10.5 oz 1869-Dated Carlton Mining Company, Colorado Territory, gold ingot.
The inscriptions on the bar are each individually stamped with number and letter punches. On the obverse of the bar is the inscription in five lines: CARLTON / MINING / CO. / C.T. / 10.5 OZS. The reverse bears the wording: UNPARTED / GOLD / 1869, the latter presumably being the date. At the right end of the bar appears the designation “N 1863,” presumably a sale number.
We have been unable to locate any data concerning the Carlton Mining Company. It is indeed possible that information will come to light in the future which will shed light on the situation. This has happened numerous times before in similar instances. Literally hundreds of mining companies were operating in Colorado at the time, some being one-man operations and others being large stock companies. Many of these issued gold ingots or had ingots with their name on them made by local assayers and refiners. ($4000-5000)
Located in Montana by Paul Franklin in 1966 and subsequently sold to John J. Ford, Jr. who in the same year sold it to the consignor, Henry H. Clifford.
[03/1982] https://archive.org/details/henryhcliffordco1982bowe/page/n89/