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CA - Bodie,Mono County - 1880 - Queen Bee Mining Company Stock Certificate

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 600.00 USD
CA - Bodie,Mono County - 1880 - Queen Bee Mining Company Stock Certificate
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
"Bodie Mining Dist., Cal." printed at top left. Incorporated August 21, 1878. Certificate No. 559, issued for 40 shares to G.W. Fisher, Trustee. Datelined San Francisco, March 6, 1880. Signed by J.K. Bechtel as President and G.W. Fisher as Secretary. Endorsed by Fisher on reverse along with assessment stamp dated April 19, 1880. No vignette, with ornate company name and company initials at far left. U/C. Black border and print. Lith. By Britton & Rey, S.F. The Queen Bee Mine, located on a hill of the same name, following the "discovery of two bonanza veins in the Bodie Mine, ... convinced stockholders and hopeful arrivals that opportunity awaited. Based on overly optimistic reporting, everybody believed that Bodie's ore sprang from a colossal vein, similar to the Comstock's Big Bonanza. This lode, experts theorized, stretched two miles from Bodie Bluff, passed through High Peak and Silver Hill, then pinched out somewhere below Queen Bee Hill [Ref: http://www.bodiehistory.com/bodie.htm]. Foldlines, otherwise very fine.