in eastern Pennsylvania, which of broken-stone was improved by navigations into the Schuylkill Canal. Several of its tributaries drain major parts of the center-southern and easternmost and gravel surface Coal Regions in the state. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134134 built in the country Lot# 1402 Pennsylvania 1827 Centre in accordance with Turnpike Road Stock Certificate No. 70, plans and specifications. It was the first important turnpike road in issued for two shares to John Harold on November 4th, 1827. Signed by the president the United States and the most important section of the famous of the (illegible) and treasurer John Boyd. Not cancelled. Faint illustrated seal imprint. 5 Pennsylvania Road (which ran to Pittsburg). This road provided cheap x 6.25” Folds, tape repair, a few stains. The stock states that the road leads from Reading transportation between the populous coast regions and the “bread to Sunbury. The company was formed in 1805. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 134143 basket” of the newborn Republic, situated in the vicinity of Lancaster. It was the first privately built road of importance and the beginning of organized road improvement after a long period of economic confusion following the American Revolution. The Bank of North America was the first chartered bank in the United States, and served as the country’s first de facto central bank. It was chartered by the Congress of the Confederation on May 26, 1781, and opened in Philadelphia on January 7, 1782. It was based upon a plan presented by Robert Morris on May 17, 1781, which were based on recommendations by Alexander Hamilton. Although Hamilton later noted its “essential” contribution to the war effort, the Pennsylvania government objected to the bank’s privileges and reincorporated it under state law, making it unsuitable as a national bank under the federal Constitution. In 1791, Congress chartered a new bank, the First Bank of the United States, while the Bank of North America continued as a private concern. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 132766 Lot# 1403 Pennsylvania 1809-1821 Centre Turnpike Road Stocks, Three Varieties Three different varieties of the Centre Turnpike Road . The first of these certificates was issued in 1809, signed by Priestley. The second was issued in 1812, signed by Hall. The third was issued in 1821, signed by Bradford. Road was from Reading to Sunbury. The company was formed in 1805. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 132768 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 57

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Transportation Lot# 1404 Pennsylvania 1809-1822 Centre Lot# 1409 Pennsylvania 1868-1901 Turnpike Stock Certificates, four varieties Pennsylvania Turnpike Stock Certificates Four varieties of this Pennsylvania Turnpike. (3) Three Pennsylvania turnpike stock All issued signed by the presidents and not certificates issued from 1868 to 1901. Includes: canceled. 1809, 1812, 1821, 1822. The road Chesnut-hill & Springhouse Turnpike Road, lead from Reading to Sunbury. The company No. 509 issued in 1868 to Anna Hocker, 14” x was formed in 1805. Ken Prag Collection Est. 4.5” including attached coupon, logo, border, $300-500 HWAC# 132770 revenue stamp, signed by President John N. Warder and Treasurer, some wear on coupon edge, fine condition; Lot# 1405 Pennsylvania 1867 Chesnut-hill Doylestown and Willow-Grove Turnpike Co., No. 145 issued in 1888 & Springhouse Turnpike Road Co. Stock to Louis Buckmar, 8.25” x 6”, border, signed by President Silas Hough Certificate No. 495, issued for 10 shares to and Treasurer, seven punch holes, clean excellent condition; The Berks Charles Yeakle in 1867. Signed by president and Dauphin Turnpike Road, No. 4566 issued in 1901 to Reading John Warder and the treasurer (illegible). Pen Trust, Trustee for Sarah E. Potts, printed by Journal Print, Annville, PA, cancelled. Black border and print with illustrated company logo. 25 approx. 6” x 4.5”, signed by President W. N. S. Moore and Treasurer H.H. cent adhesive revenue stamp. Stains, hole on left border. 4.5 x 10.25” Roedel, embossed seal, two light folds and very slight tears, excellent Chestnut Hill (note correct spelling) is located near Philadelphia. condition, in sleeve. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127601 Spring House is in Montgomery County, PA. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 134132 Lot# 1410 Pennsylvania Small Collection of Early Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Group Lot# 1406 Pennsylvania Gap and Newport of five scarce to rare Pennsylvania Turnpike Turnpike Road Stock Certificate, 1810 One stock certificates. 1) Best is Philadelphia and share issued for $20 on January 1st, 1810. Lancaster Turnpike, issued March 16, 1795 to Issued to William Persey of Londongrove, Daniel Brodhead. Daniel Brodhead IV (October Chester County and signed by James Boyd as 17, 1736 – November 15, 1809) was an American military and political President and Lea Persey as treasurer. Black leader during the American Revolutionary War and early days of the print on creme. Some chipping around the top United States. He was a Brevet Brigadier General in the Continental and top corners. The turnpike was located near Army, awarded that status by George Washington. He led the 8th Avondale, Pennsylvania. This road, now known as Newport-Gap Pike Pennsylvania Regiment. He later served in the Pennsylvania General (Rt. 41), is still one of the major routes though Mill Creek Hundred Assembly. On November 13, 1789, he was appointed Surveyor General today (mchhistory.blogspot.com). Rare. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection of Pennsylvania and held the post for the next eleven years. The Est. $300-400 HWAC# 118374 Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road was the first long distance stretch of broken-stone and gravel surface built in the country in Lot# 1407 Pennsylvania 1821 Milford & accordance with plans and specifications. It was the first important Owego Turnpike Road Company Stock turnpike road in the United States and the most important section of Certificate No. 2934, issued for one share to the famous of the Pennsylvania Road (which ran to Pittsburg). This the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on July road provided cheap transportation between the populous coast 5th, 1821. Signed by president RH Rose and regions and the “bread basket” of the newborn Republic, situated treasurer Putnam Catlin. Not cancelled. 4 x in the vicinity of Lancaster. It was the first privately built road of 6.25” Toning. Inc. in 1807. The road ran from importance and the beginning of organized road improvement after a Milford, PA to Owego, NY via Willsonville, Palmyra, Dyberry, Canaan, long period of economic confusion following the American Revolution. Rix’s Gap, and Montrose. According to Wayne County history, “There 2) Huntingdon Cambria and Indiana Turnpike issued November 10, were eight toll gates on the Milford-Owego Turnpike. Gatekeepers 1819 signed by Blair. 3) York and Gettysburg Turnpike issued July 1, received a 10% commission. The gate near Waymart was one of the 1821 signed by Demuth. 4) Two different stock certificates for two most profitable, collecting around $1,000 in 1830. Stage travel on the different bridges over the river Susquehanna, one at McCall’s ferry, the turnpikes reached its zenith about 1836. Canals and railroads carried other at the town of Lewisburg. The first issued in 1814; the second freight and passengers at a fraction of the cost and led to a drop in issued in 1818. Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000-2000 use of the turnpikes after that. They later became part of the public HWAC# 132767 highway system.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134126 Lot# 1411 Pennsylvania 1800s Unissued Lot# 1408 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Turnpike Stock Certificates Pennsylvania Turnpike (3) Three unissued Pennsylvania turnpike Stock Certificate Collection, companies’ stock certificates, with 1800s 10 different Includes: Center dates. Includes: Doylestown and Willow-Grove Turnpike, Road, June 12, Turnpike Road Co., on card stock with attached 1821, signed by Ely Bradford. coupon, 8.5” X 6”, with 18__ date, yellowing Bell font and Philipsburg on coupon edge, right lower corner cut off with small stain, no folds; Turnpike, July 8, 1822. Cornwall Turnpike Company, ornate border and detailed vignette of Center and Kisha Co. keyless two horses, ships, dated 18__, with attached coupon, 11” x 7”, pristine Turnpike issued November condition; The Cheltenham and Willow Grove Turnpike Company, 20, 1822. Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike issued June 8, 1821. Jenkintown, PA, ornate border, 11.75” x 7.5”, with 189_ date, right Butler and Mercer Turnpike issued October 16, 1822 signed by lower corner cut off, fine condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 William Ayers president. Huntingdon Cambria and Indiana Turnpike HWAC# 127600 issued November 10, 1819 signed by Blair. Bridge and Turnpike over the River Susquehanna at McCall’s ferry issued December 10, 1814, Lot# 1412 Pennsylvania 1821 York & Gettysburg signed by Preston. Milford and Owego Turnpike, Road issued July 5, Turnpike Road Stock Certificate No. 866. 1821 signed by Rose. Hobbs town in Mount Pleasant Turnpike issued Issued for one share to the Commonwealth of November 7, 1826. Bridge and road over the West branch of the Pennsylvania on July 1st, 1821. Signed by the Susquehanna at the town of Lewisburg issued January 12, 1818 signed president ( J. Demuth) and treasurer (G. Upp). Not by Hayes. Nice collection with varied location for these early American cancelled. 10 x 7.75” Missing both right corners. turnpikes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $1200-2500 HWAC# 132765 Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134117 58 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Transportation Lot# 1413 Providence, Rhode Island 1834 Lot# 1417 Early Bridge Company Stock Powdermill Turnpike Corporation Stock Certificates, 1793 to 1818 1) Rancocus Certificate No. 252, issued for one share to toll bridge issued February 18, 1793 signed Richard Waterman on December 1st, 1834. Signed by treasurer Charles Thurber. Not by Joshua M Wallace as president issued to cancelled. Reverse has notations for stock Charles Ellis, certificate number 22. Wallace transfer. Black print and vignette of horse- was a member of the New Jersey convention drawn carriage. Deep horizontal fold. 6.5 x that ratified the U.S. Constitution in 1787. 2) 8.25” In 1810, a petition was granted by the Rhode Island General Bridge over West branch of Susquehanna at the town of Lewisburg Assembly to form the Powder Mill Turnpike Corporation, which authorized the construction and improvement of the roadway that issued January 12, 1818. Both in excellent condition, not canceled. Ken ran from Waterman’s Tavern in Greenville, eastward through Johnston and North Providence, ending at the Providence town line. The Prag Collection Est. $400-700 HWAC# 132769 corporation was so named after a gunpowder mill that once stood in Centerdale about the time of the American Revolution. Unfortunately, Lot# 1418 1800s-1902 Bridge Companies the mill met with a tragic end when it was destroyed by a devastating Stock Certificates from Indiana, Iowa & NJ explosion. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134123 (4) Four bridge companies’ stock certificates, in very fine condition with no folds or tears, Lot# 1414 South Carolina 1869 Cheraw three unissued from the 1800s and one issued Bridge Company Stock Certificate This in 1902, from the states of Indiana, Iowa and stock was issued during Reconstruction by New Jersey. Includes: Elkhart Bridge Co., inc. The Cheraw Bridge Company of South Carolina. It is issued to Henry in Indiana, issued in 1902, with vignettes of Iver for one share at $100 per. It is dated January 1, 1869 and signed presidents Washington and Lincoln, ornate border, embossed seal, by W. Godfrey president and John Matheson secretary. I has a red 25 signed by President and Secretary-Treasurer, 10” x 8”; Cornwall cent revenue stamp and a handwritten cancel on reverse, dated May Bridge Company, inc. in New Jersey, unissued with 189_ date, vignette 31, 1876. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag of greek-inspired with two women and shield, six punch holes, 10” x Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 128266 8”; Dunleith & Dubuque Bridge Co., inc. in Iowa, unissued with 18__ date, with railroad and manufacturing plant scene vignette, coupon Lot# 1415 Virginia 1853 Newmarket & attached, 10’ x 7”; and Dunleith & Dubuque Bridge Co., inc. in Iowa, Sperryville Turnpike Company Stock unissued with 189_ date, with bridge scene vignette, coupon attached, Certificate This is the first issued example 10.5” x 7.5”. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127984 we could find for this company. Vignettes of Martha and George Washington! No. 145, Lot# 1419 Early Plank Road Certificates 2 issued for one share to Jacob Hohler on Plank Rd. certificates, Burlington and Mount Nov. 22nd, 1853. Signed by president NW Pleasant plank Road company, issued to JF Yager and treasurer Wm. Smith. Not cancelled. Not endorsed on the reverse. Black border and print, four vignettes: Washington portraits talent for two shares, July 9, 1852, signed (left and right), allegorical scene (top center) and Calistoga wagon (bottom left). Printed by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New York. by AW Carpenter, on canceled, endorsed on 5.75 x 8.5” Folds, toning. Incorporated in 1848. From Luray, the New Market and Sperryville Turnpike (US 211 east) crossed Thornton’s reverse. The second is the Mount Pleasant Gap to Sperryville, where roads branched northeast to Warrenton and southeast to Culpeper Courthouse. Heading west from Luray, Trenton and deeds Ville plank road and bridge company of Trenton the turnpike crossed Massanutten Mountain to New Market, from where it continued (VA 211 and 259) to Brock’s Gap in Little North Iowa, issued February 4, 1852 to the city of barreling Burlington Iowa Mountain. The Luray Road (US 340) continued south to Waynesboro via Shenandoah, Elkton, and Port Republic. Ken Prag Collection Est. on March 5, 1851 signed by Evans J as president, on canceled. Plank $300-500 HWAC# 134130 Road company certificates as a whole are scarce. While a Turnpike is an early form of a paid road, on rare occasions those roads couldn’t be Lot# 1416 1820s Turnpike collection (7) All issued on canceled and in excellent condition. line was stone but had wood planks across them. Ken Prag Collection Est. Bell font and Philipsburg $200-400 HWAC# 132763 Turnpike, July eighth 1822. Centre and Kisha Chela Lot# 1420 Early Turnpike, November 20, 1822. Chambersburg and Turnpike Certificate Bedford Turnpike, June 8, 1821. Butler and Mercer Group (4) Four Turnpike, October 16, 1823. Milford and Owego Turnpike, pieces. 1) Philadelphia July 5, 1821. Hobbs town and Mount Pleasant Turnpike and Lancaster, Mar November 7, 1826. Centre Turnpike, June 12, 1821. Ken 16, 1795 signed Prag Collection Est. $1000- 2000 HWAC# 132771 by Bingham. The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road was the first long distance stretch of broken-stone and gravel surface built in the country in accordance with plans and specifications. It was the first important turnpike road in the United States and the most important section of the famous of the Pennsylvania Road (which ran to Pittsburg). This road provided cheap transportation between the populous coast regions and the “bread basket” of the newborn Republic, situated in the vicinity of Lancaster. It was the first privately built road of importance and the beginning of organized road improvement after a long period of economic confusion following the American Revolution. 2-4) Three different Centre Turnpike: 1809, 1812 and another 1809. Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 132772 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 59

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Transportation Lot# 1421 Plank and Turnpike Collection, Lot# 1427 Indio, California 1935 Dateland circa 1820s Seven different stock certificates. Mutual Water Company Stock Cert This Includes: Staunton and James River Turnpike issued by Dateland Mutual Water Company for issued to Gen. Samuel Blackburn for two five (5) shares to Gertrude Graham, dated Feb. 2, 1935 and signed by shares, July 4, 1828 signed by Nicholas Kinney secretary (illegible) and president Nettie Cook. There’s no cancelation president. Milford and Oswego Turnpike apparent. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag company issued to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for $2929 on Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# 129752 July 5, 1821, signed by Rh Rose. Robstown Mount Pleasant Turnpike issued November 7, 1826. Center and Kish Cook Keyless Turnpike Lot# 1428 San Francisco, California 1918- company issued November 20, 1822. Burlington and Mount Pleasant 1921 Chinese Companies’ Stock Certificates Plank Road company issued to Ashburn Porter January 6, 1851. Mount (3) Three Chinese companies’ stock Pleasant Trenton and Deeds Ville Plank Rd., February 4th, 1852. A road certificates, from San Francisco, Calif., issued in to and erecting a bridge over the West branch of the Susquehanna at the early 1900s. The first is a certificate for The Lewisburg Pennsylvania issued January 12, 1818 signed by William Chinese World, colorful with ornate border Hayes president. Very nice collection including rarities. Ken Prag and seal embossed San Francisco and “Sai Can Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 132764 Eat Bo Pub. Co.” Measures approx. 10.5” x 8”, date not in English, good condition with several light folds and slight tear top right. Also included Lot# 1422 St. Lawrence Turnpike Road are: China Agency and Trading Company, San Francisco, issued in 1918, Company Stock Certificate, 1816 Stock signed by President and Secretary, very ornate with green embossed certificate for the St. Lawrence Turnpike Road seal, two revenue stamps, 11” x 8.5”, excellent condition with two light company issued to Richard Harrison for 76 folds; and C. and A. Truck Co., San Francisco, issued in 1921, signed by shares on January 1, 1816 at a cost of $4560. President, Secretary and Treasurer, vignettes of eagle and two small Signed by B Pierpont, possible early relative of scenes, ornate border and seal embossed “Manufacturers and Dealers Juliet Pierpont Morgan. Ken Prag Collection Est. of Trunks and Bags,” 11.5” x 9”, fair condition with folds, small tears $200-400 HWAC# 132762 and repairs. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 127989 Lot# 1423 Turnpike Group 4 Different Lot# 1429 San Francisco, California 1868 Two Turnpike stock certificates. The very attractive San Francisco Stock Certificates: Pacific York and Gettysburg Turnpike, July 118 21. Guano Co. and Oriental Insurance Co. Lot Center Turnpike 1821. Milford and Owego of 2 different. 1) Pacific Guano Company. No. Turnpike 1821. And Chambersburg and 35, issued in 1868 for 100 shares to Chick. Bedford Turnpike also 1821. All excellent, Signed by president Stephen Otis and secretary the York and Gettysburg is a beauty. Ken Prag Burnham. Pen cancelled. Black border and Collection Est. $500-900 HWAC# 132773 print, eagle on shield vignette. The Pacific Guano Company was for twenty-six years Lot# 1424 Arizona 1906 Electric Signagraph (1863 v±1889) the principal industry of Woods & Semaphore Company Stock Certificate Hole. It was the result of the association of the Boston shipping firm Issued by The Electric Signagraph and of Glidden and Williams and two Cape Cod families. The islands along Semaphore Company for 100 shares at $1 per to Eugene Lamson. No. the west coast of South America were found to have guano (bird dung) 693 with Greek vignette and nature scene along the top. Piece is dated several hundred feet thick, which was used in fertilizer. 2) Oriental Fire October 23, 1906 and signed by president Jean Webb and treasurer and Marine Insurance Company. Unissued. Great vignette of Egyptian Jean Webb Jr. No cancelation apparent. Please see photos for more man with pyramids in the background. Britton & Rey, SF. Est. $100- detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 128261 200 HWAC# 135408 Lot# 1425 Connecticut State of Connecticut Lot# 1430 San Francisco, California 1920- Ten Pound Note, 1789 Early document #1335 1924 Federal Telegraph Company Stock dated February 1, 1789 for receipt of Ten Certificates (3) Lot of 3, two different. Inc. Pounds for a Note Issued by the Treasury Office in California. 1) No. 30, issued for one share of the state. Signed by Jed Huntington, State in 1920. Stamped over printed Wireless Treasurer. Issued to Nirom Curtip. Hartford: Development Company. SF dateline. Not Printed by Hudson & Goodwin. ‘’X” cut cancel cancelled. 2) Inc. in 1911. Two stocks, one issued in 1924 to LE Strauss thru the center is repaired with archival tape on the verso. Good (possibly related to Levi Strauss?). Green border, black print. Both condition overall. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 118363 stamp cancelled. Folds, creases. Founded in Palo Alto, California in 1909 by Cyril Frank Elwell, the company would eventually merge in Lot# 1426 Hollywood, California August 1927 with the Mackay Companies. In 1911-13, Lee De Forest 1930’s-1960’s RKO & Universal Studios Stock and two assistants worked at FTC on the first vacuum tube amplifier Certificates--7 Lot of seven stock certificates and oscillator, which De Forest called the “Oscillaton” after his earlier all dealing with studios that produced classic Audion. Date: 1920-1924 Country (if not USA): State: California City: horror films. Let’s start with the granddaddy San Francisco Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# of them all, a stock specimen certificate issued 135427 by Universal Pictures Company, Inc. home of Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy and more. Next are certs from RKO Pictures and Radio-Keith-Orpheum. RKO is responsible for the classic Val Lewton horror films of the mid to late 1940’s including Curse of the Cat People, Bedlam and The Body Snatcher. Lastly, we have a specimen stock cert issued by American International Pictures, the studio that started the career of Jack Nicholson and Francis Ford Coppola, among others. They did several Edgar Allen Poe based films starring Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. Please see photos for more detail and condition Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 126968 60 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1431 San Francisco, Lot# 1436 California 1900’s California Livestock Company Certificates Attention California 1909-1911 cowboys and cowgirls, eleven beautiful cattle related company stock certs. Included in this Poulsen Wireless Telephone herd, California Cattle & Land Company ( Vignette of a beef bull. This comapany was & Telegraph Co. Stock incorporated in The Territory of Arizona in 1903. Also, a gold seal), Exeter Groves Certificate Group Lot of 5, Packing Company (Eagle vignette), Farallone Packing Company (Eagle vignette), Virden Packing Company (Bull three varieties. 1) No. 100, vignette), Southwest Packing Company (Ornate vignette with eagle, fish, steamships, locomotive, nation’s capital bldg. and flowers), Los issued for 2,233,070 shares (!) Angeles Union Stockyards Company (Bison vignette), Noyo Land and Cattle Company, Orick Cooperative Meat Market (Twin Lions vignette), to the company president, C. California Packing Corporation (Man, fish & lion vignette), Anaheim Beef Company ( Minerva with Eureka vignette and two red and one Elwell, in 1909. Not cancelled. orange revenue stamps) and Almaden Packing Company (Eagle vignette). See photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Orange border, black print, Est. $200-400 HWAC# 124557 and eagle vignette. 2) No. 192, Lot# 1437 Denver, Colorado 1926-1977 Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph issued for 500 shares in 1910. Co. Stock & Bond Group Lot of 3 different. Inc. in Colorado. 1) No. 30723, issued for Signed by Elwell and secretary 23 shares in 1926. Stamp cancelled. Brown border, black print, and vignette of telephone Barrett. Stamp cancelled. Black with Rocky Mountains in the background. 2) Different Specimen stock with vignette of men border and print, gold seal, working on telephone lines in the mountains. 3) $50,000 bond issued 1977, punch cancelled. Blue border, black print, phone and allegorical allegorical vignette. 3) Three vignettes. This company was the merger of Colorado Telephone, Voting Trust Certificates, Tri-State Telephone, and Rocky Mountain Bell in 1911. It eventually incl. numbers 2 and 3, issued in 1911. Third is unissued. Founded in became Mountain Bell. Date: 1926-1977 Country (if not USA): State: Colorado City: Denver Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 San Francisco, the company transmitted from a site on 48th Avenue HWAC# 135428 between Noriega and Ortega streets, at the Ocean Beach. It was one of Lot# 1438 Manitou, Colorado 1907 Manitou the first major wireless stations in the US. Cyril Frank Elwell (1884- Cliff Dwellers’ Ruins Co. Stock Certificate 1963), was a Stanford student who convinced the inventor, Valdemar Inc. in Colorado. No. 27, issued for 2 shares to The Citizens Development Company on March Poulsen, to license his patents for arc wireless transmission method in 23rd, 1907. Signed by president Shoemaker and secretary Weiner. Not cancelled. Orange the United States to him. Date: 1909-1911 Country (if not USA): State: border, black print, and photo vignette of cliff dwellings. Folds, light wear. The Manitou Cliff California City: San Francisco Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. Dwellers Ruins Company (recognizing the tourist interest in ancient ruins) dismantled an Anasazi ruin in McElmo Canyon and transported $150-250 HWAC# 135433 it to Manitou Springs, where they reassembled the stones into a replica Anasazi cliff dwelling that was opened to the public in 1906. It was Lot# 1432 San Francisco, California 1911 reported that they spent over $100,000 to transport and reconstruct San Francisco Breweries Stock and Bond the dwellings. Date: 1907 Country (if not USA): State: Colorado City: - Both English 1) Stock certificate #1076 for Manitou Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 135431 8 pounds. Purple on white. 2) Profit sharing income bond #579. Has a three pence English Lot# 1439 Teller County, Colorado 1914 revenue imprint. It is issued to King Edwards Beaver Park Land & Water Company Stock Hospital Fund. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123289 Certificate Wow! Inc. in Colorado. Low number 17, issued for 20 shares to John A. Hull Lot# 1433 San Jose, California 1930 Three on March 17, 1914. Signed by the president 1930 San Jose Street Improvement Bonds Hawkins and secretary Jones. Colored pencil - All Different - All Number 2 Numbers 44, cancel. Orange border, black print, and fantastic 47 and Series 59. 1930. Coupons are detached, vignette of a beaver standing on the side of a but included. Nice historical lot. Bonds are lake. No printer listed. Folds, small stain. 8.75 x 11” The town of Beaver trimmed. Est. $100-160 HWAC# 135452 Park was platted in 1892 in Teller County by Hawkins and his partner Forney. The company also controlled the Beaver, Penrose & Northern Lot# 1434 California 1876-1912 California Railway which ran from Beaver to Penrose, 6.5 miles. Date: 1914 Non-Mining Related Stock Certificate Group Country (if not USA): State: Colorado City: Teller County Provenance: Lot of 7, most different. Includes: Peoples Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 135435 Ice Company (1876, Truckee, GT Brown); Felton Water Company (1889 plus uniss); Chino Odd Fellows Hall Association (1899); Pope Expanding Bit Co. (1912); Pacific Coast Savings Society of San Francisco (1895); and Fort Bragg Electric Co. (1906). Date: 1876-1912 Country (if not USA): State: California City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 135430 Lot# 1435 California 1906 El Dorado Lumber Company Stock Certificate Stock certificate issued to John Ainsworth for three (3) shares at $100 per by the El Dorado Lumber Company. It’s dated Jan.16, 1906, is stamp canceled on the reverse and has a very impressive logging vignette. It is signed by secretary, S. Rassetto and E. Harmon, president. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $50-250 HWAC# 129751 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 61

