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Albert Eid & Co., Societe en Commandite par Actions pour l'Exploitation des Taxi-Automobiles, un-issued share to bearer for E£10, Cairo 1924, not signed or numbered, lovely ornate border, black with orange underprint, with counterfoil and coupons, about extremely fine and rare. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Delta Trading Company S.A., a large group of certificates for 1 share (5), 5 shares (5), 10 shares (4) and 25 shares (18), Cairo 1946, and Alexandria 1938 and 1944 (varies with denomination), ornate border with scrollwork, green, blue, red and brown respectively, all with coupons re-attached at bottom, many with hand stamps on face, generally very fine. (32) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Etablissements Industriels et Commerciaux L. Bonello & Co., one bearer share for E£10, Alexandria 1945, no.1097, decorative border, blue, text in French and Arabic, with coupons, very fine. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Soc. des Gds Magasins du Progres le Caire, 100 franc share, Paris 1907, very attractive design of Pharoahs head at bottom, winged serpent at top, blue and yellow, with coupons; together with Grand Magasins Hannaux, founders share, Paris 19[14], ornate border with allegorical figures and Egyptian scenes, brown, with coupons, and, Grand Magasins Chemla S.A.E., 25 shares of E£4, Cairo 1946 (6 examples with some signature variety), large format, blue, with coupons, very fine to extremely fine. (8) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

General Warehouses of Egypt, pair of certificates for 1 share and 25 shares of E£4, Alexandria [1947], no.444 and no.48226-250, warehouse building at bottom, ornate border, blue and red respectively, with coupons, the second with what appears to be filing holes at bottom, very fine. (2) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Kafr-El-Zayat Cotton Co. Ltd., one share of E£5, Alexandria 1939, no.08351, decorative piece with border of columns with female figures, Sphinx and vases, factory at bottom and inset each side, blue and green, with coupons, about extremely fine. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

A group of Egyptian Pharmaceutical and Chemical companies, comprising; S.A. des Drogueries d'Egypte, E£4 share, Cairo 1944, ornate border, green; Compagnie Générale Egyptienne des Pétroles “COGEP", 5 shares of E£5, Alexandria 1940, decorative title and border, blue and green; Memphis Chemical Co., 10 shares, 1959, blue and orange; Abu Zaabal and Kafr El Zayat Fertilizer and Chemical Co. (AKFAC), E£2 share, 1958, red, and 25 shares, 1958, green, and Hinshelwood Paint & Oil Co. of Egypt, 5 shares of E£4, 1958, blue, the latter with large tear to bottom edge, otherwise about very fine. (6) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

A group of Egyptian Salt companies, comprising Marsa Matrouh Salt & Potash Co., 1 share of E£4, [1947], large map across bottom edge showing salt lakes, red and blue mainly; Port Said Salt Association Ltd., 25 shares of 10 shillings, 19[20], brown; Egyptian Salt & Soda Co., 1 share and 10 shares, both 1957, brown and green respectively; National Salt & Mining Co., 10 shares of E£4, 1949, red, and Société Egyptienne pour l'Exploitation des Salines de Port-Said, 1 share of E£4, 1953, green, all with coupons, all very fine apart from second piece which is only fine. (6) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

A collection of Egyptian textile companies, comprising; Associated Cotton Ginners of Egypt Ltd., 100 shares of £1, 19[06], green; Compagnie Cotonnière d'Égypte S.A., 5 shares of 100 francs, Paris 1913, blue and pink; Egyptian Cotton Mills Ltd., 5 shares of £1, 1900; Peerless Hosiery Azar Farhi & Co., 25 shares, 1945; Egyptian Cotton Ginners & Exporters, 1 share of E£5 (2 examples), 1937; S.A. Tissage et Tricotage, 1 share of E£4 (2 examples), 1935; Cotton Spinning, Weaving & Dyeing Co. "Karnak", 1951; "Watco" Worsted & Textile Co., [1953]; Societe Arabe Unie pour Usines Textiles al Kahira, 1961; Manufacture de Textiles Egyptiens "Matexa", 1946; Industrie Fibres Textiles S.A.E., 1948, and Société Industrielle Spahi de Filés & Textiles S.A.E., 1958, most with coupons, range of conditions, a couple fine to very fine, majority good very fine. (13) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

