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CO - Silver Cliff,Custer County - 1880, 1915 - Custer County Stock Certificate Group - Fenske Collec

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
CO - Silver Cliff,Custer County - 1880, 1915 - Custer County Stock Certificate Group - Fenske Collec
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!!!
Lot of 2. 1. Buckeye Mining and Tunneling Co. of Colorado incorporated on February 5, 1876. Colorful stock. No. 7154 issued to C. F. Woods by C. E. White, Secretary, and A. M. Cassidy, President, on 8 July 1880 for 100 shares. Countersigned by the N. Y. Mining Stock Exchange Registry on 10 July by the registrar and the assistant registrar. A smaller-sized stock. U/C. Signed on reverse by Woods and a witness on 13 July 1880. Some discoloration. Good condition. The company owned “the Silver Cliff Mine with assays of $20-75/ton. Large masses of cerargyrite (silver chloride = 75%) [or horn silver] of this ore were mined near the surface which yielded 30-50 oz/ton.” Silver Cliff, which was founded in 1878, had a “population of 5,000 with 29 grocery stores, two banks, three fine hotels, three dance halls and 25 saloons” by 1880. Alex M. Cassidy purchased “oil claims at Oil Springs, Fremont County,” in 1862, and “sunk six wells that were moderately profitable.” He then turned to mining [Ref: Western Americana Auction # 9, Volume 2: Colorado, p. 34, 2001]. 2. The Custer Slide Mining and Development Company. Mostly likely in the Hardscrabble Mining District. Incorporated in Colorado. No. 149 issued to Robert Kerr by J. L. Nichols, Secretary, and R. L. Holland, President, on 19 August 1915 for 100 shares. Has an adhesive, rose, five-cent, document revenue stamp affixed to the lower right side – R20 partially perf. Not cancelU/Cnt condition.