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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 1363

Consolidated Railway Telegraph Company, (NY) $100 shares, 1887, No. 54, brown frame, majestic semi-nude allegorical woman with patriotic shield, train and telegraph wires, hand holds lightning below, IU, VF details, repaired tears, but where would you find another?

One of the inventions Thomas Edison was working on at the time this certificte was issued was a system to communicate with moving trains, and this company attempted to capitalize on that invention.

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$85