RAILROAD MORTGAGE BOND: NO. 7585| NEW ORLEANS, BATON ROUGE & VICKSBURG RAILROAD COMPANY. FIRST MORTGAGE SEVEN PER CENT. LAND GRANT AND SINKING FUND GOLD BOND. | $1,000 or L200.| PRINCIPAL PAYABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1902. INTEREST PAYABLE MARCH 1ST AND SEPT. 1ST, IN NEW YORK OR LONDON AS HOLDER MAY ELECT. TRUSTEES CERTIFICATE. THE UNION TRUST COMPANY HEREBY CERTIFIES THAT THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF TWELVE THOUSAND BONDS REFERRED TO IN THE WITHIN MENTIONED ACT OF MORTGAGE. UNION TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, BY... PRESIDENT.
New York: Maverick, Stephan & Co., Lithographers, 1872. Broadsheet, 18" x 23-1/2". Recto printed with black ink, red underprinted; verso entirely in green ink. Top half of the sheet contains mortgage certificate, with a large vignette of a stream train and a small vignette of mother pelican with her babies and the words "I Live and Die for Those I Love." Bond has preprinted signature of Levi Parsons, President. Bottom half of sheet has 60 small coupons attached, with bond numbers rubberstamped in blue ink and preprinted with the signature of Chas. V. Ware. Denominated in both dollars and British sterling, each payment coupon $35/L7.4S. The verso contains the title of the bond, 28 sections for registering names and dates, as well as the backs of the coupons. Minor wear, few very tiny holes in one coupon with minimal loss. Very Good to Near Fine.
The New Orleans, Baton Rouge & Vicksburg Railroad was officially chartered in 1872 and ran until about 1881. Item #33610
Price: $75.00