Bodie Bluff Consolidation Mining Company

Date

1863

Location

Bodie, California

Amount

$0

Signatures

  • J. S. Cain
  • Leland Stanford
  • Lewis William
  • R.L. McCarthy
  • Thomas Leggett

Description

This unissued stock certificate is for the Bodie Bluff Consolidation Mining Company. This certificate is entirely blank with the exception of the signature of Company President Leland Stanford who was co-founder of the Central Pacific Railroad and founder of Stanford University.

Notable Bond Imagery

On the left side a cornucopia is filled with various foods. In the center is a small village outside the entrance of a mining tunnel that leads into a mountain. From left to right, the following is listed: “Cumberland 600ft, Bunker Hill 1000x, North America 1000x, St. Charles 1000x, New Mexico 1000x, Main Top 1000x, Osceola 1000x, Mizzen-Top 1000x, Foretop 1000x, Oneida 1000x, Izabella 1500x.” A watermark is located behind the second vignette. On each side of the second vignette is a woman in a long dress, holding a bushel of plants and surrounded by vines.

Certificate with black, yellow, and red ink shows intricate borders, lettering, and vignettes with a cornucopia of foods and a small mining village
Backside shows legal language with space for dates, amounts, and signatures
Transcription 
						The Bodie Bluff Consolidation Mining Company stock certificate reads:
Incorporated January 26, 1863
Capital Stock, $1,110,000.
11,000 Shares
$100 Each.
No. ____ | ____ Shares
Bodie Bluff Consolidation Mining Co.
Aurora, Mono Co., Cal., ____186_
	This Certifies, that ______is the owner of ____ Shares in the Capital Stock of the Bodie Bluff Consolidation Mining Company. Transferable on the Books of the Company, by endorsement hereon, and surrender of this Certificate. 
Signed by Secretary ______
Signed by President Leland Stanford 

The back side of this document states:
	For Value Received, I do hereby sell and assign unto _____ Shares of the Capital Stock of the within Company, standing in my name on its Books, _____ And I constitute and appoint ____ my lawful Attorney, irrevocable, for me and in my name and stead, to transfer the above number of Shares, and to sign and execute all necessary papers, to that end : hereby ratifying all lawful acts of my said Attorney, done by virtue hereof.
	Witness my hand, this ______ day of ___ A.D. 186_
Witness, _____

Accession No:

2017.002.068