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Auction: 18021 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World Online Auction
Lot: 21

New Zealand: Ross Dependency: Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Sir Edmund Hilary), 1956-58, share certificate for £1, map of the Antarctic, rope border, vignette of Hilary and facsimile signatures of him and Charles Bowden, Chairman of the Committee, green and yellow on thick card. Not a true share certificate in the usual sense but the way of making a donation towards the cost of the expedition. Hilary, with Sherpa Tenzing were the first to reach the summit of Everest in 1953. He reached the South Pole in 1958 and subsequntly reached the North Pole making him the first person to reach both Poles and to climb Everest. EF.

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