Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 132
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(CALIFORNIA.) Bodie Standard. Volume I, issue 9. 4 pages, 21 x 14 inches, on one sheet; early owner's inked stamp in margin. Bodie, CA, 5 December 1877
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The masthead boasts that "Mono County has the richest gold mine in the world." This issue is filled with local mining news and advertisements. The town's population would soon peak at about six thousand, but entered a steep decline in 1880, and it has been a ghost town since the 1940s.