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Auction: 19016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World Timed Auction
Lot: 411

Nicaragua: Central American Association Ltd. a certificate of award relating to Mosquito Land Grants, 1868, #694, [5000] acres, signed by Bedford Pim as Chairman of the Association, black, blue underprint. Pim was a proponent of the Nicaragua Canal in the late 1850's and became a major landowner in Central America. An active Naval officer, retired as a post Captain in 1870, became an MPin Gravesend and made a Rear Admiral in 1885 and died in the following year. Maybe best remembered for leading the daring sledge rescue of the crew of the HMS investigator that was stuck in the Antarctic. VF.

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