From Nepal, 1972, 1,000 Rupees, P-21. A great note! Condition: C.U.
ado. It is common for a stock to be issued in an eastern state such as New York or Delaware, or a Midwestern state like Illinois, even though the mining company is located in Colorado. In short, it is more desirable to have the company’s place of business physically located in the state of issue.
This vignette has often been attributed wrongly to have been engraved by Paul Revere partly due to the similarity that it has with the sword in hand Massachusetts currency.
Payment Order to the Connecticut State Treasurer for “One Pound Nineteen Shillings & 6 Pence Lawful money – being in part of the Bills of Cost taxed against Thomas Bibbs & David Hillman for Counterfeiting dated at Hartford this 6th Day of March 1787. Signed at front by Geo. Pitkin and Samuel Wyllys and at back by Oliver Wolcott, Jr. and Jesse Root.
from Coventry, Connecticut. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress for Connecticut from 1778 until 1782, and sat as chief justice of the state's Supreme Court from 1796 to 1807. 
nnecticut from 1817 to 1827. Wolcott was appointed in 1784 as one of the commissioners to mediate claims between the U.S. and the state of Connecticut. After serving as state comptroller of Connecticut from 1788-90, he was named auditor of the federal treasury, and became comptroller of the Treasury in 1791.He was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by George Washington in 1795 to succeed Alexander Hamilton, but resigned in 1800 due to unpopularity, and a particularly vitriolic campaign against him in the press in which, among other things, he was falsely accused of setting fire to the State Department building.
yllys (1739 – 1823)
courts for many years, was commissioned captain in 1768, lieutenant-colonel in 1774, colonel in 1775, and commanded the 4th regiment of minute-men, with which he marched to Boston on hearing of the battles of Concord and Lexington. 
J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), Banker, connoisseur of art, son of Junius S. Morgan. Involved in his early years in a broad range of finance, his company, J. P. Morgan & Co. became one of the most powerful banking houses in the world. He engaged in several dubious pieces of business during the Civil War period, but was essentially an organizer and stabilizing force in business.
k by J. Pierpont Morgan and H. C. Fahnstock as Trustees. A large impressive vignette of a harbor scene is also at the back. Graphically beautiful both front and back. Includes nice portraits of both Morgan and Fahnstock. Any other type of stock or bond signed by Morgan will sell in the $2,000 or more range. This bond is a great value at this special price!!!
James C. Fargo was the younger brother of William Fargo, co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo Co. He became the third president of American Express after William's death in 1881. James was a co-founder along with William Fargo.
ess Co. Both sign at front of this great stock with slight cancellation affecting the W. C. Fargo signature. Great vignette of the mascot dog. Excellent condition and extremely rare with both signing.
Hardbound book with an historic profile of the European economy from 1803-1957, including important events in economic history. The four countries featured are Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, and Germany.
Railroad executive Charles Sanger Mellen's (1851-1927) early career involved New England Railroads, then the Union Pacific. His close ties with J. P. Morgan obtained him the presidency of the Northern Pacific in 1892.
y slightly cancelled signature of Mellen as President. His signature is very rare on this bond. An important autograph. Excellent condition.
William Andrews Clark, (1839-1925), merchant and mine operator. Clark worked in the Colorado and Montana Gold Mines. H e represented mining interests in Montana politics and feuded with his fellow Democrat Marcus Daly.
Moulton Mining Co. dated in the 1880s and boldly signed at front by Clark as President. This stock is slowly becoming scarce, especially with an exceptional signature. Superb blue engravings by American Bank Note Co. Stub at left border. Excellent condition.
Operating from 1889-1904 as a subsidiary of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Puget Sound and Alaska Steamship Company ran a steamship line from Tacoma servicing Puget Sound and Alaska. A number of prominent investors owned shares in the company.
Hardbound book with an historic profile of the United States economy from 1600-1972, including important events in economic history. The three main sections are land & transport facilities, transportation, and banking and finance.
James Norman Hill (1870-1932), Railway Official, first son of James Jerome Hill, famous railroad builder and President of the Great Northern Railway. Known as the "Empire Builder" James N., a Yale graduate in 1893, began his railway career as a clerk. In 1907, Hill was Vice President of the Northern Pacific Railroad as well as President of United Securities Corporation and trustee of Great Northern Iron Ore Properties.
as president and is lightly hole cancelled. Printed by American Banknote Co., NY. Rare! Stocks signed by Hill's father James J. Hill can sell for as much as $10,000! This bond is exceptional and so rich in history.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway stock. Absolutely superb graphics including great side view of 'America' locomotive and coal car. Another of an eagle.
