Auction: 324 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1449
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (New Jersey) 1906. 100 shares. Issued, cancelled. No.260. Eagle. Signed by R. J. Reynolds as President. The son of a tobacco farmer, Reynolds worked on his father's farm, went on to college, and moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina to start his own tobacco company. He quickly became one of the wealthiest citizens of North Carolina and established a monumental tobacco empire. VF+. Some of the punch cancels are moderately heavy.
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