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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 738

New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company, 100 shares of $100, preferred stock, 188(0), issued to and signed on the reverse by William C. Whitney, vignette of route map flanked by steam train and sailing ship, black with pink underprint, hole cancelled, very fine Estimate £ 80-100 William Collins Whitney (1841-1904). Financier, active in street railways. Joined with Samuel Tilden to help break the Tweed ring in New York. Appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Cleveland in 1885.

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