482 Southern Iowa Railway Company, 1900 Specimen Bond.
Iowa, 1900. $1000. 1st Mortgage 3 1/2% Gold Coupon Bond
Specimen. Olive green border and undertint. Speeding locomotive
right to left around long curved track flanked by miners working in
mine, locomotive head on at bottom. VF condition. POC’s. ABNC.
Unlisted railroad in Cox. 1 of only 2 bonds found in the archives.
(PH)
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EST. $60091200
Iowa & Illinois
483 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail Road Company, 1877
Specimen Bond.
Iowa and Illinois, $1000, 6% Mortgage Gold
Coupon Bond, Black vignette and text with green border, Portrait of
railroad notable flanked by locomotive and harbor scene, Specimen
overprints, POC’s, ABNC. Listed railroad in Cox but unlisted bond
variety and color. Unique in archive and possibly the only example
available.
(PH)
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EST. $4009800
482
483
Iowa & Minnesota
484 Iowa, Minnesota and Northwestern Railway Company, 1900
Specimen Bond.
Iowa & Minnesota. 1900. $1000. 1st Mortgage 3
1/2% Gold Coupon Bond Specimen. Brown border and undertint.
Allegorical women with bee hive, train and factories in middle and
allegorical women on left and right. Coupons attached, XF condi<
tion. Red specimen overprint and POC’s. ABNC. Scarce bond.
Unlisted Coupon Bond in Cox and the only example available out of
2 found in the archives. ABNC.
(PH)
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EST. $60091200
Iowa. Missouri.
485 St. Louis, Council Bluffs & Omaha Rail Road Co., 1870
Specimen Bond.
Iowa and Missouri. $1000 < 200 Pounds, 1st
Mortgage 7% Gold Specimen bond, Green border with multiple
vignettes with train at top middle L<R, allegorical women on upper
corners and arms at bottom, There is small piece of the bond miss<
ing .75 x .25 inches in bottom middle fold, POC’s toning and small
edge faults on bottom as well as a small spit on top middle border,
otherwise VG to Fine condition. The bond was issued to pay for their
lines between their junction with the Chillicothe and Brunswick
Railroad and a point on the Missouri River in the state of Iowa. Rare
and possibly unique specimen. Continental BNC.
(PH)
.
EST. $4009800
Kansas
486 Kansas City Outer Belt & Electric Railroad Co., 1903 Specimen
Bond.
Kansas. 1903. $1,000 First Mortgage 4% Gold Coupon Bond
Specimen, green border and undertint, Allegorical angel holding
light. POC’s. VF, ABNC. Unlisted as specimen in Cox. Attractive and
rare.
(PH)
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EST. $809160
484
485
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Archives International Auctions, Part XVI
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Archives International Auctions
