Massachusetts. Charles River Embankment Co, 1885 Specimen Bond. Massachusetts. Specimen 1885, $500 4% 1st Mortgage Coupon Bond. Black print with a red/brown border and underprint. Small sized vignette of Embankment at top center. Red SPECIMEN overprints, POC's, and red s/n 0000". VF condition with minor splitting and coupons attached. ABNC. This company was incorporated in 1881 by property owners on the Cambridge side of the Charles River. In 1887 they persuaded the Legislature to build a bridge over the river between Boston and Cambridge and was named in honor of John Harvard and still stands to this day. "