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San Francisco,CA - Kellogg & Humbert Gold Bullion Memorandums (3) :

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Bullion Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
San Francisco,CA - Kellogg & Humbert Gold Bullion Memorandums (3) :
Lot of three. 1) Issued Nov. 10, 1858 to H. Coghill & Co. for $4968. Coghill was a native to Virginia and became a respectable merchant and street jobber in San Francisco. 2) Issued Dec. 27, 1858 to Hotaling & Co. For $180. Anson P. Hotaling, born in New York in 1826 was an early San Francisco whiskey merchant. He erected the Hotaling Warehouse in 1866 to house his stock. The building still stands, surviving numerous earthquakes including 1906. 3) Issued Jan. 18, 1859 to W.C. Sleeper & Co. for $3507.43. Kellogg and Humbert's Assay Office was known for its high quality ingots. Roughly seventy of their bars were on the S.S. Central America when it sank in a hurricane on its way from Panama and New York. Two million dollars in bars and coinage was lost to the sinking in 1857 which caused financial woes at the time. The treasure would be recovered roughly a century later to find over 400 ingots from a variety of assayers. Kellogg and Humbert ingots were found to be the most numerous aboard. This along with the high quality of the coinage and ingots has fueled vast interest in this assay company and its products within numismatic and collector communities. X-Fine.