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Auction: 16017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 605

Belfast Gold Mining Co. Ltd., £1 shares, 188[7], no.1692, signed by J. Percy FitzPatrick and Hirschel Cohen as directors, issued to Herman Hirsche and signed by him on the reverse, ornate border, black, good very fine.

Sir James Percy FitzPatrick, KCMG (1862 – 1931), South African author, politician, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. He authored the classic children's book, Jock of the Bushveld (1907). Secretary of the Reform Committee in 1895 which conspired to overthrow Krugers South African Republic. Acted as go-between the Committee and Cecil Rhodes and Leander Starr Jameson in Cape Town and was later tried and convicted for high treason following the Jameson Raid. Sentenced to two years but released in the same year. Continued his Government work and later became a member of Parliament on the establishment of the Union of South Africa.

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