January 2018 Treasures Galore Auction Catalog

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Transportation Lot# 3000 , California Matson Lot# 3003 , New Jersey Iron Steamboat Company Navigation Company Cancelled One Stock for 100 shares, cert. # 319 and one trustee 19 shares of Matson Navigation Co, bond cert. #678 for Steamboat Co. of New Jersey. cert. # 56 dated Apr 6, 1909, issued Printed: American Bank ote Co., ew York itho. 1) to A. Fuller. Stock signed by William $500 4 Second ien old Bond trustee certificate, Matson who started company and was principal due July 1, 1932 in the city of New York with 7 adhesive RN president. Assigned on back by Estate stamps signed by A. J. Harrison, secy and A C. Washington, pres. Raised of Andrew Fuller. Raised company company seal. Note on bond saying $4.50 being paid ono this bond and seal. Matson, Inc., founded in 1882 is coupons that are due Jan 1, 1932 that was received from bankruptcy a public shipping company. Company filing. ) Uncancelled 100 shares of Iron Steamboat Company of ew provides shipping services throughout the Pacific, speciali ing to and Jersey cert. # 319 issued to William H. Waolverton, Jr. on Jun 11, 1914, from the Hawaiian islands. Matson Navigation Company’s association signed by W. Waolverton Countersigned June 11, 1914. Iron Steamboat with Hawaii began in 1882, when Captain William Matson sailed from Company (1881-1932) provided ferry service between Manhattan San Francisco to Hilo, Hawaii, carrying 300 tons of food, on supplies and and Coney Island in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fleet merchandise. That voyage launched a company that has been involved consisted of 7 iron-hulled steamboats. Ship had three decks and twelve in such diversified interests as oil exploration, hotels and tourism and compartments. Service began in May 1881 and continued until 1932. military. An interest in Hawaii as a tourist attraction lead Matson to Started with only Coney Island service, but expanded to ong Branch, start that service, starting in 1908. In 1910 the 146-passenger ship S.S. New Jersey, Rockaway Beach, New York, and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Boats Wilhelmina was taking passengers to Hawaii. Captain Matson died in left Manhattan from various piers along the west side and pier in lower 1917 at 7 and at that time the Matson fleet had 14 of the largest and Manhattan. In Coney Island they stopped at amusement park. The Iron fastest ships in the Pacific for tourists and freight. Printed: The Union Steamboat Company went bankrupt in February, 1933 and all of the Lith Co., S.F. Prag collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 87209 company’s assets and vessels were sold at auction. Prag collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 86566 Lot# 3001 , Connecticut New Haven / New London Steamboat Co 1) Cancelled Lot# 3004 , New York Munson Group 50 shares of The New London Steamboat of Steamers 5 Munson group stocks Company, cert. # 120 issued to Albert with raised seals (4) and Cert of Deposit G. Smith on April 17, 1897. The New (1). - #1, 2 and 3 slight change in name London Steamboat Co. was established of company and ink color, all issued in 1882 and operated between New to J. W. Reynolds and signed by Frank London, Connecticut, and Watch Hill and Block Island, Rhode Island. Munson, 1 printer, but alike otherwise. Purchased by New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad’s consolidated 1) 2 shares of Munisla Steamship Corp., cert #7 Brown border and ink. New England Navigation Company in 1904. Assigned on back. 2) 4 Printed: The Brown- reen Co 48 ohn St. Y. ) shares of Munplare unissued temporary stock receipts for New Haven Steamboat Company. Steamship Corp., cert 7 reen border and ink. Printed: The Brown- Chartered in 1822 to operate passenger and freight steamers between Green Co 48 John St. NY., 3) 2 shares of Munsomo Steamship Corp., ew York City and ew Haven. In 1899 company extended service to cert 7 range border and ink. Printed: The Brown- reen Co 48 ohn Providence. In 1900 the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad St. NY., 4) 65 shares of Munson Steamship Line cert #P332. Brown bought the company and it was purchased in 1904 by the New England border and ink. Printed: ranklin ee ivision - American Bank ote avigation Company. Printed: T. room Co., Stationers, Boston. Prag Co. ) Certificate of eposit for $1,000 for Munson Steamship ine - collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 87203 6-1/2% Gold Debenture Bonds Due January 1, 1937, cert. # D251 issued to Miss Bessie M. Start- Somerville, MA on July 17, 1935. In 1899, Walter D. Munson established Munson Steamship Line. Started Lot# 3002 , Eastern Multi- State Rails Portland with freight on Havana-New York route. Later added eastern Cuba, Terminal Co bond Mexico and gulf ports. Sons Carlos and rank expanded the line to 60 steamers which becoming largest ocean freight company on the 4 different unissued U.S.’s eastern coast. In 1915 their first ship to include passengers on bonds for First Mortgage the SS Munamar. Printed: American Bank ote Co. Prag collection. Registered Gold Bond Est. $300-600 HWAC# 87208 for Portland Terminal Co. 1) Orange $50,000, Lot# 3005 , New York New York Harbor cert. #L21 2) Red Orange Tow-boat Co. 10 shares of New York Harbor $10,000, cert #X157 3) Tow-boat Co. cert. #60 issued to James G. Blue $5,000, cert #V169 Emmons on June 11, 1887, signed by J. G. 4) Green $1,000 cert Emmons, secy and uis Pulver, pres. Printed: M74. Excellent condition. Henry Spear 82 Wall St N.Y. Prag collection. Vignette of ships, train and horse carriage. Raised co. seal. Portland Est. $200-400 HWAC# 86570 Terminal Co. was terminal railroad notable for ability to switch activities for Maine Central Railroad and Boston & Maine railroads in cities of Lot# 3006 Portland, Oregon Oregon Steam Portland, South Portland, and Westbrook in Maine. Came under control Navigation Co - 3 stocks 3 extra rare regon of the Boston & Maine Railroad in 1884. In 1907 controlled by New Steam avigation Co. stock certificates, dated Haven Railroad. Portland Terminal Company was formed in 1911 as May 15, 1874, issued to Edwin H. Lenrs, part of the New Haven’s consolidation of New England transportation Trustee of the Estate of Jay Cooke & Co. in facilities. Became a MEC subsidiary while facing financial difficulty in bankruptcy of Oregon Steam Navigation 1914. PTM was acquired by Guilford Transportation Industries in 1981 Co. Signed J.C. Armsworth, pres. Paid in full and is a subsidiary of Pan Am Railways. Printed: American Bank ote Co. New York & Boston. Prag collection. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 83828 including all dividends. Incorp. 1862. 1) 2 shares, cert. # 2777, 2) 5 shares , cert. 1578, 3) 10 shares, cert. 3 . Printed: Lith. Britton, Rey & Co. S.F. Prag collection. Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 87211 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 149

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Transportation Lot# 3007 , 2 Submarine / Torpedo Boat Co Lot# 3011 , Mariners’ Bethel Mission Ship Co 1 shares stock Two shares of submarine stocks: 1) 10 at 25 cents of Mariners’ Bethel Mission Ship Co., cert. shares of stock for Lake Submarine Co., cert. # 58, #6349 issued Sept 3, 1859 to Edmin Watrous of Minden, dated Feb. 2, 1907 issued to Otto Naron. Signed by CT incorp. May 11, 1857. Mariners’ Bethel Mission Ship Simon Lake, president. Lake was the inventor of the Co. was a California gold rush company. Vignette on submarine and torpedo boats and president of the stock of ship with the name Adoniram Judson under it, Lake Submarine Co. which he founded in 1895. 2) who was an American Congregationalist and later Baptist missionary Cancelled and reissued 100 shares of stock for Lake Torpedo Boat Co.. serving in Burma for almost forty years. At 25 became 1st Protestant cert. #1128 dated August 28, 1915 issued to Wallace G. Broadhurst, missionary sent from North America to preach in Burma. He translated signed by Simon Lake, vice pres. Founded The Lake Torpedo Boat Co.. the Bible into Burmese and established a number of Baptist churches was president until 1916. Raised company gold seal. Assigned on Aug in Burma. Mistakenly noted as first missionary in Burma, as well as one 30, 1915 and signed by Broadhurst. Printed: Steel- itho. Copyright of the very first missionaries from America to travel overseas. Printed: 1894, J. W. Middleton, Chicago. Prag collection. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# J.M. Hewes, Pr, 81 Cornhill. Prag collection. Est. $240-400 HWAC# 87202 87210 Lot# 3012 , e ican Pacific Co. 50 shares of Lot# 3008 , American Salvage Co Two stocks Mexican Pacific Co. cert. 57 issued to Aaron for American Salvage Co. with gold seals: 1) 50 Peck on August 2, 1858. Incorp. 1857. Three shares cert. # 966, issued to J. W. Garbers on July 27, vignettes. One of miners working below 1916 with adhesive RN stamp signed and Clifford ground with two miners over ground pulling up R. Bogert, secy. 2) 50 shares Series A Stock cert. # soil and two with ships. Irrevocable Transfer 623, issued to J. W. Garbers on April 16, 1917 signed on back Transportation probably used to take Willon Alderson, pres. Prag collection. Est. $150- gold from PA to Mexico for CA old Railroad. Printed: ith by HATCH 300 HWAC# 87206 & Co., 20 Williams St N.Y. Prag collection. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 87201 Lot# 3009 , Boston, Newport and Lot# 3013 , Nanticoke Steamboat Co 1 share of Nanticoke Steamboat Co, cert. #48, dated Nov 1, 1873 New York Steamboat Co 2 cancelled issued to “holder.” Signed by R.S. oruelley, pres, E. . stock certificates for 5 shares of Boston, Busick, sec’y and T. Higgins, treas. Printed: Mushert Y. Newport and New York Steamboat Co. Maguire Wright. Prag collection. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 87207 Adhesive RN stamps. Incorp. May, 1863 Printed: ith of A. Meisel, Phoenix Bldg., Boston. 1) Cert. # 666 issued on June 10, Lot# 3014 , New London Steamboat/ Ship 1868 to Charles F. Choate of Cambridge, & Engine Co Three stocks: for ew ondon signed Wm. A. Hayes, Treas. and Oliver Steamboat Co., 1 for New London Ship and Engine Ames, Pres. 2) Cert.# 29 issued Sept 10, Co., 1) 1 share of New London Steamboat Co, cert. 1883 to C Dearce of Cambridge, signed # 46 issued to D. Newton Barney dated Nov 19, G. Tobey, pres and Charles Memcaine, 1904. Raised company seal. Printed: T. room Y treas. The BNNSC moved its terminus Co., Stationers, Boston, Nov. 19, 1904. 2) Cancelled 20 shares of New from Fall River to Newport, RI In 1869. ondon Steamboat C o., cert 98 issued to Alexander Mc ittie dated Company with ships sold to James August 14, 189 . Assigned on back. Printed: T. room Y Co., Stationers, Fisk Jr.’who controlled Narragansett Boston, Aug. 14, 1896. 3) Cancelled 5 shares of 1st preferred New Steamship Company. Fisk was an American stockbroker and corporate London Ship and Engine Co, cert. #218. Raised company seal. Assigned executive who has been referred to as one of the “robber barons” of the on back. Printed: . W. Brewer 33 assau St. Y. Prag collection. Est. Gilded Age. Oliver Ames, president of BNNSC started his career in the $120-200 HWAC# 86577 family’s shovel factory in Easton, MA. He and brother Oakes invested Lot# 3015 , New Orleans Lightering & Wrecking Co the companies profits and gained controlling interest in Union Pacific Scarce $100 in capital stock (one full share) of the New Railroad. He served as Lieutenant Colonel in the Mass. Militia prior to Orleans Ligthering & Wrecking Co. cert. # Book A issued the Civil War, during which he managed the family’s manufacturing to D. DeHaven on April 5, 1867. Adhesive RN stamp, raised operations. Became president of banks, railroads and other companies. company seal. Incorporated Mar 23, 1867, just after Civil Elected to the Senate, serving 1881 to 1883, Lt Governor from 1883 War ended. The company may have salvaged ships that sunk during the until becoming governor in 1887. His brother, Oakes Ames was in congress and censured for his part in the 1872 scandal Credit Mobilier. Civil War. Prag collection. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 86578 The Bay State Steamboat Company was sold to the Boston, Newport and New York Steamboat Company, and in turn sold to the Narragansett Lot# 3016 , Salvage Company stock - Two Two Steamboat Company in 1869 forming the Fall River Line. Jay Gould, a stocks from different salvage companies. 1) 100 leading American railroad developer and speculator became president shares of stock in Petrie Salvage Co. cert. #238 of the line in 1872 and eventually sold the Fall River Line to the Old dated July 12, 1909 issued to Harvey C. Johnson, Colony Railroad in 1874. Prag collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 86579 raised company seal. Printed: Broun- reen Co. 4 John St. NY. 2) 100 shares of stock in Saliger Ship Salvage Corp cert. Lot# 3010 , Boston, Newport and New York #1301 dated Sept 16, 1920 issued to Gerald C. Winser, raised company Steamboat Co Cancelled one share of Boston, seal. Printed: Broun- reen Co. 4 ohn St. Y. Prag collection. Est. Newport and New York Steamboat Co., cert. # $100-150 HWAC# 86572 281 incorp May, 1863 issued to Mrs. Octavia Lot# 3017 , San Francisco & Eel River Crosby, Guardian of Reliance F. Crosby with Transportation Co. 5 shares of San Francisco & adhesive RN stamp and raised company seal. Eel River Transportation Co, cert. #68 issued to Choice steamer vignette. Signed by A. Holmes, Mrs. M. F. Smith on January 31, 1905 for $100 each. pres. and M. A. Hayes, treas. Steamboat used Gold company seal. Back side indicates stock was a favored route of travel between Boston and New York, via Fall River. Printed: ith of A. Meisel, Phoenix Bldg., Boston. Prag collection. Est. assigned by executor of will of Mary . lmstead $100-200 HWAC# 87200 (also known as Mary F. Smith) deceased on October 9. 1937. Printed: Steel itho Copy Right 1894 . W. Middleton1 7, Dearborn St. Chicago. Prag collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 86568 150 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 WF/Express Lot# 3018 , Southern Pacific olden ate Co Lot# 3023 San Francisco, California 1878 Mission and 11 stock certificates of Southern Pacific olden City Express Company Billhead This express company Gate Company. 5 are unissued and cancelled. 6 speciali ed in moving furniture and baggage. The bill is for are issued. 1) 10 shares cert. #AL 412 issued to ecember of 1878 and is 30 x 8.5”. It is so long it had to Lilly Mussatto, dated Aug 12, 1929. 2) 19 shares be taped together (seems original). They moved lead from cert P 905 issued to Margaret R. Mansfield, Selbys, cash from the railroad, Pipe from the Bukley boat, dated and registered April 7, 1930. 3) 64 shares cert. #BL396 issued tanks for the Amador Road waterworks. Other companies to Marin Lumber & Supply Co, dated Aug 9, 1929, registered Aug 13, include the S. F. Candle Company, Geneva G&S Mining 1929. 4) 92 shares cert. AL390 issued Marin Lumber & Supply Co, Company, Pacific il ead, Crystal Soda Works, Pioneer dated Aug 9, 1929 5) 100 shares cert. #A947 issued to Marin Lumber Woolen Mills, Signal Mine, Steam Soda, Bay City Soda. Also & Supply Co, dated August 9, 1929 6) 100 shares cert. #B130 issued delivered for individuals. Quite a list! (Potter Collection) Est. to Bertha E. oucks, dated uly 9, 19 9. Southern Pacific olden ate $75-150 HWAC# 59431 Co. ran ferries from the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco to Sausalito for 9 years. Largest ferry service in the world by the late 1920’s. Lot# 3024 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1905 Preceding that was the Sausalito Land and Ferry Co which started in Pinkerton Wanted Poster in Glassed 18 7 and became the olden ate erry Co., part of the Southern Pacific Frame Edward George Cunliffe is WANTED Railroad. Once the Oakland Bay Bridge, one of the longest spans in the for Larceny! And this wanted poster would U.S. opened, spanning San rancisco Bay in 193 , months before the have been circulated across the country in Golden Gate Bridge was completed in 1937, the ferry boats ceased search of this man. Issued by none other running. Printed: Schwabacher- rey Company, S. . Prag Collection. than Allan Pinkerton himself, the founder Est. $120-200 HWAC# 86569 of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, it contains a detailed description and a Lot# 3019 , Steam Transportation & Mining photograph of the fugitive along with a description of his alleged crimes against Co of NC 6 shares of stock in Governors’ Creek the Adams Express Company, which offers Steam Transportation & Mining Co of NC, cert. a “suitable reward” for his arrest. The # 243 dated October 6, 1865 in Phila. Adhesive poster itself is approximately 8.5 x 1 inches and has come loose from R stamp. Signed Alex . erbyshire, pres., C. B. the black matte board behind it. The glassed frame is approximately unger, secy.Printed: Riwdon-Wright-Hatch Edson, New York. Prag collection. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 86574 13.75 x 1 .75 inches with an opening of 10.5 x 13.5 inches. The poster is in good condition with only minor creases and damage to the very edges and top left corner. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88638 Lot# 3020 , Steamship Co - 7 CA / 1 NV 8 Steamship stock certificates, (7 - CA, 1 ) Lot# 3025 , American 1) Merchants Steamship Co. 1.83/197 Express Services Sign shares, cert.# 15, dated Sept 27, 1907, issued - Porcelain Enamel to National Steamship Co. signed Charles A. This is a porcelain- Strong, pres. and Chas H. Weller, secy. Printed: enameled sign for A. Carlisle Co. ) Unissued Santa Cru Harbor American Express that Development Corp., cert #84, gold company advertises the services seal. Printed: ES 53. 3) 50 shares Transocean Corp of CA, cert. available at that facility. S01466, dated Aug 1, 1961, issued to Shearson, Hammill & Co., signed This may have been Eli abeth M. Beren , secy and C. elson, pres. Transocean Corp of CA over an American filed Articles of Incorp in the State of California and is no longer active. Express window at a iled May 1, 194 . Printed: American Bank ote Co. 4) 5 shares Trans railroad depot. The = Oceanic Co., cert.#28, dated April 27, 1918, issued Drew Chidester. sign is approximately Raised company seal. Printed: Ingrim Stationery Co., S. . 18087. 5) 13 inches tall and 19 1 share Western Transport Co., cert.# 4, dated May 16, 1917, issued inches wide. and enameled on both sides with white letters on a dark to P.R. Thayer. Raised company seal. 6) 10 shares National Marine blue background. The sign was mounted with a -inch-wide flange at a Terminal, Inc., cert. # P2998, dated Mar 16, 1964, issued to Robert I. right angle to the sign. The lower left corner of both sides indicates the Her og, signed Harold A. Tenny, Assist Secy and Harold H. Taylor, .P., sign was made in England. The sign has some areas where the porcelain Raised company seal. 7) 984 shares National Steamship Co., - Fort enamel has been chipped off around the edge, but it the lettering is Bragg Electric Company, cert 33, March , 1938, issued to Union plainly readable. Est. $800-1600 HWAC# 88635 umber Co., gold company seal, assigned. 8) Pacific avigation ine, Inc. not issued. NV. Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 86567 Lot# 3026 , 1902 Building of Lot# 3021 , Stevenson Steam Canal Boat Co nion Pacific ailroad 1 share of Stevenson Steam Canal Boat Co, cert. Lithograph This is a beautifully framed #132 issued to E. E. White on Dec. 24, 1877, signed lithograph from 1902 depicting a scene Hugh Stevenson, pres. and Geo. W. Burnett, secy. from the construction of the Union Prag collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 86575 Pacific Railroad in 18 . The original by G. E. Widney would have been painted Lot# 3022 , Submarine Boat Corp 20 shares when the UP Railroad was less than 40 of Submarine Boat Corporation, Cert. #05660 years old. The lower left corner credits issued to Samuel Titcomb, dated Feb. 17, 1923, the St. Louis Globe Democrat, originally registered Feb 19, 1923, signed Henry R. Parse, a daily print newspaper that published pres., T C. awson, pres. Printed: American Bank from 1852 to 1986. The scene depicts an attack on the railroad engine Note Co, New York. Prag Collection. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 86576 and work crew by undisclosed attackers in the far distance. The image is approximately 10.5 x 7.75 inches with a 13 x 10.5 inch opening. The carved wooden frame is approximately 1 x 0 inches. A paper label is glued on the paper backing that says, “Building of Unin Pacific Railroad -- 18 -- 190 ithograph.” It is ready to hang on a sturdy wire across the back. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88637 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 151

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 WF/Express Lot# 3027 , Framed New Pony Express Lot# 3032 Patagonia, Ari ona Mirror Reads “Mail Agents Pony Patagonia, AZ Postal Covers and Express Ten ays to San rancisco”. Postcard (6 count) 5 Patagonia, AZ Mirror of Cowboy Express Rider on postmarked covers c. 1926-1933. horse. 3” x 18.5”. ice condition. Est. Cancelled embossed postcard of YC”s $70-200 HWAC# 61226 iconic Flatiron Building. Several Masonic addressees. Est. $40-80 HWAC# 61764 Lot# 3028 , c1987 The Pony Express/A Photographic Essay (Book) Pony Express Lot# 3033 Lakeport, California 1906 Museum, A Photographic Essay by Greg Martin. Lakeport Mill & Lumber Letterhead and Dedicated to William Parker Lyon the greatest Postal Cover Letter and envelope from Paul Western collector of them all. Beautiful book M Beach to George Lukens & Sons of Auburn pp.191. Est. $130-300 HWAC# 63466 concerning their tax bill on property in Auburn. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 88250 Lot# 3029 San Francisco, California San Francisco, CA Post ffice Lot# 3034 Los Angeles, California 1890 Framed Print c. 1850s era view of San Los Angeles Consolidated Electric rancisco,CA post office. 189 print by Railway 100 shares of Los Angeles Andre Castagne. rame 17” x 0.75” Consolidated Electric Railway Co. cert # with wear. Est. $70-150 HWAC# 76523 44. Issued to T. J. Bass dated Feb 2, 1891. Incorp. Nov. 1890 in AZ, Small round vignettes in each corner another one in center of certificate showing a fist coming Lot# 3030 , Postmasters of America out of a cloud. Raised co. seal. Not listed Medallic First Day Covers - Set of 41 in Cox (bond only). Moses Sherman, the power behind creating the os Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway moved to Los Angeles in 1890 - The Franklin Mint This notebook to speculate in land. He operated a new electric railway to promote his contains forty-one First Day of Issue land deals beginning in 1890. His electric railway company had secured covers that include a 39mm Sterling a franchise that lasted for 1/2 century. June 16, 1903, the Los Angeles Silver medallion with a design that is Pacific Railroad merged with the os Angeles-Santa Monica Railroad Co. thematically complementary to the and the Los Angeles, Hermosa Beach and Redondo Railway Company. stamp. These were produced by The The new name after this merger was os Angeles Pacific Railroad of Franklin Mint beginning in 1971 and continuing into the early 1980s. California. Printed: Payot Upham Co. S. . Prag collection. Est. $500- These 41 pieces are from 1971 to 1973. Each medallion contains 0.8 1000 HWAC# 83771 troy ounces of 9 5 Sterling Silver or approximately 0.74 troy ounces of pure silver content. The 41 covers are stored in vinyl pages, two-to- Lot# 3035 Nellie, California 1910 Bailey Bros. Postal a-page, and bound in a 4-inch thick binder. This binder is covered in Cover Letter and envelope from a rare town. Bailey a leather-like material and incorrectly labeled in gold-foil embossed Bros. letterhead indicates they were camping outfitters lettering as “ olden Replicas of United States Stamps.” Perhaps the on Mt. Palomar. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 88257 binder was repurposed from a different collection. The Sterling Silver medallions vary in condition from bright proof to slightly toned and lightly tarnished. Most are in pristine condition and appear to have never been removed from the original sealed plastic envelope. Every cover medallion issue includes a Certificates of Authenticity and a descriptive card of similar si e as the envelope. Some of the issues include the following: Cape Hatteras ational Seashore, April 5, 197 . Lot# 3036 , California Mother Lode A Decade of Space Achievement, August 2, 1971. Peace Corps, February Town Cancel Collection Twenty eight 11, 1972. Henry Ossawa Tanner, September 10, 1973. Colonial American advertising post cards from the early Silverworking, July 4, 1972. Poet Robinson Jeffers, August 13, 1973. 20th century featuring post marks from Nicolaus Copernicus, April 23, 1973. This comes from the liquidation of many gold rush towns: Elmira, roville, Northwest Territorial Mint. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 79566 Clipper ap, ewcastle, ixon, rass Valley, Nevada City, Alta, Roseville, Lot# 3031 ouglas, Ari ona Douglas, Penryn, Applegate, Willow and Clio. Arizona Postal History Collection Includes several railroad RPOs. Est. Lot of seventeen. From airmails to First $100-200 HWAC# 88226 Day Covers to pictorial covers, to corner advertising covers. Every cover fits one Lot# 3037 Dahlonega, Georgia First Day of these areas. Three stamped ‘American Covers Dahlonega Mint 150th Anniversary Air Mail Society,’ two first night flight, 8 first day covers from the 1978 celebration three Women’s National Air Derby in in Lumpkin County of the 150th Anniversary of 1929, three stamped Southern Trans. Continental First Flight 1930, the branch mint at Dahlonega. Est. $60-120 one pictorial ‘Gateway to the Wonderland of Rocks,’ one cancelled April , 1934 with a stamp that says UT Apr 8,’ and one stamped RA HWAC# 88279 Member,’ etc. Est. $140-320 HWAC# 60277 152 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Military Lot# 3038 , Nevada Pony Express 25c Lot# 3045 , Vietnam 50th Anniversary Pins Blue Used Stamp 25c blue stamp. This These beautiful, American-made lapel pins definitely appears to be genuine. We have commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the examined it closely and cannot find the ietnam War. The first pin incorporates a bald tell-tale signs of a reprint. Further, under eagle motif surrounding the words “SER ICE bright light and a magnifying glass the weak A R SACRI ICE around a large “50th” remains of a cancel is clearly present. the superimposed over a map of Vietnam. The ‘M’ is the only letter we could make out. recogni able yellow service bar with three red bars and a green bar Not adhered to background. Est. $80-150 on each end anchors appears beneath the words “ IET AM WAR” at HWAC# 99871 the bottom of the pin. This item is approximately 1.1 5 inches in each direction. The second pin is a styli ed representation of a military blue star service banner with the words “ IET AM WAR” at the top and Lot# 3039 , Postal Cover 1853 to 1855 “50th” at the bottom. A blue-enameld five-pointed star in the center is surrounded by a white-enameled rectangle, and the left and right Envelope (no letter) from Columbus, border has translucent red enamel over intricate oak leaves. This piece Mississippi to “Miss Hamilton, c o Col. is 1.25 inches tall and 13/16ths inch wide. Both pins are marked NWTM Hamilton, Laurel Hill plantation, West USA on the back, and the eagle pin also reads “A RATE U ATI eliciana, ouisiana”. This 3 cent pre- printed cover was issued from 1853 to REMEMBERS” in raised lettering on the back. These come from the 1855. 3. 5” x 5.5”. Est. $50-80 HWAC# unsold material after the liquidation of Northwest Territorial Mint. Est. 51627 $50-100 HWAC# 88644 Lot# 3040 , 1970’s-1990’s US First Lot# 3046 , 1880s U.S. Army Musician’s Day Cover Collection Approx 1000 US Uniform Tunic This is a rare 1880s U.S. Army First Day Covers on cacheted envelopes Musician’s dress uniform tunic with beautiful by Mystic Stamp Co. in binders. A great custom shoulder epaulets and piping. It starter collection with wide variety. Est. also has the typical mohair trim common $500-1000 HWAC# 88345 to uniforms in the late 1880-90’s era. This jacket is named to “P. ates” and worth some research. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 75952 Lot# 3041 , Military Books, Revolution to WWII (16) 16 assorted US related military books, mostly Civil War, some WWII. Hard and soft covers. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 86225 Lot# 3047 , Gulf War Era Air Force fficer ess ress acket Gulf War Era Air orce fficer Mess ress acket, one of the most striking uniforms that the military has available. These were worn at very special Lot# 3042 , clate 1800’s Mining & Telegraphic Codes occasions, and many officers only wore (Books) Interesting lot of 2 hardcover books. American theirs once or twice in an entire career! Mining Code, U.S. , State, and Territorial Mining aws Mining Est. $80-150 HWAC# 75964 & General Telegraphic Code by Bedford McNeil. Est. $150- 250 HWAC# 85872 Lot# 3043 , c1900’s World War 2 Lot# 3048 , Korean War Era U.S. Army (Books) Approx. 15 books (hardcover Armor Uniform This is a U.S. Army softcover) includes: The Invasion Armor Uniform, called an “Eisenhower of rance and ermany 1944-1945 jacket,” with matching pants, and insignia Challenge for the Pacific An Army at for Specialist 4th Class ranks, the Fourth Dawn, The War in North Africa 1942- Army Unit patch, and Enlisted Armor collar 1943 The ast Battle The aval War insignia. A few nice and well marked clean Against Hitler A Time for Trumpets, The set. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 75963 Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge & many more! Est. $100-150 HWAC# 85847 Lot# 3044 , Nine US Military and Related Lapel Pins This is a set of nine Lot# 3049 , Korean War era U.S. Marine lapel pins in a 2.5-inch-square black Corps Dress Green Jacket This is a Korean leatherette clamshell case. Pins include Army (1 pin), Navy (2 pins), Air War era U.S. Marine Corps jacket, with Force (1 pin), Coast Guard (1 pin), and Marine Corps (1 pin). Also in beautiful early WWII wool felt multi-piece this lot are three other lapels pins, one each, from the Defense Threat constructed rank insignia for Staff Sergeant Reduction Agency, the Director of National Intelligence, and a pair of it had at one time some honorable service flags -- the Stars Stripes and the esert Shield esert Storm flag. All stripes that have since been removed. Est. pins but one have a clasp. These come from unsold material after the $80-150 HWAC# 75959 liquidation of Northwest Territorial Mint. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88643 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 153

