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Buffelsdoorn Consolidated Gold Mining Company, Limited, Stock

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:20.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Buffelsdoorn Consolidated Gold Mining Company, Limited, Stock
Incorporated in South African Republic, with head offices at Johannesburg. Cert. #3639, issued to Frederick John Smith, Esq. of Glasgow for 20 shares. Signed by 2 London agents and by secretary. Green paper with black print, fancy monogram “plate” at left. U/C. Printer: Chas. Straker & Sons, Ltd. 8.5 x 11.5.” This property was not productive very long, if at all. “In the Buffelsdoorn district, the Buffelsdoorn mine itself is still at work, but the Buffelsdoorn A., the Buffelsdoorn Central, and Buffelsdoorn Consolidated, having failed to find any payable ore, are shut down” [Ref: The Gold Mines of the World, by James Herbert Curle, pub. London 1899, pg. 109].
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