Antique 1927 Big Four Railroad Bond 🚂 Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago St Louis Railway $1000 Style:With Coupons the distributor named on the

the distributor named on the poster

rather than being used and discarded the way most boxes like it were

and I believe it deserves to be recorded here so it isn't lost to time

Citrus crate labels draw a wonderfully varied crowd of collectors

Antique 1927 Big Four Railroad Bond 🚂 Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago St Louis Railway $1000 Style:With Coupons the distributor named on theWhat Was It Like to Hold a Promise Written in Gold Coin Dollars, Signed by a Railroad That No Longer Exists? Picture a boardroom in 1927 leather chairs, brass lamps, the smell of fresh ink where a clerk at the American Bank Note Company pulled a freshly engraved sheet from the press and held up a $1,000 bond bound for a vault, a bank, or a private investor's strongbox. That investor was betting on steel rails, steam power, and a railway system that