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Long and Derry Hill Mining Company Stock [160614]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Long and Derry Hill Mining Company Stock [160614]
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65.00USDto S****2+ buyer's premium (16.25)
This item SOLD at 2023 Jan 21 @ 13:51UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Inc. in New York. No. 11407. Uncancelled. Issued for 100 shares to Henry Bancroft on Feb. 25, 1882. Signed by S. Oliphant Talbot (secretary) and Prescott Burbank (President). Creme paper with a black border. Vignette at top of miners working underground with lighted helmets. Signed on reverse by. The stock is in very god condition with no real edge, corner, discoloration of Pin Hole issues. Abe Lee, one of the most famous of the original Iowa Gulch characters and discoverer of gold in the Gulch in 1860, was working the Iowa Gulch area in 1876 and awoke one morning to find his horse missing. While tracking his horse he noticed an outcropping of black rock. Later in the morning he met Jacob Long. Lee gave Long a piece of the rock and later that evening around the fire Long was telling his brother, John, and their partner, Charles Derry about his encounter. They discussed the heavy black lump and decided it might be a form of coal and threw it into the fire. It was not coal, but it was lead carbonate. As soon as the mineral began to melt, they knew what they had. The mine, which became one of the most famous of the early Leadville producers.

Date: 1882
Country:
State: Colorado
City: Leadville
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