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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2250

New Orleans, Mobile & Texas RR (AL-LA-MS) 1873. #1570. $1000. Cu. Green 1000 underprint, embossed purple seal. Train on steel truss bridge passes over boys fishing, and others sailing. Locomotive below. Signed by Oliver Ames 2nd as trustee. The Ames family manufactured shovels, and prospered greatly during the War Between the States. After the hostilities ended they became involved in the railroad construction business, and played an intimate and controversial part in the building of the transcontinental railroad. Credit Mobilier was the construction company utilized by the Union Pacific, and assertions were made that key members of Congress were influenced through gifts of stock. Henry Seibert & Bros. Some of the paper seal is missing, otherwise VF+. Much scarcer than the variety with the imprinted revenue. stamp.

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