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San Francisco,CA - 1858 - San Francisco City and County Bond :

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
San Francisco,CA - 1858 - San Francisco City and County Bond :
Bond number 754. Measures 16.75” x 14.” Includes coupons 27 through 59 signed by E. W. Burr. The back of the bond is green with a flowery border mixed with peach color. A red stamp says “Pay to the order of Wm. Hooper, Secy.” The front of the bond has a black border and supposedly is white but the peach from the back has leached through to the front. The bond was purchased by [illegible] F. Willey in the amount of 1,000.00. Signed by the fund commissioners, E. W. Burr, President, who was a former mayor and who also was the founder of San Francisco Savings and Loan in 1857, an institution he had been associated with since its formation as a savings society in 1854, it’s main partner was the infamous Henry Meiggs. E. S. Mickle signed as Auditor, and William H. Tillinghast was treasurer. Hand written across the front of the bond “This bond [illegible] by the Commissioner of the Funded – Sept of 1851 and canceled Sept 18 1871 by Thomas H. Selby, Mayor.” Selby came to the Gold Rush with other Forty-niners and eventually set up business as a smelter.