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Auction: 1007 - Bond & Shares of The World
Lot: 672

Capitol Freehold Land & Investment Co. Ltd., a pair of certificates dated 189(3) for ordinary shares, no.363, and deferred ordinary shares, no.364, small vignette of State Capitol building, small vignettes of pastoral scenes and bull in scrollwork at left, black with pink underprint and brown respectively, fine to very fine (2) Estimate £ 80 Financed the bluilding of the Texas State Capitol in 1885 in exchange for 3 million acres of land and began building the famous XIT ranche, the biggest in the State.

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