The Cripple Creek Consolidated Mining Company

Date

1906

Location

Cripple Creek, Colorado

Amount

$1,000

Signatures

  • Charles Taylor

Description

This stock certificate (No. 10828) representing 1,000 shares valued at $1.00 each for The Cripple Creek Consolidated Mining Company. The Cripple Creek Mine marks one of the last great gold rushes in Colorado, yielding around $500,000,000 worth of gold.

Notable Bond Imagery

At the top of the bond, a calm river meanders through the woods, surrounded by stone cliffs and a a snow-laden mountain. On the bottom left, a golden seal fades to a dark hue, reading,“The Cripple Creek Consolidated Mining Co. Colorado, Incorporated 1891.”

Certificate with brown and gold ink shows intricate bordering, lettering, a company seal, signatures, and a vignette of a mountain scene
Backside shows various legal language including signatures and dates
Transcription 
						The Cripple Creek Consolidated Mining Company stock certificate reads:
Number 10828 | Shares 1000
Incorporated under the Laws of the State of Colorado.
Countersigned and Registered at Colorado Springs Nov 20, 19— 
Signed by The Colorado Title and Trust Company (illegible), the assistant secretary
The Cripple Creek Consolidated Mining Company
Capital Stock $2.000.000. 
Shares of $1.00 each
Main Office Colorado Springs, Colo.
Not over one thousand Shares

This is to Certify that Charles Taylor is the owner of One Thousand Shares of the Capital Stock of The Cripple Creek Consolidated Mining Company, which shares are full paid and non-assessable, transferable only on the Books of the Company on presentation and surrender of this Certificate properly assigned. 

Witness the seal of the Company and the signatures of the President and Secretary at Colorado Springs, Colo., this 20th day of November A.D. 1906
Signed by the Secretary George (illegible) Davis)
Signed by the President J. H. Gmphey

The back of this stock certificate states:
For Value Received ____ hereby sell, assign, and transfer to _____ the Shares of Stock within mentioned and hereby authorize the transfer of the same on the Books of the Company

Witness ___ hand and seal this ____ day of ___ 190_ 
Signed by Charles Taylor

Notice. The Signature to this Assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the Face of the Certificate in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.

There are also several mathematical scribbles on the back of this certificate.

6000
 .001
6,000

Illegible — 9/23
$12.00

Accession No:

2017.002.021