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Australia mining. Australian Cordillera Gold & Copper Mining Company, certificate for five shares, nos.39046 to 39050, 4th September 1852, printed on linen. One of the earliest certificates issued and rare, a few pin holes near left edge and light folds, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $470
Australia mining. British Australian Gold Mining Company, offices at 26 Moorgate St, London and 481 George St, Sydney, certificate for five shares, dated on back and entered in minutes 1st December 1851, nos.22541 to 22545. One of the earliest gold mining issues, folds, good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $400
Passed in
Australia mining. The New Red Jacket Company (Limited), certificate no.152 for one share (face value £82-9-5), dated 6th October 1862, printed by Evans Bros (next to Craig's Royal Hotel) Ballaarat, only 174 shares issued. Good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $250
SOLD $220
New South Wales mining. Grant's Amalgamated Gold, 188-, twenty five £1 shares, black on pink; Mount Drysdale Gold, 189[5], ten £1 shares, brown on buff. Light folds, pin and spike holes, good very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
New South Wales mining. Mount Drysdale Gold, Cobar, 189[5], ten £1 shares, brown on buff; Mount Battery Tin, Torrington, 192[8], one hundred 10/- shares, blue on white; New Butlers Tin, Torington (sic), 194[0], one hundred 10/- shares, black on green; Shaw River Alluvials, 18/3/55, one hundred 5/- shares, pink on pink. With folds, pinholes, fine - very fine. (4)
Estimate $100
Passed in
New South Wales mining. Tingha Consolidated Tin, Tingha, 190[6], one hundred 10/- shares, overprinted 'Fully Paid Up' and 'Preferential' in blue; Radium Hill Company, 19[13], £10 share, overprinted 'Contributing' in red; Tingha Tin, Tingha, 192[4], one hundred £1 shares; Marshall-Longton Lucknow Gold, Lucknow, 192[5], one hundred 2/- shares, overprinted 'Contributing' in red; Shaw River Alluvials, 18/3/55, one hundred 5/- shares. With folds, pinholes, fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Queensland mining. Queensland Mining Prospecting & Investment, 18[99], five £1 shares, green on pink; North Queen Gold, Charters Towers, 1903, one hundred 7/- shares, blue on buff, overprinted 'Fully Paid Up' in red; North Australasian Exploration Limited, 191[2], £10 share, blue on buff; Lode Hill Tin Mines, Cooktown, 191[4], one hundred 10/- shares, blue on buff; Georgetown Gold Mines, Georgetown, 1934, one hundred 10/- shares, black on grey with call paid stamps on back. With folds, pinholes, very fine. (5)
Estimate $120
SOLD $80
Queensland mining. Victoria Gold Mining Association (Charters Towers), 189[2], one hundred £1 shares, black on white; Pani-Ilota Limited, 1910, one hundred 10/- shares, black on buff; Oxide Creek Limited, Mount Oxide, 191[3], one hundred 5/- shares, black on buff, overprinted 'Fully Paid' in red; Silver Mountain Mining, 192[8], one hundred 10/- shares, black on light grey, blue border, overprinted 'Fully Paid' in red; Return Creek Tin, Mount Garnet, 19[30], one hundred 25/- cumulative preference shares, brown on yellow. With folds, pinholes, very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
South Australia mining. The Worthing Mining Company, South Australia, certificate for one hundred free shares to Henry Rendell Wotton, nos.2871 to 2970, dated 13th October 1849; another to same holder but for two hundred fully paid up shares, certificate no.482, dated 21st August 1861, both different designs. The first with a tear at top edge, otherwise very fine, a very scarce early mining issue, the second very fine. (2)
Estimate $550
SOLD $600
South Australia mining. Australian Consols Gold and Copper Mines, on the cost-book system, twenty shares, nos.40141-40160, 29th April 1852, printed on linen. One of the earliest certificates issued and rare, dark tone along right edge but still very fine.