A lovely group of French Madagascan Certificates, comprising; Messageries Francaises de Madagascar, founders share, Paris 1898, ornate border, black, and 500 franc share, 1899, ornate border and underprint vignette, black and turquoise, both with steam train at top and shipping at bottom; Compagnie du Faraony, 25 franc share, Paris 191[1], ornate border, dark green; Compagnie Coloniale et des Mines D'Or de Suberbieville, founders share, Paris 1895, column style border, blue and green; and Compagnie Générale Franco-Malgache, founders share, Paris 1899, ornare border, black and pale green, all with coupons, very fine to extremely fine. (5) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Alexandria Pressing Company, one share of E£1, 1925, no.11128, bold architectural border with sphinx, green, together with Rosetta & Alexandria Rice Mills Co., 10 shares of E£4, 1938, no.5541-50, ornate border with pyramids at top and mill buildings on riverside at bottom, brown, both with coupons, both good very fine. (2) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Land Bank of Egypt, a pair of specimen certificates for 25 ordinary shares of £5 and 1 ordinary share of £5, Alexandria 1905, vignette of oxen with city in background, ornate border of Egyptian themes, pink and blue respectively, printed by Imprimerie Chaix, both have small hole cancels over number boxes and signature areas and on each coupon, small filing hole at top left, dirty/discoloured down centre fold, very fine but with some edge splits, the first rare. (2) Although not marked as specimens, these were found amongst the files of Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. and in our opinion were kept for archive purposes. The 1 share piece is fairly common, but the 25 share is very rare.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Ottoman Railway Company from Smyrna to Aidin, £20 share, London 186[2], no.08925, ornate scrollwork at left, text in English, French and Turkish, impressed and adhesive revenue stamps, coupons re-attached, good very fine. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Oriental Carpet Manufacturers Ltd., bearer warrant for 1 share of £5, London 19[12], several women sitting at loom weaving carpet, camel loaded with the company's goods above, ornate border, black, orange-brown underprint, text in English and French, with talon, very fine. A large company (capital £1,000,000), registered in England in 1907, but with Head Office in Smyrna. Had branches in Istanbul, Izmir, London, New York, Paris and Toronto. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Ottoman Financial Association Ltd., certificate for 1 share of £50, 1864, no.01152, ornate border, black, English with title in Arabic below, printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., very fine and scarce. This company was formed by the Mercantile Credit Association and was a combination of Greek merchant houses. Like so many others it collapsed in the wake of the Overend Gurney crash in 1866.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Roan Antelope Copper Mines Ltd., a set of 6 certificates for 1 share and 5 shares (5) of 5 shillings each, all 1936-37, large vignette of mine site and workings at top, antelope's head at bottom, the first brown, others both green, all with coupons, printed by Waterlow & Sons, very fine. (6) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Bank of Hindustan, China & Japan Ltd., a pair of certificates, £100 share, 18[63], no.9514, and New Shares, £100, 18[64], no.17956, coat of arms in centre, black printing, the latter on mauve paper, both with attractive embossed seal, perforated with part repayment, very fine and extremely fine. (2) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

New Oriental Bank Corporation Ltd., bearer share warrant for £10 (6), 188[5], ornate border, black and green, large underprint of £10, red embossed seal in bottom right corner, all with coupons, good very fine. (6) Established in Bombay in 1842 originally as the Bank of Western India, but headquarters were moved to London in 1845 and the name changed to the Oriental Bank Corporation. In 1851 the company was chartered to compete with the East India Company, and later expanded to China and Hong Kong, Japan, India, Mauritius and South Africa. The company suffered due to the coffee disease in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) which it had invested heavily in, and attempted re-organisation as the New Oriental Bank Corporation but could no longer compete with rivals HSBC and Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. It closed in 1892. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Oriental Bank Corporation, a pair of certificates, each for £25 share, 18[51], no.4320 and 18[56], no.42498, royal coat of arms at top, scrollwork to left, black, together with New Oriental Bank Corporation Ltd., £10 share, 1885, no.16733, black and green, with coupons, very fine. (3) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

