Archives International Auctions Sale 67 May 26, 2021 U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, Coins, Historic Financial Ephemera and Security Printing Ephemera

Archives International Auctions - Sale 67 122 May 26, 2021 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com 734 734 Washington Post Co., 1984 Specimen Stock Certificate With Facsimile Signature of Katherine Graham. Delaware. Odd Shares Class B Common Stock Specimen Certificate, Black print on blue border and under tint, Image of Capital Building at top, Specimen overprints and Pin Punched Cancelled, VF-XF condition, ABNC. Katharine Meyer Graham was an American publisher. She led her family’s newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. �� Est. $60-120 Florida 735 735 Brooksville Telegraph Co. 1885 I/U Bond Florida, 1885. $50.00, I/U, 8% Bond, S/N 62, Black text with black border and orange underprint. VF condition, printed by C. W. DaCosta. The Brooksville Telegraph Company was incorporated in 1883. �� Est. $200-400 Idaho 736 736 Snake RiverValleyTelephone Co., Ltd., 1899 I/C Stock Certificate. Idaho, 1899, 10 shares, I/C and endorsed on back Stock certificate, gray-blue border, no vignette, gold foil corporate seal, ink cancelled. Cert.#22, XF condition. Scarce location and small and rare telephone company. �� Est. $100-200 Montana 737 737 Moore Telephone & Telegraph Co. I/U Stock and Bond Trio, ca. 1910-14 Glascow, Montana. Lot of 3 pieces, Includes: Moore Telephone Co. 1910 10 Shares I/U Capital Stock Certificate, S/N 29, in black; Moore Telephone & Telegraph Co. 1914 20 Shares I/U Capital Stock Certificate, S/N 37, in brown; and Moore Telephone and Telegraph Co. 1914 $500 I/U 7% Gold Bond, S/N 15, in green. All are in Fine-VF condition. (3) �� Est. $100-200 New York 738 738 Commercial 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. 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. 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