Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company

Date

1888

Location

Gold Hill, Nevada

Amount

$5,000

Signatures

  • George Edwards
  • James Camel
  • S. B. Wakefield & Co.

Description

This stock certificate (No. 34131) represents 50 shares valued at $100 each for the Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company.

Notable Bond Imagery

In the upper left, a cloaked man rides a horse with hills, a river, and another horse behind him. The insignia of the company is at the bottom left with a triangular cut at the bottom right. On the right, a purple stamp denotes cancellation with an orange, waxy check mark. Six star-shaped cutouts line the bottom.

Certificate with black, blue and red ink shows intricate borders, lettering, company seal, signatures and a vignette of a man riding a horse
Backside shows one illegible signature and punched out star-shaped holes.
Transcription 
						The Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company stock certificate reads:
Incorporated under the Laws of Nevada Territory Feb. 17, 1863
The Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Co.
Gold Hill Mining Dist., Gold Hill, Nev.
Number 34131 | 50 Shares
Capital Stock, $12.000.000. | 120,000 Shares | $100 Each.
March 27 1888

This Certifies, that S. B. Wakefield & Co. Tr is entitled to Fifty Shares of the Capital Stock of The Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company. Transferable on the books of the Company, by endorsement hereon and surrender of this Certificate.

Signed by the Transfer Secretary James  Camel
Signed by the Vice President George Edwards 
Cancelled Apr. 4 1888

The back of this stock certificate has one signature (illegible).

Accession No:

2017.002.055