Terra Australis bei Downies
Die Ausnahme von der Regel. Diese Auktion habe ich nicht besucht, deshalb fällt der "Bericht" auch sehr kurz aus.
In Down Under versteigerte das Auktionshaus Downies vom 10. - 12. Juli praktisch alle im Buch von Michael Liebig abgebildeten Stücke. Schade, daß diese tollen und seltenen Papiere nicht mehr Beachtung fanden. Das Ergebnis spricht für sich. Der Markt hat die Stücke praktisch aufgesogen und das für australische Verhältnisse zu teilweise sensationellen Preisen.
BANKING
& FINANCE
Lot |
Description |
Price |
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2771 |
Bank of Australia, one £100 share of Bank Capital
Stock 5th July 1833 registered in the name of Thomas dela Condamine |
$3,500.00 Zuschlag
2.600.00 |
2772 |
Bank of New South Wales, one £100 share of Bank
Capital Stock 27 January 1832 registered in the name of Joseph Wyatt, coat
of arms vignette at left, transferal endorsement 1834 on the back |
$3,500.00 2.600.00 |
2773 |
Bank of New South Wales, one £100 share of Bank
Capital Stock 31 May 1832 registered in the name of Samuel Terry, coat of
arms vignette at left, executors transferal endorsements 1838 on the back |
$3,500.00 2.500.00 |
2774 |
Commercial Banking Company of |
$3,500.00 2.500.00 |
2775 |
Commercial Banking Company of |
$3,500.00 2.500.00 |
2776 |
Chartered Bank of |
$150.00 850.00 |
2777 |
Anglo-Australian Investment Finance & Land Co Ltd
of Sydney £100 debenture certificate 1890 with attractive vignette and
some coupons intact; Professional Chambers Company Melbourne 1888; Legal
& General Life Assurance Society of Australasia Ltd Melbourne 1873;
plus London & Globe Finance Corporation London 1899 (4 certificates) |
$175.00 450.00 |
GOLD
MINING 19th CENTURY
Lot |
Description |
Price |
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2778 |
Australian Cordillera Gold & Copper Mining
Company certificate for five £1 shares dated 4th Sept 1852, the
certificate is produced on a waxy linen-type fabric, pin holes centre left,
central horizontal bend and minor near horizontal fabric imperfection do
not detract from the chit's age and importance this early into the 'gold
rush' era, VF The cataloguer was unable to locate the mine itself, but the
'Australian cordillera' refers to the mountain ranges in Eastern Australia
(the Great Dividing Range) that run from Queensland to Victoria
|
$400.00 450.00 |
2779 |
Achilles Quartz Mining Co Taradale 1892; Jeweller's
Reef Mining Co Ballarat 1891; Mount Mercer Gold Mining Co Pitfield Plains
1898; West Australian Mining Co 1897 (4 certificates) |
$150.00 360.00 |
2780 |
All National Quartz & Alluvial Gold Mining,
Lauriston 1872; Cerberus Q.G. Mining Capbell's Creek 1872; Havilah Tribute
Co Inglewood (Vic) 1873 (3 certificates) |
$175.00 280.00 |
2781 |
Alliance Quartz Crushing & Gold Mining 1872; Amy
Gold Mining Co Bathurst 1872; Eisenstaedter's Royal Standard Gold Mining
Hawkins Hill 1872 (3 certificates) |
$175.00 240.00 |
2782 |
Andersons Flat Alluvial Gold Mining 1889; Duke Number
One Gold Mining 1881; Milvains Freehold Gold Mining 1884 (3 certificates) |
$150.00 280.00 |
2783 |
Australian Consols Gold and Copper Mines, certificate
for ten shares of the Cost-Book System, London (?) 1852 |
$125.00 240.00 |
2784 |
Ballarat of NSW Gold Mining Co 1897; Jerricknorra
Centrifugal Sluicing Co 1900; Starlight Gold Mining Co 1892 (3
certificates) |
