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France. Le Nouveau Monde (The New World), Company in Commandite, for working gold mines in California, U.S.A., certificate no.167421-167525, 1852. Pin hole top and bottom, some light foxing, very fine and scarce.
Estimate $70
SOLD $0
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 $120
SOLD $0
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 $70
SOLD $0
South Australia oil. Associated Oil Corporation, Mount Gambier, 1922, contributing shares (2); The Associated Oil Corporation, Mount Gambier, 1931, fully paid up shares; South Australian Oil Corporation, 1931 (2) both similar design but from different plates; South Australian Oil Wells Co, 1914, five shillings shares (purple on white) (3, consecutive); same, identical design, but for ten shillings shares (green on white); South Australian Oil Wells Co, 1925. A few with edge tears but overall very fine. (10)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Shipping. Western Steam Navigation Company Limited, 8th July 1878, for twenty shares of ร โ5 each, light blue on white, with small vignette of a steamship; Western District Steamship Company, 7th June 1910, for two thousand one hundred and twenty five shares of ร โ1 each, issued to Howard South Company Limited of Melbourne, black on white, perforated 'cancelled' three times over signatures; Edithvale Boat Club, 7th December 1918, ร โ1 debenture, black print; Bay Steamers Limited, 6th March 1935, for one hundred and sixteen shares of 5s each, brown on cream. With pin holes, light folds, very fine. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $120
Victoria. Melbourne & Suburban Railway Company, 5th November 1859, for one share of ร โ10, black on white, with vignette of Coat of Arms, Yarra River scene below, street map in foreground, figure of surveyor to left and labourer to right. With two folds, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $0
Victoria, transport. Charley Taxi & Car Company Limited, 1912, for twenty five shares of ร โ1 each, brown print; Victorian Motorbus Company Limited, Melbourne, 1914, for two hundred shares of 10s each, red and green print over light red vignette of doubledecker motorbus; Charley Cars Ltd., 1915, for seventy eight shares of ร โ1 each, black on grey, vignette of motorcar within map of Australia, within two circles; Yellow Cabs (Queensland) Limited, 1927, for fifty shares of ร โ1 each, black on yellow, with Queensland, George V, sixpence duty stamp affixed; Red & Checker Cabs Limited, 1929, for one hundred shares of ร โ1 each, red on cream. With pinholes and folds, very fine - good very fine. (5)
Estimate $150
SOLD $490
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 $80
SOLD $0
Australia. A. & E. Ellis Limited, 1923; The Anchor Fence Company of Australia, 1909; Anderson & Company, 1933; Anderson's Tanneries, 1919; Angus Railway Safe Running Electrical Appliances Company, 1911; Antifyre (Australia) Limited, 1925 (only 10,000 shares on issue); Australian Commonwealth Estates & Building Coy, 1924; Australian Rubber Moulders, 1928; Blennerhassett's Institue of Accountancy, 1928; Builders Limited, 1929; Drillers Limited, 1935; Dux Electric Heaters (N.S.W.), 1927; Electric Supplies and Engineering, 1922; The Flagstone Tin Mining Company, 1926; Frank Grimley, 1902 (owner's shares in name of Frank Grimley); Frozene Ice Cream, Surry Hills, 1929; The Hobbs Gearless Drive, 1932; James Hurll & Company, 1921; Lakes Entrance Development Company, 1930; Lamplough Patent Crushing Mills, 1935 (only 600 shares on issue, scarce); Pani-ilota Limited, 1910; Richardson's Patent Building Stone Company, 1908 (only 60 shares on issue, very scarce); Riley Newman Direct Export Produce Company, 1918; The Watchman Newspaper, 1903; Yemelba Holdings Limited, 1935 (only 200 shares on issue, very scarce). Very fine, some very scarce. (25)
Estimate $220
SOLD $230
Australia. A.J.Benjamin, 1960; Afforestation (Aust), 1939; Allied Glass Manufacturers, 1934; Bailbrook House, (regd 1898, unissued); Beaconsfield Lime Products, 1951; Bolwarrah and Gordon's Amalgamated, 1934; Bond's Industries, 1944; Chevron Sydney, 1962; Dow Properties, 1973; Erolite Industries, 1951; The Graziers' Co-operative Shearing Company, 1947; Great Western (Nepean) Gravel, 1938; Highgates Limited, 1938; Merrydown Wine Company, 1983; The North Eastern Grazing Company, 1920s, unissued; Northern Territory Land Company, 1936, together with separate Transfer Form; The Original Mont de Piรขโฌลกtรขโฌลก, 1952; Palgrave Corporation, 1963; Producers' Oilwell Supplies, 1940, Richcakes Limited, 1933, issued to Herbert Adams; Victorian Producers' Co-operative Company, 1951; Waikiki Motel (inc. W.A.), 1960. Very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $90
