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Lake Torpedo Boat Company Preferred Stock
SIMON LAKE,
Partially Printed Document Signed. Stock certificate No. 2310 for five shares of Preferred Stock in The Lake Torpedo Boat Company. Bridgeport, CT, June 28, 1917. Boldly signed. Attractive gold and silver foil ornate borders with corporate seal and eagle vignette at top center. 1p. 11” x 8½”. Archivally framed.
Item #23078, $1,200
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Benjamin Butler Signed Stock Certificate
[BENJAMIN BUTLER],
Stock certificate of fifteen shares of the Georgia Investment and Development Co. signed by Benjamin Butler as President. March 14, 1891.
Item #23084, $1,000
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A Week After Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK Asks Treasury Secretary Dillon About the Possibility of a Run on Gold if the Crisis Had Lasted Longer or Involved a Total Blockade
JOHN F KENNEDY,
Typed Draft Letter with autograph corrections, to Douglas Dillon, November 5, 1962, Washington, D.C. 1 p., 6¾ x 8¾ in. With Evelyn Lincoln (Personal Secretary to JFK) letter of authenticity, July 16, 1990, and small note card with Kennedy doodle.
“If the crisis had become more pronounced, if there had been a total blockade ...would we have had a serious run on gold? … It should be possible for us to get better coordination with the western governments…”
In this typed draft, with Kennedy’s handwritten corrections, the President asks Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon about the monetary implications of a prolonged Cuban missile crisis.
Item #27507, $10,500
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