A small group of companies operating in India, comprising; Madras Railway Company, £20 share, 1853, extension of original capital, scrollwork at left, black; East Indian Railway Co., consolidated stock, 186[5], black; Bengal Gold & Silver Mining Co. Ltd., 100 shares of 1 rupee, 1890, black with yellow underprint; Sonapret Proprietary Gold Mining Co. Ltd., founders share, 1890, blue; Kalyanpur Behar Gold Mining Co. Ltd., 10 shares of 10 rupees each, 1891, blue with orange underprint; India General Navigation and Railway Co. Ltd., 5% debenture for 500 rupees, 1915, steamer on river at top, black and green, and Indian Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., 4% first mortgage debenture for £100, 19[37], foundry at top, green and black, generally very fine, the first and last slightly better. (7) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(x) N. B. M. Motor Service Co. Indore, 100 rupee share, Indore 191[6], an interesting piece with decorative architectural border, small motor car at top, green and black, small part of printing has been erased, adhesive revenue stamp on face, good very fine. Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

A small collection of South African specimen certificates, all from the Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. archives, comprising; Natal Permanent Building Loan and Investment Association, £5 share, Durban 186-, red and black; South West Africa Company Ltd., bearer warrant for 50 shares of £1, London 19--, blue and black; Elands Drift Diamond Estates Ltd., £1 share, ornate border, blue and black; East Geduld Mines Ltd., warrant to bearer for 25 shares of £1, red and black, and series of certificates for 1, 5, 10 and 25 shares, all with ornate border, good very fine and better. (8) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Real Compañia de Filipinas, 250 peso share, 1785, no.23782, classic piece with architectural border with lion and cornucopia atop, elephant to the left and sailing ship to the right, allegorical females at bottom, black, good very fine and scarce. The company was established by royal decree in 1785 to promote trade between the Philippines and Spain, and to exploit the island's natural resources. The King and many major banks were shareholders in the company and it later absorbed the Barcelona Company. Friction between England and Spain later resulted in poor trading and it was abolished in 1834.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(x) A good group of South African 'bearer' certificates, comprising Marie Louise Gold Mines Ltd., 1 share and 5 shares of £1, both 189[5], blue and green respectively; French South African Development Co. Ltd., 25 shares of £1, 189[6], blue; French North Rand estates Gold Mining Co. Ltd., 10 shares, 189[5], blue; Free State Reefs Ltd., 5, 10 and 25 shares of £1, 19[18], blue, 19[15], red and 19[13], green; Central Buffelsdoorn Gold Mines Ltd., £1 shares, 189[5], blue; East Rand Amalgamated Gold Estates Ltd., 10 shares of £1, 190[9]; New Rip Gold Mining Co. Ltd., 25 shares of £1, 190[3], green and yellow; Orion Belt Ltd., 25 shares of £1, 18[97], and New Jagersfontein Mining & Exploration Co. Ltd., 1, 5, 10 and 20 shares, large format, text in English and French, blue with decorative borders, 19[10] - 19[13], all with coupons, all fine to very fine and better. (15) Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Kalgoorlie Electric Tramways Ltd., £1 shares, 190[6], decorative title, grey, together with other Australian certificates comprising Tasmanian Government 6% Debenture, £100 sterling, 1867, no. 877, ornate border, blue; South Australian Land Mortgage and Agency Company Ltd., £10 shares, 18[83], black; British & Australasian Trust & Loan Co. Ltd., £25 shares, 19[14], black; Gill McDowell Jarrah Company, £1 ordinary shares, 19[00], blue; Outtrim, Howitt and British Consolidated Coal Co., 10 shilling shares, 190[2], blue; Northumberland Land and Coal Co. Ltd. NSW, £1 shares, 188[9], blue; Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Packet Co., £20 share, 1852, black (this one heavily stained); Hydro-Electric Power & Metallurgical Co. Ltd., 2 pieces, ordinary shares and cumulative participating preference shares, 19[18] and 19[19], black and red respectively, hole cancelled, none with obvious damage unless stated, about very fine. (10) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(x) Group of South African Investment Companies, Comprising: South African Mortgage & Investment Co., £50 share 1863, black with vignette of Cornucopia and country scene, "Irrigation" in title overprinted "Mortgage"; South East Rand Investment Co, 1919: New Central Investment Corporation Ltd.,warrant for 10/- Founders share, 1898, black; Trust & Investment Corporation of South Africa Ltd., bearer certificate for 1 share, brown border, large format, text in English and French, 1890; Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Ltd., share warrant to bearer for 25 shares of £1, 1933, blue and green large format, and another example but for 5 shares, generally very fine (6) Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

