^Lot 1344 Erie Railroad Co., 1895 Specimen Bond.

New York, 1895, $1,000. First Consolidated 4% Mortgage Deed bond. Olive border w/ locomotive at station flanked by cherubs. ABNC. Specimen w/ coupons, VF. Scarce bond variety from this notorious railroad. Incorporated in 1832 and completed in 1851, the Erie became known as Òthe scarlet woman of Wall StreetÓ in the mid-19th century, when it was the object of financial struggles between Daniel Drew, Jay Gould, James Fisk, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Manipulations of its stock by Gould and Fisk became notorious.