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 (5) The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company (3) 100 Shares 1930 Green (2), 100 Shares 1955 Blue, National Tea Company 1927 Yellow, all punch-hole cancelled, NVF to VF, all but one with staple or pinholes
GB and World bonds and shares (11) USA (5) Pan American World Airways, Inc. 1973, red and black, share certificate for 100 shares, with punched cancellation holed, NEF with some staple holes, UV Industries Inc. Share certificate for 100 shares, 1979, EF with punched cancellation holes, The Grand Union Company 1975, share certificate for 100 shares, blue and black, EF with punched cancellation holes, Bond Stores, Incorporated 1965 share certificate for 100 shares, blue and black, NEF with some ink marks, with punched cancellation holes, American Brands Inc. 1973, Share Certificate for 100 shares, orange and black, NEF with punched cancellation holes and some staple holes, Belgium (2) Transports Electricité et Gaz, 1929, bond for 250 Francs, Blue and black, VF with some coupons, Le Grand Bazaar de la Place Saint-Lambert, Liege, 1944, brown and green, GVF with coupons 70-80 attached, GB, (Russia, Azerbaijan) Baku Consolidated Oilfields Limited, share certificate for 'B' ordinary shares, green and black, unissued, GVF, France (2), Societe Des Petroles Milano, 1920 bond for 500 Francs, red on yellow/white, NEF with all coupons, Charles Laffitte & Company Limited, Share Certificate 1866, One share of £20, unissued, EF with holes at the left. The company was extremely short lived having been created during the investment boom of the mid 1860's, primarily to facilitate trade of cotton within the OttomanEmpire. Merged with the Ottoman Financial Association in 1866 and disappeared soon after. Charles Lafitte was a Nephew of French banker Jacques Lafitte, Colombia, The Colombian National Railway Company, 1903 Debenture for £100 pale blue and dark blue, NVF
USA, Bank of the United States of America certificate number 5972 of capital stock, 30 shares, Philadelphia 16th August 1937, issued to Baring Brothers, London, and signed by Nicholas Biddle as president, vignette of standing allegorical female, with shield and eagle, and ship sailing behind, VF with clear and bold signature, we note that a similar example is in the American Museum of Finance, we have seen no recent transactions of this item
USA (8) USA National Union Bank, Philadelphia 1866 Share Certificate for 6 shares of $50 each, VF with some folds, USA Railway shares and scrip certificates (7) Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company Share Certificate 10 shares of $100 each 1890 Vignette of Cattle at watering hole at top, VF with two cancellation punch holes. Utica, Clinton and Binghamton Rail Road Co. 1927, Share Certificate for 36 shares, cancelled, small tears and pinholes otherwise around VF. The Cincinnati, Washington and BaltimoreRailroad Company 1883 Third Mortgage Bond Scrip Certificate for $105, small central hole, otherwise VF. Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad Company 1929 Share Certificate for 5 shares, orange, vignette of steam train at the top, VF with cancellation punch holes. Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad Company 1928 Share Certificate, preferred stock, Series A, 7 per cent, for 7 shares, brown, vignette of steam train at the top, cancelled with punch holes, Near VF with some foxing and a small pencil annotation at the top right corner. Dubuque and Pacific Railroad Company, State of Iowa 185- (unissued) share certificate for $100 EF. Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway Company share certificate for 10 Shares, shares $100 each, green with round vignette of steam train at the right, signed but unissued 18-- (1899) GVF
USA, South and Central America (3) Cuba, Empresa del Ferro-Carril de Guantanamo, certificate for one share, 1882, vignettes of train at top, allegorical female at bottom, black, stamped cancelled, some tears in the centre from writing on the reverse, otherwise Good Fine. BrazilRailwayCompany 500 Francs or £19/17/5 60 Year Gold Bond 4 1/2%, black and green with ornate border, with vignette of train crossing a bridge. VF USA, Insurance Policy, The Social Insurance Company, for the cover of a schooner on a voyage from Manchester to Wilmington, North Carolina, Salem 1810, (date inked on the reverse, some folds, Good Fine, an interesting early document
