Stephen Schwarz
Jersey City
The Burr-Alexander Dueling pistols, together with the Chase logo.
One of the major themes of New York is finance. The duel was a conflict between what were the democrats and republicans of the time. Hamilton and the federalists were behind the Bank of New York. Burr was behind the Manhattan Water company which obtained a banking charter, breaking the Hamilton monopoly, by getting a charter to deliver water. The Chase symbol is allegedly of a cross section of wooden pipe used to transport water by the Manhattan water company, the progenitor of the Manhattan, then Chase-Manhattan Bank. This is a major part of the history of NY.
I believe JPM has the dueling pistols at corp headquarters. The Chase Logo is all over NY
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