Description: Avery Brundage (1887-1975), Businessman, Sportsman, and Sports Figure. Excellent in sports, he won a place on the US Olympic Team in 1912 and captured the title of amateur all-around champion of America in 1914, 1916, and 1918. In 1915, he became president of the Avery Brundage Company, a construction company. He amassed a fortune through the company and other enterprises. Over the years he held high positions in many athletic organizations and became President of the International Olympic Committee in 1952 and retired in 1972. He became known throughout the world for his dedication. His devotion to collecting oriental art was well known and he gave a huge college valued at $30 Million to the De Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco. This attractive Boston and Maine Railroad stock is dated in the early 1940s during the war and issued to Brundage. Has a large uncanceled signature on a separate transfer document. Both Excellent Condition. Rare! The Boston and Maine Corporation (reporting mark BM), known as the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M), was a U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England. It became part of what is now the Pan Am Railways network in 1983. At the end of 1970, B&M operated 1,515 route-miles (2,438km) on 2,481 miles (3,993km) of track, not including Springfield Terminal. That year it reported 2,744 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 92 million passenger-miles. The Andover and Wilmington Railroad was incorporated March 15, 1833, to build a branch from the Boston and Lowell Railroad at Wilmington, Massachusetts, north to Andover, Massachusetts. The line opened to Andover on August 8, 1836. The name was changed to the Andover and Haverhill Railroad on April 18, 1837, reflecting plans to build further to Haverhill, Massachusetts (opened later that year), and yet further to Portland, Maine, with the renaming to the Boston and Portland Railroad on April 3, 1839, opening to the New H Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
Price: 299 USD
Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
End Time: 2024-10-27T20:00:42.000Z
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