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The Steven Walske Collection of North American Blockade Run Mail continued...

Civil War, Blockade Runner Stock Certificates
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
2495   ImageImporting and Exporting Company of South Carolina, Capital Stock. 5 x 7.25 in. printed stock certificate, No. 653, for one share to H. Adderly & Co. on March 31, 1864, signed by William C. Bee, President, manuscript transfers on back dated 1869, 1874, and 1876, nice condition with slight ink bleed from back visible on front, still Very Fine, the Importing and Exporting Company of South Carolina was formed in Charleston in late 1862 to own and operate blockade runners, the list of shareholders included many prominent members of Charleston society, the notations on the back indicate that the company continued to pay its investors after the war ended, unlike the case of The Consolidated Steamship Company stock offered in the following lot, Henry Adderley & Co. was the Nassau forwarder and affiliate of Fraser Trenholm & Co. (Image)

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 E. $ 1,500-2,000

SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction
2496   ImageThe Consolidated Steamship Company, Capital Stock. 4.75 x 8 in. capital stock certificate for 25 shares issued Jul. 31, 1863, red and blue on watermarked paper with vignette of a blockade runner at top, dog with safe and key at bottom, Evans & Cogswell Printers imprint, with original signatures of the Henry Hart, President and A. R. Taft, Secretary, endorsed on back (visible from front), wonderful condition with only light folds, Extremely Fine stock certificate from this owner and operator of blockade runners, Consolidated President Hart fled to the North at the end of the war, claiming that since blockade running was illegal he had no financial liability to investors (Image)

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 E. $ 1,500-2,000

CLOSED
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