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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1687

Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster RR Co (PA), 26 $50 shs, 1874, #5430, a delightful, heavily illustrated stock: allegorical women before city, Wm Penn, Ben Franklin, locomotives, man with dog, milk maid, eagles, PA state arms, sharp embossed seal of carriage car, punch cancels affect signature, VF+. John Edgar Thomson (1808-74) took control of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1852 and turned it into the nation´s largest road - and largest company; his business model as well as his technical progressivism became the era´s gold standard.

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$170