The Original Keystone Silver Mining Company

Date

1879

Location

Nevada

Amount

$10,000

Signatures

  • E. Cecri
  • E. W. Matthews Jr.
  • F. E. Sixty

Description

This stock certificate (No. 1633) represents 100 shares valued at $100 each for the Original Keystone Silver Mining Company. This mine was one of the first claims of the Comstock Lode.

Notable Bond Imagery

A vignette in the “O” is of a keystone, which is the center stone of an arch-type structure. The second vignette depicts two horses on their hind legs in front of a portrait of a boat, till, and wheat. On top of this portrait is an eagle and below it are the words “Liberty, Virtue, Independence.” In the top right corner is the company seal reading “The Original Keystone Silver Mining Company, Comstock Ledge.”

Certificate with black ink shows intricate borders, lettering, and vignettes with horses, a boat, an eagle, and “Liberty, Virtue, Independence.”
Back of certificate shows legal language including spacing for dates, amounts, signatures and stamps
Transcription 
						The Original Keystone Silver Mining Company stock certificate reads:
Comstock Ledge, Virginia Nev.
Location. Virginia Mining Dist., Storey County, Nev.
Capital 10,000,000 Dollars | Shares 100,000 | $100 Each
Incorporated Aug 7, 1877
Number 1633 | 100 Shares
San Francisco, Sept 12th 1879
	This Certifies, that E. W. Matthews Jr. is entitled to One Hundred Shares of the Capital Stock of the Original Keystone Silver Mining Co. Transferable on the books of the Company by endorsement hereon and surrender of this Certificate.
Signed by the Secretary F. E. Sixty
Signed by the President E. Cecri

The backside of this document has 2 assessment dividend stamps, as well as a legal body of text stamped on.

The Legal text states:
	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 the 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. 187_
	Witness ____

Assessment No. 3
Paid June 7, 1880
F. E. Luty, Secretary.
Per (illegible)

Assessment No. 4
Paid April, 1881
F. E. Luty, Secretary.
Per (illegible)

Accession No:

2017.002.079