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Major general in charge of the Department of Maryland and the East; as treasury secretary, he is credited with saying, "If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot!" Item #27217
Printed DS, 1p, 13" X 6¼", New York, NY, n.d. Fine. Stock certificate ("Construction Stock"), never filled in or issued, for shares in the Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Company, bearing a superb, bold Dix signature as president of the organization. Printed entirely in deep green, with a handsome vignette depicting a puffing locomotive crossing the plains amidst a herd of stampeding buffalo, with several Indians in the foreground (one horseback) observing; three smaller vignettes depict a steamboat, an Indian warrior and an Indian mother with her child. A striking piece.
Price: $175.00