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4 +1 | heading for the share certificate and coupon |
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heading for the share certificate and coupon Explanation: I am pretty sure that "acción" here refers to the share certificate for these mines. These were typically very ornate. The "cabeza" could possibly be literally a head, which this artist engraved (buril is the engraving tool, the burin) and was used as an illustration on the certificate, but I think it's more probably the heading of the certificate. The "cupones" were slips, bearing the same design, attached to the certificate, which could be detached and cashed in as dividends on the share. Here's an auction catalogue with Mexican mining share certificates, some of them illustrated. Lot 233 in column 2 of page 34 actually mentions these mines. Note the ornate engraved headings: http://www.notafelius.com/Catalogo_Febrero_2007/flash.html#/... Here's a Spanish mining share certificate of the same period with the coupons attached: http://www.todocoleccion.net/accion-minas-teverca-ano-1904-b... Here's an extract from an auction catalogue in English. Note the references to headings: "6 Harrietville Gold Mining Co. Ltd., share certificate, 1889, ornate heading, blue, VF. £35 7 Tasmanian Metals Extraction Co. Ltd., share certificate, 1912, ornate heading incorporations small vignette of lion, red, VF £15" http://www.scripophily.org/donwloads/auction_201301/auction_... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 40 mins (2013-03-20 23:38:01 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Sorry, p. 24 not p. 34 in the first reference. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 11 hrs (2013-03-21 10:54:46 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Silly me! Lot 234, illustrated on p. 25, is the Minas de Trigueros certificate (see first source cited above). The engraved heading could be the actual design your text is referring to. The muddle over the page numbers is that it's numbered as p. 25 but is actually p. 35 of the whole catalogue (which has 10 unnumbered pages at the start. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 hrs (2013-03-21 10:58:47 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I think the illustration in this catalogue probably is the actual design your text is referring to. This share certificate is dated February 1894, and according to a chronology of the artist's life which I found (but won't quote for reasons of confidentiality), he did this design in 1894. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 hrs (2013-03-21 14:56:53 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Very glad to be able to help, Sean. I know just what you mean about proof correction; to be sure it's right you really need to see the original, but then if you start comparing the translation with the original it takes so long that it become uneconomic, on proofreading rates. |
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