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Great Britain, very large vellum Indenture, 1699, between Joseph Fford of Stowbridge and his wife, Jane, being a will, signed by all parties to the Indenture, with two sixpence duty stamps affixed. Foxing, stains and creasing, otherwise good.
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
Great Britain, vellum Indenture, 1788, between Joseph Devey and Ralph Powsell for the sum of five shillings for a lease of a parcel of land at Bobbington, South Staffordshire, England, signed and sealed by Joseph Devey with witnesses, with affixed duty stamp for one shilling and six pence, also other Royal monogram stickers. Foxing, otherwise fine.
Estimate $50
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Great Britain, large vellum Indenture of Assignment of a trust in four parts by Edward Gatacre to William Tongue, 1805, for a parcel of land and house with stable in the Parish of Bobbington, South Staffordshire, England, for the sum of 150 pounds owing by Edward Gatacre to Thomas Biddle, Samuel Biddle, Edward Simmonds and his wife Elizabeth (before marriage was spinster of Thomas Davis), signed and sealed by all parties and witnessed, with small Royal arms at top left and with three duty stamps affixed, one for one pound ten shillings, one for fifteen shillings and another for five shillings, as well as other Royal monogram stickers. Foxing and stains, otherwise very good.
Estimate $60
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Great Britain, large vellum Indenture for Deed of Covenant of Indemnity dated 9 August 1838 between Mrs Jane Tongue, George Jones (farmer and miller) and Ann his wife and Edward Lloyd Gatacre and William Clarke for a parcel of land in the Parish of Claverley, Shropshire, England for the sum of 1,200 pounds, signed under seal by each party and witnessed, with small Royal arms at top left and with one pound fifteen shillings duty stamp affixed. Foxing, otherwise fine.
Estimate $80
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Queen Victoria, partly printed DS, signed at upper left "Victoria R", one page (approx 38.1x28cm), February 22, 1850, an appointment for Randal Rumsley as "Lieutenant Colonel of our Twelth Regiment of Foot", the embossed paper seal remains intact below the signature, matted with a portrait print of Queen Victoria, framed under glass (approx 75.5x43.2cm). Fine.
Estimate $1,000
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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.
Estimate $500
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Tasmania, Tasmanian Government Debenture for £100, No.1072, Hobart Town, 31st October 1867, Coat of Arms top centre, blue print and ornate border (44.5 x 29.5cm) with 'PAID' overstamped twice in red in signature fields, two one shilling transfer stamps for 1892 and 1893 affixed top left side. With pin holes, folds and creases, wear to edges, very fine.
Estimate $80
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Tasmania, Tasmanian Government Debenture for £500, No.1118, Hobart Town, 31st October 1867, Coat of Arms top centre, blue print and ornate border (43 x 28.5cm) with 'PAID' overstamped in red twice in signature fields and 'London / 9 3 68 / P' stamp in black near Coat of Arms. With pin holes, spike hole in left border, folds and creases, very fine.
Estimate $160
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Tasmania, Bank of Van Diemen's Land Limited, in Liquidation, second call of £1 per share, received from [S.Rheuben] the sum of £8.0.0, [4th March] 189[6]; together with correspondence to Mr Solomon Rheuben of Hobart from the Bank of Van Diemens Land Limited in Liquidation, 1st April, 18[97], and solicitors Horace Walch, 189[8] and Dobson, Mitchell & Allport, 1900 (2). With pin holes, folds and tape marks on top corners on back of first, fine - very fine. (5 items)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Italian Republic (Napoleonic), (1802-05), The Minister of Public Treasury of the Italian Republic, 2-page document No.3971 hand printed and written in ink, dated Milan 1st September 1803 Year 2, text mostly in Italian addressed to Citizen Mesny Pagatore general of the French troops stationed in Italy, with a three-line later addition in French by a different writer being a receipt by the cashier of the Cisalpine Treasury to be dismissed against the receipt of the taxpayer, signed at end, 'Veneri' and another (signature indistinguishable). Some small edge tears and loss of paper, spike hole mark as usual and light foxing but in excellent condition for age, fine.
