Category: Arizona
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Eagle Mining Company
Read more: Eagle Mining CompanyThe name “Eagle Mining Company” is sufficiently popular and general that it is difficult to precisely pinpoint the exact location of the firm. John J. Ford, Jr. advises that in the 1860s and 1870s at least two companies operated under this name in Gilpin County, Colorado. The Mines of Colorado, 1867, notes of the Eagle…
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Vulture Mine
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Read more: Vulture MineVulture Mine, Wickenburg, Arizona Territory Gold Ingot, c1911-1914 By Fred N. Holabird Important discovery gold ingot from the Vulture Gold Mine near Wickenburg, Arizona. This ingot is one of two ingots that were sold from an old Arizona family to an Arizona coin dealer in 2020. The ingot being sold here is the larger of…
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Peck Mine
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Read more: Peck Mine4.62 oz Peck Mine Ingot, George E Ralph Assayer, Oct 1, 1883 The George Ralph Assayer, Peck Mine Silver Ingot, 1883Fred n. Holabird, copyright 2023 Silver ingot, 2 1/8 x 15/16 x 7/16 thick. Trapezoidal. Classic Silver Assayer’s Ingot with silver from the Peck Mine in Prescott, Arizona from 1883. Peck Mine HistoryThe Peck mine…
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J. Rosenthal, Assayer
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Read more: J. Rosenthal, AssayerFormerly offered as lot 1645 in Bowers’ Lexington Collection. J. Rosenthal’s business opened in Prescott, Arizona in August 20, 1875, a fact that was announced in a notice published in the contemporary Arizona newspaper The Weekly Miner. The silver in the Prescott region was extracted from the Wallapai Mountains which was an active mining area from the…
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Charles Pletz, Assayer
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Read more: Charles Pletz, AssayerWallapai Mining District, Cerbat Mountain, Mohave County, Arizona Very little is recorded of Charles Pletz beyond a few bare notices in Arizona’s Weekly Miner newspaper of the mid-1870s (all of which were provided to Mr. Ford by the Sharlot Hall Historical Society). The paper’s issue of May 14, 1875 notes Pletz as superintendent of the…
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N. A. Boles, Assayer
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Read more: N. A. Boles, Assayer$1.02 N.A. Boles, Assayer. Prescott, Arizona. Silver assay ingot. Overall appearance of Fine. A very rough, crude, and unfinished bar almost straight from the mold. Medium silver gray color. The surfaces are rough and pitted, the faces are unfinished, and the legends are accomplished in individual punches. The $ punch was made by punching a…
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Arizona A.F.E.
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Read more: Arizona A.F.E.Button shaped silver ingot marked: 0.65 oz Arizona / A. F. E. / Dec 1882. Not much is known about this silver ingot. It is small button shaped and weighs less than 1 troy ounce! 21 mm in diameter; 7 mm thick; 20.3 grams. Arizona Last sold at a Holabird Auction in late 2023 for…
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Tip-Top Mine, George Webber, A.T.
Read more: Tip-Top Mine, George Webber, A.T.During the winter of 1876-77, the Tip Top mine and silver were first discovered in wh~t is now the Tip Top mining district by Messrs. Corning and Moore. In the fall of 1876 Mr. John Corning came into Prescott,Arizona from the silver mines of Nevada. Eventually the Gillette and Hoffman Tip Top Company, took over…