Mills & Gibb 1900 Stock/Bond Certificate Signed by JOHN GIBB & WILLIAM T. EVANS

This is an early bond certificate for ‘Mills & GIbb.’ It has a vignette of an eagle, attractive green underprint and red border. There are two revenue stamps. It was issued in 1900 in New Jersey and is in generally clean condition with the original, even folds. It measures about 10.75″ x 16.5″.
The bond is signed by John Gibb as president and art collector, William T. Evans as Treasurer.
From Wikipedia on Mills & Gibb:
Mills & Gibb
was a US importing and jobbing firm in New York City, New York. It specialized in lace and linen, as well as dry goods. It was originally located at 44 White Street. In 1880, the business moved to the 462 Broadway building, on the northeast corner of Grand and Broadway. It then purchased a site at Fourth Avenue and 22nd Street where it erected in 1910 a 16-story building, now known as 300 Park Avenue South. It was established by Philo L. Mills and John Gibb in 1865. A few years later, William T. Evans was admitted, and in 1903 the firm was incorporated, with Gibb as president; Mills, vice-president; and Evans, as secretary and treasurer
From Wikipedia on John Gibb:
John Gibb
(1829 – August 27, 1905) was a cofounder of the dry goods house of Mills & Gibb.
Gibb was born in 1829 in Forfarshire, Scotland. He left his father’s farm at the age of 14 to apprentice for four years in a draper’s shop at Montrose, Angus. Later, he went to London and was in the largest wholesale house in that city. In 1850, he became acquainted with a member of the firm of E. S. Jaffray & Company, who induced him to come to New York, where became a buyer of embroideries and white goods.
In 1865, he formed the firm of Mills & Gibb with Philo L. Mills, with whom he remained partners for over forty years. When the company incorporated in 1903, Gibb became president, while Mills, vice-president, moved to England to take charge of the company’s foreign business. Gibb was a director of the Brooklyn Trust Company, a member of the advisory council of the Thrift Savings, Loan & Building Fund, the Brooklyn Club, Long Island Historical Society, Penatquit-Corinthian Yacht, Merchants‘ Central, Hamilton and Olympic Clubs, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History. He was for a term president of the Brooklyn Park Commission and was one of the trustees of the Y. M. C. A.
In 1852, he married Mrs. Harriet Balston (died in 1878). Seven years later, he married Sarah D. Mackay. He died in 1905 at his country residence, “Afterglow” in Babylon, Long Island. Five sons survived him, I. Richmond, Arthur, Walter, Elmer and Louis and four daughters, all married.
From Wikipedia on William T. Evans:
William T. Evans
(1843 – November 25, 1918) was an American art collector.
He was born in Ireland, and grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. He studied architecture at the New York Free School. He was President of the Mills & Gibb, and Mills Gibb Corporation.
He collected art by Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, Lillian Genth, George Inness, and Frederick Ballard Williams. He gave 160 paintings to the U.S. National Gallery (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) in 1915, also donating a number to the Montclair Art Museum.
His letters are held at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art.
He died at his home in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, on November 25, 1918.
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