Archives International Auctions Sale 63 U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, and Security Printing Ephemera and Historic Ephemera December 9th & 10th 2020

Archives International Auctions - Sale 63 187 December 9-10,2020 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com 1138 1138Omaha Mining Co. 1892 I/U Stock Certificate Montana, 1892. 2000 Shares I/U Capital Stock Certificate #98, Black text with black border, Men at work in mine at top center. XF condition. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Est. $80-140 Montana Territory 1139 1139Montana Territory. Algonquin Co. 1881 I/U Stock Certificate Montana Territory, 1881. 1000 Shares I/U Capital Stock Certificate, Serial #22, Red text with red border, Men at work in mine at top center. VF condition. The Algonquin Company was a mining company, with a mine located in Deer Lodge County. ����� Est. $70-120 Nevada 1140 1140Andes Silver Mining Co., 1876 I/U Stock Certificate Signed by Civil War General George S. Dodge. Virginia Mining District, Storey County, Nevada. 10 Shares, I/U stock certificate, Ornate title with logo at left, VF with small 2mm tear top left margin as well as small pin holes and 2 small holes from being attached to document. Signed by Geo. S. Dodge as president. Dodge received a historic silver ingot. ”The Ingot Recipient, George Sullivan Dodge was a decorated Civil War veteran, who was brought to the West Coast about 1871 to manage the monstrous new silver company in Eureka, the Eureka Consolidated. The mine was so rich that it rivaled the best of the Comstock, ultimately producing over $20 million from 1873 to 1906 alone. Dodge’s office was in San Francisco, right in the center of the Montgomery Street business section (Bank of California, etc.) where most of the financial ends of the Comstock mining barons took place. Dodge appears to have been appointed the first president of the Company, with the attendant job of getting the mine into profitable and large scale production. He was in charge of hiring the best mining men and putting together a mining crew to rival the best on the Comstock. George Sullivan Dodge (August 3, 1838 - August 24, 1881) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, a United States consul to Bremen, Germany and a merchant. Dodge, the son of William P. and Nancy B. Dodge (1806-1853), was born on August 4, 1838, in Irasburg, Orleans County, Vermont, Dodge became a prominent merchant. With the outbreak of hostilities in the American Civil War, Dodge entered a volunteer regiment for the Union Army and was appointed colonel in the army’s Quartermaster Department. During the war’s later years, he served as Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the James under Major General Benjamin F. Butler and later under Major General Edward O.C. Ord. On January 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Dodge for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general to rank from January 15, 1865 for his last-minute resupply of beleaguered Union forces at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher (January 13–15, 1865) and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on February 14, 1865. He later participated in the Battle of Wilmington (February 11–22, 1865). After the war, Dodge served as the United States Consul in Bremen, Germany (1866-1869)������� Est. $130-260 1141 1141Austin Mining Co., 1898 Specimen Bond County of Lander, Nevada. (Inc. in New Jersey). $1000 Specimen 4% 1st Mortgage Coupon Bond, Black print on green border and under tint, Men working in mine at top under large company title, Specimen overprints and POC’s, Fine-VF condition with slight split along fold lines, ABNC. Est. $90-180 1142 1142Tonopah Divide Mining Co. 1919 I/U Stock Certificate Location of mine: Tonopah-Gold Mountain mining District, Nevada, 1919. 100 Shares I/U Capital Stock Certificate, Black text with orange border, Men at work outside of mine at top center. Fine condition with staple holes at top left corner. Tonopah Divide Mining Co operates as a gold mining company. The Company produces gold bearing ore from mines in California. Tonopah markets its products to metal refiners throughout the Western United States.������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Est. $20-35 1143 1143Tuscarora Trading Co., 1889, I/U Stock Certificate S/N 1. Tuscarora, Nevada. 5 Shares, I/U small size certificate for 5 shares, S/N 1, embossed and signed. VF. Tuscarora Trading company became Elko-Tuscarora Mercantile Company) - Elko, Nevada 1889. Rare #1 stock certificate. Crocker & Co., S.F.���������������������������������� Est. $110-180 1144 1144White Cross Consolidated Mining Co., 1878 I/U Stock Certificate. Location of Mines - Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada. (Inc. in Cleveland Ohio), 1878, I/U, 20 Shares, #189, Black print with ornate black border, Cross in center, VF condition with some splitting and small hole in center from folding. ������������������������������������� Est. $70-120