Objects of Our Affection - February 2020

Four Certificates. Incorp. The Norwich and Worcester Railroad was an 1837 consolidation of the Boston, Norwich and New London Railroad Company of Con

Delaware & Eastern Railway Co. 1st Mortgage $1,000 Bond issued in 1907. 5%, fifty year bond matured in 1957. 65 coupons stapled to the bond. Rus...

Nice printer's proof from The Delaware Rail Road Company. Proof is dated 1859, with written instructions to the printer to print 500 copies of t...

Variety not listed in Cox. Corporate seal is stamped 1852 for the year of incorporation. Issued for 6 shares in 1890. Stamp and hole cxled. Exchanged

Two certificates. In 1857, the Junction & Breakwater Railroad (J&B ) was chartered to build from a connection with the Delaware Railroad a...

#616, issued for 4 shares to Thomas Biddle & Co. Office of the Railroad Company, issuee. Both signatures torn off to cancel (paper torn off in ...

Stock certificate issued for 3 shares in 1857. Crude train vignette at the top. Black on blue. Uncancelled. Unlisted in Cox. Likely unknown. 2-3) Bond

Cert. #34, issued for 20 shares at Chicago in 1887. Shares were $100 Each. Blakely-Marsh Printing Co., Chicago. The company was incorporated to manuf

Multiple formats and dates. Includes: Fancy certificates (2) issued in 1918 and 1938 with vignettes circling the entire certificate. Both green, under

This lot contains three signature pieces, 2 common stocks and one bond. 1) 10 shares issued in 1852, signed by John B. Jervis as president. Jervis was

Nice group of seven certificates. Lot includes: Chicago & Ohio River Railroad Co., 1886, 13 shares, train at bottom, Unc. ABN, N.Y.; Chicago &am...

Four Railroad Stock Certificates. All are I/C, no seal, vignette top allegorical female resting on two circles: left train passing under bridge, rig

The Joliet and Chicago Railroad was chartered February 15, 1855 and opened in 1856, continuing north and northeast from Joliet to downtown Chicago.

This is a nice one. Inc. in Illinois. Issued for 1 share in 1862 at Chicago to Willard Gibson and signed by G.L. Howard, president. On the header it s

Cert. #4858, issued in 1880 for 10 shares. Two trains passing in the foreground, with a farm scene and a river behind. One train is marked, Mobile &...

This certificate was issued for 36% (12,991.5) of the total authorized shares to Clark (Senator from Montana and mining and railroad executive) and Ha

Cert. #151, issued in 1862. Train runs left to right. Black and pink. $1,000 Pfd. 1st Mtg. Sinking Fund bond. 15 year, 7%. Lady Indian lower left and

Nice group of five from this railroad. Stock issued in 1868. Train runs right to left. Revenue stamp top right. Stamp cxled. Henry Siebert, N.Y. Also

Common stock cert. #85, issued for 200 shares to P.L. Cable of Rock Island, Illinois in 1873. Signed by the co. officers. Train exiting tunnel going l

1-4) Four common stock certificates issued in the 1930's. An orange, 100 share common stock along with a brown, 100 share preferred. Then a gree...