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Archives International Auctions - Sale 36
56 October 22&25,2016 Archives International Auctions
307
Fairbanks, Alaska,
1914, I/U Stock, #651, 500 Shares, Black print on gold border and
underprint, Mining vignette top left, VF condition.���������������������Est. $130-200
Arizona Territory
308
Mesilla, Arizona Territory.
$100 per Share, Odd Shares, Blue on beige translucent paper, Native
American on left next to counterfoil, Signed by James A Lucas as
Secretary. He was Secretary of State in Arizona in August 1861. Also
signed by Samuel J. Jones who was also a Sutler at Fort Fillmore which
was located nearby. Only 4 partially issued and signed certificates are
known. Rare and early Arizona Territory Scripophily. ����������������Est. $180-250
California
309
Bodie Mining District, Mono County, California. Aug.13,
1879, 100 Shares, I/U, Black on white paper with ornate title lettering on
bottom and monogram on top left, signed by W.P. Minot as president.
VF-XF. Rare Bodie District mining stock certificate. ��������������������Est. $450-700
310
San Francisco office, Bodie District, Mono County, California. 7,000
shares at $100 per, miner with pick at lower right, IU, EF. Located
between the Goodshaw and the Bodie. Similar items have brought up to
$1,500 at auction. ��������������������������������������������������������������������������Est. $200-300
Colorado
311
Territory of Colorado, March 20th, 1869, $100, 10% Coupon Bond, gold
ink on white paper, mining and mill scene in middle, blacksmith at left,
standing Justice at right, eagle on left and Colorado arms at right, and
portrait of Benjamin Franklin at bottom middle. Signed by Benjamin
Franklin Fisher, (1834-1915), Civil War Soldier, Officer, Lawyer and war
hero. He enlisted on June 18, 1861, the first summer of the Civil War, for
three years in Company H, 32nd Pennsylvania Volunteers, being formed
in Bucks County. (Two brothers also served, one as an assistant surgeon
and the second as a Lieutenant who was killed at the Wilderness in 1864.)
He then joined the Army of the Potomac for the Peninsula Campaign in
the Signal Corp., and was in action at Lee’s Mill, Williamsburg, Gaines’s
Mill, and Malvern Hill. In September, 1862, Capt. Fisher was appointed
Chief Signal Officer of the Army of the Potomac. His job was to produce
intelligence reports from “stations of observation”. In some cases, he
provided the intelligence from the saddle. This appears to have been the
case as the battle of Chancellorsville was concluding, and Union forces
were under orders tomake every effort to learn where enemy forces were
going next. On June 17, 1863, while shadowing Confederate columns
near Aldie, Virginia, Capt. Fisher was captured and sent to Libby Prison
in Richmond. On February 9, 1864, 109 prisoners tunneled out of Libby
Prison. Fisher led the second party of ten, which included his future
brother-in-law, Lt. Causten. Fisher evaded searchers for eleven days, and
found his way to Union lines at Williamsburg. Brevetted Lieutenant-
colonel for gallant and meritorious services in 1864, Fisher was with the
Army of the Potomac from the Rapidan to Petersburg. After the war,
Fisher practiced law in Philadelphia and was active in many financial
ventures including mining. Historic stock certificate signed by the last
surviving escapee of notorious Libby Prison. ������������������������������Est. $500-800