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Lot 2889    Session 9 (4.30pm Wednesday)    Documents Share Scrip & General Books

Estimate $80
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FRANCE, Le Nouveau Monde (The New World), Company in Commandite, for working gold mines in California, U.S.A., certificate no.167421-167525, 1852; U.K. mining. The Mellingloch Lead Mining Company Limited, 1871 (Wales) certificate no.511 named to Miss Henrietta S.Hanbury Tracy; Mendip Hills Mining Company, 1856, certificate no.960 (Somerset, England). Good very fine - extremely fine, first with some foxing and pin hole at top and bottom. (3) $$ The Mellingloch Lead Mining Company was formed to mine for lead in Montgomeryshire, Wales. Although unsuccessful it was reputed to have involved fraudulent activities designed to deceive the main shareholders, the Hanbury Tracy family, who invested heavily. Several of the miners were eventually arrested and imprisoned.

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