Gold Hill Tunneling Gold and Silver Mining Company

Date

1864

Location

Nevada

Amount

$2,000

Signatures

  • A. Dubois
  • R. Wegener
  • S. Ming

Description

This stock certificate (no. 54) represents 10 shares valued at $200 each for the Gold Hill Tunneling Gold and Silver Mining Company. This gold and silver mine located in Gold Hill during the 1860s was very productive until the 1870’s.

Notable Bond Imagery

Near the left border, a lone miner stands in front of a mine shaft. He holds a gas-lit lamp and a pickaxe. This vignette is covered by a red stamp from Internal Revenue services with a portrait of George Washington. Between the signatures of the Secretary and the President is the company seal stating, “ Gold Hill Tunneling Gold and Silver Mining Company, Incorporated April 1864.”

Certificate with black ink shows intricate borders, vignettes with a miner, a red IRS stamp with George Washington, and a company seal
Backside shows legal language and space for dates, amounts, and signatures
Transcription 
						The Gold Hill Tunneling Gold and Silver Mining Company stock certificate reads:
No. 54 | 10 Shares
4000 Shares | $200 Each | Capital 800,000 Dollars
Incorporated April 16th, 1864
Gold Hill Tunneling Gold and Silver Mining Company
GOld Hill, Storey Co., Nevada Territory
San Francisco, May 23 1864
	This Certifies that A. Dubois is entitled to Ten Shares in the Capital Stock of the Gold Hill Tunneling Gold and Silver Mining Company. Transferable on the Books of the Company by endorsement hereon and surrender of this Certificate. 
Signed by the Secretary R. Wegener
Signed by the President S. Ming

The back side of this stock certificate 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:

2017.002.077