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CO - Malachite,Jefferson County - 1877 - Malachite Mining Company of Colorado Stock Certificate - Fe

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 300.00 USD
CO - Malachite,Jefferson County - 1877 - Malachite Mining Company of Colorado Stock Certificate - Fe
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 Maine in 1877 with an office in Boston, MA. Other offices were located in Golden, Colorado and Winterport, Maine. Malachite Mining District. No. 108 issued to R. Puffer, Trustee, by Edward Lord, Treasurer, and Elijah E. Lummus, President, for 108 shares on 27 September. Some foxing and a few wrinkles. Cancelled. Assigned on 28 September. Signed on the reverse by Puffer and witnesses. Good condition. Fred Holabird wrote that the Malachite’s “works had the capacity of treating five tons of ore daily. . . . The [mine] was popular and produced copper ores whenever the copper market rose in price. It [was] on the divide between Bear creek and Mount Vernon Canyon three miles west of Morrison” [Ref: Holabird, The Alexandra Tillson Filer Collection, Part II: Colorado, Nevada, Montana and the Hauser Collection of Anaconda Corporate Seals, p. 122, 2000].