USAConfederate States - Richmond (12) 1861 $100 8% Loan, Act of August 19th, 1861, Fine with all but one coupon, 1863 $100 7% Loan, Act of February 20th, 1863, brown/sepia, vignette of an Officer leaning against a tree, Criswell 120, Fine with all coupons, 1863 $500 7% Loan, Act of 20th February 1863 (4) three have 8 coupons, the fourth has 10 coupons all around Fine, 1863 $1000 6% Loan, Act of April 30th 1863, Fine, with all but one coupon, 1864 $500 6% Loan, Act of February 17th, 1864 Second Series, black on brown/sepia with vignette of equestrian statue of Washington (5) VG to Fine with coupons, along with Banknote Germany 100,000 Marks 1923 NVF with some folds
Bonds and Shares a small collection (8) comprising China (3) ChineseGovernment 5% Hukuang Railways Sinking Fund Gold Loan bond 1911 for £20,Deutsche-Asiatische issue, large format with steam train at top, printed by Waterlow's with 35 coupons, About VF, China, Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Railway 5% Gold Loan 1913, bond for £20, ornate border, blue & green, with all coupons, GVF, China, 6% Shanghai Hangchow Ningpo Completion Loan 1936, bond for £50, vignette of Sun Yat Sen, green, with 47 coupons, VF with light central fold, Ethiopia Chemins de Fer Ethiopians, 500 franc share, 1899, with large vignette of king on horseback waiting for a passing train VF with a full set of 48 coupons, German States - Saxony 6% Sterling Loan of 1927, bond for £20 (2000 issued), orange, VF with 15 coupons, USA (3) Colorado - The Acacia Gold MiningCompany 1899, certificate for 500 Shares, cancelled, NVF, Philadelphia - Loan of the City of Philadelphia 1866 6% Loan 1866 Fine with cancellation holes, The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company 1887 certificate for 100 shares, cancelled, Good Fine
China - ChineseGovernment 5% Reorganisation Gold Loan 1913, bonds for 505 Francs or £20, vignettes of Mercury and Chinese Scenes, black and brown, all with coupons (5 bonds) Fine to Good Fine, Canada, Lake Superior Iron & Chemical Company 1911 (6) - Certificates for 10 Shares (2), green VF, Certificate for 5 Shares, orange (1), Certificates for 1 Share, orange (3) Good Fine to NVF, USA Monterey Railway 1909 (2) Certificates for 10 Shares, olive, Fine, and 5 Shares, green, Fine, Argentine Railway Company Share Certificates 1912 (4) comprising certificates for 10 Shares (3) and 1 Share (1) Fine to Good Fine
China (2), ImperialChineseGovernment Tientsin-Pukow RailwayLoan, Bond for £100, London 1908, large format, black & orange, GVF with coupons, China, Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Railway £20 Bond 1913 blue and black with coupons, NVF, USAKentucky and Great Eastern Railway Company 1872 $1000 7% Gold Bond certificate VF with coupons, with tape on edges from previous mounting
World a mixed selection (91) includes Conversion of Spanish Debt 1869 for £255 Fine, along with examples from USA, Canada, Spain, France and related, Germany, South Africa, Belgium and Russia, includes many early 20th Century types and a few late 19th Century, in mixed grades
Chinese Government 5% Reorganisation Gold Loan 1913 Bond for £20 red/brown with coupons, Good Fine, Chinese Government Tientsin-Pukow 5% Railway Loan 1908 Bond for £100 Red-Orange Fine with coupons (2), Chinese Government 5% Gold Loan 1912 Bond for £100 Green with some coupons, Good Fine, Chinese Government 5% Gold Loan 1912 Bond for £500 brown with coupons, Chinese Government Gold Loan 1908 Bond for £100 mauve, Chinese Government Gold Loan 1908 Bond for £20 green, Near Fine, Chinese Imperial Government 4 1/2% Gold Loan 1898 Bonds for £100 (2) red/brown Fine with some coupons, Chinese Government Loan 1912 8% Bond for £100 mauve on green VF with coupons, Chinese Government Loan 1912 8% Bond for £50 green on blue VF with coupons, Chinese Government Loan 1912 8% Bond for £10 mauve on blue VF with coupons, Chinese Government 5 1/2% Gold Loan - Province of Petchili 1913 (2) Fine with coupons, Chinese Government Treasury Note 1925/1929 8% 10 Year Sterling Bond for £500 blue with coupons, Chinese Government Treasury Note 1925/1929 8% 10 Year Sterling Bond for £100 green with coupons, Chinese Imperial Railway 5% Gold Loan 1898 Fine with pencil annotations, with some coupons, Government of the Chinese Republic Treasury Bill 1918 8% Bond for £100 Sterling, About Fine with coupons, Republique Chinoise 5% Gold Bond 1925 brown,NVF with some coupons, Republique de Chine 5% Gold Loan 1914 Paris