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Lost Grass Valley Gold Rush History of the Wilhelm & Binkleman Pioneer Families by Waldo C.F. Potter (2024) (374 pages)
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The bottom of the leather cake server case has a piece of tape on which my grandfather, Waldo C.
Potter, has written: “A silver cake knife in coin silver presented as a wedding gift to Mr. & Mrs. Theodore
Wilhelm by Mr. & Mrs. Edward Coleman of Grass Valley.” In the book After the Gold Rush, Ralph Mann
says, "Grass Valley mining had begun to free itself from the depression (of the 1860s) in the summer of
1863 .... In essence, the resurgence of production came with the successful opening of four quartz
leads—one in 1863 and three in 1864--long known but inefficiently worked.” The investors behind this
upsurge in mine development were led by eight local, prominent & established Grass Valley
businessmen and investors, including Edward Coleman and John Coleman, who founded the famous,
rich California gold mine, the Idaho Quartz Mining Co., and established the Nevada County Narrow
Gauge Railroad.
The cake knife is about 11 1/2 inches in length and is of thick coin silver. It is circa 1875.
This is a photo of the inside of the latched leather case made for the cake knife server.
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