1892, Minnesota. Stock certificate for 100 shares. Green. Multiple vignettes at top. Train at center and ships at either side. Stamp cancelled. Very fine.

1892, Minnesota. Stock certificate for 100 shares. Black. Lovely triple-vignetted certificate depicting a steam locomotive at center flanked by steamboats at both sides. Engraved by American Bank Note Company. Issued to and signed on verso by Northern Pacific Bankruptcy Trustee Edwin M. Lewis.

1886, Minnesota. Stock certificate for seven shares issued to and signed on verso by GEORGE F. BAKER (1840-1931). Banker; Philanthropist. Starting as a clerk in New York state's banking department in 1856, the clever and industrious Baker quickly came to the notice of many of the state's prominent bankers. By 1863, he had been lured from state employment, and was one of the founders of the First National Bank of New York, a bank that would become the most prominent of all banks under the new national banking system. During the Panic of 1873, he was largely responsible for keeping the bank afloat, and it was during this period that the bank began to more fully adopt Baker's philosophy and become a "banker's bank." Baker became the bank's second president in 1877, and aggressively continued the bank's policy of developing connections with great business corporations, both in the U.S. and overseas. A man of boundless energy, Baker sat on the boards of many corporations in a wide variety of industries, at one point sitting on some 87 boards simultaneously. At its height, his fortune was estimated at some $200 million but, at his death, after many years of donations to schools, libraries, museums, hospitals, churches, etc. his estate was valued at a mere $73.5 million. Black / White. Vignette of a train pulling into a station with Vignettes of steamships at left and right at top center. Blind embossed company seal. Punch and pen cancellations does not affect Baker’s signature. Overall Very Fine.

1881, Minnesota. Stock certificate for six shares issued to WILIAM MILNOR ROBERTS (1810-1881) American civil engineers. Roberts served as chief engineer of Northern Pacific Railroad and as president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. "In 1869 he made the reconnaissance for a route to the Northern Pacific Railroad which included the route through Montana. His report published by Jay Cooke served as the basis for financing the construction of the line to the Pacific coast and he served as chief engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad from 1870 to 1879." Vignettes of steam paddleboat at upper left and upper right and of a locomotive at upper center. Punch cancelled. Some minor edge wear. Glue residue at left edge. Overall Fine.

1878, Minnesota. Stock certificate for one share in the Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad Company. Black. Issued to The Western Union Telegraph Co. and endorsed on verso by THOMAS THOMPSON ECKERT. [(1825-1910). General manager, vice president and president of Western Union and a Union Army Officer.] as vice president. Vignettes of a steam locomotive at center, and steam paddleboats at left and right. Some wear at edges and one slight split at right edge, else Fine. Affixed to certificate is an “Executive Office Western Union Telegraph Company” document. One page, 8” x 10 1/2”. New York. November 20, 1885. The document is an “Extract from Minuets Special Meeting Executive Committee” authorizing the Acting President to sell shares in St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company. With blind-embossed company seal. Edge wear and some soiling. In 1862, Edwin M. Stanton, the new Secretary of War, appointed Thomas Eckert as chief of the War Department telegraph office. An aggressive and able leader with a great deal of pre-war telegraph experience, Eckhart was largely credited with ensuring that the telegraph was successfully utilized by Union forces in the field. Throughout the war years, President Lincoln was a regular visitor to Eckert’s office, and the two men quickly became close friends and confidants. The bond between the two was so great that Eckert was to attend Our American Cousin as Lincoln's bodyguard, but was not allowed to do so by Stanton. Instead, he found himself among the grieving few that stood by the dying president at the Peterson House later that tragic evening.

189-. Minnesota. Unissued stock certificate. Green/Black. Vignette of a steam locomotive passing a man on horseback. Engraved. Uncancelled and Excellent.

1893, Minnesota. Stock certificate for 100 shares. Green/Black. Engragved vignette of a steam locomotive passing a man on horseback. Engraved by International Bank Note Company. Stamp and punch cancelled. Very Fine.

1913, Minnesota. Stock certificate issued to and signed on verso by William P. Clough. Green/Black. Vignette of a steam locomotive passing a man on horseback. Engraved. Punch and stamp cancelled. Excellent.

1893, Minnesota. Stock certificate issued to and signed on verso by Charles B. Wright. Green/Black. Vignette of a steam locomotive passing a man on horseback. Engraved. Punch and Excellent.