Archives International Auctions Auction 78 July 27, 2022 U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, Colonial Banknotes, Colonial Fiscal Documents, Historic Ephemera and Security Printing Ephemera

Archives International Auctions - Sale 78 98 July 27, 2022 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com EPHEMERA - AUTOGRAPHS - TECHNOLOGY New York & New Jersey 535 535 Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co. 1925 Stock Certificate and Thomas J.Watson Sr. Signature Pair NY & NJ.... 1925. 100 Shares I/C Stock Certificate endorsed on back by Thomas J. Watson and also a stock transfer form with Watson’s signature as Executor of the will of John I. Waterbury. Black text with red-pink border and underprint, Busy harbor scene depicted at top center with subway running underneath. Fine condition with cancelled POCs throughout. Back has many stock transfer tax stamps, and is signed by Thomas J. Watson, ABNC; Also included is a will document outlining the transfer of assets, witnessed and also signed byWatson. Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman. He served as the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM). He oversaw the company’s growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM’s management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson’s training at NCR. He turned the company into a highly-effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world’s greatest salesman when he died in 1956. (2) ( John E. Herzog Collection) ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $260-450 EPHEMERA - BANKING & FINANCE England 536 536 English Parchment Tally Receipt, 1617 England...., 1617. Unusual parchment tally receipt written in old English script. 12 x 1.5 inches. A tally stick was a long wooden stick used as a receipt. When money was paid, a stick was marked with combinations of notches representing the sum of money paid. The owner of the original tally stick would have received this parchment receipt as a result of a transaction or exchange of money. Rare survival of a medieval form of financial record-keeping, tally sticks and receipts provides the origin of many words used in modern money markets, such as stock (taken from ‘stick’), foil, stockholder, bank stock, and check. According to legend, Wall Street was founded in its present location because of the presence there of an enormous chestnut tree, said to be plentiful enough to supply enough tally sticks for the emerging American stock market. Very few wooden tallys are known of today, as almost all were burned in (and in all likelihood, contributed to) the 1830 fire which destroyed the Houses of Parliament. Rare piece of early 1600’s financial recordkeeping. ( John E. Herzog Collection) ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $160-240 EPHEMERA - CIVIL WAR & AUTOGRAPHS New York 537 537 Application of Drafted Person, 1863 Showing Indigent Circumstances with Boss Tweed Initials New York, September 29th, 1863. Application of a Drafted Person, showing that he is in indigent circumstances and cannot obtain a substitute. The subscriber, Michael McKenna shows that his family is dependent on him and his income, without other means of support. His family members are his wife and three children, listed at center. William “Boss” Tweed initials are on the back at center. Black text, Fine-VF condition with some toning. WilliamMagear Tweed (April 3, 1823 - April 12, 1878), widely known as “Boss” Tweed, was an American politician most notable for being the “boss” of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and State. At the height of his influence, Tweed was the third-largest landowner in New York City, a director of the Erie Railroad, a director of the Tenth National Bank, a director of the New-York Printing Company, the proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel, a significant stockholder in iron mines and gas companies, a board member of the Harlem Gas Light Company, a board member of the Third Avenue Railway Company, a board member of the Brooklyn Bridge Company, and the president of the Guardian Savings Bank. weed was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1852 and the New York County Board of Supervisors in 1858, the year that he became the head of the Tammany Hall political machine. He was also elected to the New York State Senate in 1867, but Tweed’s greatest influence came from being an appointed member of a number of boards and commissions, his control over political patronage in New York City through Tammany, and his ability to ensure the loyalty of voters through jobs he could create and dispense on city-related projects. Tweed was convicted for stealing an amount estimated by an aldermen’s committee in 1877 at between $25 million and $45 million from New York City taxpayers from political corruption, but later estimates ranged as high as $200 million. Unable to make bail, he escaped from jail once but was returned to custody. He died in the Ludlow Street Jail. ������������������������������������������������������������ Est. $250-500