Catalogue
Victoria mining. Great Northern Extended Gold, Rutherglen, 18[96], five £1 shares, black print, with border, broker's stamp in blue; Mount Deddick Silver-Lead, Snowy River, East Gippsland, 189[6], two £5 shares, brown print; Junction Dredging Company, Porepunkah, 19[04], twenty £1 shares, black print, with 'Fully Paid Up' in red, company seal in blue. With pin holes, folds and creases, fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $300
Passed in
Victoria mining. Uncle Tom Gold, Grant, North Gippsland, 189[6], fifty 5s shares, black on pink, with 'Fully Paid Up' in red, and broker's stamp; Thowgla Creek Dredging, Corryong, 189[9], four hundred 5s shares, blue on grey, scrollwork at left; Victory Gold, Warrandyte, 189[901], one hundred 20s shares, red print, capital and share price changes overstamped in blue. With pin holes, folds and creases, very fine. (3)
Estimate $250
SOLD $300
Victoria mining. Mount Mercer Gold, Leigh River, Pitfield Plains, 189[8], twenty five 10/- shares, blue print, scrollwork at left, company stamp and brokers stamp in blue; Old Nuggetty Reefs, Maldon, 189[8], one hundred 10s shares, brown print; New Birthday Gold, Dunolly, 189[08], one hundred £1.10.0 shares, black print, with capital and share price changed in red. With pin holes, light folds, good very fine. (3)
Estimate $250
SOLD $230
Victoria mining. Consolation Gold, Dunolly, [1899], one hundred 5/- shares, red on mauve; Horn Island Gold, 1900, £2 debenture, black print; Long Tunnel Extended, 190[6], ten £6 shares, black print (tears to left side margin); Maori Queen, Ovens Valley, Harrietville, 190[7], £20 share, brown print; Mount Cuthbert, 19[19], one hundred £1.10s shares, blue print; Oriental Tin, 1926, £25 share, black on pink; Pacific Gold, 1935, £10 share, black print; Lancefield (W.A.), 193[6], one hundred 4/- shares, black on blue; Illabarook Alluvial, 19[37], one hundred 10/- shares, black on blue; Misima United, 193[7], £10 share, brown on tan; Milano Gold, 1939, £10 share, brown on green; Normanby Tin, 19[43], one hundred 2/- shares, blue on blue; Morning Star, 1954, brown on yellow; Mount Coolon Gold, 19[55], one hundred 10/- shares, brown on yellow; Mount Isa Mines, 19[63], black on yellow. Some with pin holes and light folds, fine - good very fine. (15)
Estimate $180
SOLD $160
Victoria mining. New Maxim Silver, 189[2], one hundred 10s shares, brown print, with broker's stamp; Horn Island Gold, £2 debenture, 1900, black print; Central Cookman's Gold, Maldon, 190[3], one hundred 10s shares, crimson on pink; Cassilis Gold, Gippsland, 190[8], one hundred 10/- shares, red print; Wymah Wolfram, 191[7], £5 debenture, blue print, Gold Mines Development, 193[2], one hundred 5/- shares, brown print; Glen Patrick Alluvials, Elmhurst, 193[5], one hundred 10/- shares, blue on tan; Lancefield (W.A.) Gold, 193[6], one hundred 4/- shares, black on tan; Wellington Alluvials, 193[6], ten shares, black print; Bendigo Mines, 19[37], one hundred 15/- shares, brown print; Consolidated Gold, 19[39], one hundred 4/- shares, red print; Edna May (W.A.), [1940], one hundred 5/- shares (2, black on tan; Evanston Gold, 19[47], one hundred 4/- shares, blue on grey; Mount Coolon Gold, [1955], one hundred 10/- shares, brown on yellow; Broken Hill Proprietary, one hundred and seventy seven £1 shares, black print. With pin holes, folds, fine - very fine. (14)
Estimate $180
SOLD $180
Victoria mining. Chalks Junction Gold, Carisbrook, 189[7], fifty 10/- shares, black print; Cassilis Gold, Gippsland, 190[5], fifty 1-/- shares, red print, Wymah Wolfram, 191[7], £5 debenture, blue print; Tower Hill Consolidated, 192[3], one hundred £1 shares; South Red White and Blue Gold, Bendigo, 19[33], fifty 10/- shares, blue print; Westralian Gold, 193[4], black on green; Ballarat East Development, 1934[5], blue print; Lancefield (W.A.), 193[5], one hundred 4/- shares, black on blue; Wiluna Ajax Gold, 193[5], one hundred 5/- shares, brown print, with 'Vendor' and Paid Up to 5/- per Share' in red; Bendigo Mines, 19[37], one hundred 15/- shares, brown print, 'deferred' handwritten in red; Chrome Alluvials, 19[37], one hundred £1 shares, black on grey, with 'Ordinary' in red; Whippet Consolidated, 19[51], black on yellow; Broken Hill Proprietary, 195[4], black print. With pin holes, light folds or creases, last with tears to edges, fine - good very fine. (13)
