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Auction: 18016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World Online Auction
Lot: 208

France/Belgium: S. A. du Vesuve a Paris, 25 shares of 25 francs, Brussels 1900, #27951-27975, photographic vignette of the errupting Mount Vesuvius, ornate border, red and grey, with coupons. Company formed in 1899 under Belgian law to build an animated panorama of the eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of Herculanium and Pompeii for the Paris Exhibition of 1900. The cost of the huge Moorish pavilion caused the bankruptcy of the company even before the Exhibition had opened and the name was changed to Le Transvaal, L'Afrique Sauvage et le Vesuve presumably becaquse of the great press coverage of the Anglo-Boer War. From the postcards issued at the time the panorama had now included displays of African figures and exotic tribes. The 1 franc entry fee failed to attract enough visitors and the company paid no dividends and was wound up soon after. EF and scarce.

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