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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 1116

Delaware & Raritan Canal Company & Camden & Amboy Rail Road and Transportation Company (NJ), Camden, $100 shares, 1834, No. 213, signed by Robert L. Stevens as President, steamboat, canal barge, train, IU, VF+ details, a "shadow" reversed image across the center, as the result of being folded and left that way for decades.

Prominent New Jersey steamboat and railroad pioneer. In 1808 Stevens helped his father design and construct the Phoenix, the first ocean going steamboat. In 1831 he was the engineer aboard the John Bull, the first railroad locomotive to successful operate in New Jersey.

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