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Auction: 21144 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 535

(x) U.S.A.: Greaves Run & Reedy Creek OIl Co., Pa, $100 share, Washington, Pa 1865, #5, black, adhesive revenue stamp. Signed by James B Ruple (1812 - 1901), general in the Pennsylvania National Guard. The certificate has unusual wording in that the $100 share was 'embracing 1125 acres of land in fee simple in the Kanahwa Oil Region upon which the proprietors agree to sink a well... to a depth of 600 feet' etc. GVF and scarce.

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