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NV - Tonopah,Nye County - Tonopah Mining Company Group - Clint Maish Collection

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
NV - Tonopah,Nye County - Tonopah Mining Company Group - Clint Maish 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!!!
Lot of nine postcards, one photo, one assay certificate, and one stock.

Postcards: Six chromolithograph post cards without borders of aerial views of the Tonopah Mine. Of these, three are used, two are not, and one has had the period writing erased and non-period notes were made at the top. Three white border real photo post cards. Black and white. One shows the Mizpah shaft from a distance, one shows a closer view of a mining shaft, and the last shows mining going down the shaft. Of these, two are used and one is blank.

Photograph: Measures 6.5"x4". High contrast and clear image. Photographer unknown. Location unknown, but non-period writing on the reverse indicates Tonopah. Photo shows four miners and a dog on a mine cart outside of a mining shaft.

Assay certificate: Tonopah Plant. The Western Ore Purchasing Copmany. Sample marked 2803 of Tonopah Mining Copmany. Ounces in Gold: .80. Ounces in silver: 63.2. Dated November 4, 1906. Signed by J.M.C.

Stock: The Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada. Incorporated in Delaware. No. 63484 issued on February 27, 1945 to Lottie L. Somerset for 30 shares. Signatures illegible due to cancellation hole punches. One vignette of miners working below ground with equipment in the upper center. Border is intricate and brown. Embossed seal in bottom center. Cancelled by holes punched through signature. Printed by Security Bank Note Copmany. Certificate measures 11"x7".