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Auction: 20128 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 188

Great Britain: Duke of Cornwall's Harbour and Launceston & Victoria Railway Co., certificate for 5 shares of £25 each, £1 per share paid, 1836, #1496-1500, an attractive 4-page document with red embossed United Kingdom coat of arms at top, text in blue. Incorprated by Act of Parliament in 1836, under the Patronage of William IV, for building a new town to be called Victoria, after the Princess. A railway was to be built from Launceston to the new town and a new harbour which the company was to construct at Tremoutha Haven. Minor splits at folds, VF and rare.

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£250