Category: Assayers
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F. H. Bousfield, Assayer
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Read more: F. H. Bousfield, AssayerEBERHARDT & AURORA MINING CO.Eberhardt or Virginia City, Nevada The Eberhardt & Aurora Mining Company was an English firm established from London with the intent of mining silver from the White Pine district in HamiltonCounty, Nevada. The firm bought the interests of the Eberhardt mining group, formed by Captain Frank Drake and others, that had…
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G. I. Beale, Assayer
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Read more: G. I. Beale, Assayer3.50 oz G.I. Beale, Assayer. Silver City, Nevada. Silver & gold assay ingot no. 1832, dated 1776-1876. Appearance of Extremely Fine. A very attractive, highly polished, well made and nicely hand engraved presentation ingot. All sides still bright and somewhat reflective. Engraving worn in places, one side apparently deliberately defaced. The dual dates suggest this…
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W. L. Berry, Assayer
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Read more: W. L. Berry, AssayerResearch of this unique W. L. Berry ingot is difficult. He was not found in any of the standard references, which includes the 1867 Bean Directory of Nevada County and 1871 Mckenney Directories of Nevada County, California, the 1876 McKenney’s California Business Directory that covered Nevada County; or any of the Pacific Coast Business Directories…
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Huepeden & Co, Assayers
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Read more: Huepeden & Co, AssayersLouis Huepeden was born in New York about 1832, and moved to Georgetown in Colorado in the mid-1860s. The surname is quite unusual. and according to Frossett’s Colorado, Its Gold And Silver Mines… (1880, p. 333) the Huepeden Mill was one of the earliest operating silver mills in the area, established perhaps as early as the mid…
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A. L. Simondi Assayer
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Read more: A. L. Simondi Assayer6.00 oz (ca. 1870s) Silver City, Idaho. A.L. Simondi Assayer Ingot. Mixed metal, Face Value: $7.55. 55.6 mm x 28.8 mm x 11.2 mm. Obverse Reads: NO. 1589, OZ 6.00, G. 12 F, S. 974 F, G.$1.48, S.$7.55. Reverse: A.L. SIMONDI ASSAYER., SILVER CITY, IDAHO A simple but handsomely made little bar with neatly squared…
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Fred A. Miller, Assayer
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Read more: Fred A. Miller, AssayerFred (ED) A. Miller, Assayer, Austin, Nevada. 1863-1865 A Silver Ingot Made for Circulating CurrencyBy Fred N. HolabirdIntroduction The Fred Miller silver ingot is one of the most important of the silver ingot discoveries of the past few years. He may have been the Pioneer assayer at Austin, Nevada and with partner David Lundbom, who…
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Conrad Wiegand, Assayer
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Read more: Conrad Wiegand, AssayerWiegand was a notorious assayer, who got his start at the U.S. Mint in San Francisco. His behavior was so disruptive, and assays of questionable quality (they often did not check or agree), that a mint employee once wrote to President Lincoln asking for his dismissal, and the letters are still on file in the…
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King Webb & Company, Assayers
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Read more: King Webb & Company, AssayersVirtually nothing is known about the business or personal histories of Mark A. King or Edward Webb. They are listed in the 1867 edition of Pacific Coast Business Directory as assayers and bankers in Idaho. Subsequent references to one or the other partner in the firm have them in Silver City, Idaho Territory and Portland,…
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Blake & Co, Assayers
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Read more: Blake & Co, AssayersThe following information on F.W. Blake is taken from Stack’s catalog for Part XXI of the John J. Ford, J. Collection, October 2007, which in turn is attributed to A Historical Description and Commercial Directory of Owyhee County, Idaho (January 1898, Silver City Idaho), p. 101: Owyhee Avalanche (1898). < Blake, Mr. F.W., was born…