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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1029354, member: 57463&quot;]Start with some of the experts, such as Holabird-Kagin here:</p><p><a href="http://www.holabirdamericana.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.holabirdamericana.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.holabirdamericana.com/</a></p><p>goto the Archives and in each auction, there is an Index.&nbsp; You can look for Union Pacific and you can look for ingots.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, you should spend some time with &quot;How the West was Faked&quot; here:</p><p><a href="http://www.fake-gold-bars.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fake-gold-bars.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fake-gold-bars.co.uk/</a></p><p>just to get an idea how common these forgeries are.</p><p>The Union Pacific is a carrier.&nbsp; If these were meant as giveaways, they would be nicer.&nbsp; This is tricked up to look like an assay bar.&nbsp; But, as I said, the railroad had no interest in assaying or mining.&nbsp; Mostly, they issued paper...</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to see some genuine silver bars of the period, <a href="http://www.kagins-inventory.com/cgi-bin/inventory/itemlist.pl?category=Western%20Americana%3AIngots" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kagins-inventory.com/cgi-bin/inventory/itemlist.pl?category=Western%20Americana%3AIngots" rel="nofollow">here is a link to the Kagin side </a>of the Holabird-Kagin enterprise.&nbsp; Don Kagin holds the only Ph.D. in numismatics and he earned it studing the Wild West.</p><p><br /></p><p>And -- no surprise -- the Union Pacific Railroad is online as well:</p><p><a href="http://www.uprr.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.uprr.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.uprr.com/</a></p><p>Search for &quot;silver&quot; and read about the silver dinner service from Abraham Lincoln&#039;s funeral train.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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