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1440 Hartford, Connecticut Lot# 1444 Brunswick, Georgia 1866 City 1940’s-1950’s Colt’s Firearms Stock of Brunswick (Georgia) Stock Certificate Certificates (6) Six stock certificates issued Incorporated in Georgia. No. 2163, issued for by Colt’s Manufacturing Company. 1. Issued 100 shares to Benjamin Bateman on August to Josephthal & Company for 25 shares (no 17th, 1866. Signed by president HG Wheeler cost per share), dated May 9, 1953, signed and the treasurer (illegible). Not cancelled. by president B. Conner (sp?), and secretary Endorsed on the reverse. Ornate design Dana Heyward. Punch canceled May 27, 1953. with ship, locomotive, and allegorical vignettes. Printed by Rawdon, 2, 40 shares issued to Pain, Weber, Jackson & Wright, Hatch & Edson, New York. Condition issues: large staining, Curtis, dated December 11, 1947 and signed by especially on the left side. Pinholes, folds, creases. 6.5 x 10” Brunswick secretary, E. Father and president Graham Anthony and punch canceled is located in Glynn County, Georgia. It was abandoned during the Civil on Dec. 24, 1947. 3. Issued to Edith Culhane for 10 shares, signed by War because its citizens were ordered to evacuate. It suffered a post- secretary A. Ulrich and president (illegible). Punch canceled May 21, War depression, as well as traumatic events in the 1890s including 1953. 4. 100 shares issued to Edward Stevens, signed by secretary a yellow-fever epidemic and multiple deadly hurricanes. Ken Prag Ulrich and vice president Fitzwatter (sp?). Punch canceled dated May Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 134140 13, 1942 and punch canceled June 23, 1953. 5. Issued 25 shares to C. Alden DeaneSigned by secretary Dana Hayward and president B. Lot# 1445 Chicago, Illinois 1894 Chamber Connor (sp?). Dated May 12, 1953 and punch canceled November 10, 1953. All have the iconic Colt vignette. 6. Issued to Colt five and a half of Commerce of the City of Chicago Stock shares by Alabama Electric Supply Company. Dated March 24, 1930 and is signed by secretary and president (illegible), no cancelation Certificate Chamber of Commerce of the City apparent and an eagle vignette. Please see photos for more detail and of Chicago stock certificate. No. 2744 for 120 shares issued May 3, condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129761 1894 to Lee H. Wilson, uncanceled and signed by the President and Secretary, this certificate features great vignettes including an eagle, Lot# 1441 New Haven, Connecticut 1867 a ship, a train, large depiction of the chamber of commerce building, Rubber Boot & Shoe Manuf. L. Candee & etc. Has embossed seal. In very fine condition with two slight folds. Ken Company Stock Certificate 1867 L. Candee & Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127961 Company stock certificate No. 185 for 65 shares issued to Gibbs Gilbert Esq. on Feb. 23, 1867. Lot# 1446 Keokuk, Iowa 1869 Union L. Candee & Co., Rubber Works, manufactured Agricultural and Stock Association Stock all kinds of rubber boots & shoes. Leverett with 25c Large Revenue Stamp Number 49 Candee, the first rubber shoe manufacturer, established the L. Candee for 2 shares to Merrian in 1869. Signed by Shoe Factory at Hamden, Connecticut, in 1842. The company was later relocated to New Haven, Conn. Candee died in 1863. The certificate president J Clarke. The company was organized has an ornate border, and is signed by the President and Secretary, H.L. Hotchkiss, one of the partners in the company. On rear is handwritten in 1868. Organized August 26, 1868 and ran transfer information dated 1878. Excellent condition with three light folds. 7.5” x 5.25”. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127611 fairs for a while int he city. Ken Prag Collection Lot# 1442 Wilmington, Delaware Early Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123259 1900 E.J. duPont de Nemours Powder Co. Certificate for Bonus Shares Complimentary Lot# 1447 Kentucky 1958 Audubon Park Certificate of Bonus Award from the DuPont Raceway Stock Certificate The Audubon company, E.J. duPont de Nemours Powder Park Raceway owned a horseracing racetrack Co., of Wilmington, Delaware. Blank unissued in Henderson County, Kentucky. Rounding certificate dated 19__, in recognition of of upper right corner. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Meritorious Services, measures 11 3/4” x 8”. DuPont logo vignette and background features company name, with ornate green border 131871 with logo in all four corners. Choice condition. DuPont was founded in 1802 by Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, using capital raised in France and Lot# 1448 New Orleans, Louisiana 1885 gunpowder machinery imported from France. Throughout the 1900s World’s Industrial & Cotton Centennial the DuPont company expanded to include materials science, inventing Exposition Stock # 407 for 1 share to WS Teflon, neoprene, polyester, nylon and pesticides, among others. In De Naw in 1885. Signed by secretary Richard 2015 DuPont merged with Dow Chemicals to form DowDuPont. It Nixon (not that Richard Nixon) and president also created a spin-off, The Chemours Company, which focuses on E. Richardson. Fancy vignette advertising this production of GMO seeds, materials for solar panels, and alternatives New Orleans Exposition. At a time when nearly to fossil fuels. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 127965 one third of all cotton produced in the United States was handled in New Orleans and the city was home to the Lot# 1443 Delaware 1929 Winchester Repeating Cotton Exchange, the idea for the fair was first advanced by the Cotton Arms Co. Stocks Incorp. 1929. Lot of 2 great stocks Planters Association. The name “World Cotton Centennial” referred to issued to Winchester Bennett! who was president the earliest-surviving record of export of a shipment of cotton from of the company from 1915–1918 and was the son the U.S. to England in 1784. Heavy vertical and horizontal fold some of Thomas Gray Bennett.The Winchester Repeating light wrinkling. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 130194 Arms Company produced the first firearm to bear its name in 1866 - the Model 66. 1) Temporary Lot# 1449 Louisiana preferred stock. No. TP 124 for 100 shares issued on March 6, 1929. 2) Temporary class “A” stock. No. TA Louisiana Purchase 332 issued for 100 shares on March 6, 1929. Both stocks are I/U, and have little wear. American Banknote Company Exposition Co. stock printer. No vignettes. Clean and in excellent condition. Est. $260-500 HWAC# 110858 incorporated State of Louisiana. Cert # E239 for 30 shares of common stock @ $10 per share issued to W.C.Stilh 12 Nov 1902 signed D.R.Francis President, corp seal off center, orange, Exposition buildings/ ground orange underprint, Printer : Mermod & Jaccard Jewlery Co St. Louis, fine cond iu Est. $300-600 HWAC# 135368 62 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1450 New Orleans and Ohio Telegraph Lot# 1454 Braintree, Massachusetts 1836 Company Bond Certificate, 1854, Rare Braintree Manufacturing Company Rare certificate issued at Louisville, Kentucky Stock Certs Two certs issued by Braintree in 1854. The company was chartered in Manufacturing Company to William Thomas Tennessee with total capital of $444,900. This for share No. 22 dated October 1, 1836. is certificate #189. The telegraph industry Cancelation on reverse shows date of August consolidated in 1866 under Western Union to 30, 1844. Signed by clerk N. Ames and president Jacob Perkins. Next form the first monopoly. The company formed in 1847 and under the is certificate No.21 issued to Charles Russell, is dated August 22, 1842 direction of Norvin Green and in 1853 he merged it with the People’s and canceled 1844. It is also signed by Perkins and Ames. Braintree Telegraph Company. The company was successful and was a dividend Manufacturing dealt with the manufacture, sale and delivery of cotton payer. Browning and staining. Extra folds. Uncanceled. Ken Prag gins, according the Louisiana State University Library website. Please Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 118368 see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400- 800 HWAC# 128264 Lot# 1451 Maine 1870 Publication Subscription Charles Chauncey Burr Friend of Edgar Allen Lot# 1455 Chicopee, Massachusetts 1884 Poe Certificate is a subscription to a publication, Ames Manufacturing Company Stock Constitutional Society of the United States, signed Certificate #1 This stock certificate is by journalist and President Charles Chauncey Burr, issued by Ames Manufacturing Company of friend of Edgar Allen Poe, issued in 1870. Hosea Massachusetts. It is issued for 27 shares at T. Clark purchased $25 worth of subscriptions. Beautifully engraved $100 per to Mrs. E. H. Ames, wife of the owner with vignette of three women, vessels on the water, buildings and a of the company. It is certificate #1 and is dated basket of fruit. Charles Chauncey Burr (1817–1883) was an American Nov, 16, 1884, It’s signed by both treasurer and president, which to journalist, author, and publisher. A native of Maine, he became an me, are illegible. It does not appear to be canceled. Ames was a maker intimate friend of Edgar Allan Poe and his family, and published of swords and cutlery. Please see photos for more detail and condition. a number of magazines and newspapers. Burr helped Poe both Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 129762 physically and financially. Even after Poe’s death, Burr published a number of pro-Poe articles which boosted his popularity. 10.5” x 6.5” Lot# 1456 Dighton, Massachusetts 1884 certificate, also signed by Secretary R. W. Wright, is in fine condition Dighton Color Works Stock Certificate with slight folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-1000 HWAC# 127982 Pristine 1884 A pristine stock certificate from The Dighton Color Works, located at Dighton, Lot# 1452 Baltimore, Maryland 1814 and 1841 Massachusetts and incorporated in New York. Two Early US Manufacturing Stock Certificates The certificate No. 1 is for 14 shares issued to Lot of 2 different. Both are mysteries. 1) Lewis John P. Adams as Trustee (no apparent relation I. Lannay & Co.’s Manufactory. Unissued but to the president) on March 19, 1884, and signed by President Elva signed, dated, and uncancelled. Good for one Huntington and Secretary John P. Adams, with Adams signature again share of stock, “equal to the one hundred and on the rear along with another signature (In presence of) by Joseph J. twelfth part of the Flax, Cotton & Manufactory of Louis I. Lannay & Bowman. Brightly colored certificate has red border with blue printed Co. comprehending Mills, Machinery, Water and one hundred acres of writing and a blue vignette of a man fanning a fire with bottles and Land...” Note two different spellings of Louis. Dated Baltimore, 1814. equipment surrounding him. Also has a gold seal with text including Signed by LI Lannay and Jas. McCulloch. 10.5 x 8.25” Rough edges. No the name of the company, 1884, N.Y. Pristine condition with five light information located. 2) Rock Manufacturing Company. No. 31, issued folds. Approx. 10.5” x 7”. In the 1899 publication, “Dighton, Ma. From to Daniel Taylor in 1841 in Claremont, New Hampshire. Signed by OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE A DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL clerk Freeman. Transferred on the bottom. 7 x 8.5” We were not able to RECORD OF BRISTOL COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS” it states there was locate any information on what this company manufactured. Ken Prag “a color works now operated by Mason, Chapin & Co., of Providence.” Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134151 (The company had acquired Anchor Color & Gum Works in 1892.) On the website www.dighton-ma.gov, “The Anchor Color and Gum Lot# 1453 Boston, Massachusetts 1854 Works, built in 1861, first manufactured furniture, then oil paint and Columbian Manufacturing Company watercolors,” and, “ Only one building remains of the Anchor Color and 1854 Stock Certificate Stock certificate for Gum Works, which was last known as Zeneca, Inc.” (Closed down in the Columbian Manufacturing Company, No. 93894, ‘90s after an environmental cleanup controversy.) Ken Prag Collection for $2000 issued to Andrew J. Wilkinson of Est. $150-250 HWAC# 127608 Boston on November 22, 1854. Clerk Stephen Smith and Treasurer E.P. Whitman signed and Lot# 1457 Waltham, Massachusetts 1813 crossed out on front, with clerk’s signature, Waltham Cotton & Wool Factory Corporation Stephen Smith, again below. Transferred in Stock Certificate No. 116, issued for one share 1865 to Esther Fidelia Wright on rear, with A.J. to Amos Whittemore on July 13th, 1813. Signed Wilkinson’s, Justice of the Peace John S. Wright and Clerk Chas. P. by treasurer Samuel Coverly and clerk John Richardson’s signatures. Incorporated in the State of New Hampshire, Holland. Not cancelled. Not endorsed on the with stamp canceled June 30, 1866, in Springfield, and embossed seal. reverse. 7.25 x 6.75” Light wear. The company In fine condition with two light folds. Approx. 7.5” w x 8” h. Colombian constructed a factory in 1810 in Waltham at the Manufacturing Company, is listed as one of the earliest textile mills in site of the Gore paper mill. The 4-story factory Mason Village (Greenville) and New Ipswich, N.H., by the Chamberlin employed 200 people, spinning 300 pounds Free Public Library. Ledgers exist as far back as 1829. But, also recorded of cotton and 60 pounds of wool per day. Amos Whittemore was an in the book, “Fifteenth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable inventor and manufacturer who lived and worked in Cambridge, Mechanic Association, in the Building on Huntington Avenue and West Massachusetts. He patented inventions including a machine for cutting Newton Street, Boston, September and October, 1884,” Boston: Alfred nails, a loom for weaving duck, a form of a mechanical ship’s log, and Mudge & Son, Printers, 24 Franklin Street, 1884, page 169: “’Scalene,’ several machines which made cotton and wool cards. Ken Prag Collection manufactured by the Columbian Manufacturing Co., is a liquid boiler Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134153 compound for removing scale, corrosion and incrustation, and for destroying all oils, grease and other extraneous matter found in the boiler. The compound appears to be highly endorsed by parties who have used it. Diploma.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 127602 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 63

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1458 Massachusetts A Republican Lot# 1462 Wyandotte, Michigan 1872 Wyandotte Agricultural Works Company Institution, Commonwealth of Stock Very early year. Number 202 for 40 Massachusetts, 1831 Cert. #71, issued for shares to ?. Note on left affirms this was a real deal. Signed by vice president JV Alstyra and one share at Boston, Massachusetts in 1831. Elisha Mix Jr.. Vignette of horse drawn mower. Blue 25c Internal Revenue stamp. Note of fist Issued to Joseph Badger and signed by John installment on reverse. Dog ear bottom right. Folds, Overall nice. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123308 Rayner as president and Benj. P. Richardson as Lot# 1463 Vicksburg, Mississippi 1840 Vicksburg, recording secretary. Reddish colored corporate Mississippi $1,000 Bond No. 12, issued for $1,000 in 1840. Signed by Vicksburg mayor Miles C. Folkes seal at the left with a blue ribbon attached and and city Clerk Sam B. Harvord. Not cancelled. Has threaded through the certificate. Very unique. This historic document large separations along the fold lines that need to be repaired. 15.5 x 11” Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 has a vignette an eagle holding a ribbon with the motto “E Pluribus HWAC# 134152 Unum” in its beak, and arrows and an olive branch in its claws. Affixed at left is the large embossed corporate seal which indicates that the Republican Institution was incorporated in 1819. A Republican Institution was founded as a forum to promote political thought and discussion despite differences in political affiliation for the good of the nation as a whole. Its intent was to provide a forum for political education and discussion of the best means of promoting national welfare. The Republican Institution included the leading Whig political party members at the time. It was actually a “think tank” of the Whig party in Massachusetts. The Whig party was a forerunner of today’s Lot# 1464 Mississippi 1833 1833 State of Republican party. The certificate has a few extra folds and some wear Mississippi Bond $1,000 bond No. 845, issued on the seal. This is a rare and interesting piece. Est. $800-1200 HWAC# in Jackson in 1833 to John Delafield. Rate is 6 per centum per annum. Planters’ Bank of the State of 111883 Mississippi. Signed by governor AM Scott and the Lot# 1459 Massachusetts State of Massachusetts Bay Lottery Certificate, auditor (illegible). Not cancelled. Black border and 1779. Number 1874, issued June 1, 1779 for 15 pounds. Signed by Gore Moore as treasurer. print. 41 coupons attached. Folds, creases. Approx. At right is a box that says Massachusetts state 13 x 16” Scott was Mississippi’s 7th governor. He died in office in 1833 (the year of this bond) from lottery class the third. Two hole cancels early cholera. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# tape repair to rear. Rare. Ken Prag Collection Est. 113738 $400-900 HWAC# 132715 Lot# 1465 Austin, Nevada 1912 Austin Lot# 1460 Massachusetts Two Early Water Company Nevada Stock Certificate Massachusetts Bay Bonds The first one Austin Water Company stock certificate, from state of Massachusetts Bay, number 30, dated Austin, Nevada, issued in 1912. No. 2, 475 December 1, 1777 issued to Samuel Boyden for shares issued to Emma E. Reed, signed by 24 pounds. 6% per annum bond signed by the President Emma Farnsworth and Secretary New York Treas. (illegible) and P Boyer. Early tape repairs to the rear. Louis D. Farnsworth. 10.5” x 8.5”, green ornate Classic Massachusetts pine tree vignette at upper left. 2) The second border, with black florette design vignette. Fine piece is also a state of Massachusetts Bay certificate of the same condition with slight folds, one with tiny tear nature, number 743 issued June 1, 1779 for 15 pounds. At the right of top right. Austin, Nevada was a silver boom town that was mapped this certificate which is a different printing than the prior even though out and became the Lander County seat in 1862, and by the summer it looks very similar it says Massachusetts state lottery, class the third of 1863, Austin and the surrounding Reese River Mining District had nothing written on reverse. Rare. Ken Prag Collection Est. $700-1500 a population of about 10,000. In 2010 it had a population of 192. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# 127974 HWAC# 132713 Lot# 1461 Detroit, Michigan 1929-1931 Lot# 1466 Gold Circle, Nevada 1908 Gold Detroit & Canada Tunnel Corporation Circle Water Company Stock Certificate Stock Certificates & Bond (7) Seven (Midas, Nevada) Pristine Gold Circle Water tunnel corporation stock certificates and a bond, from companies Company uncanceled stock certificate, from Gold Circle (Elko County), incorporated in the State of Michigan, c1929-1931. Included are six NV, (became Midas, NV, in 1909), issued in 1908. No. 45, 100 shares certificates issued by Detroit & Canada Tunnel Corporation, with three blank canceled Specimens, two with red ornate borders, one issued to O.F. Jonasson & Co., signed by President S.M. Levy and with green, with Greek-themed woman vignettes, signed by President Secretary F.M. Shirer. 10” x 5.5”, company embossed gold seal, ornate border and vignette of Greek inspired man holding American flag Elliott K. Skilligan and Treasurer O’Brien, choice condition. Also and shield, with an eagle next to him. In June 1907, James McDuffy included are: four uncanceled Nos. NC0606, 10 shares issued June 20, discovered gold at the base of Owyhee Bluffs in Elko County, Nevada. 1929 to Louis Weingarten; NC0826, 25 shares issued July 17, 1929, to Two towns, Gold Circle and Summit, were quickly created. Summit Louis Weingarten; DC8020, 100 shares issued May 19, 1931, to Eddy disappeared in 1909 and the federal government changed the name & Co.; NC381, 100 shares issued June 4, 1929, to Walter E. Robb. All of Gold Circle to Midas. ... The present name is after King Midas from four are signed by Vice-President Judson Bradway and Secretary, with Greek mythology. Only a few residents remain today. Ken Prag Collection Greek-themed two women vignettes and green ornate borders. Also Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127975 included is a Detroit River Tunnel Company bond worth $5,000, No. 73, unissued and blank, with Greek-themed man and woman vignette. All are in choice condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 127963 64 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1467 Golden, Nevada 1906-1913 Golden Lot# 1472 New Jersey 1902 Electro Townsite, Light and Power Company Nev. Pneumatic Transit Stock Certificate Issued Ghost Town Stock Certificate Pristine stock by Electro Pneumatic Transit Company to John certificate from Golden, Nevada, now a ghost Tozer for 100 shares at $10 per. It’s dated May 5, 1902.It’s No. 3918 town, for The Golden Townsite, Light and and signed by president Richard Phydor (sp?) and treasurer Coor Power Company, incorporated in Nevada, (sp?). It doesn’t appear to be canceled. Please see photos for more blank and unissued. The certificate bears the date 190_. No. 202, with detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 128260 blank gold seal, attached certificate, and very ornate black border and Greek-inspired vignette of man fighting a lion. Tiny pin hole top center. Lot# 1473 New Jersey 1891 Bottle Cleaning Golden, Nevada, in Nye County, was a small camp formed following the Machine Company Stock Cert Unissued discovery of gold in 1906. However, the ore was not of consistently stock certificate from Eick Bottle Cleansing high grade, and when large deposits were discovered elsewhere, Machine Company. The vignette shows two Greek themed figures with most of the 50 or so people left. A small number stayed behind and a locomotive crossing a trestle in the background. It is dated 1891. worked the claim until 1913 when the camp was abandoned. Nothing Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. but a partially collapsed wooden cabin marks Golden today. Ken Prag $100-150 HWAC# 128263 Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# 127973 Lot# 1474 Lincoln County, New Mexico 1880s Lot# 1468 Amoskeig Falls, New Hampshire El Capitan Land & Cattle Company Bond and 1799 Blodget Canal Company Stock Stock Certificate Lot of 2 different. Fort Stanton, Certificate Very early canal stock! Issued in Lincoln County, New Mexico. 1) Low no. 12 $1,000 1799 to Samuel Blodget, Junior, of Philadelphia bond issued in 1885 to Horace Thurber. Signed for one share. Signed by Samuel Blodget as by president H. Richardson and secretary CS president and Samuel Kidder as clerk. Not Thurber. Not cancelled. Livestock vignette. Heavy cancelled. Black print on thick paper. 6.25 x folds with some separation. 2) Low stock no. 18 7.25” Fold, light wear. Samuel Blodgett Sr. was also issued to Thurber. Same corp. signatures. an early American lawyer, industrialist, and financier who founded the Pen and cut cancelled. Transferred on the back city of Manchester, New Hampshire. He built this canal in 1807 around in 1894. Livestock vignette. Date: 1880s Country (if not USA): State: Amoskeag Falls to aid in navigation of ships traveling up and down New Mexico City: Lincoln County Provenance: Ken Prag Collection Est. the Merrimack River. His son ( who this stock is issued to) served on $200-300 HWAC# 135438 George Washington’s staff during the Revolutionary War. He later served as the chairman of the board of commissioners tasked with Lot# 1475 New York 1869 Cliff File Company designing the capital city (Washington DC). He also used his wealth to Stock Certificate New York 1869 Stock finance the construction of both the U.S. Capitol and the White House. Certificate for Cliff File Company, incorporated Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-900 HWAC# 134108 in New York, No. 32 for 20 shares issued to Geo B. Flint on April 20, 1869. Signed by President Lot# 1469 Littlefield, New Jersey 1865 West W.W. Benjamin and Secretary Wm. Brandieth. Jersey Land and Cranberry Company Stock Ornate border, decorative, excellent condition with three light vertical with map on reverse Great map showing and two horizontal folds. Uncanceled. 10.25” x 5.5”. Ken Prag Collection William Braddock’s Mill, Beaver Dam, Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127612 Littlefield, Jackson’s Glass factories, Camden & Atlantic RR. Number 110 for 50 shares in 1865. Lot# 1476 New York, New York Two Early Signed by president JD Reinboth. Allegorical New York City Bonds The first is certificate vignette. Schnabel & Finkeldey printer/ 25c U. S. Revenue stamp. Tape number 106, State of New York, transfer office, on edge of center fold. Small 1/16” rips. Otherwise very nice! Ken Prag datelined city of New York October 19, 1820 Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123263 issued to Samuel McCann of New York for $5000. Signed by him Henry Ramsden president and Smith Gardena’s Lot# 1470 The Meadowlands, New Jersey 1869 as secretary-treasurer. Canceled on reverse and signed by John G Iron Dike & Land Reclamation Company Warren. A very nice certificate. The second certificate is stated New Stock Certificate No. 191, issued for 100 York Comptroller’s office, certificate 1784 $4347 issued to Jacob hate shares to S. Craighead on January 12th, 1869 July 10, 1841 signed by John C Coler(?). Transfer notifications on the in New York. Signed by president Samuel Pike back. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 132712 and the secretary (illegible). Not cancelled. Black border and print, livestock vignette. Printed by Bowne & Co., Lot# 1477 New York NY. 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp attached at bottom left. Pinholes, United States & Brazil folds. 5.25 x 9.5” Samuel N. Pike, a New York City real estate developer Mail Steam Ship and distiller, founded this company in 1866 to develop the New Jersey Company Bearer Bond Meadowlands, located in New Jersey a few miles from New York City. Certificate, 1886 Cert. Pike used metal dikes which were large iron plates, developed by #61 fully issued for $1000 inventor Spencer Driggs. Pike attempted to dike 3,000 acres at a cost of at 6%. Signed by Thurber $100 per acre. It was not a success, and Pike sold the land to railroads, and Fletch, the company at a loss. [The Meadowlands, Sullivan, 1999] Ken Prag Collection Est. officers. Nice vignettes $200-400 HWAC# 134156 of an eagle at the top and a mail steamship at the Lot# 1471 New Jersey 1903 American Bicycle bottom. The bond was Company 1903 Stock Certificate American issued in 1886 and was Bicycle Company, incorporated in New Jersey, to mature in 1896. Nine coupons attached at the bottom, Printed by stock certificate No. A1608, 100 shares issued Troutman, Bailey and Blampey, N.Y. VF. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection January 20, 1903 to Philip H. Rockstrah. Signed Est. $240-400 HWAC# 111856 by President R.L. Buchanan and Treasurer Geo. Pope, uncanceled with eagle and American flag vignette. Minor folds in fine condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500- 1000 HWAC# 127964 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 65

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1478 New York 1834 Lot# 1482 New York Bernard Madoff Investment Chenango Canal Bond State of New Securities Stock Confirmation Slip- Market York Transfer Office. No. 194, issued Fraudster Bernie Madoff, who recently passed in to Caster & Carpenter for $5,000 April of this year, 2021, had been the head of the on July 25th, 1834 in New York. N.A.S.D. and a respected member of the investment Signed by cashier Robert White and community. And then, he committed the largest fraud IC Richard. Large hole cancels. 7.5 in U.S. history. His clients at one point were down x 9.5” Allegorical vignette. Printed nearly $65 Billion before some of it was ultimately by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Co. recovered years later. It was basically a ponzi scheme. Get new money New York. The Chenango Canal was in and spend it on yourself. When too many ask for their money back first proposed in 1824 when the at the same time, there is no money. This is a trade confirmation for Erie Canal was being built. It was the purchase of 900 Bristol Myers Squibb shares for $78,300. It turns authorized by the legislature in 1833 and completed in October 1836 out that nearly every trade that Madoff Securities did never occurred. at a total cost of $2,500,000. It was 97 miles long and for much of its As a market maker, they could print the trade on the tape, even if it was course followed the Chenango River. It operated 1834-1878. Ken Prag a fake trade. The name and the address of the investor is blacked out to Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134160 protect their identity. Madoff was arrested in December, 2008, eleven years after this trade confirmation. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 129566 Lot# 1479 New York 1845 Erie Canal Company Bond State of Lot# 1483 New York, New York 1858 Pettengill Pennsylvania. Bond no. 3973, Telegraph Revolver Co. Stock Issued to & issued for $100 from the Erie Signed by CS Pettengill Rare. No. 255, issued Bank in May 1845. Signed by to inventor CS Pettengill for 20 shares on March president Reed and secretary 9th, 1858 in New York. Signed by the president Goodman. Pen cancelled and secretary. Also signed at the bottom by CS notations of interest paid.Black Pettengill. Not cancelled. Black border and print. print on thin blue paper with Great vignette of the revolver at top center. three allegorical vignettes. Many Vignette of man with anvil on the left border. folds, soiling on reverse, a few Reverse has 4 revenue stamps from a stock holes. 7 x 10” The Erie Canal was built between 1817 and 1825. It transfer much later. 7.75 x 9.5” Folds, rough bottom right border. CS stretched 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo. It was the longest artificial Pettengill received patents for his “hammerless” double action only waterway and the greatest public works project in North America. revolvers in the 1850s and 1860s. Three sizes were produced: a pocket The canal put New York on the map as the Empire State—the leader model, a “navy” size, and a larger .44 “army” version. The guns were in population, industry, and economic strength. It transformed New manufactured by Rogers, Spencer & Co. of Willowvale, New York. Ken York City into the nation’s principal seaport and opened the interior of Prag Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 134081 North America to settlement. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134106 Lot# 1484 New York City, New York Brown Wire Gun Temporary Certificate This is a Lot# 1480 New York 1838 Erie temporary certificate issued to Brown Wire Canal Enlargement Bond State Gun president, Oliver Gildersleeve for 100 shares. It’s dated Aug. 5, of New York, Transfer Office. 1902 and signed by trustees, J.N. Brown, H.M Mausell and M. Porter. $5,000 Loan of April 1838, for The Brown 10-inch segmental-tube wire-wound gun.—This gun was the Enlargement of the Erie built under an allotment of $33,000 made by the Board September Canal. Issued to Pume, Ward & 15, 1896. Its test was begun in February, 1901, and in the two years King. Signed by Robert White, following it was fired a total of 24 rounds, mishaps of various kinds Cashier. Pen cancelled on the necessitating its removal from the proving ground for repairs. The last reverse. Ornate design with round fired from the gun was on October 28, 1903, following which black print on thin paper, five permission was granted to the Brown Wire Gun Company to remove vignettes (train, ship, allegorical the gun for alteration of the breech mechanism, which had operated in figures). Printed by Rawdon, Wright & Hatch, NY. Pinholes, folds, an unsatisfactory manner throughout the test. The gun was taken to creases, wear to edges. 8 x 11” The canal built to create a navigable the shops in Beading in January, 1905, that the desired changes might water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great be made. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Lakes, originally stretching for 363 miles from the Hudson River in Collection Est. $100-120 HWAC# 129757 Albany to Lake Erie in Buffalo. Completed in 1825. An ambitious program to improve the canal began in 1834. During this massive Lot# 1485 New York City, New York 1903 The series of construction projects, known as the First Enlargement, the Brown Wire Gun Company Stock Certs (2) canal was widened from 40 to 70 feet and deepened from 4 to 7 feet. This is a pair of stock certificates, both issued Locks were widened and/or rebuilt in new locations, and many new to Oliver Gildersleeve, one for 2,000 shares, the other, 4,999 shares navigable aqueducts were constructed. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300- at $10 per. It is signed by treasurer M. Porter and Gildersleeve, the 500 HWAC# 134107 president of the company. Both are canceled in 1913. An unknown portrait is on the top of the certificate. The Brown 10-inch segmental- Lot# 1481 New York 1837 Mississippi, tube wire-wound gun.—This gun was built under an allotment of Louisiana and Arkansas Land Company $33,000 made by the Board September 15, 1896. Its test was begun Stock Certificate Early land certificate. No. in February, 1901, and in the two years following it was fired a total 34, issued to Joshua R. Sands for one share in of 24 rounds, mishaps of various kinds necessitating its removal from New York in 1837. Signed by trustees, Abel the proving ground for repairs. The last round fired from the gun was Anderson and Raymond. Not cancelled. 5.25 x on October 28, 1903, following which permission was granted to the 8.5” Certificate was split in two and then tape Brown Wire Gun Company to remove the gun for alteration of the repaired. Many folds. As is. No information could be located. Ken Prag breech mechanism, which had operated in an unsatisfactory manner Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 134154 throughout the test. The gun was taken to the shops in Beading in January, 1905, that the desired changes might be made. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 129756 66 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1486 New York City, New York 1903 Brown Lot# 1492 Erie, Pennsylvania 1867 Wine Wire Gun Stock Certificate The certificate Company First Mortgage Bond 1867 A beautiful features a vignette of inventor John Hamilton First Mortgage Bond for The South Shore Wine Brown on the front and a unique vignette of a wire Company in Erie County, Pennsylvania. This gun on the back. In the same month the certificate impressive 12”x 15” document is printed on onion was issued, the company tested its ten-Inch gun skin stock and signed by George W. Smith, president before the ordnance department at Sandy Hook. and C.E Scofield, secretary. There is a hand drawn It could shoot 100-rounds with 10 pounds of powder in each round. corporate seal and six bond tickets intact. This is a Its six inch caliber gun had velocities of hundreds of feet per second very impressive paper that’s in very good condition, greater than the generally accepted maximum service velocity of three considering its age. Please see photos for more thousand feet per second, which was considered to be about the limit detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 124581 for guns of this caliber at that time. Issued for 200 shares uncancelled, incorporated in Maine. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132813 Lot# 1493 Philadelphi, Pennsylvania Vine Company of Philadelphia Stock Certificate, Lot# 1487 Utica, New York 1924 Earlier Oneida 1804 We believe this is the earliest dated wine Brewing Company Stock Number 39 for 75 shares stock certificate from America, issued to Henry to W Booth Ralph. Signed by John Ryan and WB Drinker (how appropo) for one share at $20. Ralph as president. Dated April 9, 1924. New York The only place the company name is mentioned seal as vignette. Two light folds. Overall excellent is on the corporate seal, which is very unusual. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123318 Signed by P. Mullenberg as president. Certificate #60. Also known as the Pennsylvania Vine Lot# 1488 Cincinnati, Ohio 1933 Wiedemann Company, it was founded by Peter Legaux in 1786 by selling shares. Brewery Corporation Stock Its 1933 and Legaux had bought an estate at Spring Hill of 206 acres. In 1793, only prohibition is over. And breweries began popping 139 shares had been sold and Legaux was having financial difficulties. up everywhere. Number 74 for 90 shares. Auto He wrote to General Washington offering to sell his house as a country signed. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 135407 residence for the president during congressional sessions (then still held in Philadelphia) on condition that he be allowed to continue his Lot# 1489 Cincinnati, Ohio 1890 Bandle “improvements in the cultivation of the vine”—a work that would Arms Company Stock Certificate A unique be lost were Legaux to be, as he feared, sold up for debt. Though his and rare stock certificate issued by The Bandle property was, nominally at least, seized in execution of a writ of sale Arms Company. It is for 20 shares at $100 per and made out to Henry in 1792, by one means or another Legaux yet managed to hang on to Goodman, dated May 31, 1890 and signed by J. Bandle, president of it. In 1793, the Philadelphia Daily Advertiser proclaimed that the first the company. it is endorsed on the reverse and also signed by future vintage ever held in America would begin at the Spring Hill vineyard company president G. Morris Crawford. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- in a few weeks. To increase sales of the stock, post-1800, the company 500 HWAC# 129759 produced an elaborate prospectus which noted that there were 18,000 vines at the vineyard and had “procured plants of the Constantia vine Lot# 1490 Columbia, Pennsylvania 1829 Columbia from the Cape of Good Hope.” This was the vine for which, so Legaux Pennsylvania Library Company 1829 Stock told La Rochefoucauld in 1795, he had paid the remarkable sum of Certificate Columbia Pennsylvania Library forty guineas, and of which he did considerable advertising. It was not, Company, Columbia, Pennsylvania, certificate No. however, the Constantia grape at all, or anything like it, being in fact 97, one share issued to Sarah Barber on April 6, the native hybrid best known as the Alexander. Legaux never gave up 1829, signed by E. Green, president, and William his insistence that the grape was what he said it was. Since he sold Dick, secretary. From History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: With large quantities of it at premium prices under its attractive foreign Biographical ..., Volume 1: “The company was organized in the spring name, the question has naturally arisen: Was he lying? Or was he of 1829 by the election of Evan Green, president and William Dick, honestly deceived? There is presumptive evidence both ways, but not secretary. A large and judicious selection of books and pamphlets of a kind to settle the matter.” (History of Wine in America- UC Press). were purchased.” But in four years the books and property of the VF. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 111859 company were sold to pay its debts. Shareholders received $2 on each share of stock, which was worth $5. Sarah Barber and her husband Lot# 1494 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1903 John were two of the prominent citizens who were shareholders. On American Flag House and Betsy Ross the rear, handwriting reads, “Paid December 12th, 1833.” 6.25” x 5”. Memorial Association Stock Certificate Ornate border. Pristine condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 Exceptionally attractive. Certificate 17404, HWAC# 127614 issued 1903 to Marion M Cranston of New York City. Color vignette of Betsy Ross and George Lot# 1491 Columbia, Pennsylvania Columbia Washington at center. The certificate certifies Wagon Company Stock Certificate, 1898 that Cranston is a member of the American Cert. #302, issued at Columbia, PA. in 1898. flag house and Betsy Ross Memorial Association and a subscriber to Nice vignette of a wagon at the top. Issued for the fund for the purchase and preservation of the historic house in 60 preferred shares to H.F. Yergey, the company which the first flag of the United States of America was made. Printed secretary and signed by the president, W.T. signatures including John Quincy Adams. Tear at center left, ragged Garrison. The company were manufacturers bottom, ragged right edge, crinkles. Rare. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- and wholesale dealers of farm wagons, 200 HWAC# 132731 dumping wagons, municipal trash wagons, carts & sleighs. In 1889, Garrison resigned his position as treasurer of the Parvin Iron Wagon WE WANT YOUR COLLECTION Co., and relocated to Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where he established the Columbia Wagon Company. In 1904, Contact us for more information Columbia touted an annual production capacity of 7,000 wagons. In 1906, the company exhibited a rear end dumper. The manufacturer about consigning in our auctions! reports a demand for wagons of this design for work where the drop bottom cannot be used, accordingly they make a very heavy wagon strongly ironed for hard usage (coachbuilt.com). The certificate is VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 111890 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 67

