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Auction: 20128 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 51

Ottoman Empire/Iraq: Euphrates Valley Railway Co. Ltd., scrip certificate for five shares of £20 each, 185[6], #7491-7495, scrollwork at left, black. Formed to build a Railway from Anah along the Euphrates Valley to the Persian Gulf, providing an overland route to India. The scheme was well supported by Parliament, but the line never came to fruition. Spinke hole and damage to top left corner, heavy folds but AF and rare.

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