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Standard Milling and Smelting Co. Stocks Signed by Spencer Penrose [156427]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:450.00 USD Estimated At:900.00 - 1,500.00 USD
Standard Milling and Smelting Co. Stocks Signed by Spencer Penrose [156427]
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450.00USD+ (112.50) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2022 Oct 14 @ 12:55UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Lot of 2 issued stocks signed by Cripple Creek mining millionaire Spencer Penrose. Inc. in Colorado. No. 36, issued to Chas. B. Penrose and No. 54, issued to Mary Penrose. One is signed by president (and Penrose's business partner) Charles Tutt. The other is signed by the vice president. Neither cancelled. Gold seal and state seal vignette. This company owned a mill in Colorado City that processed Cripple Creek gold. Penrose made his first fortune at Cripple Creek with the COD Mine, which he was invited to invest in with the help of his childhood friend, Charles Tutt. In 189, Penrose sold the mine and formed the Colorado-Philadelphia Reduction Company, an ore-processing facility in Old Colorado City. Tutt and Penrose brought on tenured miner and miller, Charles Mather MacNeill. By 1899, its plant was treating over $3 million worth of Cripple Creek ore annually. (This is the earlier iteration of this company.) The three men would create a mining, milling, and real estate empire in the years that followed. Penrose later invested in mining operations in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada. He settled in Colorado Springs and built the road to the top of Pikes Peak, as well as the Broadmoor Hotel.

Date: 1900
Country (if not USA):
State: Colorado
City: Cripple Creek
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