Sarah Lockwood Winchester - Winchester Repeating Arms Co. issued to Wells Fargo Bank and Union Trust Co., Trustee under the Will of Sarah Lockwood Winchester as Deceased - 1929 dated Gun Stock Certificate
Inv# GN1008 Stock
New York
Stock dated the year of the "Crash". Issued to Wells Fargo Bank and Union Trust Company, Trustee under the will of Sarah Lockwood Winchester as Deceased. ONLY 1 AVAILABLE.
Born in 1839 in New Haven, Connecticut, Sarah Lockwood Pardee was a socialite renowned for her intelligence and musical prowess. In 1862, she wed William Wirt Winchester, the heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company fortune. Their life, characterized by immense wealth, was marred by profound personal tragedy. Their only daughter, Annie, succumbed to infancy, and William succumbed to tuberculosis fifteen years later. With an inheritance of approximately $20 million and a 50% stake in the Winchester company, Sarah emerged as one of the wealthiest women globally. However, she was reportedly consumed by grief and a belief that her family was haunted by the spirits of those killed by the “Gun that Won the West.”
Seeking a fresh start, Sarah relocated to San Jose, California, in 1884 and embarked on a project that would etch her legacy into history: the Winchester Mystery House. Over the next 38 years, she employed carpenters tirelessly, transforming an eight-room farmhouse into a sprawling, labyrinthine mansion. Driven by a belief—allegedly influenced by a spiritualist medium—that she must never cease building to appease the spirits, the house expanded to include staircases leading to nowhere, doors opening into thin air, and concealed passageways. By the time of her passing in 1922, the estate had become an architectural anomaly. Today, Sarah Winchester is remembered as a mysterious and eccentric figure whose life was a complex tapestry of Victorian philanthropy and haunting obsession.
The Winchester Repeating Arms Company, a prominent American manufacturer of repeating firearms, was headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut. Today, the Winchester brand is owned by the Olin Corporation, and its name is licensed to two subsidiaries of the Herstal Group: Fabrique Nationale (FN) of Belgium and the Browning Arms Company of Ogden, Utah.
The origins of Winchester Repeating Arms can be traced back to the Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson partnership in Norwich, Connecticut. This partnership was distinct from the later Smith & Wesson Revolver Company founded by the same individuals. Smith and Wesson acquired an improved version of Walter Hunt’s 1848 “Volition Repeating Rifle” and its innovative “Rocket Ball” ammunition from inventor Lewis Jennings. Although Jennings’ rifle was commercially unsuccessful and Robbins & Lawrence, the producer, ceased manufacturing in 1852, Smith developed a significantly enhanced rifle based on Jennings’ design. The partnership also recruited Benjamin Tyler Henry, the former shop foreman at Robbins & Lawrence. In 1855, to produce their “Volcanic” lever-action rifle and pistol, Smith and Wesson incorporated as the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company. Oliver Winchester, a clothing manufacturer, became its largest stockholder.
A stock certificate is issued by businesses, usually companies. A stock is part of the permanent finance of a business. Normally, they are never repaid, and the investor can recover his/her money only by selling to another investor. Most stocks, or also called shares, earn dividends, at the business's discretion, depending on how well it has traded. A stockholder or shareholder is a part-owner of the business that issued the stock certificates.
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