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Auction: 21140 - The Kirk Collection of World Bonds & Share Certificates e-Auction
Lot: 287

U.S.A.: New Jersey Junction Railroad Co., 4% first mortgage bond, $1000, 1886, #474, signed on the reverse by J. Pierpont Morgan as trustee, guaranteed by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Co., vignette of shipping, brown and black, with coupons, perforated cancelled. John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913). Banker and philanthropist. Entered banking industry with his father's firm in 1856. Created his own company, J.P.Morgan & Co. by the turn of the century to become one of the most powerful in the world. Created United States Steel in 1901 and International Mercantile Marine a year later. A stabilising factor in the financial panic of 1907. EF.

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