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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 1215

North Missouri Rail Road, (MO), Jefferson, $1000 Thirty Year State Bond, 6% stock, 18[58], No. 3758, blue 1000, spectacular full-width vignette of the St. Louis riverfront, 2 ¾" high and 14" wide, extends across the entire top of the bond, with a mile-long string of steamboats nestled against the shore. A similar vignette shows what appears to be East St. Louis, extending across the entire bottom. An Indian family and a boiler maker and train flank the text. Full text of the Act that authorized these bonds is on the back. Signed by Robert M. Stewart (1815-1871), railroad president and Governor of Missouri. Opponents charged him with using his railroad influence to gain votes in the election. Stewart was drawn into the problems of "bleeding Kansas" and the Missouri secessionist issue. Issued to complete the North Missouri Railroad in 1858. VF, with a piece out of the magin at the bottom, left, and some fold splits. Still one of the nicest of perhaps four known to this cataloger.

EX R. M. Smythe Lot 2345, Strasburg 2/8/2003.

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