Category: Nevada
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E. Ruhling & Co
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Read more: E. Ruhling & Co4.16 oz E. Ruhling & Co. Virginia City, Gold Hill, or Hamilton, Nevada. Silver assay ingot Overall appearance of Very Fine. Medium silver gray color. Surfaces rough in places, smoother where the piece has been handled. An interesting ingot. The ethnic seems to be a logotype but the remainder of the inscriptions seems accomplished by…
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Mary Thompson Hunt
Read more: Mary Thompson HuntThe President Rutherford B. Hayes Silver Ingot – The Hayes party The Presidential Procession had started in Wells on the Central Pacific Railroad just after the train crossed into Nevada from Utah, stopped at Humboldt where Nevada Governor Kincaid boarded the train, then on to Reno for another celebration and transfer to the Virginia &…
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Belcher Mine
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Read more: Belcher Mine2.62 oz Belcher Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, 1876. Face Value: $4.34 This ingot is from the Belcher Mine, an exhibition ingot used at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, in which Nevada played an important role. It is the only such marked ingot surviving today, with the possible exception of uncataloged ingots in institutional collections.Nevada began…
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Ophir Mine
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Read more: Ophir MineThis ingot pair came from an estate in the Eastern United States, uncovered this year. We had originally planned on separating the pair, but after research, find the two are inseparable, clearly owned and collected by the same person, George F. Ford. The story of Ford involves his work with important mines on the Comstock,…
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Leopold Kuh, Assayer
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Read more: Leopold Kuh, Assayer1856-1860Leopold Kuh. Resides at Green betw. Kearny and Dupont. Leopold Kuh works at the U.S. Mint. Colville’s San Francisco Directory for the YearCommencing October 1856 Kuh, Leopold. Clerk U.S. Branch Mint. Dwells atNE corner Green and Lafayette. Langley’s San Francisco Directory for the YearCommencing January 1, 1858 Kuh, Leopold & Fisher Henry I. Gold refinery.Taylor…
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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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Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company
Read more: Gould & Curry Silver Mining CompanyThe Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company’s heydays were the years 1863-64, just before statehood. Incorporated a few years earlier, the founder of the original claim in the Comstock was Albert Gould, who unwisely sold his share of half the mine for a pittance and died years later and nearly broke in Reno. The mine…
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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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Belmont S. M. Co
Read more: Belmont S. M. Co28.5 oz Belmont Silver Mining Company. Belmont, Nevada. Silver assay ingot, July 12, 1873. Face Value: $28.90 Overall appearance of Very Fine. A rough and rather crude looking ingot, medium silver gray in color, with unfinished surfaces. The company’s name and location is accomplished in logotype as is Ozs. but everything else inscribed on the…