Utah--Silver Reef, Washington County. Leeds Mining Company Assay Ingot. December, 1877. Silver. 32.8

Utah--Silver Reef, Washington County. Leeds Mining Company Assay Ingot. December, 1877. Silver. 32.8 x 26.4 x 10.8mm. 81.69 grams. Extremely Fine.，A pleasing, if rough small ingot fairly well formed and clearly meant as a souvenir or memento. Medium to deep silver gray in color. Back stamping legible despite being on the cooling face of the bar. All inscriptions accomplished by individual punches, no logotypes in use. Face: UTAH / SILVER / LEEDS / MINING Co / DEC / 1877; Back: C 890 / 1000 F / 3.00 DOLS / 2.65 .OZS，From The Brian Dobbins Collection. Earlier from our October 2007 sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part XXI, lot 3523. Mr. Fords informational card that accompanies the lot notes this bar was sold to D.K. (Don Keifer) in August, 1953, that it went from Keifers estate to New Netherlands Coin Company on November 6, 1954, and that New Netherlands sold it to Art Kagin on May 5, 1956. In June, 1958 it was part of the Kagin Reference Collection.，