Miscellaneous Mining Items/Gold-Silver Mold

Miscellaneous Mining Items

Gold-Silver Mold - Taylor.JPG - JOHN TAYLOR & COMPANY MOLD - Iron gold and silver ingot mold, marked JOHN TAYLOR & CO. S. F. 1000 OZ. on side of mold, inside measurements 11 1/4 in. long by 5 in. across top and 5 in. deep, outside measurements 18 1/2 in. long by 7 in. wide by 6 1/8 in. high, weighs 70 lbs., carbide cap lamp shown for scale (John Taylor & Co. of San Francisco, CA was a major supplier of assayer, mine and mill supplies during the California Gold Rush period; established in 1852, the company first shows up in the 1852-53 San Francisco Business Directory; the company was incorporated in California in Oct.1895; a June 1899 mining supply catalog, seventh edition, for the John Taylor & Co. is in the collections of the University of California Berkeley Library and is shown in the catalog section of my website (this mold is listed as 1000 oz. of gold and 683 oz. of silver on p 66); located in the Union Foundry Block, corner of First and Mission Streets, San Francisco, Taylor as well as J. Caire of San Francisco were major mining hardware suppliers that fueled the needs of the Mother Lode from the mid 1800s to early 1900s. John Taylor retired around 1902 and his brother merged the business with the F. W. Braun Company noted elsewhere in my pics.)

Gold-Silver Mold - Taylor | JOHN TAYLOR & COMPANY MOLD - Iron gold and silver ingot mold, marked JOHN TAYLOR & CO. S. F. 1000 OZ. on side of mold, inside measurements 11 1/4 in. long by 5 in. across top and 5 in. deep, outside measurements 18 1/2 in. long by 7 in. wide by 6 1/8 in. high, weighs 70 lbs., carbide cap lamp shown for scale (John Taylor & Co. of San Francisco, CA was a major supplier of assayer, mine and mill supplies during the California Gold Rush period; established in 1852, the company first shows up in the 1852-53 San Francisco Business Directory; the company was incorporated in California in Oct. 1895; a June 1899 mining supply catalog, seventh edition, for the John Taylor & Co. is in the collections of the University of California Berkeley Library and is shown in the catalog section of my website (this mold is listed as 1000 oz. of gold and 683 oz. of silver on p 66); located in the Union Foundry Block, corner of First and Mission Streets, San Francisco, Taylor as well as J. Caire of San Francisco were major mining hardware suppliers that fueled the needs of the Mother Lode from the mid 1800s to early 1900s. John Taylor retired around 1902 and his brother merged the business with the F. W. Braun Company noted elsewhere in my pics.)

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