Old Stock Yard Collectible Stock and Bond Certificates. 1866 — New York. Hand signed by Henry Wells and James C. Fargo of American Express and Wells Fargo. With nice vignette and ornate borders. It was founded as a joint stock corporation by the merger of the express companies owned by Henry Wells (Wells & Company), William G. Fargo (Livingston, Fargo & Company), and John Warren Butterfield (Wells, Butterfield & Company, the successor earlier in 1850 of Butterfield, Wasson & Company). Wells and Fargo also started Wells Fargo & Co. In 1852 when Butterfield and other directors objected to the proposal that American Express extend its operations to California. American Express initially established its headquarters in a building at the intersection of Jay Street and Hudson Street in what was later called the Tribeca section of Manhattan. Throughout New York State. In 1874, American Express moved its headquarters to 65 Broadway in what was becoming the Financial District of Manhattan, a location it was to retain through two buildings. In 1854, the American Express Co. A stable was constructed in 1867, five blocks north at 48 Hubert Street. In 1880, American Express built a new warehouse behind the Broadway Building at 46 Trinity Place. The designer is unknown, but it has a façade of brick arches that are redolent of pre-skyscraper New York. American Express has long been out of this building, but it still bears a terracotta seal with the American Express Eagle. In 189091 the company constructed a new ten-story building by Edward H. Kendall on the site of its former headquarters on Hudson Street. At the end of the Wells-Fargo reign in 1914, an aggressive new president, George Chadbourne Taylor (18681923), who had worked his way up through the company over the previous thirty years, decided to build a new headquarters. The old buildings, dubbed by the New York Times as “among the ancient landmarks” of lower Broadway, were inadequate for such a rapidly expanding concern. After some delays due to the war in Europe, the 21-story neo-classical American Express Co. Building was constructed in 191617 to the design of James L. Aspinwall, of the firm of Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker, the successor to the architectural practice of the eminent James Renwick, Jr.. The building consolidated the two lots of the former buildings with a single address: 65 Broadway. This building was part of the “Express Row” section of lower Broadway at the time. The building completed the continuous masonry wall of its block-front and assisted in transforming Broadway into the “canyon” of neo-classical masonry office towers familiar to this day. The building was also the headquarters over the years of other prominent firms, including investment bankers J. Kenny, and Standard & Poor’s, who has renamed the building for itself. Old Stock Yard Policies and FAQs. Items are sent via U. Usually first class, but occasionally priority or parcel post. Policy, my listings are setup to accept. Are you your certificates authentic or copies? Everything I sell is original and authentic. I do not sell copies or reproductions. Is the certificate pictured the exact one I will receive? Occasionally, I do list certificates of the same type without rescanning. In this case, the certificate you receive will be virtually identical same color, size, vignette, etc. To the one pictured. What is the best way to store, protect, and display my certificate collection? The best thing, by far, that I have come across for storing certificates are profolios and sleeves made by Itoya. I have several sizes available. Do the certificates you sell have financial value? The item “American Express Co. 1866 stock certificate Henry Wells James Fargo autograph” is in sale since Sunday, February 21, 2016. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Stocks & Bonds, Scripophily\Autographs”. The seller is “oldstockyard” and is located in Saint Augustine, Florida. This item can be shipped worldwide.