Lot 152
Rockefeller, John D (1839-1937) One of America's great industrialists, he controlled the oil industry via Standard Oil Company (founded 1870) and the Standard Oil Trust (1882).
Signed Standard Oil Trust Stock Certificate ("JD Rockefeller"). Elaborately engraved with ornate green border, oblong folio, New York, June 16, 1887. The stub is attached at left and the transfer is completed on the verso. The signatures have been machine cancelled (which is unusual, there is generally a hand cancel through the signatures), there is some easily camouflaged separation between ribs of the cancellation; toning to edges. Very good.
Printed in green, black and white with an elaborate engraved vignette of the U.S. Capitol building at top center. Mr. Robert Miller purchased 75 shares of the Standard Oil Trust, which he took out of his name in 1893 and held in a stockbroker's name until 1898, when the shares were cancelled. This may mean that Miller's shares were part of the huge group Rockefeller bought back in the late 1880s/early 1890s.
Estimated Value $2,400 - 2,700.
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