Estimate $400
SOLD $400
South Australia / Northern Territory mining. Flora Bell Proprietary Silver, Northern Territory , S.A., 27 April 188[8], one hundred £1 shares, blue and pink on green and white; Consolidated Gold Areas, 19[39], one hundred 4/- shares; Mountain View Gold, 19[49], one hundred 4/- shares; Blue Spec Mining, 19[53], one hundred 5/- shares overprinted 'Fully Paid Up' in red, figures for capital, shares altered in red; Australasian Mining Corporation, stamped 6 Jun 1968, one hundred shares. With folds, pinholes, fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
Passed in
South Australia mining. Victoria Tower, Manna Hill, 18[90], five hundred 10/- shares; mauve on buff, vignette of mining scene top centre; Blue Spec Mining, 19[51], one hundred 5/- shares; Pioneer Mines, 19[54], one hundred 5/- shares; Great Boulder Mining and Finance, 19[35], one hundred 5/- shares; Hill 50 Gold, 1956, one hundred 1/- shares. With folds and pinholes, fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Tasmania mining. Penguin Silver Mines Company, 24th August 187[0], fifty £1 shares, aqua on white. With light fold, crease across top right corner, good very fine.
Estimate $250
Passed in
Tasmania mining. The United Victorian & Tasmanian Quartz Mining Company, Waterhouse, 15 June 18[70], ten £5 shares, blue, green and gold on white. Light centre fold, pinhole, extremely fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $450
Tasmania mining. Stanhope Tin, Mount Bischoff, 187[81], fifty preferential £6 shares, orange on buff, overprinted 'Preferential' in black, broker's stamp in mauve; The Melbourne Proprietary Silver Mining Co., Mount Dundas, 189[2], eighteen £1 shares, brown on buff and silver within silver border, overprinted 'Fully Paid Up' on orange. With light folds, pinholes, very fine. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $750
Tasmania mining. Montagu Tin, County of Montagu, 188[3], twenty five £1.10 shares, black on white; Weir's Bischoff Surprise Tin, Mount Bischoff, typed 1907, twenty five 5/- shares, black on buff; Tower Hill Gold, Mathinna, 192[2], £10 share of 340 on offer, black on yellow. With pinholes, light folds, light foxing to edges of first, fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $250
SOLD $700
Tasmania mining. Red Hills Tin, Main Creek, 188[8], one hundred 10/- shares, brown and blue on white; The Silver Cliff Silver, North Valley, Waratah, Mount Bischoff, 189[3], seventy six 10/- shares, black on buff, overprinted 'Fully Paid Up' in mauve and 'New Issue' twice in green. With light folds and creases, very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $650
Tasmania mining, Great Southern Mount Lyell, Mount Lyell, 3rd February 189[1900], one hundred £1 shares, blue on white; The Tamar Mining Company, 19th June 188[2], one hundred £1 shares, mauve on white. With folds, pinholes, very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $400
Tasmania mining. New Brothers Home No.1 Tin, Cascade River, County of Dorset, 19th December 189[0], twenty five £1 shares, blue on white with three brokers stamps; Wyniford River Tin, Blue Tier, North East Coast, 2nd November 1881 (in words), two hundred £1 shares, black on white, small overprint 'Paid Up' in black. With folds, pinholes, very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $400
Tasmania mining. Tasmania West Extended Gold, Beaconsfield, 18[1900], one hundred 10-/ shares, red on buff with gold and red border, vignette of miners in black top centre, gold decorative shields each side, scroll and mining scene in red left side. With light folds, slight foxing to edges, good very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $470
Victoria, Melbourne & Suburban Railway Company, share certificate no.11750 for ten pounds, dated 4th February 1860, with impressed seal. Two folds, otherwise extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $300
Passed in
