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Auction: 15018 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 562

Venezuela Company, £200 shares, 18[69], no.1037, lovely vignette of the Venezuelan countryside, black, printed in New York, red underprint $80,000,000, with coupons, very fine.

The company acquired the Henry M Price Land Grant in Venezuela with the object of settling Confederate families following the Civil War. Several sailing took place from 1866 but the venture failed in 1868. For more information please see Confederate Exiles in Venezuela by Alfred and Kathryn Hanna, University of Texas, 1960.

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Sold for
£160