William G. Fargo - American Express Co. - Stock Certificate - Autographed Stocks for Sale

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William G. Fargo - American Express Co. - Stock Certificate - Autographed Stocks For Sale

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William G. Fargo - American Express Co. - Stock Certificate - Autographed Stocks:
$805.00

Stock signed by William G. Fargo of Wells-Fargo fame, 1870\'s-80\'s, with the \"Safety & Dispatch\" vignette of the dog (mascot of American Express). Engraved by American Bank Note. A truly exciting stock to own. Quite rare. (An attractive portrait of Fargo is included.) William George Fargo (May 20, 1818 \" August 3, 1881) was a pioneer American expressman who helped found the modern day financial firms of American Express Company and Wells Fargo with his business partner, Henry Wells. He was also the 27th Mayor of Buffalo, serving from 1862 until 1866 during the U.S. Civil War. The American Express Company (Amex) is a multinational financial services corporation headquartered at 200 Vesey Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The company was founded in 1850 and is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company\'s logo, adopted in 1958, is a gladiator or centurion whose image appears on the company\'s well-known traveler\'s cheques, charge cards, and credit cards. During the 1980s, Amex invested in the brokerage industry, acquiring what became, in increments, Shearson Lehman Hutton and then divesting these into what became Smith Barney Shearson (owned by Primerica) and a revived Lehman Brothers. By 2008 neither the Shearson nor the Lehman name existed. In 2016, credit cards using the American Express network accounted for 22.9% of the total dollar volume of credit card transactions in the United States. As of December31, 2019, the company had 114.4million cards in force, including 54.7million cards in force in the United States, each with an average annual spe Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.