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NY. Merchants Union Express Company, 1866 I/U Stock Certificate.

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NY. Merchants Union Express Company, 1866 I/U Stock Certificate.
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New York, NY, 1866, Merchants Union Express Company, 20 Shares Stock Certificate (I/U). Printed in black with an ornate decorative border; central vignette of a steam locomotive arriving at a station alongside horse-drawn express wagons; red 5¢ U.S. Internal Revenue stamp at left; engraved “20 Shares”; issued to J. C. Cressy and hand-signed by company officers; organized in 1866 as a rival to American Express to capture the rapidly expanding rail and overland express trade; merged into American Express in 1868; the condition ranges from Choice Fine to VF condition or better.