Catalogue
Tasmania mining. Consolidated Chum Gold Mining Co., Lefroy, 1st March 1882, black on mauve and cream; Silver Crown Extended Prospecting Association, Mount Zeehan, Tasmania, 28th April 1888, green print and border, with brokers stamp. Second scrip has been repaired with tape down and between two folds on back, otherwise fine. (2)
Estimate $140
SOLD $180
Tasmania mining. The Great Mount Black Mining Compy, Mount Black, County of Montague, 1897 (only 40,000 shares on issue) printed with the name ’E.C.Mace, of Hobart’ included, together with a With Compliments slip from Joseph Palmer & Son’s with details of the share purchase. Certificate with four small holes, otherwise very fine and scarce. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $350
Tasmania mining. Heazlewood Silver-Lead Mining Co., Limited, 26 May 1888, black on green. With pinholes and light folds, good very fine.
Estimate $130
SOLD $350
Tasmania mining. Ophir Amalgamated Gold Mining Company, Beaconsfield, 1891, together with broker, L.P. Bain’s Compliments slip for this scrip; The Round Hill Silver Mining Co, 1891 (2). Fine - good fine. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $400
Tasmania mining. Rio Tinto Mining Company, Savage River, Tasmania, 10 October 1896, dark blue print, with four call receipts on back. With spike hole and two folds, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $400
Tasmania mining. South Mount Lyell Consols Mining Co., Mount Lyell, 1896, mauve print, overprinted ’Fully Paid Up’ in red; North Mount Lyell Consolidated Mining Coy., Mount Lyell, 1898, blue print on pink, overprinted ’Fully Paid Up’ in red, with brokers stamp; Tasmania Gold Mine Limited, 1910 (2), brown print, London register, blue print, Launceston register, torn top right margin. Very fine - good very fine. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $260
Tasmania mining. Success and Owen Meredith Amalgamated Silver Mining Company, North Dundas, 8th April 1893, brown print, ’Fully Paid Up’ overprinted in red. With pinholes and light folds, good very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $150
Tasmania mining. Telephone Gold Mining Company, Reg., Lefroy, Tasmania, 7 March 1883, orange print. With pin holes and light folds, good very fine.
Estimate $130
SOLD $350
Tasmania mining. T.P.C. Mines, Tin Pot Creek, near Cascade River, 1906; Tasman Oil Company, Barn Bluff, 1921, overprinted ’Fully Paid Up’ in red, tears in top and bottom margins; Tasmanian Petroleum Co., overstamped ’Mining’ in blue above ’Co.’, 1923, for one hundred shares of 2/- each, black on yellow; Tasmanite Shale Oil Company Limited, 1928, for one hundred shares of Å“1 each, blue on aqua, tear in top margin and stains in right margin; Tasmanian Balfour Prospecting Association, 1910, overprinted ’Paid Up’in red. Fine - good fine. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Tasmania mining. Wyniford River Tin Mining Company Limited, Blue Tier, North East Coast, 1881, for fifty shares of Å“1 each; South West Curtin-Davis Mining Company, Dundas, 1896, for one hundred shares of Å“1 each, blue print, with two brokers stamps on front and two call paids on back; North Lyell Pioneers Gold and Copper Company, Mount Lyell, 1896, brown print. With pinholes and folds, very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
Canada mining. Big Pete Canadian Mines, 1910, share warrant, Anglo-French, with all dividend coupons attached; The Blaine Mining & Exploration Company, Ontario, 1899; The Buffalo Mines Limited, Ontario, 1914; Creuger Gold Run Consolidated, Nova Scotia, 1905, share warrant, Anglo-French with all dividend coupons attached; The International Nickel Company of Canada Limited, 1960; Porcupine Panamint Gold Mines Limited, Ontario, 1911; The Silver Bird Cobalt Mines Limited, Ontario, 1907. All except second last with nice vignettes, very fine - extremely fine. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Great Britain mining. The Arnoya Mining Company, 1909 (Anglo-French); Aragon Copper Mines, 1907 (Anglo-French); The Bettws Llantwit Colliery, 1873 (only 6,000 shares on issue); The Briseis Tin and General Mining Company, 1923; The British Consolidated Oil Corporation, 1910; The Dickins Custer Mines, 1898; The Dharwar Reefs Company, 1908; The Delta Metal Company, 1964; England’s Premier Cobalt Mining Company, 1907 (Canada stock); The English and French Gold Mines Syndicate, 1895; The St Ives Consolidated Mines, 1911 (Anglo-French; The Spassky Copper Mine, 1919 (Anglo-French); Tanganyika Goldfields, 1928 (Anglo-French). The third with cigarette burn hole, overall fine - very fine. (12)
Estimate $150
SOLD $110
U.K. mining. The Mellingloch Lead Mining Company Limited, 1871 (Wales) certificate no.511 named to Miss Henrietta S.Hanbury Tracy; Mendip Hills Mining Company, 1856, certificate no.960 (Somerset, England). Good very fine - extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $0
Wales mining. The East Clogau Gold Mining Company, 1862, five shares. Foxing around inked areas, nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
