Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 315

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(GARVEY, MARCUS.) STOCK CERTIFICATE. Two shares of common stock in the Black Star Line, issued to Florence O. Truesdell. Engraved certificate 9x10-3/4 inches; elaborate green border with mast-head of the globe with a black man and a ship, Signed by Orlando M. Thompson, as vice-president of the Black Star Line. Creases where folded, 1919 seal of the Black Star Line. An attractive example. New York, 4 October 1921
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The signer of this certificate, vice-president Orlando M. Thompson, was one of Garvey's right hand men, and an indicted co-conspirator in the federal case brought against Garvey and the Black Star Line. In all, Elie Garcia, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Orlando Thompson, and George Tobias were accused of "using the United States Post Office to defraud." The government's case was so thin that Garvey was the only one of the four convicted (on only one count) and he had less to do with the alleged crime than all the rest.