Category: Idaho
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Trade Dollar Mining & Milling Co
Read more: Trade Dollar Mining & Milling CoTrade Dollar Mining & Milling Co. First Mill Product, 1892Made by R.B. Euler, assayer, Silver City, Idaho (By Fred N. Holabird, c 2011)The Trade Dollar Mining and Milling Company Mining at Silver City took off with the explosive news and subsequent production of the rich ores in the Poorman Mine in 1865-6. Miners continued to…
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Harvey Harris, Assayer
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Read more: Harvey Harris, AssayerIn October, 1855 the Sacramento Union ran an advertisement announcing the formation of a new assaying firm under the partnership of Harvey Harris, Desiré Marchand, and C. Farrington. Harris, a gentile who had come to America from his native Denmark, had formerly been an assayer in the NewOrleans and San Francisco Mints and before removing…
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Richard Euler, Assayer
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Read more: Richard Euler, Assayer3.90 oz Richard Euler, Assayer. Silver City, Idaho. Silver and gold assay ingot number 1950, May 20, 1883. Appearance of Very Fine. A very well executed ingot with polished faces and sides, sharp edges, squared off corners. There is one large and disfiguring flaw on the face and a few smaller ones elsewhere. One wonders…
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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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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 in…