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William Fargo Signed American Express Stock Certificate ~ 1865 Uncanceled early original stock certificate #1742 for 5 shares at $500 each (adjusted for inflation, an equivalent value of nearly $5 million today) in the American Express Company, awarded to AMEX co-founder John Butterfield, dated 26 February, 1865—three months before the Civil War ended—and signed by William G. Fargo as president, John Butterfield as secretary, […]

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Signed AMEX Stock Certificate ~ 1865 Original UNCANCELLED American Express Company stock certificate signed by BOTH founders, Henry Wells and William Fargo. Significantly, this certificate was issued in 1865 to one of New England’s most prominent citizens, Mr. Henry C. Bowen of New York. A hugely successful silk merchant, in 1845 Bowen commissioned Joseph C. Wells, the English-born architect who designed […]

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