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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 716

Peruvian Government 5% Consolidated Stock, 1872, a bond for £100, series D, no.88551, signed by J. Henry Schroeder as agents for the loan, ornate border, black, pink underprint, text in English, Spanish and French, with coupons from 1876, about very fine. Estimate £ 100 Attached to this bond is a manuscript note, dated 1881, signed J.H.Schroder, stating that the number of this bond has been compared to the number against the counterfoil in their possession and that it would appear that the number has been altered. Having looked at the number it would appear that the second 8 is minutely different from the first but I am puzzled as to why anyone would alter a serial number on a perfectly good bond. The duty stamp is correct and dated 1872. An interesting piece.

Sold for
£70