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Looking Back at Wall Street We Present Our 11Th Rarities Sale RARITIES SALE 11 800 717-9529 The World’s Largest Inventory of Collectible Stocks and Bonds. Over 6 Million Pieces. Jay Gould (1836-1892) Addison Jerome (1811-1864) Henry Keep (1818-1869) Jacob Little AB1 Looking Back At Wall Street We Present Our 11th Rarities Sale. Buy or Make a Lower Offer..... We want to express our thanks for the great response to our recent catalog and for the many kind compliments that we’ve received regarding our catalogs as well as our new web site. We think that you will find both colorful and user friendly! We will continue to present several special offers all over our web site on a weekly basis. I should stress that both the quality and prices will be espe- cially tempting. You will be able to view well over 1,000 stocks and Bonds, Foreign Paper Money, Americana, etc. Please phone me as I’m always happy to hear from our customers. 800 717-9529 George LaBarre How to Buy in our Rarities Sales BUY - You can buy the items outright at the prices listed, or MAKE A LOWER OFFER - If you would prefer to make an offer, you can pay with a credit card or you will be billed if you are successful. Do not send payment in advance. It is wise to buy or make offers as soon as possible as some items are one of a kind. We can bill you directly or charge your credit card for phone, fax, online, or mail orders. Historic Stock Certificates USA Hans Braun, Germany, 1996, 295pp. Note: We have two pieces or more of some items. All are in equal or better condition than those pictured. Buy with confidence! Hardbound. U.S. economy from 1600- We want you to be 100% pleased! 1972. Color photographs of many superb stocks. Retail $75. Special $45 Dictionary of American Confederate and Southern Portraits. 4,000 Pictures States Bonds by Grover C. of Important Americans Criswell, 1979, 374pp, Second from Earliest times to the Edition. A Scarce very useful beginning of the 20th book. Long out of print. A very Century. Editors-Hayward handy and necessary bible to & Blanche Cirker and by Confederate Bonds. New the Staff of Dover Publi- Condition $85 cations, Inc. 1967, 756pp. Also available: Comprehensive One of the most impres- Catalog and History of sive and useful books Confederate Bonds by we’ve encountered. Retail Douglas B. Ball, 1998, 288pp $100. Special Price. $85 Special Price. $36 The Art of the Market Bob Tamarkin & Les Kranz with com- Table of Contents mentary by George H. LaBarre, 1999, 176pp, fully illustrated in color and Looking Back at Wall Street 1-7 Guns & Related 24 hardbound. Brilliant text and a visual Autographed Stocks & Bonds 8-13 Inventions etc. on Stocks 25 delight. Retail $35. Special $21 Americana-Advertising Art Calendars 14-15 Mining Stocks 26 Americana-Cigar Box Labels 16 Railroad Stocks 27 Animals on Stocks 17 Railroad Bonds 28 Automotive Stocks 18 -19 Obsolete Bank Notes 29 Life Member Aviation 20 U. S. Colonial Paper Money 30 #1219 Banking 21 Foreign Paper Money 31-32 Confederate Bonds 22 Albums, Acetates, & Books 33 General Stocks 23 Free Retail and Wholesale Catalogs. Note: If you have special wants that you do not see in this catalog, please phone me at 800 717-9529. Just ask for them... We are always pleased to hear from our customers. Don’t be shy, call days, evenings, or weekends. George LaBarre 800 717-9529 GEORGE H. LaBARRE GALLERIES, INC. www.glabarre.com e-mail: [email protected] •45 Day Money Back Guarantee PO Box 746 Hollis, New Hampshire 03049 •Disclosure Statement All stocks and bonds are Toll Free: 800 717-9529 Tel: 603 882-2411 Fax: 603 882-4797 Major Credit Cards Accepted authentic and sold as collectibles and are not Minimum $5 shipping and handling charges. Books, Albums, and Please include 3 digit CVV code for security purposes. negotiable. Our company is not involved with Supplies - Minimum $10 or appropriate charges will be added to invoice. the stock or bond brokerage business. LOOKING BACK AT WALL STREET There have been many personal reminiscences written about life and times of specula- tors, investors, and capitalists on famed Wall Street. Often these have been written by JAY GOULD, RUSSELL SAGE & SIDNEY DILLON secondary figures on the financial stage such as stockbrokers, those who were present when the truly legendary fortunes were made in the mid and late 1800’s as well as the financiers (large and small). One investor/speculator who left behind a fascinating, personal, first-hand account was William Worthington Fowler. His well-known TEN YEARS IN WALL STREET had a lesser-known subtitle of OR, REVELATIONS OF INSIDE LIFE AND EXPERI- ENCE ON ‘CHANGE. His title goes on and on (almost ten times longer than