Archives International Auctions Sale 59 U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, and Security Printing Ephemera and Historic Ephemera May 7, 2020

Archives International Auctions - Sale 59 55 May 7,2020 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com Pennsylvania 320 320 Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, 1920 Specimen Bond Quartet. Pennsylvania. Lot of 4 Specimen bonds, Includes 1925 $10,000 Registered 5% Gold Bond, VF; 1925, $100, red and $500, brown 5% Gold Coupon Bonds, both Fine with minor splitting at top horizontal fold; and a 1941 $1000, blue, 2 3/4% Coupon Bond, All with Alexander Graham Bell in middle flanked by operator on left and man working with wired on telephone pole on right, all with specimen overprints, POC’s Red “00000” serial numbers and coupons attached. All in XF condition. Attractive telephone company bonds. (4)�� Est. $120-200 321 321 Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, 1923 Specimen Bond Quartet. Pennsylvania. Lot of 4, 1923 dated Specimen 5% gold bonds, Includes $10,000 Registered 5% Gold Bond, VF, Black; $100, blue; $500 Orange; and $1000 Brown 5% Gold Coupon Bonds, All with allegorical angels in middle flanking “Bell System” Logo in Middle, all with specimen overprints, POC’s Red “00000” serial numbers and coupons attached. All in VF-XF condition. Attractive telephone company bonds. (4)�� Est. $120-200 322 322 Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, 1925 & 1941 Specimen Bond Quartet. Pennsylvania. Lot of 4 Specimen bonds, Includes 1925 $10,000 Registered 5%Gold Bond, VF; 1925, $100, red and $500, brown 5%Gold Coupon Bonds, both Fine with minor splitting at top horizontal fold; and a 1941 $1000, blue, 2 3/4% Coupon Bond, All with Alexander Graham Bell in middle flanked by operator on left and man working with wired on telephone pole on right, all with specimen overprints, POC’s Red “00000” serial numbers and coupons attached. All in XF condition. Attractive telephone company bonds. (4)�� Est. $100-180 323 323 Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, 1941 Specimen Bond Quartet. Pennsylvania. Lot of 4 Specimen, 2 3/4% Coupon bonds, All are green with out vignette on top, only title, Includes $-Odd; $1,000,000; $2,500,000 and $5,500,000. All with same design, all with specimen overprints, POC’s Red “00000” serial numbers and coupons attached. All in VF-XF condition. Rare high denomination bond set. 3 of the bonds are issued to Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company; Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Phila,; and Mutual Life Insurance Company of NY; Attractive telephone company bonds. (4)�� Est. $200-400 324 324 Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, 1949 Specimen Bond Trio. Pennsylvania. Lot of 3 Specimen Coupon bonds dated 1949, Includes $1,000, Brown; $10,000, Light blue and $100,000, olive green. All with Independence Hall in middle flanked by allegorical man and woman, all with specimen overprints, POC’s Red “00-000” serial numbers and coupons attached. All in XF condition. Attractive telephone company bonds. The company was founded in 1879 to serve Philadelphia. In 1907, the company changed its name to The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, a name under which it began to expand. Throughout the 1980s to the first half of the 1990s, Bell of Pennsylvania, also called Pennsylvania Bell, kept its traditional identity. In 1994, Bell of Pennsylvania became Bell Atlantic - Pennsylvania, Inc. In 2000, after the Bell Atlantic- GTE merger, the corporation changed its name to Verizon, and so Bell of Pennsylvania once again changed its name, this time to Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc. (3)�� Est. $75-150 Virginia 325 325 American Telephone Co., 1889 I/U Bond Virginia. $100 Issued 8% First Mortgage Gold Coupon Bond, Black writing on green undertint and decorative border, Figure of woman holding fruit at top next to a bald eagle, Fine-VF condition with staining at margins, NYBNC.�� Est. $130-200