Archives International Auctions Sale 69 August 4, 2021 U.S. & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, Coins,

Archives International Auctions - Sale 69 109 August 4, 2021 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com SCRIPOPHILY - GUNPOWDER, GUNS, AMMUNITION & WEAPONS Delaware 679 679 Automatic Guns, Inc. 1935 I/C/ Stock Certificate. DE. 750 shares, I/C (Cut outs in signatures), Black on green border, eagle on top, S/N 3053, VF condition with counterfoil on left, the company owned patents on machine guns. ��������������� Est. $85-130 680 680 E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 1915 Specimen Stock Certificate Delaware, 1915. <100 Shares Specimen 6% Cumulative Non-Voting Debenture Stock Certificate, Black text with orange border and underprint, Man outside stone building at top center. Red specimen overprints, Return to Specimen Dept. stamp at top right, 00000 serial number, and POCs. VF condition, ABNC. Rare large format stock certificate type. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Est. $230-350 681 681 E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 1915 Specimen Stock Certificate Delaware, 1915. 100 Shares Specimen Stock Certificate, Black text with purple-brown border and underprint, Man standing by stone building at top center. Red specimen overprints, Return to Specimen Dept. stamp at top right, 00000 serial numbers, and POCs. Fine to VF condition with a piece missing from top right corner away from design, ABNC. Rare large format Common stock certificate type. ��������������������� Est. $230-350 682 682 Hercules Inc. 1971 Progress Proof Stock Certificate Delaware, 1971. Odd Shares Progress Proof Voting Stock Certificate, Black text on white paper, Hercules with wooden club at top left corner. VF condition with staple holes at left. Hercules, Inc., was a chemical and munitions manufacturing company based in Wilmington, Delaware, incorporated in 1912 as the Hercules Powder Company following the breakup of the Du Pont explosives monopoly by the U.S. Circuit Court in 1911. Hercules Powder Company became Hercules, Inc. in 1966, operating under this name until 2008, when it was merged into Ashland Inc. Hercules was one of the major producers of smokeless powder for warfare in the United States during the 20th century. �������������������������� Est. $80-140 New York 683 683 Aetna Explosives Co., Inc. 1914 Specimen Bond New York, 1914. $1000 Specimen 6% Gold Coupon Bond, Black text with green border and undertint, Aetna logo at top center flanked by allegorical men. Red specimen overprints, 00000 serial numbers, and POCs. VF condition, ABNC. On April 3, 1880, three men from Chicago incorporated the Aetna Powder Company in Indiana to make high explosive powder, the newly invented dynamite. James Parker and Horace Pratt, coal salesmen, and Michael Tierney, a politician had little idea of how to build or run a dynamite factory. In November of 1914, an ex-director of the du Pont company, A.J. Moxham realized his plan to consolidate into one company the principal competitors of the du Pont by incorporating the Aetna Explosives Company in New York. This bond specimen is an example of the bonds issued for the consolidation of the different powder companies. Rare with only 3 examples found in the ABN Archives. ����������������������������������������� Est. $160-280 684 684 Brooklyn Arms Co. 1865 I/U Stock Certificate Brooklyn, New York.... 1865. 25 Shares I/U Capital Stock Certificate, S/N 19, Black text with black border, New York State Seal depicted at top center, Adhesive internal revenue stamp at top right corner. Fine-VF condition with some toning, Stearns & Beale. The Brooklyn Arms Company manufactured and sold firearms during the 1860s, such as the Slocum Side Loading Revolver. This was last offered in auction in 1991 where it sold for$190. (From the Collection of John E. Herzog) �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $350-700