$125.00 260.00 |
2785 |
Bass & Flinders Gold Mining Co 1896; Golden Horn
Co Sebastopol (Vic) 1868 (capital £9000 in 3000 shares of £3 each); Day
Dawn Block & Wyndham Gold Mining Co Charters Towers 1887; plus Brock's
Goldfields of the Northern Territories of South Australia Ltd 1900;
Cloncurry Syndicate 1907; South German Reef Gold Mining Co Maldon (Vic)
190- (unissued) (6 certificates) |
$200.00 425.00 |
2786 |
Biraganbil Gold Mining Co 1875; Paxton's Gold Mining
Co 1872; Rapps Gold Mining Co 1872 (3 certificates) |
$175.00 325.00 |
2787 |
British Lion Gold Mining Co 1872; Jeffree &
Gellars Amalgamated Gold Mining Co 1872; Jeffree's Rose of England Gold
Mining Co 1872 (3 certificates) |
$175.00 325.00 |
2788 |
Butchers Reef North Gold Mining Co, Bear Hill NSW
1885; Mount Morgan Gold Mining Rockhampton Qld 1887; Mount Pilot Gold
& Tin Mining NSW 1886; No.1 South Cambetta Quartz G.M. Co, Burke 1884
(4 certificates) |
$175.00 950.00 |
2789 |
Chambers Hill Gold Mining Co 1894; Royal Dane Gold
Mining Co 1895; Wallaroo Menzies Gold Mining Co 1896, capital £21,000 in
3000 shares of £7 each (3 certificates) |
$125.00 325.00 |
2790 |
Clunes Alliance Quartz Mining Co 1859 (capital £25000
in 200 shares of £125 each); together with two Agent's receipts
concerning the Clunes Alliance Co Melbourne 1861 (3 items) |
$125.00 500.00 |
2791 |
Countess of Jersey Gold Mining Co Wadnaminga SA 1893;
Extended Gold Mining Co 1892; National Gold Prospecting & Mining Co
1896, capital £1800 in 600 shares of £3 each (3 certificates, the last
scarce) |
$125.00 230.00 |
2792 |
Eagle Hawk Specimen Hill Gold Mining Co |
$125.00 325.00 |
2793 |
Great Boulder Main Reef Ltd 1896; Imperial Western
Australian Corporation Ltd 1895; Meteor (Black Flag) Ltd 1896; plus North
Kalgoorlie United Gold Development Ltd 1934 (4 certificates) |
$250.00 400.00 |
2794 |
Hannan's Excelsior Gold Mines 1896; Hannan's Virginia
Gold Mining & Development Co 1896; Hannan's Proprietary Development Co
1896; Oraga East (Hannah's) Gold Mine 1899 (4 certificates) |
$250.00 475.00 |
2795 |
Oban River Sluicing Syndicate 1895, certificate of
one share in syndicate of 30 shares of £16.13s.4d each, very scarce |
$60.00 140.00 |
2796 |
Oriental Gold Mining Co Black River (Vic) 1865,
capital £8000 in 4000 shares of £2 each; Southern Cross Quartz Mining
Co, Grant North Gippsland 1865, capital £2400 in 1600 shares of £1.10s
each (2 certificates, both scarce) |
$125.00 325.00 |
2797 |
Peel River Land & Mineral Co share certificate
for £5 1857 |
$125.00 220.00 |
2798 |
St David Freehold Gold Mining Co Carngham 1865,
capital £10,000 in 2000 shares of £5 each; St Helena Gold Mining Co
Hepburn Vic 1865, capital £1200 in 120 shares of £10 each (2
certificates, the second particularly scarce) |
$125.00 375.00 |
GOLD
MINING 20th CENTURY
Lot |
Description |
Price |
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2799 |
Angaston Golden Mile Option Syndicate, Angaston SA
1906, capital £4000 in 800 shares of £5 each; Hansel Mundy Gold Mining
Co SA 1915; Kanowna Deep Lead Co WA 1921; Irowat Gold Alluvials New Guinea
(registered office Melbourne) 1935 (4 certificates, the first scarce) |
$100.00 220.00 |
2800 |
Associated Northern Ora Banda 1934; Bismarck Range (Lucknow)
Gold Exploration 1934; Blue Talisman Gold Mine 1934; Coramba King Gold
Mining Co Coffs Harbour 1912; Gold Fields of Australia 1934; Gulgong Gold
