General Real Estate & Trading Corporation. Minute Book and Organization Records.
Delaware, Budapest: 1921. ca. 120 typed pages, includes a muster of share of the company, hand-signed proxies and letters. Fine condition.
The names of the subscribers to the capital stock are:
C. H. Jarvis
M. E. Scanlon
M. F. Vance
Later shareholders and directors:
Frank A. Munsey
J. Leonard Replogle
Edward Shearson
Emil Maier
Emmerich Kern
Archduke Frederick
Paul Silberstein
Sir Charles Delmé-Radcliffe
Dr. Aurele d’Egry
August Höcker
Secretary:
Richard E. Dwight
Eugene Nyáry
B. Breckenridge
Frank Andrew Munsey (1854-1925): American magazine and newspaper publisher, author. He owned one of the biggest newspaper and magazine empire in the early 20th century. Munsey Park in New York named after him.
Jacob Leonard Replogle (1876-1948): American industrialist. Owning the Replogle Steel Co., in 1918 Forbes magazine named him one of the wealthiest persons in the United States. He was Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, 1920; a delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944; and a member of Republican National Committee from Florida, 1940
Edward Shearson (1864-1950): American banker, millionaire and founder of Shearson, Hammil & Co. which was the largest brokerage and investment banking firm in the United States, existed on the same name until 1974 (later: Shearson Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.; Primerica; Citigroup)
Archduke Frederick (1856-1936): Friedrich Maria Albrecht Wilhelm Karl, Archduke and Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Duke of Teschen. Member of House of Habsburg. Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army during WWI.
Sir Charles Delmé-Radcliffe, Brigadier General (1864-1937): Commander of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus (Italy), Grand Officer of the Crown of Italy.
Dr. Aurele d’Egry (1874-?): Hungarian lawyer and politician. Attorney of Hungary during the peace treaties closing WWI.
Richard E. Dwight: American lawyer. Together with Frank A. Munsey and L. A. Reploge they were the attorneys of Habsburg Royal family regarding their holdings in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Senior of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight (today: Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP). Candidate of Republican party in the election of 1916.
Content:
Charter: Certificate of Incorporation of General Real Estate & Trading Corporation, March 12, 1921. (12) p.
By-law section. (11) p.
Minutes: First on Dec. 15th, 1922 in Dover, Delaware, and the last on June 30th, 1928 in Budapest, Hungary.
Price: €1,000.00