Lot 2203

Description

Union of South Africa, Transvaal Province, West Rand Unified Limited, Transvaal, 1912, certificate number 3 for one thousand shares in name of Nellie Melba of Melbourne with Government of the Cape of Good Hope revenue stamps for one shilling and sixpence affixed; Royal Albert Hall, Special Sunday Concert, MELBA, 28th Sept., 1919, ticket stub for Upper Orchestra East. Good very fine. (2)

Dame Nellie Melba was an Australian opera soprano and one of the most famous singers in the world during the Victorian era and early twentieth century and the prima donna at Covent Garden through to the 1920s.