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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 1172

Michigan Central Railroad, 8% bond for $500, 1854, #639, together with Chicago, Burlington and Northern Railroad Co., certificate for 100 shares, 188[8], #5962, both items signed by John Murray Forbes, as President and Treasurer respectively, both decorative with steam train at top, black, and black and green, punch cancelled, GVF. (2)

John Murray Forbes (1813-1889), US Railroad executive and financier, involved in completing the Michigan Central Railroad, of which he became president in the 1850's.

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