Rare Ingot – Vintage Silver, Gold Bars, and Rare Bullion

Category: Nevada

  • G. I. Beale, Assayer

    G. I. Beale, Assayer

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    3.50 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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    Research 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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    Fred (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

    Conrad Wiegand, Assayer

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    Wiegand 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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    The 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…

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  • C. R. Turrill

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    5.15 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…

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  • F. L. Corwin

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    4.7 oz F. L. Corwin Presentation Silver Ingot NV – Pioche, Lincoln County – c1871 This ingot is comes from a collection in the East. It is a presentation ingot, engraved “from F.L. Corwin” to E. Booth of New York, marked “Pioche, Nev.” on the two ends of the ingot. It measures 1.75” long, 0.6”…

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  • Gertie O. Rugg

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    Unique Gertie O. Rugg Silver Presentation Ingot–Possibly the Only Ingot Known Today From the Belcher Mine Gertie O. Rugg 1876 Presentation Silver Ingot from the Belcher Mine, Virginia City, Nevada.  Gertie Rugg was the daughter of Belcher Mine Chief Engineer J. Rugg, who had this ingot engraved with her name and date for a special…

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  • J. G. Lee and John Lee

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    Nevada. Treasure City, White Pine County. 1870-dated presentation ingot. Silver, unmarked. Approximately 16 ¼ ounces. 68.7 mm x 36.1 mm x 21.1 mm. Oval photograph, housed in gold-rimmed brass frame, measures 21.8 x 28.1 mm and is inset into an oval divot in the top face of the bar roughly 4 mm deep. The top face…

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