New Guinea mining. Akmana New Guinea Gold, 1930; Gold Mines of Papua, 1937; Mount Kaindi Gold Ridges (New Guinea), 1929; Mount Lawson (New Guinea) Gold Lands, 1928; New Guinea Options, 1929; North East New Guinea Gold Fields, 1932 (contributing shares [blue]), 1934 (fully paid shares [green]); Upper Watut Gold Alluvials, 1935; also, Solomon Islands Gold Development, 1936 (contributing shares). Some with tears the first with top right corner missing, overall fine - very fine. (9)
Estimate $90
SOLD $0
New Zealand mining. Aroha Gold Mines Limited, 1896, for one hundred shares of Å“1 each, red on white; Triumph (Hauraki) Gold Mines Limited, for four thousand eight hundred ordinary shares of 5/- each, 1897, brown on white with changes to share issue overprinted in orange, signed by William Brown, liquidator, no directors signatures. Both with pinholes and quarter folds, very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
New Zealand mining. The Kapai-Vermont Gold Mining Company, Kuaotunu, Auckland, 1895 (2) consecutive nos.845/6; The Maritoto Gold & Silver Mining Company, Maritoto, Thames District, Auckland Province, 1888, together with official company receipt from Sydney Office dated Aug 21, 1888. The last certificate with bottom left edge missing and rough edges, fine - very fine. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $400
New Zealand mining. Triumph (Hauraki) Gold Mines Limited, ten shares of 5/- each, 1895, brown on white; New Zealand Mines Trust Limited, thirty five shares of Å“1 each, 1897, blue on white. Both with punch holes and folds, very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
U.S.A. mining. Anaconda Copper Mining, Montana, 1933; Baltimore Copper Mining, Montana, 1911; Copper King Mining and Smelting, Idaho, 1908; Homestake Mining Company, California, 1916; The International Nickel Company, New Jersey, 1925, with attached receipts and duty stamps; The Isabella Gold Mining Company, Colorado, undated; Lisbon Valley Uranium Company, Colorado, 1956; Magma Copper Company, Maine (4, all different, 1921 [black], 1942 for less than 100 shares [orange], 1942 for 100 shares [green], 1960 for 100 shares [green], 1965 [new design]); The Montgomery Lead & Zinc Mining Company, Pennsylvania, 1922; North Butte Mining Company, Minnesota (2, 1906 for less than 100 shares [green], 1925 for 100 shares [orange]); The North Eureka Mining Company, Utah, 1890; Parrot Silver and Copper Company, Montana, 1908; Phelps Dodge Corporation, New York (5, 1947 and 1950 for less than 100 shares [black], 1942 for 100 shares [orange], new design, 1957 for less than 100 shares [green] and 1962 for 100 shares [blue]); St Joe Minerals Corporation, New York, 1971; Yreka Copper Company, Tacoma, Washington, 1903. Most punch cancelled and mostly with nice vignettes, overall very fine. (23)
Estimate $180
SOLD $200
U.S.A. mining. The Columbas Gold Mining Company of the Black Hills, 1880; Moulton Mining Company, Butte City, Montana, 1881; San Juan Consolidated Mining Co, 1875. The second with cancelled stamp and six punch holes, the last with cancelled stamp, good very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
World oil and mining. Caledonian Mining Corporation Limited, 1900, with mauve print and elaborate border; Oil Trust Limited, 1910, blue on cream; Maikop Orient Oil Company Limited, 1911, brown on cream; Anglo-Maikop Corporation Limited, 1912, blue print, border and vignette of mining scene; Oilfields Finance Corporation Limited, 1920, red print and border; Uroz Oilfields Limited, 1921, for one hundred shares of 10/- each, brown print; New Caucasian Oilfields Limited, 1921; Trinidad Oil Lands, Limited (2), 10% preference shares, 1923, brown print and border, ordinary shares, 1923, green print and border, change to capital and shares overstamped in pink; Premier Oil & Finance Company Limited, 1924; Spies Petroleum Company Limited, 1926, red print and border; Blue Bird Petrol Limited, 1929 (2), ordinary shares, blue print and border, deferred shares, black on light orange; Maikop Pipeline and Transport Company Limited, 1949, for three hundred and fifty shares of Å“1 each. All with pinholes, folds, some with handwritten notations in borders, fair - fine. (14)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Oil companies. Amalgamated Petroleum (3, 1964 (2) [red], 1969 [white]); Aitape Oilfields, 1934; Bounty Oil, 1970 (2, share [yellow], option [white]); Consolidated Roma Oil, 1929; Dominion Mining & Oil, 1982; Flinders Petroleum, 1969; Freney Kimberley Oil Company (1932) NL, 1954; Lakes Oil, 1947; Longreach Metals, 1970; Lennard Oil, 1969 (2, consecutive); Midfield Oil, 1930; Murray Basin Oil Syndicate, 1955; Ormildah Oil Development, 1928 (2, one grey, one blue [reprinted]); The Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Company, 1958 (2 consecutive); Pan Pacific Petroleum (2, 1983 option, 1985 option expiry notice); Tasmanite Shale Oil, 1928; Torquay Oil Wells, 1922 (2). A few with edge tears or holes, overall very fine. (25)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Australia oil companies. Ampol Petroleum, 1956; Associated Australian Oilfields, Roma, Queensland, 1958; Australian Roma Oil No 2 Ltd, 1930; Bass Strait Oil & Gas (Holdings), 1985; Beach Petroleum, 1969 (2 consecutive); Churchill Energy, 1983; Exoil (2, 1964 share [grey], 1968 option [green]); Harbourside Oil, 1972; Lake Wellington Oil Company, 1938; The Lander Oil Field (Australia), 1929 (2, one pound share [white], five shillings "B" privileged share [pink]); Macquarie Oil, 1984; N.S.W. Oil and Gas (2, 1971 share [red], 1969 option [pink]); Offshore Oil, 1969; Planet Oil, 1962 (2 consecutive); Roma Blocks Oil, Roma, Queensland, 1929; Roma Oil Corporation, 1928; Roma Ormildah Associated Oil Fields, 1931. Overall very fine. (22)
