The January 2012 Collectors Series Sale
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Playboy Enterprises, Inc (DE), 1-cent shs, class A (1) and class-B (10) common stock, 1990, issued to RM Smythe & Co, allegorical woman in cape holds globe before world cityscape, corporate logo, green, EF. [11] Est. 150-250
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Prof Wm Emanuel’s School of Chiropody (IL), Qualification certificates, unissued, Chicago, ca 1890s, halftone portrait of Emanuel in top hat, black and green, one with light stain, otherwise good VF+. [11] Est. 150-200
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Positive Motion Loom Co, $100 shares, 18(69), #534, issued to and signed on verso by Charles Pratt, Iris and Athena with owl sit amid symbols of art, navigation, commerce, etc., black with red verso, R44 at upper right, age-toned, otherwise about VF. Charles Pratt (1830-91) became one of the northeast’s leading oil magnates, first in whale oil and then in petroleum, before eventually selling out to Standard Oil. Est. 150-250
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Recordgraph Corp (DE), $1 shs, 1940, eagle on summit, green, about EF. [48] Est. 150-200
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Renard Silk Co of Scranton (PA), $100 shs, 190607, #19 and up, woman at spinning wheel, black and gold, Goes, about EF. [7] Est. 100-150
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Retail Stores Wonderful selection of mostly five-anddimes, representing 13 companies, including Cosmopolitan Variety Stores ltd (Canada) 1928; F & W Grand -Silver Stores Inc (DE) 1930; Green Stores Inc (MA) 1928 (9, two types); Metropolitan 5 to 50¢ Stores Inc (DE) 1922 (3); Newsbox Sales Corp (NY) 1919 (3, some partial old splits); Schulte-United 5¢ to $1. Stores Inc (DE) 1928-31 (7, four types); United 5 & 10¢ Stores (DE) 1911-14 (2); United Stores Corp (DE) 1931 (15, three types); and more; VFVF+. [54] Est. 150-200
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Rex Manufacturing Company (DE), $10 shares Capital stock, 191(1), #1, allegorical female with various machinery and tools, green and black, good VF. Est. 60-80
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Rockland Bay Point Co (ME), $100 shs, 1891, #59, toned at folds, VF, with related correspondence, one letter with an illustration of the company’s large hotel. [3] Est. 100-150
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Rowe, Morris, Summerhays (Territory of Washington) 1902. #70. 100 shs. Detailed view of company building with carriages passing in front. Head of steer and ram at top. Ceres at lower left sprinkling coins. Gast. EF. Est. 200-300
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Sackett Plow & Pulverizer Co (NY), $50 shares, capital stock, 188(3), #291, vignette of mechanical plow top, man harvests corn left, green, edge wear, VF+. Est. 100-150
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Schimpf and Keim Boiler and Mfg Co (PA), $25 shares, capital stock, 18(89), #102, excellent vignette of one of the company’s boilers, some edge wear, but a strong VF+. Est. 80-120
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Schomacker Piano Forte Manufacturing Co (PA), $5 shares, capital stock, Philadelphia, 1891, #386, vignette of the factory with delivery carts in front, all in blue, verso printed out of alignment, age-tones, with minor fold wear, VF+. Est. 80-120
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Press Publishing Co (NY), signed by Joseph Pulitzer as president, printing press at bottom, ornate border, signed stock pen canceled, with cut cancellation removing large triangle out of bottom, affecting vignette and touching first initial of Pulitzer’s signature, stub reattached at left; with shs 1910-12, signed by Joseph Puliter Jr, 1885 with wear to lower edge, including some loss at lower right corner, otherwise Fine, others VF+. [3] (photo) Est. 500-600 Printing and Publishing Small but choice group comprising American Bank Note Co 1950 brown; Automatic Tympan Co (NY) 1902 all blue; Brooklyn Daily Eagle (NY) 1938, eagle, brown, Goes (2); Bulldog Publishing Corp (DE) 1952, #2, eagle, green; Every Where Publishing (NY) 1909 orange; New York Post Inc (NY) 1940 brown, with related letters; Tabard Inn Book Co (WV), 1913, Tabard Inn, orange; Trow City Directory Co 1885, child with books, black (4); United States Banknote Corp (VA), 1967, woman with press and tablet, red; and Vanderbilt Newspapers Inc. (DE) brown (1) and green (1), both signed by Cornelius Vancerbilt Jr as president, with related items; VF-EF. [11] Est. 200-300
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