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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 151

Irai Company Ltd., pair of certificates for £1 ordinary shares, fully paid, 19(28), no.45, and 10% cumulative preference shares of £1, part paid, 19(27), no.12, black and green respectively, very fine (2). Estimate £ 60 An enterprise of Sir Henry Alexander Wickham (1846 -1928), pioneer planter and adventurer which sadly failed in 1929. The company introduced the Piqui-á tree from South America to Kew and the State of Kedah in Malaya. The nut of the tree produced an oil which was a substitute for butter and was anticipated becoming a staple food.

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