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Military Lot# 3050 , Korean War, U.S. Army Lot# 3055 , Vietnam-era U.S. Air Force Chemical Uniform This is a Korean War- Combat Uniform Very nice Vietnam War Air era U.S. Army Chemical Uniform, called an orce fficer’s combat uniform jacket. All of “Eisenhower jacket,” in a rare, large si e of the patches appear to be made in Vietnam 40L, with insignia for Specialist 4th Class which is rare. Many of these combat uniforms ranks. Enlisted US and Chemical (very didn’t survive, and although damaged, this is desirable, domed collar variety), and 9th a nice example, because it was worn by one Corps Unit patch. There are ribbons for the who was also Airborne qualified! Est. $80- ational efense, Korea Campaign, and U 150 HWAC# 75966 Korea Service medals and the jacket is dated May 20, 1953. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 75957 Lot# 3051 , Public Health Service Uniform Lot# 3056 , Vietnam-era U.S. Air Force Rare dress tan uniform of an officer of the Mess Dress Uniform Vietnam-era Air Force Public Health Service. The shoulder boards fficer’s mess dress uniform jacket. This is are made with wire bullion thread for the very well made and in excellent condition. rank of a Lieutenant Commander. The jacket It is one of the US military’s most beautiful is in excellent condition and the buttons on it uniforms when fully decked out with have the US Public Health Service seal. The set miniature medals. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 75970 comes with two pair of pants. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 75969 Lot# 3052 , U.S. Air Force Khaki Shirt This Lot# 3057 , Vietnam-era is a U.S. Air orce long-sleeve khaki shirt that U.S. Navy Dress Blue Jumper was worn by officers to include pilots. It is a Complete US avy dress blue custom made high quality shirt by the Yale jumper for a member of the Brand. On the shoulder is a beautiful near Seabees! The uniform has mint wool felt Army Air Corps unit patch. a shoulder tab for Mobile Est. $50-100 HWAC# 75953 Construction Battalion 40, the “ ighting orty” which was reactivated in 1966 and deployed to Vietnam supporting the 3rd Marine Amphibious Force until Lot# 3053 , U.S. Army West Point Cadet 1968. This uniform has the rank of Seaman Apprentice Uniform This is a modern era U.S. Army with the blue color for West Point Cadet Uniform, parade dress Constructionman Apprentice, tunic, with Senior Class sleeve stripes at the Battle Efficiency “E” patch, the bottom of the sleeves. This officer could have fought in Desert Storm or one of the and ribbons for the Republic many campaigns in the War on Terrorism of Vietnam Campaign (hard in the post 9/11 era. Est. $80-150 HWAC# to find ietnamese made), avy Unit Commendation, ational efense 75962 and Pistol Marksmanship medals. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 75971 Lot# 3058 , Vietnam-era U.S. Navy Flight Suit - Direct-embroidered Rare, direct- Lot# 3054 , US embroidered aval flightsuit most likely done Military Academy in Japan while the unit was deployed to Vietnam Uniform Tunic circa for combat operations in 1968. The VS-33 “Screwbirds” was primarily an anti-submarine WWII This is one of squadron which was very important during the most gorgeous the Cold War against Soviet submarine threats. U.S. Army uniforms In late 1967 the squadron also took a place a parade dress jacket in history by picking up the Apollo 4 Capsule. for the US Military This uniform is named and has Naval Flight Academy at West Point. fficer wings and ranks for ieutenant. Est. It has the rank stripes for a senior cadet and it $150-300 HWAC# 75976 displays beautifully and is part of a proud US military tradition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 75956 Lot# 3059 Lot Withdrawn 154 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Military Lot# 3060 , WWI U.S. Army Ordinance Lot# 3065 , WWII U.S. Army Aviation Uniform Early WWII dress jacket with shirt Uniform Dress Tunic This is a U.S. Army that has the ranks for a Technical Sergeant and Aviation Uniform ress Tunic from early in a hard to find Port of Embarkation unit patch WWII for an enlisted soldier. It has insignia responsible for the movement of troops and for Sergeant ranks, Enlisted US and Aviation supplies from the United States to overseas collar insignia with the very desirable screw commands. The soldier must have seen back variety, Army Air Corps Unit patch, earlier combat as he has 3 combat stripes. two Combat Stripes, one Service Stripe, and He also earned an honorable discharge patch, an Honorable Discharge patch. There are Presidential Unit Citation patch, and a ribbon ribbons for the Air Medal, Good Conduct, for the Good Conduct Medal. Est. $100-250 American efense, and Asiatic Pacific HWAC# 75972 Campaign medal with 1 bron e campaign bron e star. The jacket is dated inside ov 7, Lot# 3061 , WWI 1940. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 75955 U.S. Army Shirt A very nice summer Lot# 3066 , WWII U.S. Army Coastal weight combat jacket Artillery Uniform A hard to find early WWII from WWI. The uniform more an enlisted man serving in the uniform includes Coastal Artillery branch. There are really the enlisted collar nice insignia for Technical Sergeant ranks, insignia for Field enlisted Coastal Artillery collar insignia Artillery and has (early stamped metal variety), Anti Aircraft the rank of Corporal Command unit patch and ribbon bars for the on the sleeve. A Army Commendation and American Defense very clean uniform medals. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 75968 being sold in the Centennial year of the end of the War Lot# 3067 , .S. Army ngineer fficer to End All Wars. Est. Uniform Grouping Complete uniform grouping $100-200 HWAC# of an Army Engineer fficer dated une 7, 1944 75979 complete with Eisenhower style jacket, pants, overseas cap and overcoat. The uniform has ranks (desirable straight-pin style) 2nd Lieutenant ranks, officer US and Engineer collar insignia, (10t)h Corps unit patch which took part in the Philippines campaign of 1944 45, beginning with Lot# 3062 , WWI U.S. Army Texas the invasion of Leyte with the aiding the Filipino National Guard Uniform This is a U.S. soldiers under the Philippine Commonwealth Army ational uard Uniform in the Army and Philippine Constabulary military units. summer weight cloth tunic. It is WWI era For its involvement, the X Corps received the and has insignia for Sergeant rank and Philippine Presidential Unit Citation. The ribbons on the uniform are rare Enlisted Texas ational uard collar for the Purple Heart, Pacific Campaign, and American efense medals. insignia, screw back. This uniform and Est. $150-300 HWAC# 75973 the Texas ational uard could very well have been chasing Pancho Villa across the Lot# 3068 , WWII U.S. Army Infantry American West! Est. $200-500 HWAC# Uniform WWII Eisenhower jacket dated 75960 April 0, 1945 with shirt from the Sixth Army assumed control of the majority of US Lot# 3063 , WWII Navy Dress Blue Army units involved in Operation Cartwheel, the campaign to isolate and neutrali e the Jumper Set These are two dress Japanese base at Rabaul in New Britain. blue uniform jumpers to include the ollowing the completion of Cartwheel, Sixth neckerchief. Both the jackets and the Army joined Australian Army and other US neckerchief has the original sailor’s forces on the north coast of New Guinea. The name inside and can be researched to uniform has enlisted infantry collar insignia, find out more of the history of the actual 3 combat stripes, honorable discharge and sailor! The jumpers have rank stripes for the Seaman Apprentice. Est. $50-100 Presidential Unit Citation patch. The ribbon HWAC# 75958 bars include Pacific Campaign with two campaign stars, Army ood Conduct, WWII Victory medals. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 75974 Lot# 3064 , WWII U.S. Army Aviation Lot# 3069 , WWII U.S. Army Infantry Dress Jacket This is a U.S. Army Aviation Uniform Early WWII jacket dated December Dress Jacket from WWII with insignia for 26, 1941 with shirt and tie from the famous the rank of Staff Sergeant, Enlisted Aviation 8th Infantry Division that fought in the collar insignia with the less common screw Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland and back variety, beautiful wool felt Army Air Central Europe campaigns in WWII and had Corps Unit patch, Honorable ischarge patch, 3 Medal of Honor winners. The uniform has and ribbons for the Good Conduct, American enlisted infantry collar insignia with rare efense, and Asiatic Pacific Campaign medals. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 75951 Company G variation, one combat stripe and honorable discharge patch. The ribbon bars include European Campaign and WWII Victory medals. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 75975 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 155

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Military Lot# 3070 , WWII U.S. Army Military Police Lot# 3075 , Montana Montana Crow Agency Uniform This is a U.S. Army shirt that was Letter, 1892 United States Indian Service, Crow specifically designed for combat use because Agency, Mont., Sept. 12th, 1892. Addressed to of the internal flap. This shirt is marked for a the cashier at the Merchants National Bank si e 14 and 34 long. This shirt is also lucky in Helena. Message written by Indian Agent enough to have sleeve ranks for a Private First Wyman. Messages is about enclosed checks. 9.5 x Class and should patch for the 6th Army. Est. 7.5” Toning Est. $40-80 HWAC# 67043 $80-150 HWAC# 75954 Lot# 3071 , Lot# 3076 , United States 1898 Banner WWII U.S. Army Welcoming U.S. Veterans of Spanish American Mountain Troops War The Spanish American war was fought Backpack Very between the United States and Spain in 1898. nice Army WWII Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal rucksack specific to explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in the famed mountain Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War troops such as the of Independence. From Wikipedia. This banner 10th Mountain is on cloth material, very vivid colors, excellent Division who served condition. On Mat Board (not adhered) with in combat for plastic covers. If mats are shipped then additional only four months, shipping may apply. 11.5” x 17.5”. Est. $100-250 but it had one of the conflict’s highest casualty rates. This pack also HWAC# 59609 includes the special frame unique to the mountain troops and was very speciali ed equipment in the 1940’s. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 75978 Lot# 3077 , Utah Two Utah Mining Stocks 1) Manhattan Mining. # 550 for 2000 shares to FJ Husbands. Signed by F Frick and JB Frick. Lot# 3072 , WWII U.S. Coast Guard Uniform Tintic! Brown seal. Not cancelled. Rips at folds. Grouping This is a full set of U.S. Coast uard ) Unissued Utah Mutual Tunnel and Silver uniform that contains both dress white and Mining Company. Pleasant green on white. Very dress blue jumpers. The Coast Guard is the nice. Both with mining vignettes. Est. $60-100 smallest branch and has the smallest amount HWAC# 86744 of uniforms available to collect. WWII era Coast Guard uniforms are especially rare. The uniforms have the rank of Petty fficer Third Class for the Radioman rating. The uniforms also have the rare Coast Guard shield patch on the sleeve cuff. Est. Lot# 3078 , Germany 1939-1944 $100-300 HWAC# 75967 German WWII / Belt Buckles / 2 items Item 1 of : “ ott Mit Uns Lot# 3073 Prescott, Ari ona 1877 US Army “ ( od With Us ) ( au ) Embossed on a stippled background, and Quartermaster’s Instructions for Executing encircled by an outer roped design. Motif: Army eagle facing right, Bond, Prescott, Arizona Territory Major winds draped down, and crouching on a swastika, encircled by a inner C.A. Reynolds, uartermaster U.S. Army, roped design . / with laurel leaves under the eagle ( ad ) // Aluminum Prescott, A.T., July 9th, 1877. Memorandum of casting, a i belt buckle. 1 7 8” tall x 1 ” wide. Underneath are the Instructions for Executing Bond. Handwritten letters.... H ..., within a upside down , triangle.Unknown makers mark. that each surety must own and possess Great condition, well embossed, and comes with the original belt with property not exempt by law from execution of markings. hard to read but says: “ III K. .155 St. K.p. Hall “. 37 7 8” value not less than the amount of the bond. 9.75 long x 1 1 ” wide. Item of : Thick laurel wreath, embossed within x 7.5” olds, some toning staining. Est. $40-80 the wreath, on a black background is an eagle perched on a swastika HWAC# 67048 and ready to take off . This is a Luftwaffe belt buckle ( Air Force). It is 1 7’8” tall x 1 ” wide. o makers marks. ust a little wear around 75 Lot# 3074 Grass Valley, California 1879 of the edges. therwise fine condition. Really nice pair of WWII items, Deadwood Gold Mining Company for the collector. ( RH ). Est. $350-400 HWAC# 78851 Stock # 349 for 400 shares to William Lot# 3079 , Model 1901 US White. Signed by RB Symington and Army Mess Cup This model of president George E Turner. Dateline cup was only made for 5 years Grass Valley 1879. Incorporated and is the last of the US Army’s ebruary 1877. ocation: Willow alley traditional tin cups. Est. $40- District, Nev. Co., Cal. District got its name on January 23rd, 1877 at a 80 HWAC# 76530 meeting at Willow alley house. Boundaries: on the south commencing at Beck’s ranch — running with the wagon road to the foot of Saccarrappa Flat, then southeast, to the head of Mosquito creek, thence east to Suite creek including both banks of said streams east by Slate creek, on the north by the Sugar Loaf mountain range, and west by Beck’s ranch. We found notice of a first annual meeting of this company, but no more! Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 88078 156 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Minerals Lot# 3080 , Navy POW Coasters, Set Lot# 3086 , Mine and Mineral of Four This set of four polished brass Handbooks (4) Hardcovers. Mineral beverage coasters are each decorated Yearbook, Fuels, Vol II 1953 478pp. with a 39mm POW Challenge Coin Minerals Yearbook 1947 1616pp. Minerals surrounded by the words U ITE Yearbook 1944 1636pp. Front cover has STATES AMERICA” and “ A Y” on a large dent. Mines Register 1940 942pp the soft cushion circle. All four 3.75-inch Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62121 diameter coaster stack between four brass posts mounted onto the corners of a walnut-based caddy. This item comes from the unsold material after the liquidation of Northwest Territorial Mint. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 88653 Lot# 3081 , WWII U.S. Naval Lot# 3087 , Mineral and Geology Academy raduation Certificate and Commander’s Promotion Papers Books (5) Treasury Annual Report 1900 Production of Gold and Silver The first of three items in this lot is a in the US, US S Economic eology beautifully ornate, framed graduation 190 , US S lossary of the Mining certificate from the United States and Mineral Industry 1920, Minerals Naval Academy for Midshipman Yearbook 1937 and 1951 Est. $120- Cary H. Hall, dated June 6, 1940, and 200 HWAC# 86655 personally signed by ten Naval captains and commanders and a Lieutenant Commander. An embossed, 3.25-inch gold seal is adhered to the lower left corner of the certificate, and the lithographed ornamentation includes beautiful vignettes of Poseidon, tall ships in full sail, and winged sea monsters. The certificate itself is approximately 19 inches wide and 4 inches tall. The frame, with glass, is approximately 0.5 inches wide and 5.5 inches tall. Accompanying this are two official 1953 documents commissioning Cary H. Hall to the Lot# 3088 , Mineral and rank of Commander. All three documents are in excellent condition and Mineralogy Books (8) Field Guide worthy of display. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 75977 to Rocks and Minerals by Pough, Danas Manual of Mineralogy by Lot# 3082 , Tennessee 1890 Prospectus ord, Mineralogy by Hunt, Textbook of the Sequachee Valley Coal and Iron of Minerals by Dana and more, Company 1890, Marion County, TN. 35 Gems and Gem Materials by Kraus pages and several impressive woodcut and more Est. $100-120 HWAC# illustrations. 9” x ” and 1 ” x 4” 86665 foldout map in back. F.S. Blanchard and Company. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 52865 Lot# 3083 , Utah Mineral Resources Utah 1905-1931 Hardbound erox copies of 1905-1931 originals. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 86678 Lot# 3084 , 1923 EC Richmond Machinery Catalog Hardcover catalog R “Everything in machinery”. S C, UT. Lot# 3089 , cearly to mid 1900’s Mining, milling and power machinery. Mineralogy (Books) 3 hardcover Illustrated, 79 pp with index. Est. books. Dana’s System of Mineralogy, 3rd $150-200 HWAC# 86263 Appendix to the th Edition Mineralogy an Introduction to the Study of A System of Mineralogy with illustrations approx. pp.1100. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 85866 Lot# 3090 , c1900’s Minerals, Rocks, Fossils & Technical Hobby (Books) Approx. 0 books Utah Mineral Papers (15). uide to ield Identification Minerals of the World Utah Mineral Papers (Prospecting for Beryllium res) ossils A Study of Evolution A ield uide to Rock Minerals Mineral Equilibria many more. Est. $100-300 Lot# 3085 , Geology Books (4) Ores HWAC# 85871 in Sediment by Amstut . Hardcovers- Depositional Sedimentary Environments Lot# 3091 , 1867 Report Upon the by Reineck, Mineral Deposits and Global Mineral Resources of the Western US Tectonic Settings by arson, Seafloor Hardcover report from Secretary of the Hydrothermal Minerali ation Est. $50- Treasury reporting on mineral resources of the states and territories 80 HWAC# 89307 west of the Rocky Mountains. The first in a series of reports. 3 pp Est. $200-400 HWAC# 86260 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 157

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Minerals Lot# 3092 , Wyoming Green River Fish Fossil The fish is extremely Lot# 3098 , The Mineralogical Record with detailed with dark Gold Covers (13) 13 issues of The Mineralogical preservation typical Record with gold specimens on the cover. 1987- of the the 18 inch 2009 Est. $100-150 HWAC# 86244 layer. It is centered on a unbroken 14” x 5” slab of shale. This fsh fossil, probably found in Wyoming (probably Green River Formation). Nicely framed, 18” x 8.5”. These fish lived in Lot# 3099 Coleman, Arkansas Quartz the Early Eocene (50 Crystal Cluster - 6.8 pounds This is million years ago). an approximately .8 pound cluster of Today the wonderfully preserved fossils of Priscacara and other Fossil many water-clear quart crystals, the Lake fauna are collected in several private quarries around Kemmerer, largest being nearly an inch between Wyoming. The best preserved fish fossils come from the coveted 18 parallel faces and about two inches long inch layer. This layer is collected at night under high-powered lights above the mass. Base dimensions are allowing the faint signs of fish under the surface to be more easily approximately 10 x 7 inches. Est. $300- observed. These “ghosted” fish then must go through many hours of 400 HWAC# 88602 manual preparation to remove the overlying rock and reveal the Green River fauna in all of it’s glory. Est. $350-800 HWAC# 57839 Lot# 3100 Virginia City, Nevada Con- Virginia Mine Mineral Collection These 17 unidentified mineral specimens are Lot# 3093 , Baby Stingray Fossil Baby know to have come from the Con-Virginia Mine in Virginia City, Nevada, Stingray fossil. Image si e: .5” x 4. 5”, in the famous Comstock Mining District. Specimens include high-grade framed: 18.5” x 1 ”. This is probably silver ore, pyrite, and a blasting cap can containing a specimen labeled from Green River formation, the upper “graphite.” Total weight of the collection is nearly .5 pounds and is 3 4 of the area contained many fish contained in a Chanecellor cigar box with a detached lid. Also included fossils. The bottom contained petroleum is a 1.8 pound specimen of what appears to be a magnesium silicate rich layers. Est. $700-2000 HWAC# approximately 4.5 inches tall and 3.5x3 inches at the base with waxy 43852 lustrous tan crystalline structure. This piece is packed with a shipping label for the Dayton Consolidated Mine which is located near Silver City, Nevada, also in the Comstock Mining District. Est. $100-300 HWAC# Lot# 3094 , Rocks and Fossils 88612 Assortment of rocks and fossils. 11.5” Lot# 3101 Mammoth, Utah Copper fishtail calcite, quart crystals and Oxide Mineral Display Specimens, polished rocks, polished leaf fossils, shell fossils, polished black egg shaped fossils, and more. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88373 Mammoth Mine, Utah These two beautiful display specimens from Lot# 3095 , Mineralogical Record the Mammoth Mine near the town of Mammoth, Utah, weigh about 1 .4 Magazines (13) 10 Mineralogical pounds total. Both are rich in colorful Record Maga ines 1997- 011 includes green and blue copper oxide minerals 4x Peru, 7x Mexico and rare earths. including malachite and a urite. Each will make an impressive display Miguel Romero collection of Mexican minerals. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 86243 specimen on a desk or shelf. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 88611 Lot# 3102 Mammoth, Utah High- grade Ore Specimen from Eureka Hill Mine, Utah This 1.8-pound specimen Lot# 3096 , c1985-2007 The is high-grade ore from the Eureka Hill Mine located near Mammoth, Utah. The Mineralogical Record (88) 88 copies of Eureka Hill Mine was discovered in 1877 The Mineralogical Record with beautiful as a silver-lead mine. Est. $80-100 color cover photos of specimens and HWAC# 88607 more lavish photos inside. Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 86227 Lot# 3103 Mammoth, Utah Mammoth Lot# 3097 , The Mineralogical Record and Mine High-Grade Ore Specimens This Mineral Magazines (9) 8 The Mineralogical is approximately five pounds of high- Record 1993-2012 with covers from Greenland, grade ore from the Mammoth Mine near Madagascar, Mo ambique, reenland and Canada. Mammoth, Utah. These eight pieces vary Catalog of Lindsay Greenback Collection-Classic in si e from eight inches across to about Minerals of Northern England Est. $100-150 two inches. All have bright green/blue HWAC# 86242 oxide copper minerals with pyrite and probably galena as one would expect from this silver-gold-lead- inc-copper producer. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 88626 158 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Minerals Lot# 3104 Mammoth, Utah Oxide Lot# 3110 , Utah Deer Trail Mine Ores from the Mammoth Mine, Utah High Grade This is beautiful piece Approximately five pounds of oxide ores of high-grade ore from the Deer Trail from the Mammoth Mine near Mammoth, Mine in Paiute County, Utah. It has deep Utah. All six specimens have prominent black brecciated matrix filled in with copper oxide minerali ation including blue-green copper oxide minerals. It is green malachite and blue a urite with approximately . pounds and 3.75x3.5 other copper minerals likely. One piece inches at the base and about 4 inches has been sawn and partially polished to tall. A wonderful display piece for your reveal the green siliceous composition. desk or bookshelf. Est. $80-120 HWAC# Another piece has felt pads applied to one side as a desktop display 88622 piece. Est. $60-90 HWAC# 88610 Lot# 3105 Mammoth, Utah Pyrite Collection - Ten Pounds, from Ophir Hill Mining District, Utah This is a ten-pound collection of colorful pyrite specimens ranging from brassy yellow to shiny orange, possibly chalcopyrite. Specimen si es vary from thumbnail to hefty hand specimens with beautifully bright crystals of pyrite in every piece. Some specimens have calcite and galena, and the larger hand specimens have some large pyrite crystal faces. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 88613 Lot# 3106 Mammoth, Utah Two Mammoth Mine rock specimens Lot Lot# 3111 , Utah Diamond Drill Cores from Ophir Mine District, contains two hefty rock specimens, Utah Here are four diamond drill cores from the Ophir Mine District in approximately . and 5.0 pounds, Utah. They are approximately 10, 9, 5 and 4.5 inches in length. ne has that are attributed to the Mammoth been polished to a shiny luster. Each shows some interesting layering Mine near Mammoth, Utah. This was and minerali ation to one degree or another. These are unique display a copper-gold-silver-lead- inc-arsenic pieces. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88619 deposit with a known history back into the 1870s. These specimens display significant copper oxide minerali ation, mostly malachite, cementing together hydrothermally altered rock. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88601 Lot# 3112 , Utah Dogtooth Calcite Lot# 3107 Marysvale, Utah Deer from Ophir Hill This is an approximately 5.2 pound cluster of large dogtooth Trail Mine High Grade This is a nearly calcite crystals. The base is about 4x - 13-pound specimen of high-grade ore inches across and made of opaque white blasted from a working face of the Deer crystalline calcite. The crystal mass Trail Mine in the Mount Baldy District in grows to be almost 6.5 inches tall and the Tushar Mountains near Marysvale, 5x5 inches across where the crystals Piute County, Utah. This mine is a become quite translucent. Faces are polymetallic ore body with components mottled by a sandy-like texture. There of both manto and skarn minerali ation. This very dense specimen is is some wear on a few points, and one approximately 8.5 inches long and 5 inches tall. It has brilliant pyrite point shows an original skeleton-like and possibly chalcopyrite with massive galena in crystalline form. Est. structure. See image for details. This $100-200 HWAC# 88615 would make a ruggedly attractive shelf decoration. Body of the crystals fluoresces reddish pink under our U E flashlight. Est. $50-100 Lot# 3108 , Utah Calcite Geodes, three HWAC# 88603 pieces Two geodes filled with calcite crystals. One is sawn in half to reveal Lot# 3113 , Utah High-grade Ore the beautiful crystals in both halves. The Specimen from Ophir Hill Mine, Utah second geode has been broken open to This lot includes three large pieces of expose the crystals inside. total weight high-grade ore from the Ophir Mine in is approximately 3.4 pounds for all three Tooele County, Utah, primarily a lead- pieces. argest slice is about x4 inches inc mine with minor amounts of other at the maximum dimension. The smaller metals including silver and copper and piece is about two inches in diameter. trace amounts of gold. These three have significant layers of pyrite, Est. $60-90 HWAC# 88609 chalcopyrite, and possibly bornite, with some green copper oxide Lot# 3109 , Utah Chalcanthite on minerali ation. Total weight is more than eight pounds. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 88608 Pyrite Matrix This one-pound specimen has deep blue crystals of chalcanthite Lot# 3114 , Utah High-grade Ore (copper sulfate) on a matrix of small, Specimens from Ophir Hill Mine, Utah brassy crystalline pyrite. It is a study Five small hand samples of high-grade in beautiful color contrasts and would ore from the Ophir Hill Mining District in make a lovely display piece. The piece is Utah. These all show prominent massive attributed to the Treasure Mine in Utah. and crystalline pyrite, chalcopyrite, and It is approximate 4.75x3.5x1.5 inches in galena. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 88620 si e. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 88621 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 159

