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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 464

Duke of Cornwall´s Harbour and Launceston & Victoria Railway Co., certificate for 5 shares of £25 each, £1 per share paid, 1836, no.3321-3325, an attractive 4-page document with red embossed United Kingdom coat of arms at top, text in blue, very fine. Estimate £ 350 The company was incorprated by Act of Parliament in 1836, under the Patronage of William IV, for building a new town to be called Victoria, after the Princess. A railway was to be built from Launceston to the new town and a new harbour which the company was to construct at Tremoutha Haven.

Sold for
£300