Archives International Auctions Sale 58 U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, and Security Printing Ephemera and Historic Ephemera April 7 & 8, 2020

Archives International Auctions - Sale 58 227 April 7-8,2020 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com 1301 1301 Compania Azucarera Salamanca Specimen Bond. Havana. Specimen bond. $100. 8% Gold Bond. Sugar cane being loaded on wagon vignette with blue border. Red Specimen overprints, “00000” serial numbers, POC’s. XF condition. ABNC. ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $110-220 New Jersey 1302 1302 American Tobacco Co., 1904 Specimen Gold Bond New Jersey. $1000 Specimen 6% Gold Coupon Bond, Black print on large orange border and under tint, Screaming Eagle at top, Specimen overprints and POC’s, VF-XF condition, ABNC. The American Tobacco Co. was found in 1890, and was one of the original 12 members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896. rare and attractive bond.��������������������� Est. $120-240 Scripophily - Telecommunications New York 1303 1303 American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1940 Specimen Bond. NY. Specimen $3,000,000 30 Year, 2 3/4% Registered Bond, Black on brown border and underprint, payable to Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance CO., allegorical angel holding lightening bolt on top, VF condition. ABNC. Rare high denomination bond. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $110-180 1304 1304Commercial Cable Co. 1900-1910 Specimen Bond New York. $1000 Specimen 4% Registered 1st Mortgage Gold Bond, Black print on brown border and under tint on horizontal format, Image of the planet at top with telephone wires connecting USA and UK across the Atlantic Ocean, Specimen overprints and POC’s, with legend stating that Registered Bonds and coupon Bonds are interchangeable, VF condition with minor toning along fold lines condition, FBNC. The Commercial Cable Company was founded in New York in 1884 by John WilliamMackay and James Gordon Bennett, Jr. Their motivation was to break the then virtual monopoly of Jay Gould on transatlantic telegraphy and bring down prices. 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. John Mackay’s son, Clarence Mackay, took over the firm by the early 20th century and led it during World War I. Clarence Mackay and Frank Polk, a senior State Department official, were friends and this enabled the State Department to have access to selected diplomatic traffic carried over Commercial’s cables. The company flourished for a time but in 1928, together with other elements of the Mackay System, came under the control of International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) under a wholly owned subsidiary, the Postal Telegraph & Cable Corporation. This would be reorganized in 1935, with Commercial Cable becoming part of the American Cable and Radio Corporation. The undersea cables remained in use carrying telegraph traffic until 1962. In 1998, cables were briefly visible going out to sea at Waterville and are probably still there. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $200-400 1305 1305 New England Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1900-1910 Specimen Stock Certificate. New York. Specimen 100 Shares, Capital Stock Certificate. Black print with a light brown border and under tint. Vignettes at top of certificate of 6 different states arms. Specimen overprints, POC’s, Fine condition with minor staining. ABNC. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $80-160