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Minerals Lot# 3115 , Utah Large Ore Specimens Lot# 3121 , Canada Ore Specimens from Ophir Hill Mining District Here from Canada rom the Upchurch are four large pieces of high-grade ore Collection comes four high-grade material from the Ophir Hill Mining specimens from mines in Canada. Sites istrict in Tooele County, Utah. the include Endako (2 pieces, one clearly largest is aoub 13.5 inches long and molybdenite), Oriental Mine in Buchans, holds massive pyrite seams between Newfoundland, and the Newfoundland lighter colored country rock. There is Zinc Company at Daniels Harbor. All four evidence of chalcopyrite, galena, and are clearly labeled with black ink over possibly bornite in the mix. Another large piece, approximately 10x7 white paint. Total weight for the four inches across, has a 1.5-inch diamond drill hole right through it and pieces is approximately 3.8 pounds. Est. contains pyrite and probably other sulfide minerals filling cracks within $100-200 HWAC# 88624 the lighter-colored material. A third piece has pyrite crystals in a matrix of dark and light calcite or dolomite, The fourth piece is a tabular mass Lot# 3122 Sonora, Mexico Ore of pyrite and probably other sulfides that was probably broken out of a Specimens from Sonora, Mexico Ten fracture. It is approximately 5x inches across and about 1 inch thick. pieces, together weighing approximately These would make intriguing display pieces. Est. $150-300 HWAC# six pounds, from mines in Sonora, 88628 Mexico. Mines represented include Le Pilar (three half cores and a hand Lot# 3116 , Utah Ophir Mine sample), La Reyna Santa Teresa (two District, Utah, High-grade Ore Two largest pieces), San Judas, Pilares, San massive high-grade specimens from Felipe, and Divisadero. All show varying the phir Hill Mining istrict in Utah, degrees and types of minerali ation, weighing approximately 11 pounds from disseminated to massive, with total. Prominent pyrite and possibly visible chalcopyrite, pyrite, and/or chalcopyrite in a calcite-bearing matrix. molybdenite. These are believed to have Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88616 been collected in the 1970s by ore deposit geologist eil Upchurch. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88604 Lot# 3117 , Utah Ophir Mine District, Utah, High-grade Ore This is a splendid Lot# 3123 , Mexico Ore Specimens specimen of high-grade ore from the from Chihuahua, Mexico Five labeled phir Hill Mining istrict in Utah. The ore specimens from the Upchurch massive 7.8-pound piece shows a thick Collection representing various layer of pyrite/chalcopyrite/galena-rich locations in Chihuahua, Mexico. Total minerali ation sandwiched between weight is about two pounds for the five altered country rock. A visually beautiful pieces. Mines represented include the presentation piece worthy of display on Las Vigas Mine, Nica, Rosario Guadalupe your desk or bookshelf. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88617 y Calvo ( pieces), and a Cobri a. All are clearly labeled with black ink on a Lot# 3118 , Utah Ophir Mine District, painted white background. Minerals represented include pyrite, galena, Utah, High-grade Ore More than five and oxide copper minerals. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88623 pounds of high-grade ore from the Ophir Hill Mining District consisting of Lot# 3124 , Ore Specimens from eleven pieces ranging in si e from one- Various Mines This is a selection of inch to four-inch large hand specimens. seven ore and mineral specimens from All have bright massive and crystalline various locations. Included is a nice pyrite with some galena and possibly hand-si e specimen of dumortierite chalcopyrite. Several pieces have white crystalline calcite present. Est. from the Rochester Mine in Pershing $80-100 HWAC# 88625 County, Nevada. Labels on other pieces include Baja Sur California, Mexico Hornet, ew Mexico Pilares Pipe Lot# 3119 , Utah Ophir Mine District, Syc Can (split core) and lambeau (two split core). Total weight for the Utah, Mineral Specimens This is a seven pieces is 2.6 pounds Est. $50-100 HWAC# 88605 collection of 22 specimens from the Ophir Mining District in the Oquirrh Lot# 3125 Yavapai, Mountains of Tooele County, Utah. Most Ari ona Storm contain bright massive or crystalline Cloud Turquoise pyrite and chalcopyrite. Some display One large polished light green copper staining. Total weight is more than 2.5 pounds and specimen--#13 weighs specimens range in si e from thumb-si e to small hand samples. Est. 142.7 g. Most of the $100-150 HWAC# 88614 other are unpolished specimens. #14, Lot# 3120 , Utah Potpourri of High- small chips, weighs Grades Ore from Utah Mines This is 5.8 g. #15 weighs 27 nearly 7.5 pounds of high-grade ore g. #16 weighs 60.8 specimens, short diamond drill cores, g. #17 weighs 17.3 and other minerals collected in and g. # 18 weighs 8.9 g. around various Utah mines. Build your Storm Cloud Mine was own starter mineral collection or add to primarily a copper what you already have. You can expect to mine. Est. $150-350 find pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, bornite, HWAC# 61503 malachite, a urite, calcite, quart , and more. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88627 160 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Minerals Lot# 3126 , Ari ona Two Chrysocolla Lot# 3131 oldfield, Esmeralda, evada Specimens These are high quality pieces igh rade oldfield old Specimen of chrysocolla. #88 weighs 3g, 15 carats. old with amatinite from oldfield. #89 weighs 9g, 49 carats. Chrysocolla 1 x 1 x 1. ” with much visible gold on is a mineral that can be soft and fragile. both ends. A choice oldfield specimen, The luster of typical Chrysocolla is dull probably an older specimen, but of an or waxy. Chrysocolla can be opaque and in it’s most sought after form is unknown collection. Est. $300-600 translucent, which is called Gem Silica and can be used in jewelry. Est. HWAC# 99740 $175-350 HWAC# 61508 Lot# 3127 Aurora, Esmeralda, Nevada Gold-Silver Specimen from the Esmeralda Lode (Gottschalk Collection) Esmeralda lode. 1.5” x 1” , Gottschalk specimen. Bottom of label reads: “black is silver ore, $8-1 ton, trace of gold. Brown is gold ore, $14- ton” ne of the original locations on Silver Hill, according to Stretch, 1866. Perpendicular to the Antelope and Utah. Lot# 3132 Mina, Nevada Pilot Mountain Turquoise Specimens Pilot Est. $200-400 HWAC# 99870 Mountain specimens from Mineral County, a turquoise green color. #27 weighs 45g. #28 weighs 10g. #29 weighs 26g. The Pilot Mountain Lot# 3128 Austin, Nevada Blue Turquoise Mine is located in western evada. It first began as a copper June Mine Turquoise Specimens mine. Soon after it was reali ed that the turquoise found there was Three specimens from Blue June, deep extremely high quality and more fertile than the copper. Copper mining turquoise colr with black matrix. These ceased and the mine was claimed for mining turquoise instead. Pilot are unusual looking, and nice. #40 Mountain Turquoise is known world wide for it vast array of colors weighs 39g. # 41, a pendant weighs 8g, and quality. This Nevada mine is one of the gem mines made famous 35cts. # 42, pendant weighs 11g, 51cts. for its extremely rare ability to form dendrites (manganese plant fossil In the past Turquoise from the Blue replacements) in the Turquoise. The Pilot Mountain mine also produces Moon Turquoise mine has been rare some very high grade spiderweb stones, with interesting web matrix and hard to come by. The Blue Moon patterns that include red, brown, and black colors. It is a hard stone and Turquoise Mine is located in Esmerelda County, Nevada. For the last so it takes a good shine that retains color longer and is resistant to skin two months the Blue Dream Mining Company has been working this old oils. Est. $250-600 HWAC# 61506 mine. The turquoise produced has the most beautiful high grade and Gem Grade Black Spider-Webbed patterned, Dark Blue Turquoise that Lot# 3133 Rosebud Mining District, has been seen in a very long time. The Blue Moon mine is producing a Pershing County, evada, USA, evada light to medium blue Turquoise also with a nice spider webbing, has a 1973-74 Red Lion Mine Altered black chert, with brown as host rock. The Blue Moon Turquoise mine Hasmark Limestone with visible gold was recently re-opened in the fall of 2011. Est. $250-600 HWAC# 61509 flecks in host limonite pseudomorphs Lot# 3129 Big Smoky Valley, Nevada after pyrite. 5.5x3.5x .5”. (This specimen was found at the mine by a professional Big Smoky Valley Gold Large specimen geologist who knew what to look for in from the Big Smoky Valley. 86 g, 2 inch ore specimens. c1990’s.) Est. $50-100 cube, plus slab. Dark brown Gossen with HWAC# 61134 pyrite, some native gold. Also comes with the second piece of high-grade Lot# 3134 Scraper Springs-Burner Hills loaded with native gold but no location ivide, Elko County, evada, USA, evada shown by collector Jerry Gray. The big 2005 Scraper Springs Occurrence Smokey Valley had a number of different Zunyite Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl - mining districts in it mostly related Massive white repalacement of Breccia. to discoveries around the Reese River 5x5x3.5”. (This specimen was found at region in 1863. Est. $85-150 HWAC# the mine by a professional geologist who 61317 knew what to look for in ore specimens. c1990’s.) Est. $80-200 HWAC# 61128 Lot# 3130 Como, Lyon, Nevada Boyle Tunnel Contains a banded epithermal silver and gold ore vein. Cut to see the Lot# 3135 Seven Troughs, Humboldt, vein, but it is a large enough specimen Nevada High Grade Seven Troughs Gold to see the vein run in its natural state Specimen 1.75 x 1.75 x 1” gold in quart through the rock. Nice Specimen. From from Seven Troughs. Visible gold in corner of the Boyle Tunnel in Como, Nevada. 18.82 troy ounces. 7.5 x 8.0 x 7.5 cm. amed specimen, the weight indicates there may be for mining engineer and later Nevada more gold than is immediately visible. Seven Governor Ed Boyle. This is a choice troughs was a major 20th century gold camp in north central Nevada. While there has been specimen, with much native gold visible extensive exploration there over the years, in the vein. It would cut nicely into slabs there has yet to see a large scale economic of high grade. If you collect good gold specimens from Nevada mines, you’ll want this one. Est. $100-180 HWAC# 99709 deposit. We have been lucky enough to offer several gold specimens from seven Troughs over the years. During its heyday c1908-12, the camp produced some spectacular gold in quart that was used in gold quart jewelry. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 99741 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 161

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Minerals Lot# 3136 Smith Valley, Nevada Eight Lot# 3142 , Nevada Verde Black Web Smith Valley Turquoise Specimens Turquoise These are lower grade scraps Probably from the Buckskin Mines in of turquoise, a pale green turquoise Smith Valley. #32 weighs 28.5g. #33 color. #43 weighs 74g. #44 weighs 65g. weighs 20.6g. #34 weighs 36.9g. #35 “The erde Blue Turquoise Mine is a weighs 90.5g. # 36, polished, weighs newer claim for the Otteson family and 12.5g. #37, nodules, weighs 30g. #38 has been worked very little. It forms in a weighs 57g. #39, polished, weighs 34g. soft clay and produces the most beautiful these turquoise specimens are a rich little nuggets you have ever seen. It looks like old Morenci turquoise turquoise green color. Est. $300-750 from the 60s and 70s. The Verde Blue Turquoise mine also produces HWAC# 61504 vein material, most of which has been thin veins. The nugget material is really what makes the Verde Blue Turquoise mine famous, and the Lot# 3137 Virgin Valley, Nevada White fact that this Nevada Turquoise mine produces a true blue colored Opals White opals are referred to Turquoise simular to the Turquoise from Ari ona.” (courtesy, urango as “common opal” or “potch” which Silver Company) Est. $250-600 HWAC# 61505 has a milky or pearly luster known as “opalescence.” 8 weighs g. 87 Lot# 3143 , evada Utah Variety of weighs 1g. Est. $60-150 HWAC# 61518 Variscite Specimens Group of nodules, #2 light green weighs 45g. #5 brighter Lot# 3138 Virginia City, green with brown matrix, polished slices Nevada High Grade Ophir weigh 16.6g. #6 polished deeper green, Ore Ophir mine. Beautiful brown spiderweb matrix weighs 4g. This high-grade gold silver slab is a nice group of variscite. Est. $250- of minerali ed breccia with 600 HWAC# 61513 quart cut in the shape of Nevada by collector Jerry Gray. This specimen contains native gold and silver throughout, Lot# 3144 Cave Mine, Utah Travertine typical of the bonan a ore from Stalactites from Cave Mine, UT 7 the Ophir. The rock may have travertine stalactites from Cave Mine, been collected in the 1870s, as UT. 7- 0” long Est. $120-200 HWAC# we simply don’t see rocks with 87368 this outrageous high-grade today. choice. x 3”. Est. $500- 1000 HWAC# 61324 Lot# 3145 airfield, Utah Fairfield Variscite 0 pieces of airfield variscite. #31 weighs 158g. Beautiful deep mint green stones. Some of the variscite is coated with yellow and black phosphates the yellow material may be pseudowavellite. airfield was an area that produced many fine examples of variscite cherished by collectors. This Lot# 3139 Virginia City, Nevada Ophir is what is commonly know as airfield Mine High Grade Silver and Gold Varascite. This mine was open in the 50s and is said to be closed and no Specimens VI Six high grade silver longer contain arascite. The Utah variscite that came from this mine specimens from the Ophir Mine on the was extremely rare and had inclusions of Crandelite, Wardite and other Comstock. Native gold from Virginia rare minerals. A lot of this material was sold as specimens as it was too City in quart bracia visible. These were beautiful with all the other minerals in it to cut it up. Est. $250-600 collected pre-1900. Est. $150-400 HWAC# 61515 HWAC# 54049 Lot# 3146 Gold Hill Mining District, Lot# 3140 White Pine County, Nevada Tooele County, Utah, USA, Utah 1983 Five Lots of Zig Zag Turquoise These Gold Hill Mine xidi ed copper, lead, are very unusual turquoise specimens arsenic, inc ore with green botriodal from the Zig Zag mine, which was known conichalcite or scorodite. 4x5x3.5”. primarily for tungsten. Most of these ield Identification. (This specimen specimens are nodues and are a pale was found at the mine by a professional turquoise color. #19 is polished and geologist who knew what to look for in shows a subtle brown veining, weighs ore specimens. c1990’s.) Est. $120-400 11.4 g. #20 contains unpolished nodules HWAC# 61131 and weighs 26.8 g. #21, nodules weighs 28.7 g. #22, nodules weighs 16.3 g. # 23, nodules weighs 41.9. All of the specimens in these turquoise lot Lot# 3147 Mount Baldy Mining District, were collected by Jerry Gray from Moundhouse (Csrson City), Nevada. Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, USA, Utah He was a “Rock Hound Extraordinaire!” Est. $450-1000 HWAC# 61502 1993-1994 Deer Trail Gold-Silver- Base Metal Mine High Grade. Massive Lot# 3141 , Nevada Nevada Sulfur Pb-Zn-Ag-Au-Cu carbonate replacement Specimens 4 approx 1.5” cube evada ore hosted in the Permian Toroweap Sulfur specimens Est. $50-80 HWAC# ormation- 05 Stope. 4x5x5”. (This 89304 specimen was found at the mine by a professional geologist who knew what to look for in ore specimens. c1990’s.) Est. $100-200 HWAC# 61102 162 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Minerals Lot# 3148 Mount Lot# 3154 El Indio-Pascua Au-Cu-Ag Baldy Mining District, Belt, 180 km east of La Serena, Chile, Marysvale, Piute Chile 03-03-199 00:00:00 Pasqua County, Utah, USA, Deposit-(early stage exploration) Utah 1993-1994 Deer Nevada Project - Pasqua Au-Ag-Cu Trail Gold-Silver- deposit-Silicified fine-grained tuff- Base Metal Mine 4,900m level near hole collar RDH-23. High Grade. Massive 4x x ”. (top of ridge at 51 m). ield Zn-Pb - Ag- A u-C u uide: staff. (This specimen was found carbonate replacement at the mine by a professional geologist who knew what to look for in ore ore hosted in the specimens. c1990’s.) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 61136 Permian Toroweap Formation-205 Stope. Lot# 3155 El Indio-Pascua 5x7x3”. (This specimen Au-Cu-Ag Belt, 180 km east was found at the mine of La Serena, Chile, Chile 01- by a professional geologist who knew what to look for in ore specimens. 10-1991 00:00:00 Tambo c1990’s.) Est. $150-300 HWAC# 61104 Gold Mine Crystalline alunite with quart on fracture, Tilito Formation dacitic volcanic Lot# 3149 Mount Baldy Mining District, host rock. 4x3x .5”. This is the Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, USA, Utah 1993-1994 Deer Trail Gold-Silver-Base El-Indio copper-gold district. Epithermal ore deposits are Metal Mine ate-stage silicified and in the Andes in Chile and high quart -veined breccia with replacement altitude. ield uide: staff. Pb-Zn-Ag-Au-Cu ore breccia fragments. (This specimen was found at 5x x4”. (This specimen was found at the the mine by a professional mine by a professional geologist who geologist who knew what to knew what to look for in ore specimens. c1990’s.) Est. $120-300 HWAC# 61111 look for in ore specimens. c1990’s.) Est. $100-300 HWAC# 61133 Lot# 3150 Mount Baldy Mining District, Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, USA, Utah Lot# 3156 Located 115 km due east of 1993-1994 Deer Trail Gold-Silver- Base Metal Mine (Two Specimens) Arica, Region 1, Northern Chile, Chile 29- 0 -199 00:00:00 Choqueiimpe Gold- Massive Zn-Pb-Ag-Au-Cu carbonate Silver Mine From Main Choque Ore replacement ore hosted in the Permian Body. Stage II breccia with fragments Toroweap ormation- 05 Stope. 5x3x3”. of early vuggy silica and Stage I breccia. 4x3x ”. (This specimen was found at 5x3x.5”. (This specimen was found at the the mine by a professional geologist who knew what to look for in ore mine by a professional geologist who specimens. c1990’s.) Est. $120-250 HWAC# 61110 knew what to look for in ore specimens. c1990’s.) Est. $50-80 HWAC# 61142 Lot# 3151 Mount Baldy Mining District, Marysvale, Piute County, Lot# 3157 , Grieger’s Encyclopedia and Super Utah, USA, Utah 1999- 000 Mineral Catalog Rare 1956 version in hardcover. Est. $70- Products Mine Coarse banded salmon- 150 HWAC# 49230 colored crystalline, potassium alunite- KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6-from veins ranging from 10 to 65 ft. wide on Alunite Ridge. 4x x ”. (This specimen was found at the mine by a professional geologist who knew what to look for in ore specimens. c1990’s.) Est. $120-200 HWAC# 61138 Lot# 3152 Ohio Mining District, Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, USA, Utah Lot# 3158 , Mineral 1993-1994 Comet Gold-Silver Mine and Rock Field Really High Grade. Visible Gold. Precious dentification it Metal Concenmtration. Crystalline Nearly 60 minerals and rhodocrosite with quart -pyrite gold- rocks from Pohndorf’s silver-base metal banded veins. 5x5x3”. of enver “Made in the (This specimen was found at the mine by United States Using a professional geologist who knew what American Minerals.” to look for in ore specimens. c1990’s.) Est. $150-300 HWAC# Est. $150-300 HWAC# 61101 86368 Lot# 3153 , Utah Utah Salt Specimen riginal salt specimen from Utah. ray, pink and white. 1 x7.5”. Additional shipping will apply. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 87366 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 163

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Minerals Lot# 3159 , Polished Amethyst Lot# 3164 Dahlonega, Georgia Spring Crystal 6 point polished & Winter in Dahlonega Signed Prints Amethyst crystal. Nice for a table by Brewer Nice prints on watercolor top display. 8x7” Est. $200-400 paper. Framed and matted prints signed HWAC# 87477 by Loraine Brewer marked 85/250, dated 12/19/1999. Frame of Spring in ahlonega is 19” x 9” the print is 11.75” x 1. 5” The framed Winter in ahlonega is 19” x 7.75” the print is 11” x 0.5”. rames are slightly marred on left side of both frames and small scratches on the right side of both frames. Prints,matting and glass are in excellent condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 55127 Lot# 3165 Dahlonega, Georgia 4 Different Dohlonega Framed Prints Rectangular street view signed by Winslow Crannel, 13” 5.5”. Rectangular color Doors of Dohlonega- January 2000 with 3 levels of color doors in a collage. 14.5” x 9”. Photo of Lot# 3160 , Polished Petrified ood an old brick building with red, white and Slabs (2) 2 nice distinct looking polished blue bunting. 15.5” x 0”. Arial view of petrified wood slabs.Both approx ahlonea with snow on the ground. 0” x 4”. Est. $140-300 HWAC# 14x10x1.5” Est. $200-400 HWAC# 87367 56133 Lot# 3166 , c1941 Bronze Miner; Brass Miner; Miner’s Face Carved in Rock Bron e miner standing on bron e base reading Sentinel of Safety III METH, Lot# 3161 Silverton, Colorado 1992 by ary Pre en with wooden pedestal. 15 Piece Set of Various Mining Slight marring on wood pedestal. 1 ” x 3”. Miner’s profile appearing to be Characters, 1 Set of mining caricatures carved from obsidian.3.5” x 3.5”. Brass (busts) by Zeke Zanoni. They seem miner leaning on shovel carrying a to represent town or mining camp miner’s lamp. 8. 5” x 3”. Est. $100-300 characters. Individually hand painted HWAC# 52545 polymer clay. All about 3. 5” high: Vaquero, Morning Flower, Good Salt, Double Jack, Mountain Man, Riding Hard, Unknown Explorer, Buffalo Man, Proud efiant, Talkin’ Hoss, A Half-Breed, Captain, Trooper, The Promoter, School Marm. Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 57853 Lot# 3167 , Framed Mine Shaft Painting Lot# 3162 Silverton, Colorado 3 Mine shaft painting on Masonite with a Pieces of Mining Related Sculptures reclaimed wood rustic frame, unsigned, 0x14” ot includes: Polymer clay sculptures Est. $100-200 HWAC# 87445 of Santa and and elves sleigh,#19/250, limited edition, 7” x .5” x 4” two mining wagons filled with ore-- uck Bill o. , 1990, Studio , 5” x 4.5” x . 5” each. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 57860 Lot# 3163 Silverton, Colorado 1996 Two Buffalo Hunters - Lot# 3168 , Mine Shaft Painting Numbers 17 and 18 by Gardner Acrylic on Masonite of a These are two pieces from mineshaft with ore cart signed by Jerry the same edition, #17/250 ardner 1997. 5x15” Est. $200-400 and #18/250. Hand HWAC# 87446 painted polymer clay, standing figure, posed, leaning on his rifle. 8.75” x 4” x 4”, each. Est. $80-150 Lot# 3169 Nevada City, California Miners HWAC# 57859 Foundry Co. Stamp Mill Coupling Cast iron, likely a stamp mill coupling. Pat. 1904. Miners F.(oundry) CO. Rare piece in nice condition and patina. Additional shipping will apply. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 87140 164 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / artifacts Lot# 3170 , Nevada c1900’s Rail Section Lot# 3177 , Utah Mammoth Mine from South End of the Comstock Lode Time Clock White metal Crosby Vein Deposits These rail sections were Steam Gauge and Valve Co. time recovered from the Yellow Jacket Open Pit Mine in Gold Hill operated clock with winding key. Untested. by Huston Oil & Minerals in the early 1980’s. As ore was conveyed 11” diameter Est. $150-300 HWAC# into the mill building, a large magnet was used to remove any iron and 87351 steel artifacts. The large rail piece is 31” and is probably from the T possibly, from the iconic trestle that spanned the “ lory Hole.” The small piece is 9” probably came from underground workings where mules were used to pull ore cars. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88532 Lot# 3171 , USA Mining Equipment Tags Lot of 18 brass mining equipment tags: 9 Kennecott Copper Corp. (Pioche) 5 len Alden (Coal) Todele Plant International Smelting Company 2 Combined Metal Reduction Co. One tag says 411. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 87310 Lot# 3178 , Utah Oil Regulator Collection (11) 11 oil regulators Lot# 3172 , USA Model Dry Washer as would be used on underground Wood and leather bellows model dry machinery. Mostly brass and glass, Utah washer. Approx 7x15x ”. ames Mackie origin. 4-10” long Est. $300-600 HWAC# Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 87405 87363 Lot# 3173 Beaver Co., Utah Cedar Lot# 3179 , Utah Utah Mines Cans and Mining Company and 2 Other Ore Bags Artifacts Collected from Mammoth and other underground mines in Utah. 1 5 canvas ore bags, 3 with bold markings assorted cans miniand batteries. Est. and 2 other 19th century unmarked $100-150 HWAC# 88344 bags. Used condition. The Cedar Mining Co. produced silver-copper-lead- inc Lot# 3180 , Utah Vintage Canvas Ore with gold as a byproduct from their mine Bags (3) 3 heavy canvas ore bags. Small in The Star Mining District, Beaver Co., Utah. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 87361 si es, used condition Est. $100-120 HWAC# 87360 Lot# 3174 Cedar Mining Co, Utah 1800s Burlap Ore Bags - Marked and Unmarked This is a set of six marked and five unmarked burlap ore bags from the Cedar Mining Company in Utah. They vary in condition but average about 13x -inches in si e. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 88651 Lot# 3181 , “Examine Your Working Place” Metal Sign Large metal sign. Lot# 3175 , Utah Canvas Red Devil reen and black on white, on metal. “Be Cement Bag and Burlap Bag Two large careful examine your working place well bags in this lot include a Red Devil brand before starting the work.” 14 x 0”. o cement bag from the Union Portland location data. Excellent condition. Est. Cement Co. in evel’s Slide, Utah. This $70-200 HWAC# 43945 bag is approximately 7x15 inches when laid flat with the printing on one side. The other bag is made of tan burlap, Lot# 3182 , Blacksmith Tools Rusty approximately 9x18 inches when laid blacksmith tools. One is a cutter & the flat, and has an 11-inch tear across the other pliers. 18” for cutter, 14” pliers. lower half. The words “ inc Sulphate 37” Est. $80-100 HWAC# 86847 and other words are stenciled in black ink near the tear. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 88618 Lot# 3176 , Utah Historical Gloves Lot# 3183 , Color Standards Boxed Lamotte Standards, hinged Bakelite Found Underground 11 miners gloves standards set Est. $100-200 HWAC# recovered in Utah mines and McKee Bros 87159 of Bakerfield, CA cloth bag Est. $80-100 HWAC# 88370 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 165

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / artifacts Lot# 3184 , Desk Top Ore car Desk Lot# 3190 , twentymile coal co. top ore car. 10.5 inches long, .5” wide monthly update Large Mine Patches, 11 inches tall. Black painted, solid Medals, Key Fobs Three 8” EMPIRE constructed ore car with working wheels E ER Y C RP RATI MI E RESCUE on homemade 12 inch wooden rails, cloth patches. Two 8” EMPIRE E ER Y perfect for your desk Est. $50-150 HWAC# CORPORATION EAGLE MINES cloth 61148 patches. ne 8.75” TWE TYMI E C A C MPA Y IRE BRI A E cloth patch. ne 8” CYPRUS TWE TYMI E C A C . BA T T EH B E MI E RESCUE TEAM cloth patch. ery cool patch! arge TWE TYMI E C A C . M TH Y UP ATE map. Twentymile Coal Cyprus key fob. Twentymile combination moneyclip/pocket knife, with BARLOW B80 on reverse. TWE TYMI E 893,108 T S pendant. . 5” Twentymile Coal Co./ 1994 Annual Refresher stainless steel pocket multi knife. Est. Lot# 3185 , Foundry Pot and Ladle 5” tall cast iron pot with handle and 1 .5” $80-200 HWAC# 50321 ladle. Used in a foundry possibly for Lot# 3191 , Latest Invention Advertising melting lead. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 58667 Paper Rare advertising paper for a new invention comprising a compass, telescope, opera glass, stereosope, reading glass and microscope. Est. $40-100 HWAC# 50276 Lot# 3186 , Geiger Counter Geiger Counter from Precision Radiation. Professional Instruments Inc Model 1078. Metal case and wand. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 87364 Lot# 3192 , Leather Underground Mine Light Belts (7) 7 leather belts in used condition Est. $100-150 HWAC# 87374 Lot# 3187 , c1930’s Heusser Laboratory Precision Balance Glass- encased balance, metal frame, includes 1931 Heusser illustrated brochure Heusser wood accessory box Lot# 3193 , Mine Hoist Arrows (8) without contents. 0” x 0”x 11”. glass panels are cracked, please 8 rusty metal hoist arrows to indicated inspect. Front electric light. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 86849 mine levels. Each arrow has a number or indicator. 3.5-5” long. Est. $120-200 Lot# 3188 , Ingersoll Rand Carset HWAC# 87372 Jackbits Canisters and Original Box 48 original drill bit canisters and 1.5 Lot# 3194 , Mini Mining Ore Cars (2) original Ingersoll Rand cardboard 1 Nice condition black and 1 rusty. Both storage boxes. 1 drill bit too. Est. $150- .5” x 4” Est. $60-100 HWAC# 87165 250 HWAC# 88347 Lot# 3195 , c1988-1994 Mining Collectibles Magazines (60) Approx Lot# 3189 , Johnson & Johnson 60 mining collector mags including Collector’s Mining Review, Eureka, Metal First Aid Kit Vintage black Mining Artifact Collector and more. Est. metal handled case with goldish $200-400 HWAC# 86625 lettering. Contains original contents in individual metal cases. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 87400 Lot# 3196 , Mining Tag Collection ot of six pieces: two Kennecott Copper Corp. tags Asarco 1949 anniversary token Toole Plant International Smelting Company I tag two Anaconda Copper brass tags. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 87332 Lot# 3197 , MSA Carbon CO2 Testers 2 testers in leather carry cases with straps Est. $150-300 HWAC# 87431 166 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Assay Lot# 3198 , MSA Metal First Aid Kit Lot# 3207 Angels Camp, California Small Mine Safety Appliances metal first 1897 Utica Mining Co. Gold Bullion aid kit with nearly full boxed contents Assay Document Utica Mining Est. $50-80 HWAC# 89306 Company, Memorandum of Gold Bullion (Duplicate), Angels Camp, Mar. 4th, 1897. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 38278 Lot# 3199 , Nine Safety Appliances Lot# 3208 San Francisco, California Group(3) Leather holder with CO2 Selby Smelting & Lead Co. Assay detector kit, metal first aid kits nearly Memorandum, 1882 Very rare. Selby complete-5x8” and 9.5x9” Est. $200-300 took over for the Kellogg & Houston assay HWAC# 87434 operation. Gold bullion deposit (grains) on June 29, 1882 by H. Severring. After melting, weighed 58.49 ounces, .93 5 fineness, total value $1,1 7.48. Vignette at left of the building at 416 Montgomery Street. Britton & Rey, ith. Binding holes on left side, folds. 5 x 1 ” We could not find a listing for H. Severring (or Sevenning ) in the 188 angley S directory. Est. $240-400 HWAC# 57674 Lot# 3209 Silver City, Idaho 1872 Lot# 3200 , Relic Miners Boots (5) 5 Billhead for Assay ffice of Blake old miners shoes, probably dug up in UT. & Co., Silver City, Idaho Territory Used condition Est. $100-150 HWAC# 87378 Extremely rare billhead. ateline Silver City, I.T., May 31st, 1872. For assay of bullion deposited by the Owyhee Mining Company. 5.75 x 7.5” Hori ontal fold. Lot# 3201 , Rusty Cans and Other Clean. This Blake and Co. was owned by Stuff Approx 1 rusty cans and other Frank W. Blake, the cousin of Gorham old mining items. Good material for an Blake of S.S. Central America fame. After exhibit or mine display Est. $100-200 arrived in California from Boston in 1852, Frank settled in Weaverville HWAC# 87347 for seven years, where he eventually opened his own express company. ocuments from Blake’s Weaverville Express business are rare. After two years in Sacramento, Frank moved to Carson City for a year, only to leave for Unionville, , the “ and of Silver.” By 18 3, .W. Blake was Lot# 3202 , Rusty Mercury Container issuing assay certificates and serving as mining secretary for several Homemade rusty metal container local corporations. He remained in Unionville until 18 , when he left probably for Mercury. 1 ” plus handle for Silver City, in southern Idaho, where new gold camps were springing Est. $100-200 HWAC# 87342 up. He set up a successful assay office and was soon the owner of a jewelry store and additional real estate [Holabird, 2008, 467]. Est. Lot# 3203 , Rusty Mining Tools $300-600 HWAC# 60123 Hammer, drill bits and other rusty mining tools Est. $200-400 HWAC# Lot# 3210 Helena, Montana Goodall 87438 Bros. Assaying Letters (2 count) Two letters (Sept. 22, 1923 and Oct. 19, 1923) addressed to Irma Mines in Gardner, Montana. Goodall is soliciting his services to “look after” ore shipments Lot# 3204 , Underground Lighting that Irma Mines has sent to the East Four bulbs and several lamp bases and Helena Smelter. His man will “attend the wiring taken from an underground weighing, moisture determination and mining operation. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88822 sampling.” The ct. letter references the Sept. letter and stresses that “is it not good business policy to have someone represent you ” Pictorial Lot# 3205 , Underground Mine letterhead with image of miner standing next to mules. Est. $80-200 Respirator Collection (7) 7 HWAC# 50625 underground mine respirators with some holder and spare parts Est. $100- Lot# 3211 Austin, Lander, Nevada 1872 150 HWAC# 87338 California Assay ffice etterhead, J.A. Mars, 1872 for Austin, Nevada Iron Ore California Assay ffice, 51 California Street, San rancisco, Lot# 3206 , Underground Mining October 24, 1872. J.A. Mars, Assayer. Addressed to H.C. Egerton who was Bags Approx 30 bags used for various supt. of the Manhattan Silver Mining Company in Austin, Nevada. Mars purposes in underground mines. Canvas, writes that the samples left by Egerton are magnetic iron ore and then burlap, cloth, water bag etc. Assorted lists the various components (silica, manganese, alumina, protoxide si es Est. $150-250 HWAC# 87375 and sesquioxide of iron, etc. Signed by Mars. A evada iron ore assay is highly unusual! olds. 10.5” x 8” This assay office was first opened up by .W. Bell in 1859 who was killed in a nitroglycerin explosion in 18 . Mars took over the office in 18 8 and sold out in 187 to William Ireland. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 99774 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 167

