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Two Colorado Mining Stock Certificates (Snowdrift & Pottsville)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 300.00 USD
Two Colorado Mining Stock Certificates (Snowdrift & Pottsville)
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1) Pottsville & Colorado Gold and SIlver Mining Company. Number 298 for 50 shares to Fanny Farquhar(?). Has the famous dog guarding the gold bars pictorial. Signed by James Conner per CH Tyson and PW Sheaper. Vignette of a large dog guarding a crate. This company was located in or near Georgetown. Excellent condition. One horizontal fold. 2) Snowdrift Silver Mining and Reduction Company. English Mortgage Debenture Number 173 with six coupons still attached. To Frederick Connon of Scarsdale Villas, Kensington. Number 169. The Snowdrift seems to be one of the earliest mines sold to an English company from Colorado. John Collom and the British and Colorado Bureau arranged this in 1871. Ernest Le Neve Foster and Captain Bennett seemed to be in charge of this mine and the Silver Plume during this time. [British Investments in the American Mining Frontier, by Spence] Rips at folds. 21 x 17". Date: 1866, 1873 Location: Colorado HWAC # 44027