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Auction: 314 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1095

Edison, Thomas A. American inventor (1847-1931); improver of some of modern life´s most ubiquitous gadgets, including the phonograph, light bulb, electric generator, storage battery, and motion picture theater. Autograph Letter Signed "T.A. Edison," 1 page, May 9, n.y. on Laboratory letterhead concerning purchase of 197 Acres of land on the Dunderberg Mountain near Peekskill from Thos. Nelson "...when the deed is all right and all safeguards are taken you can telephone me for the money." In pencil at bottom of letter in another hand "Nelson is in the Bryant Bldg." Light fold lines and ink spot in the penciled note. VF.

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