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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 115

x Bank of China & Japan Ltd., £1 deferred shares, fully paid, 189(5), no.55, signed by Frederick D. Sassoon as director, scrollwork at left, brown, very fine. Estimate £ 200 Formed as the Bank of China, Japan & The Straits in 1890, name changed in 1895 to this. Closed its doors in 1902. Frederick D. Sassoon (1853-1917). Son of David Sassoon and younger brother of Sir Albert (Abdullah). Director of David Sasson and Sons and later chairman on the death of his older brother. The Sassoons dominated trade in the East from Baghdad to China. They helped finance the Imperial Bank of Persia and the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation of which Frederick was also a director.

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