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Newmarket & Sperryville Turnpike Company Stock Certificate [134130]

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Newmarket & Sperryville Turnpike Company Stock Certificate  [134130]
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100.00USDto R**********0+ buyer's premium (22.00)
This item SOLD at 2021 May 13 @ 13:32UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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This is the first issued example we could find for this company. Vignettes of Martha and George Washington! No. 145, issued for one share to Jacob Hohler on Nov. 22nd, 1853. Signed by president NW Yager and treasurer Wm. Smith. Not cancelled. Not endorsed on the reverse. Black border and print, four vignettes: Washington portraits (left and right), allegorical scene (top center) and Calistoga wagon (bottom left). Printed by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New York. 5.75 x 8.5" Folds, toning. Incorporated in 1848. From Luray, the New Market and Sperryville Turnpike (US 211 east) crossed Thornton's Gap to Sperryville, where roads branched northeast to Warrenton and southeast to Culpeper Courthouse. Heading west from Luray, the turnpike crossed Massanutten Mountain to New Market, from where it continued (VA 211 and 259) to Brock's Gap in Little North Mountain. The Luray Road (US 340) continued south to Waynesboro via Shenandoah, Elkton, and Port Republic.

Date: 1853
Country (if not USA):
State: Virginia
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Provenance: Ken Prag Collection