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Auction: 16017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 849

Henry Clews: Blue Ridge Railroad Co., a group of three 7% Guaranteed Mortgage Bonds, $1000, 1869 #859, #866 and #817, all three signed on verso, steam train, 2 with impressed revenue stamp, 1 without, cut cancelled, very fine. (3)

Henry Clews (1834-1923) was one of the largest marketers of federal bonds during the United States Civil war. He organized the "Committee of 70," which deposed the corrupt ring associated with William M. Tweed in New York City, and he served as an economic consultant to President Ulysses Grant. Towards the end of his life, he wrote one of the most famous classics about life on Wall Street entitled "Fifty Years in Wall Street".

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Estimate
£150 to £200