I was bummed to not win this...

GoldenEyeNumismatics

It's not a coin, but much of Nevada's history is very closely tied with numismatics (since there was so much mining going on).

The card is postmarked 1911. Ely wasn't based around gold or silver mining--it was actually copper that lured people here. Nevada Consolidated Copper, Consolidated Copper Mines and Steptoe Valley Mining and Smelting all were organized and based in Ely. The railroad in the background is the Nevada Northern RR, which laid tracks terminating at the town in 1906. ELy was one of the major hubs in Nevada, with a population of roughly 5,000 in 1907, probably a significantly less at the time this card was produced. That number is substantial at this time in Nevada's history, when many of the major boomtowns of the Comstock Lode had dwindled to populations below 2,000.

I always have loser's remorse after missing something like this--their tough to come by when the picture is so attractive and includes a steam engine.

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dizzyfoxx

Very neat photo.

MisterBungle

The card is probably circa 1920.

The postcard is postmarked from Ely in 1911,
so the photo has to have been taken between
1906 when the tracks were completed, and 1911
when it was postmarked.

I love looking for turn of the century photo
postcards from my home town, and have
quite a few.

~

UtahCoin

Very neat, but a $100 for a postcard??

GoldenEyeNumismatics

<< <i>The card is probably circa 1920.

The postcard is postmarked from Ely in 1911,
so the photo has to have been taken between
1906 when the tracks were completed, and 1911
when it was postmarked.

I love looking for turn of the century photo
postcards from my home town, and have
quite a few.

~ >>



Oops, goes to show how much I read the description.

GoldenEyeNumismatics

<< <i>Very neat, but a $100 for a postcard?? >>



Western RPPC's (Real photo post cards) bring good money

ricko

Very nice... cool memorabilia, especially if it is your native area. Cheers, RickO

pontiacinf

that is way cool, and worth the price someone paid IMO.

fc

that is the kind of postcard picture many people would like
resized to a bigger scale for mounting on the wall of their business.

I agree that is very nice quality and 99 bucks is very reasonable.
where i work we have large photos of the mill building on each
floor near the elevator. the mill used to have employee fairs and
the shots are incredible. farms in the background, model T cars,
women and kids in their best clothes, etc..

i can stare at each one for hours it seems picking out details.

sfs2002usa

My memories of Ely are a bit off the beaten track. I was driving along Hwy 6 to meet a friend
to climb Wheeler pk in 1991. On the way out I decided to try to max the speed on my 1983
Honda Civic 1300FE (55 mpg, carbureted (without any PGM-FI or hybrid gizmos)). I made it
to 95 mph on that lonely stretch between Ely and Tonopah. On the way back, in the mid-summer,
fortunately at night, the coolant temperature sensor on my car stopped working on the same
stretch of road. I drove back very gingerly, watching my temp gage and made it back all the
way to Bishop, Ca where I lived at the time.

Type2

You know Bid4Assets sells / sold alot of land in Nevada and in all of the U.S but they sold a lot of lots in carson city and the grant deeds are very nice tells you who owned it back in the 1700's to now and even if it was a silver mine kinda cool just like the pic. I'll see if I can find one.