St. Paul and Kansas City Short Line Railroad Co. - Various Denominations Available - 1911 dated Specimen Railway Gold Bond - Specify Color when Ordering
Inv# SE3383 Specimen Bond
$1,000 Brown, $500 Orange, $200 Purple or $100 Olive 4 1/2% Gold Specimen Bond printed by American Bank Note Company, New York. Many coupons remain. Please specify color and denomination. In relation to this railroad, the Chicago Great Western Railway (reporting mark CGW) was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City. It was founded by Alpheus Beede Stickney in 1885 as a regional line between St. Paul and the Iowa state line called the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad. Through mergers and new construction, the railroad, named Chicago Great Western after 1892, quickly became a multi-state carrier. One of the last Class I railroads to be built, it competed against several other more well-established railroads in the same territory, and developed a corporate culture of innovation and efficiency to survive. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Great_Western_Railway
Stock and Bond Specimens are made and usually retained by a printer as a record of the contract with a client, generally with manuscript contract notes such as the quantity printed. Specimens are sometimes produced for use by the printing company's sales team as examples of the firm’s products. These are usually marked "Specimen" and have no serial numbers.
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