and Diamond Mines 1923; Gundagai Gold 1934; Hawkins Hill Central Gold
Mining Co 1920; Hochstetter Gold Fields 1919; Lucknow Amalgamated Gold
Mines 1925 (10 certificates) |
$100.00 450.00 |
2801 |
Black Horse Consolidated Mines Egerton Vic 1909;
Chiltern Golden Bar Extended Quartz 1904; Davidson's Reward Mining Co
Egerton 1908; New Nuggetty Gully Gold Mining Co Creswick 1903; New Rice's
Freehold Gold Mining Co, Derwent Jacks Ballarat 1907; Triangle Reefs Gold
Mining Co Kerrisdale Vic 1903 (6 certificates) |
$125.00 425.00 |
2802 |
Burnbank Gold Mining Syndicate, Lexton Vic, syndicate
certificate 1910, capital £500 in 100 shares of £5 each; Eaglehawk
Alluvial Gold Mining Syndicate North Creswick Vic, syndicate certificate
1920, capital £200 in 40 shares of £5 each (2 certificates, both very
scarce) |
$75.00 140.00 |
2803 |
Carter's Gold Extraction Ltd 1917; Gitsham Gold
Extraction Co 1914; North Wattle Gully Gold Mines Chewton Vic 1939 (with
attachments); Nuggetty Ajax Gold Mining Co Daylesford 1918; Scarsdale Gold
Mine 1915 (5 certificates) |
$100.00 140.00 |
2804 |
Glenfine Estate Gold Mining Co Pitfield 1901; Great
West Glenfine Gold Mining Co 1901; Ingliston Extended Gold Mining Co 1907;
Louise Gold Mining Co 1903 (4 certificates) |
$100.00 240.00 |
2805 |
Golden Fleece Gold Mining Co Elaine Vic 1901, capital
£1000 in 100 shares of £10 each; Lady Saville Gold Mining Co Deptford
Gippsland 1903, capital £1000 in 100 shares of £10 each, both very
scarce (2 certificates) |
$75.00 120.00 |
OTHER
MINING 19th Century
Lot |
Description |
Price |
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2806 |
Adelaide Proprietary Silver Mining Co Tas 1891; Bora
Creek Extended Silver Lead & Tin Mining Co Inverell NSW 1900; Broken
Hill South Silver Mining Co 1893; Godkins Amalgamated Silver Mining Co Tas
1891; North Broken Hill Silver Mining Co 1899; Queensland Mines Agency
1899 (6 certificates) |
$175.00 400.00 |
2807 |
Castle King Silver Mining Co Deepwater NSW 1889;
Castlerag Proprietary Silver Mining Co 1890; Corona Hill Silver Mining Co
1890; Jubilee Silver Mining Co Emmaville NSW 1888; Terrible Dick Silver
Mining Co 1888; Webb's South Silver Mining Co 1888 (6 certificates) |
$150.00 700.00 |
2808 |
Chartered |
$100.00 260.00 |
2809 |
Colossus Hydraulic Tin Sluicing Association South
Mount Cameron Tas, one £100 syndicate share 20th August 1888 (issue no.33
of 60), notice of transfer on reverse named to Doctor H StJohn Clarke of |
$125.00 325.00 |
2810 |
Colossus Hydraulic Tin Sluicing Company South Mount
Cameron Tas, certificate for 1,700 shares at Ten Shillings each in the
renamed company as per the previous lot, dated 19th December 1888 (capital
£50,000, certificate number 7) issued to H StJohn Clarke of Richmond.
Nice mining scene vignette and high value (£850) Note that the original
buyer of the syndicate share in the last lot transferred his holding to
the holder of this certificate on the same day of his purchase!
|
$125.00 850.00 |
2811 |
Douglas River Coal Company Hobart Town certificate
for one £20 share 31 August 1852, printed on parchment, a very nice early
coal mining certificate with hand written endorsement in the left margin
Located near Bicheno, the Douglas River Coal Company was formed in the
early 1850's to extract coal from the Douglas and nearby Denison rivers
which had been discovered several years earlier by two ticket of leave men.
