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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 1550

Ashley's Bromine and Arsenic Spring Company, (TN), Bristol, $100 shares, 1889, No. 2, issued to and signed by A. D. Reynolds, green frame, green underprint, fountain, IU, EF.

A.D. Reynolds was a successful tobacco farmer in Bristol, Tennessee. He was the father of Richard Samuel (R.S.) Reynolds, Sr., founder of the Reynolds Metals Co., and the inventor of Reynolds Wrap. A.D. was also the older brother of Richard Joshua (R.J.) who, along with another brother William Neal and their bookkeeper, Henry Roan, founded the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

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