Nevada Silver Mining Company

Date

1864

Location

Humboldt County, Nevada

Amount

$50,000

Signatures

  • E. L. Bolles
  • George Stevenson
  • Nancy K. Bishop

Description

This stock certificate (No. 49) represents 5000 shares valued at $10 each for the Nevada Silver Mining Company. The mining company consisted of four quartz lodes.

Notable Bond Imagery

In the center, three men work in a ravine, two of which are hammering something that the third is holding surrounded by various mining tools. On the left, two men operate a well that extends down to several other men in a mine shaft. In the top right, a Revenue Stamp shows a shield with American stars and stripes.

Certificate with brown ink shows intricate borders, lettering, a company seal, signatures, AN IRS stamp, and vignettes of miners and a mine shaft
Backside shows various legal language and spaces for dates and signatures and an embossed seal
Transcription
						The Nevada Silver Mining Company stock certificate reads:
Organized Under the Laws of the State of New York
120,000 Shares | $10 Each | Capital $1,200,000.
Number 49 | Shares 5000
Issued for the Purchase of Mining Property
Nevada Silver Mining Company
Of Humboldt County, Nevada Territory

This is to Certify that Nancy K. Bishop is entitled to Five thousand Shares in the Capital Stock of the Nevada Silver Mining Company, transferable in person or by Attorney on the Books of said Company at is Office in the City of New York on surrender of this Certificate
Dated New York Nov 2nd 1806
Signed by the Secretary E. L. Bolles
Signed by the President Geo Stevenson

The back of this stock certificate reads: 
For Value Received ___ hereby sell, assign and transfer unto _____ Shares of the within Stock, and irrevocably constitute and appoint _____ attorney, to transfer the same on the Books of the Company, with full power of substitution.
Dated this ___ day of ____ 18__
Signed by Nancy K. Bishop L.S.
Witness George Helloyau
					

Accession No:

2017.002.035