Item #256816 Partly Printed Document, signed (“Porfirio Diaz” wth a flourish), Patent for “La Paloma” gold and silver mine in Oaxaca, granted to Frank Waterhouse. Diaz Porfirio.

Partly Printed Document, signed (“Porfirio Diaz” wth a flourish), Patent for “La Paloma” gold and silver mine in Oaxaca, granted to Frank Waterhouse.

Mexico: 1906.

Price: $400.00


About the item

[3] pp. on a bifolium. Signed in ink by the Mexican president and dated 20 December 1906, countersigned and recorded in Mexico, additionally countersigned in Oxaca on 2 January 1907, by R.A. Romero, Administrator. Folio. Old folds. One arc of flourish slightly smudged. Some spotting, otherwise fine.

Item #256816

From the office of Porfirio Diaz, leader of the successful rebellion against French Intervention and the President of Mexico from 1876 to 1911. A controversial political figure, some historians consider Diaz to have been a dictator.

Document granting a four-hectare mining concession in Oaxaca state to Frank Waterhouse.