About Gold Classics

Gold Classics was the only domain name remotely connected to gold nuggets that was available to register. I would rather have had Gold Nuggets or some other name more closely related to what I do, which is collect gold nuggets.

I'm a gold hobbyist. I became interested in gold in the 1960's way out on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Mr. Harry Gottschalk, owner of several businesses on the Island including the Ships Tavern introduced me to gold. Harry was the son of a 98'er Klondiker. Harry wore "real" gold nuggets on his wrists, cuff links, watch band, tie tack and it was done with style and flair. He was a very interesting man and had some great stories about the Klondike and the gold rush around Juneau Alaska. Normans Gift Shop, Knudsens and several other establishments at the time featured gold and gold nuggets. That's where my interest began.

 In the late 1990's and early 2000's when gold was at it's lowest price, I began collecting in earnest. I have purchased some very large nuggets, a 107 oz., a 95 oz., a 56 oz. and more than several 20 ouncers. It's been fun. Now that I'm up in age, it's time to sell my  small collection.

Gold Classics is not a corporation. It's a sole proprietorship hobby. I've been around and it's not easy to pull the wool over my eyes. Whatever anyone tries, I've seen it before, so for those of you who would like to screw me, take it somewhere else.

For those who are interested in gold nuggets, welcome. I'm very interested in the various gold rushes. California in 1848, Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, The Caribou rush in British Columbia in 1856, the Klondike in the Yukon in 1898 and the several or many gold rushes in Australia from 1851 on into the 1900's. The Klondike and Australia gold rushes tweak most of my interest. There are some amazing tales. Australia is the only place I haven't visited. I've followed the trails in California, Nevada, Colorado, Montana and Alaska. I've visited the Fraser River area in Canada and spent a month on the Klondike trail and a week in Dawson. It's been a blast. 

Thank you for visiting Gold Nugget Classics.

Goldbug

There's a land where the mountains are nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows where;
There are lives that are erring and aimless,
And deaths that just hang by a hair;
There are hardships that nobody reckons;
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There's a land -- oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back -- and I will.

There's gold, and it's haunting and haunting;
It's luring me on as of old;
Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting
So much as just finding the gold.

It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,
It's the forests where silence has lease;
It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It's the stillness that fills me with peace.

The Spell of the Yukon
Robert Service