2003 St. Louis, MO (CAA) Signature Sale - Session 1

Blodget Canal Company (New Hampshire) A certificate for one share dated February, 1799 and signed as President by Samuel Blodget. Blodget was a mercha

Coshecton and Great Bend Turnpike Company (Pennsylvania) One share from 1809. A printed portion at the left side of the certificate details "Ru...

State of Ohio Canal Stock A 1845 $4000 bond bearing 6% interest. Multiple vignettes depicting an eagle and allegorical figures. Diamond shaped hole ca

Philadelphia and West Chester Turnpike Company (Pennsylvania) Dated 1853 for 140 shares. Black on light blue paper. A nice vignette of a large Conesto

Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pennsylvania) A 1795 certificate for one share signed by William Bingham as President and Tench Francis as Secret

Boyleston Market Association (Massachusetts)A one share certificate dated 1863 in this public market center originally incorporated in 1809. There is

Compagnie de Colonisation Americaine (Paris, France) A 1820 dated one share certificate for 100 acres. Printed in France. A large certificate in black

Pennsylvania Hospital Subscription Certificate - August 23, 1754 A partly printed document signed Daniel Etter regarding Etter's financing of th...

Titanic Autographed Prints A group of five color prints, all identical, of the Titanic, which struck an iceberg on the night of April 15, 1912 on its

August A. Busch - St. Louis Refrigerating and Cold Storage Company (Missouri) A 1930 certificate for nine shares in brown and black issued to "...

Henry Dearborn - Republican Institution (Massachusetts) A 1821 issued certificate for one share in "A Republican Institution in the Town of Bos...

Oakes Ames - Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Rail Road Company (Iowa) A 1868 dated certificate in purple for 240 shares. Lithographed with multiple vi

Oliver Ames - Boston, Newport and New York Steamboat Company (Massachusetts) A certificate for two shares. Black. Lithographed. Signed by Oliver Ames

George T. Baker - National Airlines (Florida) A 1939 dated certificate in green and black signed as President by commercial aviation pioneer George T.

L.L. Bean - Pam American Airways Corporation (Delaware) A 1937 dated certificate in orange and black for 40 shares issued to and signed by Leon L. Bea

Alexander Graham Bell Letter to Annie Sullivan, Teacher of Helen Keller Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was also an educator of

Henry Blackwell - The Proprietors of the Woman's Journal (Massachusetts) This one share certificate was issued in 1870 to Isaac Ames and is sign...

David Dunbar Buick - Buick Oil Company (California) This certificate for 20 shares is dated 1912 and signed as company President by David Dunbar Buick

Zebulon Butler Signed Certification of Military Service This signed document, measuring 6 3/4" x 8 1/4" is dated October 10, 1782 and is a...

Benjamin F. Butler- Georgia-Alabama Investment and Development Company (Georgia) A brown and black certificate for five shares issued in 1891 and sign

William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody - Cody's Wyoming Coal Company (Wyoming) This 1904 certificate for 25 shares is issued to and signed twi...

Charles Crocker - Central Pacific Rail Road (California) A scarce legal size deed in four pages signed on page 2 by Charles Crocker. He was one of the

Fernando de Medici - Document signed March 6, 1602De Medici was a significant figure in Italian and European history, holding office in the Church as

Don Sosimo de Medici II - Document signed March 20, 1608Don Sosimi de Medici II ascended to the throne upon his father's death in 1609. After a ...

Walt Disney - Walt Disney Incorporated (California) This 50 share certificate is issued to and signed on the stub Walter E. Disney. There is a litho v

Samuel Du Pont De Nemours - Bank Territorial A 1812 certificate for one share signed as Administrative Director by Samuel Du Pont De Nemours. Dupont w

Henry A. DuPont - Wilmington and Northern Railroad (Delaware) An especially attractive and intricate $500 bond signed as President by Henry A. DuPont.

James Buchanan Duke - Piedmont and Northern Railway Company Bond (South Carolina)A $50,000 5% bond dated 1919 in orange and black issued to and signed

George Eastman- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company (New York) A 1899 dated $5000 bond in blue and black bearing 4% interest. The cer...

