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Auction: 11006 - Bonds & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 432

Intercolonial Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Limited, pair of certificates for 5 shares, 18[59], no.1362, £25 paid, and 5 shares of £5 each, 186[1], no.2967a, both signed as director by Lord George Paulet, and issued to his sister the Rt.Hon. Lady Augusta Paulet, black, the first with red overprint, embossed seals depicting sailing ship, good very fine. (2). Estimate £ 80 Formed to operate routes between great Britain and Australasia. Name changed in 1865 to the Panama, New Zealand & Australian Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, when it acquired the contract to operate the mail service between Australia and Panama.

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£80