Alabama Gold and Copper Mining Company

Date

1899

Location

Jarilla, New Mexico

Amount

$2,000

Signatures

  • J. M. Llewellyn
  • Pat Garrett

Description

This stock certificate (No. 10) represents 200 shares valued at $10.00 each for the Alabama Gold and Copper Mining Company. This certificate is signed by Pat Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County, Nebraska, who is most well-known for killing Billy the Kid.

Notable Bond Imagery

A vignette incorporated into the background depicts a plant with a ribbon tying the stems together. Each corner shows unique symbols. In the top right corner is a green U.S. Internal Revenue stamp, which has a picture of a lady dressed in robes holding a three-pronged candelabrum in her right hand. At the bottom left corner is the corporate seal.

Certificate with blue and black ink shows intricate borders, lettering, signatures, a company seal, an IRS stamp, and a plant and ribbon vignette
Backside shows various legal language including signatures, dates, and a seal
Transcription 
						The Alabama Gold and Copper Mining Company stock certificate reads: 
Incorporated under the Laws of the Territory of New Mexico
Incorporated 1899
Number 10 | Shares 200
The Alabama Gold and Copper Mining Company,
Jarilla, New Mexico
Capital Stock $200,000.00 
Shares $10.00 Each
	This Certifies that P. F. Garrett is the owner of Two Hundred shares of the Capital Stock of The Alabama Gold and Copper Mining Company, non-assessable, transferable only on the books of the Corporation by the holder hereof in person or by Attorney, upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. 
	In Witness Whereof, the said Corporation has caused this Certificate to be signed by its duly endorsed authorized officers and to be sealed with the Seal of Corporation at Jarilla, New Mexico, this 12th day of December A.D. 1899
Signed by the Secretary P. F. Garrett
Signed by the President J. M. Llewellyn

The back of this document is divided into three columns.
The left column is moderately faded, and states:
	For Value Received, ___ hereby sell, 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 Corporation with full power of substitution in the premise.
Dated ____
Signed P. F. Garrett
The middle column states:
Certificate for 200 Shares of the Capital Stock of the Alabama Gold and Copper Mining Company. Issued to P. F. Garrett
Dated December 12th 1899.
The right column is blank.

Accession No:

2017.002.002