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Assay Lot# 3212 Mineral Lot# 3216 , Scale Collectors Archive Hill, Eureka, Nevada About 12 inches of newsletters from 1871 Mineral Hill the International Society of Antiques Mining Company Scale Collectors. This is an interesting Billhead with an reference and archive. Circa 1990s. Associated San Please inspect. Est. $40-100 HWAC# Franicsco Assaying 56305 and efining Works Billhead This lot has two pieces. The first is a Lot# 3217 , Assay Weights letter from the San in Wood Case Misc and Francisco Assaying unmatched assay weight in and Refining Works hinged wood case. 1 nested datelined San Francisco, Jan. 23, 1871 to the Mineral Hill Mining Co. and 1 partial nested set Est. Two samples have been assayed of “ reat Republic” ore from the mine $100-200 HWAC# 87146 and mill. The mill sample included 1 9. 5 o s. silver. The mine sample incl. 1 3.5 o . silver. Signed by ohn Hewston r. as chemist supt. Also included is a follow-up letter on Mineral Hill Co. letterhead forwarding the assay results to Joseph Roberts Jr., agent for the company. Letter is signed by .W. Redfield for William Willis, company secretary. Both letters have glue residue on the reverse indicating removal from album. The Mineral Hill Mining District in Nevada was located in 1869. Letters come with a page of background information. Est. $200-400 HWAC# Lot# 3218 , Boxed Assay 99820 Weight Set Mostly complete assay weight set in light Lot# 3213 Virginia City, Nevada 1869 wood box. 5-1000 grams DW Balch Assay for Savage Assay Est. $100-200 HWAC# 87143 ffice Savage Assay ffice Assay Report. On Gould & Curry Printed Paper, but the ‘G&C’ is crossed out and ‘Savage’ is wand written. Assays are for the Call, Nevada and Empire State mills. The assayer was D. W. Balch. For March 31st, but no year. D, W, Balch was a very important Comstock assayer. He was appointed as the first assayer for the new Mint in Carson City. In August 1869 D.W. Balch took the odd Lot# 3219 , Hand-Made Iron step of recommending a friend, Dr. Wesley Jones, for his position but Mortar and Pestle Circa 1920. without actually submitting a resignation. He would go on to hold other 5.75 inch diameter at the top, assay positions: Savage Assay ffice, Comstock Assay ffice, Here is 6 inches tall. Clearly made to a transcription of the actual appointment of Balch by President Grant, resemble the six-inch models “Washington . C., April 13 18 9. To the Senate of the United States, I that were professionally nominate . W. Balch to be assayer of the United States branch mint at manufactured. Choice, not a Carson City, evada under act of Congress approved March 3, 18 3. US Rube Goldberg imitation. Est. rant” Est. $260-600 HWAC# 60653 $100-200 HWAC# 56367 Lot# 3214 , Utah Assay ffice oods and Samples Approx 0 envelopes of assay samples from UT and v, small mercury jug, 2 crucibles and more Est. $100-150 HWAC# 89305 Lot# 3215 , Utah Cupels from a Utah Mine Assay Lab Add to your historic mining collection with this variety of assay cupels and other mining assay lab items. This lot has more than 30 cupels in multiple si es and shapes that have been used in Lot# 3220 , Montana Assay Sheets (3) determining the precious metal content of ore materials at a Utah mine. and 2 Photographs Assay Certificate, There are even two paper envelopes containing finely ground ore read Pony Assay ffice and Chemical to be tested. Cupellation is a metallurgical process thousands of years Laboratory, dated 1904. Receipt from old that heats metal ores to very high temperatures with litharge (a fine Washoe Copper Co. Sampling Works, powder containing metallic lead) in a porous container. Noble metals, Butte, dated 1906. Montana Laboratory such as silver and gold, do not oxidi e at high temperatures, but other Company analyses, dated 1960. 2 nice metals and impurities, such as lead and iron, oxidi e and are absorbed 8’ x 10’ photos of . W. Royce Co. assay and trapped into the porous cupel, leaving the precious metals in a office and furnace. Est. $80-150 HWAC# more refined state at the bottom of the cupel. or millennia, cupels 50266 have been made with bone ash, and their conical shape has remained essentially unchanged to this day. The used cupels in this lot vary from about four to five inches in height. There are also about a do en small- sample cupels approximately 1 to 1.5 inches in diameter. Est. $120- 250 HWAC# 88658 168 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Books Lot# 3225 , Ari ona c1950-1980 Arizona Highway and Pay Dirt Magazines Library 0 Ari ona Highway 1950’s-80’s, Pay irt approx 50 issues c. 1970’s. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 86275 Lot# 3226 , Ari ona 1939-1950 Phelps Dodge Safety Books (3 count) 3- ” x 4.5” softcover Phelps odge safety books. 1939-green cover Safety Rules. 1943 gold cover General Rules and Instructions. 1950-yellow cover Smelter Division General Safety Rules and Information. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 61806 Lot# 3227 , Ari ona Ray Consolidated Copper Company Annual Reports 1912 and 1918 Mine founded in 1910 and is 18 miles west of Hayden. First, second and third quarter reports of Lot# 3221 , 1895-1915 Troemner Fine Balance Scale Spectacular 1912. Bound 1918 report with soiled show piece! Extra Rare!!! This was either a lab or gold scale. 7.5 x front of binder. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 34 x 14”. Plaque with number “A58414” on the right and “Appraisal 52817 1 7 umber” on the left. Christian Becker followed Troemner in making scales about 10 years later. Christopher Becker’s introduced his first analytical balances in 1855. Becker was one of ten balance manufacturers to begin making assay balances in the United States. The Becker companies contributed to the development of not only the Lot# 3228 , California Crescent Oil of California assay balance, but also to the analytical balance, the bullion balance, as Prospectus Prospectus booklet, half is Bingham well as other speciali ed and general scales and balances. This is a two Copper Co of UT, other half is Crescent il of drawer model - very rare for Becker. Balance inside scale says Christian California. Red print is smeared, water stained. Becker, Successor to “Becker Sons and Becker Bros. ew York.” Est. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 86454 $3000-5000 HWAC# 42833 Lot# 3222 Calaveras County, California Standard Amalgamated Bonds (3), Calaveras4 Four issued bonds for the Standard Amalgamated Exploration Co. $15 (brown), $ 5 (orange), $50 (blue), $100 (green), all signed by Alexander Cluble as president and eorge Whitfield as Treasurer. The bonds mention an op in Calaveras Lot# 3229 , California Walker’s County. 1913. one coupon. Rare. Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# Manual of California Securities and 88850 Directory of Directors 1924 1924. Lot# 3223 Washington (Nevada 872pp plus ads. folding maps in interior. indexed. ivided by type of business: County), California The Washington banks, public utilities, industrial, sugar, City and Mining Co. Bond, 1857 Ten oil directory of directors. By Walker. per cent bond, signed by Henry Matteson as president. Bancroft notes Rare. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 52237 that there were 3000 miners at Washington in 1849 This is a very rare bond, and we have only seen this once before in 40 years, Prag Lot# 3230 Clear Creek County, Colorado Collection Est. $500-1500 HWAC# 88854 Prospectus of the Cascade Mining Company of New York and Colorado Lot# 3224 , Alaska Alaska Mining History Silver mine near Georgetown. 20 Books (5 ) The New Eldorado A Summer Trip pages. Printed by Press of Wynkoop to Alaska by Ballou, Hard Rock Gold by Stone, & Hallenbeck, New York. Located on The Streets Were Paved with Gold by Cohen, the Charter ak Ridge (five miles up Founding of Juneau by Armond, History of the the valley of Chicago Creek). The lode was first discovered in 18 8. Juneau Gold Belt by Redman Est. $80-100 Interestingly, begins by describing how risky early investment in HWAC# 86676 Colorado mines was. Claims that the lode is “beyond question one of the strongest veins of the state,” noting ten tons of ore taken from within five feet of the surface gave returns of from 300-500 ounces of silver to the ton. Includes entries from the Mining Review and the Colorado Miner. Ends with the company by-laws. Light blue covers with some light soiling. 9” x 5.75” . reat condition no foxing. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 52802 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 169

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Books Lot# 3231 Denver, Colorado 1947 and 1966 Lot# 3236 , Montana 1957 Books of Vigilantes Denver Equipment Co Index/Catalogs (2) of Montana, Anaconda Mine Lot of 5 books Hardcover catalog and Deco Trefoil from 1)The Vigilantes of Montana by Prof. Thos. J. Denver Equipment Co 1947 and 1966. Est. imsdale embossed, leather bound, a reprint $100-200 HWAC# 86232 1981 from 1866 edition by Time Life Books, has water damage in upper right corner ) “Uncle ick” Wootton by Howard . Conard, embossed, leather bound reprinted 1980 from the 1890 edition, nice condition 47 pp 3) lmsted’s Texas ourney by rederick aw lmsted, leather bound, embossed, reprinted 1981 from the 1857 first edition. ice condition, 51 pp 4) Lot# 3232 Denver, Colorado Mining Anaconda by Isaac F. Marcosson, 1957, cover is beginning to detach, 370 pp, extra copy of this book included. 5.5” x Reporter Bound Volumes Two volumes, #55, 56, 1907 complete. This is a key 8. 5” Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62011 Denver mining publication, covering Lot# 3237 Delmar, Nevada Old Delmar Nine Colorado mines and surrounding areas. article / NV Mining Press Article in Nevada The period is part of a major mining boom. excellent condition. Est. $200- Mining Press on September 21, 1923 about the 300 HWAC# 81158 “ amous ld elmar Mine to be Reopened”. The article was reprinted from Mining & Oil Bulletin, Lot# 3233 Silver City, Idaho Silver Los Angeles. The article tells of the wealth City, Idaho, Related References of the mine on par with the Comstock and the These three volumes are related to the problems with theft during transport from the mine by railroad. Prag collection. Est. $40-60 mines and businesses around Silver City, Idaho. “A Historical, escriptive, HWAC# 86557 and Commercial Directory of Owyhee County, Idaho” published in 1898 by the Owyhee Avalanche includes photographs and historical information Lot# 3238 Ely, Nevada ASARCO about individuals and businesses that were prominent in the day. It is Books (3) 3 books from the Ely, NV in good condition with both covers and and the binding intact. “ old Asarco office. Mines and Smelters Code, and Silver Veins of Silver City, De Lamar, and Other Mining Districts in 1908 464pp. The American S. & R. Co. Idaho” by Waldemar indgren includes the geology of western Idaho Telegraphic Code, 1905 633pp and and detailed descriptions of mining operations in that area complete some handwritten notes. Metal Magic, with colored maps and cross sections and black and white photographs. The Story of the American Smelting and It is missing both covers, and the binding is separating but appears to Refining Company by Marcosson, 1949 be complete up to page 256 containing everything listed in the table of 313pp Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62179 contents. “Pacific orthwest Mining Camps” compiled by Alan H. Patera and published in 1994 by Western Places, gives brief descriptions Lot# 3239 , Nevada Nevada and Great and simple location maps for mining camps in Idaho, Oregon, and Basin Books (6) US S bulletin 1 The Washington. A bibliography is included at the end. This is nearly new Overland Route-fair condition, Boom condition. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 88667 Towns of the Great Basin by Robertson, Mainstream of America by Stone, Ghost Lot# 3234 , Idaho 1927-39 Idaho Mining Town by Dane, bound copied version Books (6) 6 softcover Annual Reports of the Sketches of the Inter Mountain States Mining Industry of Idaho, 1927, 1929, 1934, 1847-1909, Minerals for Industry by 1936, 1938, 1939 Est. $100-150 HWAC# 86675 Southern Pacific-bound with wire ties Est. $100-150 HWAC# 86646 Lot# 3240 , Nevada Nevada and Other Mining Books (12) Hard and softcovers. Story of the Mine by Shinn, Hardrock Mines by Lingenfelter, Deep Enough by Crampton, Nevada Lost Mines and Buried Treasure by McDonald, Men and Mines of Newmont by Lot# 3235 , Idaho Idaho Mining Ramsey, Mining Camps by Shinn, Copper Mining by WPA, The Miners by Time Life, References Small library of eleven Geology and Mineral Deposits of Lincoln mining references for Idaho. Important County Nevada, Nevada Ghost Towns & group for any research library. Four Mining Camps by Paher Est. $100-150 volumes of Idaho’s annual Mining HWAC# 86666 Industry Reports, 1930, 31, 3 , 34 Coeur ’Alene iary Idaho Place ames Lot# 3241 , Nevada 1900’s Nevada Exploring Idaho eology old Camps Geology & Mining (Books) Approx. 0 and Silver Cities Idaho Minerals, others. books, hardback & paperback. Placer Est. $200-250 HWAC# 81516 old eposits of evada Mines of Clark County Mines of Cherry Creek, Ely Range and On the Eastern Nevada istricts Bulk Mineable Precious Metal eposits of the Western U.S. more. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 85838 170 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Books Lot# 3242 , Nevada Nevada Mining Lot# 3248 , USA c1988 American Publications 13 Nevada mining Law of Mining Books Second Edition, publications from Dept. of Interior, olumes I, , 3, 4, 5, Mathew Bender, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, September 1988 includes state evada Treasure Hunters by ox and lands, federal lands, Alaska lands & more. Est. $60-150 HWAC# 62116 mineral interests, abandonment laws, appurtenances & much more. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 88518 Lot# 3243 , Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Coal and Mine Books (2) Hardcovers. Reports of the Lot# 3249 , USA cmid-century 1900’s Inspector of Mines, 1880, tape repaired map of PA Assay Books (7) 7 books, hardcover. anthracite coal areas. 247pp with fold out maps, Refining Precious Metal Wastes I.C.S. fair condition. Annual Report of the Secretary of Reference Manual A Textbook of ire Internal Affairs 1880-1881, 4 pp with index. Assaying International ibrary of boards detaching Est. $120-180 HWAC# 86249 Technology, Blowpiping Mineralogy Assaying, Geology Prospecting Placer Mining A Manual of Practical Assaying and more! Est. $200-400 HWAC# 85858 Lot# 3250 , USA cmid 1900’s Coal Lot# 3244 , Pennsylvania 1853 Reports of (Books) 5 hardcover books. Coal Professor Henry D. Rogers on Wheatley, Preparation Coal Through the Ages Practical Kinks for Coal Mining Men Brookdale and Charlestown Mines Mines in more. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 85869 Phoenixville, Chester County, PA.. “The dominant material of the veins was quart , also known to the miners as Gossan. The lead ore for which the mines were worked contained about 30 ounces of silver per ton of ore. The Wheatley vein varied in thickness from a few inches to about two and a half feet and its average was thought to be not less than 18 inches. It was bounded by well defined walls the prevailing material of which Lot# 3251 , USA 1910 Copper Handbook Hardcover was a course, soft granite composed chiefly of 1910-1911 of this important copper reference. 1902pp feldspar (white) and quart . In 18 5, the Y Boston Silver ead Co.’s with index and ads Est. $200-400 HWAC# 86251 annual report indicated that in that year (during the “second life” of the Wheatley mine), about 500 pounds of “dressed ore” were mined per foot length of tunnel. In the first three months of 18 5, the company shipped 25 tons of ore and had 65 to 70 additional tons on the surface. They also reported they had about 1 tons of “undressed inc-blend” at that time.” from charleston.org. 1853. 40 pages, 8.5” x 5.5”. Cover is missing. Est. $180-400 HWAC# 52803 Lot# 3245 , USA 1899 A Treatise on Metal Mining Vintage Books Volumes 1 Lot# 3252 , USA 190 Copper - 4. Illustrations, blowpiping, Mineralogy, Handbook Hardcover 1906, 1116pp Assaying, Geology, Metal Mining, Ore with index and ads Est. $200-400 Dressing and Milling, & so much more! HWAC# 86252 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 85859 Lot# 3253 , USA c1907 Copper Handbook Volume II, pp.1228, a Manual of the Copper Industry of the World. Compiled and Published by Horace Stevens. Spine of Lot# 3246 , USA AIME Centennial and book has come loose, please inspect. Est. $200-250 Daniel Cowan Jackling Statue Books HWAC# 85873 Hardcovers. Statue of Daniel Cowan ackling presented in the rotunda of S C, UT 80pp. AIME 1871-1971 centennial volume 366pp. Est. $60-80 HWAC# 86253 Lot# 3247 , USA c1881-19 4 AIME Transactions Collection (32) Approx 32 hardcovers c. 1881-1964. Contains the papers and discussions of the year. Lot# 3254 , USA 19 0 Copper Variable condition, some covers missing Handbook by Weed Hardcover VOL XIV. or damaged, mostly older editions. Est. 1992pp. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 86255 $200-600 HWAC# 86272 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 171

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Books Lot# 3255 , USA Copper Library Lot# 3261 , USA c1900 Approx 10 copper mining related Gold Metallurgy (7th publications and papers. Est. $100-150 Edition) 2 books, HWAC# 86279 hardcover, good condition. The Metallurgy of Gold by Sir T.K. Rose, W. A.C. Newman. Illustrations, foldout illustrations of stamp mill. Approx. pp. Lot# 3256 , USA cearly to mid 1900’s 1100. Est. $400-500 HWAC# 85860 Copper Library (Books) Approx. 15 books. Hydrometallurgy of Copper Lot# 3262 , USA Gold Related A.S.T.M. Standards on Copper & Copper Publications (16) Mines of oldfield, Alloys Extractive Metallurgy of Copper, Bullfrog and other Southern Nevada ickel and Cobalt Effect of Impurities Districts by Ransome, Mines of Silver Peak Range, Kawick Range on Copper Copper The Metal Its Alloys and other Southern Nevada Districts by Ball, 1992 Robinson Project, and Compounds Principles of Copper aqssorted c. 1934-1944 US overnment mining circulars and reports. Smelting & many more, too many to list. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 86229 Est. $150-300 HWAC# 85865 Lot# 3263 , USA 19 5 ill riffith Co. Foundry Lot# 3257 , USA cearly 1900’s Fire Assay Catalog, 1925 Hardcover, embossed leather. Library 11 hardcover books, includes Choice catalog of foundries and supplies. 607pp Mining Engineering,Metal Mining/ with index. Product illustrations. Est. $150-400 re ressing and Milling Textbook of HWAC# 63760 Metallurgical Problems Textbook of ire Assaying Reduction and Refining of on- errous Metals (1944) Metallurgy of the Common Metals and more. Est. $180-250 HWAC# 85879 Lot# 3258 , USA Fluorite, Tungsten etc Booklets (7) US S, Bureau of Mines etc booklets Est. $50-80 HWAC# 86647 Lot# 3264 , USA History of United Mine Workers of America 1860-1890 by Evans Hardcover, date unknown, but a rare edition. Illustrations of early pioneers. 518 with index. Spine has crack with tape repair. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 86245 Lot# 3265 , USA Key Mining Books Lot# 3259 , USA General Mining, Lead by Rickard (2 count) Louis D. Ricketts- Mining Engineer, Geologist, Banker, and Zinc Books (25) Approx 5 mining Industrialist and Builder of Ari ona by related publications, mostly hard covers Bimson, softcover 32pp. A History of with some maga ines and textbooks. A box full of books. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 86278 American Mining by Rickard, hardcover 419pp. Est. $40-100 HWAC# 62124 Lot# 3266 , USA 19 3 and 1927 Keystone Coal Mining Catalogs (2) 2 Lot# 3260 , USA General Western hardcover catalogs, 841pp and 1213pp. 1923 cover has Mining Books (10) Gold in Them Hills by wear. Est. $200-300 HWAC# Glasscock, The Ore Bin, Mining History in 86233 America by Holabird, Kennecott Copper Corp Chino Mines smelter projects 1 and 2 1959, 2 Gold and Silver in the West by Watkins, Ingersoll Rand 1939 rock drill catalog, Deep Enough by Crampton, Minstrels of the Mine Patch by Korson, Ghost town Directory of the West, June 1960 Quarterly of the CO School of Mines, 75th Anniversary of the CO School of Mines printed record of Lot# 3267 Lot Withdrawn proceedings. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 84819 172 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Books Lot# 3268 , USA c1984 Lot# 3274 , USA 19 3 Mine Exam Q & A, 3 Vols by Marketing Strategy for Beard 3 hardcover volumes of info to pass the mine Mine (Books) 4 books exam. ol 1 has some toning. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 86250 hardcover for Marketing Strategy for Escondida Mine. Est. $200-600 HWAC# 85870 Lot# 3275 , USA Mine Geology Books (12) Hard and soft covers. Mining Geology Outlined Lot# 3269 , USA 1919 Massco Mine and by Hunt, Geology Applied to Mining by Spurr(cover in poor condition), Field Geology Smelter Supply Co Catalog Embossed leather by Leahy, Pictorial History of American Mining hardcover personali ed to A eonard. 783pp, catalog 52 Est. $150-200 HWAC# 86262 by Sloan and more Est. $120-200 HWAC# 86637 Lot# 3276 , USA Mine Hydraulics and General Texts (17) 17 hard and Lot# 3270 , USA c1900’s Metallurgy softcovers, mainly mine hydraulics Est. (Books) 9 Books include: Pulverised $80-100 HWAC# 86636 uel iring for Metallurgical Purposes Materials Science and Engineering Series An utline of Metallurgical Practice Handbook of onferrous Metallurgy Blowpiping Mineralogy Assaying eology Chemistry more! Est. $200-400 HWAC# 85856 Lot# 3277 , USA c1897 Mine Practices Lot# 3271 , USA Mine and Smelter (Books) Approx. 15 hardcover books. Supply Catalogs 2 hardcovers, #50 and Rocky Mountain Fund Series - A.I.M.E., 92. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 86626 Mine Plant (Illustrations, pp. 3 0) Handbook of Mining etails I.C.S. Reference ibrary Tunneling much more. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 85863 Lot# 3278 , USA c1939 Mineral Dressing & Process (Books) Lot# 3272 , USA Mine Chemistry 4 hardcover books. Hardcovers (7) Smiths College Principles of Mineral ressing Handbook Chemistry by Kendall, Textbook of of re ressing Quantitative Analysis by Hall, Qualitative Handbook of Mineral Analysis by Anderson, Handbook of Ore ressing SME Mineral Dressing by Taggart Est. $120-200 Processing Handbook HWAC# 86640 (with illustrations, nice condition) Est. Lot# 3273 , USA 1941 $100-150 HWAC# Mine Engineering (Books) 85862 Hardcover books (4): Modern Marine Engineer’s Manual Volume 1, illustrations & Lot# 3279 , USA Mineral Resources photos Mining Engineers’ of the US and Mining Statistics West Handbook by Peele, Third of the Rockies 2 important reference Edition olume I Mining hardcovers from US Bureau of Mines Engineers Handbook by ibrary. Mineral Resources of the United Robert Peele, Second Edition States, 18 7 3 0pp, some foxing. Mining (cover is detaching, please Statistics West of the Rocky Mountains inspect) Mining Engineers’ 1870 805pp, some foxing, half detached Handbook by Peele, Third spine. Est. $120-250 HWAC# 62175 Edition, Volume II. Est. $120- 200 HWAC# 86805 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 173