the main title itself) to encompass some of the more dramatic events and developments he Jay Gould Russell Sage was party to during his decade on Wall Street from 1857 to 1867. By careful gleaning of Fowler’s weighty book, we can achieve an insightful overview of the major financial figures of the day. Moreover, we can catch a glimpse of some of the less-known figures, but still ones who exerted tremendous influence and power during their tenure in the nation’s commercial hub. Two of the more famous personages from Wall Street were Jay Gould and James Fisk. Taken together, these two men typify the more commonly-held attitude of the public Sydney Dillon JAY GOULD AND THE SAINT JOSEPH AND WESTERN RR The St. Joseph and Western was originally chartered in 1857 as the Marysville, Palmetto and Roseport RR with its name being changed to the St. Joseph and Denver City RR in 1862. The line extended a distance of 252 miles from St. Joseph, Kansas to Grand Island, Nebraska connecting these two important mid-western American trade centers. The company went into receivership in 1874 and sold in foreclosure in November of 1875. ln 1879, (the year of this stock certificate now offered), the road came under the control of the Union Pacific Railway which owned a large portion of the company's stocks and bonds. It thus operated as the St. Joseph and Western Division of the Union Pacific with Jay Gould, Russell Sage, and Sidney Dillon all serving as directors of the company. Acquisition of the Saint Joseph and Western RR was part of Gould’s strategy to compete with the Union Pacific. He acquired it for his Wabash sys- tem as a weapon against the Iowa pool, a system of price agreements among the would be direct competitors of Jay Gould. He forced the Union Pacific to buy him out via a stock swap. He got UP stock of great value in exchange. He made something in the neighborhood of $7,000,000 on the deal. By 1890 he owned half of the railroad mileage in the Southwest. AB1. KS, 1879, Capital Stock, issued from Elwood, Kansas to Jay Gould (1836-1892) Financier. This Kansas stock is one of the most historic, colorful, and graphic of any signed by Jay Gould. The very finest Jay Gould stock we’ve owned over the years. (Illustrated on our Front Cover.) $1,500 AB1a. Also available in one of only two sets issued to Jay Gould, Russell Sage, and Sidney Dillon and neatly signed by each at back. Important!!! Special Price. Set of 3. $2,900 1835 Unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Jackson is first attack on the life of a U.S. President, Samuel Colt designs a pistol with a revolving cartridge cylinder, especially useful for men on horseback. Fax 603 882-4797 E-mail: [email protected] Please view over 1,000 items on our website: www.glabarre.com 1 JAY GOULD MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS RWY AB2. Jay Gould (1836-1892) Financier. As a youth, learned rudiments of surveying and showed precocious skill in money-making. This led to his struggle against Cornelius Vanderbilt for control. His victory and later various other involvement with the Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific, Denver Pacific, Central Pacific, Missouri, Kansas, and Texas made him a legend in Railroad finance. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company was organized April 7, 1870. On 12/25/1872, five years before any railroad arrived in San Antonio, The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway Company (The Katy) crossed the Red River and entered Texas, near modern day Denison, a town that was created by the railroad. The Katy had won the race to be the first railroad to connect Texas to the rest of the country. Jay Gould would wheel and deal railroads and services. In 1880 the Missouri-Katy-Texas reached Waco. It was then leased to the Texas & Pacific. In 1881, the International & Great Northern was leased to the MKT. As a result, Jay Gould was able to exercise control over all three, as he owned the Missouri Pacific which leased the Texas & Pacific. He controlled these companies either directly or indirectly, plus many smaller companies. The M-K-T was leased in full to the Missouri Pacific, via the T & P, for 99 years, but Gould's empire was brought to an end in 1886 due to the efforts of the then Texas Attorney General, James Hogg, who would be elected to State Governor in 1890, with control of the railroads as his main platform. He accused the M-K-T of having unsafe lines and of being owned by a "foreign" corporation in violation of the State Constitution. This was true but had originally been permitted by an earlier state legislature, again to encourage the growth of rail- roads into Texas.
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