"This 2.17 troy oz silver ingot is a fine example from Price. On this ingot his bullion punch is modeled after the well known Kellogg & Humbert bullion punches seen on the SSCA gold ingots, and in their successor company silver ingots known today, as well
"Photo Courtesy of Stack's, Lot 3553 John J. Ford, Jr. Collection Part XX & XXI, October 2007 Sale. Wiegand silver ingot. c 1870's. This 1.50 troy ounce silver ingot is a typical Comstock ingot of silver fineness .957 and gold .0335. It is characteristic
"Photo Courtesy of Stack's, Lot 3555 John J. Ford, Jr. Collection Part XX & XXI, October 2007 Sale. No. 7091 Wiegand Silver Ingot. c 1873. This 4.40 troy ounce ingot is a silver-gold piece of significance. This piece is .558 fine silver and .0155 fine gol
"No. 128 Stock certificates issued January 1853 as a bearer certificate for one share, signed James A. Shorb as President and E. H. Cornwall as Secretary. """"El Dorado County, California"""" printed boldly under the title and vignette. No dateline, but t
"Offered here is an Extremely Rare original Wells Fargo Reward Poster for the theft of two bullion bars from the Wells Fargo Express office at Benton, in Mono County, California. Reward posters for stolen bullion are Extremely Rare and this may be the onl
"Bodie Bluff Consolidated Mining Co. incorporated in 1863. This is a sheet of three unissued certificates and is believed to be the only uncut sheet left intact in existence. These certificates are each 5 x 10"""", and the sheet is 17 x 10"""" with a blac
"Issued to G.B. Bayley, Trustee in 1880 for 100 shares. No vignette but fancy decorations in left corners. Printed by Britton & Rey, San Francisco. Uncancelled. """"Location Bodie District, Mono Co., Cal."""" Printed at bottom. Datelined San Francisco. 4
"No. 131 Certification of Assay, White Rock Lode, Gold Hill, CT. For more detailed information please call our Reno office (775) 852-8822 and mention lot 595."
Item:343
$ 750.00 USD
No. 2395 Specimen deposited for assay & assay results for a sample from an unknown mine deposited by John Grove of rather high grade silver, 177 ounces per ton. Vignette of Miner at left, printed by Francis, Valentine & Co. San Francisco. Fine to Very Fine. For more detailed information please call our Reno office (775) 852-8822 and mention lot 701.
Item:344
$ 300.00 USD
No. 399 Certificate Issued to W. E. Norwood for 250 shares signed by A.J. Holmes as President and E.A. Holmes as Sec. Printed by Bosqui. Datelined San Francisco. Rare. Very Fine. For more detailed information please call our Reno office (775) 852-8822 and mention lot 737.
Item:346
$ 2750.00 USD
No. 7923-26 Memorandum of deposited sample by William A. M. Van Bokkelen, signed by Leopold Kuh, printed on letterhead. Original envelope addressed to Bokkelen also included. Extremely Fine. From the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection. For more detailed information please call our Reno office (775) 852-8822 and mention lot 821.
No. 8977 Memorandum of gold & silver bullion deposited for assay. For more detailed information please call our Reno office (775) 852-8822 and mention lot 836.
"Murphy's, Calaveras County, California c 1836-1873"
Item:349
$ 7500.00 USD
Speech made by Salmon P. Chase, probably in Cincinnati, Ohio. When this speech was made, Chase had just been elected as a Senator from Ohio in the Free Soil Party. Complete transcript is included. This is one of the finest first hand letters or speeches the author has seen and it comes from one of America's greatest politicians and legal minds. For more detailed information please call our Reno office (775) 852-8822 and mention lot 163.
Item:350
$ 100000.00 USD
Archive of U.S. Mint San Francisco Bullion Records. This archive occupies six feet of shelving, occupying about twelve cubic feet and consists of forty-four original leather bound ledgers from the San Francisco Mint. This archive is probably the most important grouping of U.S. Mint material extant. No photograph. For more detailed information please call our Reno office (775) 852-8822 and mention lot 508.
Item:340
$ 600.00 USD
J.A. Baird's classic treatise on 1849-1869 Calif Pictorial Letter Sheets numbers 170 pages. Lettersheet illustrations were essentially a form of reportage. Although many are of considerable artistic merit, this is not their primary interest . . ."" This volume is Extremely Fine. For more detailed information please call our Reno office (775) 852-8822 and mention lot 170.
Stock Certificate. Bodie, California. Bodie Mining District. Mono County. Incorporated Sept 4th, 1878. Datelined San Francisco. Issued to Wm. J. Taylor, Trustee on Feb 12, 1880. Signed by President and Secretary. No. 1209 for 50 shares. Embossed seal. Endorsed on reverse. For more detailed information please call the Reno office at 877-852-8822. Similar items are available on our website www.holabirdamericana.com.
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