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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 215

Londonderry Gold Mine Ltd., 10 shilling shares, 189(9), no.87, good vignette of mining camp, ornate border with two coats of arms, blue, printed by Waterlow & Sons, good very fine. Estimate £ 150 Originally financed in London in 1894 with a capital of £700,000 and promoted as one of the stars of the Coolgardie goldfield. After a collapse in the share price in 1895 and reports of fraudulent dealing the company was reorganised with a capital of only £70,000 in 1899 to which this certificate relates.

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