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Auction: 324 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1332

Sutro Tunnel (California) 1872. San Francisco. 200 shares. Issued, not cancelled. No.1308. Huge and spectacular image of a prospector, left. A marvelous vignette of trains pulling ore cars along the shore fills the entire lower portion. Issued to E. Erlanger & Co., European brokers who issued the Confederate cotton bonds. Sutro formed this company to build a massive drainage tunnel below the Comstock Lode. Britton & Rey. EF. Professionally and attractively framed using archival materials.

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