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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Bonds and Share Certificates of the World (Sale 14016) | |||
| Auctioneer: | Spink | Location: | 69 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 4ET |
| Contact: | Tel: +44 (0)20 7563 4000 Fax: +44 (0)20 7563 4066 | ||
| Date: | 30th May 2014 | Time: | 10:00AM |
| Details: | Viewing: Thursday 29 May 2014 10.00 am to 5.00 pm and during the sale |
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| Auction Lots - Page 8 | |||
| 351 | |||
| Gotha Canal, 100 riksdaler share, Stockholm 1833, 1888 reissue, no. 276, and no.275 allegorical figures with canal boat and lock in background, black, 4 pages, both with cancelled coupons from the 1960's, the second with cut into back page, very fine. (2) £60-80 |
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| 352 | |||
Swedish Iron Rolling Stock & Implement Works Ltd., £20 shares, 187[4], 2 examples, no.00952 and no.00950, decorative title, ornate border and scrollwork to left, purple, good very fine. (2) £60-80Switzerland |
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| 353 | |||
S.A. Des Mouettes Genevoises, 100 franc share, Geneva, not dated but stamped in 1912 and 1943, no.241, attractive piece with vignette of tourist boat on lake, ornate border with seagulls and water lilies, shield at bottom, green/black, very fine. £60-80Yugoslavia |
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| 354 | |||
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, SPECIMEN 5% funding bond for $100, 1932, ornate border with scrollwork in top corners, royal arms at top, orange and black, printed by the American Bank Note Co., with coupons, extremely fine. £60-80GREAT BRITAIN & IRELANDGovernment Finance |
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| 355 | |||
| Early Exchequer Receipt of Payments by the Sheriffs for the City of Gloucester, 1653, addressed to Thomas Fauconbridge - Receiver General of the revenues, signed by Robert Wilson and Thomas Shadwell on behalf of Oliver Cromwell's Government Exchequer in London, very fine. £250-300 |
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| 356 | |||
| Receipt, August 1658 for £9.12.11d, being a fine levied by "Commissioners appointed by his Highness" (Oliver Cromwell) under the Act for "preventing the multiplicity of buildings", black printing with manuscript insertions, trimmed and some surface dirt, fine and scarce. £80-100 Footnote: Levied on Sir Matthew Brend (1600-59) who owned the Globe Theatre, the first of which was built by Shakespeare's company and owned by Brend's grandfather. |
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| 357 | |||
| Treasury Warrant, July 1679, instructing the Auditor of the Receipt to draw an Order for payment of £20.3.7d owing for quarters incurred by part of Prince Rupert's regiment, signed by the First Lord of the Treasury, Lawrence Hyde (later Earl of Rochester) and brother in law of James II, Sir Edward Dering, a Lord of the Treasury and Sir John Ernle, Chancellor of the Exchequer, black printing, manuscript insertions, folio, right edge somewhat browned and brittle with some paper loss but otherwise complete and without the usual trimming, fine and rare for a Treasury warrant of this age to be printed and not handwritten. £200-300 |
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| 358 | |||
| Exchequer receipt, June 1680, signed by Henry Guy, Secretary to the Treasury and one of Charles II's close circle, for the receipt of £500 for "His Majesty's Secret Service", an entirely handwritten document, minor trimming, some foxing, fine and a very rare subject. £200-300 Footnote: Henry Guy served in the Treasuries of Charles II, James II and William III, earning at his peak £4,000-£5,000 per annum, an enormous sum in that period, in Treasury fees, "gifts" and "casual profits". He was imprisoned in 1694 for allegedly taking a bribe. On his death in 1710 he left £150,000. |
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| 359 | |||
| Exchequer Order of Payment, February 1696/7 to pay sixpence an ounce on 550 ozs. 5 dwt of hammered coin sent to Chester mint for recoinage named to Thomas Hall, possibly the London goldsmith, cut at right and bottom to remove signatures, very fine. £80-100 Footnote: The great recoinage of 1696. The Mint had refused to take further supplies at face value of the old clipped and light hammered coins for recoining, causing hardship and riots in the country. It was forced to reopen, now taking the old coinage at the standard Mint price of 5s 2d an ounce plus this 6d "reward". |
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| 360 | |||
