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#J182,Rare Lake Michigan & Lake Superior Transportation Co. Stock 1899 w Letter
$ 205.92
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vg condition,measures in inches :9 x 12Cert. #150, issued to Wm. H. Crump for 4 shares in 1899. Inc. in Illinois. Signed by Joseph Austrian as president and the company secretary. Nice vignette of a large passenger steamer at the top. The company for many years operated passenger and freight steamers on Lake Michigan and Superior. The company was the oldest operator and grew quite large. It took control of the steamer Manitou, a large steamship, 295' in length. The ship was quite costly and luxurious (Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, 1894). This rare certificate is very attractive and seldom seen.Tiny fold split at the bottom right fold. Uncanceled