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Queensland mining, Day Dawn Block & Wyndham Gold, Charters Towers, 189[2], forty five £1 shares; Croydon Consols, 189[6], one hundred and fifty 5/- shares, pink print, both certificates London registers. With pin holes, light folds and creases, good very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
South Australia mining, Moorundie Mining Company, 187[3], one hundred £2 shares, black on pink; Prince of Wales Copper, 187[4], ten £2 shares; Grange Railway and Investment Company, 188[5], one hundred and fifty £2 shares, grey and orange print; Gilles Ormond Silver Lead, 18[88], twenty five £1 shares, blue print; plus New Koh-i-Noor Gold & Silver, 189[2] call receipt. Some with pin holes, light folds, third certificate with small edge tears, very fine. (5)
Estimate $160
SOLD $200
Tasmania, Launceston Gas Company, 186[6], five £10 shares, grey on blue; transfers (2), 1862, No.79, for ten shares, grey on blue; 187[9], No.431 for five shares, black print, with Tasmania 5 shillings stamp affixed; New Pinafore Gold, Lefroy, 189[1901], twenty five 6/- shares, purple and gold print, issued to Alfred G Price, Manager in Trust; Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging Coy., 19[13] (Siam register), fifty £1 shares; Electrolytic North (Tasmania) Limited, 192[5], one £50 share of 150 on offer, blue on grey; Tasmanian Tinstone Association, 192[7], two hundred and ten contributing £1 shares; Delta Tin Mines, Boobyalla, 19[34], fifty 4/- shares; Meteor Extended Silver, unissued contributing share. With pin holes, folds, edge tears to some, first and last certificates with one corner missing, otherwise good fine - extremely fine. (9)
Estimate $160
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Tasmania mining, Back Creek Gold, Piper's River, 187[0], five £5 shares, blue print, with Van Diemens Land one penny and fourpence postage stamps affixed; New Providence Gold, Beaconsfield, 188[3], fifty £1 shares, black on pink; Golden Light Gold, Lefroy, 189[2], one hundred 2s shares, brown and blue on buff; Derby Hills proprietary Tin, 19[07) (2) for twenty six and one hundred 10/- shares, red print, overstamped 'Paid Up' in blue; Thomas Blocks Silver, Mount Farrell, 19[08], one hundred 5/- shares. With pin holes, light folds, nearly extremely fine. (6)
Estimate $120
SOLD $240
Tasmania mining, New Providence Gold, Beaconsfield, 188[2], one hundred and fifty £1 shares, black on pink; Round Hill Silver, 189[0], five £20 shares, blue print, call paid stamp in blue; Barker Silver, 189[1], five hundred 10/- shares issued to W.G.Barker of Launceston; Golden Point No.1 Gold, Lefroy, 189[5], one hundred 2s 6d shares, blue on blue; Mount Lyell Extended, 189[8], one hundred £1 shares; Dreadnought Boulder Tin Mines Amalagamated, North Dundas, 191[20], five hundred 5s shares, black and red on green and buff; together with three postcards of Beaconsfield, postmarked 11 Jul 06, SP 9 09 and 21 May 12. With pin or punch holes, folds, very fine - good very fine. (9).