| Office of Her Majesty's Ordnanace, a pair of warrants dated 1705 and 1709 authorising £100 to be paid to Francis Yonge recently appointed Comissary of Stores in Lisbon and £225 to be paid to Patrick Johnston for reasons not stated, handwritten documents with signatures of the issuing officers, with full receipts on the reverse signed by the recipients, some toning but fine and interesting insight into early 18th century finance. £80-120 |
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| 361 | |||
| Exchequer receipt, December 1711, for £26.11.9d for 15 months interest on £500 lent to the Exchequer on the security of, and repayable from, the sale of "Her Majesty's Tin", signed by Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, black, very fine with negligible trimming, ink cancelled and a lovely example of this scarce issue. £200-250 Footnote: Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, "Prime Minister" at the time of the South Sea bubble and thereby forced to resign. Tried for allegedly taking a £50,000 bribe in South Sea stock but exonerated in a political move to save Walpole's government. |
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| 362 | |||
| Exchequer receipt, 1713, signed by Richard, Viscount Lonsdale, being for a quarter's annuity on his late mother's investment of £500 in the 99 year annuities issued by the Government in 1707, black printing, trimmed as usual, fine. £100-120 Footnote: These annuity receipts are the only extant documents relating to the Exchequer managed British funded national debt, the appropriate Orders of Payment having been destroyed when the Exchequer closed. |
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| 363 | |||
| Exchequer Order of Payment, 1714, for repaying £500 principal with £27.3.10d interest, lent to the Exchequer on the security of and repaid from the proceeds of, the 4th 2 shillings Aid (tax) for the year 1714, signed by the Lord High Treasurer, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, government minister responsible for the foundation of the South Sea Company, Sir William Wyndham, Chancellor of the Exchequer and, as Auditor of the Receipt, Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax, formerly the minister responsible for the establishment of the Bank of England, black, folio, unusually with no trimming, fine to very fine and rare thus. £300-400 |
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| 364 | |||
| Irish Government Life Annuities, a 6% debenture certificate for £100, 3rd Class, Dublin 1774, no.632, black printing with manuscript insertions of the holder and, in this case, his eldest daughter, aged 3, folds but about very fine and scarce. £300-400 |
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| 365 | |||
| An important and historic Order of Payment, an impressive document for £1, 101. 18s 9d, made out for repayment and payments to John Durand for supporting Armed Forces in the 'ceded' islands of Tobago and Dominica (ceded by France to Britain by the 1763 Treaty of Paris). Dated April 1776, signed by KING GEORGE III, also signed by Lord North the Prime Minister, Lord Onslow a minister of the Treasury and C.W. Cornwall of the Treasury, extremely fine. £1,500-2,000 |
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| 366 | |||
| Reduced Annuities, inscribed stock receipt dated 178[6], transferring £100 stock to John Christopher Franck, black, also signed by the agent or broker, small piece of lower left corner missing from spiking as is usual, surface dirt at top, fine to very fine and scarce. £180-220 |
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| 367 | |||
| Five per Cent. Annuities, inscribed stock receipt dated 178[8], transferring £302 stock to Richard Norman and others, but signed by an agent at lower right, black, also signed by the broker J. Halford?, tiny piece of lower left corner missing from spiking as is usual with these pieces, fine to very fine. £150-200 |
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| 368 | |||
| Government Pensions, an exchequer receipt dated 1790 making payment of £62 10 shillings for 3 months pension to Mrs Jac. Hunetr but signed by Thomas Coutts as her agent, black printing with manuscript insertions, embossed duty stamp top left, very fine. £120-180 |
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| 369 | |||
| Consolidated £3 per Cent. Annuities, inscribed stock receipt dated 1790, transferring £1996 15s stock to James Cecil Grave, who signs at the lower right, black, also signed by the broker Richard Parkins, small piece of lower left corner missing from spiking as is usual with these pieces, very fine. £100-150 |
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| 370 | |||
