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Archives International Auctions
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Virginia & North Carolina
1149
North Carolina and Virginia. 1891.
$1000. Green border and undertint. Locomotive R-L approaching
track workers with allegorical woman on left over ornate title on top
and cotton boll on bottom. Coupons attached. XF condition. Red
specimen overprint and POC’s. ABNC. Rare and attractive. Est. $350-700
Washington
1150
Washington, 1910, 1667 Shares, Issued and uncancelled, Black with
green borders and underprint, hydro-electric plant in middle flanked
by Diesel train on left and farmland on right, Cert.# 113, XF condition
with paper clip mark on top left margin. Rare and attractive
Washington state stock. WBNC.����������������������������������������� Est. $140-280
Washington Territory
1151
Seattle, Washington Territory, 1885, 50 Shares, Issued and Ink
cancelled, small locomotive R-L in middle and mountain and train
scene on bottom left, Cert.# 45, Issued to and signed by D. H. Gilman
and signed by J.R. McDonald as president. Fine to VF condition.
Rare Washington Territory railroad. D. H. Gilman was an American
attorney and railroad builder who made his career in Seattle. At the
age of 19 during the American Civil War, he enlisted in one of the
Maine companies of the First District of Columbia Calvary. He served
as a sergeant with his regiment inGeneral Kautz’s division of Calvary,
Army of the James, during the spring and summer of 1864. He was
severely wounded at the Battle of Staunton River Bridge on June
25, 1864, but returned to duty four months later as a Quartermaster
Sergeant in the First Maine Calvary. He assisted in the establishment
of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway in 1885. �����Est. $150-300
West Virginia
1152
Parkersburg, W.VA. 1866. Issued and uncancelled stock certificate.
6 shares. Black border and vignettes. Speeding train with group of
people waving at it. RareWest Virginia railroad stock certificate. VF
condition. Printer Toppan, Carpenter & Co.. Rare railroad stock that
is unlisted as uncancelled in Cox. �����������������������������������������Est. $120-240