Attractive first mortgage gold bearing bond for the Houston Great Northern Railroad for $1000, issued February 15, 1872, 15.75 x 26.25, with 55 coupons intact. Carrying a rate of 7%, the bond features attractive vignettes of a locomotive and men unloading a horse-drawn wagon, engravings that juxtapose the old and new methods of transportation. In fine, folded condition.
