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Auction: 18019 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World Online Auction
Lot: 395

Brazil: Brazil Great Southern Railway Co. Ltd., 7% Loan, 1891, a group of 5 bonds for £100, 1891, #A56 to A60, scrollwork left, black, red revenue stamps. Company formed in 1883 by Jose Candido Gomes and English investors. The railway line ran 186 miles in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and merged with the state network in 1905, becoming owned by the government in 1919. This loan was for a maximum of £10,000 divided into bonds of £500 and £100 and we estimate no more than 60 of these were issued. Left edge somewhat ragged on the first 2 otherwise EF (5).

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