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1495 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1839 Lot# 1499 Pennsylvania 1822-1843 Three Williamsport & Philadelphia Lumber Early Pennsylvania Stocks & Bonds Lot of Company Stock Certificate Gorgeous, early 3 different. Big condition issues with each. As uncancelled lumber certificate! No. 101, issued is. 1) Philadelphia and Great Bend Turnpike for 10 shares to Andrew Cochran on Dec. 4th, Road. Issued in 1822 to the Commonwealth 1839 in Philadelphia. Signed by president of Pennsylvania. Signed by the president and William Perry and secretary John D. Beers. treasurer. Stock is in two pieces and needs restoration. 2) 1842 Bond Not cancelled. PS Duval Litho, Philadelphia. for RS Henderson for $17.25. Dateline Harrisburg. Signed by the Black border and print, many vignettes: Benjamin Franklin, George auditor general and state treasurer. Large tap repaired separation, Washington, an early locomotive, and multiple of lumber mill rough edges. 3) Dauphin County Loan. “An Act relating to Orphans’ machinery and ships! Pinholes, creases, light wear. 7 x 9.25” Perry is Courts, and for other purposes.” Issued to Elenor Graydon for $235, listed on the certificate as a trustee, and this company was incorporated 1843.Folds with large separations and toning, rough edges. Ken Prag in 1839 with Andrew Cochran also involved. Richard Cochran (his Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 134161 brother?) later sued Perry, Cochran, and the company. The company “were the owners of a large body of unseated land in Lycoming county Lot# 1500 Texas 1840 $100 and $500 containing 7302 acres 48 perches,” according to Pennsylvania State Republic of Texas Certified Stock and Bond Reports. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 134137 1) # 2025 for $500 to Edward Hall. Signed by Commissioner Charles DeMorse. Vignettes Lot# 1496 Plumstead, Pennsylvania 1883 include allegorical seamen, Texas star and semi (Dairy) Union Dairymen’s Association nude allegorical lady. 2) $100 issued to Charles DeMorse. Signed by Stock with nice Pink Underprint Number David LeBusuet(?) president. Vignettes include cattle, steamship and 60 for 2 shares for $10. Signed by president working man. The Commissioner tasked with funding the republic’s RW Nash. The association was headquartered mounting public debt. Endorsed on back. Demorse was an editor, int the Township of Plumstead, Bucks County, publisher, statesman, soldier, public official, lawyer, merchant, and Pennsylvania. This historic document has farmer. In 1836 he fought with the Texas army. In 1862 he was a an interesting border around it with a pink colonel of the 29th Cavalry. He was the commanding officer at Poison underprint of a Quaker family including a man leaning over the fence Springs where a federal advance was stopped. He was first mayor of talking to his wife and son next to a cow. Some discoloration along Clarksville. All have multiple cut cancellations and some tears and left fold. Otherwise very nice! Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# folding bottom right. Ken Prag Collection Est. $1500-2500 HWAC# 130165 123257 Lot# 1501 Texas 1840 Republic of Texas $100 Lot# 1497 Pennsylvania 1828 and 1845 Early Bond No. 2126. Republic of Texas Certificate Pennsylvania Canal Stock Certificate & Bond Lot of Stock in the ten percent consolidated fund of 2 different. 1) Pennsylvania Canal bond issued by Created by Act of Feb. 5th, 1840. Issued to John the Treasury Department for $500 to James Taylor Price. Signed by Comptroller Shaw and Stock in 1828. Signed by auditor general David Mann and Comm. Charles DeMorse. Cut cancelled in state treasurer Alex. Mahon. Transferred on the numerous places. Southern Bank Note Co. Two back by Taylor. Small allegorical vignette. Folds, allegorical vignettes and a star. Ten coupons some separation. 9 x 9” The Pennsylvania Canal was attached. Toning, creases. 7.5 x 9.75” Est. $200-400 HWAC# 135406 a complex system of transportation infrastructure improvements including canals, dams, locks, tow Lot# 1502 Texas 1840 Two Different Texas paths, aqueducts, and viaducts. The Canal and Works were constructed $500 Government Bonds 1) # 2025 for $500 and assembled over several decades beginning in 1824. 2) Union to Edward Hall. Signed by Commissioner Canal Company of Pennsylvania. Unissued but punch cancelled stock, Charles DeMorse. Vignettes include allegorical c.1845. 5 x 8.5” Heavy toning. In July,1811, two corporations (Schuylkill seamen, Texas star and semi nude allegorical & Susquehanna Navigation Company and Delaware and Schuylkill lady. 2) Issued to Charles DeMorse. Vignettes of farming, Native Canal company) were merged into the Union Canal Company. It was American and Texas star. Demorse was an editor, publisher, statesman, a towpath canal that existed in southeastern Pennsylvania. First soldier, public official, lawyer, merchant, and farmer. In 1836 he fought proposed in 1690 to connect Philadelphia with the Susquehanna River, with the Texas army. In 1862 he was a colonel of the 29th Cavalry. it ran approximately 82 miles from Middletown on the Susquehanna He was the commanding officer at Poison Springs where a federal below Harrisburg to Reading on the Schuylkill River. Construction advance was stopped. He was first mayor of Clarksville. All have began in 1792 during George Washington’s administration. Ken Prag multiple cut cancellations and some tears and folding bottom right. Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134150 The Commission was tasked with funding the republic’s mounting public debt. Both have multiple cut cancellations. One has tears. Ken Lot# 1498 Pennsylvania Prag Collection Est. $1500-3000 HWAC# 130166 Stock of the United States, on Pennsylvania Debt Certificate Lot# 1503 Texas 1840 Three (two different) number 37 to Mary Capener for Republic of Texas Certified Stocks 1) $44.44 stock of the United States Number 1209 with ten coupons – all signed by accruing on assumed debt of this Charles Demorse of the Teas Stock Commission state commencing on 1 January in 1940. Vignettes include allegorical lady, 1792 to be paid half yearly unless mill and Texas star. Issued to C. Conroy. the United States shall hereafter The Commissioner tasked with funding the increase the rate of interest on said republic’s mounting public debt. Endorsed on stock.” December 16, 1891 signed back. 2-3) Issued to Charles Demorse. Vignettes include cattle, Texas by Nicholson and John Donaldson star, steamboat. Demorse was an editor, publisher, statesman, soldier, in the Brig. Gen.’s office. Check public official, lawyer, merchant, and farmer. In 1836 he fought with rarity and people Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 132751 the Texas army. In 1862 he was a colonel of the 29th Cavalry. He was the commanding officer at Poison Springs where a federal advance was stopped. He was first mayor of Clarksville. All have multiple cut cancellations and some discoloration. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500- 1000 HWAC# 130163 68 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1504 Texas 1916-1950 Three Texas Lot# 1508 Virginia 1927 Buffalo Lithia Springs Bonds 1) Dallas County Levee Improvement Corporation Stock Certificates (2) Two Buffalo Refunding Bond. 1923. NUMBER 5. Coupons Lithia Springs Corporation uncanceled stock 7-20 attached (taped). Signed by TH Alexander certificates, both issued Feb. 2, 1927. Buffalo Lithia county judge county clerk and J Russell Springs is located in Buffalo Junction, VA, with treasurer. 2) El Paso Court House and Jail Bond. company incorporation in Delaware. The certificates Number 262. 1916. Coupons 22 to 62 attached. are: No. TCO464, temporary certificate for 20 shares Cancelled. 3) City of Dallas Sanitary Sewer and issued to James W. Evenden, signed by President Sewage Disposal Bond. Specimen. 1950. Overall these are in very nice H.L. Denson and Secretary C.E. Peterson; and No. condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 130172 TAO414, temporary certificate for 10 shares issued to James W. Evenden, also signed by the President and Secretary. Lot# 1505 Texas 1854 Texas Both in fine condition with slight folds, some staining and very little & German Emigration wear. The Buffalo Lithia Springs were first brought to the attention Company Stock Certificate of Colonel William Byrd by Native Americans in 1726 while he was Rare. No. 172, issued to DH surveying the boundary between Virginia and Carolina. Byrd called Klaener for 5 shares on August the site “Buffalo Springs”, because when they arrived, they killed a 2nd, 1854 in Houston. Signed local buffalo for food, which was drinking from one of the springs. by Henry F. Fisher, agent. The healing waters of Buffalo Lithia Springs were attracting visitors Not cancelled. 11.25 x 9.5” as early as 1790. Notable guests from this period were President Folds, tear on right border. Thomas Jefferson, General Winfield Scott, and General Santa Anna. The bottom of the stock has By the 1800s it had become a popular resort. Thomas F. Goode, a a Memorandum which reads: former Colonel in the 3rd Virginia Cavalry, purchased the resort in “The joint stock of the Texas 1874. Under his proprietorship the Springs achieved their greatest and German Emigration success, both as a destination and through the bottling of the Buffalo Company consists in the Lithia Water, which was sold in London, Paris and Havana. Mary Anna lands and tenements, right, Morrison Jackson, widow of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” interests and property vested, Jackson, was a guest during the Springs’ “heyday”, spending much of conveyed, put in, assigned and the 1899 season there. By the 1930s mineral water was no longer transferred by the German prescribed by physicians, and the resort/spa closed due to declining Emigration Company to profits. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127970 the Texas and German Emigration Company, as per Indenture of September 15th, 1853, to-wit: 1st.--All their right and claim to about Lot# 1509 Harpers Ferry, West Virginia 1824 1,200,000 acres of land in Fisher & Miller’s Colony Grant. 2nd--All their New Shenandoah Company Stock Certificate right and title to their private property in and about New Braunfels, Early stock issued for 10 shares to Jacob Bean, Fredericksburg, Indianola, and lands and tenements elsewhere in esquire, on November 16th, 1824. Signed by the state of Texas.” Beginning in the 1840s, a wave of social unrest in treasurer Sam. Lewis. Not cancelled. 4 x 7.75” Germany began a flood of immigration to Texas. Henry Francis Fisher Black print and corporate seal affixed. Deep was a key part in the Fisher–Miller Land Grant, which was an early folds, some soiling and tears. This company built a dam at Virginius colonization effort of the Republic of Texas. Miller and Fisher sold their Island, the last island in the Shenandoah River before it merges with 1842 land grant to the Adelsverein on June 22, 1844. The Adelsverein the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The island was was a German society that sought to establish a new Germany on formed by the Shenandoah Canal, constructed by the Patowmack Texas soil through organized mass emigration. Ken Prag Collection Est. Company between 1806 and 1807, which separates it from the town $500-800 HWAC# 134148 of Harpers Ferry. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 134155 Lot# 1506 Richmond, Virginia 1862 Lot# 1510 West Virginia 1893-1919 American Confederate Bond Signed by Jones, Ball Philatelic Association and Society Stock 46, Criswell 54, VF Issued at Richmond, 28 Certificates (2) Two philatelic stock certificates, January 1862, 8 % Bond for US-$ 500, #466, incorporated in West Virginia, issued in 1893 22.5 x 35.2 cm, black, white, folds, 5 coupons and 1919. Included are: American Philatelic remaining, vignette of a female figure seated Association, No. 431, one share issued to Wm. A. on a rock with a sheaf of grain underfoot, only Beggs, May 25, 1893, signed by President John K. 901 Bonds issued, signed by Jones.VF. Est. Tiffany and Secretary Millard F. Walton, with APA $300-600 HWAC# 111854 insignia in center and ornate border, embossed seal, 11” x 8”, good condition with three light folds Lot# 1507 Virginia 1906 American Asbestos and and slight damage on three corners; and American Philatelic Society, Fireproofing $1000 Gold Bond Beautiful bond, No. 5269, one share issued to Dale Dulmage, April 1, 1919, signed by with a vignette of the mythological Phoenix bird Vice President and Secretary, with APS insignia in center and ornate rising from the flames. Virginia. 1906. Includes border, red embossed seal, 12.5” x 9”, good condition with two folds full sheet of coupons. Handsigned by the president with approx. 1” tears along folds at top of certificate. See photos for and secretary. Issued, not cancelled. Extremely fine details. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 127987 condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 131876 Lot# 1511 West Virginia 1870 Clifton Iron and Nail Company 1870 Bond Clifton Iron and Nail Company bond issued April 25, 1870. Company incorporated in State of West Virginia. Parchment, 12” x 9 1/2” bond has spectacular vignette of a river scene with ferry boat, manufacturing company and housing, with ornate border and embossed seal. Signed by President John Hale, Secretary Geo E. Downing, and Treasurer H. H. Swallow. In fine condition with age related staining along slight folds, minor tears on fold edges and four small holes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 127969 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 69

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1512 Barnum, Wisconsin 1868 Barnum Lot# 1516 1900’s Midwest Lumber Company Stock Certificate This stock Livestock Packing Company is issued by The Barnum Lumber Company for Stock Certificates Seven stock 20 shares at $100 per share to George Irish, dated July 29, 1868 and certificates issued by midwestern signed by secretary George Houston and S. Colley (?) president. There companies. Certs include Acme is a red 25 cent revenue stamp and a vignette featuring a sailing ship Packing Company (Issued), and farmer. No apparent cancelation. Please see photos for more detail Midland Packing Company of and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 129753 Souis City Iowa (Issued, gold seal, four red revenue stamps), Lot# 1513 Racine, Wisconsin American Hampshire Swine J.I. Case Threshing Machine Record Association (Issued), The Stock Certificate, Racine, Cincinnati Union Stock Yard Company (Large stockyard and beef bull Wisc. 1907 This historic vignettes. Issued), Ginsberg Packing Company Incorporated (Issued, document has an ornate gold seal), St, Joseph Cattle Loan Company (Issued, gold seal) and border around it with a very Alfalfa Live Stock Association ( With all bonds intact, unissued). these rare color vignette of an are all in good condition, with the usual crease marks. Please see eagle “Old Abe” sitting on photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 a globe. In 1865, J. I. Case Company adopted the Civil HWAC# 124561 War eagle “Old Abe” as their logo. Jerome Increase Case Lot# 1517 1906-1930 Postal took a small, hand-powered threshing machine from Philatelic Association Williamstown, New York to Rochester, Wisconsin, where he fixed the machine and established Companies’ Stock Certificates the J I Case company. In 1843, J I Case thresher moved to Racine, Wisconsin, in order to have better access to water and facilities where (4) Lot of four U.S. postal or more threshers could be built and repaired. Case created the J I Case Company. He was later recognized as the first American to create a philatelic association and steam engine for agricultural use. Case won first place at the 1879 companies’ stock certificates, Paris Exposition in France for his thresher; this was the first thresher issued from 1906-1930. sent abroad by the Case company and was the first of thousands which would later be exported internationally. The Case company Includes: American Philatelic even produced automobiles between 1911 and 1925. This beautiful certificate is very rare. Stamp canceled with two fold lines and cut Association, issued 1906, No. cancels thru signatures. Stub attached at left. VF. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 111880 2167, one share, signed by Lot# 1514 Prairieville/Waukesha, Wisconsin President Wm. C. Stine and 1846 American Freeman (Anti-Slavery Newspaper) Stock Certificate Small Secretary D.T. Eaton, 11.75” x 8.25”, some staining; Continental Postage certificate stating that FK Phoenix has paid for 6 shares of stock in the “Joint Stock Meters Corporation, Delaware, issued 1930, No. 123, 10 shares, Association, organized for the purchase, ownership and management of the ‘American Freeman’ printing establishment at Milwaukie, June 1, signed by President and Secretary, 11” x 8”, two slight folds; Cox Multi- 1841.” Issued Sept. 24th, 1846. Signed by president Charles (illegible) and secretary John B. Jillson. Transferred on the reverse. 3.25 x 7.75” Mailer Company, Maine, issued 1911, No. 1459, 50 shares, signed by Folds, discoloration on reverse. The “American Freeman” was an anti- slavery newspaper from the abolitionist Liberty Party published President and Treasurer, 12” x 9”, eagle vignette, slight wear upper 1844-1848 in Waukesha/Prairieville, a station on the Underground right corner; Post Office Building Corporation, Texas, issued 1923, No. Railroad for runaway slaves and an abolitionist center before the 24, 26 shares, signed by President Jack B. Robert and Secretary, 10.5” American Civil War. The newspaper’s motto was “Universal Equality of Human Rights.” Waukesha is 15 miles west of Milwaukee. Ken Prag x 8.5”, Texas star vignette, two slight folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 134145 400 HWAC# 127980 Lot# 1515 1944 American Ordnance Corporation Stock Certs (2) A pair of stock Lot# 1518 1900’s Candy Company & Store certificates issued by The American Ordnance Stock Certificates 13 stock certificates issued Corporation. First is four shares of preferred stock at $100 per to by various candy and confection companies. Robert Herzog, dated Mar. 16, 1944 and signed by both treasurer Certs include U.R.S. Candy Stores Inc., (illegible) and president (illegible). The second is 100 shares of Brittingham Cndy Mfg. Co (with Eagle vignette), common stock at $1 per, issued to Louis Borger, dated April 3, 1944 Candy Prod. Corp.(Two), Happiness Candy and signed by treasurer and president, again, (illegible). Please see Stores, Lafayette Candy Mfg. (Eagle vignette), photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 Loft Candy Corp, Mary Lincoln Candy Company (Greek themed HWAC# 129758 vignette), Merchants Candy Company, Miller Candy Company (Two), and two W.P. Chase Candy Corporation certs, with Eagle vignettes. All are canceled and other than fold creasing, are in excellent condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 124545 Lot# 1519 1893-1920 Clock Company Stock Certificates (3) Three clock company stock certificates, all in excellent condition with slight folds, issued from 1893-1920. Includes: The Ansonia Clock Company, Connecticut, issued in 1920, No. 0117 for 75 shares, 10.75” x 7”, canceled with four stamps, signed by President Russel T. Bowles and Secretary, ornate border, American flags vignette; Desk Clock Company, Illinois, issued in 1894, No. 8 for 108 shares, 10” x 8”, uncanceled, signed by President M.D. Watson and Treasurer W.T. Augell, ornate border, Greek inspired woman vignette; The Cornforth Patent Case Company, Colorado, issued in 1893, No. 15 for 5,000 shares, 10” x 8”, uncanceled, signed by President J.T. Cornforth and Secretary, ornate border, eagle holding shield vignette. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127977 70 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1520 1924-1955 Pottery Art Tile Lot# 1523 1920-1972 Iron Glass Companies’ Stock Certificates (4) and Steel Foundries Stock Four pottery, art, tile and glass company stock Certificates (12) A dozen certificates from CA, NV and Maine, c1924- iron and steel foundry stock 1955. Included are: California Glass Company, certificates from the U.S., inc. ME, No. 72, 10,000 shares issued March 31, issued from 1920-1972, 1927, to J.A. Fraters and A.R. Townsend, signed includes seven specimens. by President and Secretary, uncanceled, brown Five specimens are from the ornate border and embossed seal, fine condition with two minor folds; Central Foundry Co., a Maine California Pottery Co., inc. Oakland, CA, No. 37, 10 shares issued Dec. 13, corporation which was 1924, to John Faufner, signed by President and Secretary, uncanceled, organized in 1911. Central brown ornate border and embossed seal, good condition with some was a large manufacturer wear on edges and two minor folds; California Art Tile Corp., inc. NV, of cast-iron soil pipe and No. A0186, 75 shares issued Nov. 2, 1955 to Raymond A. Broy, signed fittings. Identical 12” x 8” by President R.J. Maddox and Secretary A. Harper Massie, canceled, certificates feature eagle, foundry employees and plant vignettes, and brown ornate border, Greek vignette of two men, fine condition with are various different colors, all dated 19__ and in pristine condition. two minor folds; California Art Tile Corp., inc. NV, No 756 (temporary Two specimens from Buffalo Forge Company, Greek-inspired woman certificate), 10 shares issued Aug. 2, 1935 to John F. Finnegan, signed with buffalo vignettes, signed by President and Secretary, 12” x 8”, by President and Secretary, uncanceled, brown ornate border, fine pristine condition. Others included are: two The Clinton Foundry condition with two minor folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 Company, inc. in N.J., eagle and U.S. flag vignettes, gold embossed HWAC# 127966 seals, both issued in 1920 and signed by President and Secretary, uncanceled, 10.25” x 8.25”, pristine condition; Crane Co., 12” x 8.5”, Lot# 1521 1900’s Glass Company Stock Certificates (5) Stock company plant vignette, issued in 1929, signed by V.P., Secretary and certificates issued by glass Treasurer, excellent condition with light folds; Detroit Gray Iron and manufacturers. Included are Steel Foundries, Inc., Michigan, no vignette, signed by President and fifty (50) shares issued by Secretary, issued in 1972, 12” x 8”, pristine with one fold on lower right Corning Glass Works to Henry corner; and Ecorse Foundry Company, inc. in Michigan, no vignette, Sprague, dated Oct, 20, 1922 11” x 8.25”, embossed seal, issued in 1936, signed by President and and signed by secretary John Secretary, pristine condition with two light folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. Thomas and Eugene Sullivan, $200-500 HWAC# 127606 president. It is hand canceled, with one $1 green revenue Lot# 1524 1869- stamp and four brown 20 cent revenue stamps on reverse. 1889 Pre-1900 Steel Obverse has woman and factory vignette. 2. Issued and Iron Companies by Beacon Plate & Window Glass Company for 100 shares Stock Certificates & at $1 per to Allan F. Bruen, Bond (5) Lot of five dated Dec. 15, 1937, signed by includes four steel president and secretary (illegible) and no cancelation. 3. The Akron and iron companies’ Glass and Machinery Co. issued five shares at $100 per to M.W. Kapp, stock certificates signed by secretary Baldwin and president Baird, it’s dated Sept. 9, and one bond from 1902, has Lincoln vignette and no cancelation. 4. Bullet Proof and Non- Shatterable Glass Corporationissued for five shares to A.B. Murray Jr, eastern U.S. states, dated Aug. 7, 1922 and signed by secretary and president (illegible). There is a woman & factory vignette and no apparent cancelation. pre-1900. Included 5. Erie Glass Company, issues four (4) shares at $100 per to Samuel Cushing. Dated Feb. 12, 1929 and signed by secretary, Ling and are: Bridgewater Iron president Tracey. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 129750 Company, No. 14, Lot# 1522 1889-1903 Industrial Materials 10 shares issued to Companies Stock Certificates (4) Lot of four industrial materials companies’ stock Mary A. Johnson of N.Y.C., Aug. 4, 1874, signed by President George certificates, from Eastern States, c1889-1903. Included are: Ashley’s Bromine and Arsenic Spring Company, of Bristol, Tenn., No. 42, 50 B. Stetson and Treasurer Nahum Stetson, printed by Hooper, Lewis & shares issued June 29, 1889, uncanceled, signed by President H.D. Reynolds and Secretary, with ornate fountain vignette and border; Co., Stationers, 122 State Street, dark orange embossed seal, 9” x 6.5”, American Alkali Company, inc. in New Jersey, No. 4796, 100 shares issued May 27, 1901, to John H. Keppelman, uncanceled, signed by excellent condition with spot of wax near top, six light folds and some the President and Treasurer, with embossed seal, eagle vignette and ornate border; Alabama Kaolin Company, inc. in West Virginia, No. 26, aging around edges; Barron’s Patent Steel Manufacturing Company, 50 shares issued Nov. 8, 1897, uncanceled, signed by President Henry B. McDowell and Treasurer John M. Dickinson, with embossed seal and No. 100, 500 shares issued to Sheldon I. Kellogs, Aug. 18, 1869, signed ornate border; The Carbon Dioxide & Magnesia Company, inc. in New Jersey, No. 52, 13 shares issued April 7, 1903, to J.F. Miller, uncanceled, by President and Secretary, With. by Heliotype Co. 87 Fulton St., N.Y., signed by President and Treasurer, with embossed seal, small CO2 canister vignette and ornate border. All in very fine condition with two vignette of greek-inspired woman, ships and bridge, and of dog and tall slight folds each. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127960 plant, revenue stamp, embossed seal, 11.75” x 6”, excellent condition with four light folds and some staining; Bessemer Company, No. 1062, 1 share issued to Samuel K. Wilson, July 24, 1873, New Brunswick, N.J., signed by President Wm. Frazier and Secretary A.S. Quackenbush, vignette of little girl, embossed seal, 10” x 5.5”, pristine condition; handwritten certificate for Emerson Malleable Iron Company, Georgia, No. 46, 1 share issued to Jno Chatelin, Jan. 14, 1890, signed by President C.M. Jones and Secretary, embossed seal, 10” x 6”, excellent condition with two light folds; and first mortgage gold bond for Basic City Chilled Roll and Iron Works, Virginia, No. 46 for $1,000, seven coupons still attached, signed by President and Secretary, ornate border, Greek- inspired vignette or woman, ships, water, etc., embossed seal, 15” x 9.5”, excellent condition with three light folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $240-500 HWAC# 127603 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 71

