Consolidated Virginia Mining Company

Date

1880

Location

Virginia Mining Dist. Storey County, Nevada

Amount

$500

Signatures

  • Charles H. Fish
  • H. H. Scott

Description

This stock certificate (No. 72849) originally entitled the owner to 20 shares and has been edited to represent 5 shares at $100 each for the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company. This mining company was part of the Virginia City Bonanza Firm formed by “Bonanza Kings” John William Mackay, James Graham Fair, James Clair Flood and William S. O'Brien.

Notable Bond Imagery

This edit as well as several others are written throughout the certificate, denoted as striked-thru words in this transcription. Two stamps in the bottom left and upper right corners are as a result of ink bleeding through from the back side where the stamps were placed.

Certificate with black ink shows intricate borders and lettering with red strike-through words and two purple bleed-through stamps
Backside shows legal language and signatures with space for dates and amounts and two blue, two purple stamps
Transcription 
						The Consolidated Virginia Mining Company stock certificate reads:
Consolidated Virginia Mining Company
No. 72849
5 20 Shares
Capital Stock 54.000.000 dollars. 540.000 Shares. $100 each
Incorporo June 7th 1867
	This certifies that H. H. Scott (illegible) Trustees is entitled to Twenty Shares in the Capital Stock of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Co. Transferable on the books of the Company by endorsement hereon and surrender of this Certificate.
San Francisco, May 8 1879 1880
Signed by the Secretary (illegible)
Signed by the President Charles H. Fish
Location: Virginia Mining Dist. Storey County, Nevada.

On the back side of this certificate hare 4 stamps. 
The pink stamp reads “Assessment No. 18 PAID, Sept 11 1892” and has an (illegible) signature. 
The two blue stamps that are partially covering each other read “Dividend Paid. July 15 1880 H.H. Scott & Co” and “Dividend Paid. Aug 16 1880 H. H. Scott & Co.” 
The purple stamp reads “Assessment No. 17. PAID, Feb 9 1882” and has an (illegible) signature. and a body of text which reads:
	I do hereby make, constitute and appoint, ________ my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocable, for me and in my name and stead, to transfer, assign and set over, the number of Shares of the Capital Stock of the corporation named in the within certificate, standing in my name on its Books, represented by this certificate, 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. 18__
Witness H. H. Scott (illegible)

Accession No:

2017.002.067