The area had previously been a settlement for whalers |
$125.00 1.000.00 |
2812 |
Duke and Duchess of Wellington Tin Mining Co 1873;
Molong Consols Copper Mining 1872; plus a receipt for dividend of Mount
Bischoff Tin Mining Co 1890 (3 items, 2 certificates) |
$90.00 300.00 |
2813 |
Moolboolaman Copper Mining Co Queensland 1873; plus
later certificates Australian Roma Oil No.1 Ltd 1928, Cuthbert's Misima
Goldmine Ltd (Papua) Sydney 1937; Junction North Broken Hill Mine 1912;
New Guinea Copper Mines Melbourne 1922 (5 certificates) |
$125.00 180.00 |
2814 |
New Wallsend Coal Co Catherine Hill Bay NSW 1874;
North Stockton Coal Co (NSW) 1889; Southern Coal Co of New South Wales Ltd
£100 debenture certificate 1889 (3 certificates) |
$150.00 600.00 |
2815 |
Outward Bound Consolidated Silver Mining Compy,
Thackeringa, New South Wales - 100 shares of One Pound each dated 1st Sept
1888; The Eukaby Blocks Silver Mining Company Limited, Glen Warwick, South
Australia - 10 contributing shares of One Pound paid to Ten Shillings
dated 31st January 1889; The Otway Ranges Proprietary Mining Company
Limited, Colac Victoria - 100 shares of One Pound each on receipt no.23
dated 30th April 1890, all in Very Good or much better condition, the
third with a magnificent vignette showing offshore view of Cape Otway and
additional lighthouse illustration on left (3 certificates) |
$100.00 550.00 |
2816 |
Palmerston Tin Co.1887, certificate no.2 for 1250
fully Paid-Up shares issued to the director of the company George Loughnan,
a desirable very low numbered certificate |
$50.00 240.00 |
2817 |
Prince of Wales Copper Mining Co Moonta (SA) 1873;
South Australian Petroleum Fields Ltd 1890; Yudanamutana Copper Mining Co
of South Australia Ltd 1862 (3 certificates) |
$150.00 350.00 |
2818 |
South Mount Lyell Mining Co debenture certificate
1898 with coupons intact; South Mount Reid Silver Mining Co Tas 1893 (capital
£1000 in 1000 shares of £1 each); Sylvester Silver Mining Co Mount
Zeehan Tas 1897 (vignette of mine poppet head); plus later certificates
Anchor Tin Mine 1913 (pencil notation states 'at Lottah, Tas'); round Hill
Silver & Lead Mining Co (near Sheffield Tas) 1925, with map on the
back (5 certificates) |
$175.00 650.00 |
2819 |
Worthing Mining Company South |
$150.00 525.00 |
OTHER
MINING 20th Century
Lot |
Description |
Price |
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2820 |
Associated Extended Tin Mines Emmaville 1921; Broken
Hill South Silver Mining Co 1912; Flagstone Tin Mining 1926; Gilmour Tin
Mining Irvinebank NQ 1911; Junction north Broken Hill Mine 1915; North
Broken Hill Ltd 1928; North Broken Hill Mining Co 1911; Pulganbar
Quicksilver and Copper Mining Co 1912; Vale of Clwydd Coal Mining Co 1913;
West Excelsior Mining Co 1910; plus Australasian Coal Briquette Co 1906
(11 certificates) |
$100.00 300.00 |
2821 |
Bourkes Hill Tin Sluicing 1906; Budgery North Copper
Mining Co 1906; Cobar Peak Silver Mining Co 1906; Carrington's United
Mines 1906; Conrad Consolidated Mines 1903; Conrad Stannite Mines 1906;
Copes Creek Central Tin Dredging 1913; Coppabella Silver Lead Mining 1906;
Crowl Creek Mining Co 1905; Crowl Creek-Shuttleton Mines 1907; CSA Mines
1910; Great Cobar Ltd 1907; Grafton Copper Mining Co 1907; North Broken
Hill Mining Co 1905 (2), 1908; Queen Bee Copper Mining Co 1908; Queen Bee
South Copper Mining Co 1907 (18 certificates) |
$175.00 325.00 |
2822 |
Carri Tin Mining Syndicate NSW 1900, capital £1,200
in 48 contributing shares of £25 each; Great Gippsland Coal Syndicate
Morwell Vic, capital £2,800 in 280 shares of £10 each, both very scarce,
the first particularly so (2 certificates) |
$100.00 130.00 |
2823 |
Copper Well Mine Wertago NSW 1906, capital £4000 in
400 shares of £10 each; East Cobar Mining Co NSW 1907, capital £1200 in
2400 shares of 10/- each; Endeavour And Leslie Tin Mining Co Irvinebank NQ