| Four per Cent. Annuities, inscribed stock receipt dated 179[7], transferring £1353 12s 9d stock to Thomas Caphorn and others, who all sign at the lower right, black, also signed by the broker Thomas Chant, lower left corner professionally repaired where is has been removed through spiking, very fine and scarce. £180-220 |
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| 371 | |||
| Navy 5% Annuities, inscribed stock receipt, 180[5], together with other inscribed stock certificates (4) comprising Consolidated £3 per Cent. Annuities, 178[2] and 180[3], Four per Cent. Annuities, 180[4] and 181[5], the second trimmed at left edge, most have corner off as usual, fine to very fine. (5) £60-80 |
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| 372 | |||
| Consolidated 3% Annuities, a group of inscribed stock receipts, 1806 (3), 1813, 1841 and later (5), £3 10s per Cent reduced Annuities, inscribed stock certificate, 1838, together with a miscellaneous group of insurance policies and ephemera including a rare Universal Life Assurance Society policy issued in India, 1852 and a fire policy of the Imperial insurance Company, 1812, an interesting lot well worth inspection, fine to very fine and better. (lot) £100-150 |
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| 373 | |||
| Great Britain, 3 1/2% War Loan, bearer bond for £100, 1932, no.B286252, ornate border, printed seal of 'The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury' at bottom right corner, brown and black, with coupons, stamped CANCELLED, extremely fine. £100-200 |
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| 374 | |||
| £3 10s Per Cent. War Loan, bond for £100, London 1932, no.B308120, facsimile signature of N.K. Warren-Fisher as Secretary of the Treasury, ornate border, brown and black, with coupons from December 1940, folded but about very fine and uncancelled, rare thus. £120-150 Footnote: All British government debt has been repaid in due time which means that we usually only find specimens or cancelled examples. Specimens are exceptionally rare and the only cancelled examples seen are from this loan. This is an uncancelled bond, a handful of which were found on the Continent in the last year, and is therefore extremely scarce. |
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| 375 | |||
Annuities: A group of certificates comprising, Royal Insurance Co., annuity bond, 186[5], no.371, large format, black on vellum, blue seal, cancelled; Consolidated 3% Annuities, inscribed stock certificate, 180[0]; New 3% Annuities, inscribed stock certificate, 18[73]; Westminster Society for Insurance on Lives and Survivorships, and for Granting Annuities, receipt, 1795, and, City of Edinburgh, annuity bond, £3, 1870, colourful piece, cancelled and scarce, generally very fine. £60-80Municipal Loans |
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| 376 | |||
| Borough of Cheltenham, Improvement Act 1889, a debenture for £650, no.200, dated 1904, entirely handwritten piece on 4 pages, folio, red embossed duty stamp, handsigned by the Mayor, very fine and an interesting piece of municipal finance. £60-80 Footnote: This was part of a total loan of £9650 authorised by the Act of 1901 and the lenders in this case were trustees of the Loyal Widows and Orphans Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Repaid in 1920. Early Companies |
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| 377 | |||
| South Sea Company: New South Sea Annuities, an inscribed stock certificate, 178[4], for the transfer of stock, red and black printing with small designs beneath the title, together with a small handwritten power of attorney for the transfer of South Sea Company stock dated 1714, small piece of top left corner missing due to spiking, the latter professionally laid on silk paper. (2) £150-180 |
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| 378 | |||
| South Seas, Captain John Clipperton, certificate for one share in the expedition of the ships 'Success' and 'Speedwell', 18th June 1720, no.433, signed by Alexander Strachan, E. Hughes, Andrew Drummond and R. Winder as managers and directors, scrollwork at left, black printing, some tears at folds but professionally rebacked and repaired, fine and very rare. Only 2 known. £2,500-3,000 Footnote: Interestingly the share was issued sixteen months after the expedition had sailed, presumably one of the original shareholders wishing to spread his risks by selling on a rising market - South Sea Company stock was bubbling at 750 and would peak at 1050 six days later. At the end of May Speedwell had been wrecked and its captain and crew marooned for five months, but the dealers in London could not have known that when this share was traded. Clipperton was born in Great Yarmouth in 1676 and made a career in piracy. In 1704 he joined the pirate/explorer/naturalist/diarist William Dampier but fell out