Estimate $90
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Hornibrook Highway Bus Service Limited, Certificate of Incorporation, 29th August 1935, on large card with red registrar seal, signed B.B.Templeton, Deputy Registrar (43cm 29cm). Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
USA historic newspapers, various issues 1861-1865 featuring reports on the American Civil War, includes The New York Herald (2), The New-York Times (4), The New-York Tribune (3), Boston Daily Advertiser; also The Philadelphia Inquirer, Public Ledger, Wednesday Morning August 15, 1945, with headline 'PEACE' and includes 16 of 26 pages with complete war history, maps and pictures. Some tears and paper loss at edges, otherwise good. (11)
Estimate $40
SOLD $50
Share certificates, Belgium, Societe Anonyme des Ciments De L'Europe Orientale (Portland Artificiel), action of 250 francs, 1910, with some attached dividend coupons 53-60; Societe Anonyme des Establts A.Rosenbaum et F.Aras, obligation of 250 francs, 1931, with attached all 4 interest payment coupons; Comptoir Charbonnier Maritime, action of 500 francs, 1924, with all attached dividend coupons 14-30; Compagnie Generale des Tramways d'Athenes et du Piree, action privilegiee of 100 francs, 1900, with only one dividend coupon attached for 1918; Belgian Congo, Societie Miniere de Bafwaboli 'Somiba', Stanleyville, action without mention of capital value, 1944, with all but one attached dividend coupons 16-44 (missing 15); La Commerciale Anversoise du Congo Societe Congolaise, action of 100 francs, 1927, with part attached dividend coupons 9-30; France, Hotel George V, action of one hundred francs, 1939, with attached all 24 dividend payment coupons; Trust Franco-Belge des Petroles, action of 500 francs, 1920, with attached all 30 action dividend payment coupons; Russia, Imperial State Gold Loan 4 per cent Bond for 125 roubles, 1889, no coupons issued with this certificate. A few with tears around edge, otherwise overall good - extremely fine. (9)
Estimate $80
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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 $80
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Insurance, Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited, policy issued to Michael Bolger, farmer, of Trentham, Victoria, for the sum of £250, dated twenty-eighth November 1888, with vignette of two seated female figures top centre; Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society, policy issued to Christina Pollock for a dwelling in Marion St, Leichhardt, sum insured £200, dated thirtieth May 1896, with vignette of the Society's Head Office building corner Pitt and King Streets, Sydney, and a NSW one shilling duty stamp affixed. With folds, creases, some edge tears, small stain top right side on first policy, fine. (2)
Estimate $80
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Tasmania, Launceston Gas Company, transfer of ten shares, No.297, 186[70], black on blue with Tasmania five shilling stamp affixed top left corner; certificate for twelve £10 shares, 188[9], black on grey, handwritten in red across front 'Cancelled 20/5/18/See No.1351' and red lines through signatures. With pin holes, folds and small edge tears, very fine. (2)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
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 $80
SOLD $50
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 $80
SOLD $50
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 $100
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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 $120
SOLD $180
Australia, mining, AI Consolidated Gold, 19/9/69; Adelong Gold Estates, Grahamestown, New South Wales, 191[21]; Ajax Consolidated, Daylesford, Victoria, 19[48]; Alluvial Gold, Nicholson's Creek. 193[6]; Amalgamated Hawkins Hill and Hill End Gold Mines, Hill End, New South Wales, 19[30]; Apollo International Minerals, 23 Dec 69 (2); Araluen Alluvial, 193[4]; Arnheim Land Gold Development, 193[5]; Associated Northern Ora Banda, 1934 (2), 1934[5]; Austral Mining, 19[54] (20); Australian Mining Trust, 193[4] (5); Australasian Mining Corporation, 5 June 1968; Australian Consolidated Minerals, 1969; Australian Territories Mining, 192[8]. Housed in a four ring binder, some with folds, pin holes, otherwise very fine - extremely fine. (38)
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
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 $160
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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 $100
SOLD $60
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 $100