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1525 1860s-1922 Sewing Machine Cos. Lot# 1529 1973 Walt Disney Stock Stock Certificates (8) Eight sewing machine Certificates Lot of two. 1) Light green, 1974, companies’ stock certificates from eastern #C285788 for 100 shares. Issued to Pershing states, several with stamps, c1860s-1922. & Company. Vignette of Disney portrait with Included are: The Bond Sewing Machine Co., Mickey Mouse on his left shoulder and the inc. PN, No. 263, 3 shares issued Nov. 15, 1871, castle over his right. 2) Orange, 1973, #NCO222043 for 20 shares. to F. Wheeldon, signed by President Joseph Issued to CPI Corporation. Same vignette. Both lightly hole punch Bond, Jr., and Treasurer Helen Righter, uncanceled, with stamp, fine cancelled. Both in very nice condition; light folds and pin holes. Ken cond. with 2 minor folds; The American Hand Sewing Machine Co., Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 130171 inc. NY, No. 219, 100 shares issued Sept. 7, 1885, to William Jackson, signed by President and Secretary, uncanceled, fine cond. with one Lot# 1530 1895-1959 Watch Companies’ small hole upper left and 2 minor folds; Blees Sewing Machine Co., Stock Certificates (8) Including Bulova inc. NY, No. 66, 42 shares issued March 14, 1871, to Richard Butler, Eight watch companies’ stock certificates, uncanceled with stamp, eagle vignette, good cond. with small tear all in excellent condition with slight folds, lower left and 2 minor folds; The Davis Sewing Machine Company of issued from 1895-1959. Includes: Bulova Watertown, NJ, blank & unissued but dated 186_, signed by President Watch Company, Inc., NY, issued 1916, signed L.A. Johnson, Greek vignette of two women and eagle, fine cond. with by President John H. Ballard and Secretary 2 slight folds; The Davis Sewing Machine Company of Watertown, NJ, Harry D. Henshel, Greek inspired clock with woman in front vignette, No. 118, 14 shares issued April 22, 1871, signed by President W. Ives uncanceled; Benrus Watch Company, Inc., NY, (3), issued in 1953 (2) and Secretary J.M. Lyon, canceled with stamp, Greek vignette of two and 1959, signed by President Benjamin Lazrus and Treasurer, all women and eagle, fine cond. with diamond shaped cancels; The Davis canceled, one with eight stamps; Elgin National Watch Co., Illinois (3), Sewing Machine Company of Watertown, NJ, No. 50, 133 shares issued issued in 1903 and 1921 (2), all three signed by President Charles H. Nov. 29, 1869, signed by Vice-President and Secretary, uncanceled Hulburd and Secretary, Greek inspired trademark vignettes and 1921 with stamp, Greek vignette of two women and eagle, fine cond. with 2 certificates have eagle perched on a pocket watch, all canceled; Chicago slight folds; The Davis Sewing Machine Co., inc. DE, No. C979, 2 shares Alarm Watch Company, Illinois, issued 1895, signed by President and issued Jan. 4, 1922, to Helen E. Swallow, signed by President C.A. Secretary, Greek inspired woman, farmers, locomotive, ship vignette, Hawkins and Asst. Sec. W.W. Gaston, uncanceled, manufacturing plant uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 127978 vignette and embossed seal, fine cond. with 2 slight folds (2- one with green the other brown ornate borders). Ken Prag Collection Est. $500- Lot# 1531 1916-1965 Crown 1000 HWAC# 127967 Paper Companies Stock Certificates and Bond (17) Lot# 1526 1867 & 1900s Silk & Wool Industry Collection of 17 includes 16 Stock Certificates (3) Three stock certificates stock certificates and one bond, from silk and wool companies, one in fine plus a trustee’s folder, from condition issued in 1867 from Pennsylvania the Crown Willamette Paper and two unissued from Connecticut in the Company, inc. in Maine, and 1900s. Includes: Chambersburg (Penn.) Crown Zellerbach Corporation, Woolen Manufacturing Company, 20 shares inc. in Nevada, from 1916-1965. issued to Jacob Garver on Jan. 12, 1867, two revenue stamps, signed Included are: one canceled by President J.C. Austin and Treasurer C.M. Burnett, vignettes of young unused Crown Willamette Paper boy’s portrait, fine condition with slight folds, 10.5” x 7.25”; and two Company bond dated May, from The Corticelli Silk Company, inc. in Connecticut, both unissued 1916, 15” x 10”, and an eight- with 19__ dates, one is preferred stock, the other common, green and page trustees’ folder dated Jan. 1, 1926, with six trustees’ signatures, orange borders respectively, vignettes of kitten playing with a spool containing six unused certificate specimens measuring 11.5” x 8” each, of thread, four punch holes in each, both in very fine condition, and all in pristine condition; and 10 Crown Zellerbach Corp. certificates, approx. 11.25 x 8.25”. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127985 each 12” x 8”, with issue dates from 1941-1965, various colored ornate borders, with Greek-inspired vignettes, all canceled and signed by Lot# 1527 Ringling Bros. - Barnum & Bailey President and Secretary, with several more signatures on the backs. Combined Shows Stock Certificate One of In excellent condition with light folds. See photo for more details. Ken the most colorful stock certificates! Vignettes Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127604 include clowns, lions, acrobats, tigers, horse zebras, etc. Green underprint shows elephants Lot# 1532 1884-1890 Printing and circus tents. In extremely fine condition, Business Stock Certificates never folded, issued to Merrill Lynch. High (3) Three choice printing quality printing by American Bank Note. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 131874 business stock certificates, from Eastern States, c1880s. Lot# 1528 2004 Walt Includes: The Dighton Color Disney Stock Certificate Works, of N.Y., inc. in Mass., No. with the Entire Disney 4, three shares issued March Cast in Color The most 19, 1884 to Trustee John P. iconic Disney certificate. Adams, uncanceled, signed by A portrait of Disney is President and Secretary, also surrounded by Mickey John P. Adams, with gold company seal, great vignette of man using Mouse, Dumbo, Winnie the bellows on a flame; Chester Paper Co., of Huntington, Mass., No. 130, Pooh, Donald Duck, etc. 2 shares issued Dec. 6, 1890, to the treasurer of the company (also STRIKING! Issued in 2004 signed by) Frederick D. Phelon, uncanceled, with large detailed for 1 share. One light corner vignette and embossed seal; The Alden Type Setting & Distributing fold bottom right. Overall in Machine Co., of New York, blank certificate with 18__ date, vignettes of near perfect condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 130170 a type setting machine, distribution machine, Benjamin Franklin and possibly Abraham Lincoln. All in choice condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $240-300 HWAC# 127962 72 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds Lot# 1533 1908, 1936 U.S. Bridge Building Lot# 1539 China, national Companies’ Stock Certificates (2) Two U.S. defense loan Bonds Three bridge building companies’ stock certificates, with different denominations of these beautiful vignettes, from Arkansas and Ohio. The 1938 national defense loan lot includes: The Baring Cross Bridge Company, bonds. All of these bonds are with vignette of two trains crossing the Baring 100% written in Chinese and Cross Railroad Bridge over the Arkansas River, each has the same vignette for issued in 1908, signed by President and Secretary each denomination. Five yuan with dark orange company seal, 9 3/8” x 7”, fine which has a blue border and an cond. w/ slight folds; and Clarksburg-Columbus orange reverse, 7 specimens Short Route Bridge Company, with vignette of arched bridge over with coupons. ¥10 bonds with the Ohio River and three vessels, issued in 1936, signed by President a brown border on the front and Treasurer, 11 1/2” x 7 1/2”, fine cond. Two suspension bridges and brown on the back, there are 12 bonds with coupons and three built by the company in 1928 that span the Ohio River include the without coupons. There are five red bonds which are 50 yuan in red Clarksburg-Columbus Short Route Bridge and the Silver Bridge. The on the front blue on the back Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# Silver Bridge collapsed during the afternoon rush hour during a busy 132916 Christmas shopping season, sending 32 vehicles into the icy waters of the Ohio River, killing 46 people. A new bridge was eventually built Lot# 1540 Chinese Bond with Vignette of downstream, the Hi Carpenter Memorial Bridge, which opened for Single Wing Airplane Very attractive smaller traffic in 1977. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127981 size Chinese bond about 4 x 7”, with early airplane at center. The entire bond front and back is in Lot# 1534 27th year Republic of China gold Chinese. Please see photo. Ken Prag Collection Est. loans in United States dollars. Group of three $50-100 HWAC# 132811 different 27th year gold loans for China, 1938. Five dollar US bonds, quantity six, blue border, Lot# 1541 Chinese bonds of unknown US five at upper right, with coupons. Brown origin A group of 18 small size Chinese bonds, border US $10 at upper right six pieces with approximately 4 x 7”. On one side is the serial coupons. $50 US at upper right purple border number at bottom center with vignette of two pieces. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-400 HWAC# 132911 Chinese leader at right center at left side is a large red block print. On the reverse is a blue Lot# 1535 29th Year Reconstruction Gold tablet of Chinese writing with the 5 at each corner. Ken Prag Collection Loan for China and US Dollars Three red US Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132812 $10 bonds with coupons. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 132912 Lot# 1542 Chinese Government 1913 Gold Loan Bonds Nine pieces, industrial vignette at Lot# 1536 Bond Group for Lung-Tsing-U- top with Greek allegorical figure, Chinese rice Hai railroad Three different bonds for this field at left temple at right. 5% reorganization railroad. 1923. 50 million Frank bond, brown Gold loan of 1913 for £25 million coupons border with coupons. One piece. 1920 50 attached some with British revenues others million Frank bond with coupons one piece. without some with French revenues. Ken Prag 1913 £10 million bond, blue border, four Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132903 pieces. Six bonds total for this railroad. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-1000 HWAC# 132909 Lot# 1543 Chinese government 5% Gold loan of 1912 One bond, blue border 20 pound bond, British Lot# 1537 China Liberty Bond Set Set of five revenue imprint at right Ken Prag Collection Est. $50- different liberty bonds in the 30th year of the 100 HWAC# 132906 Republic. Five dollar bond in orange, $10 in Brown, $50 in blue, $100 in green, and $1000 in dark brown. The higher denominations may be significantly rarer than the lower denominations Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 132917 Lot# 1538 China Nationalist Lot# 1544 Chinese improvement bonds, Government Lottery Loan 1903 for the construction of a railroad 15 Bonds Three groups of bonds, orange border. For the construction of nationalist government lottery a railroad at Kaifong– Fou and Honan – Fou loan bonds. 1926 lottery loan in Honan. dated 1907 Ken Prag Collection Est. bonds in the amount of five $100-1000 HWAC# 132908 dollars Canton currency, blue border, contents in English, Lot# 1545 Chinese Liberty Bonds, Five and reverse brown with Chinese Ten Quantity of five and ten denomination vignettes in Chinese. 87 pieces. liberty bonds. The five bonds are oriented on 1926 second nationalist the front and blue on the back, from 1937. government lottery loan Bonds, five dollar amount. Green border There are 47 bonds with coupons and nine English content, reverse purple with Chinese content. 105 pieces. without of the five denomination. The 10 1927 nationalist government lottery loan Bonds, five dollars. Orange denomination is brown on the front and blue border English contents, reverse green Chinese content. 94 pieces. Ken on the back, there are 50 bonds with coupons and five bonds without. Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 132915 Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-2000 HWAC# 132918 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 73

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Foreign Lot# 1546 Chinese Ministry of Railway Lot# 1555 Bonds of the Construction Bonds 1930 Three groups Society of gold mines of Kilo of these 1930 railroad construction bonds. – Moto, Africa. Group of 10 4 yuan, six pieces. 40 yuan, 15 pieces. 100 original bonds for this African yuan, 19 pieces. These bonds are mostly with Goldmine with nice vignette coupons but there are approximately eight of an African pushing and or pieces without coupons. Ken Prag Collection Est. car and another in a canoe at a $400-1000 HWAC# 132914 remote African site. The bonds are dated 1926 due in 1940 this Lot# 1547 Higher Denomination Chinese property produced more than Liberty Bonds Circa 1937 Three of the blue 11 out 11 million ounces of gold 50 funds with coupons, five of the hundred make it one of the largest gold dollar green bonds with no coupons Ken Prag producing mines in the world. It was at root one time run by Newmont Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132919 minds, and has an extensive report on the mine and its history in the Congo. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 132777 Lot# 1548 Imperial Chinese Government Lot# 1556 Cape of Good Hope Gold Loan of 1908 Bonds Two bonds, no coupons attached. Green border £5 million Diamond Mining Company red block imprint at bottom center Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132905 Certificate, England, 1881 Warrant certificate #210 good Lot# 1549 Industrial Bank of China Bonds for one share. Printed by the circa 1913 Seven very attractive bonds, fresh reverse Chinese scene with food dogs at Blades East, London. There is bottom hundred and Fr.50 million capital very attractive. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-500 a red English One Shilling Six HWAC# 132907 Pence Tax Stamp attached to Lot# 1550 Industrial Improvement Republic China Bonds 1914 Two bonds with the face. 35 coupons attached coupons for industrial improvement by the government of the Republic of China 1924. on the bottom. An event of Sorry 1914. France revenue upper left brown border. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# considerable commercial 132904 importance to the Cape Colony, Lot# 1551 Three different Bonds for the 1930 Ministry of Railway, China Three and indeed to all of South Africa, was the amalgamation of the different bonds issued 1930 by the Ministry diamond-mining companies which was chiefly brought about by Cecil of Railway. 4 yuan, 40 yuan, and 100 yuan. Ken Rhodes, Alfred Beit and “Barney” Barnato in 1889. One of the principal Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132913 and most beneficial results of the discovery and development of the diamond mines was the great impetus that it gave to railway expansion. Lot# 1552 Two Chinese Railroad Bonds £100 Chinese imperial government bond for Lines were opened up to Worcester, Beaufort West, Grahamís Town, the Honan Railway at 5% gold loan 1905. Green border coupons. The second bond is a general Graaff Reinet, and Queenstown. Kimberley was reached in 1885. By company bond for tramways in China, 1900, 3 million Francs capital. Ken Prag Collection Est. 1892, the rails reached Pretoria and Johannesburg. Vignette of a miner $200-300 HWAC# 132910 holding his shovel at top center and also imprinted on the corporate Lot# 1553 Irish Republic Ten Dollar seal. We don’t see diamond mining certificates such as this one very Bearer Bond, 1866 Bond certificate with two certificate numbers, 406 and 2095. Issued for often. It is uncancelled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 135393 Ten Dollars to Thomas Starkly (?) and signed by John B. Mahony, agent for the Irish Republic. Lot# 1557 British Columbia Small burn hole thru center. Printed by 1908 Great Cariboo Gold Continental Bank Note, New York. Uncanceled. Company Stock Certificate Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 111860 Fabulous and in pristine condition! This is one of Lot# 1554 Govt. Of Palestine Bearer Bond, the most impressive stock Jerusalem, 1945 Issued for 10 pounds. Bearer certificates you will ever see. Bond, Second Issue. Issued at Jerusalem, 3rd Eight gold nugget vignettes. April, 1945. Two coupons remain at the bottom. Three miners with a gold Purple stamp at top right in 1950 migh indicate nugget. Vial with gold inside. cancellation. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 111877 Etc.! Inc. in South Dakota. Number 3179, issued to Henry Schmidt for 90 shares on Feb. 10th, 1908. Signed by president J. Houghton and the secretary. Not cancelled. Green border with vignettes of miners, ore cars, nuggets, vials of gold, and more. Printed by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore. Measures 15” x 13 3/4”. Folds, otherwise pristine. This is the best condition example we’ve handled. The company was a successor to the British American Gold Mining & Trading Co which was organized for the purpose of working several claims in the Lightning Creek district of British Columbia. Results fell very far short of the predictions made by the promoters and the company came in for considerable criticism by reason of the fact that it had not been managed in a way which promised very well for stockholders. “[Still] if given a careful and conservative management, a thing with which the old company was not blessed, the Great Cariboo Gold Co may make out all right in time. But in view of what has happened in the past we hardly look for such a result.” [United States Investor, 1905] Ken Prag Collection Est. $800-1200 HWAC# 134063 74 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 1558 British Columbia Great Cariboo Lot# 1563 Oaxaca, Magdalena Smelting & Gold Company Stock, British Columbia, Mining Co. Stock Certificate, Oaxaca, Mexico 1906 This is one of the most impressive 1907 Inc. in New York. No. C3607, issued for stock certificates you will ever see. Eight gold 100 shares to Charles H. Dickey on Nov. 12th, nugget vignettes. Three miners with a gold 1907. Signed by Henry W. Catlin, president, and nugget. Vials with gold inside. This is cert. # K.L. Breeman, asst. secretary. Punch cancelled 2049, issued to M.P. Refa for 50 shares in 1906. on the left side. Very attractive design with Measures 15” x 13 3/4”. Signed by J. Houghton maroon border and background and vignette of as President. Incorporated in South Dakota. The company operated in smelter. Printed by New York Bank Note Co. According the the Copper British Columbia, Canada. It was a successor to the British American Handbook Vol. 8 (1908), the company had 160 hectares showing Gold Mining & Trading Company, which was organized five or six years mostly silver-lead carbonates. Their smelter, known as the Magdalena, ago for the purpose of working several claims in the Lightning Creek was the first modern smelter in the state of Oaxaca and had a daily district of British Columbia. Results fell very far short of the predictions capacity of 50 tons. Mine office located in Magdalena, Oaxaca, Mexico. made by the promoters and the company came in for considerable Est. $80-160 HWAC# 135402 criticism by reason of the fact that it had not been managed in a way which promised very well for stockholders. [Still] if given a careful and Lot# 1564 Alaska 1918 North Midas Copper conservative management, a thing with which the old company was Company of Alaska Stock # 2777 for 5,000 not blessed, the Great Cariboo Gold Co may make out all right in time. shares to George M. Wheeler on June 18, 1918. But in view of what has happened in the past we hardly look for such Signed by treasurer James Crane and president a result. [United States Investor, 1905] . Some small rust spots where (?). This mine was incorporated in 196 in the paper clips had rested, but overall VF. This is in much better condition Kotsina-Kuskulana district within the current than this piece usually is. And it’s one of the finest looking gold mining Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. It was located stocks ever. Uncanceled. Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 111892 on Berg Creek 12 miles from Stelna. The company’s best year was 1919, but only 40 ounces of gold and 123 ounces of silver wee mined. Lot# 1559 Dawson City, Yukon Territory [National Park Service, online] Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130103 Detroit Yukon Mining Co Stock, Dawson City, Klondike, 1904 The Detroit Yukon Lot# 1565 Amado, Arizona 1858 Sopori Mining Company operated a placer gold Land and Mining Company Stock Certificate mine in the early 1900s about 6 miles up the Sopori Land and Mining Company Stock Klondike River valley from Dawson City. The Certificate May 1st, 1858. “This Certifies that company’s office was in Detroit, Michigan. Samuel Pratt proprietor of 25 shares of the The company also operated a small industrial Sopori Land and Mining Company, subject, in railway in the Yukon. The stock was issued in 1904 for 90 shares and all respects to the provisions of the Articles of is red pen canceled. Issued to Harry Rothschild and signed by Sigmund Association of said Company, bearing date the Rothschild as president and Louis Rothschild as secretary. Sigmund twenty-fourth day of April A. D. 1858, reference Rothschild was a tobacco merchant in New York City and Detroit. Part thereto being herby had and made for the terms thereof – transferable of stub is attached at left border. VF. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 111851 on the books of the Company on the surrender of this Certificate. In witness whereof, this Certificate is signed by a majority of said Lot# 1560 American Mining Company, New Trustees and countersigned by the Treasurer this 21st day of May A. Granada Mine Stock, 1850 Issued at Windsor, D. 1858. Trustees Samuel G. Arnold and Alfred Anthony, Treasurer A. Vermont in 1850 for ten shares. Three nice J. Burroughs, Treasurer.”cThis is one of the earliest known of the most vignettes. The company had the power to important of all Arizona Mining Stock Certificates from the original establish mine with separate interest. The New Gold Rush Era. See full story online Est. $2100-3500 HWAC# 106526 Granada mine was a platinum mine in Columbia. The certificate is VF overall with just a little browning at the left edge. Uncancelled. Ken Prag Lot# 1566 Mayflower, Arizona 1800’s Gila Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 118369 River Mining Co. of New Orleans, Louisiana Inc. in New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1859. Lot# 1561 1922 Colombian Emerald U/U. “New Mexico and Arizona” at left. Eagle Syndicate Stock Certificate Stock certificate vignette top. Printed by H. Whermann, New for “sub-shares of Colombian Emerald Orleans. Datelined New Orleans 18__. This Syndicate Limited,” inc. in Delaware, issued in company probably worked the placer deposits 1922. Certificate is No. 8746 for 100 shares, along the Gila River around Gila City about 1859-60, went dormant issued to Arthur W. Clark on Nov. 10, 1922, with the onset of the Civil War, and reorganized in 1881 with new signed by Vice President and Asst. Secretary. properties. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 110812 Transferred on back in 1923, with several more signatures including notary. Green ornate border, embossed seal, excellent condition with Lot# 1567 Pim, Arizona 1883 Copper three light vertical folds and slight yellowing and wear from age in Emperor Mining Company Stock Cert. #132, corners. 12” x 8.25”. Stock printed by John Ward & Son - 115 Cedar I/U, at New York Jan 3, 1883 to Geo. J. Weuck Street, NY. The company appears to have operated in the Chivor region for 25 shares. Inc. in New York. Signed by of Colombia. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127986 president Albert Welles . Gold embossed corp. seal. Vignette miners working shaft. Henry Lot# 1562 1893 New York & Camalote Seibert & Bros. printer. We are unsure of the Mining Company Stock #421 for 20 shares location of this company’s property. Tenney (1929, p. 263), reporting to Henry Snyder. Signed by president Bryon on Pima County, mentions that the Emperor Copper Company was E. Huntley and secretary William B. Sylvester. reorganized to exploit the copper deposits of Mineral Hill in 1882 after The company was formed in 1881 to fund completion of the railroad. The company had begun development of silver mining in the Honduras. The mine never the deposits and planned to erect a smelter, but when the price of paled out and was unprofitable. In 1900 the copper slumped in 1884, they abandoned all work on the property. company organizers petitioned the state of New York to dissolve. Whether this is the same as the Copper Emperor is not clear. The [1900 Engineering and Mining Journal] Great vignette inside seal of difference in names could be as simple as Tenney mis-transcribing a mining operation high on a hill with a tram system down to the mill. the name properly, which he did several times. Unc. VF. Est. $200-400 Quite amazing! Folds, creases and some discoloration, but overall Ken HWAC# 110810 Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 130168 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 75

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 1568 Santa Maria District, Arizona Lot# 1572 Arizona Specie Basis Mining 1908 Big Stick Gold Mining Company Stock Company Bond, 1866 Cert. #181, issued for Choice, rare! Named for Teddy Roosevelt’s, $100 in 1866. Inc. in Pennsylvania. The company “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick.” Number operated gold, silver and copper mines in 443 for 200 shares to Frederick E Hoyt Sr. Arizona. Specie basis refers to an antiquated Signed by H Leon Haynes and JB Girard. monetary payment methodology revolving Vignette of a big stick. Choice with no apparent around gold and silver, which were called specie. condition issues! JB Girard is listed in Arizona’s Although unlisted in J.Ross Brown in 1868, “Who’s Who.” He started as Deputy Mineral Surveyor. Then ws the there is a strong possibility that this company is Assistant Chief Engineer of the Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railway. directly related to the Specie Pay mine. In 1882, He started in mining at the Anita Copper. He held several other mining Burchard reported the Specie Pay mine was driving a new ore tunnel positions. In 12908 he was in charge of designing and constructing in 1881 averaging $42 per ton. It had apparently been reactivated the twenty stamp gold mill and cyanide plant for the Big Stick. His list after some time of dormancy. Hamilton, in 1884 cited this mine as of accomplishments are far too long to list here. The Big Stick Gold the key mine in the district along with the Alice mine. The ore was MIning Company was located in the Santa Maria District about 20 reported to run $30 per ton, and a mill was erected on the Alice about miles northwest of Date Creek - the nearest railroad stop. In March 1882, producing pay ore on a regular basis. Burchard had noted that of 1909 the “Mining and Engineering World” reported 55 men were the district was in desperate need of a custom mill, and the Alice mill employed. Drifts were being run a the 200 foot level at shafts 2 and 4. must have been a welcome addition after years of prospecting with “The showings in all the openings are excellent!” (Laguna Collection) no local reduction works. The district is about 15 miles northeast of Date: 1908 Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City: Santa Maria Florence in central Arizona. The chances of the Specie Basis Mining District Provenance: The Fred Holabird Collection Fred Holabird Co and a Specie Pay mine being related are extremely high. These are Collection Est. $300-400 HWAC# 59585 uncommon terms not used haphazardly. The bond is VF and there are 15 warrant coupons at the bottom. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 111875 Lot# 1569 Tombstone, Arizona Commonwealth Mining & Milling Stock, Lot# 1573 Bodie, California 1880 Boston Tombstone, Arizona Nice Tombstone, Arizona Consolidated Mining Company Stock mining stock issued in 1910. The company Incorporated July 14, 1879. Certificate No. 2032 operated 25 miles outside of Tombstone. Two issued for 100 shares to G.B. Bayley, Trustee, on mining vignettes. Issued for 1000 shares. VF. December 6, 1880. Signed by T. E. (illegible) as Uncanceled. Est. $120-250 HWAC# 129569 President and F.E. Luty as Secretary. Printer: Lith. Britton & Rey, S.F. Uncancelled. Black print on creme paper. No vignette, but company Lot# 1570 Tombstone, Arizona Tombstone, name written in fancy print with decorations in left comers. “Location Cochise County, Arizona Stock Collection Bodie District, Mono Co., Cal.” printed at center bottom. Work on the Lot of five. 1) Tombstone Consolidated Mines Boston Consolidated was progressing rapidly in 1880, according to Company, Ltd. Special Contract Bond. 1901. Burchard, with sufficient ore in the two drifts open to keep a 10-stamp Signed. Unissued. All coupons are attached. 21 mill busy. The Boston Consolidated was separated from the Last x 12”. 2) Same as above. Signed by EB Gage as Chance by a double compartment incline shaft, which was 300 feet president. Number 1385. Issued. All coupons in depth. The company made arrangements to work the mine on an attached. 3) Same as above. Number 1514. 4) extensive scale in 1880. Two assessment notices on reverse. Approx. 4 Same Company. Stock certificate #1430. Signed x 9”. There are folds, some slight soiling, and creases. Rare. Date: 1880 by EB Gage as president. Fancy and unique mining vignette. 11 x 12”. 5) Country (if not USA): State: California City: Bodie Provenance: Est. Same as above. Number 4029. Unissued. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 135383 $400-800 HWAC# 123526 Lot# 1571 Arizona 1866 Picacho Silver Mining Company of Arizona Lot# 1574 Bodie, California McClinton Stock Certificate Mining Company Stock Certificate Rare - RARE! The Bodie stock certificate by African American Picacho Silver lithographer Grafton T. Brown of San Francisco Mining Company for the McClinton Mining Company of the of Arizona, Bodie Mining District in Mono County. 9 x 4 1/2 Incorporated inches. Dated 1879. Est. $400-500 HWAC# 132092 under the Laws of New York, cert No. Lot# 1575 Bodie, 72. Issued to Wm W. Shepard for California 1860s 120 shares. Dated (New York) March Bodie Bluff Cons. 12th, 1866. Signed by Thomas H. Mining Co. Stock Perkins, Secry. and L. W. Winchester Signed by Leland Prest. Lithograph by Latimore Bro’s. Stanford Unissued & Seymour, 21 but signed by Stanford Naussau St., N.Y. This extremely rare, possibly unique certificate is important to not only early Arizona mining, but also for Civil War as president. Vignette Historians, Overland Stage Collectors, and those interested in infamous Western Outlaws. See online catalog for a complete description Est. shows mountain $2000-3000 HWAC# 106527 with shaft depths superimposed: Cumberland 600’, Bunker Hill, North America, St. Charles, New Mexico, Main Top, Osceola, Mizen Top, Fore Top, and Oneida at 1,000’ and Isabella 1500’s. Black on yellow with pale red $1000 underprint. Excellent condition with stub. This company was prior to Stanford’s involvement with Central Pacific Railroad. In addition to founding the university that bears his name, Stanford also served as California governor and US Senator. This mining company is very early in Bodie’s history, long before the rush of the late 1870s. Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000-1500 HWAC# 134065 76 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 1576 Butte Co., California 1863 Porter Lot# 1580 Folsom, Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock Issued to Porter Porter Gold &Silver Mining Co., California 1860 incorporated 1863, issued Dec 9, 1863 to J.G. Porter, signed by Victor B. Masson as president, American River cancelled with red ink at left. The mines in Butte County were generally centered around Table Mountain, which has a basalt layer that covers Water and Mining Co. an important gold bearing Tertiary gravel. Important companies of the period included the Oregon Gulch, Cherokee Blue Gravel. Other mines Bond The American were located at Forbestown, Wyandotte, Bangor and a few other locales. Raymond’s 1867 treatise does not mention the Porter, even River Water and Mining though it discusses the active mines of the 1864 period. Mine specific design of vignette. we assume this Porter was the founder or a direct Company was formed relative of the founder. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 59502 in 1854 to build a Lot# 1577 Butte County, California 1864 Porter Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock ditch to divert water Certificate ”Butte Co., Cal.” printed above vignette. Inc. Aug. 24th, 1863. No. 92, issued to from the North Fork J Chappie for 5 shares on July 6th, 1864. Signed by president Victor B. Maslon(?) and secretary of the American River Thos. Callan. Not cancelled. Black border and print, with a nice vignette of a mine. Lithography by Drouaillet, SF. providing water for Toning. 5.5 x 9” The mines in Butte County were generally centered around Table Mountain, which has a basalt layer that covers an drinking, irrigation and important gold bearing Tertiary gravel. Important companies of the period included the Oregon Gulch, Cherokee Blue Gravel. Other mines mining operations to were located at Forbestown, Wyandotte, Bangor and a few other areas that are near Folsom. #85 of 100 authorized, I/U, $500 1.5 % locales. Raymond’s 1867 treatise does not mention the Porter, even bearer bond issued May 30, 1860 signed A. T. Arrowsmith President, though it discusses the active mines of the 1864 period. According to a May 19th, 1866 mention in the Weekly Butte Record, the company was Trustee B Hastings and Secretary CTH Palmer. Black, no seal, no located on Jordan Hill. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 106824 vignette, $500.00 red underprint. VF Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 Lot# 1578 Death Valley, California 1913 HWAC# 115795 Keane Wonder Mining Company Stock with Vignette of Keane Operation The location Lot# 1581 was discovered by a miner named Jack Keane. Keane and a partner named Domingo Etcharren Greenwater, California had scouted the area, called Chloride Cliffs, and had located a potential silver mine. Etcharren United Greenwater found quartz and Keane discovered the gold. Keane named the find “Keane’s Wonder” and the two miners quickly Copper Co. Stock, sold an option on the claim to a New Yorker named Joseph DeLamar. The discovery caused a brief gold rush, which was soon eclipsed by a Death Valley Incorp. larger find further north. In 1906 investors John Campbell and then Homer Wilson turned the find into a major mine. Homer Wilson moved 1906 South Dakota. to the mine site with his family, and created two towns in the area Cert. #1727, I/U, called Keane Springs and Chloride City, California. The mine turned out to be a profitable operation. Etcharren used his share to purchase issued in 1906 to P.J. a store, while Keane was later involved in two shootings and was imprisoned in Ireland for murder. #1020 for 100 shares to William H. Cadagan & Co. for Faust. Signed by president WH Wells and secretary George Thomson. Corner folds. Overall very nice. The vignette is an actual photograph of 100 shares. Signed by the Keane mining operation! Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 130169 Malcolm Macdonald Lot# 1579 El Dorado County, California as president. Black, embossed gold corp. seal, vignettes: top left Chapparal Gold Mining Stock, Kelsey District, El Dorado County, Cal. 1882 Cert. three men looking at ore, center men working in tunnel, right 49’er #1653, issued in 1882 for 100 shares to Louis J. Falk. Signed by Hughes and Laude as president. gold panner. Goes printer. Macdonald was president of the First Kelsey Mining District, El Dorado County, California printed on the certificate. The National Bank of Tonopah and had extensive interest in Greenwater. Chaparal mine was located 2 miles SW of Kelsey. The mine opened in 1881 and was north of the South Fork of the American River, near Chili Macdonald also represented Charles Schwab in California and Nevada Bar Bridge (Burchard, 1881). In 1919, the mine had a vein 6” wide, with a 200’ shaft and 50” tunnel (CA. Journal of Mines & Geology, pg. 283). and had ties to the Montgomery Shoshone and the Tonopah Extension The certificate has a nice vignette of miners working underground. This is a rare stock from El Dorado County that was not in Filer. Some mines. The United Greenwater Copper Co. was consolidated with the wear at the folds. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129563 Greenwater and Death Valley by Macdonald to form Schwab’s $25 million Greenwater Copper Mines and Smelter Company (George Graham Rice, My Adventures With Your Money). . This certificate was slated to be swapped for an engraved certificate, but that likely never happened. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 135387 Register, Bid, & view opening bids at FHWAC.com View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 77

