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Thomas Cook, specimen traveller's cheques, in folder of Instructions for Paying Agents, April 1978, printed in English, French and German, includes twenty and one hundred pounds sterling; fifty Australian dollars; ten and five hundred Unites States dollars and twenty Canadian dollars, all over stamped 'Specimen No Value'in red'. Cheques uncirculated, folder with wear to folds. (6)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Westpac Bank Corporation, series of progressive proofs of the Bank's Cheque forms, printed with signature of S.C. Fowler, Managing Director, 16 cheques per sheet, 8 sheets. Extremely fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $300
Decimal currency training banknotes, (1985 - 1996), two dollars - one hundred dollars; travellers cheques, The Commercial Bank of Australia (6), 1960's. Extremely fine - uncirculated. (12)
Estimate $40
SOLD $40
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 $200
Passed in
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 $140
SOLD $100
British North Borneo, The Labuan & Borneo United Opium Farm, share certificate for $2,000, 10th April 1904, issued by Chee Swee Cheng. A few small worm holes and a burn in the upper middle margin, otherwise nearly very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
India, Bank of Bengal, registered stock certificate, overprints of payments made with unclear dates, 1860s. Very fine.
Estimate $50
Passed in
Spain, Royal Treasury Bond, Series A No.477 for one hundred reales vellon, with interest of 6% per year, repayable as preferential debt by the Public Treasury in the first five years of the pacification of the kingdom, issued at Bayonne, first of November 1873. Creases, folds, edge nicks and a few letters written on reverse, otherwise fine.
Estimate $80
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Sioux City and Pacific Railway, 1901, specimen ten thousand dollars gold debenture. Heavily folded otherwise uncirculated.
Estimate $50
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Railway gold bonds, specimen registered gold bond, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railway Co., $1000, Nov. 2 1905, No 00000, S23595; Nahant & Lynn Street Railway Company, Massachusets, $1000, No. 00000. Folds, tears along two folded edges, otherwise fine; folds, fine. (2)
Estimate $150
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The Consolidated Railway Company, 1955, specimen ten thousand dollars gold debenture. Heavily folded otherwise uncirculated.
Estimate $50
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West Shore Railway Company, unknown date, specimen registered bond for fifty thousand dollars with principal due 1st January 2361; same but ten thousand dollars. Badly folded otherwise uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $50
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