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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 3415

Commercial Cable Co, Interim bond certificates, $500-270,000, amounts written in, 1897, signed by George G Ward as vice president and most issued to him as agent, map of transatlantic cables, corporate globe logo, all blue, stubs reattached left, edge wear to a few, but generally VF+. George G Ward (1844-1922) helped the Mackay-Bennett system break the monopoly of the Anglo-American Telegraph Co, and also helped lay the first trans-pacific cable. [29]

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$300