3 days ago · The purchase price for the 24-karat gold piece, which is 5.5 inches long and weighs about a pound, was $201,600, and the sale closed on Friday, according to the listing on Christie’s website.

3 days ago · ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A piece of Alaska history will return to the state. The Anchorage Museum, along with the City of Nenana, bought a special railroad spike at a Christie’s auction for $200,000. The auction house originally estimated the spike’s value to be between $30,000 and $50,000.

6 days ago · The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, with financial help from private donors and the Alaska Railroad, won the Christie’s auction for the spike in New York with a bid of $201,600, more than four times the $50,000 top-line estimate for the historical artifact.

1 day ago · Per the museum, the Christie’s auction—the spike’s first public sale in more than 40 years—was a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to secure it for the people of Alaska.”

Dec 29, 2024 · Christie’s is offering up the legendary piece of Alaska history at auction in January, and it’s expecting to fetch between $30,000 and $50,000.

THE ALASKA RAILROAD Following the purchase of the territory of Alaska from Russia in 1867, and the Klondike gold rush from 1896-1899, Congress and President Wilson began a push to construct a railroad so as to better access the important and plentiful stores of coal and other minerals found throughout the Alaskan interior.

Jan 23, 2025 · The Anchorage Museum, with financial backing from the Alaska Railroad, will bid on the 14-karat solid gold spike when it goes up for auction Friday in New York as part of the Christie’s ...

6 days ago · This image provided by Christie's Images shows a golden spike driven by President Warren G. Harding in Nenana, Alaska, just days before he died in office, which marked the completion of the Alaska ...

4 days ago · ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska museum and city, with help from donors including the Alaska Railroad, have won the auction for a 14-karat gold spike that was part of the railroad’s completion ceremony in 1923. The Anchorage Museum and city of Nenana will take turns displaying the spike, which was purchased for …

3 days ago · The Alaska Railroad: An American Presentation 14-karat gold railroad spike, mark of Mayer brothers, Seattle Washington (circa 1923). Image courtesy Christie's.