Friday, March 30, 2012

Banco Hipotecario De Credito Territorial Mexicano, S.A.

Banco Hipotecario De Credito Territorial Mexicano, S.A. stock.

Stock with coupons attached.
Country: Mexico
Year: 1908

PRICE ON REQUEST

Condition: Excellent

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Paper Money Error

Paper money error; currency printing error.

Denomination: $1
Year: 2003
U.S. Atlanta Federated, 2003, 2nd Printing Shift.
Condition: C.U.
Price: $3900.00

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Monday, March 26, 2012

Actor James Stewart Autograph

Check signed by actor James Stewart. Check issued to Shenandoah Oil Corporation. Brief history of the company included with check.

State: California
Year: 1976

Condition: Excellent

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Collectible Chicago Riding Club Certificate

Collectible Chicago Riding Club membership certificate printed by Columbian Bank Note Co. Chicago.

State: Illinois
Year: 1924

Condition: Excellent

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Standard Oil Company Stock Signed by M.H. Hanna


Standard Oil Company stock signed by M.H. Hanna.

Stock issued to M.H. Hanna and Geo. W. Chaping. Separate card signed by W.H. Hanna. Unique! Historic!

State: Ohio
Year: 1878

Condition: Excellent

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Another "Blueberry" Banco Central Mexicano

Here is another issue of the so-called "Blueberry" Banco Central Mexicano stocks.
$1,000 (Pesos), Bouligny & Schmidt Sugs Mexico. Imprinted revenue. Additional stamped legal text. Many coupons.

Country: Mexico
Year: 1903

PRICE UPON REQUEST
Condition: Excellent

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Baltimore and Ohio Rail-Road Company signed by John W. Garrett

 Baltimore and Ohio Rail-Road Company signed by John W. Garrett.

Stock sign by John Work Garrett (July 31, 1820 – September 26, 1884) was an American banker, philanthropist, and president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O). In 1855, he was named to the board of the B&O, and in 1858, became its president, a position he held until the year he died. His tenure was marked by his support for the Union cause during the Civil War, the expansion of the railroad to reach Chicago, Illinois, and his struggles with the Pennsylvania Railroad over access to New York City. Many places are named in his honor, including:
  • Garrett, Indiana
  • Garrett County, Maryland
  • Garrett Park, Maryland
  • Garrett, Pennsylvania
After the war, Garrett acquired three gunboats that had been used in the blockade service and refitted them into packet ships, establishing the first regular line service from Baltimore, Maryland, to Liverpool, Pennsylvania. He was also associated with several telegraph companies. Following the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Garrett in 1880 was one of the organizers of the B&O Employees' Relief Association. The B&O provided its initial endowment and assumed all administrative costs. Worker coverage included sickness, indefinite time for recovery from accidents, and a death benefit.

In 1884 Garrett was instrumental in negotiating the loans which allowed the B&O to extend its main line to Philadelphia and through the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad to reach New York City. Garrett, a trustee of the Peabody Institute, asked its founder, George Peabody, to persuade Johns Hopkins to make the bequest that would make possible the Johns Hopkins University and Medical Institutions. Garrett became one of the most active trustees of the university.

State: Maryland
Year: 1866
Condition: Excellent

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Friday, March 16, 2012

Banco De Londres Y Mexico Stock

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 Banco De Londres Y Mexico stock for $100 (Pesos). Many coupons.

Country: Mexico
Year: 1905
PRICE UPON REQUEST
Condition: Excellent

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

German Young Uncancelled Bond



German Government International 5 1/2% Loan 1930 Uncancelled Bond. Full page of coupons attached. Text in English, German, and French.

Price on Request.

Country: Germany
Years: June 1, 1930

Condition: Excellent

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Monday, March 12, 2012

Collectible Chinese Crisp Loan Bond

Chinese Government Gold Loan of 1912 known as the "Crisp Loan" Rare £500, 5% Uncancelled Gold Bond.

This issue is known as the "Crisp Loan".
28 Coupons remain. Very Rare and in great demand.

Country: China
Year: 1912

PRICE ON REQUEST
Condition: Excellent

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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Banco Peninsular Mexicano Stock

Very nice and collectible Banco Peninsular Mexicano stock.

Country: Mexico
Year: 1908
Stock. PRICE ON REQUEST
Condition: Excellent

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Collectible Railroad Bond

This is a highly collectible Columbus and Ninth Avenue Railroad Company $1,000 5% Uncancelled Gold Bond. Almost all 200 coupons remain.

