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Extremely Rare Handley Mining Company Stock Certificate

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Extremely Rare Handley Mining Company Stock Certificate
SOLD
250.00USD+ (52.50) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2017 Jul 09 @ 16:31UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Very early #16 for 5,000 shares to Paul Cromnell. Signed by Edward (?) and Clinton Gurnee. Nice vignette in the lower right-hand corner of a miner swinging a pick with the text "Bodie Dist./ Mono County, Cal." Printed by Britton & Rey, San Francisco. Reverse is blank. Measures 9 3/16" x 4." The Handly Mining Company's mine was located between the Goodshaw and the Bodie (to the south) and covered an area of 1,500 feet by 100. It "ranks as among the earliest locations made in Bodie'" and the "title is complete and unquestioned." In 1878, a vertical shaft had been sunk 70 feet and the ore was carrying from $300 to $400 a ton in gold. [ref: United States Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger, pg. 202, 1879] Very rare, early Bodie stock! Extra fine Condition!!! State: California City: Bodie HWAC#: 49062 Date: 1878