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Continental Water Meter Company stock certificate

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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1881-12-10

Location Note

Vertical file 4: OVR 181-190

GUSN

GUSN-199095

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Description

Stock certificate entitling Wilson W. Fay & Co. to 100 shares of capital stock from Continental Water Meter Company, the sole manufacturers of the "Continental Water Meter." Signed by the president and treasurer in Portland, Maine in 1881.

Details

Descriptive Terms

certificates
stock certificates
investments (expenditures)
prints (visual works)

Additional Identification Number

Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR184OVR

Physical Description

1 certificate

Collection Code

GC002

Collection Name

Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

Date of Acquisition

1924-05-05

Reference Code

GC002.02.184b

Acquisition Type

Gift

Image Dimensions

11.25 x 8.5 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Elizabeth Morrison, 1924,

Record Details

Material Type

prints (visual works)

Other Organizations

Continental Water Meter Company, Boston

Restrictions

stained, edges wrinkled

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Vertical file 4: OVR 181-190

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