The Grand Belt Copper Company

Date

1885

Location

Texas

Amount

$10,000

Signatures

  • George B. McClellan
  • Raymond Thomson
  • Rob B. Van Vleck

Description

This stock certificate (No. 583) represents 100 shares valued at $100 each for the Grand Belt Copper Company. This certificate is signed by President of the company, George B. McClellan, known for serving as a general in the Union Army during the Civil War. He also ran as the democratic candidate against Lincoln in the 1864 election.

Notable Bond Imagery

In the center, a man with one black and one white horse plows a field. Trees, a fence, and a house are in the background. In the middle, a bald eagle perches on the American shield holding a laurel vine in its claw. On the right, six miners stand in a mine. Four work in the foreground and two carry a mine cart.

Certificate with black and red ink shows intricate borders, lettering, signatures, and a vignette with an eagle, miners, and a cart
Backside shows various legal language including signatures and dates
Transcription 
						The Grand Belt Copper Company stock certificate reads:
Capital $12,000,000 | 120,000 Shares | Shares $100 Each
Full Paid and Unassessable
Number 583 | Shares 100
Incorporated under the Laws of the State of New York
	This Certifies that J. R. Thomson is entitled to One Hundred Shares of One hundred dollars each of the full paid Capital Stock of The Grand Belt Copper Company transferable only on the books of the Company, in person or by Attorney, on surrender of this Certificate. This Certificate is not valid without the signature of the Registrar.
New York 10 Jun 1885 
Signed by the Secretary Rob B. Van Vleck
Signed by the President Geo B. McClellan

Countersigned and Registered this 10 day of Jun 1885
Signed by the Farmers Loan and Trust Co. Registrar of Transfers and Secretary (illegible)

The back of this stock certificate states:
	For Value received, _ hereby have bargained, sold, assigned and transferred and by these presents do bargain, sell, assign and transfer unto _____ the Capital Stock named in the within Certificate, and _ do hereby constitute and appoint ___ true and lawful Attorney, irrevocable, for _ and in _ name and stead, but to ___ use, to sell, assign, transfer and set over, all or any part of the said stock, and for that purpose to make or execute all necessary acts of assignment and transfer, and one or more persons to substitute with like full power.
Dated ___ 18__
Signed by J. Raymond Thomson
Signed and acknowledged in presence of ___

Accession No:

2017.002.024