Estimate $150
SOLD $160
Victoria mining. Wallace Chiltern Valley Consols, Chiltern, 18]98], one hundred £2 shares, black on tan, with 'One Hundred' overprinted in blue and broker's stamp; Warden Gold, Cassilis, 189[8], one hundred 7/6 shares, brown print, with 'New Issue' in red top left, capital and share price changed by hand; Nuggety Gully Quartz, Talbot, 190[7], three hundred 4s shares, black print, with broker's details and company seal in blue, receipt attached. With pin holes, folds, very fine. (3)
Estimate $250
Passed in
Victoria mining. Junction Deep Leads of Victoria, 189[9], £1 share, blue print; Glenfine Estate Gold, Pitfield, 1[901], fifty 2/- shares, blackprint; New Junction Deep Leads, 190[6], two thousand and twenty five 5/- shares, pink print; Lodden Deep Leads (Victoria), 191[0], one hundred 1/- preferred shares, black print and border on blue; Loddon Deep Leads (Caralulup), 191[2], one hundred and fifty 1/- shares, red print and border; Victoria Proprietary, 191[3], two thousand shares, mauve print and 'Fully Paid' overstamped; Australian Oil Wells, 191[4], one hundred 1s shares, blackon tan; Bangadang Gold, 191[5], £20 share, black on pink with 'Fully Paid Up' in red; Cock's Pioneer Gold and Tin, 191[6], brown print with 'Fully Paid' in red; Ballarat East Development, 193[7], £10 share, blue print with 'Contributing' in red; Normanby Tin, 19[40], one hundred 2/- shares, blue on green; Associated Freney Oil, 195[5], one hundred 10/- shares, black on grey. Most with pin holes, folds and creases, fine - very fine. (12)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
West Australia mining. Abbott's Gold, Mount Vranizan, Murchison, 1895, one thousand £1 shares, blue print, scrollwork at left; Boulder Central Gold, 1[899], one hundred 10/- shares, black on light green with 'Contributing / 'C' issue' in red top centre, scrollwork at left. With pin holes, folds and creases, small tears and foxing to right edge of first certificate, fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $180
Power of Attorney re mining companies, 16 December 1895, from Hermann Landau, stockbroker, to Charles John Crisp, impressed ten shillings duty stamp, bears the official stamps, dated and signed, of nearly eighty mostly Australian and South African mining companies such as North Boulder Gold Mining, Hannan's Reward Gold Mining, Lady Loch Gold Mine, Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company and many others. Some grubbiness, otherwise fine and unique.
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
Sundry. South Melbourne Bowling Club, 1876, £1 share, black print; Woods-Little Stone Dresser, 191[0], £5 share, red and black on pink; Pomeroy Smoke Consumer & Fuel, 191[1], £10 share, black print; Standard Quarries, 191[1], one hundred £1 shares, blue on blue; William Dawson Company, Ballarat, 191[1], five £1 shares, black print, with 'Fully Paid Up' in red; Australian Farms Limited, 191[3], one hundred £1 shares, blue print; Surrey Engine and Boiler Works, 19[20], £10 debenture, blue print; Union Tablet Company, 19[23], £10 First Mortgage debenture, blue on blue; Yates & Co (Australia), Clifton Hill, 192[4](2) ninety one and five hundred £1 shares, both overstamped 'ordinary' in red; Jepson Fruit Machinery, 192[9], one hundred £1 shares, blue print; Preston Quarries, 192[9], forty six £1 shares, black print; Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum, 1959, black on blue; Reid Murray, 1960, blue on blue; Cox Brothers, 19[61], brown print; Carlton Brewery, 19[63], black print; Parke Rotary Shears (2), 1997, 1999. Most with pin holes, light folds and creases, fine - good very fine. (18)
Estimate $200
SOLD $220
