Category: Business and Finance

Real Photo Post Card: Untitled

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 022488

Original black and white photo postcard. No date, circa 1920s-1930s. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2." Postcard is used. Postcard is virtually pristine and intact except for slight wear at the top edge. A Fine copy. This postcard shows the Wells, Fargo & Co. Express building at the west corner of Washington and Main Streets in Columbia, California. In 1852, Wells, Fargo & Company was organized by Henry Wells and William Fargo in California. They had originally co-founded the American Express Company (now American Express) with John Warren Butterfield and had plans to expand their operations in the west...
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Stock Certificate for 1 Share in the Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York and Boston, American Bank Note Company : 1877

Seller ID: 015930

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 9 x 7 inches. Black ink, one vignette, middle top, showing a river port, and another, left side, with a scene of a bridge over a river. Fold lines, several punch holes. No. 15860, originally issued to Charles W. Stone on December 7, 1877. Signed by the Treasurer "P. P. Torrey" and the President, "Henry Whitney". Mr. Stone signed the back on October 1, 1878, to transfer the share to "Royal Rich" of Warren, Massachusetts. The Boston and Providence Railroad was an early railroad line intended to connect Boston, Massachusetts, to Providence, Rhode Island. It was incorporated in 1831 and...
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Stock Certificate for 1 Share in the Chicago and Ohio River Railroad Company

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, American Bank Note Company : 1887

Seller ID: 015901

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 11 x 7 inches. Orange and black ink, vignette of steam locomotive at a station at center bottom, two winged female figures border the company name, with decorative border. "Shares $100 Each" printed along bottom border. No. 327, originally issued to Mrs. Mary E. Bell on April 12, 1887. Signed by the President, "Charles Stevens", and the Secretary, "William A. Cayes 2". Top edge darkened, fold lines. On back is signed "Mary E. Bell by her Atty Chs. H. Bell", no date. The Danville, Olney and Ohio River Railroad Company was reorganized into the Chicago and Ohio River Railroad Company i...
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Stock Certificate for 1 Share in the Old Colony Rail Road Corporation

Price: $37.50

Publisher: : 1846

Seller ID: 015926

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 8 x 7 inches. Black ink, no vignette, decoration on left side. Red ink stamp "Old Colony Rail Road Corporation Incor. March 16 1844". Fold lines. No. 744, this certificate was originally issued to John W. Lincoln on April 1, 1846. Signed by the President, "Nathan Carruth" and the Treasurer, "Addison Gilmore". Both of these signatures have strike lines through them. The Old Colony Railroad was a major railroad system in southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island. It ran from 1845 to 1893, when it was acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and became the "...
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Stock Certificate for 10 Shares in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Bank Note Company : 1930

Seller ID: 016012

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 12 x 8 inches. Black and orange ink, vignette of State of Pennsylvania Coat of Arms. Several punch holes, fold lines, embossed stamp, minor tears and discoloration along edge. This certificate was originally issued to Mildred M. Cox on January 17, 1930. Signatures of President and Treasurer. Ms. Cox transferred the stock to Pershing and Co. on May 3, 1950. Several stamps and signatures on back. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was founded in 1846 and grew to become the largest railroad in the United States in the first half of the 20th century.
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Stock Certificate for 10 Shares in the Second & Third Street Passenger Railway Company of Philadelphia

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Breuker & Kessler Co. : 1907

Seller ID: 015923

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 14 x 9 1/2 inches. Black ink, vignette of horse drawn streetcar passing a federal style building, decorative border. Several punch holes obscuring the signatures of the company officials, and also spelling out "Canceled 7-30-08" This certificate was originally issued to Francis Olcott Allen, Jr., M.D. on August 14, 1907. Dr. Allen transferred 5 shares to Emeline Fries and 5 to Edgar Fries on July 28, 1908. Dr. Allen (1874-1953) was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School (class of 1900) and, at one time, a resident physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the I...
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Stock Certificate for 100 Shares in the Hestonville, Mantua & Fairmount Passenger Rail Road Company

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Bank Note Company : 1886

Seller ID: 015900

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 11 x 7 inches. Black ink, three vignettes: 1 - two women with a shield - center top, 2 - a bridge over a river - left bottom, 3 - a Grecian looking woman sitting by a river - right bottom, with decorative border. "Shares $50 Each" printed along top border. No. 11221, canceled, originally issued to Gordon Monges & Co. on March 5, 1886. Signed by the President, "Chas. Lafferty", and the Treasurer, whose name is obscured by several cancellation punch holes. The next day, March 6, 1886, Mr. Monges transferred the certificate to George T. Lewis. Gordon Monges was a stock broker, one of t...
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Stock Certificate for 100 Shares in the Market Street Railway Company

