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Auction: 319 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the Americas
Lot: 3145

Stanley Aerial Navigation Co. (CA), $1 shares, San Francisco 190[1], #805, signed by Charles Stanley as President, "Justice" seated in centre, ornate border, black, green underprint, gold seal, VF

The Stanley Aerial Navigation Company was formed to capitalize on Charles Stanley's invention, a lighter-than-air craft intended as an improvement on the Zeppelin-style dirigible. Like most ventures of the sort, it never got off the ground.