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Auction: 1007 - Bond & Shares of The World
Lot: 635

Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad Co., sinking fund convertible bond, $1000, 1867, no.746, signed by Morris K. Jesup as President, steam train passes large house, further vignette at bottom right, black, red underprint ´$1000´, impressed revenue stamps, with coupons, hole cancellations, 2 of which pass through signature, good very fine. Estimate £ 50 Morris K. Jesup (1830-1908), capitalist and philantropist. Made his fortune in banking in New York and retired in 1884. Major benefactor of the American Museum of Natural History.

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