Thomas Edison - Land Conveyance - Edison Lamp Company to Edison General Electric CompanyThomas Edison, in addition to being a prolific inventor and sc

Oliver Ellsworth - Revolutionary War Pay Order This pay order is signed by future Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth in his earlier capacity

James Fargo - Merchants Despatch Company (New York) This 50 share certificate in brown and red bears an imprinted revenue stamp and is signed by James

James C. Fargo - Merchants Despatch Transportation Company (New York) A lithographed certificate for 143 shares. Black/white. Issued to and signed as

William Fargo - John Butterfield - Alex Holland American Express Company (New York) This 1859 certificate for 20 shares is signed as President by John

Charles E. Fenner - Pan American Airways Corporation (Delaware) A 1943 certificate for 100 shares issued to and signed on the verso by Charles E. Fenn

Marshall Field - Chicago Terminal Transfer Rail Road Company (Illinois) A 1898 certificate for 100 shares. Issued to and signed on the verso by Marsha

Millard Fillmore - Hudson and Berkshire Railroad (New York) A 1848 dated bond issued by the Hudson and Berkshire Railway and signed as Comptroller by

John C. Fremont - Southern Trans-Continental Railroad (Texas) A $1000 debt certificate payable as imprinted to John C. Fremont and signed by him on th

Henry Clay Frick - Chartiers Railway Company (Pennsylvania) A 1885 dated certificate for 76 shares issued to and signed on the verso by Henry Clay Fri

Albert Gallatin - Treasury LetterDated May 15, 1809 to David Gelston, this 8" x 10" document reads:"I am advised by Thomas Cooke, Jr....

George Getty - Oklahoma Oil Corporation (Arizona) A 100 share certificate dated 1921 signed by George Getty of the famous oil development family. Vign

J. Paul Getty - Oklahoma Oil Corporation A 50 share certificate signed as President by J. Paul Getty, the famous oil executive. There is an archival t

Stephen Girard Signed Promissory Note This note, dated June 1, 1831 is made by William Carman, pledging to pay Stephen Girard $437.12 within six month

Samuel Goldwyn - United Artists (California) A significant artifact of American entertainment industry history, this certificate was issued in 1925 fo

Charles Goodyear Signed Check Issued to and Endorsed by Asa Whitney This May 25, 1860 check in the amount of $16.00 is drawn on the Bank of the Metrop

Jay Gould - Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway (Texas) This 100 share certificate was issued in 1880 to Jay Gould and is signed by him twice, as Presi

Norvin Green - New Orleans & Ohio Telegraph Lessees (Kentucky) A 10 share certificate issued to and signed as President by Norvin Green. Green w...

Edward H. Harriman - Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Company A 1901 certificate for 100 shares issued to and signed on the verso by Edward H. Harri

George Huntington Hartford - Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (New Jersey) A 100 share certificate for preferred stock issued in 1905 and signed

Horatio Hathaway - Hathaway Manufacturing Company (Massachusetts) This 1926 certificate for nine shares is engraved in green and black and signed as P

Collis P. Huntington - Chesapeake, Ohio and Southern RR Co. (Ohio) A 1894 dated certificate signed at the bottom right by Collis P. Huntington as Pres

Samuel Insull - Louisville and Southern Indiana Traction Company (Indiana) This 13 share certificate in black with a rose overprint is signed as Presi

Marshall Jewell - Connecticut Telephone Company (Connecticut) A thirty share certificate issued in 1882 and signed as President by Marshall Jewell. Th

Kaiser-Frazer Corporation (Nevada) A 1947 certificate for 300 shares in maroon and black. This certificate is issued to company founders Henry J. Kais

Iver Krueger - Gronlandet Sodra (Sweden) A 1920 certificate for 100 Kroner in brown and black. Litho with one page of coupons. This certificate is sig

Abraham Lincoln - Presidential Pardon This Presidential Pardon was signed on May 25, 1863 and bears the signature of both Abraham Lincoln as President

Robert Todd Lincoln - Pullman Company Fractional Scrip (New York) This green certificate for $20 is signed as company President by Robert Todd Lincoln

Jack London - Signed Check London was a famed author who published roughly 50 volumes of short stories, novels, plays and essays. His best known works

Allan Loughead - Lockheed Aircraft Company (Nevada) A 1929 dated certificate for 100 shares. Green. Signed as President by Allan Loughead. Lockheed wa

Confederate General William Mahone - Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Rail Road Company (Virginia) A certificate for three shares issued in 1872 and...

George McClellan - Grand Belt Copper Company (New York) A 1885 dated certificate for 100 shares signed as company President by George McClellan, short

James S. McDonell - Pan American Airways Corporation (Delaware) A certificate for four shares in orange issued in 1933 to James S. McDonell, the found

Thomas McKean, Signer of the Declaration of Independence Signs a Pay Order for a Presidential Elector Offered here is a pay order dated at Harrisburgh

Andrew Mellon - Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company (Pennsylvania) A 1917 certificate in green and black issued to and sign

Andrew Mellon - Dividend Check A $320 check issued to A.W. Mellon by the Chartiers Railway Company as his dividend payment for 160 shares of stock. Me

Samuel Meredith - Check A manuscript check in the hand of and signed by Samuel Meredith. Meredith was a General in the Continental Army during the Rev

D.O. Mills - Mergenthaler Linotype Company (New York) This attractive certificate with a wonderfully elaborate layout in green and black was issued in

J. Pierpont Morgan - New Jersey Junction Railroad (New Jersey)An exceptionally attractive $1,000 First Mortgage Bond signed on the verso by J. Pierpon

Robert Morris and John Nicholson Petition to be Released from Debtors' Prison This historically significant document embodies one of the great i...