PRICE ON REQUEST.
Condition: Excellent

State: New York
Year: 1893

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Imperial Chinese Hukuang Railway Gold Bonds

There is strong evidence that the controversial financing of the Hukuang Railway was the tipping point that sparked China’s revolution of 1911, which overthrew three millennia of dynastic rule and led to formation of the Chinese Republic the following year. No less qualified an observer than Sir John Newell Jordan, British Minister to Peking from 1906 until 1920, wrote with the benefit of hindsight at the end of his tenure that “the Hukuang Railway Agreement ... was the proximate cause of the downfall of the Dynasty.” (Woodhouse, 2004). The reader can be excused for finding it improbable that the terms of a railroad loan could trigger a revolution. The explanation is a tale worth telling.

By 1911, nationalists had long protested the extent of foreign control of China’s railroads. As summarized by Goetzmann and Ukhov (2005),
  • By most accounts the competition among the great powers to secure railway concessions during this period through a combination of political diplomacy and the financial might of their capital markets was, in some ways, the high point of the age of Imperialism. At least it was characterized as such by contemporary commentators such as Lenin, who used the division of China into spheres of influence by foreign capitalists as the example of Capitalist Imperialism par excellence.
  • ... Virtually of China’s railways constructed after 1895 were financed by foreign debt issues underwritten by European-led investment banking syndicates which obtained right of way, property concessions and promises of repayment from the Chinese Imperial government. Under the control of the bankers who financed the loans, Chinese railways were constructed, owned and operated by managers designated by the financial consortium. Certainly the most contentious feature of these loans was their provision for extra-territorial rights [by which foreigners enjoyed jurisdiction over portions of Chinese territory].
  • The Chinese Eastern Railway was a prime example of extra-territoriality. The Russo-Chinese bank issued a 5 million tael loan[ ] in Russia in 1896 to finance the construction of a railway across Manchuria linking the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok. The railway and its right of way were entirely administered and policed by Russian officials, who controlled the receipts and disbursements. The line was, in effect, a little bit of Russian territory within China’s borders, and issued its own currency. [Author’s note: To this it may be added that a contingent of Russian troops travelled on each train, housed at defense posts erected along the line; that the Chinese Eastern Railway had over 20,000 Russian employees; and that until the 1920s over 120,000 Russians lived in Manchuria, accounting for a quarter of its population, most dependent upon the C.E.R. for their livelihood.]
The Hukuang Railways £6 million loan was the last in a long succession of foreign loans to the Imperial Chinese Government for railroad construction. No fewer than 27 such loans appear in the extensive list of Chinese external debt issues after 1861 compiled by Goetzmann and Ukhov (2005); the Hukuang loan was the largest, but three others were for amounts between $19.6 million and $22.5 million, and six more ranged from $6.5 million to $14.8 million. Just as numerous if somewhat less costly were 22 loans for war or defense, notably including a $6.5 million bond issue in 1885 to finance China’s defense against France during the 1880s. By far the largest obligations, though, were bonds to cover war indemnities imposed after China’s defeats in the 1894-5 Sino-Japanese War and the 1898-1901 Boxer Rebellion, amounting to some $100 million and $300 million, respectively.

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From: "The Bonds That Sparked the Chinese Revolution" by Michael Mahler.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Gold German Dawes Bond


This is an exquisite $1,000, 7%, Gold German Dawes Bond. Highly collectible!

Country: Germany
Years: 1924

PRICE ON REQUEST

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Friday, March 2, 2012

Texas - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Autographed Bonds

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876), often known as Santa Anna or López de Santa Anna, was a Mexican political leader, general and President who greatly influenced early Mexican and Spanish politics and government.
General Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna

He first fought against the independence from Spain, and then supported it. He rose to the ranks of general and president at various times over a turbulent 40-year career. He was President of Mexico on seven non-consecutive occasions over a period of 22 years. Santa Anna boldly signs this extremely graphic bond. It is without doubt the most impressive and ornate of all autographed stock or bonds.

This $500 bond was issued in 1866 from New York City while Santa Anna was living in exile. While he schemed to depose Emperor Maximilian, he issued these bonds in hopes of regaining power. In these attempts, he was captured and sentenced to death. Still, he was released and allowed to retire to New York and later when blind, he died in poverty and neglect. Of course, we remember him because of his success over the Texans at the Alamo and later his defeat and capture by Sam Houston at San Jacinto in 1836. Found in an old leather container in Texas, this Santa Anna signed American bond is fully issued, uncancelled, has no folds, has full margins and is in Superb condition.

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