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
Tasmania mining, Mount Granville Tin Mining Association, North Mount Heemskirk, [1887], one 1/100th share of the value of £10, No.92; Mount Zeehan Silver Lead, 18[88], one hundred £1 shares, brown print; Oonah Silver, 189[6], one hundred 5/- shares, orange print; Volunteer Gold, Mathinna,190[2], fifty 10/- shares, orange and black on blue; Tasmania Gold Mine, 191[0], one hundred 10s shares; Arba Tin, Branxholm, 191[27], one hundred 8/- shares, blue on blue, scrollwork left side, with two 3d duty stamps affixed; together with call receipts for Full Moon Tin Mining, 1881; Moorina Tin, 188[2]; Cliff Tin, Mt Heemskirk, 188[2]; Anchor Tin, 188[3]; North Brothers Home Tin, 188[6]. With pin holes, light folds, third certificate piece missing from top left corner, fourth with 20mm tear top edge, very fine - extremely fine. (11)
Estimate $180
SOLD $470
Tasmania mining, Ophir Deep Lead Gold, Beaconsfield, 188[8], five £10 B shares, blue print, with company stamp in red; North Oceana Silver, Zeehan, 189[1], seventy five 2s 6d shares, brown print; New Pinafore Gold, 189[2], Lefroy, five 2s 6d shares, purple and gold print; 190[7] for fifty 6/- shares; North Mount Farrell Company, 19[29], one hundred £1/5/- shares, brown print. With pin holes, light folds, slight foxing on two certificates, fine - good very fine. (5)
Estimate $120
SOLD $220
Victoria mining, Magdala Quartz and Alluvial Gold, Clunes, 18[69], five £10 shares, black on buff; Ellesmere Consolidated Gold, 189[8], one hundred 10s shares, pink print; Florence Company, Daylesford, 19[06], fifty 10s shares, grey on pale grey; unissued certificates for South German Reef Gold, Maldon, 190-, pink on green; Lorne Quartz Mining, Stawell, 187-; together with call receipts for Garfield Gold Mining, 188[2]; New Chum and Victoria Gold, 190[2]; Don Gold Mining Company, 190[7]; Garden Gully United Quartz Mining, 190[8], 190[9], Cornish United Gold, 1916[7]. Some with pin or spike holes, light folds, first certificate piece missing from top left corner, very fine - extremely fine. (11)
Estimate $160
SOLD $200
Victoria mining, Valhalla Deep Lead Extension, Moondarra, North Gippsland, 188[8], receipt for £10 Promoter's share, with one penny duty stamp affixed; Heathcote Gold, Heathcote, 189[8], one hundred 10s shares, red print; New London Gold, Myrtleford, 190[1], red print; Junction Dredging, Porepunkah, 190[3], fifty £1 shares; New Ajax Gold, Daylesford, 191[3], one hundred 5/- shares, green print. With pin holes, folds, first certificate with edge tears to centre fold and a 21mm cut near top of left and right side, fine - extremely fine. (5)
Estimate $140
SOLD $160
Western Australia, Kalgoorlie Electric Tramways, 190[6], two hundred and fifty £1 shares (London issue), green print. With three vertical folds, small tear to right side edge, light staining along top edge, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Fiji and Pacific, Gold Mines of Fiji, 193[5] (2); Fiji Gold, 193[5] (2); Fiji Mining Corporation, Suva, 193[5] (2); Mamara Plantations Limited, (British Solomon Islands) 191[5]; Nasivi (Fiji) Gold Syndicate, 193[6]; New Caledonia Mineral Exploration Pty Ltd, Noumea, 19[25]; Pacific Island Mines Limited, 1969; Tavua Gold Developments, 193[5], 19[36], Viti Levu Gold, 193[5]. With pin holes, folds, good fine - very fine. (13)
