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Nassau Electric Railroad Company
Brooklyn, New York
Consolidated Mortgage 4% gold bond
Dated February 28, 1917
No. 163, $1000
Signed by Vice President and Assistant Secretary on front; Treasurer of Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company (same as Vice President of Nassau Electric) and Vice President on reverse
American Bank Note Company, New York
Black ink with sepia border and underlay
Vignettes of cable car (top left), allegorical figures (top right) (obscured by tax affidavit) and allegorical woman with child in train yard (bottom center).
Certificate is marked cancelled with stamp marks in blue and red (Dec. 15, 1927). Signatures hole-punched.
Issued to the Brooklyn Trust company Executor of the Will of Henry R. Jones.
Tax Affidavit affixed on upper right hand corner; State of New York, County of Kings, dated September 22, 1917, orange, signed by recording officer, American Bank Note Company
Condition: Discoloration around edges, crease folds, pinholes, hole punched obscures part of vignette at bottom center; hole punched cancellation marks as described.
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The Nassau Electric Railroad Company was an electric street car company based in Brooklyn, which also ran over the Brooklyn Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge into Manhattan. It was incorporated in 1893. |