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Books Lot# 3280 , USA cmid-1900’s Minerals Lot# 3286 , USA 1931 Mines Year Books & Mineral Reserves Handbook, 2 Vols 2 hardcovers with (Books) 1 hardcover books. Includes: 1933-34 supplement. Vol XVIII Parts 1 & Mineral Resources of the United States 2. 2005pp and 2006-2870pp. Est. $150- 19 9 Part 1 Metals, pp. 9 8 Minerals 300 HWAC# 86254 Yearbook, 1935, 1940’s & 1950’s. All in good condition. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 85864 Lot# 3287 , USA 194 and 195 Mines Register (2) 2 hardcovers, 1946 and 1952. Successor to Mines Handbook. Lot# 3281 , USA 1900-1901 Mines Est. $150-300 HWAC# 86248 and Minerals, Vol 21 August 1900 to July 1901, published in Scranton Pennsylvania. This hardbound volume has much info on the coal mining industry and everything related to it. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 81171 Lot# 3288 , USA 1913 Mining and Engineer World, Vol. 39 Complete in 2 hard bound volumes. Published at Chicago. This volume unlike the Lot# 3282 , USA 1931 Mines Handbook other Western published volumes has more coverage on the copper and iron Hardcover, Succeeding the Copper Handbook industries in the Great Lakes region. Describing the Mining Companies of the 2 Scarce Est. $200-400 HWAC# 81176 Americas. 2025pp. Spine detaching Est. $200- 300 HWAC# 86631 Lot# 3289 , USA Mining and Machinery Catalogs (2) 2 hardcovers. Massco Machinery & Supplies #92, old unknown date 624pp, Galigher Co Supplies for mining catalog D 1925 501pp. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 86234 Lot# 3283 , USA 1931 Mines Handbook 1931 Vol XVIII 2026pp, cover in rough condition Est. Lot# 3290 , USA Mining and Mack $200-300 HWAC# 86632 Truck Catalogs (3 ) Hardcover Keystone Mining 1925, metal quarry edition, 928pp. 1906 Taylor Engineering furnace catalog 19pp, Dorrco bound catalogs c. 1920’s, undated Mack Model AC Sales Brochure in binder with illustrations, New Park Mining 1941 annual report. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 86235 Lot# 3291 , USA 1904 ining and Scientific Lot# 3284 , USA 1918 Mines Handbook by Weed Press Volume 89, July through December 1904, Hardcover 1893pp with index and ads. Est. $200- Volume 88, January through March 1904. Volume 400 HWAC# 86256 88, April to June 1904. These three volumes comprise the entire 1904 year. Extremely rare important reference. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 81161 Lot# 3292 , USA 1905 Mining Lot# 3285 , USA 19 5 Mines Handbook Vol XVI and Scientific Press Two volumes by Weed Hardcover reference describing mining comprising the complete year of 1905. companies of the 2 American continents. 2350pp Important information during the post with index. ice condition Est. $200-400 HWAC# 1900 mining boom. Est. $300-500 86247 HWAC# 81167 174 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Books Lot# 3293 , USA 1917 Mining and Lot# 3299 , USA 1897, 1899 Mining Scientific Press Volumes 114 and 115, Company Summaries (2) 2 hardcovers. the complete year of 1917. These are Report of the Director of the Mint upon two key volumes for the Mining and the Production of the Precious Metals in Scientific Press at the beginning of the the US uring 1897 404pp, loose pp Tonopah divide mining boom. Problems and cover wear. Copper Manual Vol 2 by to binding but contents complete. Est. Houston 398pp with ads Est. $100-150 $200-400 HWAC# 81170 HWAC# 86630 Lot# 3294 , USA 1910-191 Mining and Lot# 3300 , USA cearly 1900’s Mining Scientific Press 6 hardcover volumes Cost & Cost Accounting (Books) 1910-1912 of this important reference. Vol 7 hardcover books. Mining Library, 100 1910 948pp front board detaching. olume 9, The Cost of Mining Mineral Vol 101 1910 888pp front board detached, aluations of the future Cost of Mining taped spine. Vol 102 1911 566pp. Vol 103 Corporate inancial Policy more. Est. 1911 854pp top pages stain. Vol 104 1912 $100-150 HWAC# 85868 912pp. Vol 105 1912 848pp Est. $600- 1200 HWAC# 87409 Lot# 3301 , USA cearly 1900’s Mining Lot# 3295 , USA 1914-191 Mining Engineers Handbooks 4 hardcover and Scientific Press olumes 6 books. Mining Engineers’ Handbook hardcovers volumes 108-113. An by Robert Peele, Volumes 1 & 11. Est. important source of mining info in the $100-200 HWAC# 85867 day. Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 86644 Lot# 3302 , USA cearly 1900’s Mining Lot# 3296 , USA Mining Biographies (6) Estimations & Valuations (Books) Mostly hardcovers. Forgotten Founders by 4 hardcover books: The Sampling Udall, Upstairs to a Mine, Mysterious Scott Estimation of re in a Mine Examination of eath alley by Merrill, Bonan a Rich by aluation of Mineral Property The Peterson, The uggenheims by avis, Bonan a Examination of Prospects Handbook Kings by Peterson Est. $100-150 HWAC# 86661 for Prospectors. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 85861 Lot# 3303 , USA Mining Law Books (6) 6 mining law books with some scarce items. State and Federal Mining Laws 1947 ed, Handbook of Mineral Law by Lot# 3297 , USA Mining Catalogs (11) Maley, Morrison’s Mining Rights 16th ed, 1925 American Correspondence School 11 hard and softcover Mining Catalogs. of Law booklet, Mining Law by McFerren, Bethlemen Wire Rope, Ingersoll Rand, Wilson’s Mining Laws Est. $100-200 Wood Pipe Handbook, Galigher #E42, HWAC# 86628 Mining World and more Est. $120-200 HWAC# 86629 Lot# 3304 , USA Mining Law Books (8) 7 hardcovers, 1 softcover. Morrison’s Mining Rights 15th and 16th ed, Handbook of Mineral Law by Maley, Law Lot# 3298 , USA c1900’s Mining of Mines and Mining in the United States Collectibles (Books) 7 books, 1897 by Barringer, Mining Reports Vol IX by Morrison 1886, Lindley on Mines hardcover softcover, stocks more: 3rd ed 1897 and 1914, Hubbell’s Legal Owning Western History A Guide to Directory 1925. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 84809 Collecting Rare Documents, Historical Letters and Valuable Autographs from Lot# 3305 , USA Mining Methods the ld West, pp. 110 Scripophily The Library (19) 19 mining method books, Art of inance, pp.151 This Was Mining mostly hardcover. Includes several AIME in the West, has black & white photos, hardcovers. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 86674 pp.1 0 Antique Mining Equipment and Collectibles, has color photos pp. 168, & more in this lot. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 86806 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 175

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Books Lot# 3306 , USA Mining Methods, Lot# 3313 , USA Poole Mining Directory Equipment and History Library in Xerox Form, 1898 Two large Approx 19 mostly hardcover books notebooks of the very rare Poole Mining related to mining, mining equipment Directory. 1898. The Poole directories, and mining history. Est. $200-400 of which there are two (1892, 1898), HWAC# 86273 are the only large scale source of mining company data in the 1890’s, a key period of economic depression in the States. Poole set up his database in geographic Lot# 3307 , USA Mining References, form and has no cross index. Est. $100- Key Volumes, 1870’s Three different 150 HWAC# 81157 volumes of Mineral Resources West of Lot# 3314 , USA Prospecting the Rocky Mountains by Ross Raymond. Hardcovers (3) Examination and 1871, 187 , 187 . Two without external Valuation of Mineral Property by boards. This is from a key series. Triple Parks, Handbook for Prospectors indexed by Mine, location or subject, they and Operators of Small Mines by von are unquestionably the best reference Bernewit , Examination of Prospects by works for western mines of thee period. These are three of ten volumes Gunther(cover in poor condition) Est. $100-150 HWAC# 86638 made over a wide stretch of time. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 81517 Lot# 3315 , USA 19 1 Rare Year Book of the Lot# 3308 , USA Mining Related American Bureau of Metal Statistics Rare Catalogs (2) Hardcovers. 1964 pit and 1921 softcover. 80pp of charts of copper, lead, quarry handbook and purchasing guide, inc, gold and silver. Est. $30-60 HWAC# 62115 Galigher #E42 664pp. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 86236 Lot# 3309 , USA cearly to mid-1900’s Mining, Misc. Books (Approx. 30) Approx. 30 books, more specifically: Mining ibrary, olume I Crushers for Lot# 3316 , USA Seven Books on Stone re Annual Report Anaconda American Mining Companies Includes Copper Mining Company 194 Sponge Newmont, Anaconda, Phelps Dodge, Iron irect-Iron Process The Mining Kennecott, etc. Nice group in good Journal an Industrial Review of the West condition. Est. $40-100 HWAC# 42557 Southwest Stress Analysis esign of Elementary Structures many more in this lot. Est. $100-400 HWAC# 85857 Lot# 3310 , USA c1900’s Ore Deposit Library Interesting lot of approx. 19 books Lot# 3317 , USA 1885 Statistics and (hardcover softcover): eology and re Technology of the Precious Metals Hardcover Deposits of the Great Basin, Volumes 1 & and an important reference. 541pp with index The ormation of Mineral eposits old to precious metals. Cover has edge wear Est. Mining 87 Bulk Mineable Precious Metal $150-250 HWAC# 86649 eposits of the Western United States Mineral Industries of Africa old 8 An International Symposium, & many more. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 85845 Lot# 3311 , USA Ore Deposit Technical Education Group 9 hardcover ore Lot# 3318 , USA c1874 Underground or Life deposit books of the West and more Est. Below the Surface Hardcover book, interesting $100-200 HWAC# 86441 illustrations, pp 974. Underground or ife Below Lot# 3312 , USA c1915 Ore Dressing the Surface, Incidents and Accidents, Beyond the & Flotation (Books) 5 Books ight of ay Startling Adventures in All parts of the world Mines and the Mode of Working Them, includes: The Theory and Practice & more. Spine has detached, please inspect. Est. of re ressing (with illustrations) $100-150 HWAC# 85874 International Chemical Series Text Book of re ressing lotation The lotation Process. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 85855 176 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Books Lot# 3319 , USA 1949 Unpublished Text Lot# 3325 East Tintic, Utah East Tintic, for Teaching a Mining Class Bound original UT Mining and Geology Booklets and typed text for teaching a mining class. 1. 5” Maps 4 E. Tintic geology booklets. 2 sets thick Est. $60-100 HWAC# 87418 of US S maps of the area. Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 86671 Lot# 3326 Mammoth, Utah Mammoth, UT Mining Books (4) Nuggets from Mammoth by Toone, Mammoth & Larsens. Lot# 3320 , USA US Mining History Mammoth Mine articles of incorporation Library A box full of US mining history et al reprint, lawsuit deposition Olsen v. hard and soft covers, 20+. Sealed DVD Mammoth Mining 1937 Est. $120-200 set of Gold Fever 2009 season part 2 and HWAC# 86653 DVD Bedrock Bustin’. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 86230 Lot# 3321 , USA 1907 USGS Mineral Resources of the US Hardcover 1907 Part 1 Metallic producers. Large folding Western US map in back cover. 743pp with index. Est. $80- Lot# 3327 Park City, Utah Park City and 150 HWAC# 86246 American Fork, UT Mining Booklets older of approx 0 plate maps of area, 6 other booklets Est. $140-180 HWAC# 86657 Lot# 3328 Park City, Utah Park City, UT Books (10) Hard and soft covers. Treasure Mountain by Thompson, Trail of the Leprechaun by McPhee, Treasure Mountain Revisited by Thompson, iggings and oings in Park City by Ringhol - Lot# 3322 Beaver County, Utah Beaver torn cover, Diggings and Doings in Park City County, UT Publications (6) Someone revised by Ringhol , uidebook to the eology Should Remember by Brown, Moscow Silver of UT, Silver and Snow by ewbold, The Silver Mines bound copies of mine docs, PhD thesis Queen by Dykman, Contributions to Economic on Milford Flat Triangle and Old Moscow rowth 1904, US S hardcover eology and re Mine, US S eology and ore deposits of the Deposits of the Park City District 1912 Est. San rancisco and adjacent districts 1903 x3 $200-400 HWAC# 86659 in different formats Est. $200-300 HWAC# 86641 Lot# 3329 Tintic, Utah Tintic, UT Mining Books (3) 3 hardcovers. 1899 Annual reports of the dept of the interior for the fiscal year ended une 30, 1898, part 3 economical geology- Lot# 3323 Bingham, Utah 1909 boatds and spine detached, water stains. The Tintic Mining District by Bingham, The Greatest Copper Camp in otarianni, eology and re eposits of the Tintic Mining istrict, UT the World Nooklet Rare booklet loaded by Lingren Est. $120-200 HWAC# 86645 with Bingham mining photos. Covers and Lot# 3330 Tintic, Utah Tintic, UT spine in rough-poor condition Est. $200- 300 HWAC# 86455 Research Library (8) US S 19th annual report 1897-98 part 3, History of oab County by McCune, 3 US S geology booklets, Tintic Mining District by Notarianna, The Towns of Tintic, More Precious Than Gold by Seamons, Yesterdays Dreams Tomorrows Memories, Tintic Mountain Mining bound mining report, Tintic Mining District Est. $300-500 HWAC# 86672 Lot# 3324 Bingham, Utah Bingham, Lot# 3331 , Utah Chief Con. Mining Co. UT Books (6) Richest Hole on Earth, Booklets (7) 7 booklets. 1948 safety rules, x uidebook to the eology of Utah, ocal 151 Union agreement 194 , Semi x Bingham Canyon by unn, coverless annual report 1916, annual and quarterly Geology of Bingham Mining District. reports 1911, 1915, 1917, 1919 Est. $200- Est. $120-250 HWAC# 86656 300 HWAC# 86456 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 177

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Books Lot# 3332 , Utah 19 5-19 9 Salt Lake Lot# 3339 , Utah Utah Mining Mining Review 5 Volumes Bound Booklets (13) 13 UT mining booklets erox copy of 19 5, hardcovers 19 7, including Mining Industry of UT, 19 1928, 1929 vols 30 and 31 Est. $400-600 HWAC# 86443 Mineral Wealth of UT, Up rom the Hills by Hanks, uart perators Handbook Lot# 3333 , Utah 19 0-19 5 Salt Lake by Randall, 19 0 Story of Mining in UT, Mining Review 6 Volumes Hardcover Tintic Mining istrict of UT Est. $200- Volumes 21-26. The Salt Lake Mining 400 HWAC# 86452 Review, also known as “The Mining Review” was begun in 1899 by Will C. Lot# 3340 , Utah Utah Mining Library Higgins, formerly the mining editor of Approx 11 Utah mining books, a , the Salt Lake Herald newspaper for 3 years. Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 86643 approx 0 postcards and 3 stereoviews by Keystone. Books-Old Reliable by Lot# 3334 , Utah 1899-1901 Salt Lake Bailey, Business History of the Copper Industry of UT 18 0-1910 by Hansen, Mining Review 6 Volumes 6 vols of erox Reprints. 1899,1900, 1901 Est. UT geology hydrology pamphlets, $200-300 HWAC# 86442 hardcover Salt Lake Mining Review ol 40 1938, 1938 report on Maxfield Mine, Geology and Mineral Resources of arfield County, UT by oelling, eneral Geology and Mines of the E. Tintic Mining istrict by US S with maps, UT oldrush by Boren, 50 Years in Mining by Kinnear and more Est. $250-350 HWAC# 84818 Lot# 3335 , Utah 1914-1918 Salt Lake Lot# 3341 , Utah Utah Uranium Books (6) Money Review Three hard bound mostly soft cover UT uranium books. ept volumes. Ex Mechanics Institute San of Interior, UT eological Society, eological Francisco, Mechanics Mercantile Library Society of America Est. $60-100 HWAC# 86652 book plate. Volume 19, April 1917 through March 1918. Second volume April 1914 through March 1915. Third volume April 1915 to March 1916. Bindings damage at hinges and plates. Rare, the reference for evada and Utah mines. . Est. $400-800 HWAC# 81177 Lot# 3336 , Utah The Emma Mine and UT Mining Symposium Papers Hardcover rare 1876 The Emma Mine Lot# 3342 , Vermont 1884 The Rooks 883pp, boards nearly detached. 1987 Mining Co. Annual Report, 1884 Making money out of dirt, papers of the Utah Symposium Est. $150-250 HWAC# ”Rook’s Mine” is a past producer 86642 deposit site discovered in 1880 in the Appalachian Highlands of Vermont, The United States. It is a small deposit, Lot# 3337 , Utah Utah Coal Mining Booklets not considered to be of world-class significance. old deposits are documented at “Rook’s Mine.” old is UT coal booklets-Coalville Coal ield, History present at a grade sufficient to have a strong effect on the economics of an of Union Pacific Mines, bound Union Pacific excavation project. It may even be viable as the only commodity mined. blueprint form of screening facilities, original This deposit has operated in the past as a small scale production but typed Union Pacific Coal Co 1953 annual was closed at the time it was surveyed. There were no known plans to report, large Southern Utah uel Co mine maps Est. $120-200 HWAC# 86658 reopen it. The most important method or feature used in the discovery of economic minerals at this site was ore-mineral in place. Production at “Rook’s Mine” began in 1883. In 1887 production concluded.” from the diggings.com. Mines and mill at Plymouth, T. 48 pages, 7.75” x 5.5”. Plates on pp. 16, 19 depict actual operation in drawing form. Spine is separating. Est. $180-300 HWAC# 52801 Lot# 3338 , Utah Utah Geology, Lot# 3343 , Canada Bonanza United Mineral and Mining Group Approx 18 Mines Collection of mining letters booklets and other publications related umerous letters to and from Bonan a to Utah mining, geology and minerals. United Mines imited, ntario Canada, US S and more. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 1927-1932 regarding mining issues. 86627 Also includes telegrams and letters from Delano & Aldrich Architects, NY and other letters to M. E. Mosher. 11” x 9” in black binder. Good read. Est. $180-400 HWAC# 52800 178 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Books P CONSIGNING WITH Holabird Western Americana Collections P Lot# 3344 , Mexico c199 -1994 22 Different Volumes Geological Monographs of Mexico 22 different volumes of Geological-Mining Monograph of various Mexican states. Mostly in Spanish. Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Coahuila de argo a, Colima, Historically Researched Descriptions urango, Estado de Mexico, uanajuato, uerrero, Hidalgo, alisco(1 each English and Spanish), Michoacan de campo, yaerit, axaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sina loa, Sonora-1 English,1 Spanish, Professional Photography eracru de Ignacio de la lave, acatecas Est. $700-1000 HWAC# 87420 Artfully Designed Catalogs Lot# 3345 , South America c1902 Diamond Mines of South Africa (Book with Illustrations) Beautiful Book of the Diamond Extensive Marketing Mines of South Africa / Some Account of their Rise & Development by Gardner F. Williams, 681 pp. many illustrations, maps, ships, color stones, Superior Customer Service picture of Zulu in War Attire, Native Drilling De Beers Mine, & so much more. This book has deckle edges, gold color embossed hard cover. Very interesting for anyone interested in diamond mines of South Africa & its beginnings. 7. 5” x 10. 5”. Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 62012 P RE MIE R Lot# 3346 , Coal References Six reference works on coal mining. Includes Pulveri ed Coal Systems in America AUCTIONS 1922, mining manual 1952, Report of the Bureau mines from Pennsylvania 1898, Anthracite Coal Mines of Northeastern Strong Prices Pennsylvania 1871, Highland Creek Coal sales company, etc. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62127 Lot# 3347 , cearly 1900’s Mining Magazines Approx. 0 maga ines 1 hardcover book: The Mining Congress Consign your items to the experts and let us Journal Volume 14. Poor condition, cover is detached from spine. Please help you realize the most for your collections. inspect. Many maga ines, adies Home ournal Hunting ishing Mining Metallurgy Engineering Mining ournal, more. Est. We’ve sold many fantastic collections over the $100-200 HWAC# 86807 years and we’re always excited for more great Lot# 3348 , c1910 Mining Science material! Consign with us and enter into a Magazines -- Various Issues This is a lasting and beneficial partnership. collection of Mining Science and Mining and Scientific Press maga ines across various dates complete with all the ads. This was akin to the Scientific American maga ine for the mining industry. The ads themselves are interesting for Holabird’s the illustrations of the technology of Western Americana Collections the day, and the articles cover some of the ground-breaking research and discoveries that were occurring in the mineral industry at that time. Email us at [email protected] These vary in condition, but the individual pages are clearly readable Call us toll free 844-HWAC-RNO (4922-766) and enjoyable. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 88670 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 179

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Explosives Lot# 3349 Cleveland, Ohio 1963 Austin Powder Lot# 3356 , Explosives Goodies Co. Color Calendar Blue and red Austin Powder Co Approx 10 paper fuse style bags, 100 calendar Nov Dec 1963, partial Jan 1964. 1” tear on top paper tamping bags, small Ford wood Est. $50-100 HWAC# 87179 case electrical unit, rolled papers to use for interior of paper bags on display Est. $200-400 HWAC# 89300 Lot# 3350 , Utah Explosives Token Lot# 3357 , Explosives Group Nice Group Lot of four: 1) Mohrland assortment of 8 old explosive tins, Mercantile Company / Good For / 10 / tamping bags, fuse, 5 blasting cap Sticks Powder / Mohrland, / Utah; rev.: boxes, Hercules 1912 belt buckle, tube Good For / 10 / Sticks Powder; Br., rd., 38 of Hercules No 1 XX, yellow cardboard mm. 2 & 3) C.E.S. Co. /No. 1 / Hiawatha; Hercules box Est. $100-200 HWAC# Rev.: Good For / One / Exploder; Br. rd., 87465 28 mm. Two tokens. 4) Carbon Coal & Coke / Company; Rev.: Carbon Coal & Lot# 3358 , Hercules ELF Powder Coke / Good For / 25 cts / worth / Fuse / Company; Al., rd., 28 mm, Boxes Three Hercules Powder Co. ELF holed twice. Est. $40-80 HWAC# 87300 (red letters) wood boxes all dated 1915. Two are 35% strength, one 30% strength. Geff Pollock Collection. Est. Lot# 3351 , Blasting Artifacts (3) $60-100 HWAC# 88823 Rusty rod 45” long from Austin, NV. 2 different California Cap Co. tins. Est. Lot# 3359 , Hercules LF Powder $100-150 HWAC# 86871 Boxes Ten Hercules Powder Co. LF Lot# 3352 , Blasting (red letters) wood boxes with various Galvanometers (2) dates. 1917 (4); 1923 (2); 1929 (1); 1930 (2), undated (1). Geff Pollock Collection. Four are 35% strength, six are 40% strength. Est. $100-300 Galvanometers provide a HWAC# 88824 simple means for testing electric blasting circuits, Lot# 3360 , Hercules Paper Tamping enabling the blaster to locate Bags Bundle of approx 100 Hercules breaks, short circuits, or explosives envelopes. 10” Est. $100- faulty connections before an 200 HWAC# 88356 attempt is made to fire the shot. Dupont and Hercules in Lot# 3361 , Hercules Powder Lighter leather cases. Est. $200-400 Rare Hercules Powder advertising HWAC# 87436 lighter with 6 powder boxes on back. Nice condition. 3x1.5’” Est. $150-300 HWAC# 87160 Lot# 3353 , Dupont Blasting Plunger Metal handheld 10 shot Dupont blasting Lot# 3362 , Mining Hand Tools (4) unit with key Est. $100-150 HWAC# 87447 Schollhorn dual crimper. 3 copper points with loops,8-12” Est. $150-250 HWAC# Lot# 3354 , Explosive Books (2) 87341 Hardcover 1949 Dupont Blasters Handbook 453pp with index. Softcover 1915 Dupont High Explosives 128pp Lot# 3363 , MSA Explosives Meters with index and ads Est. $100-150 HWAC# 86669 (2) MSA Models 2 and 2a with leather strap Est. $150-250 HWAC# 87437 Lot# 3364 , Wooden Box for Blasting Lot# 3355 , Explosive Goodies Caps Tins? Dark wooden box for either Explosives wire, fuses, tamping bags, blasting caps tins, candles or perhaps rusty explosive tins. Perfect for a dynamite. Hinged front door with peg. museum display. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Approx 17.5” x 5.5” x 5.5” Est. $100- 87448 200 HWAC# 58711 180 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Maps Lot# 3373 oldfield, evada 1915 ap of oldfield ining istrict Rare oldfield MIning istrict map, copyrighted in 1915 by Davis & Byler. “Only Compant Holdings and Properties Patented or in Process Shown. 21.75” x 24”. Lot# 3365 Tear down center. Excellent condition , Miners Cloth Hats (3) and Carbide Lamp 3 used condition cloth otherwise. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 61557 miners caps. 1 nice condition brass finish uys ropper carbide lamp Est. $100-200 HWAC# 87449 Lot# 3374 Humboldt, Nevada 1939 Humboldt County. NV Mines Map on Lot# 3366 , Miners Hats (3) 3 vintage miners hats in used condition Est. Linen Large map on rollers of Humboldt $100-150 HWAC# 87379 County. 67” wide, 50” tall. Shows Jumbo Mine at center, Getchell at right, various other mines and major features. Shaded relief, creeks, T & R. Scale, 2 miles to the inch. A beauty. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 23515 Lot# 3367 , Relic Mining Hats (2) Lot# 3375 Rawhide, Nevada c1910 Linen Perfect for a museum display. Leather Map of Grutt Hill Mint Mine, Rawhide, miner cap with metal lamp tab, poor nv Linen map. Cross section map of sections condition. Aluminum cap with carbide 1A, B,C, and D. Done by W. A. Schaffer. lamp, perforated edges. Est. $100-200 Shows values at different levels to 410 HWAC# 87370 feet. According to the Los Angeles Herald of October 19, 1908, “Grutt Hill Mint lease Lot# 3368 McGill, Nevada Crude at Rawhide has shipped ore to the value of Skeleton Key Copper Ingot Unusual $70,344 In four months, according to the skeleton key shaped copper ingot from Rawhide Rustler, which quotes G. H. Hayes Nevada Consolidated Copper Co, McGill, NV. 6x11.5” Est. $300-500 of Hayes & Monnette as saying that the Mint HWAC# 57168 has half a million dollars in sight.” Map has wrinkles, but can be straightened out. 20 x Lot# 3369 , Nevada Turquoise Stick 25”. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 23001 Pins (19) 19 turquoise on silver mounts stick pins made for the Ruth, NV mine Lot# 3376 Mercur, Utah Hand Drawn manager Est. $200-400 HWAC# 87167 Map of Mercur District, c1892 Spectacular hand drawn multi-color ink on linen map of Mercur by an unknown mining engineer. It appears to have been Lot# 3370 , Utah Mammoth Mine designed for public display, as there is no Skeleton Key Set 5 skeleton keys from normal title block at lower right, rather Mammoth Mine, UT with aluminum fobs a fancy black-on-white “map of Mercur Utah”. At the bottom center are for assay office, assay scale room, assay office oil Est. $150-300 HWAC# detailed ink drawings of “vertical section of Golden Gate at left; “sketch 88351 of Mercur looking north-east; “Ideal section of Mercur Valley restored”. Lot# 3371 San Diego, California 1902 The map measures 6’3” long by 40” wide. The map shows much detail of Mining Districts of San Diego County the Mercur District: surveyed claim boundaries; railroad route; roads; underground workings of the De La Mar and Mercur mines; topography. Map Large map from State Mining Mercur was a deposit located from an early placer gold discovery. Bureau, Ferry Building, San Francisco/ The district was organized in 1870, and the town of Lewiston soon Lewis E. Aubury State Mineralogist. emerged. re grades and metallurgical difficulties caused a downfall in This shows the Julian District Gold production and near-abandonment of the district. But in 1890, it got a Region. Dark gray with red indications renewed life after the involvement in cyanide processing, and the town of area mines. 1 tiny tear in fold at left of Mercur was built over the top of the dilapidated Lewiston. A railroad of map. On Mat Board (not adhered) was completed to Mercur in 1892, and this map appears to date to that with plastic covers. If mats are shipped then additional shipping may apply. 39.5” x 27.5. Est. $100-200 HWAC# approximate period. Mercur is located two ranges west of Orem, Utah. 59617 Today, there is an open pit gold mine on the Mercur site. This map is a choice historical reference work, and may have been on display in the Lot# 3372 Tejon, California San Joaquin mine manager’s office at the time. Est. $1400-3000 HWAC# 59825 Petroleum ilfield ap, California Lot# 3377 Salt lake, Utah c1918 Hand Drawn Utah Private Lease and structure map from the oil State Land Patent Maps 8.5” x 11” hand drawn and company in 1921. Formations include Tulare, colored map of a Utah land patent showing Sanpete San Pablo and Tejon. The Southern Pacific Co. and Salt Co. land Est. $80-120 HWAC# 59731 line runs down the middle, with Patterson at the top. Tejon is down near the bottom. Other features include Crow Creek, Salado and Little Salado creeks and the Shell pump station. “Portion of Hill and Braden Leases on Salado Anticline”. Some small separations at folds. Very framable. Measures 21 1/2” x 16 1/2”. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 51203 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 181

