Lot 540

Description

The Anglo-Australian Investment Finance & Land Compy Limited (of Sydney), debenture no.1883 for one hundred pounds, due 1st January 1900 and issued 31st October 1890 to Mrs Helen Potter of 2 Bolton Gardens S.W., with interest coupons nos 7-20 attached, vignette at side and another at the top showing a scene of the Australian landscape featuring an emu and a kangaroo, a native, two miners at work and a globe with a map of Australia, with an impressed duty stamp of two shillings sixpence and an impressed seal of the company in England, also stamped For the Receiver. Some loss of paper and edge tears, otherwise fine.

Ex Spink Auctions (Australia) Sale 31 (lot 620), March 1990.
The Anglo-Australian Investment Finance & Land Company went into liquidation in early 1893. At an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders held at Sydney on 30 January 1893 the chairman announced that Mr Humphrey MLC had been requested by the London debenture holders to act in their interests.
Mrs Helen Potter of 2 Bolton Gardens as named on the above debenture was the mother of the world famous children's book author, Helen Beatrix Potter, who was born at 2 Bolton Gardens, Kensington, London on 28 July 1866 into a well-to-do family and lived there until she married William Heelis in 1913. Her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published in 1902 while she was living at 2 Bolton Gardens. Mrs Helen Potter died 20 December 1932 at the age of 93.
With research.