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CO - Gothic,Gunnison County - 1881 - Crown Mining Company Stock Certificate - Fenske Collection

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
CO - Gothic,Gunnison County - 1881 - Crown Mining Company Stock Certificate - Fenske Collection
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!!!
Incorporated in New Jersey in March of 1881. No. 52 issued to M. S. Buckley by Jos. L. Fryer, Secretary, and [illegible], President, for 1,000 shares on 26 April. A larger-sized stock on onion paper, it has a few wrinkles. Signed on reverse by Buckley and two witnesses but not dated. U/C. Good condition. Fred Holabird wrote that the mine had “a 40’ shaft on Crystal Mountain with a 6’ vein with malachite and galina. . . . The mine was inactive by 1885” [Ref: Holabird, Western Americana, Auction # 9, Volume 2: Colorado, p. 73, 2001].