1903 stock of a company with mines in Utah. A truly charming stock in beautiful condition. Exceptional!
1999, Delaware, uncancelled Planet Hollywood stock. 
Richmond, VA, 1864, $1,000 Bond. (Second Series) or (Third Series). With 1 row of coupons. Nice Graphics including an Equestrian Figure of Washington. Large and impressive, and in excellent condition.
certificate. Sometimes it is an unusual name that makes the title standout even more.
American Automotive Stock Certificates by Lawrence Falater is the collectors' guide with values, many full page photographs, and descriptions of North American automotive stock and bond certificates.
n’s expansion. Naturally so, men of stout hearts looked West, and so it is no surprise that the man who successfully orchestrated the Union effort in selling bonds to finance the war turned his eye toward his next great challenge, the resurrection of the Northern Pacific Railroad. 
ve change which would facilitate his grand plan for financing the construction of the road. Thus the first tracks of what would become America’s second transcontinental railroad were laid. As construction continued, rising costs necessitated the need for constantly growing amounts of capital and Jay Cooke boldly took the lead. His optimism for the costly project exceeded even his firm’s abilities to muster the financial resources to continue in the face of ever-increasing fears of failure by the banking community.
Originally incorporated in 1863 and known as the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad, the road provided the first service between Duluth and the Twin Cities upon its completion in 1870. Serving as the all-important eastern terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the road linked the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. A victim of the panic of 1873, the company defaulted on its bonds and was reorganized in 1877 as the Saint Paul and Duluth Railroad. It was absorbed by the Northern Pacific in 1900.
carriage,” a three-wheeled, steam-powered vehicle whose first test drive roused a terrible commotion in the neighborhood. He later established the basic pattern for the Detroit automobile industry.
until 1936.
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1843-1899), Financier, Philanthropist. Asst. Treasurer (1867) of New York & Harlem RR, then President from 1886 until his death. Trustee and benefactor of numerous colleges and universities in New York.
Chauncey M. Depew. The three sons include Cornelius, and Frederick, signing at back (with moderate hole cancellations). The third son, Wm. K. Vanderbilt signs at front. His signature and Depew’s are superb and untouched by the cancellation holes. Includes 5 matching portraits. Superb! One of the nicest American autographed bonds ever.
This 1949 unissued certificate was given to people who bought savings bonds. The vibrant, multicolored artwork is by the legendary Al Capp, and features his great cartoon characters and encouraging the young with key words like THRIFT, LOYALTY, TRUST, DUTY, TRUTH, etc.
Baseball fans....We have a 1998, Ohio, Cleveland Indians Common Stock certificate. Multicolored underprinting of baseball stadium. One of the nicest modern stocks I've seen and it is in mint condition.
Eliphalet Remington (1793-1861), was born in Suffield, Connecticut. He was a blacksmith and at age 23, he hand-made a revolutionary sporting rifle using a firing mechanism bought from a dealer, producing the barrel himself from scrap iron in his smithing shop
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), manufacturer and philanthropist, began his illustrious career as a bobbin boy at age 13, then became a self-taught telegrapher with the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1853-65, he introduced use of the Pullman sleeping cars, organized the military telegraph department, and was active in transporting troops during the Civil War. After leaving the railroad, he focused on iron and then the steel industry. His policy of “putting all his eggs in one basket, and then watching the basket” was extremely successful.
bonds is well known. A while back, two signed examples of this bond were sold to collectors at $125,000 per bond! Neatly stamp and hole cancelled. The graphics and cranberry red color are truly exceptional. Fresh, excellent condition. A portrait of Carnegie is included. If I had to pick the top 10 U. S. stocks or bonds of all time, this would be one of our top choices!
s the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, code-named "Little Boy," to be used in war by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the attack on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945, just before the end of World War II.
The five founders of 3M -- Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing -- financed the company to mine mineral for grinding wheel abrasives. Like many others in the early 1900s, 3M's founders incorporated first and investigated later. In the face of failure, they persevered and turned an investment into a lucrative venture.
Minnesota and Henry S. Bryan, 3M Founder and first president, and Chief of Motive Power at the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad. both sign as officers at front of this 1903 Minnesota stock.
