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Auction: 14016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 700

Kennebeck Bridge one share, [1897], no.86, issued to Edmund Bridge of Lincoln County, scrollwork at left, black, paper seal attached to upper left, second page with printed transfer dated 1828 and a further transfer on the reverse which looks to replicate that on the printed form, some remains of wax seal on the inside leaving the second page with some thinning, slight split at fold but about very fine and rare.

Company incorporated in Maine on 8th February 1796 to build a toll-bridge across the Kennebec River at Fort Western (now preserved as the oldest log fort in the US) in Hallowell, Augusta. $19,800 was subscribed in $100 shares. The bridge was completed in November 1797 at a cost of $27,000, the resulting debts meaning that no dividend could be paid for eight years.



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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200

Sale 14016 Notices
Date should read 1797