The San Juan Consolidated Mining Company

Date

1875

Location

Colorado

Amount

$10,000

Signatures

  • Tom Bowen

Description

This stock certificate (No. 69) represents 100 shares valued at $100 each for the San Juan Consolidated Mining Company. The bond is signed by Company Secretary and Treasurer Thomas Bowen who was a U.S. senator for Colorado for six years and a general under Ulysses S. Grant in the Civil War.

Notable Bond Imagery

A lady in a Greek toga sprinkles gold coins below her. At the top it reads $200,000 of capital stock which is crossed out and replaced with $2,000,000 of stock. The company seal sits in the bottom left corner. A blue stamp states “Returned and Cancelled on Transfer.”

Certificate with blue and black ink shows intricate borders, lettering, signatures, a company seal, a cancel stamp, and Greek woman vignette
Backside shows various legal language including signatures and dates
Transcription 
						The San Juan Consolidated Mining Company stock certificate reads:
Authorized Capital Stock $2,000,000.
Number 69 | $10,000 | 100 Shares

This is to Certify that (illegible) is the owner of One Hundred Shares, of the denomination of One Hundred Dollars each per SHare, of full paid non-assessable Stock in the San Juan Consolidated Mining Company, transferable only on the Books of the Company on the surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed.

In testimony whereof the said Company has hereto affixed its Corporate Seal, and caused the same to be attested by its President and SEcretary and Treasurer at Del Norte, Colorado, this 28th day of October AD. 1873
Signed by the Secretary and Treasurer Thomas Bowen
Signed by the President (illegible)

The back of this stock certificate states:
For Value Received, I hereby sell, transfer and assign to Ebeu Siveth One Hundred the Shares of Stock of Stock within mentioned, and authorize _____ to make the necessary transfer on the books of the Company


Witness ____ hand and seal this ___ day of ____ 187_
Witnessed by (illegible)

Accession No:

2017.002.039