City and Suburban Gold Mining and Estate Company Ltd., bearer warrant for 25 shares of £4 each, London 18[91], elephant at top, ornate border, blue and black, together with; Village Main Reef Gold Mining Company Ltd., bearer warrant for £1 share, London [1910], ornate border, red and black, and South West Randt Mines Ltd., bearer warrant for 10 shares of £1 each, London 189[5], lady justice with shields at top, red and black, all with coupons, some creasing but very fine.(3) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

A varied collection of British companies, mainly Gas and Water, comprising Appledore Gas Company Ltd., £5 share, 187[5]; Kineton Gas Light, Coal & Coke Co. Ltd., £2 share, 1863; Middleton and Dinsdale Gas Co. Ltd., £5 share, 187[2]; Moss Hall Coal Co. Ltd., £100 debenture, 198[9]; Twenty Well Stone & Brick Co. Ltd., 187[1]; London, Windsor & Greenwich Hotels Co. Ltd., 186[5]; Bray, Waddington & Co. Ltd., 1865; Hartlepool Gas and Water Co., 19[20]; British Honduras Co. Ltd., 18[64]; Tattershall and Coningsby Gas and Coke Co. Ltd., 18[66]; Rossendale Union Foundry Co. Ltd., 186[1]; Brompton, Chatham, Gillingham & Rochester Water Works Co., 1883; Felted Fabric Depot Ltd., 187[4], and London Monetary Advance & Life Assurance Co., 185[3], generally very fine and better. (13) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

A small collection of Canal company certificates, comprising; Bridgewater Navigation Co. Ltd., ordinary shares, 1876, banker's receipts for 5th and 6th instalment of dividends, and letter of voluntary liquidation; Birmingham Canal Navigations, 1 share, 185[7]; Sharpness New Docks and Gloucester & Birmingham Navigation Co., ordinary consolidated stock, 1[900]; Company of Proprietors of the Oxford Canal Navigation, £100 shares, 19[03], and Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Co., 4½% debenture stock and consolidated stock, [1914] and [1907] respectively, a few cancelled, mostly very fine. (9) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Canterbury Navigation and Sandwich Harbour Company, certificate for one share of £25, 182[6], no.516, lovely vignette of Cathedral with coats of arms in foreground, black, very light creases, good very fine and better than usual condition. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Company of Proprietors of the Oakham Canal, one share of £130, 184[7], no.379, black printing, adhesive embossed stamp at bottom right, good very fine. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

A group of Railway Certificates from Devon and Cornwall, comprising; Bristol & Exeter Railway Co., £100 share, 183[6], seal removed as cancellation; Great Western, Bristol & Exeter, and South Devon Railway Companies, joint rent charge stock, 1871; Cornwall Railway, £50 shares, 1844, and two 184[6]; Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway Co., debenture stock, 18[76], and B debenture stock, 18[81], together with four maps of the Somerset and Dorset Railway Extension uniting the Midland Railway with the London and South Western Railway, several cancelled, fine to very fine. (12) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

A nice collection of Welsh Railway Certificates (18), including; Burry Port and Gwendreath Valley Railway Co., £100 share, 186[6]; Mid Wales Railway Co., £10 share, 18[63]; Brecon & Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway Co., consolidated stock, 186[4], and preference stock, 19[01]; Bala & Festiniog Railway Co., £10 shares, 18[79], and others; Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway Co.; Cambrian Railways Co., and Ely Valley Railway, many cancelled, many very fine, some better. (18) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Abingdon Railway Co., two certificates for £10 shares, 1855, no.782 and 783, decorative title and scrollwork at left, black on blue paper, both cancelled, together with; Buckinghamshire Railway Co., £500 guaranteed stock, 186[1], swan in scrollwork frame at top, black; Royston & Hitchin Railway Co., un-issued £25 share, black; and Mellis & Eye Railway Co., unissued share, black, good very fine. (5) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(x) Diamond Mines: De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., share warrant to bearer for 1 Preference share, London 19[36], ornate border, green, together with North Eastern Bultfontein Ltd., 18[89], black; Consolidated Diamond Mines of South West Africa Ltd., share warrant for 25 shares, London 19[30], orange; Frank Smith Diamond Estates & Exploration Co. Ltd., share warrant for 10 shares [1901], brown, heavily creased, Elands Drift Diamond Estates Ltd., share warrant for 1 share of £1 [1902], pink and share warrant for 25 shares of £1 [1901] soiled with ink stains, green, and Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Ltd., option certificate for one share of £1, 1918, decorative border, grey, fine to very fine. (7) Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