Australia. A.G.Healing, 1964; A.J.Benjamin, 1960; Apex Commodity Traders, 1979; Armstrong Jones Australian Growth Fund (2, 1987 and 1991, both different); Associated Rural Industries, 1965; Associated Securities, 1978; A.F.T.Property and Building Trusts No 8, 1988; Coles Myer, 1993; Collin Holdings, 1973; Co-operative Farmers and Graziers Direct Meat Supply, 1967; Cox Brothers (Australia), 1958; Erolite Industries Corporation, 1951; Federated Engineering Industries, 1961; Federated Industries Limited, 1968; Foster's Brewing Group, 1995; Gem Property Trust, 1993; Health & Life Care, 1989; International Footwear Industries, 1963; Matured Pine Trees, 1956; Olive Oil (Dimboola) Industry No 3 Issue, unissued; Plantation Holdings, 1969; Reid Murray Holdings (2, 1959 and 1960, both different); Southern Australia Perpetual Forests, 1974, with attached broker's receipt and compliments form; Victorian Producers' Co-operative Company, 1954; Victorian Wheatgrowers Corporation, 1957. Overall very fine. (27)
Estimate $70
SOLD $90
Banking. Land Credit Bank of Australasia Limited, 27th November 1879 (written date), for ten shares of ร โ5 each, black print, with receipt attached. With pinholes, folds, very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Banking. The Anglo-Australian Bank Limited, 1st October 1890, for twenty four shares of ร โ5 each, black on pink. With pinholes, folds, very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Banking. Real Estate Mortgage and Deposit Bank, 25th October 1890, for fifty two shares of ร โ5 each, black on white. With spike hole, folds, very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Banking. The Federal Deposit Bank Limited, 9th April 1926, for seventy five shares of ร โ1 each, black on white with ornate border. With folds, good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Finance. The Commercial Finance & Property Company, Limited, 25th September 1888, for five hundred shares of ร โ1 each, red on white. With pinholes, folds, very fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Finance. Australian Alliance Investment Company Limited, 2nd July 1889, for two hundred shares of ร โ1 each, blue on white. With pinholes, folds, very fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $170
Finance. The Colonial Investment and Agency Company Limited, 22nd July 1889, for two hundred shares of ร โ1 each, black on white. With pinholes, folds, very fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
Sundry. Mercantile Investment Trust of Australia, (13), Nos. 315-327, all dated 18th July 1888, seven for one thousand shares of ร โ5 each and six for five hundred shares of ร โ5 each, all overprinted 'two shillings per share has been paid on these shares on account of distribution of assets' three times; Melbourne Central Property Co Limited, 1st August 1888, for five hundred shares of ร โ2 each (with burn holes at centre), black print; Broken Hill South Block 5 Company, 22nd Aug 1891, for fifty shares of 10/- each, new issue, black print, overprinted 'Contributing' in blue and 'Melbourne Register' in red twice, with brokers stamp; another, 21st November 1891, for twenty five contributing shares of 10/- each, new issue, overprinted 'Melbourne Register' in mauve twice, with brokers stamp. All with folds, spike hole, good - fine. (16)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Sundry. Melbourne Central Property Co Limited, 1st August 1888, for five hundred shares of ร โ2 each; Mercantile Investment Trust of Australia, 12th December 1888, for two hundred shares of ร โ5 each, together with form of transfer and letter for deposit of documents; also poster advertising an auction of blocks of land in Northcote, 23 April (/85 handwritten in pencil); Bank of Victoria, Wahyunyah, third of exchange (8), dated 1878-1881. Fair - fine. (12)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Sundry. Royal Horse and Carriage Repository Company, 2nd June 1890, pink on white, with small vignette of horse; The Victoria Ice Company Limited, 31st March 1890, for two hundred shares of ร โ1 each, black on white with vignette of ship at sea surrounded by icebergs, penguins in foreground; Pomeroy Smoke Consumer & Fuel Economiser Limited, 20th September 1911. With pinholes, folds, very fine. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $100
Austria. Fourth War Bond, 5 1/2%, Series 350, Number 023,739, twenty thousand kronen, Vienna, 16 April 1916, with oval stamp and affixed 1919 stamp for postwar conversion, Austrian crest at top, female at left, knight in armour at right, leafed border. Beautifully framed, modern style, virtually uncirculated.
