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Auction: 16017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 15

Ben Trovato Estate and Gold Mining Co. Ltd. (SAR), bearer warrant for 5 shares of £1, 189[5], handsigned by Alfred Rothschild as director, ornate border, black and orange, text in English and French, with coupons, very fine.

Owned claims over 6,760 acres in the Waterburg District of the Transvaal.
Alfred Rothschild (1842-1918), banker, patron of ther Arts, philanthropist. Son of Lionel de Rothschild and grandson of Nathan Meyer Rothschild. Largly responsible for the long term funding of the Earl of Carnarvon's and Howard Carter's exploration of Egypt, leading to the discovery of the tomb of Tutenkhamun in 1922.

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