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Auction: 13017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 182

Ceylon Company Ltd., a group of 7 certificates for one share of £20, £10 paid, 1866, attractive view of town from the sea, about extremely fine. (7)

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.

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