issue, Fine with coupons, Chinese Imperial Railway 5% Gold Loan Canton-Kowloon Railway Bond for £100 red Good Fine with coupons, Imperial Chinese Government 5% Sinking Fund Gold LOan Hukuang Railways Bond for £20 (2) green with coupons, Chinese Government 6% Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway Completion Loan 1936 Good Fine with coupons, Chinese Imperial Railway 5% Gold Loan Shanghai-Nanking Railway Bond 1907 for £100 red Good Fine, Chinese Government Treasury 8% Bond 1921 Chemin de Fer Lung Tsing-U-Hai Brussels 500 Francs Green with coupons VF, Chinese Government Treasury Bond 8% Bond 1923 Chemin de Fer Lung Tsing-U-Hai Brussel 500 Francs brown, trimmed Fine with coupons, Government of the Chinese Republic Railway Equipment Loan of 1922 £20 Treasury Blue (2) Good Fine with coupons, Government of the Chinese Republic 8% LOan 1920 Chemin de Fer Lung Tsin-U-Hai red-orange VF with coupons, Gouvernement Imperial de Chine 1903 5% Gold Loan 500 Francs, red-orange Fine with 2 coupons, along with USA Share Certificates (11) BritishColumbia Goldfields, The DiamondMining Investment Company Limited, United States Corporation, The International Nickel Company, The Briggs National Bank and Trust Co. New York, Lisbon Valley Uranium Company, Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation, International Resistance Company, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, J.P.Clark Co.INC. Roger A. Halvorsen D.N.M. Ltd, Presidio Motrion Pictures Corporation, in mixed grades and Rhodesia - The Beatrice (Rhodesia) Company Limited, Fine
USA Confederate States (4) Confederate States of America, Fourth Series, Section 6 of February 17,1864, $1000 6% Loan, black on brown/sepia with vignette of equestrian statue of Washington, edge with some creasing and small tears, Fine with coupons. Confederate States of America, Act of February 20 1863, $1000 8% Loan bond dated Richmond 2 March, 1863, (Ref. Ball 201), signed by Rose, printed by G. Wojciechowski, vignettes of President Jefferson Davis & view of Richmond, with coupons. Slight damage at top left edge VF. Confederate States of America, Act of August 19 1861 $500 8% Loan bond, dated 23rd Feb 1863, signed by Tyler&category=14&searchtype=1" rel="tag">Tyler, central fold, otherwise Good Fine with some coupons. Confederate States of America, Act of February 20 1863, $500 8% Loan bond, signed by Tyler, printed by Evans & Cogswell, central vignette of Memminger, with central fold VF, with some coupons
USAMining Share Certificates, Cripple Creek Colorado (2) The Doctor Jack Pot Mining Company certificate for 2000 shares, issued September 11th 1905, The Anaconda Mining Company certificate for 1000 shares, issued November 12th 1900 both punch cancelled, both around VF with pencil annotations
Bonds and Shares a large group (5459), comprising Austria-Hungary Bank Mortgage 4% Bank Bond 5000 Gulden/5000 Forint 1889 (33), Austria-Hungary Bank Mortgage 4% Bank Bond 1000 Gulden/1000 Forint 1893 (89), Austria-Hungary Bank Mortgage 4% Bank Bond 100 Gulden/100 Forint 1899 (18), Austria 1892 4% Debenture Certificates 2000 Kronen (around 200), Austria 1892 4% Debenture Certificates 1000 Kronen (around 400), Austria 1892 4% Debenture Certificates 200 Kronen (around 1300), Austria 1892 4% Debenture Certificates 100 Kronen (134), generally in high grades some items with pencil marks or ink stamps, Reichsgau Salzburg, a group of around 1180 comprising 4% Schuldverschreibung 1000 Reichsmark, Salzburg 1 Jui 1940 Gruppe C (around 745), 500 Reichsmark, Gruppe B (around 215), 100 Reichsmark Gruppe A (around 220) VF to EF, The Reichsgau Salzburg (Gau Salzburg) was an administrative division of NaziGermany in Salzburg. It existed between 1938 and 1945. This bond of 11.2 million Reichmark was issued according to the ordonnance from 14. June 1940 on interest-reduction and the change of currency, and was replacing the loan of 1937. Quoted at the Vienna exchange. Print signature of NSDAP-Gauleiter Friedrich Rainer (1903-1947) as Reichsstatthalter of Salzburg. (In Yugoslavia, he was found guilty of crimes against the people and sentenced to death in 1947.) EBG Oberösterreichische Elektro-Bau (around 975) comprising a mix of Vorzugsaktien and Stammaktie types 25 Vorzugsaktien, 25 x 100 Schilling, 12 November 1937 (around 125), 1 x 100 Schilling a mix of Vorzugsaktien and Stammaktie types (around 850) VF to EF. This electrotechnical company was founded in 1922 in Linz. In 