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Sale 79
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Lot 255 |
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Dow, Charles H (1851-1902) American journalist who co-founded Dow Jones & Company. Document signed twice as trustee, being a $500 Amity Canal, Reservoir & Improvement Co. bond bearing 6% interest, issued in Colorado April, 1891, 17 x 14". With 16 coupons attached. Fine.
Estimated Value $200 - 250.
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$132 |
Lot 256 |
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Farnam, Henry (1803-1883) American philanthropist and railroad president. In 1850 he partnered with Joseph E. Sheffield to build the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. In 1854 he became that railroad's president, an office he held until his retirement in 1863. Document signed as president of the railroad, being an unissued stock certificate for the Chicago Rock Island Rail Road Company, Certificate No, 690, c. 1854, 5 x 8", a small vignette of a passenger train at top center margin. Small cancellation holes barely touch the signature. Overall very good.
Estimated Value $50 - 100.
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Lot 257 |
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Field, Cyrus W. and Cyrus H. McCormick. Field (1819-92) was an American financier noted for the success of the first transatlantic cable in 1858. Letter signed, 1p, 8 x 5", New York, Dec. 24, 1881. To Henry C. Bowen regarding information Bowen had provided about the railways between New York and Boston, and asking "who are the parties interested in the enterprise you speak of."
McCormick (1809-84) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company. Check signed ("C.H. McCormick") on Importers & Traders' Bank, New York, June 22, 1869, for $22.60 for passage to Chicago. Small paper loss at top blank edge, else both items fine.
Estimated Value $400 - 600.
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Lot 258 |
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Huntington, Colis Potter (1821-1900) One of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who built the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.
Letter signed ("C.P. Huntington"), 1p, 11 x 8¼", New York, Jan. 19, 1886, to A.C. Hutchinson in New Orleans. In part, "…Mr. Hillhouse wrote to me about the Louisiana Central and mentioned that he thought you were opposed to building the road and as you wrote to me about the same and expressed about the same views I thought nothing further of the matter - but I can assure you there was nothing in the correspondence detrimental to yourself or to anyone else…." Fine.
Estimated Value $250 - 350.
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$185 |
Lot 259 |
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Kroc, Ray A (1902-84) Founder and chairman of McDonalds Corporation; he became associated with McDonald's in the 1950s and bought the company in 1961, building it by the time of his death into the most successful fast-fool operation in the world. Large signature above a drawing of a hamburger, with his title below. All in red marker on 6¾ x 7¾" yellow paper.
Estimated Value $150 - 200.
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$197 |
Lot 260 |
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[Seven Business Tycoons] Bezos, Branson, Cuban, Gates, Jobs, Walton, & Getty. Dollar bill signed by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon; Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, Mark Cuban, internet entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks; Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft; Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple; Sam Walton, founder of Walmart; and J. Paul Getty, founder of the Getty Oil Company. Getty added "1967" after his signature and Sam Walton added "Best Wishes." That's a lot of brain power on one dollar bill! Fine.
Estimated Value $500 - 750.
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$2,640 |
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