1 SHARE OF KINEO COMPANY A RARE MAINE STOCK READ ABOUT IT 1910 - $175 - (Ellsworth, ME)

BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED CERTIFICAE FROM THE KINEO COMPANY ISSUED OCT. 6TH 1910.  THIS HISTORIC DOCUMENT HAS AN ORNATE BORDER AROUND IT WITH A VIGNETTE OF MOOSEHEAD LAKE WITH 2 MEN IN A CANOE WITH MT. KINEO IN THE BACKGROUND.  THE CERTIFICATE IS SIGNED BY  W. M. SHAW THE PRESIDENT AND  C/A/JUDKINTHE TREASURERS,  AND IS 107 YEARS OLD.. THIS IS A VERY RARE CERTIFICATE. THEY HAVE SOLD FOR AS MUCH AS $495.00       A HOTEL CALLED THE MOUNT KINEO WAS BUILT IN 1884 AND NESTLED IN THE RUGGED HIGHLANDS  OF MAINE ON THE SHORES OF THE MIGHTY MOOSEHEAD LAKE . FOLLOWING THE PURCHASE OF THE HOTEL BY THE MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY IN 1911 THE HIRAM RICKER HOTEL COMPANY WAS ENGAGED TO OPERATE THE HOTEL.                    THE MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY RAZED THE HOTEL 1938 AS THE HOTEL HAD FALLEN FOR LACK OF  UPKEEP.

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