Hoboken Ferry Co. - Orange Issued to Lehman Brothers - 1897 dated Shipping Stock For Sale

Orange Shipping Stock printed by Homer Lee Bank Note Co., New York. Steam ferry vignette with winged lion figures (griffins) on each side. Very attractive Victorian title & borders. Rare!!! Exceptional!!! The Hoboken Ferry Company was a subsidiary of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W). The company had a fleet of six ferryboats when it ceased operations in 1967. These vessels took their names from principal stations on the DL&W RR's main line from Hoboken, NJ to Buffalo, NY. Three of these - the Elmira, Scranton, and Pocono (ne Scandinavia) - the Binghamton's sisters, were also built in 1905. (Another, the Ithaca, was destroyed by fire in 1946.) Of these, the Binghamton is now the only survivor. Please specify color. The Binghamton's engine, a 4 cylinder, double compound, marine steam engine, is of an axially symmetric design, like the double ended ferryboat Binghamton. Double compound engines were superseded by more efficient Triple expansion steam engines. Operated from Barclay Street to Hoboken Terminal from 1821 to 1967. Read more at Lehman Brothers Inc. (/?li?m?n/ LEE-m?n) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1847. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch), with about 25,000 employees worldwide. It was doing business in investment banking, equity, fixed-income and derivatives sales and trading (especially U.S. Treasury secur Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.