Archives International Auctions Sale 57 U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, and Security Printing Ephemera and Historic U.S. Liberty Loan Bonds February 13, 2020

Archives International Auctions - Sale 57 126 February 13,2020 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com Maine 818 818 Santa Cecilia Sugar Co., 1905 Specimen Bond. Maine. $1000 Specimen 6% First Mortgage 20 Year Gold Coupon Bond. Black print with an ornate green border and under tint. Vignette of a wagon being loaded with sugar cane being pulled by mules at top. Specimen overprints, POC’s, XF Condition with all coupons attached. ABNC. ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $100-200 Puerto Rico 819 819 South Porto Rico Sugar Co., 1921 Specimen Bond Puerto Rico, (Inc. in New Jersey). $1,000 Specimen 7% 1st Collateral Mortgage Sinking Fund Gold Bond, Black print on green border and under tint, Allegorical women and child at top, Specimen overprints and POC’s, Fine-VF condition, ABNC.��������������������������������� Est. $130-260 Scripophily - Technology Washington 820 820 Microsoft, 1993 Specimen Stock Certificate withWilliam H. Gates Facsimile Signature. Washington. Odd Shares Common Stock Specimen Certificate. Black print with an ornate green border and under print. Company logo/ name at top of certificate. Specimen overprints, XF condition with archival notation at top left hand corner in margin. SC-BNC. Rare facsimile Bill Gates signature.������ Est. $350-700 Scripophily - Telecommunications Colorado 821 821 Aspen and Glenwood Springs Telegraph and Telephone Co. 1886 I/U Stock Certificate. Aspen, Colorado, 1886, 5 I/U Shares, Telegraph lines in center of company stamp lower left corner, VF condition. ����������������������������������� Est. $130-260 New York 822 822 Commercial Cable Co. 1897 Specimen Bond NY. Specimen $5000 First Mortgage 4% Registered Gold Bond. A 400 year bond due in 2397. Black on green border and underprint, World globe showing underwater cables from Europe to the U.S., Specimen overprints, POC’s. Franklin BNC. The Commercial Cable Company was founded in New York in 1884 by John William Mackay and James Gordon Bennett, Jr. Their motivation was to break the then virtual monopoly of Jay Gould on transatlantic telegraphy and bring down prices (particularly for Bennett’s newspaper empire). The technology was well established by this time, and they were able to lay cables from Waterville in Ireland to Canso, Nova Scotia, without the major technical problems of the first Transatlantic telegraph cable. Onward connections to New York City and beyond were initially overland and later submarine. Connections from Waterville to Weston-super-Mare in England and Le Havre in France were soon established by the submarine route after initial use of landlines from Waterville onward to mainland Britain. Commercial Cable also had a relationship with the German Atlantic submarine cable system. Domestically the cable distributed its cable traffic through its partner firm the Postal Telegraph Company. It had a twenty-five percent share ownership in the Commercial Pacific Cable Company that operated a cable from San Francisco to Manila and Shanghai after 1906. Together these companies were all part of the Mackay Companies, also known as the Associated Companies. ����������������������������������������� Est. $120-240 823 823 New York Telephone Co. 1909 Specimen Bond. New York. Specimen $500 4 1/2% Gold Coupon Bond, Black on orange border, 2 men speaking to each other on old fashioned telephones, with logo of Bell with text “Local and Long Distance Telephone - Bell System” on top. POC. ABNC. EF. ����������������������������������������������� Est. $140-280