City Railway, five shares of £50, deposit paid of £2 per share, London 1836, no.484, blue print on vellum, very fine and scarce. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

East London Railway Company, £20 share, 1865, no.53159, attractive black printing, red overprint fully paid, very fine and scarce. A steam hauled service that was opened in 1869 initially from New Cross Gate station to Wapping crossing the Thames using Brunel's tunnel. Later extended to Shoreditch. Became part of London Underground in 1933 and subsequently the Overground network.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Golden Valley Railway Co., 10 ordinary shares of £10, 18[90], no.581-590, scrollwork at left, green, together with more Railways from Herefordshire and Shropshire including; Hereford, Ross & Gloucester Railway, £20 share, 1851; Tenbury Railway Co., £10 share, 186[1]; Leominster and Bromyard Railway Co., £10 share, 1880; Bishop's Castle Railway Co., two mortgage deeds for £1000, 18[66]; and prospectus for the Wye Valley Railway Co., complete with application form, engineers report and map, the mortgage deeds with damage on creases, otherwise very fine. (7) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Great Western Railway Company, certificate of quarter share of £25, 184[5], no.36622, black, red paper seal, together with Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Co., mortgage deed for £2500, 18[49], no.15, black on blue paper; Great Eastern Railway Co., 3½% preference stock, 1893, scrip allotment, green, and, Railway Steel & Plant Co. Ltd., 5 shares, 187[3], black, and other British companies including Ipswich Reform Club Co., 187[5]; Wey Manor Golf Club Ltd., 1915; Hertford Club Ltd., 1934, and Heins & Co. Ltd., 190[3], generally very fine, a couple slightly better. (19) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Hull and Selby Railway Company, a pair of certificates, share for £12..10, 18[45], no.10050, floral design to left, black, together with £25 (or half) share, 184[5], no.16885, shields and floral scrolls to left, blue, both about extremely fine. (2) The company was incorporated in 1836 and opened in 1840. It was sold to the York and North Midland and the Manchester and Leeds railway companies in 1846.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Liverpool and Manchester Railway, £25 share, 1831, no.11584, black printing on vellum, embossed red paper seal at bottom right, almost extremely fine. The company was incorporated in 1826 with the aim of replacing the costly method of transportation of goods between the cities, which was limited to waterways. It met with much opposition initially and was eventually opened in 1834. The railway cost well over £1,000,000 once finished.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

London & York Railway, £50 share, 1845, no.32, black printing on green paper, together with; Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway, £20 share, 185[4], no.3111, black; Spilsby and Firsby Railway Co., mortgage debenture for £100, 18[86], no.162, black; and Isle of Axholme, Gainsborough and Goole Railway Co. (with extension to Selby), £25 shares, 1845, blue, the latter with repairs, edge tears and discolouration, otherwise very fine. (4) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

New Romney Railway Company, £10 share, 186[6], no.309, black, stamped paid in full, filing holes at top edge, together with; Stokes Bay Railway & Pier Co., mortgage deed for £500, no.5, 18[60], green; Bridport Railway Co., £10 share (2), 1855, one cancelled, and £10 preference shares, 18[61], hole cancelled; and Isle of Wight Railway Co. Ltd., specimen debenture certificate, 197[-], black and red, the 3rd and 4th with some staining, very fine and better. (6) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

