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Weaverville Gold Rush Banking Collection [123741]

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Paper Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Weaverville Gold Rush Banking Collection [123741]
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This item SOLD at 2021 Dec 19 @ 10:48UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Lot of 5. 1-2) Handwritten (early) Rhodes & Lusk, 1853, drafts. Three vignettes: chariot, clipper and steamship vignettes. Both to Rhodes & Lusk at Shasta. Number 67 and 90. Black print on blue paper. 3) Printed draft Rhodes & Lusk. 1854. To Rhodes & Lusk in Shasta. For $3,200. 4-5) Express & Banking Office of Rhodes & Co. printed drafts. 'Co.' is overwritten with 'Whitney.' To Rhodes & Whitney at Shasta. Native American vignette. For $225 and $50. Weaverville was founded in 1850, Weaverville is a historic California Gold Rush town today. Located at the foot of the current Trinity Alps Wilderness Area, Weaverville was once home to approximately 2,000 Chinese gold miners, and had its own Chinatown. Its Chinese Joss House is considered today to be the finest example of an early Chinese place of prayer. "Weaverville was one of three major gold rush towns that formed in Northern California during the early 1850s in what was a vast and isolated wilderness. Gold discoveries were made in the Trinity River region all the way back to the early 1840s. No attempts were made to stay and mine the gold however as this area was so rugged and remote that long-term survival was nearly impossible for individual prospectors or small groups of miners. The huge influx of miners into California resulted in the first attempts at settling and mining the Trinity region." [westernmininghistory.com].

Date: 1853-1855
Country (if not USA):
State: California
City: Weaverville
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