[NEVADA MINING]. "Goldfield Nevada Improvement Association, May 17, 1920" - Embossing Seal
Item #4120
Cast iron hinged lever stamp; base length 4.75", approx. 8.5" high upright; black enamel coating with gilt edges. The Queen of the Mining Camps was for a time the largest city in Nevada in the boom days of the early 1900s, when the estimated yield in bullion was $150 million. By the date of this stamp, the mines were played out, and Goldfield on a slow path to the designation of ghost town. The Goldfield Improvement Association, left this relic of it's attempt to arrest the fate of the town, finally marked by the closing of the opulent Goldfield Hotel in 1936. Very Good condition. |
