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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 453

Philadelphia & Lancaster Turnpike. 1795. No.709. Intaglio engraving of a covered wagon approaching a toll road turnstile.This is the earliest known use of an engraving on a U. S. stock certificate. Embossed company seal. Printed on vellum. Signed by Wiliam Bingham. EF.

William Bingham was a Philadelphia merchant and statesman who amassed a great deal of personal wealth through trade, ad through the ownership of privateers. He was the key founder and director of the Bank of North America, the first bank in the country.

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