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North Ophir G&S MC Stock - with a rare issue to a miner working in the mine named on the certificate

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 700.00 USD
North Ophir G&S MC Stock - with a rare issue to a miner working in the mine named on the certificate
SOLD
250.00USD+ (55.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2022 Jul 21 @ 18:09UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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# 509 for 7 shares to Thomas S. Mitchell (the 1863 Nevada Territorial Directory lists him as a mine in the North Ophir). Signed by S. B. Turney and president Edwin Aa Rowe. Dateline Virginia City, January 24, 1864. Incorporated March 6, 1863. Not cancelled. California seal inside wooded lands vignette. Van Vleck wood block print. Buswell & Co printer. Location Argentine District. Red underprint ;’Capital stock $800,000.' Shows some expected aging. Three pin holes right side. Very nice cert. The North Ophir is listed in both Kelly (1863) and Collins (1864). The North Ophir was selling for about $60 a foot and purportedly yielding pure silver in 1863. Later the fraud was exposed that silver coins had been used to salt the mine. The mine was later divided among the Ophir, Mexican and Union Consolidated claims. [Mines and Mills of the Comstock Region by Ansari] Rowe seems to be a true 49er, Californian Cavalry officer, Fort Churchill soldier, etc. (3+ pages of historical background). Information on the mine from the Virginia Evening Bulletin of July 21, 1863.

Date: 1864
Country (if not USA):
State: Nevada
City: Jumbo, Storey
Provenance: Joe Elcano Nevada Mining Stock Collection