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 1582 Los Angeles, California 1923-1935 Lot# 1584 Mariposa, California 1852 Infamous C.C. Julian Oil Company Stock PhiladelphiaandCaliforniaMiningCompany Certificates (2) and Agreement Lot of three Stock with John C. Fremont as President C.C. Julian & Company documents includes a Although not rare, this is an important early Participating Oil Agreement (1923) and two California stock certificate. But what makes this stock certificates from the 1930s. Julian was one special is the reference on the certificate to known as a con man who expertly played upon John C. Fremont. It clearly states that Fremont the fears and hopes of small investors who is the president. It is, however signed by “ML bought into the oil drilling company he formed in Santa Fe Springs, Newfold, president pro tem for John C. Fremont.” We have seen a few Ca. in 1922. First document is C.C. Julian & Company “Participating of these stocks come through our auction house lately, but none that Oil Agreement”, issued to Mary C. Brady on Nov. 22, 1923, Agreement reference Fremont. # 606 for 100 shares to Charles Wilkins on May No. 317 for 1 interest in the company valued at $100, signed by the 26, 1852. Signed by Newvold and secretary Alter. Printer was Grattan Attorney-in-fact for C.C. Julian, John F. Beyer and J.H. Roth. The 14 1/2” at the corner of Third and Walnut. The central vignette depicts a x 9” agreement is in excellent condition with very little yellowing. The mining scene representing the company’s California operations. The second document is a certificate for C. C. Julian Oil & Royalties Co., No. Philadelphia and California Mining Company was founded in the same 1400, 9 shares issued to Peter G. Brady on Sept. 25, 1930, signed by the year on the basis of a land lease from John Fremont in the area of the Sole Trustee himself, C.C. Julian. Interestingly, Julian faced charges in Mariposa River. Although Fremont leased out mining claims to many 1931 in Oklahoma of conspiracy to defraud investors of $3.5 million. companies, this is one of the very few he had a hand in. An extremely He then jumped bail and fled to Shanghai, China, where he committed rare piece of mining ephemera. One fold. Cut unevenly at left. No other suicide in March 1934. The 12” x 8 1/2” certificate made of heavy paper corner, edge, discoloration or pin hole issues. Extremely fine. Est. is in excellent condition with two creases. The third item is a stock $200-500 HWAC# 119424 certificate from the Julian Oil & Royalty Company incorporated in the State of Arizona, signed by President C. H. Rutherford and dated April Lot# 1585 Mariposa, California 1852 6, 1935 - supposedly a year after C. C. Julian’s reported 1934 suicide Philadelphia and California Mining in Shanghai! On this 8 3/4” x 12” heavy paper, is an embossed, raised Company Stock Certificate A certificate circular seal. The paper has two creases, (envelope folds) but is in for stock in the Philadelphia and California excellent condition with slight tears at two fold edges. Stock Certificate Mining Company, completed on Sept. 28, 1852, No. 2348, 14 shares issued to W.R. Updegraff, signed by President C. H. granting Theodore Walter 100 shares in the Rutherford. C.C. Julian was a “swindler” during the 1920’s Los Angeles venture, and signed by the Secretary, L. Alter, “oil boom”; his dealings helped lead to the largest financial fiasco in and the President, Pearson Serrill. The central Southern California history. In 1925, C.C. Julian sold his interest in the vignette depicts a mining scene representing the company’s California company for $500,000 to Sheridan C. (S.C.) Lewis and Jacob Berman operations. The Philadelphia and California Mining Company was (alias Jack Bennett). The following year the company merged with founded in the same year on the basis of a land lease from John California-Eastern Oil Company. An audit revealed the company had Fremont in the area of the Mariposa River. An extremely rare piece of issued 4,200,000 unauthorized shares of stock and on May 5, 1927, mining ephemera. 8 x 9 1/2 inches. Previously folded. Printed form, the Los Angeles Stock Exchange halted trading in Julian Petroleum. completed in manuscript by several hands. Near fine. Ken Prag Collection The company had created financial pools from 400 prominent local Est. $200-500 HWAC# 118049 businessmen, including Cecil B. DeMille and Louis B. Mayer, to support the over-issuance of stock. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# Lot# 1586 Petaluma, Sonoma County, California 1863 Sonoma County Coal Mining 127971 Company Stock, Petaluma Cert. #210, issued to J.P. Fowler for one share, Jan. 7th, 1863. Lot# 1583 Issued at Petaluma, California. Steam engine Lost Camp vignette at left and Eureka at the center. Signed Mining District, by S. Tustin as president and F.D. Colton as secretary. Very rare, early Placer County, date coal mining stock from California. A couple of stains at the top California 1867 but overall fine. Shares were $100 each. Uncanceled. Date: 1863 Redstone Country (if not USA): State: California City: Petaluma, Sonoma County Quartz Mining Provenance: Est. $200-400 HWAC# 118720 Company Stock, Lost Lot# 1587 Placer County, Lost Camp District, Camp Mining California 1867 Redstone Quartz Mining District, Placer Company Stock Certificate Lost Camp County # 8(?) District, Placer County, Cal. (printed above for 25 shares to Josiah C Huch(?). Datelined Dutch Flat 1867. Signed title). In.c June 1867. Low number 7, issued by secretary Charles F (?) and president (?). Incorporated June 26, July 23rd, 1867 at Dutch Flat to Tuck for 25 1867. Printed by the Enquirer fo Dutch Flat. United States Warehouse shares. Signed by the company president and secretary (signatures are Revenue Stamp. “Lost Camp District, Placer County, Cal.” Eagle and faded). Not cancelled. Black border and print with a vignette of a bald flag vignette. Some staining. Tears along corners. Hole at the juncture eagle on a flag. Enquirer Print, Dutch Flat. 25 cent adhesive revenue of horizontal and vertical folds. Faded. Good Condition. Not in Filer. stamp attached on the left side. Folds, chipped corner, small stains. 5 x Lost Camp was in Central Placer and Nevada counties. It Was in the 10” Lost Camp was in Central Placer and Nevada counties. It was in the vicinity of the towns of Emigrant Gap and Blue Canyon. It was both vicinity of the towns of Emigrant Gap and Blue Canyon. It was both a a lode and placer mining area. Although no great production, there lode and placer mining area. Although no great production, there was was work done here throughout the 1800’s and 1900’s. [Gold Districts work done here throughout the 1800’s and 1900’s. [Gold Districts of of California by Clark] Prag Collection Date: 1867 Country (if not California by Clark] Date: 1867 Country (if not USA): State: California USA): State: California City: Lost Camp Mining District, Placer County City: Placer County, Lost Camp District Provenance: Fred Holabird Provenance: Fred Holabird Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 79232 Collection Fred Holabird Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 113535 78 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 1588 Plumas County, California Taylor Lot# 1593 Aspen, Colorado 1891 Little Annie Plumas Mill & Mining Co Stock, Plumas Mining Co. - Roaring Fork ( Aspen) Mining County, Cal. 1886 Cert. #858, issued for 100 District, Pitkin County, Colorado Certificate shares in 1886. Location of property: Plumas No. 555 for 1000 shares of stock dated May 1, County, California. Vignette show miners 1891 and made out to J. E. Miller. Incorporated working above ground. The Taylor Plumas mine in Colorado on June 10, 1863. Signed by was located in the Greenville district, Plumas president, B. Clark Wheeler and secretary, A. Peck. B. Clark Wheeler County. In 1882, the company drove a tunnel into the mountain along and his partner arrived in the Roaring Fork Valley to the town of “Ute the line of the lode . The face of the drift showed five feet of high grade City” in 1880 and purchased several mining claims. Wheeler surveyed ore ( 1882, Burchard). VF. Uncanceled. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 111895 a new town site, formed his own town company and named the new town Aspen. He was a promoter or Aspen and owned several businesses Lot# 1589 Santa Paula, California Torrey around Aspen. In 1885, Wheeler purchased the Aspen Weekly Times Canon Oil Stock (Merged to form Union and changed it to a daily publication. Date: 1891 Country (if not USA): Oil Co) Signed by Thos. Bard, Union Oil State: Colorado City: Aspen Provenance: Est. $100-200 HWAC# 135432 Founder Rare and historic California oil stock issued in 1894. The Torrey Canon Oil Lot# 1594 Clear Creek, Colorado Clear Creek Company was incorporated in 1889 with Thomas R. Bard as president Gold & Silver Mining Stock, Colorado, 1882 (who signs here). Cert. #15 is issued to the Hardison and Stewart Oil Wow, this is a stunner. Issued in 1882, the full Company. Bard, Hardison and Stewart merged together the Torrey title is, “Clear Creek Gold and Silver Mining Canon Oil Company, the Sespe Oil Company (both owned by Bard) Company of Clear Creek, Colorado”. Not listed along with the Hardison & Stewart Oil Company into the Union Oil in 1883’s Corregan & Lingane Colorado mining Company of California. Union Oil Company moved their headquarters directory. This one is rare and one of the best to Los Angeles in 1901. The original headquarters in Santa Paula looking Colorado mining stocks we’ve seen. VF. are a California Historical Landmark. Thomas R. Bard assisted in the Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129561 formation of Ventura County and was a U.S. Senator from California from 1900 to 1905. He is also known as “The Father of Port Hueneme” Lot# 1595 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1896 The for his work to build a deepwater port there. This is very likely the Bull Hill Gold Tunnel Co. Stock Certificate most historic Southern California oil stock we’ve ever seen. Red pen Inc. in Colorado in 1894. No. 1286, issued for canceled. Stub attached at the left. VF. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 111891 1167 shares to H.H. Neber, trustee, on October, 1896. Signed by president Griffith and the Lot# 1590 Siskiyou County, Humbug Creek, secretary. Not cancelled. Very attractive design California 1902 Klamath Placer Mining Company with a gilt border and gold seal, floral logo, Bond This 1902 Bond is number 75. All coupons and vignette of Bull Hill. Cripple Creek Gold are still attached. 14.5 x 9.5”. Signed by William Mining District printed in gold lettering in the background. Printed by Saxton secretary and William D (?) president. 25c The Denver Lith. Co. 9 x 12” The company owned the Great West, the US document stamp. Vignette of a man hosing Shakespeare, the M.E., the Coxey, and the Saddle Mountain Tunnel Site. hillside. Also horse-riding Indian warrior in circle at [Ref: Official Manual of Cripple Creek, 1900] Est. $200-400 HWAC# bottom right. The Klamath Placer Mining Company 132414 was located east of China Peak along the Klamath River near its confluence with Humbug Creek. One Lot# 1596 Cripple Creek, Colorado Cripple resource says it was dissolved the next year in 1903. Not cancelled. Creek & Colorado Springs Stocks and Fabulous condition. No pinholes, dog ears, rips or tears. Est. $100- Ephemera (7) Nice group of Cripple Creek 200 HWAC# 55058 material includes Black Diamond Gold Mining Company stock, unissued but signed by J.B. Lot# 1591 Tuolumne County, California McKinnee (1890’s), El Paso National Bank 1866 Oak Hill Gold Mining Company Stock stock, issued at Colorado Springs in 1911, Certificate Location: Sugar Pine District, a James P. Burns voucher dated 1905 showing Burns purchased Tuolumne Co., California (printed at top a Tuxedo suit for $85 and an overcoat for $85. Pretty expensive for center). No. 110, issued for 100 shares to 1905. Also, two real photo postcards showing Cripple Creek from a Robert Solefree on Nov. 19th, 1866 in New York. distance. Lot also includes two nice pinback ribbons from Co. Springs Signed by president Dewey and the secretary. Not cancelled. Black B.P.O.E celebrating their 20th Anniversary in 1923. Est. $200-400 border and print. Three vignettes: miners underground, mine hoisting HWAC# 111848 scene, and prospector with dog. Printed by Hatch & Co., NY. 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp attached at bottom left. Deep folds, pinholes, Lot# 1597 Cripple Creek, Colorado 1896-1899 and some toning. 6 x 10.75” According to Mineral Resources of the Five Cripple Creek Mining Stocks w/ Town United States (1929), the mine was located 4 miles SE of Cooperstown. Names Lot of 5 different. One is listed in Hills. Worked first as a gold mine and “the oxidized portion of the vein paid Included: Atlanta, Cripple Creek & Creede well to a depth of about 100 feet where sulphide ore containing pyrite MC (1899, self-ID, not cxl, mining vignette); and chalcocite was found and at greater depth chalcopyrite. After this Burlington GMC (1896, self-ID, not cxl, horse early work it lay idle until 1901.” Est. $300-600 HWAC# 107709 vignette); Boston & Cripple Creek GMC (1898, not cxl, mining vignette); Brooklyn GMC (1896, Lot# 1592 California California Mining self-ID, not cxl, mining vignette); and Boston- Stocks, 1887-1919 (7) Group of seven issued Colorado Cons. GMC (1899, not cxl, large tape repair). Fair to good California miners includes: 1) Landecker condition. Please inspect. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 135378 Gold M.C., Placerville, 1905 2) Grass Valley Consolidated Gold Mining Company, 1902 3) Mariposa Mine Association, 1919 4) Grenoble Mining Company, 1887 5) William Tell Cons. Gold Mining Company, Sierra City, Cal. 1890 6) Esperanza Gold Mining & Development Co. (Mines in Shasta County), 1909 7) Confidence Consolidated Mines Company (Mines in Tuolumne County) 1907, small tears and piece missing bottom right. Est. $160-250 HWAC# 129554 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 79

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 1598 Kokomo, Summit County, Colorado Lot# 1602 Delaware 1918 Rice Oil Company Stock Consolidated Ten Mile Mining & Reduction Certificates Famous Con Artist (2) Two Rice Oil Stock, Kokomo, Summit Co. Colo. 1885 Cert. Company stock certificates issued in 1918. These #18, issued for 15 shares to J.E. Ackley. Signed historic documents were printed by the American by AD Churchill and vice president TC Tetham. Banknote Company and have ornate borders with Dateline 1885 New York. Allegorical vignette. vignettes of an eagle perched upon a rock, and the Speth & Co. printer New York. Not cancelled. company’s embossed seal. Both are hand signed by The Ten Mile company was a large mining concern out of New York. the company’s Vice-President George Graham Rice. In 1885, they purchased mines known as the Lee Mountain and No. A4789, with orange border and vignette, for 100 Latham group, altogether consisting of 13 leads. They also purchased shares, was issued Jan. 5, 1918 to G.G. Rice, himself, the old Capital Mining Company mill site. The mine was a minor signed by the President and Secretary, and signed by G.G. Rice on the silver producer until after 1900, when lead-zinc production became back, May 21, 1919. No. C1870, with green border and vignette, for important” [Ref: Holabird, The Alexandra Tillson Filer Collection, Part 400 shares, was issued Mar. 28, 1918 to Mrs. K. Tucke, signed by Vice- II: Colorado, Nevada, Montana and the Hauser Collection of Anaconda President G.G. Rice and Secretary. Both in fine condition, with slight Corporate Seals, p. 139, 2000]. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# folds. There is much to be found on the Internet about George Graham 129562 Rice, a convicted stock swindler. He was known as the “Jackal of Wall Street.”Born Jacob Herzig in 1870 into a respectable middle-class New Lot# 1599 Colorado 1880s Colorado Mining York family, after serving prison time for forging checks, Herzig went Stock Group Lot of 4 items. 1) Panama Mining through a number of aliases before settling on George Graham Rice. & Reduction Company. Mines Located Clear Rice wrote a book while in prison called “My Adventures with Your Creek County, Colorado (printed under title). Money,” which included 334 pages and 110 illustrations. The book was Inc. in Illinois. No. 26, issued for 100 shares his memoirs of get-rich-quick financing of central Nevada and Death to John Manning on July 1st, 1880 in Chicago. Valley mines, with interesting anecdotal material. Rice, a famous stock Signed by president R.C. Garrabrant and promoter, capitalized the stocks of Goldfield, Greenwater and Rawhide secretary J. Hyde. Not cancelled. Black border and print, no vignette. mines, listed them on the national exchanges, and reaped the profits Printed by Ed. Mendel, Chicago. Folds with separation along left until convicted of mail fraud in 1911. When he was a small-time ex- border. 4.75 x 8.75” Not in Fossett or C&L. According to an article in con, Rice hid behind front men. After he became a famous crook, the Colorado Miner, Jan. 8, 1881, the Panama lode was in the Lincoln he capitalized on his notoriety by naming a company after himself. Mining District, Clear Creek County. The sheriff was selling the As expected, the only one to make a profit from Rice Oil was Rice. property of the company (called “a foreign corporation”). 2) Boston However, investors were left with these handsome stock certificates, & Chihuahua Mining Company. Unissued stock. 190-. Rare Summit as souvenirs of their former savings. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 County, Colorado location. 3) Crescent Silver Company of Cincinnati. HWAC# 127972 Unissued 1800s stock. 4) Moore Mining & Smelting Co., Black Hawk, 1881, assay receipt. Sample had 69 ozs. of silver. Est. $150-250 HWAC# Lot# 1603 Auraria, Georgia 1871 Etowah 134020 & Battle Branch Hydraulic Hose Mining Company Stock Certificate Extra rare! Lot# 1600 Colorado Colorado Stocks and Number 143 for 1,000 shares to HJ King in Ephemera from the 1800’s (4) Lot includes 1871. Signed by Secretary DL Perry, treasurer Highland Chief Cons. Mining Company stock DL Perry and president DM Graham. Vignette dated 1879 from Leadville, Pactolus Hydraulic of placer miners. Pen cancelled. Light fold in Mining & Milling Co. bond with coupons, upper right, but no edge issues, rips, tears, 1898. The company held the Yosemite Placer discoloration, etc. Large 25c US Revenue Stamp. This is one of the best of 1120 acres on South Boulder Creek. Also, a of all of the Georgia gold specimen mines! Placer work began at this nice cabinet photo of the Pike’s Peak Railway mine in 1831. It was located at the original site of the Georgia gold c. 1897, showing a railcar and a large group discovery. It is on the Battle Branch; so called because a group of of men and women in fancy dress. Lastly, a check with imprinted Tennessee and Georgia miners engaged in a bloody battle for rights to revenue from Miner’s Exchange Bank, Leadville, Colorado dated 1878. this land. With the gold strike in California, this mine was abandoned Everything is in VF condition. The Highland Chief is canceled. Est. by the miners. But by 1871 the mine was up and running again. Yeats $200-400 HWAC# 129557 reported that the mine had just closed. Mine has placer works, and shafts! Several reference works about the mine are included! Date: Lot# 1601 Dakotas Golden Gate Gold Mining 1871 Country (if not USA): State: Georgia City: Auraria Provenance: Stock, Dakota Territory, 1879 Scarce Dakota The Fred Holabird Collection Fred Holabird Collection Est. $900-1500 Territory mining stock issued in 1879 for 100 HWAC# 101772 shares. Location: Whitewood Quartz Mining District, Lawrence County, D.T. printed at Lot# 1604 Kansas The Lucky Jew Lead & Zinc the top. Company name printed in gold gilt. Small sailing and ocean Company Stock, Kansas, 1919 #191, issued vignette at the left. VF. Uncanceled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 for 200 shares and signed by W.C. Bowman HWAC# 118371 as president. Eagle vignette. Inc. in Missouri. The company’s mine was located at Westville, Kansas. The company property was a 160 acre lease at Westville, 7 miles w. of Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, 1 mile N. of Oklahoma state line. By 1924, ninety holes were drilled, showing ore to a depth of 350’. The ore carried 11 percent zinc and lead. The company was a steady producer, normally shipping 1,200 tons of zinc and lead concentrate per month (1924 Mines Handbook). The certificate has two fold lines. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 111852 80 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 1605 Brooksville, Maine Rosier Lot# 1610 Esmeralda County, Nevada State Consolidated Copper Company Stock, 1881 Line Gold Mining Company Stocks, Full Set Cert. #345, issued at New York in 1881. Inc. in of four #1- #4 Nice collectible set of all four New York. Mines at Brooksville, Maine printed State Line Gold Mining Stocks. Includes State above the mining vignette. It’s very unusual Line GMC No. 1, State Line GMC #2, State Line to find a copper mining stock from Maine as GMC #3, and State Line GMC #4. All four were this timeframe was during the Maine silver issued in 1881 and have different vignettes. boom. The mine’s first period of operation ended in 1887. There Location of mines was the Gold Mountain mining district, Esmeralda were sporadic efforts at mining until 1964, and then Callahan Mining County, Nevada. All four certificates are in very good condition and are Corporation began major open pit operations in 1968. The average ore uncanceled. American Bank Note Company, New York. Est. $300-600 grade was 1.30% copper, 4.91% zinc, 0.35% lead, and 0.50 ounces per HWAC# 118610 ton of silver. The mine closed in 1972 and was flooded by the opening of a dam at Goose Pond (mindat.org). VF. Uncanceled. Est. $80-120 Lot# 1611 Humboldt County, Nevada Chico HWAC# 111876 Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock Certificate Signed by Bidwell Lot of two stock Lot# 1606 Michigan Black River Mining certificates from the Chico Gold and Silver Co Stock, Gogebic Range, Michigan, 1864 Mining Company. One unissued, one issued # 521 for 1,000 shares to Chas A. Howland. October 18th, 1867 to H. Leslie for ten shares, Signed by president John G Webster and clerk signed by president J. Bidwell. He is noted for JE Gilley. Incorporated in Massachusetts in having led one of the first emigrant parties, 1863. Datelined 1864. 25c Certificate Revenue known as the Bartleson–Bidwell Party, along Stamp. Not cancelled. The company operated the California Trail, and for founding Chico, in the Gogebic range in the Northern Peninsula California. He received Mexican land grants after becoming a Mexican of Michigan (umich.edu). Red print on creme. No printer noted. citizen before the Mexican–American War, and became a wealthy Uncancelled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 118432 rancher. He was a California pioneer who settled at Bidwell, now Chico. Bidwell worked for John Sutter, fought with him in the Mexican Lot# 1607 Michigan 1915 Michigan Copper War in 1844 and later with Fremont. He was with Sutter right after Mining Company Stock Certificate Inc. in Marshalls discovery and found gold on the Feather River. Bidwell was Michigan. No. F7961, issued for 50 shares to in politics, friends of the Indians, and was a source of political and Paine Webber & Co. on Jul. 13, 1915. Punch economic stability for the region. The Hardin District had a fair bit of cancelled signatures. Maroon border, black prospecting in the 1860’s but it did not continue much longer. Bidwell print, and mining vignette. International Bank must have had great hope in Hardin but any ore that may have been Note Co., NY. Fold, pinholes. The Michigan present was played out early. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 132086 Copper Mining Company was organized January 5, 1899 with a capital of $2,500,000. Its location comprises 6,686 acres and includes 4,870 Lot# 1612 Manhattan, Nevada Large acres of mineral territory, 1,466 of timber and miscellaneous lands Manhattan, Nevada Mining Stock Certificate and a 150 acre mill site. Active operations were conducted at Rockland Collection Lot of 13: Manhattan Silver Pick northeast of the center of the county. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 116122 (with silver pick vignette) Chipmunk Gold, Manhattan Gold Wedge, Manhattan Virginia Lot# 1608 Butte, Montana 1896-1912 Butte, Gold, Manhattan Whale, Manhattan Yankee Montana Mining Stock Certificate Pair Lot Boy, Manhattan Pine Nut, Manhattan Pine Nut series A, Manhattan of 2 different. 1) The High Ore Gold & Copper Big Four, Manhattan Cowboy Manhattan War Eagle Mining and Mining Company. No. 80, issued for 125 shares Milling, Jefferson Apex, and Manhattan Mammoth. Overall condition in 1896. Signed by vice president Hewett and of these certificates is quite remarkable: six show no corner, edge, the secretary. Not cancelled. Rip in upper right corner. 2( Ohio-Keating discoloration or pin hole issues. Most of the others have only minor Gold Mining Company. No. 1852, issued for 1000 shares to company issues: dog ear corners, pin holes, nicks at edge corners, etc. Est. $80- president JS Cohen in Butte in 1912. Signed by the vice president and 250 HWAC# 130083 secretary. Not cancelled. Small train vignette. Folds with separation. Est. $50-90 HWAC# 134022 Lot# 1613 Rawhide, Nevada c1908 North Rawhide Townsite Company Stock Lot# 1609 Bullfrog, Nevada 1906-1934 Certificate Unissued. Number 97. We have not Bullfrog & Goldfield Mining Stock Group Lot seen one of these in a very long time. The story of 4 different. 1) Bullfrog North Star Mining of Rawhide is well known, but what was North Company. Issued in 1906, not cancelled. Rawhide’s story. When the Western Rawhide Folds. 2) The Lige Harris Bullfrog Gold Mining Railroad was building from Schurz to Rawhide they decided to stop Company. Issued in Rhyolite in 1907. Punch before they reached the town proper. (Either to avoid congestion or cancelled. Eagle vignette. Folds with some high property prices!) With the promise of a railroad the excitement separation. 3) Florence Goldfield Mining Company. Issued in 1926, not for the land grew quickly. Sales of lots proceeded at a brisk pace cancelled. Many pinholes, folds. 4) West Mines Corporation. Goldfield. with Sacramento wholesalers acquiring large blocks of land. Then Issued in 1934, not cancelled. Mining vignettes. Folds. Est. $80-120 came the fire that nearly burned the entire town. The ore wasn’t as HWAC# 134019 promised and the railroad used the fire as an excuse to quit building. The property had lost its luster. Some light discoloration. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 130080 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 81

