Scorpion Silver Mining Company

Date

1881

Location

Nevada

Amount

$9

Signatures

  • George R. Spinney
  • Robert Sherwood

Description

This stock certificate (No. 5610) represents nine one-hundredths of one share of the company where one share is valued at $100 for the Scorpion Silver Mining Company. This mining company went through a split in property, dividing into the East Sierra Nevada Company and the Scorpion Mining Company.

Notable Bond Imagery

This certificate has one vignette of the constellation Scorpio the Scorpion.

Certificate with black ink shows intricate borders and lettering and a vignette of the Scorpio constellation
Backside shows legal language, signatures, and stamps with space for dates and amounts
Transcription 
						The Scorpion Silver Mining Company stock certificate reads:
The Scorpion Silver Mining Company
Virginia Mining Dist. Nevada
Incorporated May 9th 1860
Capital $10,000,000 | 100,000 Shares, $100 Each
No. 5610 | 9100Shares
San Francisco April 12 1881
This Certifies, that Geo. R. Spinney, Tr. is entitled to Nine one hundredths of one Share of the Capital Stock of The Scorpion Silver Mining Company.
Transferable on the books of the Company, by endorsement hereon and surrender of this Certificate.
Signed by the Secretary Geo. R. Spinney
Signed by the President Robert Sherwood

The back of this document has the signature of Geo. R. Spinney, Tr., as well as an (illegible) statement, written in pencil.

Accession No:

2017.002.076