2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/29/2022
Pre-printed stock certificate, 7-1/2" x 4", issued for 375 shares, January 3, 1833, uneven borders, else fine. Signed by E(dwin) A(ugustus) Stevens, engineer and member of the famed Stevens family of New Jersey. He was the treasurer of this railroad for 35 years. The important Camden & Amboy Railroad (C&A), whose 1830 lineage began as one of the eight or ten earliest permanent North American[1] railroads, and among the first common carrier transportation companies whose prospectus marketed an enterprise aimed (with a priority or principally) at carrying passengers fast and competing with stagecoaches between New York Harbor and Philadelphia-Trenton.
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