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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 736

x New York and Harlem Rail Road Company (NY), $50 shares, 187(3), signed by William H. Vanderbilt as President, steam train at top, allegorical figures and dog´s head at left, black, imprinted 25 cent revenue stamp, hole cancelled, with several over signatures, tiny ink burn at left edge, very fine and scarce Estimate £ 120-150 William Henry Vanderbilt (1821-1885), son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Started his career in Wall Street but ill health took him back to Staten Island. Acquired management of the Staten Island Rail-Road Company and his father appointed him vice-president of the Harlem-Line. William took control of the family empire on the death of his father in 1877

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