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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2732

Yonkers & New York Fire Insurance Co (NY), $100 shs, 1871, steam and sail ships, great side vignette of firemen rushing through streets on engine, black with red underprint, folds, some toning from revenue stamps, generally about VF+. The Yonkers & New York had been founded in 1863, but like many of its competitors it could never prepare itself for the volume of claims created by the Great Chicago Fire of October 1871, and the company soon thereafter went into receivership. [4]

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