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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2445

Wilmington and Northern RR Co (DE), $50 shs, 1881-89, all signed by Henry A Du Pont as president, ships in harbor and dry dock, black, pen cancels through signatures, punch canceled seals, stubs reattached, VF. As a young officer in the Civil War, Henry A du Pont (1838-1926) earned the Medal of Honor at the Battle of Cedar Creek; he would later be a US Senator, and his home, the Winterthur estate near Wilmington, is now a fine museum. [30]

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