Nov 09, 2004 - Sale 2021

Sale 2021 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 1,610
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(BUSINESS.) FISK, JAMES, JR. Autograph Endorsement Signed, as the bottom of a letter to him, granting a request for an autograph from Frank Dorr, "You have time to write letters I have none so I will sign yours." 1 page, single 4to sheet, Aetna Insurance Company stationery; usual folds. New York, April 1871

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Fisk (1834-72) founded a brokerage house in 1866, took on Vanderbilt in a bid for Erie stock, joined with Gould to control the Erie Railroad and corner the market on gold. One of the rarest signatures of the Robber Barons.