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Mine Lighting Lot# 3378 Unknown, Utah 1900-1930’s Lot# 3386 , Buddy Oil Wick Lamp Brass Approximately Antique Light Bulbs / Buddy lamp . 5” reflector Est. $60-120 21 Pieces. Very nice, early collection HWAC# 86609 of mining light bulbs ! A lot of them are hand blown, and have the little points at the top of the bulb !! There are two very rare , colored bulbs. They are both Palmer green in color, one is round, while the other is elongated. There are also 14, elongated clear ones. The remaining bulbs are frosted , probably used as dimmers. Over all, and nice collection, and can be mounted, or set in the window sill. ( RH ). Est. $100-150 HWAC# 61478 Lot# 3387 , Carbide Cans (5) 2 Justrite-1 brass, 1 rusty. 3 others Est. Lot# 3379 , Utah Cave Mine, UT Miners $60-100 HWAC# 87439 Candle Sticks A few candle stubs and a rusty homemade stick from cave Mine, UT. Repro Searic Wax Candles label on wood mount Est. $80-120 HWAC# 89303 Lot# 3388 , Carbide Lamp Collection Lot# 3380 , Utah Rusty Miners Lights (12) 1 carbide lamps. 1 Butterfly, 3 and Candles Found underground in Guys Dropper and 1 cardboard box, 8 Utah. Includes 12 manufactured and Autolite Est. $300-500 HWAC# 87369 homemade candle holders, 3 candles. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 87365 Lot# 3389 , Carbide Lamps (10) 10 carbide lamps from Guy’s Popper, ustrite, Autolite, Butterfly. .5-4” reflectors. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 86601 Lot# 3381 , Utah c1870 Unused Hand Torch from Cave Mine, UT Rare unused crude hand made underground mine Lot# 3390 , Carbide Lamps (6) 6 hand torch from Cave Mine, UT. Fabric wrapped around wood stake. 9.25” Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88352 carbide lamps- brass Justrite, red/green Koehler, 1 rusty, 3 Dewar Est. $150-300 Lot# 3382 , Butterfly and Autolite HWAC# 87348 Carbide Lamps 8 carbide lamps. 2.25-4” reflectors Est. $200-400 HWAC# 86613 Lot# 3391 , Carbide Lamps (8) Guy’s Dropper, Justright, Auto Lite, 2.5” to 3. 5” reflectors. Est. $240-360 HWAC# 86600 Lot# 3383 , Assorted Carbide Lamps (10) 4 uy’s ropper, 1 Butterfly, 1 Justrite, 4 AutoLite Est. $300-400 HWAC# 86616 Lot# 3392 , Carbide Lamps with Unusual Candleholders and Tins (2) 2 Justrite carbide lamps with 2 different and unusual candle stick holders bent Lot# 3384 , AutoLite Carbide Lamps around lamps. 2 Justrite 5x3.75” tins. (10) 10 assorted AutoLite Carbide lamps Est. $240-350 HWAC# 89312 Est. $240-400 HWAC# 86619 Lot# 3393 , Carbide Tins (9) 8 different carbide tins. 5 Union Carbide-4 different, Lot# 3385 , AutoLite(5), Supt and Soiltest, 2 Shawinigan, Safesport Est. an Oddball Carbides 7 carbide lamps. $200-400 HWAC# 87346 Oddball is white metal with round top. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 86622 182 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Mine Lighting Lot# 3394 , Edison Mining Lamp Lot# 3403 , Justrite Carbide Lamps (8) Stainless steel power case 8x5” and 8 Justrite carbide lamps Est. $160-320 remote lamp. Est. $100-200 HWAC# HWAC# 86623 87371 Lot# 3404 , Justrite Lamp with Large eflector Plastic Justrite tank with outboard 7” reflector Est. $80-100 Lot# 3395 , Edison Permissible Cap HWAC# 87433 Lamps (6) 6 Edison stainless steel cap lamps Est. $200-400 HWAC# 87376 Lot# 3396 , Edison Radiator Style Miners Lamps (7) 7 stainless steel cased Edison cap lamps, an early advancement in underground lighting. Additional shipping will apply Est. $200-400 HWAC# 87373 Lot# 3405 , Large Carbide Lamps (4) ustrite, unidentified white metal, Lot# 3397 , Grier Oil Wick Lamp Brass Grier Vuelite Est. $200-400 HWAC# 87345 Bros. . 5” reflector Est. $60-150 HWAC# 86608 Lot# 3406 , Large Copper Oil Wick Lamp A choice lamp in a size I have never seen before. Copper finish or solid copper, screw cap with 5 point star, large handle. A few dents but never the less a very attractive display piece. 6” tall Est. $100-200 HWAC# 86607 Lot# 3398 , Guy’s Dropper Carbide Lamps (10) 10 Guy’s Dropper Carbide Lot# 3407 , Lu-Mi-Num Carbide Lamp lamps. Est. $260-400 HWAC# 86617 Unusual aluminum body. . 5” reflector Est. $80-150 HWAC# 86606 Lot# 3399 , Guy’s Dropper Carbide Lamps 6 Different 6 different brass bodied, . 5-3” reflectors Est. $200- 300 HWAC# 86612 Lot# 3408 , Miner’s Candlesticks (3) 3 miner’s candlesticks. 7.5-11.5” Est. $120- 200 HWAC# 86605 Lot# 3400 , Homemade Miners Lamps (3) 3 rusty homemade miners lamps made from cans or small bucket Est. $200-300 HWAC# 87362 Lot# 3401 , Hundreds of Parts from a Makeshift Justrite Carbide Repair Lot# 3409 , Miners Cloth Caps and Kit The kit we got these parts from Carbide Lamps (5) 5 green and orange was a big plastic box which we chose cloth miners caps and 5 carbide lamps to leave at the collectors house and Est. $200-400 HWAC# 89308 instead have bagged each of the separate compartments in a separate bag. Please inspect. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 46416 Lot# 3402 , Justrite Carbide Lamps (8) Lot# 3410 , Mining Artifacts (3) c. 1870’s oil tin 6.25x4x2.5”, rear dent. 8 different ustrite’s. . 5-4” reflectors Triangular torch, 8” with rust and Est. $300-400 HWAC# 86611 perforations. Handmade lamp with Autolite top. Interesting set Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 86870 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 183

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Mine Lighting Lot# 3411 , Mining Lamp and Lot# 3419 , Supt. Lamps (4) 4 Batteries Assortment Approx 10 sets unknown maker supt. lamps Est. $200- of mining lamps and batteries with some 300 HWAC# 86621 web belts. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 88346 Lot# 3420 , Supt. Mining Lamps (5) 2 Frieman Wolf, 3 Dewar Est. $200-350 Lot# 3412 , Mining Lamp Library (6) 6 books HWAC# 86618 on mining lamps, 2 are carbide. 2 unusual illustrated flip “ The Illustrated lossary of Miner’s Oil Wick Lamps” by Dorothy Haynes with hand colored lamps, dimensions and build details, a great reference Est. $200-400 HWAC# 86624 Lot# 3421 , Trethaway Oil Wick Lamps (2) 2 Trethaway oil wick lamps as would be used in a coal mine. Hook back 3.5” spout, rusty with screw top Lot# 3413 , Mining Lamp, Tin and 3.5” spout Est. $100-150 HWAC# 86604 Parts Large white metal lamp, white metal tin, 2 carbide lamps and assorted Lot# 3422 , Underground Lighting parts Est. $50-100 HWAC# 86610 Group Three foreign underground lamps. Rooster lamp from Mexico or South America; Brevet with star, European; Wolf style, unmarked. See photo, nice group Est. $150-300 HWAC# 58679 Lot# 3414 , Modern Mining Lamps (5) Assortment of 5 modern mining lamps Est. $100-120 HWAC# 87377 Lot# 3423 , Underground Miner Lamps (4) 4 underground mining lamps. Oil wick, no maker. Brass by Panasquiem, Portugal. Black Crestell from England. Red Chilean Est. $120- Lot# 3415 , NIB Carbide Lamps (2) 200 HWAC# 88379 and NIB Parts 2 new in box carbide lamps. Brass Safesport 4” reflector, ray plastic Justrite model 33021, 6 NIB AutoLite brass carbide bottoms with Lot# 3424 , Underground Mining Bumpergrip, 12 NIB Justrite rubber gaskets Est. $200-300 HWAC# 86615 Lamps (5) 5 underground mining lamps including a home made lamp Est. $150- 250 HWAC# 87339 Lot# 3416 , Nice AutoLite Carbide Lamps (8) 8 nice AutoLite carbide lamps, .5-4” reflectors, 1 never fired Est. $200-400 HWAC# 86620 Lot# 3425 , Nevada Ore Sample from Old White Leghorn Mine near Cherry, Lot# 3417 , Nice Condition Carbide Arizona This is about 3/4 of a pound of coarse quartz ore Lamps (4) Group of 4 nice condition with green and blue coloring carbide lamps. ustrite 3.75” reflector, of malachite and azurite white metal ustrite with hook and handles 3” reflector, brass ustrite ranging in size from coarse .5” reflector, brass ustrite .5” reflector and partial original box. sand up to thumbnail-size riginal uy’s ropper box with new reflector and rubber base-box has clasts. The accompanying wear. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 86614 label describes this as a test run of ore from the Original Lot# 3418 , Oil Wick Lamps (2) 2 Old White Leghorn Mines. teapot oilwick lamps. Berielson 4.25” spout. Rusty 4” spout. Est. $80-120 Further, the label says HWAC# 86603 “Recreated, now under the name [illegible] Mike Mines, The name Jones appears after more illegible text, and the town name of Hawthorne, Nevada, appears below that name. The note is written on the blank back of a Weekly Bus Transportation Pass issued by the U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot in Hawthorne, Nevada, which is dated as valid between January 7 and 13, 1946. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88629 184 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Photos Lot# 3426 Mammoth, Utah Drilled Lot# 3431 , Nevada 3 Large Framed Rock from Eureka Hill Mine, Juab Kennecott Copper Photos 1) Chino Co., Utah This is a large rock hauled Mines smelter interior 32” x 25”. 2) Mega out of the 400 Level of the Eureka dump truck in pit 29” x 24”. 3) Bird’s eye Hill Mine near Mammoth, Juab Co., of Liberty Pit & New Ruth, NV 21” x 25”. Utah. There is a cylindrical hole Frames have some wear. Est. $300-500 piercing one side that was probably HWAC# 76825 drilled for blasting, suggesting this is from a producing ore face in the mine or a development drift toward ore. The mine was described as being in an altered limestone with Lot# 3432 , Oregon Oregon Vintage productive grades of copper and lead Black and White Photos (21 count) 8” with traces of gold and silver. This x 10” photos of Oregon scenes including rock has pronounced metamorphic Gold Beach, The Henry Coal Mine, alteration with bands of green and acksonville mining, Copperfield, assay gray, especially beautiful when the surface is wet. It is approximately office at Cornucopia, an old church, old 8x8x8 inches and weighs 24 pounds. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88657 building at Greenhorn and others. Many are shot by Donald E. Miller, author and photographer. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 50332 Lot# 3427 , AZ/CA Collection of 125 Color Mining Photos Approx 125 color 3.5” x 5” Lot# 3433 , Pennsylvania Pennsylvania color photos of mines and desert flora in Yuma, AZ and California. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 50318 Coal Ashtray and Stereoviews Unique polished coal ashtray/pen holder 6.5x4”, 9 Keystone PA coal stereoviews Est. $60-100 HWAC# 87161 Lot# 3434 , USA 8 Vintage B&W Photos of Western Mining Area Eight 8” x 10” Lot# 3428 , CA/OR Northern black and white photos. Includes AZ, ID, California and Oregon Gold Rush UT and ND. Mostly older buildings and the Eby Stamp Mill. Est. $80-200 HWAC# Photos (9 count) Two 5” x 7” black 49510 and white photos one featuring a gold panner at Red Dog and the other is a photo, possibly from a photo, of David I Wood. Seven 8” x 10” back and white photos. Features 2 old buildings, an unknown city street with holiday Lot# 3435 , USA Color Photos of lighting, miners pushing ore carts at Western Mines 1960’s to 1990’s Deadwood, a threshing machine and Collection of approx 95 3.5’ x 5” color crew in Oregon. Two Bodies-an old cabin and the schoolhouse. Est. photos of various Western mines in NM, $80-150 HWAC# 50335 IN, CA and TX. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 50317 Lot# 3429 , California Trinity Camp Views Report and Photos 25” x 22.5” report from Royal Development Company dated October 9, 1930. Inside Lot# 3436 Bingham, Utah c1940’s Kennecott when unfolded has approx 50 mining Utah Copper Framed Photo Framed b/w photos. This document has been photo of miners along RR track at Kennecott repaired with clear tape. Est. $50-100 Utah Copper by WM Rittase. Photo approx HWAC# 50260 13x10” Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88348 Lot# 3430 , Montana 6 Butte, MT Mining photos. Ranging in size from 11.25” x 9” to 11.75” to 16.25”. Black and white and 1 color photos of Butte mining headframes. One of the large photos has a large portion of a corner missing. Est. $120-250 HWAC# 50269 Lot# 3437 , Washington Vintage Washington Mining Photos (21 count) A collection of 5” x 7” and 8” x 10” black and white photos featuring Washington mining subjects including Suprise Mine, Chewas, old buildings at Roslyn, Republic and more. Est. $150-400 HWAC# 50333 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 185

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Photos Lot# 3438 Sonora, Mexico Pack Train Lot# 3443 Cape Nome, Alaska 1908 Real Photo Postcard, Sonora, Mexico Colorado & Cape Nome Mining c.1904-1918. Not mailed. “Coming from Company Stock # 438 for 4400 shares the Mine. Sonora Mex” Four loaded to Alfred Pedley. Signed by Fred Banard mules, one with a miner on top heading and vice president Stephens. Not through the desert. Very reminiscent of cancelled. Mines located at Cape Nome The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with and oldfield, evada. ne 50c three Walter Huston. Predates the movie and 10c and four 2c document stamps. book. Est. $35-75 HWAC# 58595 Woman with flowing hair vignette. Due West of COlorado Springs printer. Lot# 3439 , Colorado Rare Colorado ateline Colorado Springs 1908. It is difficult to find information on this Mining RPC’s (2 count) Mrs. Cap Jack company, but we did find a 190 article in a newspaper that mentions going prospecting with 2 mules(some paper this company. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88065 adhered to rear). Well dressed ladies at Lava Beds at Gypsum. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 53207 Lot# 3444 Cook Inlet, Alaska 1900 Alaska Petroleum Company Stock # 505 for 500 shares to George Killen. Signed by GHW Leod and Wralfath(?). Dateline Seattle 1900. Incorporated in 1900. il field vignette with one well flaming. owman Hanrod printer. Brown seal. Fancy title block. Nicks Lot# 3440 Blatuck Creek, Alaska at upper right edges. Fold edges are 1906 Alaska Tin Corporation Gold intact but show much use. By 1901 this company was in receivership! Purchased at $110,000. Sits on 4000 Bond 0. $500 first mortgage six per acres with 5 claims. Seems to be floundering, but in business as late as cent cer centum gold bond. Signed by Hirsh and Salmon. 15 x 9”. Coupons 14 1909. [Seattle Star] Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88067 through 20 attached. Actually for an Lot# 3445 Douglas Island, Alaska oversized bond, in very nice condition. 1909 Alaska Mexican Gold Mining No edge, corner, discoloration, or pin Company Stocks and Bonds Lot of hole issues. Location of Mines: Baltuck five. All ifferent. Three stock single Creek. They were advertising leasing page certificates bonds: blue, brown opportunities in the ew York Times and green. All hole punch cancelled. for 1907 and 1908. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88074 All with outdoor mining vignette by a stream. One of 5 shares, 20 shares and 50 shares. The green and brown have English three pence stamps. Two with coupons attached. A green $20 with coupons 92 through 132. A pink $500 with coupons 60 through 120. Although not pristine, all are crisp and clean. According to the Mines Register, corporate offices were in S , and the mine office was in ouglas Island, Lot# 3441 Blatuck Creek, Alaska 1911 Alaska. Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 88064 Alaska Tin Corporation Stock # 29 for 100 shares to H Wilson. Signed by Lot# 3446 Hadley, Alaska 1904 Alaska president and secretary. Dateline 1911. Smelting and efining Company Stock Incorporated 1906. Allegorical vignette. # 38 for 25,000 shares to EG Blackford. Reddish brown border and safety paper. Signed by NH Smith and president (?). 1/4 inch rip upper right. corner folds, Dateline 1904. Incorporated 1903. Pin holes. Very pleasing to the eye. Allegorical vignette. Orange border, Location of Mines: Baltuck Creek. They green safety paper, underprint ‘Shares were advertising leasing opportunities $1.00 Each.’ One of the more attractive in the ew York Times for 1907 and Alaska stocks. Hadley Island is on the 1908. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88073 Tanana River near Ketchikan. Although a black on white specimen is listed in Hanscom, no stock certificate is Lot# 3442 Bluff City, Alaska 1902 Bluff listed. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88071 City Gold Mining Company Stock # 23 for 500 shares to John Ainsworth. Signed Lot# 3447 Juneau, Alaska 1895 Alaska by HM Anthony and TW Nowlin. Dateline United Gold Mining Company Stock San Francisco 1902. Incorporated April # 6467 for 20 shares. Hole cancelled 1, 1902. John Partridge of San Francisco makes names hard to read. Signed by printer. Not cancelled. 25c document secretary Corbus. English three pence stamp. Assessment hand written note on orange stamp. Vignette of miners reverse. Hole at stamp. No other edge, corner or discoloration issues. and horse digging for gold in steep Location of works: BLuff City, District of Alaska. Bluff City was a 20th- mountains. Known to come in blue, century mining town in Alaska. It was built on the Seward Peninsula in orange and green. We have offered the 1900 as a result of the Nome Gold Rush. The town was located 55 miles orange and green, but not the blue. No issues outside of cancel. Est. southeast of Nome. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88076 $50-75 HWAC# 82360 186 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Stock Certificates Lot# 3448 Landlocked Bay, Lot# 3452 Unga Island, Alaska Alaska 1907 Alaska Pioneer 1904 Apollo Consolidated Mining Copper Company Stock Company Stock # 541 for 500 shares EAR Y umber 7 for 500 to Titchen. Signed by Louis and Gustave shares to George Poynur(?). Niebaum. Dateline San Francisco 1904. Signed by Charles Kreis and Incorporated December 28, 1889. president George L Mckay. Printer Dickman Jones of San Francisco. Dateline 1907. Location of Location of mine: Unga Island, Alaska Terr. One assessment stamp on mines Landlocked Bay. One reverse. One large stain upper right. One dog ear lower left. Very nice. small dog ear bottom left and In 1893 the Seattle Post Intelligencer reported that rich ore had been one small stain top center. found by this company. In 1894 a mill was erected. Tunnels 2,300’ and Very nice! An ad in 1907 600’ in length have been bored into the hillside of the island. In 1895 promoted that four veins of it was called the third most important mine in Alaska - behind only the very rich ore. Get in on the Treadwell and Mexican in the San Francisco Call. Unga Island is the ground floor. “This is your opportunity.” After that we found no more largest of the Shumagin Islands off the Alaska Peninsula in southwestern references to this mine at newspapers.co. Prag Collection Est. $100- Alaska. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88075 150 HWAC# 88068 Lot# 3453 , Alaska 5 Howe Sound Co stock 5 cancelled Howe Sound Co. Lot# 3449 Nevada Creek, Juneau, Alaska stock certificates: 1) 9 shares, cert. 1909 Alaska Treasure Consolidated #F1565 issued to Reginald Miller on Dec 17, 1925, registered on Dec Mines Stock # 181 for 1000 shares to 18, 1925. Printed: American Bank Note Comp. 2) 100 shares, cert # JH Borland trustee. Signed by Borland 662 issued to Cudd & Co. on Jul 1, 1935. Printed: American Bank Note and president lawson(?). Dateline 1909. Co. 3) 30 shares cert. # 02879 dated Aug 10, 1935, registered Aug 12, Incorporated 1902 in Washington. Title 1935, issued to Harry H. Houston. Printed: American Bank Note Co. 4) in clouds. Printer Bourn Green of New 100 shares cert# P988 issued to L & R Organic Products Co. Inc. dated York. old upper left corner and pin Apr 25, 1950, registered Apr 26, 1950. Printed Franklin Lee Division holes. Cert is otherwise crisp and clean. -American Bank Note Co. 5) 4-1/2 Cumulative Preferred stock, cert # The Alaska Treasure Consolidated PO1633 issued to Salomon Bros & Hutzler on Nov 20, 1950. Printed: Mining Co. formed by Frank Stone for the Nevada Creek properties. Franklin Lee Division-American Bank Note Co. Largest copper, gold and Considerable exploratory work was done on the Alaska Treasure zinc mine in Washington state. Discovered by James Henry Holden in prospect in 1905. A 20 stamp mill was completed in 1906. In 1907 Chelan County, WA in 1896, sold in 1928 to Howe Sound Co. Production the mine was closed. In 1909 the mine was re-opened by a group of stopped 1957. Prag collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 87253 Englishmen. 25 men were at work on the tunnel. By 1910 the tunnel had reached 3,100’. In 1911 the English backers withdrew. [History of Lot# 3454 , Alaska 1897 Alaska the Juneau Gold Belt by Redman] Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# Gold Syndicate Company Stock Very 88066 early and important Alaska operation. Number 1225 for 199 shares to George D Bates. Signed by secretary Lot# 3450 Rodman Bay, Sitka, Alaska Ward and president Denslow. Datelined 1897. Brown on white. Tan seal. 1903 Alaska Rodman Bay Company Placer mining vignette. Printed by Hamilton Bank ote of ew York. Stock # 259 for 100 shares to George Known dates are 1896 and 1897 [Hanscom]. The Alaska Gold Company Dashwood. Signed by two directors. owns a tract of gold bearing lands on the American side of the Yukon. English. Share is one pound each. ‘A. This company was incorporated on March 23, 1896 under the laws of R. B.’ underprint in red. Blue on white. Arizona for the purpose of securing and developing gold properties in Fancy scroll work left and top. Wrinkles Alaska. It owns at the present time 471 claims of twenty acres each, and corner issues on this 14 x 12” comprising over 9,000 acres of gold-bearing gravel estimated to cert. Rodman Bay is located between contain according to engineers report over six hundred million dollars KIllisnoo (a cannery statin) and Sitka. in gold; also a number of claims comprising over 2,700,000 square Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# feet of gold bearing quartz on the great mother lode of Alaska, from 88069 which originated the wonderful gold placers of the Klondike. It has also 15,000 acres of coal property This first in the field having been at the Lot# 3451 Seward, Alaska Alaska mines since the spring of 1896. [Tammany Times, 1896] Est. 1907 Alaska Smelting and $100-150 HWAC# 88044 Development Company Stock # 45 for 8 shares to GN Arnold. Lot# 3455 , Alaska 1901-1910 Alaska Signed by Mabel Murrow and Mining Stocks Lot of seven. 1) Alaska president John E Ballaine. Mining Company. 1901. #520 for 3700 Ballaine was a journalist, shares. 2) Alaska -Fairbanks Mining businessman, army officer, civic Company. 1910. #239 for 1000 shares. leader, and private secretary Incorporated 1909. 3) Alaska Drilling to John R. Rogers, Governor and Mining Company. 1906. NUMBER of Washington. He founded 4 for 1000 shares to Samuel Altshuler. the Alaska Central Railroad Signed by Altshuler. 4) Alaska Mines Company. Dateline Seattle Securities. 1909. # 4243 for 100 shares. 1907. Incorporated 1907. Eagle vignette. One inch tear right center. 5) Coast Range Mining Company. Cook’s Heavy left fold. Remains of paper it was once attached to on reverse. Inlet. 1905. # 311 for 1000 shares. 6-7) Still look nice. Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88070 Consolidate Alaskan Company. 1905 and 1907. #3426 and 7089. Both addressed to Miss Adaline E Heald. Condition varies. Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 88055 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 187

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Stock Certificates Lot# 3456 , Alaska 1904 Alaskan Solar Lot# 3461 , Alaska Two stocks of Alaska Gold Mining Stock I/U #121 JP Mahon 5 Dredging Co Two Gold Dredging Company shares 1904. This company used the stock incorporated in state of Washington with solar furnace to melt frozen gravel for pictorial dredging vignettes. 1) Five hundred mining Est. $50-100 HWAC# 87462 shares of capital stock of Grecian Alaska Gold Dredging Company, number 74, issued to J. Gaiser dated April 14, 1913. Black border with gold company seal. Unique Photograph vignette of Dredging Equipment on top left. 2) Lot# 3457 , Alaska 1903 Colorado- Two hundred fifty shares of company stock of Alaska Mining and Development Nome Alaska Gold Dredging Company, number 35, issued to J. M. Gaiser dated April 1, 1915. Company Stock - NUMBER 1 Number Orange border and company seal. Ken Prag 1 for 600 shares to JB Holmes. Signed collection. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 83673 by Liddell and president NW Bletcher. Dateline 1903. Three mining vignettes. Lot# 3462 Bisbee, Warren, Arizona WH Kistler of Denver printer. Not arren istrict Stock Certificates cancelled. Not only is it NUMBER 1 but count) 1) Eureka Mining. 1909. NUMBER it is in EXCELLENT condition: no edge, 4 for 10,000 shares. To Kiemeier(?). 2) corner, pin hole of discoloration issues! Quincy & Arizona. NUMBER 5 for 15 Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88072 shares. 1903. 3) Copper Glance., 1903. 4) Lot# 3458 , Alaska 1906, 1908, 1917 Eureka Mines Consolidated. 1910. Large rips at bottom folds. 5) Chief Consolidated Three nice Alaska Copper Stock 1910. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 62973 Certificates 1) United Alaska Copper Mining Company. # 373 for 500 shares to JN Couter. Signed by WJ Hamer and no secretary. Dateline 1908 seattle. Lot# 3463 Cochise, Dragoon, Arizona Mountain Vignette. Gold Seal. Fancy ragoon istrict Stock Certificates border cut! 2) Alaska-Kotsina Copper (4 count) 1) Copper Crown of Arizona. Company. # 72 for 2000 shares to Alice 1900, Nice condition. 2) Manzoro. Hubbard. Signed by president Oliver Hubbard and JG Snyder. Mining 1904. Number 106 for 500 shares. 3) vignette. Dateline 1906. Incorporated 1906. Gold Seal. Kotsina Region Old Terrible Mining Company. Number included Copper River. 3) Alaska Tidewater Copper Company. # 26 for 630 for 100 shares. Unique looking $30. 1917. re Certificate! ver all very good to nice condition. Prag Collection. Est. $120-250 HWAC# 88062 stock certificate for a unique name. Two vertical folds. Very nice condition. Lot# 3459 , Alaska 1903, 1905 Two Alaska 4) Golden Queen Mining and Milling. s il Stock Certificates 1) Alaska Oil and Number 289 for 500 shares. 1895. Excellent condition. Est. $80-200 Mines Exploration Company. #973 for 1000 HWAC# 62974 shares to Oswald Clayton. Signed by C Lauders Lot# 3464 Cochise, Tombstone, Arizona and Henry Siegwann( ). ateline 1903. il field Cincinnati Mining Company Stock vignette. Incorporated 1903. Some aging. Very Certificate Number 85 for 50 shares to nice. Located in southeastern Alaska. 2) Alaska NB Lazard in 1890. Signed by AF McGrew Petroleum Company. # 887 for 1000 shares to FF and JJ Scoville. Printed by Waugaman Evans. Dateline 1905. Signed by (?) and president of San Francisco. Folds, Bottom torn a A Bowser. Brown seal. il field vignette. enny- little roughly from book. No edge corner, Coryell of Seattle printers. Tape issues right and color, or pinholes issues. The Company left. Found articles in the Seattle Post-Intelligence in 1897 for this company. Nice. Est. $70-150 was probably a reorganization of the Cincinnati Gold & Silver Mining HWAC# 88061 Company which was incorporated in 1890. Extremely fine. Est. $80- 200 HWAC# 62954 Lot# 3460 , Alaska 1900, 1905 Two ‘Gold’ Lot# 3465 Coconino, Francis, Arizona ining Stock Certificates 1) Boston Group Val Verdi Copper Company Ltd. Stock Gold Mining Company. # 17 for 3125 shares to Certificate Number 814 for 2 shares William Power Wilson. Signed by Arthur Lovett to Charles E Almy in 1899. Signed by and president William Ebner. Reddish brown GM Fennell and GS Upston(?). Only a on brown safety paper. $1.00, 50c and 10c pinhole and dogear upper right mar this document stamps on reverse. Not cancelled. excellent stock certificate. This company Very attractive. Dateline 1900. Location Juneau. owned the mine in Francis (4 shafts, Underground mining scene with nine miners 1000 feet, 50 miners), a smelter that and an ore cart. uite nice! Seal. ) Yukon processed the Blue Bell mine in Copper Basin, the townsite of Val Verdi Gold Company. # 74 for 50 shares to Katherine short railroad, water company, electric company, etc. [Garbani] Est. Banard. Signed by Rasmussen and president $130-300 HWAC# 62963 John McGregor. Sluicing vignette. Gold seal. ‘Not transferable until October 1906.’ Not cancelled. Heavily taped on back. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88063 188 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Stock Certificates Lot# 3466 Fort Lot# 3470 Globe Breckinridge, Arizona District, Arizona 1886 1860 Maricopa Mining General Lee Silver Company of Arizona - Mining Company Early Arizona Mining Stock - Rare G. T. Stock # 81 for 100 shares Brown Lithographer to WR Hopkins. Signed by Arizona Stock # 1091 WR Hopkins and Robert for 20,190 shares Soulter. Both mentioned to CE Gillett trustee. in the History of Arizona Signe by secretary by Farish. Dateline New Gillett. No other signature? Dateline San Francisco 1886. Incorporated York 18 0, Incorporated October 1877. Location: Globe District, Pinal County. Fancy scrip in 1860. Not cancelled. ‘G.’ G. T. Brown Lithographer. No edge or corner issues. Some pink Different quartz mining vignette. Geo F Nesbitt & Co. printer. Rips are coloration. The Arizona Sentinel reported on December 1, 1877 that the fold edges. Very good! “This company is working a copper mine, situated General Lee has started [re-started] work with a force of six men. The forty miles from Fort Breckenridge at the junction of the San Pedro and correspondent believes within thirty days this mine will be counted Arivaca Rivers, and from three to four miles south of the Gila. The road among the paying mines with the McMillan Camp. It is an extension of known as the Leach Wagon Road, near by, renders the transportation the Stonewall Jackson mine and owned by the McMillan company. Prag of the ores and provisions quite easy. It is under the direction of Mr. A. Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88023 B. Gray, ex-surveyor of the United States attached to the commission of the Mexican frontiers, and engineer-in-chief of the Pacific Railroad. Mr. Lot# 3471 Graham County, Arizona Hopkins is the engineer of the mines the house of Soulter, of ew York 1897 Gold Cliff Mining and Reduction is the principal owner.” [History of Arizona by Farish] Prag Collection Company collection of Stick, Est. $400-700 HWAC# 88015 Letterheads and Maps ot of five. 1) Stock 99 for 30,000 shares to Stephen Parrish. Signed by trustees Balbach, Day and Norman. Dateline Lot# 3467 Gila county, Arizona Grand ew York 1897. Incorporated 189 . ocation: Copper Mountain Mining Prize Mining Co 10 shares of Grand District. Excellent condition. Not cancelled. Eagle Vignette. 2-3) Two Prize Mining Company, a gold and copper letter heads Both mining and stock related. Signed by Balbach and mine located in Gila county, Arizona, Day. 4-5) Maps of the Micawber Mines. One shows the shaft and ores at different levels the other is a plat map. What a great grouping! Est. cert # 11052 incorp. Sept 7, 1876 in Tuscarora Dist, Elko Co., NV. Signed R.H. $200-500 HWAC# 88142 Broulu, secy. Assessment stamp on back. Lot# 3472 Graham, Morenci, Arizona Printed: Lith. Britton, Rey & Co., S.F. Prag collection. Est. $100-200 ining Stock Certificates from the HWAC# 86519 Morenci Mining District (4 count) Lot# 3468 Gila COunty, Arizona 1881 1) Polaris Mining & Milling Company. Old Dominion Copper Mining Company 1902. Pair of 10c document stamps. This Stock Bright and colorful Arizona stock. company had 40 claims, 4 shafts and 2 # 546 for 100 shares. To Brown and tunnels. Page 92 in Garbani. 2) Shannon Anderton. Signed by Charles Brooks and Copper Company. 1909. In 1905 this president George Dunn. Dateline New company employed 500 men and had York 1881. Incorporated in ew York. 43 claims. In 1904 they produced nearly 12 million pounds of copper. Page 92 in Garbani. 3) Morenci Copper Not cancelled. Fancy red border. Red Company. 1899. Presumed dead by 1905. Page 90 in Garbani. 4) print on red safety paper. Title in black. Markeen Copper Company. These four stocks are from fine to extremely Underground mining vignette. American Bank Note printer. Nicks at fold edges. Fold upper right corner. Overall quite nice! In 1878 copper fine. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 62951 was first discovered in the lobe istrict at Bloody Tanks. In 188 that Lot# venture failed, but with plenty of money still in the bank they bought the 3473 Maricopa, Cave Old Globe Copper Mine. And the rest, as they say, was history. For the Creek District, next 50 years the Old Dominion was the barometer of Globe’s economy Arizona Cave and well-being. This certificate was sold when the ld ominion was Creek District still struggling. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 88025 Stock Certificates Lot# 3469 GLobe District, Arizona 1878 (4 count) 1-2) Gen’ L Lee SIlver Mining District Stock Consecut i v el y numbered Phoenix 19 fir 1000 shares to CE illette. Mining Company SIgned by president DA Bennuell and stocks. 1887. No Thomas A Atkinson. Dateline San Francisco 1878. Incorporated October issues except 1877. Location: Globe District, Pinal fading through the County. Not cancelled. GH Floto printer. Rubber stamped assessments ‘Arizona’ on one stock. In 1892 Rothwell reported that the company on reverse striking through. Slight browning at margins. Very good. had finally settled its plans and was finally erecting a mill. Page 101 In the 1870’s the Globe District was very active. Silver nuggets were in Garbani. 3) Kentucky-Arizona Copper Company. 1906. Successor to being found in Richmond Basin with one as large as 60 pounds being Kentucky-Arizona Consolidated in 1905. Ore shipments were always circulated. Hinton states that the General Lee had a 6’ vein of silver ore low grade. Page 95 in Garbani. 4) Grand Traverse and Arizona Mining Company. 1904. In 1906 the company was in high gear with assays at and was near the McMillan (also in this sale) about 20 miles east of 5% to 35% copper, 8 to 12 ounces silver, and $8 to $120 gold. Page 95 in Globe on the east side of Apache Mountain. The name probably refers to southern sympathizers, perhaps ex-soldiers from the Civil War. [Filer] Garbani. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 62948 Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 88019 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 189

