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Auction: 316 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 629

Mohawk & Hudson RR (NY) 1839. Transfer form for 200 shs. Signed by August Belmont. Uncirculated. Scarce. August Belmont (1816-1890) was a banker and land proprietor. At fourteen, he was employed as an errand boy in the banking house of the Rothschild´s at Frankfort, and became their clerk in the branch at Naples three years later and eventually taking charge. At the age of twenty-one, Belmont arrived in New York as the agent of the Rothschilds.

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