SIMON LAKE. Partially Printed Document Signed. Stock certificate No. 2310 for five shares of Preferred Stock in The Lake Torpedo Boat Company. Bridgeport, CT, June 28, 1917. Boldly signed. Attractive gold and silver foil ornate borders with corporate seal and eagle vignette at top center. 1p. 11” x 8½”. Archivally framed.
Inventory #23078
Simon Lake (1866-1945). Naval inventor who built the first submarine to operate extensively in open sea, the Argonaut.
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For over 20 years, Seth Kaller has been one of the country’s largest buyers of important historic documents and artifacts. More than 10,000 rare manuscripts, documents, maps, and books handled by Kaller are now in institutional and private collections including working drafts of the United States Constitution, Lincoln-signed copies of the 13th Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation, and rare prints and broadsides of the Declaration of Independence.
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