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Commercial Cable Co. 1900-1910 Specimen Bond

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:120.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Commercial Cable Co. 1900-1910 Specimen Bond
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New York. $1000 Specimen 4% Registered 1st Mortgage Gold Bond, Black print on brown border and under tint on horizontal format, Image of the planet at top with telephone wires connecting USA and UK across the Atlantic Ocean, Specimen overprints and POC's, with legend stating that Registered Bonds and coupon Bonds are interchangeable, VF condition with minor toning along fold lines condition, FBNC. The Commercial Cable Company was founded in New York 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. The technology was well established by this time, and they were able to lay cables from Waterville in Ireland to Canso, Nova Scotia, without the major technical problems of the first Transatlantic telegraph cable. Onward connections to New York City and beyond were initially overland and later submarine. It had a twenty-five percent share ownership in the Commercial Pacific Cable Company that operated a cable from San Francisco to Manila and Shanghai after 1906. Together these companies were all part of the Mackay Companies, also known as the Associated Companies. 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. The undersea cables remained in use carrying telegraph traffic until 1962. In 1998, cables were briefly visible going out to sea at Waterville and are probably still there.