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Stock Certificates Lot# 3474 Maricopa, Vulture, Arizona Lot# 3477 Mohave County - Owen Mining Stocks from the Famous Mining District, Arizona 1878 McCrackin Vulture District (6 count) 1) Red, Consolidated Mining Company Stock green and gray Angel Consolidated Location printed in the upper right: Mining Company. Bright, colorful and Owen Mining District, Mohave Co., striking. Bright red seal and stamp Arizona. No. 1156, issued for 50 shares (Territory of Arizona). 1903. Page 103 to A Frank. Signed by H August Whiting in Garbani. 2) Different Angel Consolidated. Plainer, but still has the and president E. Casserly. Dateline San Francisco 1878. ‘Consolidated bright red seal. 1903. 3) Olentangy Mining and Milling Company. 1907. October 7, 1876’. Lith. Britton, Rey & Co. Folds. 4 x 8.5” Not cancelled. Page 104 in Garbani. 4) Vulture Mountain Mining Company. 1895. 5-6) One rip and nicks at fold edges. The mine was discovered by Jackson Central Arizona Mining Company. 1880 and 1881. Discovered by Henry McCracken (notice slight spelling difference) in 1874. Located twelve Wickenburg in 1863. In 1879 the Central Arizona was formed to work miles from Greenwood, six miles north from Bill Williams Fork. Owned the Vulture mine and quickly built an 80 stamp mil. At the 300 foot level three claims: the Alta, Senator, and Palmetto, on the crest of a mountain. the ore body was last and the mine closed in 1888. It is reported to have In 1879, it was reported as having a shaft 365 ft. deep, and the vein produced $2,000,000 during its operation. Page 103 in Garbani. Overall explored with many tunnels. The ore is described as “earthy, oxidized these six are in nice condition and worth a good look. Est. $360-800 ore, dry and friable, easily mined and milled.” Assays run from $25-70 HWAC# 62949 per ton. Weekly ore extraction is 600 tons. They also have a 20 stamp mill. The mine is described favorably and promising. [Ref: United States Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, 1879, pg 217] Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 88021 Lot# 3478 Mohave, Kingman, Arizona Striking Kingman District Stock Certificates count 1) A most colorful and attractive Santa Ana Mining Company Certificate.(Strikingly beautiful.) Number 1263 for one share (‘Founders Share’ has been overstamped by a ‘One.) in 1898 to Jacques Montheirs. Signed by Charles Metcalf and Delamar. Lot# 3475 Meislla, Arizona c1861 San Augustine Mining Company Printed in San Francisco by Crocker. of Ari ona Stock Certificate Unused. Signed by secretary James A Bluish gray border on yellow cert. Lucas and president Samuel G Jones. Some discoloration bleed. But the Ornate red, white and blue shield. No apparent issues! 2) Green stock itself is in near perfect condition otherwise. Vignette of Native certificate number 43 for the Berkeley Exploration and evelopment American. Printed by Mesilla TImes. April 2-5, 1860, a Constitutional Company. For 500 shares in 1907 issued to E Chapman Smith. Signed by Convention was held at Tucson. Thirty-one delegates were present. Smith and Charles B Lewis. Printed by Gilbert Jones of L. A. Two small The Constitution ordained and established a provisional government to tears at top folds. Garbani puts this in Kingman. 3) Grand Consolidated remain in force until Congress should organize a Territorial Government. Development Company. Green cert. number 30 for 20,000 shares to This Territory included all of New Mexico south of latitude 33 degrees, George W Kincaid. Signed by John F. Fircha nd George W Brown. 1906. 40 minutes, and was subdivided into four counties. James A. Lucas was Incorporated in Oakland. Early number. Two vertical folds, top right president of the convention. Lucas would go on to become Secretary dog ear, removed from book unevenly. But in great condition from of the Territory. This mining company was part of an incredible stock border to border! The company also had property in Cerbat that story. Confederate Arizona (Arizona Territory) was claimed by the assayed at 70% lead, 12 ounces silver and $11.00 gold. It was presumed Confederate States of America. The territory was officially declared dead by 1910 by Copper Handbook in 1910. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 62945 on August 1, 1861, following the Confederate victory at the Battle of Lot# 3479 Myers Mining District, Mesilla. The Confederate hold in the area was broken after the Battle of Pima, Arizona 1881 Mineral Bed lorieta Pass, March 8, 18 , the defining battle of the ew Mexico Consolidated Mining Company of Campaign. In July 1862, the government of the Confederate Territory of Ari ona Stock Certificate Nice colorful Arizona relocated to El Paso, Texas. With the approach of Union troops, 1881 stock certificate. umber 154 for it withdrew to eastern Texas, where it remained for the duration of 400 shares to WW Thompson. Signed the war. The territory continued to be represented in the Confederate by treasurer William J Turner and Congress, and Confederate troops continued to fight under the Ari ona president Jacob H Hitschler. Rough edges banner until the war’s end. When the American government redrew the on top. One vertical fold. Pink ‘MBCMCo’. borders for Arizona, parts - including Mesilla - were placed into New Mexico. (Prag Collection) Est. $400-700 HWAC# 88017 Underground mining vignette. BV Bivins was the superintendent, [Arizona Weekly Citizen, April 3, 1881] Est. $100-180 HWAC# 60678 Lot# 3480 Pima, Arizona Arizona Butte Lot# 3476 Mohave County, Arizona Mining Company and Arizona Prosperity 1886 California and Arizona Mining & Gold Mines Co. Stock Cert. (2 count) Pima Real Estate Agency # 28 to CE Gillette District, Pima County. 1) Arizona Butte. for 100 shares. Signed by Henry Cluskey Unissued. Incorporated in Ohio and datelined and president CE Gillette. Dateline San Sandusky, Ohio. Number 896. Slight fading Francisco 1878. Incorporated July 28, on right, otherwise in very fine condition. 1877. Not cancelled. California seal 188-. 2) Arizona Prosperity. Number 584 for vignette. Dog ear bottom left. Otherwise no edge, corner, pin hole or 150 shares to AJ Lutz. Signed by Smith and discoloration issues. Excellent. One mine that they owned was the Tonkin(?). Two attached purple 5c revenue Bunker Hill. Also the alencia mine in Black Canon istrict, Yavapai stamps. 1902. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 62271 County. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88022 190 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Stock Certificates Lot# 3481 Pima, Arizona The Lot# 3486 Pima County, Cababi District, Penn Mining Company Stock Arizona 1878 Aztec Silver Mining Certificate 1881. Number Company Stock # 52 for 1000 shares to 24 for 2000 shares to John James Kennedy. Signed by E Beecher and JC Angell president. Dateline Sailer. Signed by JE Soule and ew York 1878. Incorporated ovember 1873. ot cancelled. Mining John F Stoer(?). Underground shaft and country mill vignette. EA Kingsland & Co. printer. Top and mining scene and vignette of bottom small rips. Top right corner is folded. The Cababi or Comobabi William Penn himself. Clearly mining district covers the North and South Comobabi Mountains and states located in Pima COunty, the neighboring Ko Vaya Hills, lying in the eastern section of the main Arizona Territory. Small rips Papago Indian Reservation to the North of Sells. Cababi is from the at fold edges. In nice condition. Papago word for “hidden springs.”[Index of Mining Properties in Pima Not cancelled. Est. $180-400 County Arizona by Keith] Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 88138 HWAC# 62278 Lot# 3487 Pima County, Mayers District, Arizona 1881 Mineral Bed Lot# 3482 Pima County, Arizona Consolidated Mining Company of 1882 Girard Gold and Silver Mining Arizona Stock # 130 for 150 shares to O Company Stock Number 2401 for 500 Trainer. Signed by William J Turner and shares to wj Jenks in 1882. Signed by Wilson Lloyd and president Jacob Nitsehly(?). Dateline Philadelphia William H (?). Large size. Dateline Camden 1882. Incorporated June 1881. Incorporated October 3, 1880. 1879. Not cancelled. Lehman Bolton printer. Large vignette of well- Location: Myers [sic] District, Pima known American financier Stephen irard at top left. This vignette County. Not cancelled. Bold red displays the only known likeness of Girard displaying the eye injury he underprint ‘M B C M CO’. Underground mining vignette and allegorical suffered while a child as during his life he insisted all portraits to be woman with breast exposed. Nicks at fold edges. Otherwise excellent! done omitting this injury.. A second vignette of underground mining. In the eastern Meyers District most of the mines were incorporated Light vertical folds. Fading on left side. . By 1910 the stocks were under the name of the Mineral Bed Consolidated. The principal work declared valueless and for some years by the United States Investor. was done on the Mineral Bed mine. By February 3, 1881 one shaft was Est. $200-500 HWAC# 88139 already down 100’. It had to be timbered and preparatory work done Lot# 3483 Pima County, Arizona 1881 on it when it was purchased. The intent was to go down another 100’. Morning Star Extension Mining The Mineral Bed was probably the most famous in this district after ther Gunsight. [Arizona Weekly Miner in Prescott] Prag Collection Est. Company Stock # 142 for 20 shares $100-200 HWAC# 88013 to JL Fryer. Signed by Charles Mathey and president E Morris. Dateline Lot# 3488 Pima, Amole, Arizona Camden 1881. Incorporated 1881. Amole District, Arizona Mining Stock Located in Pima County. Not cancelled. Certificates count 1) Catalina Two Underground mining vignettes. A Mining Company. 1909. Number 348 red underprint explosion advertising for 10,00 shares to Henry Atwater. ‘Shares $2 Each.’ Staining on folds. one Comes with an interesting “Waiver of rip at fold edge, tears, etc. The Morning Star Extension is a silver mine Tax Imposed by the Inheritance Tax Law located in Pima county, Arizona at an elevation of 2,159 feet. It was in of the State of Arizona” foy Mr. Atwater. the Meyer District, same as the Gunshot. Prag Collection Est. $150-300 2) Old Pueblo Copper Company. 1906. HWAC# 88026 Number 393 for 500 shares to Hamer Lot# 3484 Pima County, Arizona 1881 Santee(?). Signed by W Haynes and Alexander Rossi. This company held North Extension Atlanta Mining the Old Pueblo Mine consisting of nine claims. 3) The Arizona Copper Mining Company. 1886. Number 56 for 5000 shares to RK McGrath. Company Stock # 79 for 500 shares Signed by CA Schnake and D Kling. Est. $180-250 HWAC# 62943 to James Skeen. Signed by SH Brown and president Silar A George. Dateline Lot# 3489 Pima, Myers, Arizona The Camden, New Jersey 1881. Location: Burro Burro Mining Company Stock Meyers District, Pima County. Not Certificate Incorporated in 1881 in New canceled. Fold bottom left corner. Heavy Jersey as the Silver King Gold and Silver folds. Very nice! The Arizona Weekly Mining Co.; changed the name in 1882 Citizen on January 15, 1881 reported to Burro Burro.Certificate number 701 that the shaft was down 20 feet. It was a good prospect. Prag Collection issued to WF Springer for 1000 shares Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88011 in 1883. Signed by President Albert Lot# 3485 Pima County, Arizona 1881 Merritt and Treasurer Chas. Craige. Orion Silver Mining Company Stock No edge, corner, color, or fold issues. Two small pinholes Printed by Theo. Leonhardt & Sons, Phila. Small Certificate Number 3017 for 100 shares vignette top center of two miners working underground. Uncancelled. issued to CB Keen in 1881. Signed by Black border and print on white paper.8 x 10. Tenney (1927, p. 123) secretary B Hart and president Hamilton reports that this mine was acquired by a Philadelphia company in 1883 Disston. Vignette on left is of a winch under the management of C. R. Craige. A small smelter was built, but and wundergound miners. Very nice was shutdown due to faulty construction after making only one run. It condition. Two pinholes and slight appears unlikely that the company recovered, or if it did, made little bend at upper right corner. Main office in Philadelphia. Mine is in the production from the property. The Arizona Bureau of Mines reported Santa Rita and Patagonia mountains of Pima County. The Orion started in 1974 that the Gunsight mine was the only major producer of metal with sharing offices with the Tombstone old Silver Mill and Mining from the district. A spectacular document with pressed seal. Est. $120- Company. The Tombstone people quickly moved to separate from the 250 HWAC# 62941 Orion which they did not think much of the Orion property - as a matter of fact they thought it was a “no good mining property.” [Tombstone, A. T.: A History of Early Mining, Milling, and Mayhem” by Shillingberg] Est. $80-200 HWAC# 60676 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 191

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Stock Certificates Lot# 3490 Pima, Oro Blanco, Arizona Lot# 3495 Pinal Orion Silver Mining Company Stock County, Arizona Certificate Number 2832 for 500 shares 1881 Mineral to Charles Whitman in 1881. Signed Creek Mining by BF Hart and Hamilton Distton. Cut Company Stock unevenly, but no edge, corner, color # 2003 for 100 or pinhole issues. The company had shares to Richard decent ores and built a mill which ran Lorch(?). Signed intermittently for lack of water. Disston as the son of a millionaire saw by Walter Cooper manufacturer in Philadelphia. He would make a dramatic purchase of and president C 4,000,000 acres of Florida swampland for 25c and acre. He would turn Rodgers. Dateline this into buildable land. [Grabani] Est. $130-250 HWAC# 63000 ew York 1881. Green border and Lot# 3491 Pinal County, Arizona revenue imprint type floral design. Eagle vignette. Hosford Sons Copper Butte ines Stock Certificate printer. Not cancelled. Some red discoloration. Wrinkled and somewhat Issued 1907 to William Smith # 1751 warped. Good. Mineral Creek Mining District, 20 miles from Globe City. 100 shares, signed by president Roberts. James G. Cooper (mining engineer) and Dudley Hoyt (mining engineer). 8.75” x 11.75”. Pinal County, AZ. Folds Mine located in 1877. Property is a strong contact vein running north- are visible and slight tear in upper left east and south-west. Chloride silver ores containing “more or less gold.” corner. Bright gold seal. Est. $50-90 An ore house and mill are being completed. The mine is getting lumber HWAC# 52367 from the Pinal Mountains (3 mile road). [Prospectus] Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88007 Lot# 3492 Pinal County, Arizona 1880 Golden Eagle Lot# 3496 Mining Company $1,000 Pinal, Pioneer, First Mortgage Bond. Early Arizona Hastings certificate umber 7. Signed Consolidated Gold by president and treasurer. & Silver Mining Coupons 2, 3 and 4 are still Company Stock attached. Underground mining Certificates vignette. 16.5 x 14.5”. Two small count) Lot of four. pin holes. Bottom right corner Numbers 82 and 83 is dog-eared. But overall in very are still attached. nice condition. I don’t think This would make a the owner fared that well. “The nice framed piece. Golden Eagle Mining Company Also numbers 86 and 87. All issued to ES Bolles for 500 shares in of Pinal County, Arizona on May 1882. No edge, corner or color issues on any of the stocks. The town of lst 1880 issued fifty bonds of Superior was laid out here in 1900. Est. $250-400 HWAC# 62969 $1000 each to JB Cornell payable on or before May 1st 1882. The company having made default in the payment of principal or interest Lot# 3497 San Pedro Mining District, the property including the Golden Eagle, the Golden Star mines and the Pinal, Arizona 1882 Ferre Mining Golden Eagle mills is to be sold at public auction in this city on June Company Stock Certificate Number 92 15th.” [Engineering & Mining Journal May 27, 1882] But then again for 600 shares to TW Belcham. Signed what do you expect when the interest is payable at the National Shoe by president P Whitmer and secretary JC and Leather Bank??? Est. $200-500 HWAC# 55070 McFarland. Incorporated in Illinois with headquarters in Bloomington. Vignette Lot# 3493 Pinal County, Arizona 1878 of three underground miners and ore Hannibal Silver Mining Company cart. Black border and print with green safety print on white paper. Very nice condition. Small dog ear lower Stock # 204 for 100 shares to Josiah left. Two vertical folds. The San Pedro District was originally in Pima Flowery trustee. Signed by Jossiah County until its redistribution over a period of 15 years. It was a copper Flowery and president (?). Dateline 1878 and gold district in the early 1860’s and extensively reported by Browne San Francisco. Incorporated January 15, 1878. Not cancelled. Underground miner in 1868. Est. $120-300 HWAC# 60677 and ore cart vignette. AL Bancroft printer. Location: McMillen Mining Lot# 3498 Santa Cruz County, Arizona District, Pinal County. No edge, corner, pin hole or discoloration issues. 1880 Patagonia Silver MIning The Hannibal silver mining company are vigorously at work sinking Company Stock Number 88 for 100 their 400’ foot shaft. Shipped ,104 ounces .050 fine silver. Mining and Scientific Press, 1878 Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 88024 shares to Walter A Hamlin trustee. ateline ew York 1880. Signed by Hamlin and president HH Honore. Incorporated 1880. Printed Lot# 3494 Pinal County, Arizona by American Bank Note Company. Not cancelled. Two vignettes: 1882 Iron Cap Consolidated Mining underground mining and dog. Two pin holes are all that mar this cert. The original Patagonia was purchased from a Mexican back in 1858. Company Stock # 179 for 375 shares to Raymond reported that the Patagonias and Cerro Colorado were the AH Porter. Signed by James P Foster and best known mines in the county. When one of the old mines was cleaned president McKen ie. ateline ew York out, two sacks of silver worth $7,000 was found. Skeletons were also 1882. Incorporated 1882. Not cancelled. found which lead to the story that the miners held up in here until they Location: Pinal County. Small Size. Cut were murdered by Indians. Mines in this area are reported to go back irregularly on left. Some folding top. Very nice! Prag Collection Est. $100- to 1650 and is suppose to be from which the Planchas de Plate which 200 HWAC# 88008 contained about 5 tons of prime silver. Accounts are given in Mexican chronicles. (Prag collection) Est. $200-500 HWAC# 88141 192 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Stock Certificates Lot# 3499 Santa Cruz, Tyndall, Lot# 3503 Yavapai, Arizona 1870 Rosario Silver Black Hills, Arizona Mining Company Stock Copper Belt Mining Certificate Second Mortgage Company Stock Bond. (The stock certificates are Certificate Sticking more prevalent!) All four coupons Certificate. Underprint attached. Very early date! Signed in pink with a train by John Moore, GA Persicanis(?) running through the and RA Sinclair. Excellent bottom third of the condition. The property is located certificate. old Seal. about 7 miles west of Patagonia Center vignette has and 1 ½ miles northwest of the a belt buckle circle Salero Mine in the old Aztec (in Pink) around two District, which later became allegorical women leaning on a shield. Condition is near perfect: no known as the Tyndall District. The edge, corner, color or pinholes issues. Uncancelled. Number 125 for 500 mine was worked by Mexicans or shares to Lyman J Zaskin trustee in 1884. Signed by Zaskin and James Spaniards in the 1700s–1800s and W Smith. This district would eventually become known as Jerome - one is one of the early mines discussed by Lenon and others in their papers of the best copper districts in the west. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 62960 in the Mining History of Ari ona by Canty (3 vols.). It was financed by some of Heint elman’s and Colt’s associates in ew York. Here, northwest quartz veins cutting diorite were mined (mostly prospected) Lot# 3504 Yavapai, Bradshaw, Ari ona for gold and silver for decades, even though by 1900 there were still 1881 Moody and Place Milling & less than 1000 feet of underground workings. The ore was reported to Mining Company Stock # 43 for 50 average about $25 per ton, which might be why it was merely in an shares to HV Brown. Signed by Orrin F advanced stage of prospecting, when Schrader wrote Mineral Deposits Place (as in company name) and Daniel of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains for the USGS in 1915. This WIlkins president. Dateline Chicago company is not related to Rosario, Mexico [Garbani). [Prag Collection] 1881. Incorporated March 16, 1881. Not Est. $400-700 HWAC# 88018 cancelled. ocation: Bradshaw, Yavapai County. reen on pink. lobe vignette. CW Sherwood printer. Miner fold upper left corner. Otherwise Lot# 3500 Tomstone, Arizona 1881 excellent. In 1896 it was reported that the Moody & Place mines were a Mountain Maid Mining Company partially developed group of mines. THey show good ore which should Stock # 23 or 500 shares to DW Balch make them attractive to potential buyers. [Weekly Journal-Miner trustee. Signed by DW Balch president of rescott] Includes a history of Bradshaw City thorugh 1880. Prag and J Stadtfeld Jr. Shows young girl as Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88012 vignette. Le Count Bros. printer. Black on yellow. Not cancelled. Location: Tombstone, Cachise [sic] County. By Lot# 3505 Yavapai, Bradshaw, Ari ona 1881 a shaft of 200’ had been dug. Three shifts of men were working. 1890 Oro Bella Mining Company Stock The First North Extension of the Mountain Maide was claimed by the # 456 for 600 shares to George E Morse. Earp brothers. Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 88020 Signed by Charles H Briggs and president Isaac Goddard. Dateline ew York 1890. Incorporated 1887. old deal. ot cancelled. Mines Lot# 3501 Wickenburg, Arizona 1913 in Yavapai County, Ari ona. Allegricial vignette. Printed by Maverick Monarch Mining & Smelting Co. Stock & Wissinger. A few small pin holes and one heavy vertical fold. Over Cert. 1913. Number 2708 for 407 shares all very nice. “A mining enterprise that has the confidence of many to ES Middlebrook. Signed by James conservative businessmen of ew York and Connecticut and one which T Ross president and (?) secretary. is likely to prove exceedingly profitable in the near future is the ro Condition: small tears on edges Bella Mining Company....The mines are in the well known Bradshaw especially at folds. Not cancelled. Lands mountains forty or fifty miles south of Prescott, Ari ona and attracted were known as the Ryland, or Three considerable attention a dozen years ago when a quarter of a million Black Buttes group. Diorite and schist dollars or more in gold was realized from the surface ores which were carried copper, silver and gold ores, worked on the ground by arastras.” [Financial and Mining Record, July the latter valued at $3 to $15 per ton. oted by Steven, a high figure of 14, 1888] Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 88140 1,000,000 tons of ore was estimated by management at 540� levels (Ref: 1910-11, p.1198). Vignette of bald eagle perched atop Lot# 3506 Yavapai, Castle Creek, dome. Black border and gilt seal. Goes-printers. Had �10 Arizona Castle Creek District Stock claims known as the Three Black Buttes. In the Black Rock district 9 Certificates count 1) Castle Creek miles southeast of Wickenburg. Opened by tunnel with circa 4,000 of Copper Company. Number 37 (early) for workings. Ores are low in average tenor giving assays of 3 to 20 copper 6 shares to Robert W Groom in 1882. and to $15 gold per ton. Old 50 ton mill burned April 1007. Was replaced Signed by president and secretary. 1908 by a 50 ton mill on same site. [Mines Register Volume 8 and 9] Incorporated in ew York in 188 . o Est. $40-100 HWAC# 56935 edge, corner, color or pinhole issues. 2) Lot# 3502 Yavapai, Ari ona 1884 New Castle Creek Mining and Development Company. Number 105 for 500 shares to Mrs. AE Parsons in 1906. Era Gold Mining Company Stock Inc. SInged by Mary Ellen Fike (unusual for a lady to sign these) and Josiah in South Dakota. No. 28, issued for 200 Fike. Some rips and tears. The Arizona Republic of Phoenix reported shares to MJ Fuller on June 25, 1884. on April 8, 1910 that the company was unable to develop the property Signed by the president, Hussey, and as they hoped and the claim is up for sale. 3) Express Mining & Milling secretary, AL Fuller. Dateline 1884 San Company. Number A2231 for 500 shares to HW Bowes. Signed Francisco. Incorporated May 10, 1864. by Edmund Wolcott and Stephen Purel(?). Small rip at fold edges, Not cancelled. Mill and mining vignette. otherwise in very nice condition. Est. $180-300 HWAC# 62956 MJ Fuller would sue the company in 1886. That is the last time the company appears at newspapers.com. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 88014 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 193

