Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 255

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(NEW JERSEY.) Group of 5 unpublished annual reports of the Mount Hope Mine. 5 volumes, each with a signed summary by the mine superintendent and about 150 pages of typescripts, blueprints, and photostats. 4to, original gilt-stamped loose-leaf binders; musty throughout. Wharton, NJ, 1923, 1926, 1929, 1931, and 1940
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This productive iron mine had been in operation since the early 18th century, and had been a major supply source for the Continental Army during the Revolution. By this point, it was owned by the Replogle Steel Company and then the Warren Foundry and Pipe Corporation. The reports include diagrams of mine shafts, production tables, notes on ore reserves, and more. The earliest volume also provides data on other Replogle mines. with--Monthly summary book of ore mined and shipped by the Mount Hope Mining Company. 16 manuscript pages. Oblong folio, 13 x 16 inches, cover worn, 1867-1880 and 16 payroll sheets from the unrelated Ringwood Iron Works in Passaic County, each signed by dozens of workers, some quite worn, 1880-84.