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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 740

Pennsylvania Company, $50 shares, 187(3), ornate border, green; together with another certificate, also for $50 shares, of a new design with ornate border, horses and coat of arms in centre, black, both signed by Thomas A. Scott as President, both hole cancelled just touching signatures, very fine (2) Estimate £ 60-80 Thomas Alexander Scott (1823-1881), Assistant secretary of War during the Civil War under Lincoln. President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Fought Gould´´s expansion of the Erie system and lost battle with Rockefeller over oil transportation via the Southern Improvement Company

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