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Great Western Telegraph Company Stock Certificate (126237)

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Great Western Telegraph Company Stock Certificate  (126237)
SOLD
130.00USDto i***y+ buyer's premium (32.50)
This item SOLD at 2020 Dec 17 @ 18:17UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Rare. No. 298, issued for 10 shares to L.N. Barker on April 11th, 1870 in Chicago. Signed by president D.A. Gage and secretary Josiah Snow. Not cancelled. Black border and print, green seal. Two vignettes: locomotive (top center) and Native Americans (left border). Printed by Van Kleeck, Clark & Co., NY. 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp attached on the bottom right. Folds with large tape repairs, soiling and foxing. 8 x 10.25" According to the Postal Telegraph Pamphlets, 1868, the Great Western Telegraph Co. had telegraph lines from Chicago to Milwaukee.

Date: 1870
Country (if not USA):
State: Illinois
City: Chicago
Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

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