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Austin,NV - Lander - 1867 - Nevada Assay Receipts :

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Austin,NV - Lander - 1867 - Nevada Assay Receipts :
This handsomely framed item includes three revenue stamped receipts of specimens deposited for assay and assay results. These are three different varieties each with different signatures. Nicely framed and elegantly mounted with cream and beige matting. The overall frame measures approximately 14" wide by 21" tall. The certificates themselves have some slight discoloration but are in very fine condition.

1.)No. 3028 Assay office of D. Lundbom. September 17, 1867. Vignette of an allegorical women on the left and a miner on the bottom right. Signed by David Lundbom. Printed by Reveille.

Lundbom's history places him into the world of private gold rush coiners in an important way. Born in Sweden in 1816, Lundbom came to California for the gold rush. He was the Assistant Assayer for Curtis, Perry and Ward at the U.S. Assay Office in San Francisco from 1853 to 1854. Then he was the Assayer for Kellogg & Co. until late 1855, when he went to work for Blake & Co. of Sacramento, according to Owens. Clearly, he was one of the men responsible for some of the wonderful early coinage made by those two pioneer coinage firms.

By 1860, Lundbom had possibly moved to one of the smaller mining communities, since he is not found in the U.S. Census. He is not listed in the Nevada Territorial Directory of 1862, but as soon as the Reese River rush started in 1863 at Austin, Nevada, Lundbom went there and started the first (Pioneer) Assay Office, according to the Nevada 1863 Census. His business remained strong through at least 1870, and based on information from these certificates he had contracts with some of the largest mining companies in Austin.

2.)No. 2690 Assay office of Boalt & Stetefeldt. Oct. 21, 1867. Signed by Boalt & Stetefeldt. Vignette of a miner top center. Printed by Reveille.

3.) No.1130 Assay office of the First National Bank of Nevada, J.R. Murphy Assayer. Sept. 11, 1867. Vignette of Lady Liberty at left. Printed by Fairchild, Daily and Reveille. Signed by John R. Murphy