Tag: fantasy
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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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Carlton Mining Co.
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Read more: Carlton Mining Co.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 /…
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J. Bates
Read more: J. BatesJ. Bates, Assayer, Colorado, 1902. $65.57 gold ingot A handsome rectangular ingot marked on the front by two prepared stamps, filled in by hand-punching. Serial number 1082 appears at the right end and on the back. On the left side of the front, the fineness of 999 is indicated together with the weight of 3…
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Todd Fehn
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Read more: Todd FehnThe following items made of California Gold are made of modern issue and were produced by Todd Fehn, Ventura California, circa 1969-1971. 3.81 oz Todd Fehn, Ventura, California. Gold Ingot. T.F. / CALIF. / ASSAY CO. at top and bottom: fineness of 998 THOUS and 3.81 OZS (weight) at middle. [05/1987] https://archive.org/details/buddyebsencollec1987supe/page/348/ 5.75 oz Todd…
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San Francisco Mint (Ford)
Read more: San Francisco Mint (Ford)Purportedly, eleven (11) gold bars made by the U.S. Mint in San Francisco were lost on the ship of the S.S. Brother Jonathan which sank off the coast of California on July 30, 1865. The Bank of California once displayed five consecutive serial numbers (2178-2188) gold bars that came from this shipwreck — all of…
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Rogers & Brown, Assayers (Ford)
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Read more: Rogers & Brown, Assayers (Ford)The firm of Rogers & Brown, Assayers, located at No. 512 California Street, one door west of Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California, was the successor to the firm operated by G.W. Bell (who was killed in an explosion in 1866) and operated from the same location. On April 16, 1866, the Daily Evening Bulletin ran…
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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,…