[WESTERN AMERICANA - MINING]. A half plate daguerreotype of three gold miners.

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lot of five. 1) Tonopah Gold Mountain MC. #704 for 500 shares in 1904. Early!. Three small mining related vignettes. Signed by Key Pittman. He was a United States Senator from Nevada and a member of t

1) White Swan Gold MIning Company. Number 8 for 1000 shares to Emma Saltzman. Signed by HW Thompson and president HR Kincaid. Not cancelled. 5c documentary stamp. Dateline Eugene 1899. Incorporated Ma

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

Three stock certificates for Bullfrog Mining stock: 1) 1,000 shares of Bullfrog-Banner Mines Co. #220 issued to R. W. Dennis on March 1, 1908. Gold co. seal and green border. Incorp. in South Dakota.

Lot of three. All the same, but all on different color paper: red, white and blue. Numbers 77 (preferred stock 'B'), 225 (preferred stock), and 327 (common stock). All are signed by HW Bohm and George

Issued for 1000 shares in 1901. Location of Mines: St. Regis District, Missoula County, Montana. Nice mining vignette. Printed by Franklin-Lee Banknote Company, N.Y. Three hole punches in the left bor

Lot of three: 1) Helbros (West Germany), men's round watch, self-winding, day-date; ticks, could do with a cleaning, case 10 micro gold plate. 2) Hamilton (USA), "Winthrop" model, circa 1939, tank/sem

Number 14121. $25. All 80 coupons attached. Signed by W Fraser(?) secretary and Goodman president. Two vignettes: ore cart at mine entrance and oil rig. Some small tears at edges. Three pages total. E

Three stock certificates from the Comstock Lode: 1) 1880 Curtis Consolidated one hundred shares issued to H. S. Stone; Gold Hill Mining District of Storey County; 2) 1911 Exchequer Gold and Silver Min

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Half plate daguerreotype of a three-year-old girl and her toy dog. Half plate daguerreotype. (Horizontal wipes throughout plate, sharp clarity to image.) Housed in full, pressed p

[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

Charming antique half plate daguerreotype of 2 girls and a hobby horse, mounted in leather case. May be an image from a painting. Somewhat cloudy, spotted image with edge tarnish. Image is 5 x 4 in.

A pair of framed items -- one photo of a grizzled miner, one print of saloon scene, depicting life as a miner back in the California Gold Rush. Both are framed in rather ornate Victorian style frames,

Lot of 57 one ounce silver rounds, 50 are Apmex sealed Buffaloes. Two are panning miners; three are Amac "Lone Survivor"; one in the style of St. Gaudens; and a Bitcoin made of copper. City: State: Da

Lot of three porcelain license plates from Kansas City, Missouri. These are license plate numbers 371 from 1911, 625 from 1913, and 4274 from 1913. All three plates are approx. 11 x 5. Fair condition,

About 80 pieces of Tuolumne ephemera, c. 1871-1910. Land statements, billheads-some pictorial, Sierra Railway, Confidence Gold Mining payroll ledger sheet etc. Groveland, Cactus, Sonora, Jamestown, Ca