Victoria sundry. City of Melbourne Building Society, 188[8], £25 share, black print and scrollwork at left; Essendon Land & Finance Association, 189[0], twenty five £2 shares, blue print; Melbourne Brewery and Distillery, 18[94], £10 share, blue print and scrollwork at left (holepunched top left); Leatherubber Company, 190[8], fifty shares, red print; New Jubilee Company, Scarsdale, 190(10), fifty £1 shares, black print over blue and buff, scrolwork at left, with company stamp in red; Bacchus Marsh Concentrated Milk Company, 19(16 written), five thousand £1 shares, black print with 'Cancelled' stamped twice in blue; Hydro-Electric Power & Metallurgical Company, 19[18], two hundred and seventy £1 shares, black print, attractive border and scrollwork at left, 'overstamped 'Carbide and Electrio-products Limited / Late' in blue (10mm tear bottom edge); Maxweld Reinforcement Fabric, 192[5], five £1 shares, black on blue with 'Fully Paid' in red; Electric Supply Company of Victoria, Registerd Note, issue of 6 per cent five year notes, 19--, blue print and attractive border, unissued, together with ordinary share certificate, 190-, blue print, unissued. Most with pin or spike holes, folds, fine - good very fine. (10)
Estimate $150
SOLD $230
Australia sundry. Woods-Little Stone Dresser, 191[0], £5 share, black and red on pink; Standard Quarries, one hundred £1 shares, blue on blue, wiht 'Ordinary' in red; William Dawson Company, Ballarat, 191[1], five £1 shares, black print, with 'Fully Paid Up' in red; Australian Farms Limited 191[3], one hundred £1 shares, blue print; Rutter Process Syndicate, 1913, £50 share of 200 on offer, blue print; Surrey Engine and Boiler Works, £10 debenture, 19[20], blue print; Union Tablet Company, 19[23], £10 First Mortgage Debenture, blue on blue; Yates & Co (Australia), 192[4], five hundred £1 shares, black print, with 'Ordinary' in red; Internal Combustion Fuel Company, 19[22], one hundred £1 shares, black print; Perkins & Co, 19[29], three hundred 15/- shares, blue print, vignette of factory buildings top right and a Queensland 1/- duty stamp affixed; Preston Quarries, 192[9], fifty £1 shares, black print; Marshalls Limited, 19[36], two £1 preference shares, grey print; Cox Brothers (Australia), 1965, blue on blue; Melbourne Co-operative Brewery, 1971, black on blue; Manango Limited, 1986, black on blue; Monitronix Services, 1989, black print. Some with pin holes or light folds, fine - good very fine. (15)
Estimate $120
SOLD $90
Banking. Australasian Land Investment and Banking Company Limited, 8 February 18[88], forty £5 shares, black print, scrollwork at left. With spike and pin holes, light folds, small tear lower edge, good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Banking. City & County Property Bank, 4 August 188[8], thirty £2 shares, black print, scrollwork at left. With pin holes and rust, folds, some foxing, small tears on lower edge, good fine.
Estimate $100
Passed in
Banking. Standard Bank of Australia Limited, 18 June 1890 (date written), forty six £5 shares, black print, scrollwork at left. With pin hole, folds and corner creases, good fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $300
Banking. Co-operative Credit Bank of Victoria, Melbourne, 14 March 19[13], £1 share, black print. With pin holes, folds, ink stain on back, good fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Banking, The New Oriental Bank Corporation Limited, London, share warrant, ten pounds, 11th September 1885, No.16731, with fourteen coupons still attached. Very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $20
Banking, The New Oriental Bank Corporation Limited, Calcutta, share warrant, eastern issue, one hundred rupees, 7th May 1891, No.59392. Split in centre fold, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $20
Banking, Alliance Bank of Simla Limited, share certificate for 300 shares of one hundred rupees each, No.446, 3rd November 1916. Very fine.
Estimate $40
Passed in
Banking. The Federal Deposit Bank Limited, 192[6], seventy five £1 shares, black print, scrollwork at left, ornate border. With pin holes and folds, good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Banking, The Indian Specie Bank Limited, share certificate for one share of 100 rupees, 16th May 1911, No.80580. Good very fine.