with him and abandoned him off the South American coast. In 1718 a consortium put together the plan to send two vessels around the globe to explore, trade and plunder any Spanish ships and settlements they came across. Had the country not been at war, this would have been a breach of the South Sea Company's monopoly. Initially a former Royal Navy officer George Shelvocke, on the Speedwell, was to be in overall command but before they sailed in February 1719 Clipperton, captain of the Success, was put in charge and Shelvocke's anger led to problems with the voyage. The ships were soon separated in the Atlantic and only met again, briefly, in the Pacific, off Mexico. Both captains took many prizes and made their separate ways across the Pacific to China and the East Indies, losing their ships and switching to prize vessels en route. Clipperton eventually returned to his family in Galway in Ireland in June 1722 but died within a week from the privations of his 3 1/2-year journey. Shelvocke reached Dover a month later and was arrested for allegedly hiding some of his prizes from the shareholders but managed to do a deal with them. The next year he published A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, said to have inspired Coleridge to write The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. He lived on to 1742, his tombstone saying he was "a gentleman of great abilities in his profession". Canals |
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| 379 | |||
| A small group of Canal and Railway certificates, comprising Thames and Severn Canal-Navigation, New shares, 1809, red printing, on vellum, ink faded and dirty surface; Birmingham Canal Navigations, subdivided share receipt, 1835; Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle upon Tyne Junction Railway Co., £20 share, 1846; Bristol & Exeter Railway Co., debenture bond, 18[50], seal removed and ink cancelled, and Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway Co., debenture stock, 18[79], perforated cancelled and some staining, generally very fine unless stated. (5) £80-100 |
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| 380 | |||
| A group of Canal and Railway certificates, comprising Oxford Canal navigation, £100 shares, 19[03]; Sharpness New Docks and Gloucester & Birmingham Navigation Co., ordinary consolidated stock, 18[906]; Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Co., 4 1/2% debenture stock, 187[914] and Consolidated stock, [1894]; Cambrian Railways Co., 4% preference stock, 1900 or 1901 (3 examples); Paisley Barrhead & Hurlet Railway, 5 shares, 184[6], part issued (2 examples); Waterford, Dungarvan and Lismore Railway Co., £10 shares, 187[5]; City of Glasgow Union Railway Co., 6 various types, 1870's and 1880's; Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Co., preference stock, 19[38], 2 examples and a report of the directors, 1916, of the Great Western Railway Co., mixed condition, mostly cancelled, fine and a few better. (19) £100-150 |
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| 381 | |||
| Grand Imperial Ship Canal, un-issued certificate for 20 shares, Brighton 1827, vignette of Sailing Ship being towed by Steam Tug Boat, black on pink paper, together with Grand Southern Canal, prospectus for the Canal dated 1811, black, both extremely fine. £200-250 Sir John Rennie in 1811 surveyed this intended Ocean Ship Canal for 'The Grand Southern Canal', and later for 'The Grand Imperial Ship Canal' in 1825. The canal was to run 86 miles from London to Portsmouth at an estimated cost of £7 million. |
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| 382 | |||
| Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Navigation, £100 share, 1793, no.663, black, on vellum, seal removed as cancellation, ink cancelled in red across face, vellum somewhat yellowed but very fine. £150-180 |
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| 383 | |||
| Somersetshire Coal Canal Company, Lock Fund, certificate for one share number 2343, 18[03], small format, black on thick paper, waxed seal, very fine. £120-150 Footnote: According to the text, only shareholders in the Kennet & Avon Canal were permitted to subscribe to this undertaking. |
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| 384 | |||
Thames and Severn Canal Navigation, an un-issued bond for unspecified amount, 17- (circa 1790), not numbered, vignettes in top corners of canal bridges/tunnels, black print on vellum, near extremely fine. £100-150Railways |
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| 385 | |||
| Aberdeen Railway Company, certificate for one share, 18[45], no.3212, shield and scrollwork to left, black, good very fine. £60-80 |
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| 386 | |||