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
New Zealand, Otea Copper Mining Company, 18[64], fifteen £2 shares; New Zealand Mineral Company, 189[6], one hundred £1 ordinary shares, orange on buff, and one £1 deferred share, orange on yellow; Scotty's Hauraki Gold, 189[7], one thousand 5s shares, brown print; Dunedin Stock Exchange Proprietary Limited, 190[9], fifty £1 shares; Eclipse Petrol Economiser System Company, 19[16]; Amalgamated Kawarau Gold Claims Limited, 192[5] (Sydney register), one hundred 5s shares (2); N.Z.Perpetual Forests Limited, 19[29], one hundred £1 shares, blue on yellow with orange border. First five certificates London registers. With pin holes, folds and creases, good fine - nearly extremely fine. (9)
Estimate $150
SOLD $180
Papua New Guinea, Cuthbert's Misima Goldmine, Port Moresby, 193[6], 19[37], 19[46] Sydney register; Day Dawn (New Guinea) Limited, 193[2], 193[4]; Developments (New Guinea), 1935; 1935[6]; Domara River Plantations Limited, 19[26] (2); Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum, 1954 (2); Fairfax Harbour Plantations, Papua, 191[1]; Galley Reach Rubber Estate Ltd, 191[5]; Gold Mines of Papua Limited, 19[37]; Goldie River Plantations Proprietary Limited, British New Guinea, 19[09]; Guinea Austral, 192[9]; Morobe Guinea Gold, 1927; New Guinea Lumber Company, 19[37]; Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum, 19[47]; Yonki Creek Gold, 19[49]. With pin holes, folds and creases, the Papuan Apinaipi with 6.5cm tear and other smaller tears top edge, fine - good very fine. (20)
Estimate $100
SOLD $180
Asia, Asia Amalgamated Tin Syndicate, Malay Peninsula, 192[7] (2), 19[32]; Asiatic Tin Development,192[0]; Bangnon Valley, Renong, Siam, 191[4], 191[8]; Banjoemas (Java) Oil Concessions, 192[5] (2); Borneo Australian Timber and Trading Company, 101[3]; Borneo Gold Explorations, West Borneo, Dutch East Indies, 193[8]; Borneo Options, 193[7], 193[8], 193[9]; Bux Tin, Jeneri, Kedah, Malay Peninsula, 192[0]; Cathay Land Company Limited, Hong Kong, 193[2], one thousand taels; Commonwealth Malaya Tin, 192[6]; Deebrook Dredging, Renong Siam, 192[4]; Katto Deebrook, Renong, Siam, 191[4]; Kopah Tin, Takuapa, West Siam, 192[6]; Lampeh (Siam) Tin Mines, Southern Siam, 192[9]; Netherlands Eastern Syndicate, Netherlands Indies, 192[6]; New Salak Tin Dredging, 192[7]; Philippine Dredges Limited, 191[24]; Pulo Tin, Lampi Island, Mergui, Burma, 192[6]; Rangeng Tin, Puket, Siam, 192[8]; Raub Australian Gold Mining, Pahang, 19[39]; Tujoh Tin, Bayas Tujoh, Federated Maly States, 192[7]. With pin holes, folds and creases, some with small edge tears, good - good very fine. (27)
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
Australian Mercantile Loan and Guarantee Company Limited, Melbourne, 18--, unissued share warrant for £5, No.G/D 74826, with secured dividend of eight percent, not signed, printer Marcus & Andrew Litho. Sydney, black print, blue centre, vignette of one seated and two standing female figures on seashore, angel looking down from above, ship at sea at right, lighthouse on rock at left, on back 'Five' within blue panel over pattern circle at centre, 'share warrant' above, 'to bearer' below, blue circular patterns in each corner, all within border. With folds and creases, small tears in fold lines and tape on vertical centre fold from bottom edge to centre on back, soiled, some foxing, very good.
