HWPH Historisches Wertpapierhaus AG
HWPH Historisches Wertpapierhaus AG: Top 10 Historic Bond, signed by Andrew Carnegie, at auction!
DGAP-News: HWPH Historisches Wertpapierhaus AG / Key word(s): Miscellaneous/Market Report 928 old stocks and bonds are currently offered at the 47th Scripophily auction by HWPH Historisches Wertpapierhaus AG, and will be sold on 20 January 2018 in Wuerzburg, Germany (the auction starts at 11.00 am, viewing is from 9.00 am onwards, catalogue at www.hwph.de). The highlight of the auction is one of the most important historic stock certificates in financial history: A bond issued by the United States Steel Corporation (Lot 563), to Andrew Carnegie and endorsed on the back by him at the financial height of the world’s third richest man at the time, and transferred later to his philanthropically masterpiece! A US Steel bond signed by Andrew Carnegie was sold for US-$ 125,000 in 2000. One of the Top 10 certificates in Scripophily. Minimum bid is Euro 25,000 (approximately US-$ 30,000). Andrew Carnegie received the offered bond for the transfer of his Carnegie Steel into the United States Steel Company. He transferred the bond to the Andrew Carnegie Free Library of Carnegie, Pa. on 12 December 1912. This bond is the one and only of the roughly known eight bonds with Carnegie signature, which was transferred to the Free Library! About historic shares and bonds: Historic shares and bonds are financial documents which no longer have any traditional economic value on any stock market. They are collectable items reflecting our financial history. For top items, such as for instance certificates personally signed by John D. Rockefeller, Thomas A. Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Wolfgang von Goethe or Richard Wager, 5-digit prices are being paid. Press Contact: HWPH AG
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