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Auction: 21140 - The Kirk Collection of World Bonds & Share Certificates e-Auction
Lot: 286

U.S.A.: Meigs Elevated Railway Construction Co., First Mortgage 6% bond, $500, 1887, #5, signed by Benjamin Butler as President, vignette of monorail railway, black and red, with coupons. Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-1893), notorious Union General, known as 'the beast' by his enemies for his rough administration of New Orleans in 1862. Governor of Massachusetts, 1882-1884. GVF and scarce..

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