Meyer Guggenheim Signed Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad Company Stock Certificate.

GUGGENHEIM, Meyer.

$7,500.00

Item Number: 146774

New York: American Bank Note Company, 1890.

Rare Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad Company stock certificate signed by American industrialist and philanthropist Meyer Guggenheim. Oblong octavo, one page partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the certification is dated March 14, 1890 and grants Guggenheim 100 shares in the Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad Company. Signed by him on the verso, “Meyer Guggenheim.” Additionally signed by Thoms D. Messler as Vice President of the Company. In near fine condition. Matted and framed with a portrait of Guggenheim and an informational placard. The piece measures 18.5 inches by 27.25 inches. Rare and desirable.

Meyer Guggenheim, the patriarch of the Guggenheim family, made his fortune in mining and smelting in the mid- to late-19th century. In 1901 the family merged their mining interests with the American Smelting and Refining Company, a trust composed of the country’s largest metal-processing plants, and dominated the industry for the next three decades, laying the foundation for the U.S. mining industry that exists today. With this stock certificate, Guggenheim invested in the Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Rail Road Co., a merger of the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central RR and the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis RR, which would later evolve once more into the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis RR.