Estimate $150
SOLD $100
Austria, New Grand Imperial Loan Distribution, of 42,000,000 Florins, Reimbusable with a Capital of 129,239,200 Florins, combined with 146th Frankfort Prize & Premium Distribution of 1,967,900 Florins, to take place on the 1st July 1864 at Vienna, black print on grey within border, on thin paper (44.5x27.5cm); Kingdom of Bohemia, The Bohemian Coal Mining Company, in the District of Rakowitz, for one share, No.1929, 1858 (in words), black on thin cobalt blue watermarked paper. First with folds, two small holes and light foxing on two folds, wallet marks on one folded rectangle area, otherwise extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $150
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Banking, The New Oriental Bank Corporation Limited, share warrant in silver currency, Eastern Issue (41x26.2cm), [Calcutta], [7th] day of [August] 188[8], one hundred silver share, No.56121, black on orange within decorative border, printed by William Brown & Co, London, with Government of India one anna stamp affixed right side. With three light vertical folds, light foxing around outer borders, 1cm tear bottom edge and two tears to left side edge, otherwise nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $100
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Banking and finance, The Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Company, 1917 (London issue); The Associated Ming and Finance Company, 192[5], orange print and scrollwork left side; The Primary Produces Bank of Australia Ltd, 192[5]; Australia and New Zealand Bank Limited (London register) 1953, 1954 (black on green), 1962, 1965 all to the same person; Third Universal Flexible Trust A.N.Z. Nominees Limited, 1962; Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited, 1980; together with Commercial Bank of Australia, receipts for instalments paid, 1895, 1896; Bank of Victoria Limited, transfer of shares, 19[25] (2); and other correspondence (5). Some with pin holes, folds, very fine. (16)
Estimate $100
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Debentures, Anglo-Australian Investment Finance & Land Comy Limited of Sydney, for £100, dated [fourteenth April] 18[91], due 1st July 1901, black print, ornate border and scrollwork left side, vignette of map and Australian landscape top centre, with eighteen of twenty one coupons attached; Iron, Steel and Metals Manufacturing, Melbourne, mortgage debenture for £100, dated [tenth November] 190[8]; Domara River Plantations Limited, Second Mortgage Debenture for £50, 19[29]. With folds and creases, soiled and small tears down left edge on first, second with folds, spike hole and tears to right edge, last with ink stain left side edge, fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
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Finance and investment, Associated Securities Limited, -67; Australian Cities Investment Corporation, 1[907]; Australian Consolidated Inscribed Stock, [1932] and transfer form (torn); Australian Financial Agency and Guarantee Company Limited, 18[88]; Burgess Investments Pty Limited (typed), 19[52], 19[53], 19[54]; Cash Orders (Amalgamated) Limited, 19[39], 19[41] (2); Carpenters Investment Trading Company, 19[47]; Commonwealth Real Estate & Investment Co. Ltd, 19[28] (2); Consolidated Finance Corporation Limited, 19[52] (5), [1954] (2), [1955] (2) with allotment letter; Consolidated Investment Co Limited, [1959] fixed deposit note, with receipt; R.E. Cunningham Investments Limited, 19[50] 2); Demeurant Investments Pty Ltd (typed) 19[54]; Intercapital Investments Limited, 19[68]; Manufacturers' (N.S.W.) Finance Company, fixed deposit note, [1958]; Stanhill Development Finance Limited, [1960]; Sydney Cash Orders Limited stamped over Discount & Finance Limited, 19-- with letter. Housed in a four ring binder, some with pin holes, light folds, very fine - extremely fine. (30)
Estimate $140
Passed in
