Scripophily - Autographed
Certificates
Canada
140 Canada Southern Railway Co., 188x, $1000 Bond with
Cornelious Vanderbilt, II. Signature as VP.
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EST. $1009200
Delaware
141 Van Sweringen Corp. 1931 Issue Stock.
Delaware. 100 Shares
I/U Stock. #TC2964. Black print with orange border and underprint.
Eagle vignette top center. VF condition. SBNC. Real<estate holding
company for the Van Sweringen brothers who are known for their
railroad holdings.
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EST. $759150
Georgia
142 Georgia9Alabama Investment and Development Co., 1891
Stock Signed by Benjamin Butler as President.
Tallapoosa,
Georgia, 25 Shares, I/U, Georgia arms under title, brown border,
Signed by Butler as president. Butler was a General, lawyer, politi<
cian and 33rd governor of Massachusetts. He was a Union Major
General during the Civil War and was the first Eastern Union General
to declare slaves contraband of war and refuse to return them to
their former owners. He was in command of New Orleans and was
considered a controversial General in the Civil war. Historic signed
stock. Also includes postcard view of his home and engraving of
Butler. All VF to XF.
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EST. $2009400
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Illinois
143 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co.1880 William H.
Vanderbilt Autographed Stock.
Illinois, 100 Shares, Issued and
cut cancelled, ITASBWilliamH. Vanderbilt, Locomotive with steam<
boat behind, VF<XF condition, ABNC. William was the son of
Cornelius “The Commodore” Vanderbilt.
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EST. $2009400
Mexico
144 Boston Mexican Petroleum Trustees, 1919 Stock Signed by
L.Sherman Adams, Governor of NH.
Massachusetts and Mexico.
30 Shares, I/U, Oil pipes on piers, green border, XF. John A Lowell.
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EST. $509100
New Jersey
145 Chesapeake and Ohio Grain Elevator Co. 1923 Issued Stock
With Van Sweringens Signature.
New Jersey. 5 Shares I/C Stock.
#140. Black print with ornate black border and grain elevator
vignette in center. POC’s and purple CANCELLED stamps. VF con<
dition. H.G. Riley Stationer. Stock is made out to O.P. Van
Sweringen, early 20th century Ohio railroad baron who was close
partners with his brother M.J. and signed by him on back.
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EST. $759150
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Archives International Auctions, Part XVI
October 19, 2013
Archives International Auctions
