1889, New York. Stock certificate for 100 shares. Green/Black. Engraved vignette of a steam locomotive at top center, nice portrait vignette of Frederick Billings at bottom. Issued to and signed on verso by Charles T. Barney. Punch cancellation does not affect Barneys’ signature.

1889, New York. Stock certificate for 100 shares. OrangeBlack. Engraved vignette of a steam locomotive at top center, nice portrait vignette of Frederick Billings at bottom. Issued to and signed on verso by DAVID HARRISON HOUGHTALING, tea merchant, born in Kingston, N.Y., May 17, 1834. After leaving his books in Kingston academy, the young man found a clerkship in New York city in 1850. A hardworking, honest youth, he made excellent progress, and in 1860 began the importation of tea on his own account. A splendid merchant, he has always been successful and has been prosperously engaged in this trade until the present time. A man of fine character, he has been elected a director in The Bank of North America, The United States Life Insurance Co., and The Third National Bank, of this city, a trustee of The Franklyn Trust Co. of Brooklyn, and director of the Richmond Railway & Electric Co., and many other corporations. He is a Republican in political faith, and served two terms as Park Commissioner under Mayor Seth Low, but steadily declined public office afterward . Stamp and Punch cancelled and very fine.

1883, New York. Stock certificate for 1 share. Brown/Black. Engraved vignette of a steam locomotive at top center, nice portrait vignette of Frederick Billings at bottom. Issued to and signed on verso by RICHARD B. MELLON (d. 1933). Banker. Along with his brother Andrew, Richard provided much of the funding for his son William’s early development and growth of the family’s oil interests. He served as president of Mellon National Bank.Light punch and stamp cancellations not affecting Mellon’s signature on verso. . Very fine.

1884, New York. Stock certificate for 100 shares. Orange/Black. Engraved vignette of a steam locomotive at top center, nice portrait vignette of Frederick Billings at bottom. Issued to and signed on verso by Russell Sage (1816-1906). Banker; Financier; U.S. Congressman. As the originator of "put and call options", Sage greatly changed the way speculators played the stock market. Among America's most powerful and wealthy bankers, he financed Jay Gould and made a vast fortune on the latter's stock manipulations. "Sage was one of the shrewdest and most conservative of all great financiers." (DAB) At one time he is said to have had $27,000,000 out on call loans. At the time of his death he left a fortune worth an estimated $70,000,000. Punch and stamped cancelled.

1892, New York. Stock certificate for 100 shares. Orange/Black. Engraved vignette of a steam locomotive at top center, nice portrait vignette of Frederick Billings at bottom. Issued to and signed on verso by Thomas F. Oakes. Punch and stamp cancellation does not effect signature. Very fine.

1885, New York. Stock certificate for 100 shares. Orange/Black. Engraved vignette of a steam locomotive at top center, nice portrait vignette of Frederick Billings at bottom. Issued to and signed on verso by W. D. SEARLS. Punch and stamped cancelled.

1884, New York. Stock certificate for 100 shares. Orange/Black. Engraved vignette of a steam locomotive at top center, nice portrait vignette of Frederick Billings at bottom. Issued to but not signed by Anthony J. Drexel. Very fine.

1883, New York. Stock certificate for 100 shares. Green\Black. Engraved vignette of a steam locomotive at top center, nice portrait vignette of Frederick Billings at bottom. Issued to AUGUST BELMONT but not signed by him. At the age of fourteen, Belmont began working at the office of the Rothschilds in Frankfurt, Germany. His skill for finance won him numerous promotions within the company until in 1837, during the financial panic, he formed his own company in New York with his only tangible asset being that of his agency in the U.S. for the Rothschilds. Within a few years, Belmont was one of the leading bankers in the nation. Extremely Fine.

TWO PROXY DOCUMENTS GRANTING TRANSFER POWERS TO J. PIERPONT MORGAN, J. PIERPONT MORGAN, JR J. P. MORGAN AND COMPANY AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FIRM.

1893, New York. Stock certificate for 100 shares. GreenBlack. Engraved vignette of a steam locomotive at top center, nice portrait vignette of Frederick Billings at bottom. Signed by J. PIERPONT MORGAN, JR. for the company transferring 1250 shares of stock to Morgan & Company. An interesting document in which the owner of the shares "Madame Piou (Marguerite Amicie) Veuve de Monsier Lebaudy (Jules) a Paris" appoints J. Pierpont Morgan, George C. Thomas, George S. Bowdoin, Edward T. Stotesbury, Charles H. Coster, Robert Bacon James, W. Paul, Jr., J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr. Temple Bowdoin, Edward M. Robinson and Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co…my true and lawful attorneys…"

John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. (1867 - 1943). Born into one of America's most fabulously wealthy families John Pierpont Morgan Jr. followed his father into the family business becoming the senior partner of J. P. Morgan & Company upon his father's death in 1913. Considered by many to be the most powerful financial figure in the country after his father died, by 1933 he and his firm was reported to control one quarter of the total assets in the United States. An active and generous philanthropist, he gave away millions.

An interesting Morgan and Company association with a scarce Morgan, Jr. signature. Light punch and stamp cancellations on stock not affecting the attached documents.