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Holman GMC, stock, 1865, [173298]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 800.00 USD
Holman GMC, stock, 1865,     [173298]
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This item SOLD at 2023 Dec 10 @ 10:19UTC-8 : PST/AKDT

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Holman Gold Mining Company stock certificate No. 264, incorporated February 17, 1848 in New York. For mining works, Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties, Colorado Ter.. Issued to F.R. Ford for 1000 shares in New York on May 8, 1865. Signed by Hiram P. Crozier(?) (president) and John O'Neill (secretary). Printer: Bowne & Co 149 Broadway NY. 29x20.2cm. Black on white. Red seal. Revenue stamp bottom left. 3 vignettes: Greek goddess of gold droping coins across mountain landscape with workers on hill (left), bald eagle perched at nest and feeding young (bottom center), Greek figure standing tall with arm outstretched, bracing a shield with an anchor with the word "Hope". Very finely detailed vignettes.

From Corbett (1879, p.217): "Holman. Owned by William H. Bush; office, Central City; claim, 150 by 1000 feet, patented; situated on Quartz hill, Nevada mining district, with the limits of Central City."

A stunning example of an early certificate for the Colorado Territory - FH

Herzog Collection. Gilpin/Clear Creek Colorado Herzog Collection