Stirling Watch Chain FOB - Butte Montana - 60 Gram Silver - Anaconda Copper Mine

Description

Beautiful Victorian/
Edwardian
Era stirling watch chain fob with Stirling tassle and arrowhead.
The chain is hallmarked on every single band, english silver. Tassle is unmarked.
Arrowhead is marked
Patent Pen. and ACM..... ANACONDA COPPER MINE
The estate who this item came out of, his father was an Anaconda company man sometime in the 1897 to 1914 Era.
Piece was professionally cleaned at our local jewelry store.
The
Anaconda Copper Mine
was a large
copper
mine
in
Butte, Montana
. Originally a silver mine, it was bought in 1881 by
Marcus Daly
from Michael Hickey. Hickey was a prospector and Union Civil War veteran. He named his claim the Anaconda Mine after reading
Horace Greeley
's Civil War account of how
Ulysses S. Grant
's forces had surrounded
Robert E. Lee
's forces "like an
anaconda
". Daly developed the Anaconda Mine in partnership with
George Hearst
, father of
William Randolph Hearst
,
James Ben Ali Haggin
and
Lloyd Tevis
of San Francisco.
Piece is a nice 60.4 grams of solid sterling. Please ask any questions you have and I'll get right back to you.