1937, capital was increased by 400,000 Schilling. Today VA Tech Elin EBG. Compagne Des Tramways Electriques, from Limoges to Aixe - Action of 100 Francs (around 100) EF all with the majority of coupons, France General Society for the Sanitation of Cities and Towns (around 60) EF most with the majority of coupons, General Motors Corporation Share Certificates, $1 2/3 blue, (around 100) around VF, The Arro Expansion Bolt Company 1963 Blue stock Certificates (40) About EF some with pencil marks, Spain - Minas Del Centenillo, Sociedad Share Certificates 500 Pesetas 1921 (36) with coupons Fine to VF, Spain - Electrade Viesgo , Bilbao Share Certificates 1000 Pesetas 1956 (11) VF to GVF, USA Ronson Corporation 100 Shares (4) VF to EF, American Brands Inc. Stock Certificates (2) 100 Shares 1977 and 1 Share 1979 $2.67 VF, USA Clevite Corporation Share Certificate 1965 NEF, USA Brandywine Sports Inc. Share Certificate 1977 Fine, USA General Computing Machines Corporation 100 Shares certificate 1953 (3) VF to EF, USA The Hobartt Manufacturing Company 100 Shares certificate 1971 Fine, USA The Glen Alden Corporation $1000 Debenture certificate 1971 VF, USA Columbia Technical Corporation 100 Share certificate 1975 VF (Large Lot, over 75 Kilos)
USA and World a wide ranging group (34) includes an American Express receipt Wells, Fargo and Butterrfield stage, to Grand Rapids, Michigan, Fine as part of a number of subjects such as Banking, Railways, Aircraft, Banknotes, Theatre, and more, mostly 1920s to 1950s, a few earlier, in mixed grades
USA (2), New York Central PetroleumCompany, New York, 1866 Certificate for 200 Shares, red with mining scene vignette Fine with some small spots and holes along the line of the ink signature, The Volcanic Oil Coal Company, West Virginia 1865, 100 Shares, sepia with mining scene vignette, around Fine with some folds and small edge tears
Oil, Refining and Petroleum related (10) USATexas Duke Oil Company, Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Texas, 1919, for 100 Shares of $1, black and green with mining vignette, NVF, USA The United Crude Oil Company, Bakersfield, California, 1908, for 100 shares of $1, black and brown/green reverse, with mining vignettes, VF, USA Continental Asphalt and Petroleum Company Delaware, 15 Shares of $10, female portrait vignette About VF with two folds, Cuban-American Petroleum Company, Arizona, 200 Shares of $1, black and green with oilfield vignette, Fine, USA Palmer Union Oil Company, California 1911, for 625 shares of $1, Black and blue, Fine, USA Corona Oil and Refining Co., Inc. Delaware 1910, unissued, Black and brown, Fine, USA, Universal Oil Products Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1968 green and black, for 100 shares of $1, VF with pencil annotation on the top right, USA , Tribune Oil Company, 1963, Blue, for 100 shares of 50 Cents (2), Fine and VF, Canada, Calgary, Beaver Oils Limited, Calgary, Alberta, 1914, for 50 shares of 25 Cents each, two fols, otherwise better than Fine
USA Oil Creek and Cherry Run Oil Company, Pennsylvania 1865, Certificate for 100 shares of $1, Black with oil refining scene vignette, threelight folds, better than Fine
USA (13) Homestake MiningCompany, Dakota, 1885, for 10 shares of $100, vignette of two Indians overlooking landscape, NVF with cancellation stamps and holes, as part of a group of 13 Mining and Related these mostly early 20th Century types includes Magma Copper Company 1950, Parrot Silver and Copper Company (3) 1909 (2), 1910 (1), Syndicate Hydraulic Mines Inc.1926, Tuolumne Copper Mining Company, Arizona 1922, High Divide Mining Company, Nevada 1919, the Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company, West Virginia 1915, in mixed grades Fine to NVF, along with 4 blank certificates
USA (14) a mixed subject group includes Faberge 1972 (2), Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company 1933, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, 1976, Gritman Drainage Battery Co. 1928-1929 (2), Universal Lock-up Company, Massachusetts 1925, and Kemper Radio Corporation Company Ltd 1929-1931 (7) in mixed grades Fine to VF
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
World (47)includes BulgariaGold Loan 1907, Canada La Compagnie de Construction La Fontaine 1909 (9, two types), Saguenay Pulp and Power Co. 1922, USA, Idaho Copper Company 1926, France Societe Industrielle des Schistes et Derives - unissued. Some duplication. Generally GVF.