North Eastern Railway, a small group of certificates comprising; £5 share, 188[2], black, several hand written notes on face; Berwick capital stock, £100, 185[5], red on blue paper; London & North Eastern Railway Co., deferred ordinary stock, 19[34], black on blue paper; hand written note from secretary's office dated June 1856, and letter regarding consolidation of the preference stock dated Feb 1897, very fine. (5) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Co., £10 share, 1861, no.12198, ornate title with company seal below, black, and two transfer certificates, 18[60], blue, together with London Chatham & Dover Railway Co., £10 preferred share, 1864, and mortgage deed for £10,000, 18[86], cancelled (corner with seal removed), very fine. (5) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway, £25 share, 1857, no.9939, ornate title, black, top edge a little nibbled, together with; Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway, £20 share, 185[4], no.1687; Northern Counties Union Railway Co., one share, 18[46], and receipt for certificate for 17 shares dated May 1847; North Eastern Railway, receipt for certificates dated May 1882, very fine. (5) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(x) Land, Estate and Miscellaneous Companies of South Africa, comprising: Cape Colonisation Company, £1 shares dated 18[96], brown; Zwartland (Transvaal) Land Company, 189[1], blue; Read's Drift Land Company, 18[89] black; Transvaal Lands Company Ltd., £1 ordinary shares, vignette of Chevalier Forssman top centre, 18[89]; United African Lands Ltd., £1 shares, 189[5], red; Tugela Estates Ltd., £1 shares, Pietmaritzburg 19[14], blue, and, Kensington Estate Co. Ltd., £1 shares, London 19[02], green; Legate's Buildings Ltd., 5 shilling shares, Durban, blue with affixed revenue stamps; Herman Patent Conglomerate Building Material Land and Investment Co. Ltd.,£1 shares, Johannesburg 189[5], brown with building vignette; Johannesburg Brick & Tile Company Ltd., £1 shares, Johannesburg 188[9], black, and Croydon Brick Company Ltd., £1 shares, Cape Town 19[03] with affixed revenue stamps; Pretoria Club, certificate of life membership issued following take up of 10 debentures of £10 each, Pretoria 1893, and Grosvenor Finalists Syndicate, an interesting pair of certificates relating to a share in Duckham Marine Salvage Syndicate (Pty) Ltd. and the wreck of the S.V.Grosvenor which was wrecked off the Pondoland coast in 1782, undated but revenue stamps have 1948 handwritten on their face, black, adhesive revenue stamps, fine to very fine (14) Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Whitehaven & Furness Junction Railway Co., £10 preference share, 185[8], no.2108, brown, embossed seal at bottom, together with more Cumbrian Railways comprising; Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Co., one share, 1855, and ordinary stock, 18[65]; Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway Co., two certificates for consolidated stock, 188[3] and 18[94], these only fine and about very fine; Border Counties Railway Co., 5 shares of £20, 185[5], and un-issued £20 shares, 186[-]; and Maryport & Carlisle Railway, un-issued certificates for ordinary stock, 187[-], very fine and better unless stated. (8) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Wiltshire Railway Co., £20 share, fully paid up, 1866, no.864, decorative title and scrollwork at left, black on pink paper, together with; West Somerset Mineral Railway Co., £10 share, class A, 185[7], no.1843, black; Swindon & Cheltenham Extension Railway Co., ordinary shares, 188[4], black with red paper seal, cancelled; and London, Newbury and Bath Direct Railway, letter advising of share allotment, dated October 1845, the third with large tear, otherwise very fine and better. (4) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

A large group of British railway company documents, including share certificates, dividend forms, plans, maps and many manuscript pieces, dates from the 1850's onwards, a few later in the early 1900's, railways include; Bala & Festiniog, Carmarthen and Cardigan, Brecon & Merthyr Tydfil Junction, Great North of England, North British, Great Western, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Caledonian and York, Newcastle and Berwick among others, range of conditions from fine to very fine at best. (77) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co. Ltd., one share, 20 shillings paid, 185[7], no.1288, horse drawn omnibus in centre with passengers inside and out, black, extremely fine. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

