1908, Consolidated Preference Stock No. 1. Brown. Stamp and punch cancelled. Slight fold separation at extreme right margin. Fine.

1908, North British Four Per Cent Preference Stock. Orange. Stamp and Punch cancelled. Fine.

1901, New York. Bond for $1000 bearing 5 percent interest. Green/Black. Vignette at top center of flowing river. Revenue stamp at bottom. Coupons attached at top. Uncancelled and Very Fine.

18--, Kansas. Unissued stock certificate. Black / White. Vignette of miners working at top center.

1890, Kansas. Stock certificate for one share issued to and signed on verso by O.W. PEABODY. One of the founders of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Black / White. Vignette of miners working at top center. Blind embossed company seal. Stamp and punch cancellations do not affect Peabody’s signature. Following his graduation from Phillips Exeter Academy, a fifteen-year-old Oliver W. Peabody joined his brother Francis at a banking firm owned by Nathaniel Thayer. Leaving the firm in 1862 to serve in the Union Army, Oliver joined his brother and Kidder in the newly organized Kidder, Peabody and Company upon his return home. The Osage Carbon Company was the successor to The Osage Carbon, Coal and Mining Company, the first mining company to open a shaft in coal rich Osage City, Kansas. Employing six hundred men, The Osage Carbon Company mined an average of 750 tons of coal a day

1889, Kentucky. $1,000 First Mortgage Bond bearing 6% interest. Brown/Black with brown overprint. Vignette of eagle surrounded by the large and ornate company name. Litho. Attached embossed gold company seal. Stamp cancelled and very fine.

Subscription certificate for $5,000 in stock and $10,000 in bonds. Signed twice on verso “Drexel, Morgan & Co,” by J.P. Morgan. New York. January 20, 1880. Issued to Lorenzo Delmonico and signed on verso. “The Pacific Railway Improvement Company made a public offer in 1880 for subscriptions for the first mortgage bonds of the Texas Pacific Railway Company. Funds were required for building a line between Fort Worth and Rio Grande, a distance of about 600 miles. The funds offered were of $1,000 denomination, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum. As a inducement, the company offered for every subscription or $900 paid in addition to the first mortgage bond stock in the road to the amount of $500. The installments were to be paid whenever the Improvement Company required money to carry on its work. The subscribers received certificates upon which the amount of their respective payments was entered.” (New York Times, November 29, 1882) Signed on the front by Charles H. Woerishoffer. An interesting and unusual association.

1926, New Jersey. Stock certificate for 1 share. Black. Vignette of a steam locomotive at center, smaller state seal at bottom. Litho. The title has been altered in manuscript to include New York thus the renamed company was The Paterson, Newark & New York Railroad. Stub glue at left. Punch cancelled and Very Fine.

1988. Massachuestts. Specimen stock certificate. Red/Black. A beautiful certificate. Extremely fine.