Auction Date:2011 Nov 17 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
The Lake Superior Copper Company was the first company to actually produce copper in the Lake Superior region. The archive consists of 36 pieces relating to the company. Items include: a broadside, 16.5 x 21, headed "By The President of the United States. In pursuance of an act of Congress approved on the 1st day of March, 1847,” establishing “a land office in the Northern part of Michigan, and to provide for the sale of mineral lands in the State of Michigan.” The broadside continues with all the associated legal requirements and is signed in type by President James Polk; an attractive hand-drawn map, 15.5 x 10, showing the Isle Royal on the shore of Lake Superior with 14 identified tracts of land; two partly-printed pay receipts, each with an engraving of the "Inventors of Printing” in the left margin; a printed letter of Richard M. Young, Land Commissioner with instructions to Land Officers at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; an analysis of copper and silver on illustrated letterhead from Robert Longman, a "sweep smelter and refiner" dated at Brooklyn, 1846; plus five letters written to the Lake Superior Copper Company, from February 1847 to March 1848, primarily one page and mostly discussing small stock transactions; 20 letters written between 1844-1846 discussing the mineral rights of the area; plus nine miscellaneous related documents concerning insurance, leases, receipts, etc…" In very good overall condition. A fascinating lot worthy of further research.
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