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 1614 Rhyolite, Nevada 1906 Tramps Lot# 1618 Tonopah, Nevada Tonopah to Consolidated Extension Mining Company Bullfrog Stock Certificates Lot of five. 1) Stock # 103 for 1,000 shares to Harry Tonopah Gold Mountain MC. #704 for 500 Chandler. Signed by secretary Herbert Cohen shares in 1904. Early!. Three small mining and president A C. Ellis Jr. president. Dateline related vignettes. Signed by Key Pittman. Salt Lake City, Utah, November 30, 1906. He was a United States Senator from Nevada and a member of the gLocation of Mines: Bullfrog Mining District, Democratic Party, serving eventually as president pro tempore as Nye County, Nevadah printed at top of the well as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. 2) Tonopah certificate. Was originally known as the Keystone Bullfrog. They were “76” Consolidated Mining Company. Incorporated in 1911 and issued still working at this mine in 1916. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 130112 in 1919. # 529A. Striking vignette of three miners striking gold in a tunnel. with ore Small edge rips and light discoloration. 3) Bullfrog Lot# 1615 Searchlight, Nevada Swastika Daisy MC # 383 for 1000 shares. Issued in 1906. 4) Unissued Gold Mining & Milling Company Stock, Reef Consolidated Gold & Silver MC. Signed by president DW Ryan. Searchlight, Nevada, 1909 The company was Hole cancelled. 5) Mayer-Reber Mining, Leasing and Development incorporated in Nevada. This certificate was Company. #23 for 5000 shares to Frank Reber (namesake of mine), issued at Colorado Springs in 1909. Promotion Signed by secretary Frank Reber. Issued in1909. Same vignette as Stock which is usually issued to early favored number to. Fold edge rips, remnants of paper clip, otherwise nice. Est. investors. Mining scene with pick and shovel $50-100 HWAC# 130082 on each side. The company operated at Searchlight, Nevada. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 111878 Lot# 1619 Virginia City, Nevada 1868 Adolph Lot# 1616 Tonopah, Nevada Tonopah Aspen Sutro Signature as Mining Company Stock Certificate Book, Circa president on the Sutro 1903 Scarce, stock certificate book from the Tunnel Company Stock Tonopah Aspen Mining Company. The Tonopah Sutro’s name is pen Aspen mine was located at the north end of cancelled. # 28 to William the district, surrounded by the Black Diamond, W. Warden for 25 shares Buckeye, Defender and Scorpion claims (from in 1868. Miner with pick Britton & Rey map of the district, 1902). Includes vignette. 2” rip at right 27 issued and cxled certificates from 1903, 12 fold has been mended with from 1906, and 6 certificates issued between 1907 museum quality tape. Left side of certificated has some rips and tears. and 1927. There are 41 issued and cxled certificates reattached to the Sutro was a German-American engineer, politician and philanthropist original stubs in the book. Also remaining are unissued certificates who served as the 24th mayor of San Francisco from 1895 until 1897. #176-200. Many of the certificates were issued to and signed by the Born a German Jew, he moved to Virginia City, Nevada and made a company president, T.J. Lamoureaux, and also signed by G. Harold fortune at the Comstock Lode with his Sutro Tunnel project. Several Sargent as treasurer. The company was incorporated in Delaware. The places in San Francisco bear his name in remembrance of his life and certificates have printed down the left side, “Mines Located at Tonopah, contributions to the city. Ken Prag Collection Est. $1800-3000 HWAC# Nye County, Nevada”. Only about 1/3 of the original certificates are 130202 here, with the first one returned being #37. Stub #7 shows that 400,000 shares were issued to Lamoureaux and stub #8 shows that Lot# 1620 Nevada 1865 Eagle Mining 199,900 were issued to W. Hinkle Smith, Bourse, Philadelphia. Smith Company of Nevada Stock Certificate, was a wealthy Philadelphia capitalist who directed many companies in 1865 A RARE Eagle Mining Company stock different states (Kansas University archives). There is some damage to certificate.Measures 12 1/8 x 8”. Incorporated the spine and some of the certificates have rough edges or browning. in Pennsylvania. Certifies John Pool is Stock certificate books from Tonopah or Goldfield rarely if ever show authorized seventy-five shares. Signed by up, so this is a great find. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 129546 James Mae Nichol as Treasurer and Morehead as president. Bald eagle vignette standing on a globe. Peach-colored Lot# 1617 Tonopah, Nevada 1906-1916 print and border. Large blue company seal. Red twenty-five cent Tonopah Mining Stock Group 1) Tonopah revenue stamp. Manuscript cancelled. Illegible signature next to it. Golden Crown Mining. # 1325 for 500 shares in Endorsed on the reverse by three different people. No 9. Very Fair 1906 to AD Ayers. Signed by president Dickson. condition, yellowing around the edges with small tears, stains and 2) Millbrae Tonopah Mining. # 128 for 500 deep folds. There are two possibilities for this company. 1) The Eagle shares in 1906 to William Frazier. Signed by Mining Company mmight be the same Eagle Company described by president AH Butler. 3) Golden Anchor MC. # A3341 for 100 shares Hollister (Mines of Colorado, 1867, p248-9) in the Union District near in 1906 to James L. Mayberry. 4) United Tonopah & Goldfield Mines. the town of Empire, not far from Georgetown, and now the gateway to #9106 for 500 shares in 1907. 5) Montana Tonopah Mines. #293 in Rocky Mountain National Park off I-70. They owned interest in several 1912 to Addison Bancroft. Signed by president Charles Knox. 1912. 6) producing companies, inclusive of two mills. Their mines included: the Jim Butler Tonopah Mining Company. 1916. Overall fair to excellent. Ben Franklin, Knapp, a third interest in the Pine Silver Mining Co. Their See photo. Ken Prag Collection Est. $130-180 HWAC# 130167 first year was marked with controversy, as the officers took home $35,000 in salaries on little or no production, and then got booted out by shareholders. 2) Possibly Churchill County. There was a Gray Eagle mine there at the same time that also had Philadelphia investors. Incorporated in Pennsylvania. No. 216, issued for 50 shares to John A Evers on May 20th, 1865. Signed by James Mae Nichol as treasurer and Turner G. Morehead as president. 25c revenue stamp on front and back. Bald eagle vignette standing on a globe. Peach-colored print and border. Large blue company seal. Red twenty-five cent revenue stamps on front and back. Stains, folds. Fading. Not to be confused with the Eagle Gold Mining Company of Colorado, also incorporated in 1865 in Pennsylvania. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 60640 82 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 1621 Nevada 1880-1939 Nevada Mining Lot# 1625 Nevada Six Nevada Miscellaneous Stock Collection Lot of 17, most different. Most stock certificates A lot of 6 Misc. NV Mining are Nevada. Includes: Unionville MC (1911); District stock certificates: 1) 100 shares of Searchlight Midas MC (1906, condition issues); Eastern Star Mining Co Treasury Stock cert Belle Isle Mining Co. (1880, condition issues); #927 issued to Alfre Hardeman dated Aug 2, Alabama-Nevada Gold Corp. (1939); Universal 1913, gold seal signed Geo Pellom pres., L. G. Silvers Co. (2 diff, 1920); El Dorado Gold Mines, Campbell, secy. Vignette of miner. Assigned Jan Ltd. (uniss); Amalgamated MC (1929); Jumbo Extension MC (uniss); 1, 1920 Incorp. in NV. 2) 1,000 shares Black Consolidated Virginia MC (1925); Ophir MC (1930); Arrowhead warrior Mines, Inc cert #357 issued to William Development Co. (1938); Susquehanna-Nevada Copper Co. (1907 Rickstein signed Jan 3, 1929 signed Frank Bibby, Vice Pres. Gold seal, and uniss); New York & Ontario Gold Mining Co., Ltd. (1904); Mount Vignette of mining and workings. Printed Stebb’s - Printers-1246 S. Olive Cons. Coal & Coake Co. (uniss); and March Gold, Inc. (uniss). Est. Main Stt L.A. GOES 93-1/2. 3) Trustee’ Certificate for 300 shares of $200-300 HWAC# 134021 Gold Circle Consolidated Mines in Boston, MA cert #4157 issued to Jackson & Curtes on October 23, 1936. Signed Charles E. Dolley, Lot# 1622 Nevada Nevada Mining Stocks Asst. treas. Brown border, ink and paper. Printed: George H. Ellis Co. from Various Locales (10) Lot includes 1) Treasury Stock of 3,683 shares of Kansas City - Nevada Consolidated Pioneer Consolidated Mines (Bullfrog), 1916 mines Co #240 issued to Mary L. Coburn with 4 adhesive RN stamps. 2) Tonopah Extension M.C. 1928 3) Tonopah Printed: George Ferguson Co. Litho K.C. MG. 4) Cancelled 200 shares North Star Tunnel & Development, 1913. 4) of Ruby Hill Tunnel and Mining Co. located in Eureka, NV issued to C. Jim Butler Tonopah M.C. 1921. 5) Admiral Togo L Roof dated March 15, 1883 signed Henry K. Mitchell, pres. 5) 2500 Ely Copper Co. 1907. 6) Goldfield Consolidated shares Of Nevada Sandard Mininng Corp, cert #2 issued to James M. Mines Co. 1919. 7) Obra Mines Corporation, Lockhart on Feb 21, 1928. signed J. Hury Goorlurars. pres.Office in Ely, 1933. 8) Nevada Pacific Exploration Company, NY Incorp. Nevada. Three vignettes: 2 of working miners and one of 1919. 9) Panther Mines Company, 1929. Issued at Montello, Nevada. mine in valley. Gold seal. Printed GOES 51. Prag collection Est. $200- 10) Pay Divide Mining Company, 1925. Tonopah Divide District. Group 300 HWAC# 88418 is in average to better condition. Est. $120-250 HWAC# 111846 Lot# 1626 Montezuma, New York 1820 Lot# 1623 Nevada Northwest Nevada Cayuga Manufacturing Company 1820 Mining Stock Certificate Collection Lot of Stock Certificate Stock certificate from seven. 1) North Eastern Gold and Silver Mining Cayuga Manufacturing Company, Montezuma, Company. # 88 for 50 shares in 1881. Signed N.Y., issued in 1820. The Cayuga Manufacturing by president Bloomer. W. A. Nicholsen was the Company began salt manufacturing in 1810, assayer. In January of 1881 a stock holder filed just three years after the Cayuga Indians ceded a lawsuit to appoint a receiver for the company. all remaining land to New York State, and saltwater was discovered That is the first and last we could find about this on a branch of Seneca River, now called Salt Creek. The Cayuga company. 2) Belle Isle Mining Company. #8797 for 100 shares in 1892. Manufacturing Company certificate is for 189 shares issued to Robert Mines at Tuscarora, Elko County. Six assessment stamps on reverse Swartwont on June 13, 1820, signed by President James B. Clarke, and stamped on front “Sold for Assessment”. 3) Charter Tunnel and and Secretary. Ornate border, some handwriting on rear, very nice Mining Company. Early #15 for 500 shares in 1878. Eureka, Nevada. condition for age with four light folds and some wear on right and 4) Aura King Gold MC. Issued in 1907. Condition issues. Located at left sides. 8” x 5”. Montezuma, Cayuga County, New York, population Aura, Elko County. 5) Manhattan Ely Copper. # 88 for 100 shares in was 1,277 at the 2010 census. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-600 HWAC# 1907. Located at Ely, White Pine County. 6) Gilpin-Eureka Mining 127615 and Milling Company. Eureka County. #1341 for 100 shares in 1912. 7) United Imperial Mines. #1142 for 100 shares in 1923. Location of Lot# 1627 New York Wurtz Amalgamation mines Cherry Creek, White Pine County. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 130084 Company Stock Certificate, New York, 1866 Cert. #189, issued for 50 shares to Geo. Lot# 1624 Nevada Seven NV Mining stocks G. Hastings in 1866. Signed by Jacob Goedel from West Central NV Seven mining stocks as president. In 1865, Henry Wurtz, of New from West Central, NV. 1) 415 shares of York invented a new and improved method of Pyramid Golden Crater Mining Co cert #90 extracting gold and other precious metals from dated Se[t 20. 1907 issued to Geo Erdner. Gold their ores and from other materials by amalgamation. The method seal, grey border, vignette of man on bike with consists of adding a minute quantity of highlyelectro-positive metals wings and oval with women on oval object. Gold Crater District, Inc such as sodium, potassium, lithium, caesium, barium, strontium etc. in AZ.2) Unissued Bellehelen Mo-We-Na Mining Co stock cert # 68, to the quicksilver used for the amalgamation of gold, silver and other brown seal with vignette of women in flag. Incorp in NV May 25, 1920, precious metals. This invention was patented. The company was Office in Tonopah, NV. 3) 1,000 shares of Butler Gold Mining Co cert incorporated the year after. The company incorporated in New York #1341 dated Oct 23, 1929 signed W. E. Sirbeck, pres and Harry B. Ruhl, and on the header it states, “Invention Secured In the United States secy with gold seal. Printed: GOES 56. Three vignettes with working By Letters Patent.” We last had one of these in 2001, so it is very rare. miners. Incorp. Sept 5, 1926 in NV. 4) Unissued interim certificate for A quite historical piece in the history of mining. VF. Uncanceled. Date: Butler Gold Mining Co capital stock cert #108. Orange border. Incorp. Country (if not USA): State: New York City: Provenance: Est. $200- NV. Mine Goldpoint, NV.5) 822 shares Hayseed Mining Co cert # 392 400 HWAC# 118719 issued to G.A. Webster on Nov 2, 1907 signed S.T. Lindsey, pres and F. P Kerns, secy. Inc. South Dakota, mine in Lee, Echo Mining District. 6) 1,000 shares Little Chief Mining Co of NV, cert #5 on Feb 28, 1929 signed F.C. Morton assist. Secy Orange seal and border. Mine located in Mina, NV. Incorp. in NV, Aug 19, 1922. 7) 2500 shares of Monezuma Silver Mines Corp cert #156 issued to H. W. Hoofes on Sept 22, 1919. Grey border, green company seal. Vignette of woman with flag, eagle and sield Mines in Montezuma Mining District, Incorp. in NV with principal office Goldfield, NV. Prag collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 88419 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 83

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 1628 New York 1880-1882 Eames Lot# 1632 South Dakota Homestake Stock Petroleum Stock Certificates (2) A pair of signed by Haggin, plus Boston & Battle stock certificates issued by Eames Petroleum Mtn Stocks Three stock certificates: one for Iron Company and Eames Petroleum Gold & Silver Smelting Company. Homestake Mining Company, number 2157, 1. Issued by Eames Petroleum Iron Company to Charles James (sp?) for 25 shares at $50 per. It’s dated Jan 20, 1882 and signed by Samuel issued 12/4/1879 to A.B. Baylis for 100 Moffat, secretary and president (illegible). It has an Excelsior vignette and no apparent cancelation. Next, issued by Eames Petroleum Gold shares, signed by secy J. K. Goodrich and pres & Silver Smelting Company for 100 shares at $25 per to John Weidell, dated Oct 8, 1880 and signed by secretary, Saul Earles and president, James Ben Ali Haggin, one of the four men H.G. Stubbins (sp?). Neither appear to be canceled. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# (including George Hearst) who purchased the Homestake claim from 129754 its discoverer, Moses Manuel, in 1877; also two stock certificates, No. 380 and No. 408, for the Boston and Battle Mountain Mining Lot# 1629 New York Roberts Petroleum Torpedo Company Stock, 1865 Cert. #43, Co, both issued in 1896 to Anna E. Fiske for 100 shares each. Signed issued to E.A.L. Roberts for 100 shares in 1865. Great vignette of what we believe to be the by secy Chas Lawrence and pres F Warren Hawes. Lot also includes earliest instance of fracking. Colonal Roberts had invented an explosive torpedo to restore a 1924 letter from Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co requesting the well flow of oil from finished wells, or to increase the production of existing wells. The Roberts had six torpedos acknowledgement of receipt of various shares of stocks as listed. Est. ready for testing and formed the company. The torpedo consisted of $150-200 HWAC# 130056 a long metal cylinder filled with gunpowder and attached to a steel cable carefully lowered into the well. The tests were so successful, that Lot# 1633 Tooele County, Ophir District, the Roberts brothers fought many patent infringement battles over Utah 1895 Lion Hill Mining Company Stock the next 25 years! The certificate is stunning and quite historic. Some Certificate Location of Works: Ophir Mining slight browning at the left edge. Pen canceled. Est. $400-600 HWAC# District, Tooele County, Utah Territory (printed 118581 under title). No. 83, issued for 100 shares to Lot# 1630 Cabarrus County, North Carolina 1854 Vanderburg Emily Woodmansee on Dec. 13th, 1895 in Mining Company Stock Certificate Inc. in New York. No. SLC. Signed by president Joseph Woodmansee and secretary Joseph 249, issued to J. Elnathan Smith for 600 shares on Feb. 3rd, 1854. Woodmansee Jr.. Not cancelled. Blur border and print, title in gold. Signed by president William Furnils and secretary Jno. Small vignette of prospector. Deep horizontal and vertical folds, three Bordman. Not cancelled. Vignette at top of seated robed woman creased corners. 5.5 x 10.5” They owned the Lion Hill claim. (E&MJ with a pot of coins spilling out Vol. 46] Kantner, 1896, does not mention this mine but discusses the and stars and stripes, Also a bald Northern Light Mining & Milling Co. on Lion Hill, over the hill and eagle at her side. Steam train in background. Thin paper. Folds, pinholes, some creasing and rough left northwest of the famous mining district of Camp Floyd (pg. 339). Est. border. 8 x 9.5” This property was located in Cabarrus County about $120-160 HWAC# 135382 22 miles from Charlotte. It was adjoining the Phoenix Mine. The mine exploited veins in greenstone that were several inches to 3 1/2 feet Lot# 1634 Tintic, Utah Silver Shield Mining thick. Rich pockets yielded ores of both copper and gold. [Whitney, & Milling + 2 Silver Shield Stock Certificates p130-131] Est. $300-800 HWAC# 107708 Lot of 3: Silver Shield Mining & Milling, 1929, with unique silver color sheriff’s shield where Lot# 1631 Findlay, Ohio the corporate seal is, “Property in the Tintic American Aluminum Co. Mining District, Utah, & Other Mining Stock, 1887 American Districts,”rough bottom edge; Silver Shield Aluminum Co., incorp in Corp. 1967; Silver Shield Corp. 1970. The Michigan in 1877, issued to company also mined for magnesite in the Fish Springs District, Juab John H. Rogers for 150 shares County, Utah. The Silver Shield Mining and Milling Co. was founded at Detroit, 1887, signed by June 17, 1899. It changed its name to Silver Shield Corporation on June J.W. Smith as president. I/uc. 8, 1961. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 131873 This light weight metal was first extracted from ores in Lot# 1635 Tolersville, the 1830s, but not able to be made into commercial products successfully until about 1889, two Virginia Bowden years after this cert was issued. Clearly, this company was a very early company trying to develop a commercial method of aluminum Copper Mining extraction and metallurgy. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Ohio City: Findlay Provenance: Est. $200-300 HWAC# 127094 Stock, Louisa County, Virginia, 1855 Certificate was issued for 500 shares in 1855 at New York. The company’s property consists of 130 acres of land, located in the courty of Louisa, State of Virginia, and two miles from Tolersville station on the Virginia Central Railroad, and fifty-seven miles from Richmond, Virginia, with a good road to the mines.A private report by Professor N. S. Manross was made to parties before the purchase, he having been employed by them for that purpose. The samples assayed by Professor Manross had laid outdoors and exposed to the weather for over four years, and, accordingly, were much reduced in percentage of copper. Subsequent developments by the present Company showed a much larger percentage of copper. The mine was later known as the Central Virginia mine. In 1853, the property was known as the Groome’s mine and looked good for copper. The certificate has extra folds and the writing is light. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 129564 84 May 2021

DAY 1 Thursday, May 13 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 1636 1854 Gold Belt Mining Company Lot# 1639 1871-1915 Marble Companies’ Gold Rush Era Stock Certificate Number 6 Stock Certificates (4) and Bond (1) Lot of issued on November 4, 1854. This is a very five includes four marble companies’ stock early number and very early general date. certificates, and one bond, from U.S. states, Issued to O. MacDaniel and signed by president issued from 1871 to 1915. Included are: O. MacDaniel. For 2,000 shares. Also signed Eastern Marble Company, No. 56, 35 shares by secretary I. T. Gleasen(?). This is a mystery issued in 1871, signed by President Martin S. Stetson and Treasurer stock certificate. We could not unquestionably place it. We found Gold Benjamin W. Harris, uncanceled with revenue stamp, embossed seal, Belt Mines in the west, but they were all 1900’s. We did find an early 8.75” x 5.5”, excellent condition for age with two light folds and very 1860’s Virginia Gold Belt Mine. But it had the word ‘Virginia’ in the small tear; Beehive Onyx Marble Company, No. 134, 500 shares issued title. It comes from a major Georgia archive! The only O. MacDaniel Feb. 8, 1915, signed by President Eugene T. Wooley and Secretary Sam listed in the 1860 census is Osborne MacDaniel. He is living in New H. Worthington, uncanceled with embossed seal, ornate border, 10” York and is a civil engineer. This would place this mining company on x 8”, good condition with slight tears on the bottom of two folds; two the east coast. However, this certificate is EARLY and needs someone certificates and one bond from The Colorado-Yule Marble Company, with more time to research it and give it a proper home. Vignette is one cert issued in 1908, signed by President and Treasurer, embossed of an allegorical lady watching over a shipping fleet. (Hints of San seal, vignette of greek-inspired building, 11” x 7.25”, excellent condition Francisco or the eastern United States.) Very nice. Two dog eared with two light folds, second cert issued in 1914, signed by President corners. Some wrinkles. One pin hole. Sharp brown on white contrast. and Treasurer, embossed seal, vignette of greek-inspired building, 11” Est. $350-1600 HWAC# 56952 x 7.25”, excellent condition with two light folds, and a bond for $500, issued in 1913, signed by President and Secretary, eagle vignette, with Lot# 1637 1883 Electric Candle Company 38 coupons attached (two missing), 14.5” x 10.5”, excellent condition stock for underground mining #24 for 90 with light folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 127988 shares to Frances B Thurber Signed by John R Bostwik and president HK Thurber. Great Lot# 1640 1879-1924 Stock Certificates vignette of the candle at work underground and Receipts (Colorado, Dakota Territory, (with sailing ship in background?). Nevada) 1) Homesake Mining Company, Manufactured at the corner of 14th Street Whitewood Mining District, Lawrence and13th Avenue. Printer was Forbes Co. of County, Dakota Territory. # 2157. 1876. Has Boston. Heavy folds with small rip and tear. News of the company J. B. Haggman signature as president. The seems to disappear after 1883. If you ever thought of visiting this famed “J.B. Haggin” locomotive was the First shop in 1883 (the year of our certificate) I wouldn’t. The New York Locomotive in the Black Hills. Haggman and George Hearst ere major Times reported that at night,13th Avenue, was an unsafe place that investors in this mine. 2) Boston and Battle Mountain Mining Company. even the police avoided. A known hangout for 19th-century hoodlums, Cripple Creek, Colorado. #380. 1896. 3) Receipt for 3,600 shares of bars in the area were notorious for brawls, cockfights, and fires, which Fairview Round Mountain Mines and 500 shares of Jim Butler Tonopah damaged several large businesses like the Electric Candle Company. MC. (W.D. Miles Collection) Est. $150-200 HWAC# 130055 (W.D. Miles Collection) Est. $200-300 HWAC# 130057 Lot# 1638 1865 Five 1865 Mining Stocks (with letter from New RETURN POLICY York Secretary of All items are guaranteed to be authentic unless otherwise noted. If authenticity State’s Office - Mario is challenged, please call our office for assistance. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. You may Cuomo) 1) Three only return any piece that was significantly inaccurately described by calling our Golconda Gold Mining office within 10 days of receipt of item(s) and notifying us of the error and reason Company. Organized for return. We do not refund postage or insurance. PLEASE CALL US IF YOU REQUIRE in Ascot in 1863 by A MORE SPECIFIC CONDITION REPORT OR ADDITIONAL PHOTOS. Any items that are General Adams, with it’s returned must be returned in the exact, unaltered condition.  When we receive location at Sherbrooke your bids we will assume you have read the description in the catalog, viewed the image in Quebec. In 1863, of the item, have contacted us regarding any questions you may have on any lot and/or gold was found in many have previewed the lot in person. small brooks falling into the Magog River creating extraordinary excitement. Well capitalized companies such as the Golconda Mining Company and the Ascott Gold Mine Company were formed as a result. The Golconda Company extracted large amounts of gold from their 450 acre property. In the catalog of the Sherbrooke Exhibition in 1865, a specimen weighing 10 ounces was mentioned as coming from this mine (Gold In The Province of Quebec, Canada, pg. 68, 1898). The certificate is black on cr[x=#232/] me. Stub attached at the bottom. 2) Two Pittsburgh and Martinez Silver Mining Company. The company officers lived in Pittsburgh and New York. The company was involved in litigation by 1867 in New York state for not filing it’s Annual Report and defaulting on $12,000 in bonds. The company had been organized back in 1848. The company’s operations were wound up by 1870. Date: 1865 Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Est. $300-600 HWAC# 123498 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 85

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Minerals Lot# 2000 Gem Grade Lapis-Lazuli Museum Specimen Large museum quality specimen of the much treasured gemstone Lapis Lazuli from Afganistan. 6”x 9.5” banded and solid blue with pyrite. Portions of this specimen could easily be cut and made into premium jewelry. The dark blue of the Lapis has been attractive to mankind for thousands of years, with gems in jewelry dating back before the time of the Pharohs. About ten pounds. Est. $700-1500 HWAC# 122813 Lot# 2001 1975 Gold Ore Commemoratives, Lot# 2005 Isa, High-Grade Gold Ore, Hishikari Mine, Japan The Pueblo Viejo Mine, Dominican Republic Hishikari Gold Mine near the southern tip of Japan is a world-class gold These are two acrylic embedments that not deposit with an average grade of 40 grams per ton. In 2008 it was the only contain ore specimens from the Pueblo only operating gold mine in that country. This long slab, approx. 6 x 2 x Viejo Gold Mine in the Dominican Republic, 1 inches, and weighing ~249 grams, shows the characteristic banded but encapsulate a bit of historical drama as nature of the ore body with the high-grade material concentrated in well. The Puebla Viejo (Old Town) Mine is thought to be the first gold the dark wavy features across the specimen. The marked label says the mine in the Americas to have been exploited by the Spaniards in their sample is from the Hosen 5 Vein of the East Drive on the 55 M Level, conquest of the New World in the sixteenth century. It is now reputed W6B. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $2000-4000 HWAC# 132280 to be one of the largest gold mines in the world. The company name on these embedments is Rosario Dominicana S.A., which had worked Lot# 2006 Isa, High-Grade Gold Ore, the mine from 1975 (as commemorated by these embedments) Hishikari Mine, Japan The Hishikari Gold until it went bankrupt in 1999. In 1991, that company was being led Mine near the southern tip of Japan is a world- by General Antonio Imbert Barrera, who was at that time the only class gold deposit with an average grade of surviving member of the supposedly CIA-backed assassination of 40 grams per ton. In 2008 it was the only Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961. The mine is currently co- operating gold mine in that country. This sawn owned by Barrick Gold (60%) and Newmont Goldcorp (40%). Each sample, approx. 5-1/2 x 2-1/4 x 1-3/4 inches thick, and weighing disk is three inches in diameter and one inch thick. William Mayrsohn ~464.6 grams, shows the characteristic banded nature of the ore body Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 132286 with the high-grade material concentrated in the dark wavy feature across the center and along the edge of the specimen. Handwritten Lot# 2002 Silver Splash Staircase, El Mochito label says it comes from the Yamada Vein that ran 4000 grams Au. It Mine, Honduras 16.2 troy ounces of silver is a nice display piece for desk or bookshelf. William Mayrsohn Collection splash that landed on one level, flowed down Est. $400-800 HWAC# 132292 a 3-inch step and puddled there. It comes from the El Mochito Mine in Honduras, currently operated by Ascendent Resources. Based on the collector’s history, this probably came from when El Mochito was run by Rosario Mining Company. Approx 6 inches deep, 5 inches wide, and 4.5 inches tall. Truly a spectacular, one-of- a-kind mining collectible. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $500-700 HWAC# 132518 Lot# 2003 Silver Splash, El Mochito Mine, Lot# 2007 Isa, High-Grade Gold Ore, Hishikari Mine, Japan The Honduras This lot has two pieces of silver Hishikari Gold Mine near the southern tip of Japan is a world-class splash, that is, molten silver that sloshed out gold deposit with an average grade of 40 grams per ton. In 2008 it of the furnace crucible and landed on the floor was the only operating gold mine in that country. This sawn sample, of the mine’s refinery instead of getting poured approx. 7.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 inches, and weighing ~453.8 grams, shows into ingot molds with the rest of the batch. The note on the piece calls the characteristic banded nature of the ore body with the high-grade it “El Mochito Loot” and indicates it was smelted from high-grade ore material concentrated in the dark wavy feature near the edge of the that came from above the #5 shaft of the El Mochito Mine. The larger specimen. The handwritten label indicates this came from the Yamada piece is approx. 3.25 x 2 x 0.375 inches and weighs about 152.9 grams. Vein with ran 4,000 grams Au. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $2000- The smaller is about 1.5 x 0.75 x 0.5 inches and weighs 6.2 grams. Total 3000 HWAC# 132294 weight is 5.11 troy ounces.The El Mochito is an underground, silver- zinc mine in the northwest section of Honduras in Central America Lot# 2008 Isa, High-Grade Gold Ore, presently owned and operated by Ascendant Resources. Discovered in Hishikari Mine, Japan The Hishikari Gold 1938, production began in 1948 under the Rosario Mining Company. Mine near the southern tip of Japan is a world- William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 132517 class gold deposit with an average grade of 40 grams per ton. In 2008 it was the only operating Lot# 2004 Isa, High-Grade Gold Ore, gold mine in that country. This sawn specimen, Hishikari Mine, Japan The Hishikari Gold approx. 3.25 x 2.5 x 1.25 inches, and weighing Mine near the southern tip of Japan is a world- ~220.6 grams, shows the characteristic banded class gold deposit with an average grade of 40 nature of the ore body with the high-grade material concentrated in grams per ton. In 2008 it was the only operating the dark wavy feature near the edge of the specimen. The handwritten gold mine in that country. This specimen, label dated 1991 indicates this piece came from the 100-meter level, approx. 2.5 x 1.5 x 1.25 inches weighing ~65 Ryosen No. 5W Vein. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $1000-2000 grams, shows the characteristic banded nature of the ore body with HWAC# 132296 the high-grade material concentrated in the dark wavy structure in the middle and near the edge of the specimen. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 131928 86 May 2021

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Minerals Lot# 2009 Isa, High- Lot# 2013 Beryl v. Aquamarine from Namibia An unusually Grade Gold Ore Slab, greenish-blue aquamarine crystal cluster on feldspar matrix from Hishikari Mine, Japan The Erongo Mountain, Namibia. Typically the aquamarine found in the Hishikari Gold Mine near many gem-bearing pegmatite veins on and around Erongo Mountain the southern tip of Japan is have more of a sky-blue color. The aquamarine crystals on this a world-class gold deposit specimen are also large for the area, they have brilliant luster, and are with an average grade of 40 transparent to translucent. A very attractive collector-quality mineral grams per ton. In 2008 it specimen. Erongo Mountain is one of Namibia’s most popular tourist was the only operating gold attractions. The 2,320 meter tall Erongo Mountain is an eroded relic of mine in that country. This a volcano that was active some 140-150 million years ago. It collapsed slab, approx. 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 in on its magma chamber, allowing the basin to fill with slow-cooling inches across, 0.4 inches igneous material which is the source for the many gem-bearing thick, and weighing ~140.5 grams, shows the characteristic banded pegmatites in the area. This roughly circular massif, dominates the nature of the ore body with the high-grade material concentrated in flat plains west of Omaruru and gives the Erongo region its name. the dark wavy feature near the edge of the specimen. The attached Dimensions (cm): 5 H x 11.3 W x 6 D. Location: Erongo Mountain, label from 1989 indicates 254.6 ounces per ton gold, and 1,835.8 Usakos & Omaruru District, Namibia Est. $2500-3750 HWAC# 53047 ounces per ton silver. This is a spectacular piece for anyone collecting high-grade gold specimens from around the world. William Mayrsohn Lot# 2014 Malachite & Azurite, Rosita Collection Est. $2000-3000 HWAC# 131918 Mine, Nicaragua Nice hand specimen from the Rosita Copper Mine in Nicaragua of malachite Lot# 2010 Isa, High- with minor azurite, some in botryoidal form. Grade Gold Ore, Total weight is about 284 grams. Dimensions Hishikari Mine, Japan are 3.75 x 3 x 2 inches. A nice display piece for Eleven pieces of varying home or office, shelf or desk. William Mayrsohn size, of high-grade gold Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 132285 ore from the Hishikari Gold Mine in southern Lot# 2015 Fluorite from Japan. See other listings South Africa A cluster of of Hishikari specimens vibrant-green, octahedral for details about the fluorite crystals in superb mine. These eleven condition from a surface pieces range from the deposit located 3 km largest at 4.25 x 3 x 1.25 inches (~274 grams) to 1 x 0.6 x 0.5 inches north of the village of (~5.1 grams). All show some portion of the high-grade mineralization Riemvasmaak. The cause that makes Hishikari one of the richest gold deposits in world. Visible of the beautiful green color gold and dark grey silver minerals are present in each piece. Total is undetermined, however, weight for this lot is 864 grams. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $500- the color may be related to 1000 HWAC# 132536 traces of radioactive or rare- earth elements. Fluorite Lot# 2011 samples from Riemvasmaak were tested and yielded surprising results; isotopes in the rare- Kagoshima, Silica earth element lanthanide series; lanthanum, ytterbium, cerium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium and holmium were Flux Ore, Kasuga detected although amounts were not determined. When found, these spectacular green octahedral fluorite crystals are partially to Mine, Kagoshima completely covered with druzy quartz crusts. The druzy quartz crusts are usually selectively removed by hydrofluoric acid to uncover the Pref., Japan A large beauty of these fluorite specimens. Dimensions (cm): 7 H x 8 W x 2.5 D. sample of silica flux Location: Riemvasmaak, Kakamas, ZF Mgcawu District, Northern Cape ore that has gold Province, South Africa Est. $250-1500 HWAC# 53037 content of 0.09 oz/ ton. This material could be used in the smelting of precious metal ores to help remove impurities while contributing a small amount of gold to the final product. This specimen is approx 5.25 x 3 x 1.25 inches and weighs about 370.4 grams. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 132373 Lot# 2012 Chihuahua, High-Grade Gold-Silver Ore, Pinos Altos Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico This specimen of high-grade, gold-silver ore comes from the underground Pinos Altos Mine in the mountains of west-central Chihuahua, Mexico. The handwritten label says this ore runs 2.7g/mT gold and 60.3g/ mT silver. It is about 5.25 x 3.75 x 1.25 inches and weighs around 426 grams. Pinos Altos poured its first gold in July of 2009, but it is not known when the father of this consignor acquired this specimen. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 132441 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 87

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Minerals Lot# 2016 Ray, Arizona Native Copper Split Lot# 2022 Silverton, Drill Core, Ray Mine, Pinal County, Arizona Truly spectacular split drill core from the Colorado High- immense Ray Copper Mine in Pinal County, Arizona. The label says the core came from Grade Gold Ore, 1,100 feet below the present pit level beneath the underground mine. This would have Sunnyside Mine, been some time ago, since the present open- pit operations have exposed much if not all of the old underground Silverton, Colorado workings of the Ray Mine. Currently owned by Asarco, now a subsidiary of Grupo Mexico, the Ray Mine has one of the largest copper Two slabs of high- reserves in the country. This half-core is about 4.75 inches long and 2.5 inches in diameter and weighs about 1.6 pounds. It is quite solid grade gold ore from and not friable. This core specimen is not only visually spectacular but also a piece of Arizona mining history. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. the Sunnyside Mine $500-1000 HWAC# 132375 located in Eureka Lot# 2017 Ray, Arizona Native Copper, Ray Mine, Pinal County, Arizona Three specimens Gulch north of of native copper from the Ray Mine in Pinal County, Arizona. There used to be a town Silverton, Colorado. of Ray, Arizona, but it got mined away as the open-pit copper mine expanded decades ago. This is the mine The nearest town now is Kearny. The largest specimen appears to have been acid-etched out of the original rock. made famous by the It is approx 6 x 4 x 1 inch and weighs about 318.6 grams. The second is like it at 2.5 x 2 x 0.75 inches and 47.5 grams. The third piece is collapse of a working original mine rock with copper leaf growing out of the crevices and coated with malachite -- simply beautiful. It is about 4.5 x 2.5 x 3 stope beneath Lake Emma, which completely drained the lake, scoured inches and weighs about 443 grams. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. out the mine workings, and filled the mine with silt. On the other side $300-500 HWAC# 132538 of the valley sat the Gold King Mine, itself famous for a release of 3 Lot# 2018 Superior, Arizona Silver-Copper million gallons of pent-up acid mine water into the South Fork of the Ore, Silver King Mine, Superior, Arizona Small specimen of silver-bearing copper ore, 2 Animas River in 2015. These two specimens have clearly visible gold x 0 6 x 0.5 inches, with probably a silver sulfide in white quartz matrix along with dark gray silver sulfide, probably such as argentite (Ag2S) or acanthite (AgS2). argentite or acanthite. Labeled slab is approx 2.5 x 2 x 0.1 inches and Found in the Silver King Mine north of Superior, Arizona, which produced nearly 6 million ounces of silver in the late 19th century. 12.9 grams, and the other slab is about 3 x 2 x 0.2 inches and 45.9 Total weight is 17 grams. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 131920 grams. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $2000-3000 HWAC# 132295 Lot# 2019 Bodie, California Goodshaw Mine, Lot# 2023 Victor, Colorado High-Grade Gold/ Bodie, Gold Ore Specimens Bag of about 35 Silver Ore, Ajax Mine, Victor, Colorado specimens (all 2 x 2” or so), many with cut Three large hand samples and three small surfaces. The very best of these rocks were pieces of gold-silver ore from the Ajax Mine, hand picked and sold last year by us. Many of on the northern edge of Victor, Colorado, in these will have some free gold, visible with a the Cripple Creek Mining District. The largest hand lens. All are from the high grade gold vein at the Goodshaw Mine, piece is about 2.5 x 2 x 3 inches, weighs ~300 collected decades ago. Est. $700-1500 HWAC# 122830 grams, and it has clearly visible flecks of gold metal along a quartz vein. The next piece is about 3.5 x 3 x 1 inches, weighs ~174 grams, and is labeled Sylvanite by the collector. Sylvanite is a gold-silver-telluride mineral, compared to Calaverite (named after Calaveras County, California) which is a gold-telluride without silver. Third specimen is simply labeled Cripple Creek Colorado Ajax Mine and an illegible line of text below that. The lot includes as 3.5-inch- diameter crucible labeled CRIPPLE / CREEK / DISTRICT / VICTOR COLORADO / ROASTED SYLVANITE in the bowl, and AJAX MINE 1900 LEVEL ROASTED along the lower rim. There are also three, small, gold-bearing pieces as well. The Ajax Mine sits on the slope of Battle Mountain facing the small town of Victor. The north side of Battle Mountain has been mined away by the Cripple Creek & Victor Open Pit Gold Mine, by many accounts the richest gold mine in all of Colorado history, and currently owned and operated by Newmont Mining. The last recorded production of the Ajax Mine was in 1981. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 132872 Lot# 2020 Sierra City, California High-Grade Gold Ore, poss. Primrose Mine, Sierra County, California Two specimens of high- grade gold ore, thought to be from the Primrose Mine in Sierra County, California, near Sierra City. Obvious visible gold in white crystalline quartz. Smaller piece is about 1.5 x 1 x 0.75 and weighs about 27.4 grams. The larger piece is approx. 3 x 2.25 x 1.25 and weighs about 199.2 grams. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $700-1000 HWAC# 132371 Lot# 2021 Sierra City, California High-Grade Lot# 2024 Georgia Very Nice Gold Ore Specimen from Georgia Gold Ore, Primrose Mine, Sierra City, Specimen is 2 x .5 x 1”. Estimated nearly 1 ounce of gold. Gold shows California The Primrose Mine is about 3.5 across all four sides. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $2000-3000 HWAC# miles northwest of Sierra City, California, in the Plumas National Forest. It was a very small 123152 producer from two veins - the Primrose and the DeLong - that were up to 15 feet thick. This specimen shows clearly visible gold metal in the white crystalline quartz matrix. Specimen is about 2.75 x 1.75 x 1.5 inches and weighs about 123.3 grams. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132370 88 May 2021

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Minerals Lot# 2025 Sparta, Illinois Pyrite Sun on Lot# 2030 Missouri Calcite Crystals, Black Slate Pyrite Sun (a.k.a. Pyrite Dollar, Sun Dogtooth and Nailhead Forms, Mississippi Dollar, Marcasite Sun) on black shale, broken Valley, USA Group of calcite (Calcium in half right through the middle. Needs repair, Carbonate) specimens, in varying crystal or mounted as a unique art piece split asunder. forms, all from Mississippi Valley Type Your choice. The black shale is about 9 x 9 x deposits, probably from the Southeast 0.75 inches when the two pieces are aligned Missouri Lead District around Fredericktown together. The sun is about 3.5 x 3 inches. These (where this collector was known to have visited). Three large (>4- have been known as Marcasite Suns, marcasite inch) specimens with calcite crystals on sphalerite-galena matrix, being an iron sulfide like pyrite but with a three large (>4-inch) solitary dogtooth calcites, and about eight different crystal structure. X-ray diffraction studies have revealed that small calcite specimens (4-to-1.5-inches) in varying forms and with these iron sulfide disks being found in Illinois coal mines are actually or without other minerals. The calcite crystals in this lot are in two mostly pyrite, not marcasite. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100-200 primary forms: nailhead (hexagonal barrels terminated with three blunt faces) and dogtooth (pointy, six-facet cone-like crystals). There HWAC# 132888 are some doubly-terminated hybrids of these two forms as well. See photo for form and condition details. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. Lot# 2026 White $300-500 HWAC# 132516 Pine, Michigan Native Lot# 2031 Missouri Galena with Pyrite, Southeast Missouri An eight-pound block of Copper in Sandstone, silvery-gray crystalline galena, a lead sulfate, with small crystals of yellowish pyrite, an White Pine Mine, iron sulfide, from the Lead Belt in southeast Missouri. Approx 4.5 x 2.5 x 4 inches. Beautiful Ontonagan Co., as a desk or shelf display piece and quite functional as a paperweight. William Mayrsohn Michigan Heavy slab Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 132998 of copper-bearing Lot# 2032 Battle Mountain, Nevada Gold Ore, Big Four Mine, Battle Mountain, Nevada “Sandstone Ore” from Three small pieces of high-grade gold ore identified by the collector as from the Big Four the White Pine Mine Mine, Nevada. This could be either the Big Four Mine near Battle Mountain, Nevada, or the in Ontonagan County, Big Four Mine near Elko, Nevada. Total weight is 9.4 grams. All three pieces fit in a 1 x 1 x .5 inch plastic box. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. Michigan on the west $300-500 HWAC# 131921 end of the Keweenaw Lot# 2033 Battle Mountain, Nevada Silver Ore Specimen, Bryan Mine, Lander Co., Nevada Peninsula. It is 7.5 x High-grade silver ore specimen, approx 301 grams, from the Bryan Mine in Lander County, 5.25 x 0.625 inches and weighs about two pounds. Included in the Nevada, located just north of the open-pit lot is a refined copper piece engraved with COPPER RANGE / WHITE workings of the Newmont Phoenix Mine and southwest of Battle Mountain, Nevada. MinDat PINE. The White Pine Mine began in the 1860s with small operations posts that the discovery occurred in 1880, and mining commenced in 1885 with several of short duration. Calumet and Hecla Mining Co. drilled the area in the tunnels and a shaft. Ore was processed at a 10-stamp amalgamation mill, but the mill had been dismantled by 1912. Today only mine early 1900s, and in 1929 the Copper Range Company acquired the dumps and mill tailings remain. This specimen is approx 3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 inches. It appears to be massive silver sulfide with a light copper property. Mining commenced on a large scale in 1953, which continued oxide staining. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 131926 until 1997, having produced more than 4.5 Billion pounds of copper. Lot# 2034 Ellendale, Nevada High-Grade Gold Ore, The Highland Copper Company of Canada is currently negotiating the Ellendale Mine, Nye County, Nevada Ellendale is a present- purchase of the White Pine Mine property. William Mayrsohn Collection day ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, about 30 miles east Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 132377 of Tohopah. From discovery in 1909 by 29-year-old Ellen Lot# 2027 Michigan Native Copper in Black Nay, the mines in Ellendale Shale Matrix - 2 pcs Two specimens of native produced ore valued at $720 a copper with black shale matrix. One is a slab of ton in 1910. By 1912 the mines dense, black shale with feathery bits of bright were essentially exhausted, orange native copper through it, approx 4.5 x 3 and the heyday was over. This x 1 inch, weighing about 395 grams. The second high-grade specimen comes is a thick leaf of native copper with a piece of from the Ellendale Mine and black shale attached to one side, approx 5.5 x is approximately 2 x 1.5 x 0.25 3.5 x 0.75 inches, weighing about 212 grams. These may have come inches, weighing 21.3 grams, from area of the White Pine Mine at the western end of Michigan’s and it has visible gold specks that glint in the light. A rare piece of Keweenaw Peninsula where the Nonesuch Formation is known to be Nevada mining history right there. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. a major source native copper. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-400 $800-1500 HWAC# 131929 HWAC# 132374 Lot# 2028 Iron County, Missouri Missouri Mine Mineral Specimens Lot of 3. All are from the Buick Mine of Iron County, Missouri. 1 & 2) Two specimens of Galena. Smaller is 1.5 x 1 x 1.5”. Larger is 1x 2.25 x 1.5” 3) Calcite. 2.5 x 1” Est. $60-90 HWAC# 134050 Lot# 2029 Missouri Large Galena Crystal Cube on Galena-Calcite Matrix Beautiful display piece of high-grade lead ore labeled OZARK, so likely from the Old Lead Belt region of Missouri near Fredericktown, Missouri. Weighs about 7.2 pounds, approximate dimensions are 7 x 4 x 5 inches. The large galena cube is about 2.6 inches on a side. Base matrix is mostly smaller galena crystals with similar size or smaller dolomite [CaMg(CO3)2] or calcite [CaCO3] crystals. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $500-700 HWAC# 132423 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 89

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Minerals Lot# 2035 Gardnerville, Lot# 2040 Nye County, Nevada Native Gold Nevada High-Grade Gold Specimen, Monarch Mine, Ore, Johnnie Mine, Nye Nevada Beautiful gold County, Nevada Small on quartz specimen from sample of high-grade gold the Monarch Mine near ore, approx 1.75 x 1 x 1 inches, Gardnerville in northwestern weighs about 39.2 grams. Nevada. The gold is approx Visible gold on the surface 1/2 x 1/4 inch centered in a with some malachite staining piece of white quartz about on the white quartz matrix. 1-3/4 x 1-3/4 x 1-1/4 inches. The Johnnie Mine is located Specimen is attached to a in southern Nye County about slab of a tree branch approx. 15 miles north of Pahrump. It 3-3/4 x 2-3/4 x 3/4 inches. operated briefly in the early Overall height is about 2 1900s, producing around inches. This Monarch Mine 80,000 to 90,000 troy ounces is distinct from the one of of gold. There is a 1976 thesis the same name near Elko, paper by Stanley Ivosevic with great detail about this mining district. Nevada, and it produced small amounts of gold and silver in the 1950s. Since 2014, ownership of the Johnnie Mine site, along with the nearby William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $2000-3000 HWAC# 131919 April Fool, Teddys, and Teddys Terror mine sites was transferred to the Pahrump Valley Museum and Historical Society. William Mayrsohn Lot# 2036 Incline Village, Nevada Dark Smoky Collection Est. $800-1500 HWAC# 132299 Quartz Crystal from the Incline Pegmatite. Spectacular naturally dark smoky quartz from the Lot# 2041 Osceola, Nevada Osceola Gold Incline Village pegmatite, mined in the early 1970s Nugget, c1920s Small gold nugget from by Reno mineral dealer Harvey Gordon.The crystal Osceola, a placer gold camp east of Ely, measures about 8.5” diameter and 13” tall. The faces collected by J. Miles in the 1920s. 5.1 grams. are bright and shiny. There is a small chip to the top Est. $300-500 HWAC# 118176 of the crystal. It is entirely natural, and never been “curated”. Gordon found a pegmatite at Incline Village Lot# 2042 Osceola, Nevada and mined a number of nice smoky quartz crystals. Osceola Gold Nuggets When I first moved to Reno in 1976 (FH), he had several for sale in the Collected 1920s. Group of shop that I drooled over. This one was purchased by a local collector about 31 nuggets, weighing and has now resurfaced for sale. About 30 pounds. Est. $5000-10000 26.0 grams, from the J. Miles HWAC# 122812 Collection of Ely, Nevada, collected in the 1920s. Lot# 2037 Manhattan, Nevada Gold Ore, Osceola is a placer gold camp Bonanza Vein, East Manhattan Mine, Nevada in the mountains east of Ely, First production of the Manhattan Gold Mine active in the late 1800’s to is listed as 1868, and operations started and today, though not much is stopped numerous times up to 1990. The site found anymore. Est. $1500- has been reclaimed by Round Mountain Gold Corporation. As recently as 2020, Scorpio Gold 2200 HWAC# 118175 has acquired property from Round Mountain Gold in the district. This ore specimen comes from the Bonanza Vein and shows visible gold Lot# 2043 Rawhide, Nevada High-Grade Gold flecks in the quartz. It is a wedge-shaped slab approx 2.5 x 1.5 x .7 Ore, Rawhide Mine, Nevada High-grade gold ore inches on the thickest edge. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $600-1000 sample from Rawhide, Nevada, which no longer HWAC# 131927 exists after the development of the Kennecott Lot# 2038 Manhattan, Nevada High-Grade Gold Ore, Nellie Gray Mine, Manhattan, Rawhide-Denton open-pit mine in the 1990s. Nevada The Manhattan Mining District was discovered in the 1860s. The Nellie Gray Mine Heap leach recovery of gold and y-product silver was a small producer near the center of the district. This piece of high-grade gold ore has continues on the site today. This specimen has finely disseminated gold in a fine-grained finely disseminated gold in highly altered silica, quartz matrix visible with a hand lens. The with a few flecks of yellow metal visible in a hand lens. Some grayish specimen is about 3.25 x 3.25 x 1.5 inches and silver sulfide minerals can also be found. Size is approx. 3 x 3 x 1 weighs approx. 226 grams. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $400-600 inches, and it weighs 190 grams. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100- HWAC# 132372 200 HWAC# 132291 Lot# 2039 Mountain City, Nevada Native Lot# 2044 Ray, Nevada High-Grade Copper Copper Museum Specimen, Rio Tinto Ore, Ray Mine, Pinal County, Arizona Large Spectacular native copper specimen, museum specimen of copper oxide minerals, mostly size and grade, from the Rio Tinto Mine. 11” malachite and chrysocolla surrounding a sizable x 22”, about seven pounds. The Mountain City blob of dark gray chalcocite (Cu2S). This would Copper Co. produced more than 600,000 tons be high-grade copper ore. It was collected by the of copper valued at about $14 million from consignor’s father when the mine was owned 1932-1940 (Couch & Carpenter, p45). This specimen is from the Wm. by Kennecott, so prior to the 1986 purchase of D. Miles Collection of Nevadiana. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 122811 the Ray Mine by Asarco. Weight is 2.8 pounds, dimensions are approximately 4.5 x 4.5 x 3 inches. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 132293 90 May 2021

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Minerals Lot# 2045 Round Mountain, Nevada Gold Lot# 2050 Santa Rita, New Mexico Native Ore, Fairview Mine, Round Mountain, Nye Copper, Massive, Chino Mine, Santa Rita, New County, Nevada Five pieces of gold ore from Mexico Another large piece of native copper, the Fairview Mine in the Round Mountain believed to be from the Chino Mine near Santa Mining District of Nye County, Nevada. One Rita, New Mexico. Size is approx. 6 x 5 x 2 inches, piece has 1/4-inch feathers of gold growing and it weighs around 4.0 pounds. One side sawn from the side. The other pieces are indicative of flat. See photo for composition details. William the typical rock of Fairview Mine, showing the iron-staining of gangue Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 132512 mineralization along a contact between rhyolite and underlying granite. The gold appeared in thin quartz stringers rather than Lot# 2051 Santa Rita, New Mexico Native wide veins. The deposits in this area were discovered in 1906, and Copper, Massive, Chino Mine, Santa Rita, production records of the Fairview in a USGS report by H.G. Ferguson New Mexico Massive piece of native copper show $480,267 of bullion value recovered from 1906-1919. Two thought to be from the Chino Mine, otherwise pieces are about 7 x 4 x 3 inches, a third is about 4 x 3 x 2.5 inches, known as the Santa Rita Mine or Santa Rita del then 3 x 1.5 x 0.75, and 1 x 1 x 0.3 inches. A fleck of visible gold has Cobre, near Santa Rita, New Mexico, north of been outlined by the collector on this smallest piece. William Mayrsohn Deming. This piece weighs around 5.8 pounds and is approx. 10 x 5 Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 132528 x 2 inches in size. See photo for details. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 132514 Lot# 2046 Ruth, Nevada Almandine Garnet, Garnet Fields Recreational Area, near Ruth, Lot# 2052 Santa Rita, New Mexico Chino Nevada Deep reddish garnets (var. Almandine Mine Native Copper, Pyrite, and Bornite - 8 based on published Fe:Mn ratios in the range of pcs Two large leaves of native copper, a rock 2.5:1) in flow-banded rhyolite matrix, likely to with a seam of chalcopyrite/bornite, and five be from the Robinson Mining District between pieces of iron pyrite -- all attributed to the the towns of Ruth and Ely, Nevada. Approx. 9 Chino Mine near Silver City, New Mexico. One x 5.5 x 2 inches. Garnets in the photo are about 1/2-inch in diameter. native copper piece is 7.5 x 7 x 0.05 inches Today you can visit a public quarry on Garnet Hill in the Garnet Fields and weighs about 174 grams. The other native Recreational Area which is just across US Highway 50 (The Loneliest copper is 7.5 x 6 x .05 inches and weighs about 101 grams. The rock Road in America) from the Robinson Open-Pit Copper Mine and with the ore seam is approx 3 x 3 x 2 inches and weighs 312 grams. collect your own specimens. If you don’t want to drive that far, bid on The shiny pyrites weigh 248, 222, 181, 90, and 82 grams. See photos this specimen. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 132882 for relative sizes and condition. The lot also includes a 1.6 x 1-inch oval copper key fob with the Kennecott ankh logo on one side and a Lot# 2047 Ruth, Nevada High-Grade Copper bas relief image of the Chino open pit and a roadrunner (meep meep). Ore, Tripp-Veteran Mines, Ruth, Nevada William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 132445 Two pieces of mostly chrysocolla (a copper silicate mineral) with occurrences of azurite, Lot# 2053 Silver City, New Mexico High-Grade malachite. One is labeled KCC / NEVADA Copper Ore, Chino Mine, Silver City, New / TRIPP-VETERAN PIT // Chrysocolla / Mexico Four hefty pieces of high-grade copper Chalcocite / Ore /, and is approx. 4.75 x 3 x 2 inches and 557.8 ounces. ore, primarily brassy chalcopyrite and purple- Daniel Jackling began open-pit mining in the Veteran Pit near the red bornite, from the Chino Mine near Silver towns of Ruth and Ely, Nevada, in 1905 under Nevada Consolidated City, New Mexico. One specimen is labeled Copper Corporation. The Tripp and Veteran Mines that were acquired “KCC” for Kennecott Copper Company, which by Kennecott 1950, and they began mining those two properties in sold the mine to Phelps-Dodge Corporation in the 1980s. Freeport- the late 1960s when their adjacent Liberty Pit played out. The second MacMoran purchased Phelps-Dodge in 2007. The largest specimen is chrysocolla specimen, ~5.75 x 2 x 5 inches, ~3 pounds, is unlabeled about 7 x 4.5 x 1 inch and weighs about 725 grams, the next largest is but came with the same collection of minerals from this consignor. It about 5.5 x 4.5 x 1 inch and weighs about 635 grams. Third specimen has been cut flat on two sides, perhaps to be used as a bookend. It is 3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 inches and weighs 386 grams. Fourth is around 2.5 x may have been given a thin coat of lacquer to preserve the appearance 2 x 1.5 inches and weighs 139 grams. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. of the chrysocolla, which otherwise tends to darken over time as the $200-400 HWAC# 132438 mineral dehydrates. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 132883 Lot# 2054 Silver City, New Mexico High-Grade Copper Lot# 2048 Santa Rita, New Mexico Native Oxide Ore, Chino Mine?, Copper with Malachite, Chino Mine, Santa Silver City, New Mexico Rita, New Mexico Beautiful piece of shiny Copper oxide minerals are native copper encrusted with green malachite known for their rich green oxidation and a white mineral, probably calcite. colors, and this 8.6 pound Approx. size is 5 x 6 x 2.5 inches and it weighs rock is covered with a blend about 4.2 pounds. Very nice display specimen of chrysocolla, malachite, for home or office. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# and possible other copper 132513 minerals. The coating is rich in silica, giving a lustrous Lot# 2049 Santa Rita, New Mexico Native appearance to the piece. Copper, Chino Mine(?), Santa Rita, New This is about 10.5 x 7 x 3.5 Mexico Large specimen of native copper, inches, and it sits up on its edge, making it a beautiful display piece. thought to be from the Chino Mine a.k.a. Santa The specimen is unlabeled, but because it came with a number of Rita del Cobre Mine near Santa Rita, New specimens that originated from the Chino Mine, we attribute it to the Mexico. Approx 10 x 5.5 x 1 inches and weighs same location in New Mexico. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100- about 2.8 pounds. Bright shiny copper metal along with some of 200 HWAC# 132444 the surrounding rock that the metal original formed within. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 132511 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 91

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Minerals Lot# 2055 Oregon Basalt Lava Bomb from Oregon Basalt lava volcanoes can erupt with great force and fling large blobs of molten rock thousands of feet into the air. These can be launched so high that the rock has time to cool and solidify before it hits the ground. If it wasn’t bad enough being hit with hot molten rock, imagine having solid boulders raining down from the sky! The consignor collected this one in Oregon near an extinct cinder-cone volcano. Its rough teardrop shape was formed as it fell through the air during a long-past eruption. This reddish brown lava bomb is about 11 x 5 x 5 inches and weighs about 3.5 pounds -- enough to really ruin your day... and this is a SMALL one! Even so, its relatively light weight is due to the incorporation of volcanic gasses in the molten rock that remain trapped when it solidified. This is called scoria and is similar to pumice, but scoria does not contain enough gas to float in water as pumice can. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132534 Lot# 2056 Bingham Canyon, Utah Lot# 2060 Republic, Washington Gold and Quartz Nugget, Knob Electrolytically Refined Copper - 3 pcs The Hill Mine, Republic, Washington Impressive nugget of gold metal Kennecott Bingham Canyon west of Salt Lake and white quartz believed by the consignor to have been collected by City, Utah, boasts about being the deepest open his father who worked at the Knob Hill Gold Mine outside of Republic, pit copper mine in the world, and here are three Washington. This nugget is about 2.6 x 2.0 x 1.0 inches and weighs slabs of 99.999% pure, electrolytically refined copper mined from that 6.15 troy ounces (191.4 grams). By appearance, it is approx 65% gold locale. These are 1/4-inch thick slabs cut from a 4 x 4-inch “wire bar” metal. Est. $7000-9000 HWAC# 132535 -- a long casting of refined copper which is then heated, rolled, and drawn into fine copper wire. The high purity is required to allow the Lot# 2061 Wenatchee, Washington Gold Ore ductile metal to be drawn into very fine wire without breaking. Slabs Slab, Cannon Mine, Wenatchee, Washington weigh 2.8, 2.0, and 1.8 pounds. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $300- The Cannon Mine occupied approx 5,000 500 HWAC# 132443 acres southwest of Wenatchee, Washington. Gold production began as early as 1894 but Lot# 2057 Utah Large Ore Specimens from operations ran in fits and starts into the 1930s Ophir Hill Mining District Here are four large and 40s. Anaconda and Cyprus independently pieces of high-grade ore material from the made discoveries in the area, but it was not Ophir Hill Mining District in Tooele County, until the 1980s that a partnership between Utah. the largest is aoub 13.5 inches long and Asamera Minerals and Breakwater Resources were able to bring the holds massive pyrite seams between lighter mine into full production, eventually becoming the second-largest colored country rock. There is evidence of underground gold mine in the country. Reserves of more than 5 chalcopyrite, galena, and possibly bornite in the mix. Another large million ounces were reported in 1984 at a grade of 0.214 Au oz/ton. piece, approximately 10x7 inches across, has a 1.5-inch diamond drill This specimen is a small slab from a high-grade portion of the Cannon hole right through it and contains pyrite and probably other sulfide Mine showing a characteristic banded structure with visible gold and minerals filling cracks within the lighter-colored material. A third piece electrum (a grayish silver-gold alloy). It is approx 2 x 1.5 x 0.4 inches has pyrite crystals in a matrix of dark and light calcite or dolomite, The and weighs about 38.6 grams. Larger slabs from this same ore body fourth piece is a tabular mass of pyrite and probably other sulfides are offered in this auction as well. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100- that was probably broken out of a fracture. It is approximately 5x6 200 HWAC# 131925 inches across and about 1/2 inch thick. These would make intriguing display pieces. Est. $70-140 HWAC# 88628 Lot# 2062 Wenatchee, Washington Gold Ore Slab, Cannon Mine, Wenatchee, Washington Lot# 2058 Mammoth, Utah Pyrite Collection This specimen is a 503-gram slab from a high- - Ten Pounds, from Ophir Hill Mining grade portion of the Cannon Mine showing the District, Utah This is a ten-pound collection of characteristic banded structure with visible colorful pyrite specimens ranging from brassy gold and electrum (a grayish silver-gold alloy) yellow to shiny orange, possibly chalcopyrite. of the ore. It is approx 6 x 4 x 0.75 inches. This Specimen sizes vary from thumbnail to hefty piece is labeled that it came from the X-280 Stope. See other lots of hand specimens with beautifully bright crystals of pyrite in every Cannon Mine slabs for a description of the mine. William Mayrsohn piece. Some specimens have calcite and galena, and the larger hand Collection Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 132521 specimens have some large pyrite crystal faces. Est. $30-50 HWAC# 88613 Lot# 2063 Wenatchee, Washington Gold Ore Slab, Cannon Mine, Wenatchee, Washington Lot# 2059 Okanogen County, Washington This specimen is a 448-gram slab from a high- High-Grade Gold Ore, Buckhorn Mine, grade portion of the Cannon Mine showing the Okanogen County, Washington This piece of characteristic banded structure with visible high-grade gold ore comes from the Buckhorn gold and electrum (a grayish silver-gold alloy) Mountain Mine in north-central Washington of the ore. It is approx 6.25 x 3 x 1 inches. See other lots of Cannon state, just south of the U.S. border with Canada. Mine slabs for a description of the mine. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. It most recently operated for nine years under $700-1500 HWAC# 132524 Kinross Gold Corp. which closed the facility in 2017 after producing nearly 34 tons of gold worth $1.3 billion. Reclamation work is underway. This specimen is about 3.75 x 2.25 x 0.75 inches and weighs approx. 163.3 grams. Visible gold is easily visible with a hand lens. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132298 92 May 2021

