Tiger Memorabilia: Sign, Bideaux Drawing, Miner's Token, &...
Tiger Memorabilia: Sign, Bideaux Drawing, Miner's Token, & Last Day Envelop Mammoth-St Anthony Mine, St. Anthony Deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA "This is a wonderful piece of memorabilia from the famous (to collectors of Arizona minerals) [sic]. The sign was plucked from the road side [sic] several years after Tiger went out of business by an unknown "collector". Some how [sic] it found its way into Neil Yedlin's basement where one evening after looking at micromounts and books he made me a present of it (1964?). Dick Thompson [sic], micro collector extraordinary, who in his youth often drove past the sign and often told himself that he should collect it, passed the place where the sign used to be and said "Damn, I knew I should have taken that sign when I could [sic]. Many years later 2003 a young, enthusiastic collector, James Ziegress [sic] sent me the last day of office letter from tiger [sic]. It is the only one I have ever seen. The two should stay together so I have taped it together with this note in an envelope to the back of the sign. Now I must worry about who [sic] to pass this sign on to. I sort of think it should go to someone who loves Tiger minerals but does not live in Arizona. That way there will always be something that they want but can't get. This is of course for their own good. If you get everything you want, all the joy goes out of life. It is the chase that is the game not the getting." - Rock Currier, Nov 3, 2003 Read Rock's note - kind of sums it all up. To the one-of-a-kind Tiger sign and the last day Tiger envelop, we've added George Bideaux's drawing of the Collin's Mine at Tiger, and topped off this offering with a miner's token from Tiger. So if you're an Arizona Tiger collector, this is the pièce de résistance, the icing on the cake ... the opportunity to obtain what was thought to be the unattainable. You know you want this ... time to go for it! Sign Measurements: 35 x 7 inches (90 x 18 cm) Painting Measurements: 18.75 x 14.75 inches (47.6 x
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Tiger Memorabilia: Sign, Bideaux Drawing, Miner's Token, & Last Day Envelop Mammoth-St Anthony Mine, St. Anthony Deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA "This is a wonderful piece of memorabilia from the famous (to collectors of Arizona minerals) [sic]. The sign was plucked from the road side [sic] several years after Tiger went out of business by an unknown "collector". Some how [sic] it found its way into Neil Yedlin's basement where one evening after looking at micromounts and books he made me a present of it (1964?). Dick Thompson [sic], micro collector extraordinary, who in his youth often drove past the sign and often told himself that he should collect it, passed the place where the sign used to be and said "Damn, I knew I should have taken that sign when I could [sic]. Many years later 2003 a young, enthusiastic collector, James Ziegress [sic] sent me the last day of office letter from tiger [sic]. It is the only one I have ever seen. The two should stay together so I have taped it together with this note in an envelope to the back of the sign. Now I must worry about who [sic] to pass this sign on to. I sort of think it should go to someone who loves Tiger minerals but does not live in Arizona. That way there will always be something that they want but can't get. This is of course for their own good. If you get everything you want, all the joy goes out of life. It is the chase that is the game not the getting." - Rock Currier, Nov 3, 2003 Read Rock's note - kind of sums it all up. To the one-of-a-kind Tiger sign and the last day Tiger envelop, we've added George Bideaux's drawing of the Collin's Mine at Tiger, and topped off this offering with a miner's token from Tiger. So if you're an Arizona Tiger collector, this is the pièce de résistance, the icing on the cake ... the opportunity to obtain what was thought to be the unattainable. You know you want this ... time to go for it! Sign Measurements: 35 x 7 inches (90 x 18 cm) Painting Measurements: 18.75 x 14.75 inches (47.6 x
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