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Commercial Cable Co., 1897 Specimen Bond.

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Commercial Cable Co., 1897 Specimen Bond.
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New York, 1897, $1000, Specimen Registered 1st Mortgage 4% 500 Year Gold Bond, Horizontal format, View of North America with telegraph stretching across Atlantic to Europe, Overprinted in black "Coupon Bonds and registered bonds are interchangeable...", POC's, VF-XF condition, Franklin BNC. The Commercial Cable Company was founded in the United States in 1884 by John William Mackay and James Gordon Bennett, Jr. Their motivation was to break the then virtual monopoly of Jay Gould on transatlantic telegraphy and bring down prices (particularly for Bennett's newspaper empire). Commercial Cable also had a relationship with the German Atlantic submarine cable system. Domestically the cable distributed its cable traffic through its partner firm the Postal Telegraph Company. Together these companies were all part of the Mackay Companies, also known as the Associated Companies. John Mackay's son, Clarence Mackay, took over the firm by the early 20th century and led it during World War I. The company flourished for a time but in 1928, together with other elements of the Mackay System, came under the control of International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) under a wholly owned subsidiary, the Postal Telegraph & Cable Corporation. This would be reorganized in 1935, with Commercial Cable becoming part of the American Cable and Radio Corporation