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NV - Goldfield,Esmeralda County - Choice Goldfield/Tonopah Items - Gil Schmidtmann Collection

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 300.00 USD
NV - Goldfield,Esmeralda County - Choice Goldfield/Tonopah Items - Gil Schmidtmann 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!!!
Eight items, including: Key Pittman’s original engraved personal business card plate dated July 1910; three Wells Fargo money order receipts nos. 818099, 818100, 818101, all dated May 21, 1905 issued to Key Pittman; three sales sheets from the San Francisco Mining Exchange date September 12, 1929, September 13, 1929 and September 16, 1929. Also includes a Tonopah Banking Corporation deposit account book for 1906/1907 in the name of the Nevada Boy Goldfield Mining Co.

Pittman was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1872 and was educated by private tutors and at the Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He studied law, then later became a lawyer. In 1897, he joined in the Klondike Gold Rush and worked as a miner until 1901. Pittman moved to Tonopah, Nevada, in 1902 and continued the practice of law. He represented Nevada at the St. Louis Exposition, the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition, and the irrigation congress. In 1910, he made an unsuccessful run for the Senate. Later, he was elected as a Democrat to the Senate in 1913 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George S. Nixon, and served until his death in 1940. Between 1933 and 1940 he was the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and was also a member of the Committee on Territories and the Committee on Industrial Expositions. In addition, during those years Pittman was President pro tempore of the United States Senate. Among his legislation is the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 which set up a formula for federal sharing of ammunition tax revenue for establishing state wildlife areas. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Pittman]