Napoleon Bonaparte - Military Orders Dated June 17, 1811. It reads in part, "...Order the first and second battalions of the Italian infantry t...

Ransom E. Olds - Reo Motor Car Company (Michigan) This olive and black certificate for five shares portrays the Reo logo as the central theme vignette

Frederick Pabst - Phillip Best Brewing Company (Wisconsin) A 1873 dated certificate for one share issued to and signed on the verso by Frederick Pabst

William Paine - Lake Copper Company (Michigan) A 1927 certificate in green and black for 50 shares. There is an engraved vignette of a seated female f

William S. Paley - Pan American Airways Corporation (Delaware) A green/black certificate for 100 shares issued to and signed on an accompanying stock

Pawnee Bill - Gordon W. Lillie - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show This check dated July 22, 1909 in the amount of $30,229.17 is in the hand of and ...

Henry Phipps - United States Steel Corporation A $5,000 gold bond issued to and signed on the verso by Henry Phipps. Phipps was a neighbor and childho

Mary Pickford - United Artists (Maryland)This 1956 certificate in brown and black for 100 shares in United Artists is issued to and signed on an accom

George W. Pullman - Pullman Southern Car Company (Kentucky) Brown/black $500 bond bearing 6% interest dated 1876. Signed at bottom right as President

Stanley Resor - Irving Trust Company (New York) A 1933 certificate for 100 shares in orange and black issued to and signed on a separate Assignment Ce

John D. Rockefeller - Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Company (Illinois) A 100 share certificate issued in 1898 to John D. Rockefeller and signed b

William Rockefeller - Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail Road Company (Illinois and Iowa) A 1877 dated $5000 bond in black and brown. Issued to and

John D. Rockefeller - Standard Oil Trust (New York) A 500 share certificate from 1883 issued to and signed on the verso by Darius O. Mills. Mills was

Washington A. Roebling - United New Jersey Rail Road and Canal Company (New Jersey) A 1894 certificate for 50 shares issued to and signed on the verso

Russell Sage - Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company Printed in green and issued in 1868 to Russell Sage, who signs on the verso, this certificate ha

Andrew Saks - Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad Company (Oklahoma) A 1901 certificate for 100 shares issued to and signed on the verso by Andrew...

Solomon Southwick - Early Printer Southwick was a Colonial era printer who printed copies of the Declaration of Independence to circulate in the towns

Claus Spreckels - San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company (California) A 1895 dated certificate in green and black with an orange overpri

Leland Stanford Signed Check Leland Stanford signs this check for $100 dated June 14, 1872 and payable to himself. There is a light bank cut cancel ma

Robert L. Stevens - Joint Stock of the Delaware & Raritan Canal Company & the Camden and Amboy Rail Road Company A 1853 certificate in black...

Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story Signed Check This check, drawn on the Bank of the United States, is made for $36.71 on October 23, 1839 and is clea

Adolph Sutro - Sutro Tunnel Company (New York) This 1868 dated certificate is signed as Agent by Adolph Sutro. Sutro formed the company to construct a

Cornelius Vanderbilt - Cut Signature"Commodore" Vanderbilt was a steamship and railroad promoter who ranks even today as one of the great ...

William H. Vanderbuilt - New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company (New York) An unissued certificate signed as President by William Vanderbu

Sir Henry Vane - Early Colonial Governor Document dated April 1, 1648. Sir Henry Vane was a leading minister under James I and Charles I. His early sy

Hiram Walker - Minong Copper Company (Michigan) This 100 share certificate in the Minong Copper Company is signed as President by Hiram Walker. Mr. Wa

George Washington's Life Guard - Pay Documents A highly interesting group of three Revolutionary War pay documents. Two are dated March 18, 1783...

Thomas J. Watson - Irving Trust Company This 1932 dated certificate for 100 shares of Irving Trust Company stock was issued to Thomas J. Watson, the i

Daniel Webster - Promissory Note A one page Promissory Note signed April 13, 1842 reading in part, "Sixty days after date, pay to my order in N...

Stanford White - Nissequougue Trout Club (New York) A $100 bond litho in green and black and signed as President by Stanford White, the well known arc

Oliver Wolcott, Signer of the Declaration of Independence Signs a Document This one page document from August of 1780 is an order to the State of Conn