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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 68

Van Wyk´s Gold Mining Company Ltd., £1 shares, Johannesburg 188(9), no.A760, issued to Abe Bailey and signed by him on the reverse, black, adhesive duty stamp, good very fine. Estimate £ 100 Sir Abe Bailey (1864-1940), diamond magnate and ´Randlord´. Imprisoned after the Jameson Raid, founded South African Townships, with Julius Jeppe, in Union Parliament 1915-24, created Baronet in 1919. The company owned Mines at Luipard´s Vlei, Witwatersrand.

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