The Ivanhoe Mining Company

Date

1882

Location

Colorado

Amount

$2,500

Signatures

  • H. E. Paine
  • Story B. Ladd
  • Thomas R. Howard

Description

This stock certificate (No. 985) represents 100 shares valued at $25 each for the Ivanhoe Mining Company. The bond is signed by Company President H. E. Paine, a Union General and author of the political work Paine on Contested Elections.

Notable Bond Imagery

In the center, six men work on various tasks in a mine; One shovels rocks, two prod the surrounding walls with pipes, one uses a pickaxe, and two repair gear and supervise. The company’s corporate seal is also located on the bottom left stating, “The Ivanhoe Mining Company, Incorporated 1881.”

Certificate with black ink shows intricate borders, lettering, signatures, company seals, and vignettes of miners working in a mine
Backside shows legal language with spacing for dates, amounts, and signatures
Transcription 
						The Ivanhoe Mining Company stock certificate reads:
Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of Colorado
Capital Stock $5.000.000 | Number 985 | 100 Shares | $25 Each
The Ivanhoe Mining Company
	This Certifies, that Thomas R. Howard is entitled to One hundred shares of full paid Capital Stock of The Ivanhoe Mining Company, not subject to assessment, transferable on the books of the Company, by proper endorsement hereon and surrender of this certificate. 
	Witness the Seal of said Company and the Signatures of the President and Secretary thereof. 
Washington, this 3rd day of March 1882
Signed by the Secretary (illegible)
Signed by the President H. E. Paine

The back of this stock certificate states:
	For Value Received ___ hereby assign and transfer unto ______ Shares of the Capital Stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _____ Attorney to transfer the said stock on the Books of the within named Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Signed _____ 
Dated _____
In Presence of ______

Accession No:

2017.002.042