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The World's Columbian Expostion Stock Certificate

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / World's Fair Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 600.00 USD
The World's Columbian Expostion Stock Certificate
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Beautifully engraved stock certificate, no. A7459 issued to Wm. Hasseltine for one share at ten dollars of Capital Stock. This was printed by the Western Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of a majestic allegorical woman flying over a city with buildings and trains in the background. There is also a beautiful underprint of the Exposition. It is hand signed by the president, H. N. Higinbotham and secretary, H Edmonds. The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as The Chicago World's Fair) was a World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The iconic centerpiece of the Fair, the large water pool, represented the long voyage Columbus took to the New World. The Chicago Columbian Exposition was, in large part, designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted. It was the prototype of what Burnham and his colleagues thought a city should be. It was designed to follow Beaux Arts principles of design, namely French neoclassical architecture principles based on symmetry, balance, and splendor. Framed, 11.25" x 15.25".

City: Chicago
State: Illinois
Date: 1893
HWAC#: : 32143