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Auction: SW1012 - Bonds & Shares Certificates of the World
Lot: 360

Alaska Gold Company. Zertifikat über 240 Shares. 28. Januar 1889. Nr. 368. In 1880, Joe Juneau and Richard Harris made a major gold discovery in Juneau / Douglas Island in Alaska. In the year 1873, Gold was found in Circle and in 1886, in Forty Miles. Between 1896 and 1899 an estimated 100'000 prospectors rushed to the Klondike region in a attempt to find riches. Nice vignette with illustration of a dredger used to extract gold from the bottom of a river. At the back german stamp: "Abgestemplt in Gemässheit unseres Circulairs vom 12. Dezember 1890 Fol. 203 Meyer Bernhardt & Co."  VF.

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