Archives International Auctions Auction 85 May 23, 2023

Archives International Auctions - Sale 85 128 April 4, 2023 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com Indiana 625 625 Evansville & Richmond Railroad Co. Western Division - Elnora to Columbus, 1888 Specimen Bond Indiana. $1000 Specimen 5% 1st Mortgage Coupon Bond, Black print on ornate brown border and under tint, Locomotive passing men by a river at top, Specimen overprints and POC’s, Fine-VF condition, ABNC. This is one of 2 examples found in the ABN Archive in 2002, only found as a specimen in Cox, no issued examples known. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Est. $150-300 626 626 Gary Railways Co., 1932 Specimen Bond Pair. Indiana. Lot includes 2 Specimen Fifty-Year Debenture Coupon Bonds, including $10,000, black print on green border and under tint, 5% interest; and $11,875, black print on orange border and under tint, 6% interest. Specimen overprints and POC’s, VF-XF condition, ABNC. Both are discovery pieces that were previously unlisted as bonds, only as stock certificates in Cox. (2). ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $80-160 627 627 Indiana Railroad Specimen Bond Quartet, ca.1917 to 1930 Indiana, 1917-25. Lot of 4 Specimen Bonds, Includes: 1917, Gary Street Railway Co. $1000, 5% First Mortgage Gold Coupon Bond with Green border; 1925, Wabash Railway Co. $1000, 5 1/2% Refunding and General Mortgage Gold Coupon Bond with Orange border; 1925, $5000, 5 1/2% Registered Refunding and General Mortgage Gold Bond with Red border; and, 1930, Indianapolis Union Railway Co. $10,000, 4 1/2% Registered Refunding and Improvement Mortgage Gold Bond with Blue border. All have Specimen overprints, POCs, and are in VF-XF condition. ABNC. (4). Sold “AS IS” no returns accepted. All of these bonds are only known as specimens and are all rare with only 3 to 5 examples found of each in the ABN Archives in 2002. ���������������������������������������� Est. $200-400 628 628 Indiana Southern Railway Co. 1866 I/U Bond signed by Samuel Tilden. Indiana. $1,000, 1st mortgage, 7%, 30-yr, 1866, due 1896, bearer coupon bond, Black on green underprint, orange corporate seal at lower left, train under ornate title at top flanked by allegorical figures on left and right, counterfoil on left with ornate engravings and steamboat and train, horizontal format, by Major & Knapp, Signed on the back by Samuel J Tilden, trustee. Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was an American politician who served as the 25th Governor of New York and was the Democratic candidate for president in the disputed 1876 United States presidential election. Tilden was the second presidential candidate to lose the election despite winning the popular vote and is the only candidate to win a majority of the popular vote in a United States presidential election (50.9%), but lose the election. ������������������ Est. $150-300