Truro Auction Centre
Date: 15 Mar 2019

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35 Various Mining related pamphlets and
journals including Methods of Tin and
Copper Dressing in Cornwall, Mineral
Exploitation in Cornwall, Cornwall and
West Devon Mining Landscape and others
etc

64 Various mining reports, pamphlets and
magazines including Report on
Exploration for Offshore Tin in Thailand,
1940's report relating to Teague's Lode at
Poldory St Day, a large selection of
engineering a mining journal press
magazines circa 1920's etc


58 Various mining related pamphlets, maps
and publications including Henwood's
Observations on Metalliferous Deposits
1871; Transactions of the Royal
Geological Society of Cornwall 1871,
various mining related maps, pamphlets
etc

106 Various Mining related volumes including
The Mining Heritage of Cornwall and
West Devon; Travels and Heart Aches of a
Mining Family; The History of South
Crofty Mine; The History of the English
China Clays etc

115 The Transactions of the Institution of
Mining and Metallurgy 1907 -1921. 30
vols 1902-1933, matching half calf
bindings

132 Various Mining related volumes including
Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines,
vol 2 1929; The Mining Magazine 1911;
Mines Annual Report 1929 and others etc

133 Barton (D B ) A History of Tin Mining
and Smelting in Cornwall; Mine Pumping
Engines in 18th Century Cornwall; Steam
Engines and Water Wheels; Cornish
Explosives and others etc

137 Various Cornish mining and related
volumes including A History of the
Cornish China Clay Industry; Caradon and
Looe - The Canal, Railways and Mines;
Cornwall in the Age of Steam and others
etc

154 A selection of Cornish Mining related
volumes including The Cornish Miner in
America, The Hard Rock Men, Cornish
Mining Development Reports 1968-1997
etc

251 A selection of various postcards including
some Cornish mining examples - Wheal
Friendly Mine St Agnes, Tresavean Mine,
Wheal Kitty, Old Stamps - Bassett Mines
and various others etc

255 A Mining Prospector's license for Poldark
Mining Limited, dated 1979

256 A coloured limited edition Mining print of
Botallack Mine, F&G

257 A selection of various Cornish Mining
related prints and pictures including View
of Penzance and the Wherry Mine,
Botallack Tin Mine, Great Wheal Vor and
others etc

524 Four various Cornish related mining
tokens including Cornish 1811 penny "For
the Accommodation of the County"; 1812
penny token "Success to the Cornish
mines" and two others (4) =

591 An old wooden cog-wheel pattern from
Geevor Mines and three other wooden
pattern pieces (4)

592 Three trays containing a selection of
British and World minerals including some
Cornish examples

593 A selection of labelled mineral specimens
including some Cornish, World etc


594 A selection of various labelled mineral
specimens, Cornish examples, World etc


595 Two boxes of various World Minerals,
mainly labelled

596 A small metal Nobel & Co dynamite fuse
tin

597 Two Cornish miner's brass oval snuff
boxes, one engraved "William Spiller
Bella Vista Penryn Cornwall 1923", the
other "Robert Giles 1889" (2)

598 A brass Welsh Miner's oval snuff box
engraved "T.H. Moyle New Tredegar
1907" (af)

599 A small iron and brass mounted Well's
"safety from explosion" open flame mining
lamp

600 A knife and fork from Poldice Mines with
crossed pick and shovel emblems


601 An old painted steel and brass mounted
bonneted miner's lamp

602 An unusual bronze Pinnacle open-flame
miner's lamp with tapered body and swing
handle