Food, beverage and tobacco, Automatic Bread Making Company, 192[7]; Bacchus Marsh Concentrated Milk Company, 19[13]; Euroa Butter & Ice Factory Company, 189[6], brown print; Fresh Food and Frozen Storage Company, 189[9]; Frozene Ice Cream ltd 192[8]; Jepson Fruit Machinery Company, 192[6]; Victorian Master Butchers Limited, 19[40]; Rolfe & Company Limited, 19[21]; Canada Dry (Australia & New Zealand) Limited, 1950, 1951; Carlton Brewery Limited, 19[69], 1970; Dinkum Home Brewing Company, £10 debenture, 1935[6], with 16 of 20 coupons attached; Hunter Valley Distillery Company, 190[2]; British Tobacco Company (Australia), 19[63] (3) NSW register. With pin holes, folds and creases, fine - good very fine. (17)
Estimate $140
SOLD $120
Manufacturing, A.1. Distributors Proprietary Limited, 192[9]; Associated Tobacco Manufacturers (Holdings) Ltd, 19[62]; Atlas Steels (Australia) Pty Ltd (typed), 19[40]; Australian Chalks and Crayons Limited, 192-; Australian Pine and Products Limited, 19[68], 19[71]; Australian Rubber Moulders Limited, 19[28]; Australian Wood Pipe Company, [1941] (2); Automatic Phonographs Limited, 19[27]; Autovalves Limited, 193[2]; Bland Magnetic Valves Limited, 192[6]; Caldwell Machine Gun Company, 191[5]; Chalmers Gyrator Committee, bonds [1932], [1934] (3); C.J. White & Sons Pty Ltd, 19[33]; Colac Brick Company, 19[56]; Commonwealth Brass and Metal Foundries Limited, 1912; Cummings Bonnetlock Proprietary Ltd, 192[2]; Hadfields (Australia) Limited, 19[22]; Hobbs Gearless Drive Limited, 193[3] (2); Iron, Steel and Metals Manufacturing Co. Ltd 19[07]; John Gelme Limited, 191[3]; Softwood Products Treatment Company, 194[1]; Steel Pneumatic Tube and Tire Syndicate (of Australasia), 191[5]; Stoneware Pipes & Tiles Pty Limited, 19[67] (2); Yates & Co (Australia) Limited, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, [1922], 192[4]; Waterloo Chemical Works Limited, 19[23] (2); William Dawson Company Prpt.Limited, Ballarat, 191[1]; Woods-Little Stone Dresser Limited, 191[0]. Housed in a four ring binder, some with pin holes, folds, small edge tears, otherwise very fine - extremely fine. (37)
Estimate $200
Passed in
Oil, gas and electric power, Abrolhos Oil, 1968; Amalgamated Petroleum, 1964 (3), 1969 (6); Australian OiL Wells Company, 1913[4]; Basin Oil, [1968]; Belford Dome Limited, 192[8]; Brisbane Gas Company, 18[81] (cancelled), 18[98], 19[05], 1935 (2) plus transfer; Castlemaine Electric Supply Company, 19[16] (2); Clarence River Basin Oil Exploration, 1957, 1962 (3), 1963 (3), 1968 (2); Coal, Oil & By-Products Pty Limited, 19[49]; Colonial Petroleum Oil Limited, 19[40]; Electrical Oil Company, 191[7]; Electric Industries Limited, 19[49] and transfer, 19[55]; Exoil, 1968; Genoa Oil, [1969] (2); Internal Combustion Fuel, 19[22]; Lennard Oil, 1981; Natural Gas & Oil Corporation Limited, 193[41]; Oil Development, 1962; N.S.W. Oil and Gas Company, [1969]; Oil and Minerals Quest, 1969; Pexa Oil, 1969; Roma Oil Corporation Limited, 19[30]; Roma-Mooga Oilfields, Roma, Queensland, 192[8]; South Australian Oil Corporation, 19[34]. Housed in a four ring binder, some with pin holes, folds, very fine - extremely fine. (48)
Estimate $220
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Panama, New Zealand & Australian Royal Mail Company, 186[4], twenty £10 shares, blue print, thin paper; African and Australian Company Limited, 190[2], fifty 2/- shares. With pin holes, folds and creases, handwritten annotations on both, first certificate soiled, fine. (2)
Estimate $120
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Prospecting, Alorstar Tin, Kedah, Malay Peninsula, 192[0] (2), one with call receipt; Asiatic Tin Development, 192[0]; Australian Prospecting Company, Western Australaia, 193[4]; Badak Perak Prospecting Company, Feerated Malay States, 192[0]; Bon Accord Prospecting Association, Mount Dundas, Tasmania, 189[1]; Central Australian Gold Exploration Company, [1931]; Coolgardie Prospecting, 194[7]; Cooma Prospecting Syndicate, Cooma, New South Wales, 192[7]; Eastern Prospecting Company, New Guinea, 19[35]; Fiji Prospecting Company, 193[5]; Gold Prospecting & Development, 19[49]; Ipoh Harbour Prospecting, Malay Archipelago, 1920; London & New Zealand