International Mercantile Marine Co. Stock Issued to Harry Harkness and Signed by Philip Franklin - 1915 dated Autographed Stocks and Bonds

Stock issued to Harry Harkness and signed by Philip Franklin as Vice-President. Further research needed on Franklin.

Harry Stephen Harkness (July 17, 1880 – January 23, 1919) was an American racing driver, aviator, and playboy. Harkness was an avid race car driver, and won the first Mount Washington Hillclimb Auto Race. One of his more famous races was against Henry Ford. Harkness led a group of investors who bought the Sheepshead Bay Race Track, a thoroughbred horse racing facility they converted to use as an auto racing track. Following Harkness' unexpected death the facility was sold to real estate developers.

As a noted racer of the day, Harkness was retroactively awarded a 1902 American Automobile Association National Championship in 1951 by revisionist sportswriter Russ Catlin. 1902 was the first year the AAA Contest Board sanctioned racing. During a visit to Paris that year Harkness encountered young Austrian-born Joe Jagersberger, convincing Jagersberger to emigrate to the United States in pursuit of a racing career. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harkness

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