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Auction: 15019 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 166

(x) Denmark: Danske Asiatiske Compagnie, 500 kroner share, [1825], no.2755, issued to C. J. Hambro & Son, interesting early piece with vignette of allegorical figure with boat and goods, black printing, very fine. [R9*]

Carl Joachim Hambro was a Danish merchant and banker, and founded Hambros Bank in London in1839, originally named 'C.J. Hambro & Son'.
The company was founded in 1732 to trade with India and China. The 18th Century saw a profitable and flourishing trade with the company erecting numerous architect designed warehouses in Copenhagen.for goods brought back from the Orient. During the Napoleonic Wars it suffered from diminishing trade especially when war with England broke out in 1807. Wound up in 1838 and closed in 1843.

Ex Classic Effecten GmbH auction no. 3, 1990.

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