Estimate $100
SOLD $190
Oil and power. Clarence River Basin Oil Exploration, Sydney, 1954 (20, includes consecutive 2, 3 [2], 4, 5); Inter-State Investments, New Zealand, 1930; Interstate Mines and Petroleum, 1928 (2, consecutive); The Lander Oil Field (Australia), 1927; Natural Gas & Oil Corporation (2, dated 1935 and 1942); The Sydney & Suburban Hydraulic Power Company, receipt for payment of second call, 1889. The second last items with ring punch holes, one damaged, otherwise fine - very fine. (27)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Oil and gas. Australian Maikop Oil Company Limited, 1910, for five hundred shares of 2/- each, brown on cream, London register; South Western Oil & Shale Company, Western Australia, 1921, for three shares of Å“5 each of three thousand on offer, black on aqua, overprinted ’Paid Up’ in red; South Eastern Oil Company Limited, 1923, for one hundred shares of Å“1 each, black on blue, overprinted ’Fully Paid Up’ in red; Commonwealth Oil Corporation Limited, 1919, for two hundred deferred ordinary shares black on cream and a 6% non-cumulative income debenture stock of Å“122.10.0, 1919, mauve on cream, both to same holder and with notations in pen in top border; Standard Oil of Gippsland (Vict) Limited, 1932, green print and border, overprinted ’Fully Paid Up’ in red; Austral Oil Drilling Syndicate, 1941, black on light brown; Planet Oil Company, 1963, black on green, Melbourne register. With pinholes, folds, good - very fine. (8)
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Oil and gas. Australian Maikop Oil Company, 1910, black print, London register; Australian Oil Wells Company, Melbourne, 1914; Commonwealth Oil Corporation Limited, 1919, for one hundred and fifty preferred ordinary shares, red on white; Lander Oil Field (Australia) Ltd, 1923, for one hundred shares of Å“1 each, blue on cream, has been repaired with tape along sides; Standard Oil Company of Australia Limited, 1937, purple over light orange scene of oil wells; Amalgamated Petroleum, 1962, black on yellow, stained; Planet Oil Company, 1962, black on yellow, Canberra register, Exoil, 1964, black on light brown. All with pinholes and folds, some with notations in borders, good - very fine. (8)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Australia. The Argus and Australasian Limited, Victoria, 1936; The Bank of Australasia, 1931, London Office share registration certificate; Coogee Ocean Pier Company, 1926; M S Broking (1931) Limited, interim certificate, 1940; Pani-ilota Limited, 1910; The Renown Oyster Company, 1924; Soci‚t‚ ForestiŠre Franco-Australienne, issued in Paris, 1921, with vignettes of timber cutters, ship and sheep, with all dividend coupons attached. The third with top right corner missing, the last with a small edge tear, very fine. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $190
Entertainment. The Associated County Halls & Theatres Limited, 1914, for fifteen ordinary shares of 5/- each, blue on white, printed by Roberts & Leete, Ld, London, With folds, very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Finance. Associated Financial Corporation Limited (3), 1900, for three hundred and thirty preference shares of 10/- each, burgundy print, 1900, three hundred and thirty ordinary shares of 10/- each, blue print, 1901, five ordinary shares of Å“1 each, burgundy print, 1901, different style to previous, Å“10 debenture, 1901, without coupons; Commonwealth Mining and Finance Limited, 1934, magenta print; Great Boulder Mining & Finance Limited (2), for two hundred and ten shares of 5s each, light brown print, 1935, option certificate for sixty six shares of 5s each, 1935, both with pencil notations; Stanhill Development Finance Limited, 1960; Colonial & General Investment Trust Limited, 1968, stamped ’Cancelled’ twice, brown print; Assets Purchase & Realization Co of Australia Limited, Notice of Ordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders, business and reports, 1918. With folds, good - very fine. (10)
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Australia debentures. The Associated Financial Corporation, 1902; Australian & New Zealand Investments Limited, 1928; The Celtic Club, Melbourne, 1962; Chevron Sydney Limited, 1966; Midland Railway Company of Western Australia, 1920; Queensland Forests Limited, 1931. The second last with edge tears otherwise very fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0