1906, capital £12,500 in 1000 shares of £12.10s each; Flaggy Creek tin
Sluicing Co 1907, capital £6,000 in 6000 shares of £1 each (4
certificates) |
$90.00 220.00 |
2824 |
North Broken Hill Ltd, folio containing almost 250
share certificates, all dated 1942, many with correspondence attachments,
all contained in a company folio marked on the spine Oct 13th to Dec 9th
1942, interesting lot with good resale potential (approx 250 certificates
+ correspondence) |
$500.00 300.00 |
LAND
& AGRICULTURE
Lot |
Description |
Price |
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2825 |
Australian Agricultural Company, certificate for ten
Subscriber's Shares of £100 each London 4th May 1825 in name of Alexander
Begbie of Wimbledon Surrey, vignette of Sydney township and harbour The
Australian Agricultural Company was founded in London in 1824 with the aim
of production of merino wool in the Colony for export back to England. On
the basis of their dividends shareholders had the option of receiving back
interest profits and later their capital, or to trade their shares for
land capital. Because of the success of the production many shareholders
exchanged their shares for land claims and so the majority of the share
certificates were likely destroyed, making this a very rare survivor of
one of the earliest agricultural enterprises in |
$100.00 10.000.00
!!! |
2826 |
Australasian Woollen Mill Co, Footscray Vic 1868;
Hobartville Fruit Farms Ltd 1918; Victoria Ice Co 1890 (with marine
vignette) (3 certificates) |
$125.00 325.00 |
2827 |
Australian Co-Operative Tobacco Factory Co 1884, with
vignettes of tobacco works at top and native Australian at left; Melbourne
Flour Milling Co 1907; Wimmera North Steam Roller Flour Milling Co 1891 (3
certificates, the first scarce) The first certificate features a very
decorative design with vignette of Aborigine holding boomerang on the left
and the company's tobacco works at top |
$125.00 425.00 |
2828 |
Chaffey Brothers Ltd "The Australian Irrigation
Colonies" £100 mortgate debenture certificate 1895 with some coupons
intact; plus Central Queensland Meat Preserving Co Ltd £100 debenture
certificate 1873; Australian Agricultural Co 1955 (3 certificates) The
Chaffey Brothers devised the irrigation system that enabled the
development of Mildura. The Central Queensland Meat Preserving Co is
extremely rare, and has a vignette featuring sheep, cattle, a three-masted
ship and Boab tree |
$125.00 750.00 |
VARIOUS
Lot |
Description |
Price |
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2829 |
|
$150.00 900.00 |
2830 |
Melbourne & Suburban Railway Company 1859,
vignette of colonists beside view of locomotive and bridge and map of the
rail route |
$150.00 750.00 |
2831 |
StKilda & Brighton Railway Company 1859, capital
£135,000 in 5400 share of £25 each |
$125.00 500.00 |
2832 |
StKilda
& Brighton Railway Company 1859 |
$125.00 525.00 |
2833 |
Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Packet Company
certificate for one £20 share 1852 |
$75.00 260.00 |
2834 |
Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co,
certificate for one share 9 Sept 1852 |
$75.00 500.00 |
2835 |
South Melbourne Bowling Club debenture certificate
for £1, Emerald Hill (South Melbourne) 3 June 1976; Victorian Trotting
Club Ltd share certificate Melbourne 1890 (2 certificates) |
$100.00 170.00 |
2836 |
Panama, New Zealand & Australian Royal Mail Co
1867; plus a certificate for 1/64th part of the ship 'Clio' from |
$75.00 240.00 |
2837 |
Tasmanian Government Debenture for £100 |
$75.00 220.00 |
2838 |
Rockingham Jarrah Timber Co 1873 (capital £30000 in
1200 shares of £25 each); Midland Railway Co of Western Australia Ltd
debenture certificate 1943 with steam loco vignette; Railway Construction
& General Development Co (Tasmania) Ltd share warrant for 100 shares
of £1 each 1901 (3 certificates) |
$100.00 240.00 |
2839 |
