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California. Marysville. Pioneer Assay Office of H. Harris & Co. Assay Receipt, April 3, 1863.

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California. Marysville. Pioneer Assay Office of H. Harris & Co. Assay Receipt, April 3, 1863.
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Deep purple ink on white stock. 4 3/4”x 10 5/8". Apparently accomplished in the hand of Desire Marchand, signed "H. Harris Co. / by Marchand" at lower right. Marchand,
Harris' fanner partner, is known to have purchased Harris' Marysville office about May 1863, along with new partner D. E. Knight This may be evidence that Marchand was already running the Harris office in April of 1863, perhaps while Harris prepared for his move to Gold Hill, N.T. This attribution is a little problem atical, however, as the inscription is in the same hand that penned "H. Harris for D. Marchand" on an 1860 dated similar form, sold as lot 3335 in Stack's John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, October 2007. This receipt is for almalgam weighing 14.27 ounces that was assayed. at .751 fine gold. Just one Marysville Harris & Marchard ingot was found among the wreck of the 5.5. Central America. Harris, whose biography is explored elsewhere, was one of the most interesting personalities of his era. Tills receipt is one of just a few known from his Marysville operation after the dissolution of the Hams & Marchand partnership. An important item.
Ex: John J. Ford, Jr. Collection. October 2007, Lot 3336 (at $1955), Stacks 7/09:1174