Estimate $40
Passed in
The Sumatra Syndicate Limited (formerly the Java Syndicate Limited), ordinary share certificate for 4,500 shares of one shilling, No.19, 19th October 1904; another, 1,350 preference shares of one pound, 6th October 1905, No.7. Good very fine. (2)
Estimate $50
Passed in
World shares, Belgium, Tramways & Electricite de Constantinople Societe Anonyme, debenture for 250 francs, c1921, five interest coupons missing; Bolivia, Compania Minera Nacional Anonima, El Callao, debenture for 625 bolivares, 1 March 1887, six interest coupons missing; Germany, Chinese Imperial Government Kaiserlich Chinesische Staatsanleiche, 4 1/2% Gold Loan, Berlin 1 March 1898; Great Britain, Chatma Oilfield Company Limited, twenty five shares, 29 April 1903, all coupons intact; India, Shri Gopal Chamber of Commerce Ltd, Delhi, unissued share certificate, 19-; Russian bonds (4) includes City of Moscow Loan of the Year 1908, all with some or all interest coupons intact; Spain, Compania Iberica de Riegos (Iberian Irrigation Company), debenture no.16684 of Second Series, Madrid 1 October 1869, all interest coupons intact; USA, The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, fifty shares, 20 April 1936, punch hole cancelled, North Butte Mining Company, fifty shares (green), 20 July 1905 and one hundred shares (red), 6 Mar 1929, both punch hole cancelled. Mostly fine - good very fine. (13)
Estimate $150
SOLD $80
World. China, Country Club, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, 1901, debenture for one hundred taels Shanghai sycee, blue and red print, blue border; Ceylon, Ceylon Company of Pearl Fishers Limited, 190[9], one hundred 1/- deferred shares, red print and scrollwork at left; Great Britain, Associated County Halls & Theatres Limited, 19[14], fifteen 5/- ordinary shares, blue print and scrollwork at left; South Africa, Victory Diamonds Limited, 19[19], Johannsburg, one hundred 1/- shares, green on grey, scrollwork at left. With spike or pin holes, light folds and creases, fine - good very fine. (4)
Estimate $200
SOLD $220
India, East Indian Junction Railway Company, From Alahabad & Benares To Ghazeepoor & Goruckpoor Via Juanpoor & Azimgurh, certificate number 4479 for five shares, 10 August 1847, coloured impressed seal at top featuring a period steam engine. Very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Oil share script, Baku Consolidated Oilfields, unused binder of 100 with 87 numbered unissued share script forms with attached buts; registered office Cannon St. London, c1920-1930. Very fine.
Estimate $300
Passed in
USA, Republic of Texas, certificate number 873 for five hundred dollars of 10% stock, 5 February 1840, issued to L.Colquhoun, signed at Austin by Charles De Morse as Stock Commissioner, with attached ten signed (De Morse) numbered and dated interest coupons, certificate features a star (for the Lone Star State), a central vignette of Mercury and a sailor, and another at the left featuring a maiden and eagle, on the back an assignment signed by L.Colquhoun; Bank of Kentucky, share certificate number 1452 for fifteen shares, 13 July 1843, issued to John Rathbone Jr, signed at Louisville by Virgil McKnight, Bank President, with various vignettes. The first with numerous clean cross-cut cancellations, otherwise very fine and scarce; the second with some paper loss on edges and top right corner and some foxing, otherwise fine. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $180
USA. Railroads. Cleveland & Toledo Rail-Road Co., 185[7], three hundred shares, black print, vignette of surveyors in countryside top left, steam train, river scene with paddlesteamer right, small vignette of steam train, river scene, bridge and buildings bottom centre, with 'cancelled in full' and signed; Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad Company, 1878, two $100 shares, black print over 'common stock' in green, vignette of steam train and farm buildings top centre, paddlesteamer on river either side; Chicago and Erie Railroad Company, 1890, First Mortgage Gold Bond, $1000, black on green, vignette of river scene, buildings and steam train crossing bridge, with coupons attached; Boston and Providence Rail Road Corporation, 190[5], ten 10/- shares, black print, with border, vignettes of river scene, port buildings and railroad top centre and left, with 'Cancelled, Nov 11 1909 Old Colony Trust Company' in blue; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, stamped 1947, ten $100 shares of common stock, black and blue print, vignette of river scene and early stage coach railroad, with 'cancelled Nov 9 1950' in red; West Shore Railroad Company, 19[35], First Mortgage Guaranteed Bond for $1000, black and orange print, vignette of river scene, mountains in background, paddlesteamer docked at wharf, steam trains to right, paddlesteamers and other boats to left; United States Utilization Company, 19[11] (2), two hundred and fifty $10 preferred stock, black over green and white, No.27, and five hundred $10 common stock, black over orange and white, No.26, both with vignette top centre of eagle with outstretched wings. With folds, fine - very fine. (8)
Estimate $120
SOLD $200
USA, American Express Company, New York, certificate 1121 for seventeen shares, 20 January 1964, issued to George S.Pease; City of Jersey City, New Jersey, refunding gold bond number 251 for one thousand dollars, due 1 July 1928 (orange); another, number 3030, due 1 February 1949, this with interest coupons attached; Pithole & Kanawha Oil Company, Philadelphia, unissued share certificate, 186-; State of Louisiana, new consolidated bond 2683 for five hundred dollars (red), 1 July 1892; another, 3741 for one thousand dollars (green), both punch hole 'Paid' multiple times. The first with some edge splits, overall fine - good very fine. (6)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50