Terry's West End Brewery Ltd 1884; Carlton and West
End Breweries Ltd 1890; Montgomerie's Brewery Co Ltd West Melbourne 1888
(3 certificates) The oldest Australian brewery on a share basis is "Terry's
West End Brewery Limited" established in 1864. In 1890 Terry's became
Carlton & West End Breweries Ltd, which was the forerunner to |
$250.00 1.000.00 |
2840 |
Carlton and West End Breweries Limited - 50 shares of
£2.10.0 each, receipt no.104 dated 13th March 1890 issued to a Mrs
Margaret Clark of Richmond; plus The Glenelg Pastoral Association,
Kimberley, Western Australia, Limited (capital £62,600 in 12,520 shares)
- 30 shares at Five Pounds each on receipt no.10 dated 29th June 1883
issued to a Dr H StJohn Clarke of Richmond, chit stamped "Paid
Up". Two higher value certificates of particular interest - the first
company is a precursor to the famous Carlton & United Breweries
Limited that reigned supreme in the 20th Century (and kept many of us
happy!); the second almost certainly purchased by a relative. The first
with some pinholes along heavy folds and with some light reverse toning,
the second with two folds but near As New (2 certificates) Refer to lots
...., ...., and .... for further shares purchased by the same gentleman |
$100.00 475.00 |
2841 |
Buchanan-Gordon Diving Dress Co Melbourne 1899 (capital
£40000 in 800 shares of £50 each); National Aircraft Pty Ltd Sydney
1940; Larkin Aircraft Supply Co Melbourne 1924 (3 certificates) |
$100.00 280.00 |
2842 |
Iron, Steels and Metals Manufacturing Co Melbourne,
mortgage debenture certificate 1888; Melbourne Cyclorama Co 1890; Phoenix
Films Ltd Melbourne 1925; Sweet Brothers Ltd Sydney 1931; Argus and
Australasian Ltd 1944 (5 certificates) |
$100.00 300.00 |
2843 |
Charley Cars Ltd Melbourne 1913; plus Suburban Bus
& Tram Car Co Melbourne 1878 (2 certificates, the first very scarce
and delightfully illustrated in Art Nouveau style) The first item has been
suggested by Michael Liebig in his "Terra Australis - An Adventurous
Financial History of Australian Shares and Loans" that the 'Charley'
may be the South Australian automobile constructor Charles Trescowthick or
perhaps even a pseudonym for Charles Kingsford-Smith |
$150.00 190.00 |
2844 |
Australia Societe Anonyme 50 Franc and 500 Franc
debenture certificates Brussels 1944; Compagnie Belge des Mines d'Or
Australiennes Liege (Belges) stock certificates (2 diff); The Exploration
Company Ltd London share warrant certificate (unissued) with attractive
vignette; La Nouvelle France Colonie Libre de Port Breton (Oceanie) Jersey
1879; Londonderry Gold Mine 1899 with mining scene vignette; Societe
Forestiere Franco-Australienne Paris 1921; Standard Exploration Co London
1900 with Boudicca vignette; Whim Well Copper Mines share warrant
certificate 1910 (10 certificates) |
$250.00 325.00 |
2845 |
John Martin & Co Ltd |
$60.00 65.00 |
2846 |
James McEwan & Company; third mortgage debentures
for One Hundred Pounds redeemable 6th October 1898, issued November 1893;
all have interest coupons 9 to 11 remaining, and rubber stamp of Receiver
and Manager 23rd May 1903. All debentures virtually As New, but some with
peripheral bumps or minor tears, and in mailing tubes for immediate resale
(50 documents) |
$300.00 400.00 |
2847 |
Folio-sized binder in durable mid-brown vinyl with
replaceable polythene leaves, suitable for storing share scrip, maps or
other paper ephemera, the leaves with signs of use but no tears or splits,
generally quite good condition overall and a useful item |
$20.00 30.00 |
2848 |
Folio-sized binders (2) in matching durable mid-brown
vinyl covers with replaceable leaves, suitable for storing share scrip,
maps or other paper ephemera, the leaves with signs of use but generally
quite good condition overall; together with Micahel Liebig's 'Terra
Australis - An Adventurous Financial History of Australian Shares and
Loans' (2) (4 items) |
$50.00 100.00 |