An interesting collection of Steam Shipping certificates, including Steam Ship Tower Hill Co. Ltd., £100 shares, 18[81]; Great Ship Co. Ltd., £1 shares, 1859; Eastern Steam Navigation Co., £20 share, 185[1]; Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Packet Co., £20 share, 1852; European & American Steam Shipping Co. Ltd., £9 share, 1857; Oriental Inland Steam Co., 1860; Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Co., 18[68], 18[80] and 19[14]; Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay Steam Packet Co. (5); Staithes Shipping Co., 185[6]; Tankers Ltd., 19[28]; Elder Dempster and Co. Ltd., 19[24]; Lamport and Holt Ltd., 19[24], and Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., 19[23], fine to very fine. (25) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Great Dover Street Trust, share transfer document for [£1000] capital stock, 18[41], black printing on thick paper, scrollwork at left, signatures of transferor and transferee, small tears on folds at right edge, toned, fine to very fine. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Highgate Archway Company, £50 share, 18[10], no.317, attractive early piece with red paper seal affixed at left, black printing on vellum, good very fine and especially nice condition for this issue. Formed to cut a tunnel through the steep hill at Highgate, North London, which collapsed when almost complete, forming the present cutting. The company then built the bridge across, which was rebuilt at the turn of the century.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Southwark Bridge Company, certificate for one share, [1814], no.677, orange paper seal at left, black printing on vellum, old tape marks on reverse which are now visible from the front, otherwise very fine. Built by John Rennie from cast iron, spanning 240 feet, joining London to Blackfriars. It was the largest bridge ever constructed of cast iron and it bankrupted the iron founders - Walkers of Rotherham. Replaced between 1912 and 1921 by the present bridge.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Strand Bridge Company, one share, 18[09], no.4677, attractive gold paper seal at left depicting the bridge, black printing on vellum, mount marks on the reverse otherwise very fine. Designed by John Rennie and built between 1811 and 1817. Its name was changed from Strand Bridge to Waterloo Bridge in 1816 following the defeat of Napoleon the previous year. Opened by the Prince Regent in 1817. This structure was demolished in 1936 to make way for the present bridge.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Eddystone Lighthouse, sale of one 32nd part or share in the lighthouse currently being built, to Samuel Hamersley, 1758, for the sum of £420 19s 7d, for a term of 99 years, a handwritten document on 4 pages, signed by the transferors, Ann Hoffshleger and John Betagh and two witnesses to their signatures, very fine condition. This certificate relating to the third lighthouse to be built on the Eddystone Rocks in Devon. The first two being destroyed by storm and fire, the third was to be influential in the design of lighthouses of the future. Designed by John Smeaton it was modelled on an Oak tree, and used a concrete base (using hydraulic lime which would set under water). It first operated in 1859, and remained until 1877 when the rocks beneath had become eroded. This lighthouse was removed and rebuilt in Plymouth as a memorial, and a fourth one stands in its place today. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

British Insurance company certificates, a small group, mostly late 19th century, a few 1920's and one later, comprising Brighton and Sussex Union Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., £10 share, 18[82]; Imperial Marine Insurance Co. Ltd., £10 shares, 187[7] and 187[9]; City of London Re-Insurance Co. Ltd., £1 shares, 19[20]; First National Reinsurance Co. Ltd., £1 shares, 19[20]; Traders and General Insurance Association Ltd., £1 shares, 19[20]; Essex Union Insurance Co. Ltd., 19[20]; Port of Manchester Marine Insurance Co. (1919) Ltd., 19[20]; Consolidated Assurance Co. Ltd., 19[23]; Mer Insurance Co. Ltd., 19[42]; Liverpool Marine Insurance Co. Ltd., 186[9]; Liverpool Mortgage Insurance Co. Ltd., 18[92], and Union Marine Insurance Co. Ltd., 4 examples, generally very fine. (16) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

(x) Interesting collection of Sheba related Material, comprising: Great She Gold Mining Company Ltd., £1 shares dated 1888, vignete of "The Great She", black; Kimberley Sheba Gold Mining Co., Barberton 1887; Great Sheba Gold Mine Ltd., £1 bearer share with coupons, trimmed edges, 1889; United Reefs (Sheba) Ltd., shares of 16 shillings each, 18[99] on pink paper; Sheba Gold Mining Company, 4 shilling shares, registered London, 1924, pink; United Reefs (Sheba) Ltd., 10 shilling shares, 1906, green; Sheba Hill Ltd., 5/- shares dated 189[6], black; Sheba Queen Gold and Exploration Ltd., 10/- preference shares 1905, green; Sheba Gold Mining Company, £1 shares, 1894; and, Sheba Gold Mining Company Ltd., bearer certificate for 5 x £1 shares, text in English and French, London 18[95], generally very fine-good (10) Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Provident Institution for Life Insurance and Annuities, a group of 4 certificates for one share, 180[7], no.1819-1822, black printing, hand written transfer details at bottom left, very fine. (4) Name changed in 1813 to Provident Life. Acquired by Alliance Insurance, now Sun Alliance.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.