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Hetty Green Signed Stock Certificate. One page, 15.25" x 7.75", Minnesota; May 10, 1887. Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad Company stock certificate No. 7695, with ornate vignettes at top edge, issuing 100 shares to "Hettie H. R. Green." Signed on verso, "Hetty H. R. Green."Hetty Green (1834-1916), nicknamed the "Witch of Wall Street," was more affluent, and cheaper, than any other woman of her day. A brilliant operator in the Stock Exchange, her chief business in Wall Street was confined to the lending of money. Her native shrewdness, intensified by single-handed combat with the financial powers of her time, steeled her personality for conflict and earned her a reputation for miserliness. She dressed shabbily, haggled over petty purchases, sought free medical treatment at charity clinics, and carried a gun - "mostly," she said, "to protect myself against lawyers." However, her life's work was money: she was the country's leading purchaser of mortgages and railroad stocks. Here is a fine example of the "Witch" at work.
Condition: A few small smudges to Green's signature. Lightly soiled and toned. Four small hole punches on left edge.
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2021 November 6 Historical Manuscripts Signature® Auction #6243 (go to Auction Home page)
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