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
Canada and U.S.A. Caltex Oil Company, 1919; Mercantile Transport & Forwarding Ltd, Canada, 1938 (2, preference [orange], ordinary [purple]); Mississippi River Corporation, 1970; North American Lumber Company, 18- (unissued, only 20,000 shares on issue); Paramount Oils Limited, 1935; Petroflex Corporation, 1963; Petroleum Heat and Power Company, 1920; Sagvenay Pulp and Power Company (inc. Quebec), 1922; United States Banknote Company, 1968; United States Steel Corporation, 1947. Overall very fine. (11)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Great Britain. Shares and debentures. Associated Newspapers, 1953; Bambergers, 1964 (2); The British Motor Cab Company, 1914; Boots Pure Drug Company, 1932; Broadcast Relay Service, 1952; Buck's Fleet Motors, 1920; Charles Laffitte & Company, 1866 (unissued) (Anglo-French); Colonial & General Investment Trust, 1970; The Colonial Finance Mortgage Investment Guarantee Corporation, 1889; Fort Fraser Land Company, 1913; The Gleboff Grosny Petroleum Company, 1920 (Anglo-French); Greenall Whitley and Company (5, 1953 (2), 1959, 1961 (2), 1962, made up of three different types); Kirby's Limited, 1963 (2); London & Global Finance Corporation, 1900; Menzies Limited, 1899; The New Zealand Midland Railway Company, 1895; Powell Duffryn Limited, 1960; The Prince of Wales Hotel Company (3, 1950, 1957, 1965, all different plates); Smith & Williams (Leven) Limited, 1913 (only 1,500 shares on issue, scarce); Stanley Gibbons International (5, 1968-1977, the last from a different plate). Several with edge tears, overall fine - very fine. (33)
Estimate $220
SOLD $150
U.S.A. Cornell-Dublier Electric Corporation (2, 1937 for 100 shares [blue], 1938 for less than 100 shares [orange]); Hydraulic-Press Brick Company (2, 1924 ordinary [green], 1946 preferred [brown]); The Leigh Coal and Navigation Company (2, 1930 for 100 shares [green], 1937 for less than 100 shares [orange]); Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company, 1909; The Public Utility Holding Corporation of America (2, 1930 one for 100 shares and one for less than 100 shares); Tobacco Products Corporation, 1926; Tobacco Products Corporation of Delaware, 1932; United Founders Corporation, 1931; United States Lines Inc, 1929; United Stores Corporation, 1930; United Stores Corporation, 1935; Utility Equities Corporation, 1930; S.D.Warren Company, 1929; Wisconsin Investment Company (2, 1930, for 100 shares [orange], less than 100 shares [green]); Wisconsin Investment Company (3, 1932 for less than 100 ordinary shares [light brown], 1936 for 100 ordinary shares [red], 1931 for less than 100 preference shares [brown]). Overall very fine - extremely fine. (22)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0
U.S.A. Mostly industrial and finance sector, mostly 1930s - 1970s, a few unissued, a varied assortment and many with nice vignettes. Overall very fine - extremely fine. (90)
Estimate $220
SOLD $0
U.S.A. Debentures, bonds and notes. Bennett-O'Connell Company, 1923; The Chicago Breweries Limited, 1924; Commercial Credit Company, 1979; Consolidated Edison Company of New York, 1987; General Electric Overseas Capital Corporation, 1965; A.A.Henninger Inc, 1935; City of Indianapolis, Municipal Airport Development Bond, 1938; another but different design, 1948; City of Indianapolis Weir Cook Municipal Airport Expansion Bond, 1951; City of Jersey City Gold School Bond, 1915; Kerr-McGee Oil Industries sinking fund debenture, 1957; Santol Products Company, 1923; City of South Bend, sewage works revenue bond, 1954; Trans World Airlines, 1961; Uris Buildings Corporation, sinking fund debenture, 1960. Overall very fine. (15)
Estimate $70
SOLD $0