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Signed By Russell Sage As President

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Signed By Russell Sage As President
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1867, New York. Certificate for 10 Shares of Scrip Preferred Stock&#34 of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company. Green. Vignette at top center of a female allegorical figure with a train scene to her right and a shipping scene to her left. Litho. Twenty five cent attached revenue stamp at top left. Signed as vice-president of the company by RUSSELL SAGE (1816 -1906). Banker; financier; congressman. As the originator of &#34put and call options&#34, Sage greatly changed the way speculators played the stock market. Among America&#39s most powerful and wealthy bankers, he financed Jay Gould and made a vast fortune on the latter&#39s stock manipulations. &#34Sage was one of the shrewdest and most conservative of all great financiers.&#34 (DAB) At one time he is said to have had $27,000,000 out on call loans. At the time of his death he left a fortune worth an estimated $70,000,000. Stamp and punch cancellations not affecting signature. Extremely Fine.