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Auction: 20130 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 98

New Zealand & Australia: Scotty's Gold Mines Ltd., 5/- shares, part paid, 189[8], #611, scrollwork at left, red. Together with other New Zealand mines comprising Blagroves Freehold Gold Mining Co. Ltd., 2/6d shares, fully paid, 189[6], #2633, blue; Progress Mines of New Zealand Ltd., £1 shares, fully paid, 18[1901], #0893, blue, capital increase overprinted in red, and, New Zealand Mines Trust Ltd., £1 shares, fully paid, 189[7], blue, #363, blue, and Australasian Incandescent Gas Light Co. Ltd., bearer warrant for 5 shares of £1, London 189[5], B1054, overprinted 'Welsbach Light Company of Australasia Ltd., Formerly', ornate border, green, text in English and French, printed by Waterlow & Sons, with coupons. Founded by Carl Auer von Welsbach, a German chemist, who had invented the gas mantle and metal filaments for light bulbs. Companies had been set up in several countries and those in British or Colonial territories were declared an enemy in 1914 at the outbreak of WWI. Mostly VF (5).

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