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Con-Virginia Assay Office Memorandum [121717]

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Mining Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,500.00 USD
Con-Virginia Assay Office Memorandum  [121717]
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Report of bullion produced for the Con-Virginia Mine received on January 7, 1878 from six different Comstock mills: The California, the Consolidated, the Mariposa, the Sacramento, the Rhode Island, and the Brunswick mills. This piece is x-Ford sale, lot 3375, and sold for $2300. The piece is very noteworthy because it shows shipments of bullion to the Con Virginia Assay office from the six different mills, each rendering silver-gold bullion of differing amounts, varying from 0435 fine gold to 0615 fine gold. The report does not show the silver content, and here it is obvious the focus was on the gold content and the variation of a third could cause the apparent loss of up to $50,000 in a shipment such as this. This form is very rare, and the first seen by us except when it was for sale at the Ford sale in 2008. State:Nevada City:Virginia City Date:1878 Provenance: