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Auction: 20118 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 141

South Africa: Doornkop Gold Mining Co. Ltd., £1 shares, 188[94], #4133, issued to Carl Hanau and signed by him as transferor on the reverse, black. Hanau was a German Jewish immigrant to the gold fields where he became a partner is S. Neumann & Co. He was one of the first into the Nigel District and was instrumental in the developing the Sub Nigel Mine. Interestingly the shares were later transferred to Neumann who also signs on the reverse. He became one of the most influential Rand magnates but put much hope in the new Heidelberg district which was not as rich as expected and his mines collapsed. He died in poverty in England in 1930. VF.

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