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The Bertha & Edith Gold Mining Company 1878 antique stock certificate Virginia

The Bertha & Edith Gold Mining Company 1878 antique stock certificate Virginia

$ 21.09

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    Up for consideration is a The Bertha & Edith Gold Mining Company from 1878:
    #3721
    Issued to J. Mildeberger Smith for 100 shares on September 12, 1878
    Signed by J. Mildeberger Smith as secretary and E. B. Grant as president
    Incorporated in New York
    Printed by Maverick & Wissinger, N.Y.
    Certificate in good condition with normal folds
    Uncancelled
    Nice vignette of miners shoveling gravel into a sluice box
    Company had mining operations in central Virginia. Placer gravels were worked for gold in Big Byrd Creek in Goochland County (55 miles west of Richmond and 3 miles northeast of Columbia) Virginia prior to the Civil War. Property consisted of about 700 acres. The company bought the mineral rights and mined the underlying quartz veins in the late 1870s. Goochland County had dozens of gold mines in the 19th century, estimated to have yielded between 0,000 to .5 million.