Archives International Auctions Auction 75 March 30, 2022 U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, Colonial Banknotes, Colonial Fiscal Documents, Historic Ephemera and Security Printing Ephemera

Archives International Auctions - Sale 75 100 March 30, 2022 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com 525 525 NY. Hooker Chemical Corp., 1966 Specimen Registered Bond Quartet NY. 1966. Lot of 4 different denomination specimen bonds, All are Hooker Chemical Corp., Specimen Registered 4 7/8% Debentures. Includes $-Odd, purple; $1000, green; $5000, Brown; and, $10,000 Orange. All with the same vignette of standing allegorical woman with torch, with Niagara Falls waterfall behind her. Hooker Chemical Company, also known as Hooker Electrochemical Company and now Occidental Chemical Corporation, was an American chemical company that produced chloralkaline products from 1903 to 1968. In 1922, Hooker bought the S. Wander & Sons company for the retail sales of lye and chlorinated lime. Hooker Chemical was best known for the chemical waste site Love Canal, which it sold in 1953, and led to a lengthy lawsuit several decades later. The company was founded in 1903 as “the Development and Funding Company” by Elon Huntington Hooker, of Rochester, NY. Hooker created the company to utilize the Townsend cell to electrolyze salt into chlorine and sodium hydroxide (NaOH), also known as “caustic soda” and “lye,” in a chloralkaline process. Elmer Sperry, founder of Sperry Electric, and Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite and Velox photographic paper, consulted for Hooker to improve the design of the cell. The company was sited in Niagara Falls, NY because of the low cost electricity from the Niagara Falls power project (completed in 1895), the abundance of salt from nearby mines, and availability of water from the Niagara River. All in Uncirculated condition. (4) �� Est. $160-300 Ohio 526 526 Brainard Steel Corp., 1920-40’s Specimen Stock Certificate Quartet Ohio, ND (1920-40s). Lot of 4 pieces, all are different varieties and color Specimen Stock Certificates of Brainard Steel Corp., Includes: 100 Shares in orange; Odd Shares in maroon; 100 Preferred Shares in red; and 100 Shares in purple. All have red specimen overprints and POCs, top middle vignette of large room with equipment and workers. XF to Unc. condition, SBN. (4) �� Est. $120-200 Pennsylvania 527 527 Bergdoll Machine Co., ca. 1900-1920 Early Automobile Company Specimen Stock Certificate Pennsylvania. Odd Shares Capital Stock Specimen Certificate, Black print on red border and undertint, Cancelled overprints and POC’s, VF-XF condition, Winged automobile tire with “Bergdoll” in arch over it. POC’s. XF condition. Louis Bergdoll, a German immigrant, founded the Louis Bergdoll & Son’s Brewing Company in 1849. The company was very successful for over 70 years until prohibition and eventually was dissolved in 1951. He was also known as an amateur automobile racer in the early automobile era at the turn of the century. He favored and raced a 60 HP “Benz”. He was so fond of cars, he started his own automobile company, The Louis J. Bergdoll Motor Company, that was in existence from 1910 to 1913. It is not confirmed if a “Bergdoll” automobile was ever built. Historic, attractive and rare early automobile stock certificate. 2 found in archive, one red and one orange. The red one is offered in this sale and is the only one available. SBNC �� Est. $250-400 Scripophily - Medical & Pharmaceutical Delaware 528 528 Pfizer Inc. 1972 Production Department Unique Proof Mock-Up of Registered Bond Delaware, 1972. $1000 Unique Proof Mock-Up %Odd Registered Bond, Black text with green border and underprint, Allegorical Mercury with 2 black globes behind him. Bond is mounted on cardstock and protected by plastic, which has design elements that were added throughout the production process. VF condition, SCBN. Unique proof. �� Est. $325-650