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Auction: 15019 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 627

(x) United States of America: International Mercantile Marine Co., common stock trust certificate for 10 shares, 19[02], no.B1387, issued to John S. Ismay and signed by him on the reverse, signed 'J.P.Morgan & Co.' as the trustees, 4 funnel steamship at top with tugboats, steel blue, endorsement over top half of the vignette, stamped and hole cancelled, very fine.

It is probable that John Ismay was the younger brother of Thomas Henry Ismay, owner of the White Star line of Titanic fame. Therefore uncle to J. Bruce Ismay, one of the trustees to this issue, and a survicor of the Titanic's maiden voyage in 1912. Little information is available about John.

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