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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1997

Allegheny Valley RR Co (PA), $50 shs, 1862, issued to Samuel M Keir, passenger train at river port with steam and sailing ships, woman feeds chickens, man with wheat, horse, and dog, wheat below, black, unused transfer at bottom, black, light stain at left from stub, VF+. Samuel M Keir (1813-74) was the first person to refine petroleum into kerosene on a large scale, opening the first oil refinery in 1853; though financially successful, he did not patent his process, and thus missed out on making a huge fortune when the oil boom hit a few years later.

Estimate
$100 to $150