Archives International Auctions Auction 85 May 23, 2023

Archives International Auctions - Sale 85 123 April 4, 2023 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com New Jersey 603 603 Edison Electric IlluminatingCo., 1895, Specimen Bond Paterson, New Jersey, 1895. $1000 Specimen 5% First Mortgage Gold Coupon Bond, Black on green border and underprint, Seal of New Jersey at top, Specimen overprints and POCs, Good condition with archival reinforcement at folds. ABNC. ������������������������������������������� Est. $50-100 SCRIPOPHILY - PRINTING 604 604 American Type Founders Co. 1909 Specimen Bond New Jersey, 1909. $500 Specimen 6% Sinking Fund Gold Coupon Bond, Black text with blue border and underprint, Eagle at top center. Red specimen overprints and POCs. VF condition, HBN. American Type Founders (ATF) Co. was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85 percent of all type manufactured in the United States at the time. The new company, consisting of a consolidation of firms from throughout the United States, was incorporated in New Jersey. The American Type Founders Co. was the dominant American manufacturer of metal type from its creation in 1892 until at least the 1940s; it continued to be influential into the 1960s. Many fonts developed by the ATF Co. in its period of dominance, including News Gothic, Century Schoolbook, Franklin Gothic, Hobo and Bank Gothic, remain in everyday use. Extremely rare specimen bond with only 2 or 3 examples found in the ABN archives. ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $120-240 New York 605 605 Dow Composing Machine Co. 1903 I/U Stock Certificate New York, 1903. 33 Shares I/U Capital Stock Certificate, S/N 231, Black text with green border and underprint, Screaming Eagle at top center. VF condition, ABNC. After Mergenthaler had revolutionized letterpress printing with his Linotype typesetting machine in 1886, Alexander Dow presented a typesetting machine he had improved at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York in 1901, for which he later received three patents. He inherited his engineering genius from his Boston-based father, Lorenzo Dow, who had already constructed his first typing machine in 1885 (before Mergenthaler!). In 1902, Alexander Dow started his own company, which successfully built and sold Dow jigs until it went into liquidation in 1926. ������������������������������������������������������������������������ Est. $75-150 SCRIPOPHILY - RAILROADS Alabama 606 606 Gulf Terminal Company of Mobile Alabama, 1907 Specimen Bond. Alabama, 1907, $1000, Specimen 4% Gold Coupon Bond, Brown border with locomotive passing signal towers, POC’s, XF, ABNC. Scarce as specimen. ������������� Est. $60-120