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Auction: SW1008 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 506

The Merchants National Bank / Jack London. Check $ 35, 3. January 1911. Nr. 168. John Griffith "Jack" London (1876–1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity. He made a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of ''The Call of the Wild'' and ''White Fang'', both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories ''To Build a Fire'', ''An Odyssey of the North'', and ''Love of Life''. EF.

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SFr300 to SFr500