Patino Mines & Enterprises Consolidated signed by member of Patino Family - 1934 For Sale

Stock printed by American Bank Note Company and hand signed by a member of the famous \"Patino\" family. Available in Green, Orange, and Purple. Please specify color. Simn Iturri Patio (1 June 1862 \" 20 April 1947) was a Bolivian industrialist who was among the world\'s wealthiest people at the time of his death. With a fortune built from ownership of a majority of the tin industry in Bolivia, Patio was nicknamed \"The Andean Rockefeller\". During World War II, Patio was believed to be one of the five wealthiest men in the world. Patio\'s biographers are not in agreement on the details of his early life. Many wrote that he was a cholo, with a mixed Quechua and Spanish heritage, and born to a poor mother, while his authorized biography holds that he was solely of European ancestry, and the son of a provincial leader. He was actually the illegitimate son of Eugnio Iturri, a Basque, and Mara Patio, from Cochabamba. Before entering the mining industry, he either managed a store in Oruro, or spent years in private schools. Eventually, Patio started in mining with Compaa Hunanchaca de Bolivia, a silver company, and then with Fricke y Compaa. Patio was assigned to collections for the store, and in 1894, he agreed to accept a deed of land in compromise for a $250 debt owed by a prospector. The deed turned out to be for the rocky side of a mountain, and Patio was fired from his job for settling an account in exchange for a worthless piece of property. Legend has it that Patio was forced to pay back the store from his own funds, and was stuck with his own bad bargain. Read more at Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.