Objects of Our Affection - February 2020

Very nice stock certificate issued at Dubuque, Iowa in 1868 for 100 preferred shares. Train right to left passes outcrop. Eagle at top left. Hole cxls

Seven stock certificates in this lot. Five common stocks issued in 1857, 1858, 1860,1868 and 1869. The certificates from the 1850's are black on...

Cert. #65, 735 shares issued to and signed by John S. Kennedy. Steam engine vignette at center and allegorical figures in the top corners. John Stewar

Cert. #32, issued in 1899 for 40 shares to F.E. Walker. Signed by E.F. Potter as president and E.H Skilling as secretary. Train passing telephone pole

Chicago, Fort Madison & Des Moines Railway, 5%, $1,000 gold bond issued in 1892. Cert. #812. Man next to train tracks as train approaches. Twent...

Cert. #34, issued for one share in 1869, the railroad was chartered in 1865. Issued to Conrad and Brother and signed by J.H. Shanklin as president and

Rare common stock from this railroad, #46 issued for 10 shares in 1856. A couple of small tears in the right margin. Cox only lists a Bond certificate

Nice #1 certificate, issued at Davenport, Iowa in 1895. Female with starred Liberty cap top left looking right. Ten shares issued to Daniel A. McGugin

Minnesota, Iowa and Minnesota printed on the vignette with steam locomotive and paddlewheelers. Cert. #216, issued in 1855 for 15 shares. Issued to a

Certs. #2 and 39, both issued and cancelled. #2 has a purple line diagonally across the certificate plus line cxls. and #39 has hole cxls. Also brown

Two issued and cancelled certificates. Cert. #7, issued for 10 shares in 1856 at Dubuque, Iowa. Incorporated in Iowa. Vignette of a train running r-l

Two issued certificates from the Dubuque & Sioux City Rail Road Company, issued in 1870 and 1876. Vignette of roman style building beyond train...

$500, 7%, 1st Mortgage Bond issued in 1863. Inc. in Iowa. Cert. #427. Forty redeemed coupons affixed at the bottom. Twenty year bond matured in 1883.

Investment jacket of Matilde Lee Johnson, w/certificates, correspondence, and receipts. The Holman Locomotive and Speeding Truck Co. was incorporate

Organized in Iowa on February 12, 1881. Railroad mogul Jay Gould agreed for the Humeston and Shenandoah Railroad to be built as a joint venture with t

Four certificates. Incorp. 1867 state of Iowa started operations in 1867 and stopped service in 1888 for a total period of operations of 21 years. 1

Two certificates. 1. Cedar Rapids , Iowa Falls and Northwestern Railway Co. incorp. 1880 . #3635, U/U, $1000, 5%, First Mortgage Gold bearer bond du

The Kansas City, Wyandotte and Northwestern Railway started operations in 1885 and stopped service in 1887 for a total period of operations of 2 years

Butler County Railroad Bond aid to Kansas & Nebraska Railway Co. (chartered 1876). #139 of 200 issued, U/U, $1000, 7%, 30 year bond dateli...

Topeka, Kansas on the masthead with what looks like the capital building. Cert. #7, issued for 1 share to J.R. Mulvane and signed by T.W. Harrison as