Victoria mining. The Jennings Consols & Spread Eagle Consolidated Gold and Tin Sluicing Company, Eldorado, 1[879], interim scrip certificate for ten £10 shares, blue on buff; Great Western Long Tunnel Quartz, Walhalla, 189[4], one hundred 10/- shares, black on green, with vignette of a flag and miner's implements left side; Great Northern Extended Gold, Rutherglen, 18[96], ten £1 shares, black on white. With folds, spike or pin holes, 15mm x 10mm tear to top of second scrip, fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $220
Victoria mining. Martin's Freehold Gold, Smeaton, 188[1], one hundred £1 shares, black on white, brokers stamp top right; Moorabool & Dolly's Creek Bucket Dredging Co., 190[1], fifty £1 shares, black on yellow. With folds, pinholes, good very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
Victoria mining. The Nevada Lead & Silver, Buchan, North Gippsland, 188[1], twenty £1 shares, mauve and silver on light blue; Mount Mercer Consols Gold, Mount Mercer, 189[8], fifty 10/- shares, blue on beige, brokers stamp top right, 'Interim Dividend Paid' stamped top left; Neptune Amalgamated Hydraulic Sluicing, Glen Wills, Gippsland, 189[9], one thousand seven hundred and ninety 5/- shares, black on pink, overprinted 'Paid Up' in red. With folds, pinholes, light foxing on edges, fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $200
SOLD $260
Victoria mining. The Great Southern Garden Gully Consols, Garden Gully Reef, Sandhurst, 188[2], two hundred and fifty 10/- shares, black on white; Great West Glenfine Gold, Pitfield Plains, 189[1901], fifty 10/- shares, blue on buff; Great Walhalla Gold, Walhalla, 189[1902], one hundred 10/- shares, red on buff, increased figures for capital and shares overprinted in blue. With folds, pinholes, very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $180
Victoria mining. Rising Star Quartz, Daylesford, 188[6], forty 10/- shares, mauve on white; The Ovens & Buckland Alluvial Gold, 189[9], seventy 10/- shares, black on white, overprinted 'Paid Up to 6/-' in red; The Plantagenet Syndicate, 190[0], £5 share, black on pink; Daisy Hill Alluvials, 193[5], black on grey, overprinted 'Vendor's Shares Fully Paid' in red. Light folds, pinholes, good very fine. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $180
Victoria mining. Madame Bent Gold, Durham Lead, Buninyong, 188[7], one hundred £1 shares, black on pink, overprinted 'Paid Up' in blue; Great Northern Extended Consols Gold, Rutherglen, 189[8], one hundred £2 shares, black on blue and white, capital increase and share change overprinted in red, with broker's stamp; Jesson and Hatfield Prospecting and Mining, 189[4], £25 share of an issue of 200, black on white. With folds, pinholes, fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $200
Victoria mining. Gippsland Deep Lead Gold, Walhalla, 18[90], fifty 10/- shares, pink on buff; Derby Extended Quartz, Maldon, 189[3], fifty 5/- shares, black on pink; Long Tunnel Extended Gold, 190[5], five £6 shares, black on buff. Bottom left corner missing on first, with pinholes, folds and rust marks, fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $150
Victoria mining. Buninyong Goldfields Company, Buninyong, 1891, one promoter's share consisting of 200 contributing shares, black on buff; Blue Bell Gold, Palmerston, Myrtleford, 1[901], one hundred 5/- shares, blue on buff; Great Southern and Chiltern Valley United Gold, Rutherglen, 189[5], forty £1 shares, black on green and buff, vignette of mining scene top centre, overprinted 'Paid Up' in red. With folds, pin or spike holes, 20mm tear right side of last, fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $320
Victoria mining. Strezlecki Coal, Korumburra, South Gippsland, 189[3], one half £10 share, black on buff; The Strezlecki Consolidated Colliery, Korrumburra (sic), South Gippsland, 189[4], three 11/- shares, black on buff, overprinted 'Fully Paid Up' in red, figures for the capital and share amount have been altered by hand. With folds, pinholes, nearly very fine and scarce. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $250