Antique 1885 West Shore Railroad $1,000 Gold Bond 🛤️ Certificate with Coupons, Vanderbilt Railway History americana_ephemera A piece like this is

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Antique 1885 West Shore Railroad $1,000 Gold Bond 🛤️ Certificate with Coupons, Vanderbilt Railway History americana_ephemera A piece like this isWhat Does a Peace Treaty Between Two Railroad Empires Look Like? It looks like this a hand engraved sheet of green inked paper, thick with allegorical figures and locomotive vignettes, promising to pay a thousand dollars in gold more than four centuries from now. Hold one of these bonds and you're holding the paper residue of one of the most audacious and briefly ruinous corporate wars of the American Gilded Age. This wasn't a bond issued in quiet