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa., Republic Bank Note Co. : 1922

Seller ID: 016030

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 12 x 8 1/2 inches. Black and green ink, vignette of eagle with wings spread center top, decorative border. Cancellation punch holes, chipping along edges, one small tear hole, fold lines. No. N.Y.51, this certificate was originally issued to Foster and Adams, on June 26, 1922, and then transferred to Day & Heaton, 42 Broadway, New York, the same day. Signed by Assistant Secretary and Vice President, signature illegible. Under various names, the Market Street Railway Company had been engaged in public transportation in San Francisco, California, since 1860. In 1918, it reorganized un...
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Stock Certificate for 100 Shares in the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, American Bank Note Company : 1887

Seller ID: 015928

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 11 x 8 inches. Black and green ink, vignette of steam locomotive, decorative border. Fold Lines, purple "Canceled" stamp, two diamond shaped punch holes. Some darkening on left border. No. 2712, this certificate was originally issued to F. A. Bradley on September 6, 1887. Signed by the President, "W. Birch Dumau" and the Secretary, "___ Walsh". The Mobile & Ohio Railroad was first chartered in 1848 to provide railroad service from Mobile, Alabama, to the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois. It reached Columbus, Kentucky, on the Mississippi River in 1861. It was appropriated for military u...
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Stock Certificate for 100 Shares in the United States Shipbuilding Company

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Franklin Lee Bank Note Company : 1902

Seller ID: 015909

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 12 1/2 x 8 inches. Black and orange ink, vignette of battleship on the ocean, with decorative border. "United States Shipbuilding Company 1902" embossed stamp with anchor in center. No. 1538, originally issued to E. R. Chapman & Co. (a New York brokerage firm) on December 23, 1902. Signed by the President, "B. B. Lewis" and the Assistant Treasurer "Cyrus Wells". Signed by "E. R. Chapman" on back on December 29, 1902. The United States Shipbuilding Company was a short-lived trust company originally conceived and promoted by John Willard Young, son of Mormon leader Brigham Young. It c...
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Stock Certificate for 14 Shares in the Germantown Passenger Rail Way Company

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, American Bank Note Company : 1929

Seller ID: 015921

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 10 x 6 inches. Black ink, vignette of bald eagle with wings spread standing on a stars and stripes shield top center, vignette of two horses being fed at a trough bottom center, and a bust portrait of a young lady on the right. 12 punch holes. This certificate was originally issued to Harold D. Cunningham on October 8, 1929. Embossed stamp, canceled stamp with illegible date, signature obscured by ink and punch holes. Incorporated in 1858, the Germantown Passenger Rail Way provided public transportation along 4th and 8th Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1881, it was leased ...
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Stock Certificate for 2 Shares in the Frankford & Southwark Philadelphia City Passenger Railroad Company

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Bank Note Company : 1884

Seller ID: 015933

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 11 x 7 1/2 inches. Black ink, vignette of woman sitting next to picture of Independence Hall with a Militia man sitting next to a picture of a ship and an angle bearing a trumpet between them, top center, and a vignette of two horses pulling a street car past an imposing building, bottom center. 14 punch holes and a diamond shaped cut out. Fold lines, embossed stamp, left edge cut unevenly. Hole punch canceled stamp dated January 18, 1913. This certificate was originally issued to Martha Thomas on April 4, 1884. Signatures obscured by punch holes. The Frankford & Southwark Philadelp...
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Stock Certificate for 2 Shares in the Peoria & Bureau Valley Railroad Company

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Danforth, Wright and Co. : 1855

Seller ID: 015905

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 10 x 6 1/2 inches. Black ink, vignette of steam locomotive running through the prairie with a group of Native Americans watching, with decorative border. "Shares $100 Each" printed along right border. No. 44, originally issued to A. Lee Merriman on June 26, 1855. Signed by the President, "M. R. Judd". Side edges darkened, fold lines. "Canceled" written in red ink across front, six punch holes. Mr. Merriman transferred the certificate to a brokerage firm on July 13, 1855. The Peoria & Bureau Valley Railroad Company built a short line (approx. 47 miles) from Peoria, Illinois, to Burea...
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Stock Certificate for 200 Shares in the Golden West Lumber Company