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Sundry, London issues, Australian Maikop Oil Company, [1910], brown print; Australian Agricultural Company, [1934], black print, green patterned centre and decorative border; Australasian Electric Light, Power & Storage Company, 188[5], black print, thin paper; Broken Hill Proprietary Block 14 Company, 19[07]; Chillagoe Limited, 19[13], brown print and scrollwork left side; Emperor Mines, [1946]; Geelong Gold Mining Company, 189[1902], green print and scrollwork left side; Kangarilla Proprietary Silver Mines (South Australia), 18[90]; Queensland Exploration Company, 190]7], blue print, scrollwork left side and border; Mount Chambers Copper Mines, Share Warrant, in English and French, for five £1 shares, [25th September 1899], black print, orange and white embossed duty stamps in top corners, with all twenty dividend coupons attached payable at the London office of the Company; Smelting and Refining Company of Australia (1901) Limited, 19[04]; White Feather Main Reefs (1906) Limited, 19[06]. With pin holes, folds and crease, some with edge tears, fine - good very fine. (12)
Estimate $120
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Sundry, London issues, Australian Agricultural Company, [1954], black print with green patterned centre and decorative border; The Australian Mining Company, 18[94], thin paper; Australian Gold Extracting Company (Pollok Patents) Limited, Glasgow 189[1] (4), blue print and scrollwork left side, all issued to the one person; The Australasian Electric Light, power & Storage Company Limited, 188[7], blue print and border; [Cromwell Patents] Limited, 19[38]; Flinders Copper Company Limited, [1914]; Mount Elliott Limited, Share Warrant, in English and French, for one £5 share, London [20th March] 19[13], black and mauve, with embossed English and French duty stamps, twelve of twenty dividend coupons attached (two with tape repairs); together with dividend receipts (all London offices) for The Mysore Gold Mining Company, 1910; Mount Morgan Mining Company, 189[8]; Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company Limited, 1910 (2). Some with pin holes, folds and creases, fine - good very fine. (14)
Estimate $120
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Sundry, Australian Optical Holdings, 1962; Australian Telecasters, Jun 8 62; Australian & Kandos Cement Holdings, 1967; Amalgamated Linens, 19[52]; Bitulite Road Limited, 192[8]; Cadell Fruitpackers Limited, 19[50], 19[51]; Chevron Sydney, 19[62], 19[63]; Consolidated Motels, 1962; Coogee Ocean Pier Company, 19[26]; A.C.Cooke Limited, 1930; G.J.Coles & Coy, 1957, 1961; Consolidated Textiles, 1956; Dux Electric Heaters, 19[28] (2); Dunlop Rubber Australia, unissued; Elastic Webbing Industries, 19[48] (2); Kosciusko Chalet, 196[4]; Tomki Packers, undated; United Distributors, 19[26]; Woolworths, 19[39]; Western Plains Zoo, Zebras Unlimited. Some with pin or spike hole, light folds, very fine - extremely fine. (25)
Estimate $100
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Sundry, 1920-1970s, Alliance Holdings, 1969; Artarmon Estate Limited, profit sharing receipt, 1922; A.Barrett's Proprietary Limited, 19[26], 19[27]; Australian Factors, 19[64]; Automobile Advance and Agency Company, 19[55]; Berriquin Holdings, 19[68]; Browse Island Company, 192[1]; Chevron Sydney, 19[67]; Commercial & General Acceptance Limited, 1960, 1965, 1966; Commercial Trading Pty Limited (typed), 19[48], 19[49]; Combined Resources, 1969; Commercial Guaranty, 1965; Cox Brothers (Australia) (7), 1956-1969; Davys Proprietary Limited, 19[26]; Decmar Corporation, 19[61]; Derrin Bros (Holdings), 19[61]; Drylec Limited (4), 195[4], 19[59] (2), 1965; Dobell (Q'LD) Pty Ltd (typed), 1954; J.T.Dunston Pty Ltd, 19[39]; Five Arrows Australia Resources Trust, unissued; Great Western Consolidated, 1969 (3); Mainline Corporation, 1969, 1970; N.B.H.C. Holdings, 1971; Nema Holdings, 1975; H.G.Palmer (Consolidated), 1969; Penworth Limited, 19[38]; Randwick Estates Limited (typed), 19[37]; Soltex Holdings, 19[69]; Surrey Engine and Boiler Works, 19[20]; United Distributors, 19[26], U.E.B. Industries, 1970; Waters Trading Co, 9[47]; Willsford Limited, 19--, unissued; Wytex Proprietary, 19[46]. Housed in a four ring binder, some with pin or punch holes, folds, two with edge tears, fine - extremely fine. (50)
Estimate $200
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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 $160
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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 $100
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