Cancel for June 30: Argonaut Oil and Mining Company

AO&M Co.

ELM

6/30/1900

Manuscript cancel of Ellis LeMaster, Secretary of the Argonaut Oil and Mining Company.  Stamp part of a block of 4 from a stock certificate.

Argonaut Oil and Mining Company block of 4 from original stock certificate.  The tax on stock transactions was 5 cents for each $100 of value of stock; $2.00 in documentary stamps would have paid the tax on $4000 worth of stock.  See the certificate below.

Full Stock Certificate.  Certificate can be viewed in full by clicking on the cert and downloading the image.

$2.00 in stamps paid the tax on the $4,000 transaction.