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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 1518

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, $100 shares, 1906, No. 245, signed by R. J. Reynolds as President, eagle and shield, IC, VF+.

R. J. Reynolds was the son of a Virginian tobacco farmer. He moved to Winston-Salem where he started his own company, and employed new technologies such as electric lights and steam power. His marketing efforts soon made Camels the largest selling cigarette in the country.

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