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Auction: 324 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1272

Maxwell Land Grant and Railway (New Mexico) 1873. Cimarron. 10 shares. Issued, not cancelled. No.5121. Light lavender full tint underprint. Woman reclines by beehive. Rarely seen vignette of a farmer plowing, with a train and mountains in the distance. The Maxwell Land Grant, also known as the Beaubien-Miranda Land Grant, was a 1,714,765-acre Mexican land grant in Colfax County, New Mexico and part of adjoining Las Animas County, Colorado. It was one of the largest contiguous private landholdings in the United States. The New Mexico towns of Cimarron, Colfax, Dawson, Elizabethtown, French, Lynn, Maxwell, Miami, Raton, Rayado, Springer, Ute Park and Vermejo Park were located within the grant, as were numerous other towns that are now ghost towns. VF. Two small pinholes and a paper clip stain. Please note that the serial number was hand corrected from 621 (printed) to 5121. The changes were initialed. Cox lists only six of these.

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