Archives International Auctions Auction 91 January 23, 2024

Archives International Auctions - Sale 91 107 January 23, 2024 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com Scripophily - Printing New Jersey 457 457 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 458 458 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. $100-200 Scripophily - Railroads Alabama & Tennessee 459 459 Alabama &Tennessee, Railroad Related Pair of I/UCoupon Bonds, 1869 and 1900 Alabama & New Jersey, Lot of 2 I/U Coupon Bonds Includes $1869, Alabama & Chattanooga Rail Road Co., $1000 I/U 8% Second Mortgage Sinking Fund Coupon Bond, Black on brown border and underprint, S/N 1951; and, 1900, Northern Alabama Coal, Iron and Railway Co. $1000 I/U 5% First Mortgage Gold Coupon Bond, Black on steel gray border and underprint. Both are in VF to XF condition and printed by ABNC. (2). Sold “AS IS” no returns accepted. ������������������������������������������������������ Est. $75-150 Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri 460 460 St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co., 1891 Specimen Bond Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri. $1000 Specimen 4% 1st Mortgage Gold Coupon Bond, Black print on a large green border and under tint, Specimen overprints, POC’s, VF-XF with coupons detached but included, FBNC. ������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $65-130