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Hentsch & Berton Assay Office Memorandum of Gold Bullion, S.S. Central America Assayer [166962]

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Hentsch & Berton Assay Office Memorandum of Gold Bullion, S.S. Central America Assayer  [166962]
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Extremely rare; only a few known. Ex. John J. Ford Collection. Memorandum of Gold Bullion, San Francisco, April 6th, 1868. Thirty-one ounces deposited by Cohen & Levy. 934 gold fineness. Red print. 6.5 x 10.5" Folds, some small stains. Hentsch & Berton were the successors in 1863 to Henry Hentsch's banking and assay business in San Francisco. Hentsch was born in Geneva in approximately 1830 and arrived in California in 1849. After working in Grass Valley and Sonoma he opened an assay office and bank in San Francisco around 1856. Hentsch is perhaps best known to numismatists by the rare Hentsch gold ingots found at the wreck site of the S.S. Central America, which sank in 1857. Ephemera from Hentsch is even rarer than the ingots. Cohen & Levy who were a retail dry goods merchant located at 45 Second St. in San Francisco. San Francisco California 1868