| Bishops Waltham Railway Company, £10 share, 186[2], no.446, black, and £20 5% preference share, 186[4], no.53, both perforated cancelled, very fine to extremely fine. (2) £60-80 |
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| 387 | |||
| Caledonian Railway Company, certificate for Scottish Central 4 1/2% preference stock no.1, 18[71], no.1003, blue; 6% preference stock, 18[74], no.5145, black; deferred ordinary stock no.1, [1906], no.17/5401, purple, together with other related documents (9), mixed condition, fine to very fine. (12) £100-150 |
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| 388 | |||
| Caledonian Railway Co., 4% preference stock, 1887, certificate for [£120], no.13/1436, dated [1902], scrollwork at left, red, printed by Gilmour & Dean, good very fine and a scarce type. £60-80 |
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| 389 | |||
| Channel Tubular Railway Preliminary Company Ltd., certificate for 5 founders shares, 1892, no.88846-88850, very attractive piece with vignettes around border of English and French coast, ships with tube resting on the seabed, black and yellow, good extremely fine. £100-150 |
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| 390 | |||
| Charnwood Forest Railway Company, a pair of certificates, £10 share, 1874, no.1720, scrollwork at left, embossed seal, black, together with £10 shares, 18[82], no.250, scrollwork at left, black, about extremely fine and good fine respectively, the latter with slight edge damage. (2) £80-100 |
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| 391 | |||
| City Railway, scrip certificate for 5 shares of £50 each, £2 per share deposit paid, 1836, no.482, blue print on vellum, very fine and scarce. £150-200 |
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| 392 | |||
| Colne Valley and Halstead Railway Company, certificate for £10 share, 18[61], no.3916, black, stamped in red 'EXTENSION', good very fine. £60-80 |
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| 393 | |||
| Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway Company, a proof certificate for £20 ordinary shares, circa 1880, decorative title, black printing on thick card, extremely fine. £60-80 |
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| 394 | |||
| Cornwall Railway Company, a group of 14 certificates for £50 shares, 184[6], numbers 808-9, 816, 826-8, 846-848, 853, 861-863 and 876, scrollwork at left, black on dark green paper, attractive embossed seal, generally about extremely fine. (14) £150-180 |
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| 395 | |||
| Cowbridge Railway Company, a trio of certificates comprising £10 share, 18[63], no.680, black; £10 shares, 18[79], no.19, scrollwork at left with vignette of Cow on bridge, black, and, debenture stock 'C', 18[76], no.15, scrollwork at left, large red underprint 'C', all cancelled, all with professionally repaired tears at top, very fine. (3) £100-120 |
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| 396 | |||
| Derbyshire, Staffordshire & Worcestershire Junction Railway Company, certificate for one share, 18[47], no.1841, ornate title, scrollwork and embossed seal to left, black heavily watermarked paper, good very fine. £60-80 |
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| 397 | |||
| Devon & Cornwall Railway Company, a pair of certificates for £20 shares, 'Western Extensions', 18[78], no.8, and 'Extensions to Plymouth and Devonport', 18[77], no.16, both with decorative titles and scrollwork at left, black, perforated cancelled, both good very fine. (2) £80-100 |
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| 398 | |||
| Devon and Somerset Railway Company, certificate for B debenture stock, 18[89], no.590, scrollwork at left, black on pink paper, very fine. £60-80 |
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| 399 | |||
| Devon South Hams Light Railways Company, certificate for £1 ordinary shares, 190[5], no.11, black, embossed seal bottom right, rusty paperclip marks at top edge, very fine and scarce. £60-80 |
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| 400 | |||
| Direct London and Exeter Railway, with extension to Falmouth and Penzance., scrip certificate for 20 shares of £25 each, 1845, no.E24, green, printed by Waterlow & Sons, about very fine. £60-80 |
| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Bonds and Share Certificates of the World (Sale 14016) | |||
| Auctioneer: | Spink | Location: | 69 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 4ET |
| Contact: | Tel: +44 (0)20 7563 4000 Fax: +44 (0)20 7563 4066 | ||
| Date: | 30th May 2014 | Time: | 10:00AM |
| Details: | Viewing: Thursday 29 May 2014 10.00 am to 5.00 pm and during the sale |
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