Exploration Company, [1896]; Pioneer Expedition, 193[6]; Uranium & Nickel Exploration, [1969]; Westralian Prospects Limited, 193[4]. With pin holes, light folds, edge tears to first certificate, top right corner missing from last, very fine - nearly extremely fine. (16)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Queensland, Bulimba Ferry Company Ltd, 188[7], twenty £1 shares, No.50, issued to Edward Pashen, with transfer on back to William Cairnross, 188[91] together with three Queensland twopence stamps affixed, black print. With folds, tears along two vertical folds, otherwise good fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Queensland, Darling Downs and Western Land Compy Limited, [twenty ninth] day of [October] 188[96], one £100 share, No.187, black print on thin paper, vignette of wheat and heads of bull and sheep top centre, printer Watson Ferguson & Co, Brisbane, issued London. With pin holes, folds and creases, very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Rural industries, Associated Rural Industries, 19[60], Feb '63, Dec '63; Australian Wool Products, 19[27]; Brooklana Timber Company, 19[13] (2) for eight hundred and seventy and one hundred £1 shares and 19[20] for five hundred £1 shares, all issued to Charles Berwick Carter of Brooklana; Buckenbowra Wattle Bark Company, 191[0], for one thousand £1 shares; Colonial Sugar Refining Company, 12/9/69; Commonwealth Cotton Company, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, 19[18]; Consolidated Milk Industries Ltd, 19[68]; Co-operative Farmers & Graziers Direct Meat Supply Limited, 19[64]; Cooyal Dairy Company, 18[96]; Dubbo Co-operative Milling Co. Limited, 190[11]; Graziers Meat Service of Australasia, 192[5]; Kincumber Growers Limited, 19[26]; Mount House Stations Limited, 19[19] for five hundred £1 shares; North Eastern Grazing Company, 192- unissued; Producers Co-operative Ltd, Carlingford, receipts (2) and call due request, 192[2]; State of NSW Government Scheme for Marketing the Wheat Harvest 1916-17, scrip certificate for surplus, 19[17], with 'Third Advance Paid' stamp on front; Trawling and Direct Fish Supply Limited, 19[11]. With pin holes, folds and creases, some with small edge tears, third certificate with paper clip rust marks, fine - extremely fine. (23)
Estimate $180
Passed in
Sundry, Anantapur Gold Field, 190[12], green print and scrollwork left side; Associated Mining and Finance Company, 192[5], orange on buff and scrollwork left side; 1935, blue print; J.E.Austin & Sons Limited, 1952 (8), blue on green; Austral Siamese, 192[6] (2); Australian Roma Oil No.1 Limited, 192[9], black on light green; No.2 Limited, 192[9], brown print, both with Queensland 6d duty stamp affixed top right corner; Bayley's Gold, 19[01], pink print and scrollwork left side; Byles Mongolata Gold, 193[4], vendor shares; Callide Coal Syndicate, [1903], brown print; Central Gold Mines, 19[39], brown on buff; Cropleys [Pty] Limited, 19[48], black on buff; Electric Current Control Syndicate, option certificate, 1938; Goldfinders Limited, 1934; Murchison Consols, Sydney, 19[35], black and red on pink; Newbold General Refractories Limited, 1940; Oriomo Oil, 19[27] Uranium Holdings, 2Nov54. With pin holes, folds, some with tears, very good - good very fine. (26)
Estimate $130
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Sundry including retail, Ackmans Limited, 19[20]; Biber Furs Limited, 19[24]; Brodie & Bridge Limited, 19[27]; Buchanan-Gordon Diving Dress Company, [1899]; Buckingham's Limited, 5/9/55; Churchills Limited, 19[38]; Builders Limited, 192[8]; Lustre Hosiery Limited, 19[33]; F.& G. Stores Limited, Collingwood, 19[50]; Goodlet & Smith Limited, Sydney, 19[20]; Marine Treasures Limited, 192[4]; Spencer's Picture Limited, 19[55]; Sydney Snow Pty Limited, 19[63]; Traders' Bottle Company, 19[22]; Universal Shopping Service Ltd, 192[6]. With pin holes, some with light folds, edge tears, pieces missing from the Goodlet & Smith certificate, very fine - extremely fine. (15)
Estimate $120
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