Evening Star Joint Stock Company ... Share in the Missionary Vessel Evening Star

by Pacific Islands

$150 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Signed

Unaccomplished stock certificate for shares in a missionary vessel going to the Gilbert Islands, Micronesia, with a woodcut view of a tropical island printed in black, the rest printed in red. Signed by John T. McLean and L. B. Benchley. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches. Fine. Item #332701 The woodcut is signed by Loomis and shows a tropical atoll with palm trees, small huts and several sailing vessels.The prospectus for the company survives at

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