Price: $10.00

Publisher: San Francisco, A. Carlisle & Co. : 1925

Seller ID: 016027

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 9 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Black ink, vignette of eagle with wings spread upper left, decorative border. Fold lines, embossed stamp. No. 50, this certificate was originally issued to the Mrs. L. Hindringer on May 18, 1925. Signed by secretary Russell Fotara (?) and president C. W. Greene. No signs of transfer or cancellation. According to the certificate, the Golden West Lumber Company was incorporated in California on April 12, 1924.
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Stock Certificate for 25 Shares in the Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Rawdon, Wright & Hatch : 1841

Seller ID: 015910

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 9 x 7 inches. Black ink, one vignette, middle top, showing a river port, and another, left side, with a scene of a bridge over a river. No. 921, originally issued to John Farrar on September 10, 1841. Signed by the Treasurer "Henry Dalton". Fold lines. Mr. Farrar signed the back on October 10, 1854, included address" No. 921 Camellia (?)". The Boston and Providence Railroad was an early railroad line intended to connect Boston, Massachusetts, to Providence, Rhode Island. It was incorporated in 1831 and completed in 1835. Today the line is split between the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Tr...
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Stock Certificate for 25 Shares in the Pullman's Palace Car Company

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, American Bank Note Company : 1898

Seller ID: 015916

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 11 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Black ink, vignettes of St. Pancras Station, London, and the Pullman Car Works in Detroit. The center vignette is covered by a green $1 and a brown 25 cent U.S. Internal Revenue Documentary stamp. At top of decorative border is printed "Boston Certificate". Multiple punch holes, including some arranged to say "Canceled 5-14-17", purple cancellation stamp. This certificate was originally issued to Benjamin C. Creelman on November 15, 1898, and transferred to Anna Creelman Swan on May 5, 1917, upon Benjamin's decease. Pullman's Palace Car Company was founded by ...
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Stock Certificate for 40 Shares in the Three-Way Oil Company

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, The Brown-Green Co. : 1927

Seller ID: 016034

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. Black and orange ink, vignette of oil field with multiple derricks center top, decorative border. Embossed stamp. Fold lines, tear along fold, some chipping. No. 391, this certificate was originally issued to C. C. Smart, on April 15, 1927. It was transferred on April 28, 1927 to a company, name illegible. Signed by treasurer Edward Barbour and president Walter Beck.
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Stock Certificate for 5 Shares in the State Line and Sullivan Railroad Company

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island, E. L. Freeman & Son : 1907

Seller ID: 015924

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

2 items - First item is a stock certificate, dimensions 11 x 8 inches. Black ink, vignette a steam locomotive going past a couple of farmers, center, and one of a farmer behind two horses and a plow, left side, decorative border. Fold lines, rust stain from a paper clip upper left. Embossed stamp, 4 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Stock Transfer Tax stamps on back. Signed by Richard W. Hale, Treasurer, and O. A. Baldwin, President. Signatures crossed with pink ink, "Canceled Dec. 14, 1933". No. 1012, issued to Richard W. Hale on January 22, 1907. On second item, dimensions 8 1/4 x 6 1/2, Mr. Hale...
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Stock Certificate for 50 Shares in the New York and New England Railroad Company

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, American Bank Note Company : 1894

Seller ID: 015932

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Dimensions 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Black and green ink, vignette of steam locomotive rolling through the countryside, decorative border. Fold Lines, 2 purple "Canceled" stamps dated April 11, 1894, five S-shaped punch holes and five round. No. 50804, this certificate was originally issued to Charles G. Dobbs on March 27, 1894. Signatures obscured by punch holes. Mr. Dobbs transferred 30 shares to Jud T. Lee and 20 shares to A.J. Lawrence, both of 60 Broadway, on April 9, 1894. The New York and New England Railroad was chartered by a special act of the Massachusetts Legislature on April 17, 1873...
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Stock Certificate for 50 Shares in the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway Company

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Franklin Bank Note Company

Seller ID: 015904

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-As New

Circa 1880s. Dimensions 12 x 8 inches. Black and brown ink, vignette of a large factory next to a wharf with ships docked and decorative border. "Authorized Capital, $40,000,000" printed along bottom of border. No. B727, not issued, no stamps or signatures. The New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway Company was created in 1881 to compete with the New York Central Railroad, controlled by the Vanderbilts. The New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway was quickly forced into bankruptcy by the New York Central, was bought by them and reincorporated as the West Shore Railroad in 1885.
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