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California. Sacramento. Blake & Co. Gold Ingot. Weight: 16.75 Oz. Fineness: .722. Value: $249.99. Se

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Ingots Start Price:66,000.00 USD Estimated At:200,000.00 - 295,000.00 USD
California. Sacramento. Blake & Co. Gold Ingot. Weight: 16.75 Oz. Fineness: .722. Value: $249.99. Se
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Lively olive-gold with deeply impressed figures, this squared finger-like ingot weighs more than a troy pound of gold. Impressed with BLAKE & Co / ASSAYERS / SACRAMENTO on the face, and with other pertinent information on other sides. Assayer’s test chip cut from one corner. Photographed on page 108 in the monumental A California Gold Rush History by Q. David Bowers with heavy emphasis on the S.S. Central America treasure, this ingot is one of many pour styles and sizes listed for the firm. The Bowers reference also features a newspaper ad, on the same page, for the Blake & Co. assaying firm which reads: “ASSAY OFFICE. Blake & Co., No. 52 J Street, between Second and Third, SACRAMENTO. GOLD AND ORES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Melted and Assayed, and returned made within twenty-four hours, in bars or coin.” One of only 34 ingots recovered from the Central America representing this assaying firm.