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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 76

Ceylon Company Ltd., £20 share, 1866, no.18305, attractive view of town from the sea, black, extremely fine. Estimate £ 150 Established in 1862 to acquire the Worms Coffee Estates in Ceylon and Mauritius. Failed due to heavy losses in Mauritius and the failure of its bankers the Oriental Bank Corporation in 1892.

Sold for
£160