1900, Minnesota. Stock certificate for 1 share. Signed as presidentby CHARLES S. MELLEN as President. Black. Nice panoramic vignette of a steam locomotive crossing a bridge at center, smaller locomotive at lower left. Litho. Very fine.

1880. Minnesota. Stock certificate for 10 shares issued to Charles D. Barney & Co. and signed by Charles D. Barney as the company president. Multi-vignetted. Train traveling though countryside at top center. Locomotive at bottom left and small vignette at bottom center of a factory. This is an excellent autograph piece.

1880, Minnesota. Stock certificate for 1 share. Issued to and signed on verso by John Qunicy Adams. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) 6th president of the United States: 1825-1829. John Quincy Adams was the first son of a former president, John Adams, to be elected president. Black. Nice panoramic vignette of a steam locomotive crossing a bridge at center, smaller locomotive at lower left. Litho. Punch cancelled and very fine.

1878, Minnesota. Stock certificate for 10 shares. Issued to and signed on verso by C.H. Clark. Black. Nice panoramic vignette of a steam locomotive crossing a bridge at center, smaller locomotive at lower left. Litho. Punch cancelled and very fine.

1880, Minnesota. Stock certificate for 10 shares. Issued to and signed on verso by C.H. Clark. Black. Nice panoramic vignette of a steam locomotive crossing a bridge at center, smaller locomotive at lower left. Litho. Punch cancelled and very fine.

1884, New York. Stock certificate for 20 shares. Black. Vignette of child and dog at top center in front of safe. Litho. Pen and Punch cancelled. Very fine.

1914, Oklahoma. Stock certificate #1 for 10 shares. Green/Black. Eagle vignette a top center. Litho. Uncancelled and Very Fine.

Henry C. Bowen (born 1813 ). Merchant, Abolitionist, Publisher of the prominent anti-slavery paper Independent. As a young man, Bowen worked for Arthur Tappan who, along with his brother abolitionist Lewis Tappan, brought him into the abolitionist movement. Bowen Co-founded the Independent, eventually taking over sole control of the paper. The independent was a strong voice for the anti-slavery movement and boasted many of the period’s leading abolitionist as contributing writers such as Henry Ward Beecher and William Lloyd Garrison. At the time of the passage of the fugitive slave act, Bowen’s mercantile firm refused to sign the Castle Garden agreement supporting the act stating that his firm had its “goods and not its principles for sale”. Stock certificate dated March 19, 1881 for 953 shares of the Northern Pacific Railroad issued to and signed on verso by Bowen. Engraved vignette of a steam locomotive at top center and a portrait of Frederick Billings at bottom. The certificate is lightly punch and pen cancelled. Bowen’s signature remains bold and uncancelled. An interesting abolitionist autograph on a stock.

Augustus G. Paine, Jr. (1866-1947). Prominent paper industrialist and bank official. March 10, 1923. Stock certificate issued to Paine and endorsed by him on verso. Punch cancelled.