[WESTERN AMERICANA] -- [GOLD MINING]. The Miner's Ten Commandments bifolium lettersheet featuring

[WESTERN AMERICANA] -- [GOLD MINING]. The Miner's Ten Commandments bifolium lettersheet featuring letter from California gold miner. BETTER, Mitchell. Autograph letter signed ("Mitchell Better")

Lot of four store cards in the manner of U.S. ten dollar gold pieces featuring the "sign of the Old Man with Specs." Provenance: Benjamin Fauver Collection Country (if not USA): State: New York City/C

Issued by the Carolina Gold Mining and Milling Company, 682 shares at $1 per to C. Sopas (sp?) and signed by Chase (sp?) secretary and Pamsole (sp?) president. There's a hard rock miner vignette and i

Issued for 50 shares in 1881 at New York. Inc. in New York. Location of mine: Gold Mountain District, Esmeralda Co. Nevada printed at the top. Miners working underground with their candles to light up

Rare ghost town certificate that we have never offered! Inc. in Colorado. "Mines located in Ten Mile Consolidated Mining District, Summit Co. Col." (printed at upper right). "Principal Offices in Summ

Issued 1882, #979. 3 miner vignette. According to Burchard (1883), this company operated at Free Gold in the Cottonwood District of Chaffee County. Free Gold was located 1.5 miles south of Buena Vista

"of Gold Hill, Boulder County, Colorado." Issued 1881. Not listed in C&L, 1883. The Leadville Weekly Herald, April 17, 1880, reports multiple claims being sold to the company in the Ten Mile District,

This cert is extra rare. "Storey County, Gold Hill District, Nevada Territory" (printed on the left around a vignette of a baker). Incorporated February 8, 1864. Low number 10, issued for ten shares t

Rare. Reverse has label: "Hills and Dales of New England. No. 466. Gold Digging at Smith's Claim, Gold Miner's Glen, Plymouth, Vt. F.B. Gage, Photo. Published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York." V

Mining in the Leadville area began in 1859 when prospectors discovered gold at the mouth of California Gulch. In 1876, black sand, once considered bothersome to placer gold miners, was discovered to c

[WESTERN AMERICANA - MINING]. A group of 3 photographs of gold miners at work. View of at least 11 gold miners, including one possible female, posed near a long wooden sluice for an unknown photograph

[WESTERN AMERICANA-MINING]. 2 manuscripts, incl. miner's letter from Norwegian Gulch (Montana), 1869 HOUSEL, J. Autograph letter signed ("J. Housel"), to an uncle. Norwegian Gulch [Montana], 4 July 18

About 500 or more Wallace checks in bulk. Mostly sorted-Tamarack and Custer Mining, Success Mining, Amazon-Manhattan Mining, Wallace National Bank, Miners and Smelters Bank etc. c. 1904-24. About 5 lb

Four carbide lamps use on miner's helmets in underground mining. Three are labeled JUSTRITE and one is unmarked as far as this describer can tell. Based on their condition, they all would have great m

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. The Rosborough family archive, including letters relating to the California Gold Rush, the Modoc War, the Klondike Gold Rush, and early settlement and mining operations in Idaho T

Lot of 60+. Many pictorial. Includes: Doctor Mine, Miners and Shippers of High Grade Gold Ore (1895, pictorial); South Park Land & Cattle Co. (1884, pict.); JE Brown Grocer (1888); Hotel Rio Grande (1

1950 Water color by Miller, 1950. J'ville saloon, US Assay Office 1855, General Store. Miner's supplies and stable. Location unknown. 14x22.5". Top and bottom edge wear.Date: Country (if not USA): Sta

7 crude wire miner's candlesticks, 3 with candle remnants. Several were found in New Mexico.Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Jim & Barbara Sherman Private Western Mining Museum

3 nicely framed Colorado mining pieces. Contains: 1.1879-81 illustrations from Harper's Weekly & Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The formidable Argentine Pass; Miners enjoying spirits near the L

Cert. #152, issued for 100 shares in 1863. Industrial scene with train at top center and miners down the shaft at left. Black on creme. Ellenville, Ulster County, New York on the header. Revenue stamp

Two different mining candlestick holders. The shorter one is listed on page 28 of Wilson-Bobrink. It is a "California style" holder and is marked with the patent date, June 17, 1890. The longer one is

Lot of 2. Both pieces related to Nevada City assayer James J. Ott. Ott was the assayer who discovered in 1859 that the ore being mined on the Comstock Lode was very rich in silver. The first miners on

This is an early patent style mining candlestick holder from the 19th century. It would have been stuck into timber or hung from rocks in underground mines to provide miners with light. This holder do

Lot of three unmarked mining candlestick holders. These would have been stuck into timber or hung from rocks in underground mines to provide miners with light. Made of wrought iron. No manufacturer ma