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Subject: Stockbrokers


Letter from Greenebaum & Straus to L. B. Frankel, May 22, 1884 Letter from Greenebaum & Straus to L. B. Frankel, May 22, 1884

A business letter dated May 22, 1884, written on the letterhead of Greenebaum & Straus, stockbrokers located at 232 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California. Addressed to L. B. Frankel in Gold Hill, Nevada, the letter pertains to a stock purchase. The letter suggests that Frankel was involved in a legal matter in 1870/71 related to an official bond.

Pre-Civil War Token: John Ashby, Stock Broker Pre-Civil War Token: John Ashby, Stock Broker

Pre-Civil War token depicting John Ashby, a stockbroker. The obverse features a bear with the face of Moses Mocata, and the reverse shows a bull with the face of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, a major financier of US infrastructure. Date is estimated circa 1820.