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Auction: 324 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1433

National Heating Company (New York) 1888. 40 shares. Issued, not cancelled. No.140. Green. Unusual graphic representation of a central station heating system using superheated water. Signed by Theodore Vail as President. Baldwin & Gleason. EF. A portrait of Vail is included. Theodore Vail was a U.S. telephone industrialist who served as the president of American Telephone & Telegraph between 1885 and 1889, and again from 1907 to 1919. Vail viewed telephone service as a public utility, and moved to consolidate telephone networks under the Bell system.

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