Auction Date:2013 Feb 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Ornate partly-printed DS, signed “S. L. Clemens,” one page both sides, 10.75 x 7, January 16, 1884. Stock certificate for 22 shares of The Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company issued to Clemens. Signed at the bottom by President C. L. Langdon, and signed on the reverse by Clemens, transferring the stock to William D. Kelly. Several vertical folds, some mild light toning, and the receipt affixed to left edge, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by two thick ledgers of issued stock certificates.
Clemens was one of a number of ‘newly moneyed’ men urged to invest in the company by William K. Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt II. The brothers hoped that the coal would wind up in the locomotives of their Beech Creek Railroad, which stretched from the Jersey Shore into the heart of Pennsylvania coal country. Certainly helping to convince Clemens of the investment was his relationship with the company’s president, his brother-in-law, C. L. Langdon. Kelly, the man Clemens transferred this stock to, was Langdon’s longtime business associate. A couple years later, Clemens’s investments would fail, necessitating a series of lecture tours in order to meet his expenses.
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