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Orient Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock Certificate 106748

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD
Orient Gold & Silver Mining Company Stock Certificate  106748
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500.00USD+ (125.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2019 Oct 06 @ 10:55UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Inyo Mining District, Tulare County, Cal. (printed to the left of the vignette). Incorporated in 1863. Cert. #165, issued to CJR Loucks for 10 shares on March 4th, 1864 in San Francisco. Signed by Benj. Dore, president, and by W.H. Davis, secretary. Vignette at center of George Washington portrait with an eagle on top, flanked by 2 allegorical women. An elaborate design at left end column showing a woman’s portrait in the center. She is wearing a large feather in her hat. Within that left column is printed: “Lodes. Orient, Eleanor, Montgomery.” A very small vignette at bottom of a woman holding a balance scale. Black border on crème paper. U/C. Printer: Waters Brothers & Co. 5 ½ x 10.” Folds, light wear. In April 1860 Col. H.P. Russ and Dr. S.G. George, along with about 20 followers, organized the Russ mining district in the Inyo Range to the east of Owens Lake. Mining began about a year later. Although production data is not complete, there were several gold producing mines in the district. Inyo County was not organized until March 1866, well after the issue date of this stock [Ref: California Place Names, Erwin G. Gudde, University of California Press, 1949, 1998, p. 178; and www.westernmininghistory.com ]. City: Inyo/Tulare County State: California Date: 1864