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Auction: 15019 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 643

Rhodesia: White's Consolidated Co. Ltd., £1 shares, £1 paid, 189[6], no.126, another but dated 190[3], no.5578, the second signed by the Hon. Charles White as director; together with Red & White Rose Gold Mining Co. Ltd., £1 shares, £1 paid, 189[9], no.871, signed by the Hon. Charles White as director, and another of totally different design also dated 189[9], no.6, signed by Sir John Willoughby as director, the first with red annotation at top otherwise very fine and better. (4)

Hon. Charles White (1860-1930), son of the 2nd Baron Annaly, joined British South Africa Company police in 1891, appointed Commissioner of Mashonaland Mounted Police in 1893, resigned at the time of the Jameson Raid but was thought to have been involved in it's planning.
Sir John Willoughby (1859-1918), helped found the town of Selukwe for the British South Africa Company, worked closely with Rhodes and Jameson and the famouse American mining engineer John Hays Hammond to develop hundreds of mining claims. Was Jameson's military advisor and rode with him on the famous 'Jameson Raid' of 1895 into the Transvaal.

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