The Tombstone Mill and Mining Company

Date

1882

Location

Tombstone District, Pima County, Arizona

Amount

$2,500

Signatures

  • George Burnham
  • George S. Corbin
  • H.L. Judd
  • M.M. Gilidy

Description

This stock certificate (No. A2060) represents 1000 shares valued at $25 each for The Tombstone Mill and Mining Company. The stake for this mine was named "Tombstone" because it was said that the mine founder's friend told him, "Better take your coffin with you. You will find your tombstone there, and nothing else."

Notable Bond Imagery

In the upper right corner, three Native Americans overlook a train. In the lower left a Native American man with a bow strung over his back looks stoically behind him. In the lower right is flora.

Certificate with black ink shows intricate borders, lettering, and vignettes with Native Americans-one with a bow, a train, and flora
Backside shows legal language, signatures, and space for dates and amounts
Transcription
						The Tombstone Mining and Mill Co. stock certificate reads:
No. A2060
The Tombstone Mill and Mining Co.
1000 shares
	This Certifies that H. L. Judd is entitled to One Thousand Shares of the Capital Stock of The Tombstone Mill and Mining Company, transferable only on the books of the Company in person or by Attorney, on surrender of this Certificate. This Certificate is not valid without the signature of the Registrar. Hartford, May 12th 1882
Countersigned & Registered this 12 day of May 1822.
Signed by the President (illegible)
Signed by the Treasurer (illegible)
Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co. of Philadelphia by (illegible) (registrar and president)
Location of Property, Tombstone District, Pima County, Arizona
Full Paid and Nonassessable.
American Bank Note Co. New York
500.000. Shares $25 Each

On the back of this certificate is text that reads:
	For Value received _____ have bargained, sold, assigned and transferred and by these, presents do bargain, sell, assign, and transfer unto _______ the Capital Stock named in the within Certificate, and _____ do hereby constitute and appoint true and lawful Attorney, irrevocable, for ____ and in ____ name and stead but to _____ use, to sell, assign, transfer and set over all or any part of the said stock, and for that purpose to make and execute all necessary acts of assignment and transfer, and one or more persons to substitute with like full power.
Dated _____ 18__
Signed and acknowledged in presence of __________________________					

Accession No:

2017.002.069