MS. Group Lot of Southern Yacht Club Tickets and Clinton and Port

Mississippi..., A small group lot of Mississippi ephemera. Includes a pair of Southern Yacht Club tickets, Season of 1888, issued to Mr. C.H. Jackson and marked "Not Transferable" — a Family Ticket printed in blue with the club's burgee and sailboat vignette, and a Members Ticket printed in red with matching burgee seal; the Southern Yacht Club, founded in Pass Christian, Mississippi in 1849, is the second-oldest yacht club in the United States. Also included is a twelve-month promissory note for $462, dated Jackson, January 22, 1840, promising payment to the order of John Catlett for value received, made payable and negotiable at the office of the Clinton and Port Hudson Rail Road Company in Jackson, bearing a wax seal and endorsed on its reverse by John Catlett. The Clinton and Port Hudson was among the earliest railroad ventures chartered in Mississippi, and notes of this type were a common financing tool for such lines, used to compensate landowners or investors with

Estimate:$160

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