Item #59270 Claim of Robert O. Old upon the Philadelphia Lode and Mill Site
Claim of Robert O. Old upon the Philadelphia Lode and Mill Site

Claim of Robert O. Old upon the Philadelphia Lode and Mill Site

Central City, Colorado: December 8, 1873. Six-page pro-forma folio document (approx. 18¼" x 13¾" ) bound with red ribbon, being "General Land Office 931, Mineral Certificate no. 461," describing and outlining the parameters of the site in a lengthy one-and-a-half-page manuscript description, with a large wood-engraved illustration at the top, and a half-page hand-drawn plat "of the claim of Robert O. Old upon the Philadelphia Lode, Lincoln Mining District, Clear Creek, Colorado" and a second half-page hand-drawn plat "of the Mill Site and Water Power of Robert O. Old, Empire Mining District, Clear Creek County..." Last leaf with the red seal of the General Land Office and proxy signature of Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States. Previous folds, else very good. Item #59270

Price: $400.00

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