Archives International Auctions Sale 64 U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Scripophily; U.S. & World Coins; Medals January 27, 2021

Archives International Auctions - Sale 64 124 January 27,2021 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com Minnesota 664 664 Minnesota & Northwestern Rail Road Co. 1870 I/U Bond with U.S. Imprinted Revenues Minnesota, 1870. $1000 I/U 7% First Mortgage Coupon Bond #223, Black text with green border and underprint, Scene of a train passing factories and farm at top center. S/N 223, RN-P5 left, RN-W2 right, 5 Cents Lincoln and $1 Washington Imprinted Revenues in orange on the face of the bond. VF condition, NBN. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Est. $200-350 Minnesota, Dakota and Missouri 665 665 Northern Pacific Railroad and Land Grant, 1881 Specimen Bond 1881, $1,000. 6% general first mortgage sinking fund gold bond. Brown border with impressive mountain, trees, lake and city panorama. ABNCo. Specimen with coupons, XF. ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $200-300 Mississippi 666 666 Harrison County, Mississippi 1882, Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Co. I/C Bond Mississippi, 1882. $100 I/C 6% Coupon Bond #178, Black text with black border, Railroad passing by men at work at top center. Cancelled stamps throughout, VF condition. County of Harrison, State of Mississippi to Gulf & Ship Island Rail Road Co. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad (G&SI) was constructed in the state of Mississippi, USA, at the turn of the 20th century to open a vast expanse of southern yellow pine forests for commercial harvest. In spite of economic uncertainty, entrepreneurs William H. Hardy and Joseph T. Jones successfully completed railroad construction. The railroad resulted in the development of a seaport and expansion of cities along its route. Est. $120-200 667 667 Mississippi Valley Co. 1873 Stock Certificate Signed by Colonel Henry S. McComb Mississippi, 1873. 5 Shares I/C Capital Stock Certificate #15, Black text with black border and brown background, Train exiting building at center. Fine condition, NBN. Henry S. McComb (1821-1881) was a leather merchant and railroad promoter. During the American Civil War, he became one of the largest military contractors, providing tents, knapsacks, and other gear along with leather goods. He had close contact with President Lincoln, Edwin M. Stanton, and other leaders of the war effort. He raised and equipped at his own expense, the Fifth Delaware Regiment, of which he was colonel. Through his military and political connections, McComb was drawn into the Union Pacific Railroad project, and he was a member of the infamous Credit Mobilier, the insiders’ ring that acted as construction company to the Union Pacific. It was McComb’s dissatisfaction with the division of the spoils that brought the workings of the Credit Mobilier into the open, creating one of the great scandals of the Grant Administration. After the war McComb became a carpetbag operator in broken-down southern railroads. He acquired the Mississippi Central between 1865 and 1868 and expanded it into a trunk line running from Cairo, Ill., to New Orleans. He developed the town of McComb, Miss. in connection with this project and was for a while the president of the Southern Railroad Association. However, McComb remained a relatively small-time operator in the railroad world, an industry already dominated by large trunk lines and Wall Street empire builders. All of his southern railroad ventures collapsed in the wake of the Panic of 1873 and were absorbed by larger systems. In 1880 McComb purchased a small Wilmington railroad, the Delaware Western, and promoted it as a link in a possible second line between Philadelphia and Baltimore. That territory was then a theater of a complex, many-sided contest involving the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Gould and Vanderbilt interests. For a while McComb was at the center of this intrigue, but it was his last speculation. He died on December 30, 1881. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $130-260 Missouri 668 668 Cleveland, St. Louis and Kansas City Railway Co. 1888 I/U Bond Missouri, 1888. $1000 I/U 5% First Mortgage Gold Coupon Bond, Black text with green border and undertint, Train passing by lakes with people in small boats at top center. VF condition, FBN. �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $90-140