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Minerals Lot# 2064 Wenatchee, Washington Gold Ore Lot# 2070 High-Grade Slab, Cannon Mine, Wenatchee, Washington, Gold Ore, Unknown and Buckle This specimen is a 725-gram slab Location Spectacular from a high-grade portion of the Cannon Mine banded gold in quartz showing the characteristic banded structure matrix, approx. 2 x 2 x with visible gold and electrum (a grayish 0.75 inches, weighing silver-gold alloy) of the ore. It is approx 7 x 3 x 1.25 inches. This piece about 68.6 grams. This is labeled by the collector as from the X-280 Stope, 700 Level. The is a beautiful specimen lot comes with a brass belt buckle commemorating operations at the that could be displayed Cannon Mine from 1985-1994. It shows the head frame set against a as is or slabbed bas-relief background of the local mountains. It is number 83 of 250. further and made into Made in 1994 by Siskayou Buckle Co, Ashland, Oregon. See other lots amazing jewelry pieces. of Cannon Mine slabs for a description of the mine. William Mayrsohn Unfortunately we do not Collection Est. $1000-1500 HWAC# 132523 know the original mine locale of this material. Lot# 2065 Wenatchee, Washington Gold Ore Slab, Cannon Mine, Wenatchee, Washington, William Mayrsohn Collection with Buckle This specimen is a 561-gram slab Est. $2000-3000 HWAC# from a high-grade portion of the Cannon Mine showing the characteristic banded structure 132376 with visible gold and electrum (a grayish silver-gold alloy) of the ore. It is approx 6.5 Lot# 2071 Malachite, Polished x 4.5 x 0.7 inches. This piece is not labeled by the collector. The lot Specimen, Unknown Origin comes with a brass belt buckle with the Cannon Mine head frame set This cut and polished specimen of against the background mountains. Made in 1989 by Anacortes Brass malachite exhibits the beautiful Works, Ltd. See other lots of Cannon Mine slabs for a description of the concentric swirls and variations mine. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 132522 in the rich green color that make this copper carbonate mineral so Lot# 2066 Free Gold in Quartz Pieces Small attractive. It is about 5.25 x 3.25 x box with eight specimens of free gold in quartz 1.75 inches and weighs in at around from the George Allen estate out of McGill. 450 grams. It will lay flat or on edge Probably from eastern Nevada or western without falling over, making it a spectacular display piece for your Utah, these would have been “flux” for the mill desk or bookshelf, at home or at work. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. at McGill. Total weight: 32 grams. Est. $200- $200-400 HWAC# 132440 300 HWAC# 132121 Lot# 2072 Mineral Specimen Group, Lot# 2067 Gold/Silver Ore Specimens with Unknown Localities About ten mineral Quartz Crystals, Unknown Locality Three specimens of mostly unknown localities chunks, one large and two small, of a gold/ including Large single-crystal rhomb of Calcite, calcium carbonate, (~8 x 6 x 3 silver ore from an unknown locality. Silver is inches, 9 pounds); A single-crystal wedge of Calcite (7 x 3.75 x 2.5 inches, 2 pounds); in the dark grey minerals (possibly argentite Vein of Chrysotile Asbestos (~3.75 x 1.75 x 1.5 inches, 187 grams); or acanthite) with tiny flecks of gold interspersed within that. Nice Deep blue Azurite with rich green Malachite in a small, crystal-lined crystals of quartz and some amethyst-tinted quartz occur in all three cavity (~2.25 x 1.5 x 1.5, 73 grams); Malachite filled breccia, Nixon Fork Mine, Arkansas (~4 x 2.5 x 2.5, 282 grams); Gold-Silver Ore in pieces. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $700-1000 HWAC# 132525 White Quartz, (~3.5 x 1.25 x 2.25, 253.4 grams); 3/4-inch slab of silicified conglomerate (~4.25 x 3.5 x .075, 420 grams); small bag with Lot# 2068 High-Grade Gold and Silver three copper and gold ore specimens; and a dark red garnet crystal, Ore Specimens, Western US Four high- about a half-inch in diameter. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 grade ore specimens: GOLD-SILVER ORE with argentiferous galena, sphalerite, and HWAC# 132880 chalcopyrite, from the Camp Bird Mine, Sneffels District, Ouray County, Colorado, 4 Lot# 2073 Mineral x 3 x 1.5 inches, ~0.470 kg; SILVER ORE with argentiferous galena and sphalerite, 250 Stope, Deer Trail Mine, Specimen Group, Mt. Baldy District, Tushar Mtns, Piute County, Utah, 5 x 3.5 x 2.5 inches, ~1.2 kg; GOLD-SILVER ORE, with argentiferous galena and Unknown Locations A tetrahedrite, Mogul Mine, Eureka District, San Juan Mountains, San Juan County, Colorado, 6 x 3 x 2 inches, ~0.91 kg; and SILVER ORE group of beautiful display with argentiferous galena, chalcopyrite, and calcite, Ward Mine, Ward District, Egan Range, White Pine County, Nevada, 3.5 x 2 x 1.5 inches, specimens includes ~0.326 kg. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 133733 Amethyst, a purple variety of quartz (~9 x 3 x 3.5 inches, ~1.8 pounds); a beautiful pale-blue Lot# 2069 High-Grade Gold Ore Slab, Celestite, a strontium Unknown Location Slab of high-grade ore resembling Hishikari specimens from this sulfate (~3.75 x 3.25 consignor, but this one is unlabeled. Shows a x 2.75, ~601 grams); definite band of visible gold near the edge in Acicular Cuprite, fine reddish, needle-like crystals of copper oxide a banded structure with white quartz and grey also called Chalcotricite (~3.3 x 2 x 2.5 inches, ~238.3 grams); Rough silver sulfide minerals. Approx. dimensions are 2.75 x 2.5 x 0.25 inches, weighs about 58.7 Malachite, a rich, green copper carbonate (~27 pieces, ~389.8 grams); grams. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $800- Quartz Crystal, similar to those found in Arkansas (~4.25 x 2 x 2.25, ~291.9 grams); and two Iron-stained Quartz Crystals (~3.75 x 0.75 x 0.75, ~3 x 1 x 0.75, 110 grams total). William Mayrsohn Collection Est. 1200 HWAC# 132297 $300-500 HWAC# 132879 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 93

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Minerals Lot# 2074 Pyrites, Galenas, and Calcites, Oh Lot# 2079 Wyoming A Few Million Years Ago My! - 12 pcs A dozen specimens from unknown Green River Petrified Turtle Shell A petrified locations of Iron Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, turtle shell fossil from the Green River area and Calcite. Might even be some Sphalerite and of Wyoming. This very impressive specimen Bornite in there. Specimens range in weight measures 5”x 4” and is about 1” high. from about 544 grams (the largest galena) to 48 grams (the smallest pyrite cuboid). See photos for specific specimens. This is a real nice piece for any collector or non-collector for that Based on the consignor’s dad’s work history, some of these may come from the Southeast Missouri Lead District near Fredericktown and matter. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300- others from a copper mine such as the Ray Mine in Arizona or the 500 HWAC# 121713 Chino Mine in New Mexico. None were labeled, so we cannot be sure. Some are absolutely splendid display pieces worthy of your bookshelf Lot# 2080 Kemmerer, Wyoming Asineops Fish or desk at home or the office. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $500- Fossil, Green River Formation, Wyoming 1000 HWAC# 132537 From the classic Green River Formation near Lot# 2075 Ulexite, Natural Borate Mineral, Kemmerer in western Wyoming, comes this Unknown Locality Ulexite is a naturally artfully prepared Asineops fish fossil. The fish occurring borate mineral that forms in is about 6.25 inches long in a block of rock that evaporite deposits such as dry lake beds in the Western US, the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, is approx. 8.75 x 7 x 1 inch. Label on the front the high deserts of Chile, and other locations. It edge identifies the fossil and its locale. Green can occur in the form of a puff-ball with needle-like crystals radiating felt glued onto the back. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 132996 from a central point or as massive blocks of near-transparent material. This specimen is particularly large at ~10.5 x 4 x 2 inches and 2.2 Lot# 2081 Triassic- pounds, and it clearly demonstrates the fiber-optic type phenomenon for which ulexite is known. This is because the mineral structure Jurassic Period forms fine, twinned, needle-like crystals that are regularly aligned with each other. Light entering a crystal at one end is internally Keichousaurus Fossil in reflected through the length of the crystal and emerges from the other end in essentially the same direction as it entered. The effect is that an Black Shale This is 7.5”x image place under a polished slab of ulexite will be transmitted to the top polished surface with surprising integrity. Impurities, cracks, and 11” piece of black shale other structural defects in the specimen will compromise the image quality. See photo for example. Note that ulexite is soluble in water and contains the fossil imprint the surface can be damaged if cleaned with a water-based liquid (so don’t do that). William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132878 of a Keichousaurus, a Lot# 2076 What the Halite? Core and Crystal marine reptile from the 3.5-inch drill core of solid halite (NaCl) that is 8.5 inches long (~1.27 kilograms), and a single Triassic/Jurassic period. crystal of halite that is 3.5 x 2.75 x 1.75 inches (~465 grams). Same stuff as the tiny white First discovered in 1957 stuff you shake out of that blue-labeled paper cylinder with the little girl carrying an umbrella. These two specimens in China, this particular are impressive for their size and may have come from exploration drilling for sulfur deposits in West Texas, potash deposits in Utah, or specimen appears to be prospecting in oil fields that develop over salt domes anywhere around the world. Just don’t put these in your aquarium as decorations. William from Europe, indicated by Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 132870 the smaller ulna that is not the case for the China discoveries. This Lot# 2077 Drill Core Bookends, 2 Pair Four bookends made from 3.5-inch diameter drill piece has a few calcite veins running through it and the image is very cores in four different rock types, cut flat on one side with felt attached to the bottoms. sharp. Keichousaurus like all sauropterygians was highly adapted to Utterly one-of-a-kind pieces for any rock the water. They ranged in size from 15 cm to 30 cm. They were fish hound or book collector. Small chip at the top of one core, but hey, it’s eaters and some of them even inhabited marshes. This is a great a real drill core and life is “hard.” Longest is 7.5 inches and 6.8 pounds, collector piece and a rare find. This is the real thing, not a prefabricated shortest is 6 inches and 4.8 pounds. See photo for condition details. reproduction from a gift shop. Please see photos for more detail and William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 132529 condition. Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 121711 Lot# 2078 Eagle, Colorado Dripstone, Fulford Cave, Eagle, Colorado Geologist Ferdinand Lot# 2082 Ammonite Fossils and Orthoceras Hayden first recorded his discovery of Fulford Fossil, Polished - 4 pcs Four polished Cave in 1874. Located 15 miles southeast of ammonite fossils, all from the goniatitida order Eagle, Colorado, the cave is within the White River as determined by the smooth, undulating National Forest and closed to the public from form of the suture patterns between the mid-October to mid-April to allow the resident septa (chambers) of the shell. Smallest is 2.5 bat population to hibernate undisturbed. We do not not know when x 2 x 1 inches, and the largest is about 6 x 5 nor how these two pieces of dripstone were taken from the cave. Each inches still in the surrounding matrix. The piece is about five inches long and two inches wide at the base. Both largest ammonite is displayed with an adjacent orthoceras fossil. Both are labeled in pencil. See photos for details. William Mayrsohn Collection are known from the Middle Devonian period. The name ammonite Est. $200-300 HWAC# 132289 comes from the similarity of its shape to curled horns of a ram, from which the first century Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder called these fossils ammonis cornua, or horns of Ammon -- an Egyptian god often portrayed wearing ram’s horns. The orthoceras name means straight horn, with ortho meaning straight, and ceras being derived from the Greek word for horn. All are beautiful display pieces individually or as a group. We are even adding a casting of a trilobite (not a real fossil) for good measure. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 132515 Lot# 2083 Trilobite Fossils - 4 Four trilobite fossils in matrix, unknown location, all approx. 3.5 to 4 inches across, similar in appearance to specimens attributed to Morocco. This raises the question about fossil fakery, which led us to a definitive reference at www.fossilmuseum. net/collect/faketrilobites3.htm. Based on what this site presents on identifying fakes, we believe these four are real. See photos for closeups and let us know what you think. William Mayrsohn Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132877 94 May 2021

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2084 Transvaal Chamber Lot# 2089 Ruby Copper Ingots & Horseshoe, of Mines Reports, 1912-1960 El Teniente, Chile Mining may have started Impressive run of the Transvaal at El Teniente (The Lieutenant) in the early Chamber of Mines Reports from 1800s, and over two centuries has involved 1912 to 1960. Missing only the Guggenheims and Kennecott Copper 1924, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1937, Corporation. In 1971 Chilean President 1938, 1939. These volumes are Salvador Allende nationalized all copper mining in the country and priceless records of the world’s established Codelco as the state-owned mining company that operates most productive gold mines. to this day. These two small copper ingots and the copper horseshoe the first three volumes have came from the Codelco smelter in Rancagua (misspelled as Rancauga damaged spines, contents fine. on the horseshoe). The rich red color comes from a coating of ruby All hardbound in orange boards. cuprite, a copper oxide that often forms on the surface of molten Forty Two volumes. A perfect and rare tool for the mining historian. copper in the huge ladle that carries the copper from the furnace. The Fred Holabird Collection Est. $600-1500 HWAC# 43804 ingots are each about 3 x 0.5 x 0.6 inches (107 and 83 grams), and the horseshoe is approx. 4 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches (305 grams). William Mayrsohn Lot# 2085 Group of German Mining-Themed Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132287 Christmas Ornaments Lot of 7. Includes: 1) Two nutcracker ornaments (5.5”) with mining picks on Lot# 2090 Sinaloa, Brass Tags, Rosario helmets. 2) Two figures to hold candles, one with Mine, Sinaloa, Mexico Thirty-six brass tags, mining picks on his helmet (4.5”). 3) Three smaller all but three marked from the Rosario Mine ornaments (2.5”), one holding a miners pick, the near Sinaloa, Mexico. 28 octagonal brass tags, other with picks on his helmet. These come from 1.5 x 1.5 inches, labeled ROSARIO MINE 1950, the “Christmas ornament town” of Seiffen in the including a complete sequence from 3079 Erzgebirge, or Ore Mountains, a rural part of Saxony to 3096.0 Five square brass tags, 1.5 x 1.5 inches, labeled ASARCO so devoted to holiday décor that Germans call it the ROSARIO. Three round brass tags, unlabeled. William Mayrsohn Collection “home of Christmas.” Perfect decorations for our mining collectors! Est. $300-500 HWAC# 132284 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 134027 Lot# 2091 Juneau, Alaska Lot# 2086 Vancouver, British Columbia Photo of Washing Gold in Vancouver B/W photo c1910-1920 Alaska- titled “Washing Gold” Vancouver, B.C. The Philadelphia Museum in lower right. of miner Gastineau Mining Co. (possibly on the Fraser River) using an elevated sluice, “Grissley” which allows for washing oof Ephemera This is a collection more gold in a day than can be done in a basin. Story on the reverse of photo regarding the of items related to the Alaska- process of gold panning. In protective cover and good condition. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 131460 Gastineau Mining Co., which Lot# 2087 Yukon Territory, Stewart River Gold operated a gold mining and Dredging Co Letterhead With Dredging Ship, 1910 Nice pictorial letterhead showing a dredger milling operation on the from this mining company that operated in Yukon Territory. Letter regarding an investment in the outskirts of Juneau, Alaska, company’s stock, offering it to the gentleman at 5 cents per share. Signed by the company secretary, from 1911 to 1934. The Jno. McComb in Winnepeg, Canada. Most of the company officers and directors resided in Dawson collection includes several City, Y.T. Properties comprising sixty miles of Proven Gold-Dredging Ground, Gravel Beds and Gold-Bearing Sand- stacks of Receiving Reports Bars and Hydraulic Claims on the Stewart and McQuesten Rivers, Yukon Ter., Dominion of Canada. Date: Country (if not USA): Canada dated between 1919 and 1920, eight wood-framed signs from different State: City: Yukon Territory Provenance: Est. $50-100 HWAC# 135442 levels in the underground gold mine, two metal hoist signs, a square Lot# 2088 Map of the Yukon District wooden level sign, and five, hand-carved, wooden hoist level markers. in the North West Territory 1898 This is sheet 3 map of the Yukon District in Small-scale gold mining began east of Juneau in Alaska’s Silver Bow the North West Territory 1898, scale is 506, drawn by J. McEvoy. Highlighting Basin with the acquisition of the Perseverance claims by Joseph Gilbert White Horse township. Geologic features are numbered and highlighted around 1900. With the help of Col. W. J. Sutherland, they began mill in red with a brief explanation of the rock formation. Interestingly, no operations in 1907. In a 1910 reorganization, the Alaska-Gastineau compass rose presented. Printed in Montreal 1898. Minor corner crease Mining Company was created, and the new company incorporated tears, otherwise good condition. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 121154 in New York by 1911. The next year, the Alaska Gold Mines Company was organized as a holding company to finance expanded mining and milling which began in July of 1912. October 31, 1913, saw the groundbreaking for a large, new mill that began operations in February of 1915, even while it was still under construction. Construction of the mill was supervised 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. Date: c1910-1920 Country (if not USA): State: Alaska City: Juneau Provenance: Geff Pollock Collection Geff Pollock Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 103122 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 95

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2092 Kennecott, Alaska The Kennecott Lot# 2097 Prescott, Arizona 1888 Early Arizona Territory Mining Deed Early deed for a claim in Copper Corp. Archive (3) (Data Provided by the Lynx Creek Mining District. There were smaller operations in 1885 in the area, that was first discovered the Historic American Engineering Record in 1863 by a party of 200 men lead by Captain Joe Walker. This deed was recorded on September 8, 1888 (HAER) 1) Kennecott Copper Mill & in Yavapai County. Very readable and a great piece of Arizona mining history. Please see photos for more Leaching Plant, Vol. I, provides exterior detail detail and condition. Est. $100-120 HWAC# 131960 information, drawings, plans & photographs Lot# 2098 Bodie, California The Bodie Miner Newspaper This lot has several issues Vol. II provides interior drawings, plans, and photographs of Framing of the Bodie Miner newspaper from 1881, 1882, 1909. There is an issue of the Bodie – Both Volumes are 17” x 11” and spiral bound. 2) “Cordova to Standard newspaper as well dated 1878. Other issues include the Mother Lode Magnet of Kennecott” – HAER Recording Project – Publ. by Cordova Historical Jamestown, Ca. dated 1898, and two issues of the Sacramento Daily Union dated 1859, and Society, 1988 – History of Kennecott and the Copper River & 1861. All seven papers outline pioneer life in California. Est. $300- 500 HWAC# 133792 Northwestern RR, a 196 mile line from Cordova, Alaska to Kennecott Lot# 2099 Jackson, California Kennedy and – (11” x 8 ½” SC booklet, nicely illustrated with photographs and Argonaut Mine Head Frames - 4 B&W Photos The Kennedy and Argonaut Mines in Jackson, drawings) Est. $150-250 HWAC# 132359 California, were producers of gold from great depths of the Mother Lode. Both mines were Lot# 2093 Alaska Alaska Coal Deposit Maps, recovering ore from the same fault system, and c1900-1910 Five maps. Original pen and ink the Kennedy became the deepest underground Mantanuska Coal Mining & Dev. Co. map, 1908, gold mine of its day at 5,912 feet below the surface. In 1919, a fire Chas S. Hubbell, about 20 x 30”; Sketch Map destroyed all but two of the Kennedy Mine surface buildings, and in of Mantanuska Coal Fields by Hubbell, 1906, 1922, forty-two miners died in a mine fire at the 4,650-foot level of about 20 x 40” blueling with folds and tears; the Argonaut. Rescue was attempted by digging from the then-inactive Coal claim og Grant Calhoun by McPherson, Kennedy mine, but progress was slow and ultimately unsuccessful. about 12 x 18”; Preliminary survey of the Herendeen Portage Railroad These four black and white photos show the head frames of these two for the Pacific Alaska Transportation and Coal Co., 2 maps 1903, about famous mining operations long after production ceased in the 1940s. 20 x 40; map of “non mineral” lands along the Bearing River. by Dwight Framed sizes in inches are 17 x 20-1/2, 15-7/8 x 19-1/2, 15-1/2 x 18- Skinner, undated, about 1902, blueline. same size. All from the J.L. 5/8, and 15-3/8 x 18-5/8. All are professionally framed in black wood McPherson engineer files. No info could be found on the Herendeen (2) and black anodized aluminum (2) and glass. One of the Kennedy railroad, and it may never have been built. Est. $200-500 HWAC# photos is unglazed. See photos for details. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 125072 112193 Lot# 2100 Marysville, California 1927 Gold Lot# 2094 Alaska Fair Haven Mining District Dredges Booklet The Part Played by the Yuba and Coal Mountain Maps (2) These two Manufacturing Co. in the Great Romance of maps depict the mining area of Fair Haven in Dredging for Placer Gold, Tin & Platinum – Printed for the Yuba Mfg. Co. of Marysville & S.F. by John Kozebue Sound, Alaska; and the second map is Henry Nash of S.F. in 1927 – Beautifully adorned and Illustrated keepsake publication from this well of Coal Mountain to Skagit River. Drawn by R. B known Manufacturer (10” x 12 ½” HC Book, 45 pages) Symington ME 1901. Published Kroll Map co. of Est. $240-350 HWAC# 132351 Seattle. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Alaska City: Provenance: Est. $300-450 HWAC# 120609 Lot# 2101 Nevada City, California Choice Nevada City Mining Souvenir Spoon, c.1900 Lot# 2095 ”Champion Mine, Nevada City, Cal.” and mine works engraved in bowl. Marked sterling. Globe, Arizona Engraved “1900” on reverse of handle. Approx. 5” long. The Champion was a major producing mine. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 134001 Panoramic Photo of Old Dominion Copper Co, Globe, Arizona Mining Company Yard long photo titled, “Partial First Aid Class, Old Dominion Co., Globe, Arizona, June 30, 1930” shows a group of miners in front of the company’s property. The company’s operations including the smelter are in the background. The Old Dominion Company at Globe, Arizona was organized to promote the operations of the Old Dominion Copper Mining and Smelting Company and United Globe Mines. The company owned the Old Dominion mine as well as other mining claims west of Globe including the Continental mine at the head of Webster Gulch, 18 miles west of Globe. The mill and smelter were connected by a private railway. The company was a large producer and usually had about two years of reserves blocked out to supply the smelter. The photo measures 31” x 5.5” with the frame somewhat larger. This is a very nice Arizona mining collectible. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 129543 Lot# 2096 Miami, Arizona Inspiration Lot# 2102 Nevada County, California 1905 Crystal Copper Company Equipment Tag Round Lake Gold Mining Co. Assay Receipt Crystal Lake brass tag, 38 mm, holed. Stamped: I. C. C. Co. Gold Mining Co., Nevada Co., California - For Week / 2532. Original architects of the Inspiration Mine included Henry Krumb, W. B. Thompson Ending July 8, 1905. Crystal Lake is 2.25 miles east if and Louis D. Ricketts. Some sources claim the mine was named after a fortune teller, Yuba gap, located in Nevada county. Mine was short Madame Inspiration, who operated a second- lived. This is the first piece we have seen. Est. $100- floor office in Globe adjacent to the offices of 150 HWAC# 132411 prominent mining men involved in developing the property. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $30-50 HWAC# 129313 96 May 2021

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2103 Ophir Mining Lot# 2107 San District, California Gold Francisco, California Blossom Consolidated 1883 Gold Bullion Q.M., (Ophir Mining Assayer Sales Receipt District) Map 60”w x 32”h Document- Thomas map shows comp- any Price Memorandum of bullion deposited holdings that include the by Wheeler & Rodgers to Thomas Price, Ohio, Back Action, Harrison Analytical Chemist, Assay and Bullion Melter, at his office at 524 Sacramento Street. The sample is 142 ounces of gold with a value & Gold Blossom Claims, as of $2763.49 Printed by Britton & Rey. According to researcher Fred Holabird “Price went to work as an assayer with Kellogg, Hewston & well as 2 Mill Sites – Also, Co. He began teaching a series of private assay and chemistry classes in San Francisco about 1862 or 1863, advertising in the Mining and top portion of map shows a longitudinal section – Map is attached Scientific Press, the news organ for the western scientific community. The classes lasted for three months, two nights a week, and by June to a roller. Ophir District is east to Auburn and west to Gold Hill and 1863, he was attracting twenty or more students to each class. About 1865, he supplemented his assaying career by teaching chemistry at includes Duncan Hill mining district. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 132316 the San Francisco City College and Toland Medical College. Kellogg, Hewston & Co. was purchased and the name of the firm changed to the Lot# 2104 Placer San Francisco Assaying & Refining Works, and Price continued there. In 1875, Price left the firm and started his own assaying business. County, California About ten years later, he brought in his son as a partner, and changed his firm’s name to Thomas Price & Son. His career was flourishing, and Schematic Diagram of many of his students went on to become assayers, among them Henry Hanks, later a prominent San Francisco assayer himself. About 1880 the “Hathaway Mine”, Price began using the initials M. D. after his name, probably because of a degree earned from Toland Medical College. By 1887 Price’s business Ophir Mining District at 524 Sacramento Street had grown. He employed thirteen assistants and boasted the latest and most complete equipment and services. This map shows the During the course of his career he examined mining properties in all the major mining locations of the west, and even in North Carolina. Hathaway, Eureka In 1892 he was commissioned to supervise the establishment of an enormous mining plant in South Africa. Price died at home at the age & Kirkland Claims – of 77 on October 13, 1912. He was father to Arthur, Minnie, and Annie, and Mrs. J.P. Turner.” Est. $200-400 HWAC# 132309 Inactive now, but In the Lot# 2108 San Francisco, California 1869- 1930’s, subsurface Mine operations included a shaft of 837 ft. and 1907 Mining and Scientific Press Lot of 2. Hardbound book of issues of 1869, 426 pigs. tunneling of approximately 5,000 ft. – Drawing measures 18”h x 24”w Book cover has some separation, articles inside – Lot also includes Placer Co. Classification Map for Section 18, T12N- are in very good condition. White Pine County R8E, which shows the location of the Hathaway Claim. Est. $100-200 will be in here. Considered very rare. Also, Volume XCiV, Number 16, April 20, 1907. Very HWAC# 132402 good condition. 78 pgs. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 131463 Lot# 2105 Placer County, California Alameda Gold Mining Co. Map This lot is of a map Showing the Quartz Mining Properties belonging to the “Alameda Gold Mining Co.” situated in Placer Co., California Sections 2, 3, 10 & 11, T15N-R12E - Includes the “Galena, Patrick and Patrick Ex Claims – Drawn on Parchment Paper (22”w x 26”h) Est. $120-240 HWAC# 132403 Lot# 2106 Plumas Lot# 2109 San Francisco, California 1887 Mining and Scientific Press Mining and Scientific Press County, California paper Volume I.V. #11 dated Sept 10, 1887.. Lead story on the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine use 1868/1869 State & of Henry Albert’s automatic safety elevator. Other articles and advertisements on mining equipment, County Tax Receipt for Malaria. In protective cover and still partially bound by thread. In excellent condition. Est. $60-100 Mountaineer Mine Co. HWAC# 131461 Two county and state tax Lot# 2110 San Francisco, California 1888 Pacific Coast Mining Review Published by receipts issued to The San Francisco Journal of COmmerce. Inside: Articles on the Comstock Lode, Bographical Mountaineer Gold Mine info on important figures Adolph Sutro, William Stewart. Maps of the : the main tunnel from Company at Saw Pit in Sutro, Section view of the COmstock Mines. 94 pigs not including the covers. Good, but delicate Plumas County. This is an extensive gold-bearing region in southern condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 131462 Plumas County. It is contiguous with the Quincy district to the north and the Gibsonville district in Sierra County to the south. It includes the Last Chance, Sawmill Flat, Monitor Flat, Onion Valley, Harrison Flat, Blue Nose Mountain, and Nelson Point areas. The district was named in 1850 for a pit that was dug for the use of a whipsaw. The region was extensively mined during the early days and has been intermittently prospected since. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $70-100 HWAC# 131845 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 97

DAY 2 Friday, May 14 Mining Lot# 2111 San Francisco, California 1898- Lot# 2114 San Francisco, 1915 Pelton Water Wheel Company Catalog California 1856 Title to Egbert Collection Lot of 5 different. This is an Judson for the San Francisco incredibly rare grouping; we’ve had very few of these catalogs in the Chemical Works (Explosives) past 40 years. The Pelton wheel was invented by Lester Allen Pelton Mortgage between Robert P. in the 1870s. He came to California during the Gold Rush and noticed Chase and Egbert Judson for that while there were larger wheels for the bigger rivers, there wasn’t $2,500 for the property known a small wheel designed for the lower flow of many of the mountain as the San Francisco Chemical streams. After building a wood prototype, Pelton had an iron version Works to Judson on August 1st, built by Miners Foundry in Nevada City. The first Pelton Wheel was 1856. Signed on the back by installed at the Mayflower Mine in Nevada City in 1878. Pelton sold Judson and Chase. 13 x 8” Folds, the rights to his invention in 1888 to this company that was founded soiling, separation. Judson was in San Francisco. In 1892, they added a branch in New York City. 1) an inventor and manufacturer of Seventh Edition, 1898. 98 pp. Profusely illustrated. Missing 3 pages explosives and involved in early (replaced with modern photocopies). List specs and prices, as explosives formation and testing well as descriptions of mines where their equipment is being used in San Francisco in the 1860s. He (including in Bodie, California). Illustrated brown softcoverse. Binding is said to have founded the first coming loose; pages detaching. Needs restoration. 10 x 6.5” 2) Tenth assay works in San Francisco edition, 1905. 108 pp. Softcover with silver and gilt lettering. Full of in 1852. In August 1867, three illustrations, printed photographs, water tables, spec., price lists, etc. pounds of dynamite were made Pages detaching from spine. Owner’s name on inside cover. 9 x 6” 3) at this plant and used in a trial Eleventh edition, 1909. 116 pp. Softcover. Owner’s name stamped blast of boulders. This was the and inscribed on numerous pages. Water damage and stains. 9 x 6” 4) first instance of the manufacture First edition, 1914. 101 pp. Brown softcover. Some staining to pages. and use of dynamite in the United States after the invention of that Spine a little loose. 9 x 6” 5) Bulletin No. 8, 1915. 64 pp. Green/blue explosive by Alfred Nobel in 1866. The trial was successful and led softcover. Wear to covers, some staining on pages. 9 x 6” Est. $750- to the formation of the Giant Powder Company in the same month. 2000 HWAC# 135344 Judson, a director of the Giant company, continued to operate the San Francisco Chemical Works which supplied acid to the Giant company, Lot# 2112 San Francisco, California 1890’s and shortly afterwards formed the Judson Powder Company at Ralston & Grayson Checks Three checks Kenvil, N. J. On June 3, 1873. he patented his “Giant Powder, No. 2” printed with Ralston & Grayson, Mines & Mining (patent no. 139,468), which was manufactured successfully by both in the heading. Rare, RNX, they are unlisted in companies. This powder consisted of forty parts nitroglycerine, forty the Castelholz guide. The bottom one is torn, parts sodium nitrate, six parts sulphur, six parts rosin, and eight but the top two are in good condition. See parts kieselguhr, and was essentially the first high explosive blasting photos for more detail and condition. Est. $30- powder to supplant Gunpowder. “Giant powder” was for a long time 60 HWAC# 135412 a synonym for dynamite in the United States. Judson was the first to meet the need for an explosive which, though powerful, would be more “gentle” in action than a blasting powder, producing a heaving rather than a shattering effect. Later in 1882 he founded the Judson Manufacturing Co. building bridges and structural steel with machine shops, foundry and pattern shops and bolt and nut shops. The company had operations in Emeryville and Oakland California. (P195) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 135410 Lot# 2113 San Francisco, California 1881 Tables Value of Gold and Lot# 2115 San Francisco, Silver Thomason Price Book, Tables of the Value of Gold and Silver California California State by Thomas Price. A.J. Leary printing 1881. 9 3/8 x7”, Only three Division of Mines & Geology & Mineral Deposits of an copies exist. Price operation were considered the most extensive on Area North of San Francisco Bay 20 Geologic & Economic the West Coast. Signed by Thomas Price 1883. Owned by Jos. R. Ryan Maps in Separate Map Pocket and then H.B. Blueberry 1905. Front cover and first page have some water damage. Remainder of book is in good condition. Very Rare. Est. for Vacaville, Antioch, Mount $1000-2000 HWAC# 131459 Vaca, Carquinez, Mare Island, Sonoma, Santa Rosa, Petaluma & Point Reyes Quadrangles (book is 6”x 9”& map box is same with 1 ½ pocket) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132306 Lot# 2116 Santa Clara, California 1964 Geology & Quicksilver Deposits of the Almaden District 18 Plates (in separate Vol.), 126 Figures, 17 Tables - (9” x 11 ½” SC`+ HC for Plates) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 132315 98 May 2021