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California. Sacramento (also Marysville). Harris, Marchand & Co. Gold Ingot. Weight: 17.02 Oz. Finen

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Ingots Start Price:60,000.00 USD Estimated At:175,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD
California. Sacramento (also Marysville). Harris, Marchand & Co. Gold Ingot. Weight: 17.02 Oz. Finen
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This warm olive-gold rectangle is a trifle rough throughout, a result of the casting of the bar and not its stay in the briny deep. Assayer’s chip taken from corner of ingot. Marchand’s all-seeing eye logo is smartly impressed at the center of the face. This ingot was pictured in the Bowers Gold Rush reference on page 609. The assay office of Harris, Marchand & Co. was located at 107 J Street between First and Second, just a block up from Blake & Co.’s offices, and evidently a busy area in the city for assayers and refiners. The firm’s ads promised “Gold and Ores of every description Assayed and guaranteed correct. Returns made in from six to twelve hours, in bar or coin, and discounted at San Francisco rates. CORRECTNESS OF ASSAY GUARANTEED.” This S.S. Central America prize was first offered in December, 2000, and was among the earliest of the ship’s ingot treasures to come to market, see below. The Central America yielded 37 ingots of varying sizes from Harris, Marchand & Co. – previous to that, no ingots were known for this assayer!
From Christie’s sale of December 14, 2000, Lot 2.