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Auction: 21143 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 511

U.S.A.: Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road, one share, 179[5], #512, signed by William Bingham as President, attractive vignette of covered wagon approching toll gates, black printing, on vellum, trifolded. The earliest known American certificate printed on vellum. William Bingham, 1752 - 1804, a politician who became delegate to the Continental Congress, 1786 - 1788 and served as a State Senator from 1795 to 1801. He was considered one of the richest men in Pennsylvania making much of his money from ownership of privateers and general trading. GVF and clean.

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