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Framed "Welcome Nugget" Broadside and Coin

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Mining Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Framed  Welcome Nugget  Broadside and Coin
SOLD
225.00USD+ (47.25) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2017 Jul 09 @ 17:00UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Chromolithographic advertising label, c 1860, for Welcome Nugget tobacco (13 x 15.5" framed). "T.C. Williams Co. Manufacturers. Virginia, U.S.A." A gold miner with pick and shovel holds aloft an enormous gold nugget, and exclaims : Jack! look at this. A further printed caption lower right reads: As the Welcome Nugget, weighing 2217 ounces, exceeds in purity and value any lump of gold ever found, so this brand surpasses in quality any tobacco made. This is a reference to the Welcome Nugget, discovered at Bakery Hill, Ballarat in 1858, and weighing 71.3 kilograms, at the time the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found. Fine condition. Includes "The Gold Country" token with a miner panning for gold with gold in the pan. Nice combo! State: Virginia City: HWAC#: 48816 Date: c1860