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Auction: 17016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 777

Globe Investment Company, Certificate 15 Shares, Boston, 1892, #399, original signatures of J. Lowell Moore as Treasurer and Allison S. Mason as President, unusual design with image of a loan-certificate issued to "John Sweet and his wife". The company dealt in western property mortgages. In 1895, investigations found that nearly $4 million had disappeared. Moore and Mason were arrested and sentenced both to several years of prison. With original newspaper cutting of the Boston-Journal 1896. Discolorations, VF.

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Estimate
£150 to £200