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Auction: 15019 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 549

Venezuela: Orinoco Steam Navigation Company of New York, certificate for one share of $1000, 185[1], no.78, paddle steamer and wagon & horses at top, allegorical figures at bottom, black, red underprint '1000', good very fine but some ink burning through the signatures.

Chartered in 1848 the company ran steamers around the coast and the rivers of Venezuela. In November 1865 after agreeing to carry Venezuelan troops, the steamship Apure, the company's only vessel at the time, was attacked by rebels and several of the officers killed. Because the company and its officers were American, this caused a great deal of diplomatic correspondence which was only closed in 1885!

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Estimate
£120 to £150