Palestine, Government of Palestine War Loan Bearer Bonds, second issue, bond for 10 Palestine pounds, Jerusalem 1945, text in English, Arabic and Hebrew, ornate border, black & green, with coupons, VF. (1).
Framed bond and share certificates (6) including China Lung-Tsing-U -Hai £20 bond 1913 (2), Great Britain, National Provincial Bank share 1957. Rumania £100 bond 1929, USA Leigh High Valley Railway %100 bond 1942. Together with a French document 1764.
China, ChineseImperialGovernmentGold Loan of 1898, Deutsch-Asiatische issue, 5 x bonds for £25, 5 x bonds for £50, and 5 x bonds for £100, red, orange and brown respectively, with coupons, hole cancelled, these were large format working documents and as such show signs of usage, mostly F-AVF. (15).
China, ChineseImperialGovernmentGold Loan of 1898, Deutsch-Asiatische issue, 5 x bonds for £25, 5 x bonds for £50, and 5 x bonds for £100, red, orange and brown respectively, with coupons, hole cancelled, these were large format working documents and as such show signs of usage, mostly F-AVF. (15).
China, ChineseImperialGovernmentGold Loan of 1896, Deutsch-Asiatische issue, 5 x bonds for £25, and 5 x bonds for £50, blue and brown respectively, with coupons, hole cancelled, these were large format working documents and as such show signs of usage, mostly F-AVF. (10).
China, ChineseImperialGovernmentGold Loan of 1896, Deutsch-Asiatische issue, 5 x bonds for £25, and 5 x bonds for £50, blue and brown respectively, with coupons, hole cancelled, these were large format working documents and as such show signs of usage, mostly F-AVF. (10).
Bank and Private Cheques, Bonds and Documents (46) GB, Scotland and USA (12) World (34) 19th and 20th Century includes Bonds (12) Compania Mexicana De Petroleo 'El Aguila' (2), the Gula-Kalumpog-Rubber Estates Limited 1925, Societe Miniere Anonyme Ottomane De Carassou 1910, Lindsay Consolidated Mines Limited, Anglo-Russian Trust Limited, Charles Laffite and Company Limited, plus others in mixed grades
China, ChineseImperialGovernment 1898 Gold Loan, 2 x bonds for £25, 1 x bond for £50 and 1 x bond for £100, all Deutsch-Asiatische Bank issue, various colours, all with coupons, all uncancelled, these were large format working documents and as such show signs of usage, mostly F-VF. (4).
China, ChineseImperialGovernmentGold Loan of 1898, Deutsch-Asiatische issue, 10 x bonds for £50, and 10 x bonds for £100, orange and brown respectively, with coupons, hole cancelled, these were large format working documents and as such show signs of usage, mostly VF. (20).
China, ChineseImperialGovernmentGold Loan of 1898, Deutsch-Asiatische issue, 5 x bonds for £50, and 5 x bonds for £100, orange and brown respectively, with coupons, hole cancelled, these were large format working documents and as such show signs of usage, mostly VF. (10).
China, ChineseImperialGovernmentGold Loan of 1898, Deutsch-Asiatische issue, 5 x bonds for £50, and 5 x bonds for £100, orange and brown respectively, with coupons, hole cancelled, these were large format working documents and as such show signs of usage, F-VF. (10).
Bank and private checks, shares, bonds and documents (70) from GB, Scotland, USA and other world (40) including Mexicana de Petroleo Company 'EL-AGUILA' S.A 1949 (2) Improved Chilling and Transport Limited 1919, Texiana Petroleum Company 1923, The Anglo-Russian Trust Limited 1919, Alpha Petroleum Company limited 1911, the Gula-Kalumpog-Rubber Estates Ltd.1923 and many other bonds plus documents (17) mostly from the Constantine Oilfields Limited and General Certificates, in mixed grades
China, City Government of Greater ShanghaiLoan of 1934, bond No.803 for one thousand Chinesesilver dollars, ornate design, black & orange, with coupons, central fold, otherwise VF. (1).
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