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Auction: 1007 - Bond & Shares of The World
Lot: 656

American Express Company, $100 shares, New York 185(7), signed by John Butterfield as Vice President, William Fargo as Secretary and Alexander Holland as Treasurer, capital 7,500 shares, vignette of speeding train, black, overall discolouration, small chip from left edge, about very fine; together with American Merchants Union Express Co., $100 shares, 186(9), handsigned by William Fargo as President, wagon at dockside, dogs head at top left, imprinted revenue stamp, black, single hole cancel and stamped cancelled, very fine; other certificates (24) including from the U.S.A., Confederate States, Russia, Egypt and Greece, many are very fine. (26) Estimate £ 350

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£300