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Stock Certificates Lot# 3507 Yuma Co., Ari ona Quartz Lot# 3510 , Arizona 4 Arizona Mining King Mining Co Rare uncancelled 5 stock 4 Arizona Mining Stocks: 1) shares of Quartz King Mining Co. cert. # 500 shares of Oatman Bonanza Gold 12786, dated April 12, 1906, issued to Mines Co. cert. # 318 dated February Raymond Venel, signed J. W. Parker, secy 26, 1916 issued to James E. Evans, and Theodore A. Bell, president. Raised signed J. I. McKenna, secy, H. D. Rore. gold company seal. Incorp.. August 30, Adhesive RN stamp Oatman veins are 1904. ocated Yuma, Co, A . Printed: mineralogically of simple and consist H.S. Crocker Co., 108Prag collection. Est. mainly of quartz, calcite, and adularia. $50-80 HWAC# 86564 Usually only quartz and calcite are recognizable with the naked eye. old is characteristically fine grained and generally can be seen only Lot# 3508 Yuma in rich ore. 2) 100 shares of Ray Hercules Copper Co., cert. #B6689 County, Arizona dated October 27, 1916 issued to Cyrus S. Jones, signed M. E. Reilly, vice 1882 Castle Dome president and L.M. Bament, assistant treasurer. Countersigned October Mining and Smelting 7, 1918. Printed: American Bank ote Co., ew York. 3) Cancelled Company Stock - 200 shares of Grand Central Mining Co. cert. #226 dated April 16, 1909 Brown Version # A36 issued to Peter Matlue. Gold company seal. Printed: Utah Litho Co. SLC. for 1000 shares to HK Printed: GOES 91. Prag collection. Est. $100-120 HWAC# 86559 Southwick. Signed by RK Southwick and HK Lot# 3511 , Arizona Arizona Mining Southwick as president. Stock Certificates, different One Dateline 1882. Franklin each from Consolidated Arizona Mines Bank Note printer. issued 1930, Palmilla District Mines Vignette is a $10 fancy Consolidation issued in 1927, Kay Copper vignette. The Castle Company issued 1923, Gold Bond of Old Dome Mining and Smelting Co. had a monopoly on mining operations in Dominion Extension Mining Equipment the district supported by William Miller, company superintendent. By Development Co.bond, Sonora Smelting 1884, though, the high-quality ore diminished and the company folded. & Ore Purchasing Company not issued, Intermittent small mining operations continued using an arrastra Bostwick Mining Company issued 1910. to crush ore that was smelted locally in adobe furnaces, producing a Est. $60-120 HWAC# 50308 product in the form of a lead bar called a “plancha,” composed of 95 percent lead, 0.5 percent silver and the remainder impurities. The Lot# 3512 , Arizona Arizona Mining Stock smelters were operated by Mexicans who charged miners $40 a ton Certificates, different 1 each from United for processing. Low-grade galena ore became sought after by Frank Easter Miners Corporation issued 1929, Vomocil and Paul Billicke, whose experience in silver mining was Kay Copper Company issued 1923, Sonora proven in the returns they got by eight old claims in the early 1890s. Smelting & Ore Purchasing Company not Capitalists continued to invest in the Castle Dome District throughout issued, Ray Hercules Mines, BOSTON AND the 1890s. These included the Castle Dome Mining Co., composed of ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT CO., INC. issued in Chicago investors, and Yuma merchants ohn andolfo and Eugene 1926, American-Mexican Mining & Smelting Sanguinetti. Later investors included William and Eliza Luce, who saw Co. issued 1920. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 50307 an opportunity to extract gold and silver from the tailings at Castle Dome by use of the cyanide process. They, in turn, bought many of the nearly-exhausted mining claims, formed the Castle Dome Mining and Milling Co., and built a 00-ton processing plant. inancial difficulties Lot# 3513 , Arizona Rare Southern led to insolvency and the demise of the Luce operation by 1906. Castle Arizona Ban and Trust Co. Stock Dome had its share of lawlessness at the turn of the century. Miner Certificate Rare Southern Arizona Ban Barbaro Hernande , while under the influence of marijuana, attempted and Trust Co. Stock Certificate issued in to shoot several miners as they were descending a shaft. He later 1921. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 50302 claimed the miners had stolen his windlass (a tool used for hoisting). The next day, the armed victims returned to confront Hernandez and both parties had a shotgun battle, with Hernandez wounding both miners. A grand jury exonerated Hernandez as having acted in self- defense. Another miner and co-worker of Hernandez, Trinidad Reyes, didn’t take it well when Castle Dome Mine superintendent Ed Mayes Lot# 3514 , Arizona Two Unissued reprimanded him for being intoxicated. Reyes pulled a six-gun and fired arly Ari ona Stock Certificates at his boss, who immediately disarmed him — though he was unable to 1) Independence Consolidated Gold restrain Reyes, who escaped to Mexico. The Castle Dome Mine Museum and Silver Mining Company. 186- on the site of the former mining camp has been in operation since 1994. . Incorporated December 1863. Mill The company also had mines at Melrose, Alameda County, California. with one horse ore wagon vignette. (Prag Collection) Est. $150-300 HWAC# 86778 Colorado District. 2) McMillan Silver Mining Company. 187-. Globe District, Lot# 3509 Yuma County, Ari ona 188 Pinal County. # 2827. Both in excellent Castle Dome Mining and Smelting condition. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 88016 Company Stock - Green Version # 79 for 100 shares to HK Southwick. Signed by RK Southwick and president HK Southwick. Dateline 1882. Incorporated in 1880. Pin holes. Fold bottom right. Not cancelled.Prag Collection Est. $150- 250 HWAC# 86779 194 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Stock Certificates Lot# 3515 , Arkansas 1850 South- Lot# 3519 Amador, Western and Arkansas Mining California 1878- Company Stock Certificate This small 1899 Empire Mill si ed silver company stock certificate and Mining Co. measures 4 x 7.25”. Number 530 issued Stock Certificate to George A Worthen for $100 (NOT Number 23 for SHARES). Signed by president Thomas 200 shares issued Minton(?) and George A Worthen as to trustee CD secretary. The original Kellogg mine was opened in 1840 south of Morrison. Signed Kellogg Creek by the South Western and Arkansas Mining Company, by president Alfred under a lease from Benjamin Kellogg. It was followed by several other Lyon and secretary William Drake. The Empire Mine in Amador mines on both sides of the creek; they all ceased operations before County was located 2 miles west of Mokelumne Hill and 2.5 miles 1852. Operations in this period yielded up to 500 tons of lead-silver south of Jackson in the central Mother Lode region. The company was concentrate, valued at $90 to $100 per ton, all of which was shipped re-incorporated as the Empire Mill and Mining Company April 23rd, for processing to Liverpool, England. [Encyclopedia of Arkansas 1877. It was capitalized at $500,000; 50,000 shares at $10 per. The History & Culture online] See also Whitney Page 115. The company Pacific company took over the Empire s assets after 1883 Ref: ogan, was incorporated in Arkansas in 1849. VF+. Writing on back bleeds Mother Lode Gold Belt, 1934, p 106-7]. Between 1850 and its closure in through to the front. Cut roughly. Two very small pinholes where the 1956, the Empire Mine produced 5.8 million ounces of gold, extracted value %100.00 was written. Nice condition! Est. $80-150 HWAC# 60265 from 367 miles of underground passages. The Empire Mining Co. was originally incorporated in 1854, after John Rush the original owner was Lot# 3516 , Arkansas 1850 South- bought out after acquiring it two years earlier. This mine was probably Western and Arkansas Mining Company the first Hard Rock (quart ) gold mine in California. Est. $50-100 Stock Certificates Pair of sequentially HWAC# 58328 numbered 1850 Arkansas stock certificates. These small sized silver company stock Lot# 3520 Amador County, California certificates measures 4 x 7. 5”. umber 539 1879 Amador Gravel Mining Company and 540 issued to George A Worthen for Stock # 101 (or 1) for 200 shares to J $100 (NOT SHARES). Signed by president Blume trustee. Signed by secretary Van Brunt and president (?). Dateline Thomas Minton(?) and George A Worthen 1879 San Francisco. Incorporated Spet 1878. Not cancelled. Mountain as secretary. The original Kellogg mine was cliff vignette. Geo. H Baker printer. Nice condition. “The partial clean up opened in 1840 south of Kellogg Creek by made recently paid fairly. The sluice boxes alone were cleaned and we the South Western and Arkansas Mining are told a sum of $800 was obtained. Drifting is now in progress. A lead Company, under a lease from Benjamin of blue gravel, found close to the bed rock, is drifted upon. Its extent is Kellogg. It was followed by several other mines on both sides of the yet undetermined, but gravel prospects exceedingly well.” [Mining and creek; they all ceased operations before 1852. Operations in this period Scientific Press, 1880 Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 88144 yielded up to 500 tons of lead-silver concentrate, valued at $90 to $100 per ton, all of which was shipped for processing to Liverpool, England. Lot# 3521 Amador County, California [Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture online] See also Whitney 1868 Amador Mining Company Stock Page 115. The company was incorporated in Arkansas in 1849. VF+. # 672 for 10 shares to AE Hill trustee. Cut roughly. One has two pin holes from heavy writing. Est. $150-400 HWAC# 60263 Signed by James Bicknel and president Garnett. Dateline San Francisco 1868. Incorporated October 11, 1867, ELEVEN different dividend stamps on reverse. All in 186 and 1869. A very successful mining Lot# 3517 Alamo, Lower California, California 1905 Aurora Consolidated operation! Cancelled. “Number of feet in company’s Haward Mine, 1850” Allegorical vignette. Britton & Rey printer. The Amador Mining Mining Company Stock This mining Co. was an early California gold quartz mine and the richest producer. company has been commonly associated It is located at Sutter Creek and was owned and operated by Messrs. with Aurora, Nevada. Although that Hayward & Co. from 1855 till the date of this report which was published may sound more reasonable, research shortly after the company’s incorporation. The ore assayed from $20 indicates this stock is from Alamo, Lower to $95 per ton. The company was incorporated on October 10th, 1867 California. In September of 1901 the Salt by Trustees, Alvinza Hayward, L. A. Garnett, F. Sunderland, A. H. Rose, Lake City Tribune had a short article on and S. F. Butterworth. Alvinza Hayward also owned the adjacent Old the Aurora Consolidated. It had secured Eureka which opened in 1852. By 1867 this mine was operating a 56 control of 18 of the leading properties near Alamo. They supposedly had stamp mill, and in 1869 the mine was purchased by the Amador Mining $200,000 in gold in the treasury. They intended to sink 1,000’ shafts on Company for $750,000. The Amador Mining Company was the largest the Aurora and Princess mines. Clifford Alpheus Shaw, on his definitive quartz mine in the county and later became the Keystone Company. work on Aurora, Nevada clearly states that James Stuart Cain owned the From Report upon Precious Metals by William P. Blake 1869. “The mines of the Aurora area until he sold them in 1912 to Magnum, Knight Amador Mining Company represented by 3,700 shares, at a par value of and Knight in 1912. They changed the name to the Aurora Consolidated Mines Company. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 99597 $400. The bullion returns during two weeks in October, 1867, amounted to $16,580. It was incorporated October 10, 1867, and since that time, Lot# 3518 Alleghany, California 1915 to the end of the year, produced $111,826.63 in bullion; the dividends Exploration Syndicate Stock & disbursed during the same period amounted to $66,600. The receipts in December were $35,121 33. The quantity of ore reduced during the Prospectus I/I John Gartler 1915 1000 last three months of the year was 5,018 tons. The average value of the shares signed by President illegible, includes prospectus Est. $50-100 ore for 13 months was $22 06 per ton. The cost of mining and milling HWAC# 87460 was $ .0 leaving a profit of $1 per ton. This stock has never been assessed. It has been sold as low as $200 per share.” [Prospectus] Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 88145 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 195

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Stock Certificates Lot# 3522 Amador County, California 1878 Empire Mill and Mining Company Stock Location: Amador & El Dorado Counties. Cert. #62 issued to C. D. Morrison, Trustee in 1878 for 2500 shares. Signed by Wm. R. Drake as Secretary and by Alfred Lyon as president. Incorporated in San Francisco on April 23, 1877 and capitalized at $500,000; 50,000 shares at $10 per. Uncancelled. Printed on white paper by A.L. Bancroft & Co., SF. 4” x 9 1/4”. Small nicks where fold meets bottom. Extremely nice with the fancy title scrip. One of the mines this company owned was the Empire mine in Amador County, located 2 miles west of Mokelumne Hill and 2.5 miles south of Jackson in the central Mother ode region. The Pacific company took over the Empire s assets after 1883 Ref: ogan, Mother ode old Belt, 1934, p 106-7]. In Oct. 1850, George McKnight discovered gold in a quartz outcrop (ledge) called the Ophir Vein, later it was sold to John P. Rush Lot# 3526 Blue Mountain District, Calaveras County, California 1864 and the Empire Quartz Hill Co. Rush bought out was incorporated in Good Hunter Gold and Silver Mining Company ERY EAR Y 8. 1854, after John Rush was bought out. William Bowers Bourn acquired 10 shares to Daniel C Staples. Signed by JV Martin and president (?). control of the company in 1869. Bourn died in 1874, and his estate ran Dateline Blue Mountain 1864. Incorporated September 16th, 1863. the mine, abandoning the Ophir vein for the Rich Hill in 1878.[5]:34 Good Gold Hunter vignette by Loomis. Also a Native American warrior Bourn’s son, William Bowers Bourn II, formed the Original Empire Co. on a horse. Towne & Bacon printers. Not cancelled. Location: Blue in 1878, took over the assets of the Empire Mining Co., and continued Mountain District, Calaveras County, Cal. Discoloration top. Very nice! work on the Ophir vein after it was bottomed out at 1200 feet and Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 86051 allowed to fill with water. :87 7 With his financial backing, and after 1887, the mining knowledge and management of his younger cousin George W. Starr, the Empire Mine became famous for its mining technology. In its final year of operation in 195 , the Empire Mine had reached an incline depth of 11,007 ft. and produced $70,000,000 in gold at prices ranging from $20.67 - $35.00 per oz. Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 86770 Lot# 3523 Amador County, Jackson, California 1869 Coney Mining Company Stock Early # 2 for 10 shares to Edwan(?). Signed by secretary Smith and president Heydenfelt. Dateline San Francisco 1869. Incorporated January 6, 1869. 25c Bond revenue stamp. Not cancelled. Eagle and shield vignette. Bacon & Company printer. Fold top left corner. No edge or discoloration issues. ‘Preferred stock.’ Mines at Jackson, Amador County, California. Original trustees Lot# 3527 Blue Mountain District, Calaveras County, California 1863 included HH Bigelow, Leonard Coney (namesake), JW Gashwiler, George Star of the West Gold and Silver Mining Company Stock # 115 for H Bigelow and S Heydenfelt. Coney was known as a miner in Amador 10 shares to DC Staples. Signed by JV Martin and BF Morris. These are County. He discovered the Zeile mine. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 88143 the same signatures as the other Blue Mountain stock for sale in this auction: Good Hunter. Dateline Blue Mountain 1864. Incorporated Lot# 3524 Angels Camp, California 1899 Stickle Quartz Mining Company September 16, 1863. Location: Blue Mountain Mining District, Calaveras Co. The Blue Mountain district is on the East Belt of Calaveras County # 59 for 5 shares to Hobart. Signed on the South Fork of the Mokelumne River. Not cancelled. 5c small by HG Stevenson and A Hammond(?). revenue stamp. Shares $100 each. Star vignette. HS Crocker printer. Dateline San Francisco 1879. $100 per Underprint ‘BLUE MOUNTAIN’ in blue. Rip upper right. Discoloration share. Location: Angels Mining District, center bottom. Nice condition. Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# Calaveras Co., Cal. Spaulding & Barto 86055 printer. Red underprint. 10c document stamp. Light discoloration. Very nice. Incorporated October 25, 1871. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 86147 Lot# 3525 Blue Canon, Placerville County, RETURN POLICY California 1898, 1906 Blue Canon Mining and Development Company Stocks Two distinctly All items are guaranteed to be authentic unless otherwise different colors. 1) # 187 for 100 shares to JS Fox. noted. f authenticity is challenged, please call our office for Signed by JB Knapp and president MM Cormack. assistance. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. You may only return any piece Dateline Blue Canon, CALA 1898. (Rare dateline!) that was significantly inaccurately described by calling our office Allegorical vignette with a California bear. JC within 10 days of receipt of item(s) and notifying us of the error Irvine printer. Fancy scroll work and in very and reason for return. We do not refund postage or insurance. nice condition. No corner, edge, discoloration PLEASE CALL US IF YOU REQUIRE A MORE SPECIFIC CONDITION or pinhole issues. 2) Same as #1 except 1906. REPORT OR ADDITIONAL PHOTOS. Any items that are returned President is WH Holmes(?). Corner issues on this must be returned in the exact, unaltered condition. When we cert. Blue Canyon today is an unincorporated receive your bids we will assume you have read the description community in Placer County, California. Blue Canyon is located 4 miles southwest of Emigrant Gap. In 1901 this stock in the catalog, viewed the image of the item, have contacted us regarding any questions you may have on any lot and/or have had no value (per California newspaper). Must have regained its value by 1906? Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 86151 previewed the lot in person. 196 January 2019

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Stock Certificates Lot# 3530 Bodie, California 1879 Bodie Tunnel and Mining Company Stock T Brown Certificate # 424 for 50 shares to JW Harker trustee. Signed by AF MA(?) and president Robert Sherwood. Vignette of ore cat with the ‘AND” printed on it. Cute. GT Brown & Co printer. Not cancelled. Incorporated November 12, 1877. Location: Bodie Mining Dist., Mono County, California. Shares $100 each. Pin holes. Rough cut on top. In 1880 this company was locked in a dispute with the Tioga Consolidated Mining Company. Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 86138 Lot# 3528 Bodie, California 1878 Aurora Tunnel and Mining Company Lot# 3531 Bodie, California 1879 Brooklyn Consolidated Mining Company Stock Stock Certificate Rare. Incorporated anuary , 1878. Certificate o. # 60 for 100 shares 576, issued October 10, 1878 to Silas Smith for 100 shares; signed by to J Cheney trustee. Graves, president and Hubbard as Secretary. Printed by Lith Britton, Signed by secretary Rey & Co. S.F.; U/C. Endorsed on reverse. The Aurora Tunnel and Mining and president. Dateline Company, located in Mono County, California in the Bodie Mining 1879 San Francisco. istrict. rom the Pacific Coast Annual Mining Review and Stock edger Incorporated February 1878, p.171-2 : They have…..”pushed it forward nearly a thousand feet 1879. Not cancelled. towards its objective point. In the construction of this tunnel they had Small mining vignette a double purpose - having in view the opening of a passage-way for on left. W Daxey, San draining and working the tier of veins already taken up in the ridge Francisco printer. No between Bodie Bluff and Silver Hill, and the discovery and locating major issues - Very Nice. Although the mining operation was in Bodie, of any blind lodes that the tunnel might intersect in its course. The the company office was located in San rancisco. ittle else is known surface claim taken up is 3,000 feet in length, extending clear across of this company or of those who run the company. Prag Collection Est. the mineral-bearing belt that here traverses the country. The tunnel $400-700 HWAC# 86143 enters the hill from the east, passing through the “Good-shaw,” “South Standard,” and such other parallel claims as lie in its path. For aiding ventilation, an air-shaft has been opened from the surface to the tunnel Lot# 3532 Bodie, California 1879 level, and 500 feet in from its mouth a prospecting winze has been sunk Consolidated Pacific ining Company to a depth of 100 feet. Several blind veins have already been intersected Stock # 1704 for 50 shares to James by the tunnel, all of which have been duly secured by the Company, Coffin trustee. Signed by E ut and who will in good time proceed to explore such other favorable mineral vice president A Rinsou(?). Dateline San implications as this work has partially laid open. Among the lodes cut Francisco 1879. Incorporated August by the tunnel is one situated 765 feet from its entrance.” R.N. Graves 22nd 1878. Location: Bodie Mining was heavily involved in both the Comstock and Bodie. He served as District, Mono Co., Cal. Not cancelled. Britton & rey printer. Many pin superintendent for the Empire Mill & Mining Company, Gould & Curry, holes and some discoloration. Located on the Southern slope of Bodie Imperial, and others. With the decline of the Comstock, he invested Peak. It was a good producing mine for about two years. There was heavily in Bodie, financing mining operations and the Bodie Benton a 500’ shaft and a sizable amount of ore had been outlined by 1881. Railroad. In 1879, the Aurora Tunnel Company gave up portions of its [Burchard, 1881] Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 86139 claims to form the Dudley Mining Co., south of the Jupiter and southeast Lot# 3533 Bodie, California 1879 of the Mono. The Aurora Tunnel is also mention in Jos. Wasson’s 1878 Dudley Mining Company Stock # “Bodie & Esmeralda: “This is now an important enterprise, more of 1701 for 15 shares to WG Crandall the nature of an extensive cross-cut under the surface, for the purpose trustee. Signed by EC Masteu(?) and of discovering and locating blind lodes pertaining to the backbone president AJ Ralston (nephew of between Bodie Bluff and Silver Hill. The claim is 3,000 feet in length, and William Ralston). Dateline San Francisco extends across the entire series of lodes in the district. It has entered 1879. Incorporated Sep. 6th, 1878. the ridge from the east side near 1,000 feet; an air shaft is cut through Not cancelled. Location Bodie Ming. Dist., Mono Mo., Cal. Britton & from above, and at 500 feet from the mouth a winze 100 feet deep is Rey printer. riginal trustees included such influential peoples as R sunk. Several locations of vein matter have been made, and some very Graves, WM Stewart, and Ralston. “The Dudley property is located in auspicious indications noted for further exploration. At 765 feet from one of the most favorable portions of the now famous Bodie district. the mouth, 15 feet of vein matter-a solid character, and of sufficient The claim was conveyed to the present owners by the Aurora Tunnel richness to justify a thorough system of development-is located. Enough and May Belle companies. It is situated about south of the Jupiter is already demonstrated to characterize the Aurora tunnel as a leading and southeast of Mono. A shaft has been sunk to a depth of 100 feet and permanent enterprise.” Very good condition with several pinholes on left side. Est. $250-600 HWAC# 60250 and discloses a vein of ore 15 feet wide that is about equal in assay to the Standard and the Bodie. There also have been discovered four Lot# 3529 Bodie, California 1884 Bodie other veins of ore of less width, but paying high. Some very valuable Consolidated Mining Company Stock specimens have been taken from this ledge that approximate very near to pure silver and gold. The vein in its general character carries with This is a specimen proof with notes it a great deal of silver and instances of finding specimens of free gold on changes. Dated February 18, 1884. and wire silver together. Active work is progressing in the development Two mining vignettes. Location: Bodie of the mine and the hoisting works are pushed to their fullest capacity. Mining District, Mono Co., California. Crosscutting will begin at once and will be pushed ahead as fast as giant Underprint ‘B. C. M. Co.’ The Bodie powder and muscle can operate. The company does not propose to Consolidated was an early (the earliest) allow a valuable property to lie dormant. Great results are ultimately incorporated Bodie mine. We have not expected from this mine.” [United States Annual Mining Review and seen this stock before. Incredibly fragile with large rips. Has been Stock edger, 1879 one other than Henry Yerington has an interest in attached to stiff paper to hold it together. Still - this is a one-of-a-kind this mine. Prag Collection Est. $30-600 HWAC# 86141 item! Prag Collection Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 86137 Bid online at FHWAC.com or call 775-851-1859 197

DAY 3 Saturday, January 26 Mining / Stock Certificates Lot# 3534 Bodie, California 1881 Goodshaw Mining Company Stock Lot# 3538 Bodie, by Grafton T. Brown Lithographer Scarce Bodie stock issued in 1881 California 1979 Rough and printed by Grafton & Ready Consolidated T. Brown. Grafton Tyler Gold Mining Co. Stock Brown was one of the Incorporated in 1878. first African American Issued to W. H. Lent for lithographers in the 100 shares in 1879. Signed American West during the by H. Mayers (president) mid to late 19th Century. and Wm. H. Lent secretary. He was one of the first Vignette of a miner seated within the R of Rough. Black border to illustrate views of and print. Uncancelled. Printer - A. J. Leary, SF. 4 x 9”. Datelined San California and the Pacific Francisco. “1500 Feet Rough & Ready; 1500 Feet of Rough & Ready No. Coast. He also created the 2 earliest bird’s eye views of Virginia City. By 2” printed at top. “Bodie Mining Dist., Mono Co., Cal.” printed below the time he was , Brown owned his own firm located in San rancisco. title. A classic example of a Bodie mining company. No edge, corner, pin This stock certificate was issued to a .B. Bayley Trustee on anuary holes or discoloration issues. ery fine. Rare. William M. ent (father to 27, 1881 for 100 shares. Cert. #4886. The Goodshaw Mining Co. was W.H.?) was an important investor in both Comstock and Bodie mines. located in the Bodie Mining District in Mono County. Three assessment According to EMJ Vol. 27 (1879): “The hoisting works and new pump stamps on reverse. Two mall mining vignettes. Not Cancelled. The of the Iron Clad Mine, Rough and Ready, are expected to be ready to stock has some extra fold lines. [REF: Robert Chandler, San Francisco start-up in three weeks” and that the machinery as from the Montana Lithographer African Americana Artist Grafton Taylor Brown. 2014] mine in Colfax. From the United States Annual Mining Review and Stock PragCollection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 86146 Ledger, 1879, “The property composing this incorporation consists of two locations of 1,500 feet each on Bodie Peak in Bodie Mining District Lot# 3535 Bodie, California 1878 Mono County directly west of the Syndicate and Sitting Bull and north of the McClinton mine This mine is developed by an incline to the depth Handly Mining Company Very early of 135 feet showing a well defined ledge of fair grade milling ore the #19 for 7,000 shares to William Ward. entire distance from one to three and one half feet wide Also by a drift Nice vignette in the lower right-hand at bottom of shaft, some 25 feet in length, showing that the true course corner of a miner swinging a pick with of the ledge is nearly due north and south being on a line and but a short the text “Bodie Dist./ Mono County, Cal.” distance from the principal mines of the camp. The company propose Printed by Britton & Rey, San Francisco. to commence at once the practical working and developing of the Reverse is signed by William Ward and mine by sinking a perpendicular double-compartment working shaft a has some pencilled tallying in tabular short distance from the incline shaft. The location selected for sinking form at one end. Measures 9 3/16” the new shaft gives the advantage of not less than one hundred feet x 4.” The Handly Mining Company’s mine was located between the lower surface and much more favorable ground for sinking as well as Goodshaw and the Bodie (to the south) and covered an area of 1,500 a better location for surface improvements. The above description of feet by 100. It “ranks as among the earliest locations made in Bodie’” this property may be verified by examination as it open to the public and the “title is complete and unquestioned.” In 1878, a vertical shaft and being an old location the title is undisputed. The superintendent had been sunk 70 feet and the ore was carrying from $300 to $400 a is an experienced miner and a thorough business man-- also one of ton in gold. [ref: United States Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, pg. 202, 1879] Very rare, early Bodie stock! Fine Condition!!! Est. $500- the principal owners in the mine; therefore the most economical 900 HWAC# 88672 management as well as the most vigorous prosecution of the work may be looked for and favorable results expected by the stockholders Lot# 3536 Bodie, California 1879 The company have set aside 12,000 shares of stock as working capital which may be had at the office at a price where maps of the property Noonday Mining Company Stock # may be seen and all information regarding it will cheerfully given.” Prag 615 for 10 shares to George B Root trustee. Signed by Coldeu(?) and Collection Est. $500-800 HWAC# 86144 president William (?). Dateline 1879 San Francisco. Incorporated Mar. 6, 1878. Lot# 3539 Bodie, California 1879 Tioga Not cancelled. No vignette.Le Count Consolidated Mining Company Stock Bros. printer. Three assessment stamps on reverse. Many pin holes on No. #6543 dated Sept 11, 1882 for 100 left. No edge corner or discoloration issues. Location of Mine: Bodie shares made out to ER Grant, Trustee. Incorporated March 14, 1878 Mining Dist., Mono Co., Cal. Located on SIlver Hill along with the Dudley, and capitalized at $10,000,000; 100,000 shares at $100 per share. Boston Con. and Last Chance. It Was the third largest bullion producer The dateline is San Francisco. Signed by President A. J. Ralston and at one time, behind the Standard and Bodie [Burchard, 1882] Prag Secretary pro tem George W Simon(?). Black on white; 4 x9 inches, Collection Est. $300-700 HWAC# 86145 ith. Britton, Rey Co. S. . rom the Pacific Coast Annual Mining Review and Stock edger 1878, p. 50: “ ffice, Rooms and 3, San rancisco Lot# 3537 Bodie, California 1879 North Stock Exchange. A. J. Ralston, president; W. H. Lent, secretary; W. Rose, Standard Gold and Silver Mining superintendent; A. J. Ralston, John F. Boyd, R. N. Graves, W. M. Stewart, Company Stock Location: Bodie Mining J. McAneny, trustees. Annual meeting, second Monday in April. No. of District, Mono County. Inc. in California, shares, 100,000. No. of assessments, 2. Total assessments, $20,000. April 16th, 1879. No. 877. Issued for 100 Listed on San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board. It is situated among shares to E.A. Richardson trustee on some of the best locations, and adjoins the Standard on the North. A July 24, 1879 in San Francisco. Signed shaft has been sunk to the depth of 200 feet, and discloses three veins, by W.H. Brown (President) and H. Deas all gold-bearing. The indications partake of the same properties as the (Secretary). No vignette. Printed by E. Bosqui & Co., Lith, SF. Pinholes, Standard, and there is no doubt, should present indications be verified, folds and toning. A major producing mine in Bodie, it eventually became that the Tioga will prove one of the most prosperous mines in the part of the Standard Consolidated Mine. The Standard was by far the district.” The Tioga Consolidated Mining Co. together with the Bechtel most productive mine with a yield of more than 18 million dollars. At Consolidated Mining Co. was later involved in an important legal case its peak, operations included between forty and fifty mines, ten mills, with the Bodie Tunnel and Mining Co. in 1881-87 in which the status of and up to 162 stamps [Ref: Gudde, 1975, pp. 41-42]. Est. $300-600 an existing tunnel constitutes a valid claim. According to Balch 1882, HWAC# 86142 the Tioga was 600 x 862 feet with “ore quite free of waste and will probably mill $25 ton” and the ledge between 4 and 6 feet in thickness. Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 86140 198 January 2019