Category: John J. Ford
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Thorne Mining & Refining Co
Read more: Thorne Mining & Refining Co2.995 oz Thorne Mining and Reduction Co. Gold Ingot, Arizona Much has been written on the Thorne ingots. These ingots, like those of the Eagle Mining Co., also surfaced in the late 1960s. More than 80 silver ingots are known, and just a few (3) gold ingots are known. It was opined that these were sold…
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Baldwin & Co
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Read more: Baldwin & Co$56.60 Baldwin & Co San Francisco 1850 No 1794 Gold Ingot Obverse Image: Eagle with olive branches and arrows clutched in talons. Obverse Text: BALDWIN & CO. / 1850 / SAN FRANCISCO / NO 1794 / 880 THOU / DWT 62 1/4 DOLLS / 56.60 CTS Reverse Text: TO MY DEAR WIFE HELEN OCT 1851…
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Adams & Co
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Read more: Adams & Co$54.33 Adams & Co, No 934, 1851 San Francisco California Gold Ingot Obverse Text: ADAMS & CO. / NO. 934 / DWT / 881 THOUS / 57 1/12 / $54.33 Reverse Text: SMV / DOLS / CTS / 54. / 33 Edges: W.M & CO. ASSRS / 1851 / SAN FRANCISCO / CAL. Measures: 2.4…
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Eagle Mining Company
Read more: Eagle Mining CompanyThe name “Eagle Mining Company” is sufficiently popular and general that it is difficult to precisely pinpoint the exact location of the firm. John J. Ford, Jr. advises that in the 1860s and 1870s at least two companies operated under this name in Gilpin County, Colorado. The Mines of Colorado, 1867, notes of the Eagle…
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Union Mine
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Read more: Union Mine3 oz Union Mine, Value: $24.35, Mixed Metal Ingot From the Lily Collection, now housed at the Smithsonian Institution. Likely a fabrication that was routed through Ford. This is the only known ingot of its kind at this time. Obverse Text: GOLD 354 / SILVER 619 F / UNION MINE / REWARD CAL / B…
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North Star Mine (Ford)
Read more: North Star Mine (Ford)In The Mother Lode Region of California, W.H. Strong notes: North Star Drift Mine. This is two miles south of Mokelumne Hill . . . The channel has been reached by means of a cross-cut tunnel, in 1,360 feet, March, 1900. This tunnel is 6’/i by 10’/j feet. Nine men are employed, there being as…
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U.S. Assay Office of Gold (Ford)
Read more: U.S. Assay Office of Gold (Ford)Coinage of Augustus Humbert and The United States Assay Office of Gold In September 1850 Congress authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to contract with a well-established assaying business in California to affix the stamp of the United States to bars and ingots: The Secretary of the Treasury … be authorized and directed to contract,…
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Justh & Hunter (Ford)
Read more: Justh & Hunter (Ford)$80.40 dollar ingot, 4 oz, Justh & Hunter California, United States, 1857 Obverse Image: Scales with shield. – the OIR / IRS Office of Internal Revenue double stamped Obverse Text: JUSTH & HUNTER / ASSAYERS / 4 OZ / 6 1/2 D Reverse Text: NO. 1798 / THOUS / 900 FINE / COIN VAL. /…
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Felix Grundy Hoard (Ford)
Read more: Felix Grundy Hoard (Ford)F. G. Hoard, Assayer Felix Grundy Hoard, who was named after the Attorney General in the administration of Martin Van Buren, was listed as an assayer in Fiddletown, California, in the Pacific Coast Business Directory, 1867 edition. His occupation apparently changed, and the same publication in its 1871-1873 edition listed him as a stock and…