U.S.A.: Reno Marine Salvage Corporation, pair of certificate...

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£25 - £30

U.S.A.: Reno Marine Salvage Corporation, pair of certificates, 192[8], issued to Sir Gilbert Wills and signed by the founder J. W. Reno as President. Preferred stock, #573, mauve and Common stock, #735, blue. incorporated in Delaware in 1920 to develop a new invention for raising ships off the seabed. Jesse Wilford Reno was a serial inventor. He proposed a system for street traction on Broadway, New York in 1897, later patented the escalator which he sold to Otis in 1920 and then to ship salvage. Both with pinholes and folds, AVF (2).