Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 585
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
CO-FOUNDER OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE (BUSINESS.) EPHRAIM HART. Document Signed, "Eph'm Hart," receipt for $37.50 from James C. Roosevelt "for Commissions for selling his place in Love Lane." 1/2 page, 2 3/4x7 3/4 inches; vertical folds, docketing verso. New York, 18 April 1817
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Ephraim Hart (1747-1825) was a Jewish American merchant who, with 23 others, signed an agreement in 1792 forming the New York Stock & Exchange Board, today known as the New York Stock Exchange.

From the Collection of William Wheeler III.