Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 314

Price Realized: $ 2,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(GARVEY, MARCUS.) Stock Certificate for 2 shares of common stock in the Black Star Line, issued to Miss Amy McKenzie. Engraved certificate, signed by Garvey and Secretary Treasurer Edward Smith Green; with the corporate blind stamp of the Black Star Line and a five cent revenue stamp; creases where folded, tiny hole at the conjunction of two folds not affecting any lettering. New York, 18 September 1919

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a very early stock certificate for garvey's black star line. The Black Star Line was to be the U.N.I.A.'s vehicle for promoting worldwide commerce among black communities. In Garvey's vision, Black Star Line ships would transport manufactured goods, raw materials, and produce among black businesses in North America, the Caribbean, and Africa, and become the linchpin in a global black economy.