USA, of Historical Railway interest - Yosemite Short line Railway Company 40 Year First Mortgage Sinking Fund 4 1/2% Gold Bond, 1905, green, with coupons, GVF. Note: The Yosemite Short Line Railway was a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railway constructed in the Yosemite region of California. The plan was to construct a railway 60 miles long, serving logging interests and tourists visiting the Yosemite National Park. Construction commenced in 1905 but construction was abandoned due to the financial crisis caused by the 1906 San Franciscoearthquake, with only 8.5 miles (14 km) constructed. The railway was abandoned by 1917. Locomotive power was provided by two Porter 0-4-0T steam locomotives.
USA (3) Lewis American Airways Inc. Colorado, 1938, 100 Shares, VF, Chiapas Henequen Company, Kansas City, Missouri, 1905, One Quarter share of $100, with plant and horse rider vignette, VF, Escrow Certificate for the San Francisco Motion Pictire Corporation San Farncisco, California, one share of common stock, Fine, stapled at top right, and with other staple holes, with accompanying letter from 1925
U.S.A. City and County of San Francisco, Board of Public Works, (CA), 5 x uncancelled $1,000 Montgomery Avenue Gold bonds, all 1873, vignettes of city view, figures representing agriculture and commerce, City seal at top, black on yellow, with coupons, central fold, otherwise, all VF. (5).
U.S.A. City and County of San Francisco, Board of Public Works, (CA), uncancelled $1,000 Montgomery Avenue Gold bond, 1873, vignettes of city view, figures representing agriculture and commerce, City seal at top, black on yellow, with coupons, central fold, otherwise, VF. (1).
Great Britain, 10 pieces of railway ephemera including share certificates, West SomersetRailway Co., dividend warrant, 1895, Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Co., unissued warrant, 1873, Cheltenham, Oxford and Brighton Junction Railway, unissued receipt for payment on shares, 184-, Mid Wales Railway Co., share certificate, 1863, repaired, Guernsey Railway Co. Ltd., share certificate, 1948, repaired, London & North Western Railway Co., stock certificate, 1869, cancelled, Bahia & San Francisco Railway Co. Ltd., transfer certificate, London 1863, Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Co., stock certificate, 1911, Tamar, Kit Hill and Callington Railway Co. Ltd., transfer certificate, 1864, repaired, and Indenture dated 1835 which includes reference to the North Union Railway, on vellum, very large format, mostly F-VF. (10).
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