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Antelope SMC Stock - Mark Twain Related [144005]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:350.00 USD Estimated At:700.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Antelope SMC Stock - Mark Twain Related  [144005]
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This item SOLD at 2022 Apr 24 @ 09:34UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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#519 for one share to Alf Gamble. Signed by Jno. L. MacKenzie and president William Norris. Dateline San Francisco 1864. According to the Sacramento Daily Union the Antelope Silver Mining Company of San Francisco was incorporated around February 1, 1861. This would actually put this stock certificate in Utah Territory! Esmeralda Mining District. Antelope vignette. Britton & Co. printer. 25c Power of Att'y revenue stamp. Nick top left. Otherwise no corner, edge, pin hole or discoloration issues. The Antelope was one of the big three in 1860's Aurora mining companies. Stock Holder Alex Gamble [appropriate name] went from rags to riches on this stock and then back to rags. Mark Twain in a letter of May 4, 1862, writes his brother, "Yesterday we took a spirit level and got the angle of the celebrated “Antelope” ledge, and tomorrow we shall commence a hunt after the second E. extension of it. We may find it and we may not. The thing has often been tried before, but with no success. If we find it, our fortunes are made - if we don’t, - they isn't. I have 75 feet in a spur of the “Antelope,” which promises nothing save that it is an offshoot from a good family - and I am aristocrat enough to attach some importance to that sort of thing." On May 5 he writes, "Hunted for “Antelope” today, and found a ledge - but hardly think it is the right one. Four of us boys have dug two trenches, each 20 feet long and 6 feet deep, to-day, in the gravelly hill side. Finally, if we do find the “Antelope,” we shan’t care a damn anymore." [Letters from the Mark Twain Project] City:Aurora, Esmeralda Co. State:Nevada Date:1864