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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 1324

Northern Pacific Railroad Co., a group of certificates with interesting signatures, dating from 1877 to 1891, issued to and signed by; Benjamin Brewster, General Brayton Ives, and Jules S. Bache, vignette of steam train, Frederick Billings at bottom, all punch cancelled, pin holes in a couple, otherwise GVF (3)

Benjamin Brewster (1816-1888), US Attorney General and an original partner in the Standard Oil Trust with Rockefeller.
Frederick Billings (1823-1890), Lawyer and financier who reorganised the Northern Pacific Railroad after it's failure in 1873.
William A. Rockefeller Jr. (1841-1922), businessman who founded the Standard Oil Trust with his brother J. D. Rockefeller and others.
General Brayton Ives (1840-1914), banker and stockbroker following the civil war, became president of the New York Stock Exchange, and the Northern Pacific Railroad from 1893-1896.
Jules S. Bache (1861-1944), a stockbroker who owned J. S. Bache & Co., one of the most successful brokerage houses in the US.

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$110