Category: Nevada
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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…
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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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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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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…
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C. R. Turrill
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Read more: C. R. Turrill5.15 oz Bristol, Nevada, 1874, White Pine Rush Silver Ingot, Turrill Silver Ingot Engraved from Julius A. Turrill to Clayton R Turrill, White River/Pioche Nevada c 1874 5.15 Troy oz silver ingot engraved on one side by the presenter, Julius A. Turrill to his nephew, Clayton R. Turrill engraved on a polished surface. 2” x…