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Auction: 21143 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 2

Australia: Australian Agricultural Company, certificate #502 for 1 share of £100, London 18[24], classic early Australian piece with vignette of Sydney Harbour engraved by Perkins and Heath, engine turned designs at each side with central medallions of female busts, Governors and Directors listed at left and conditions of shareholding at right, black, green paper seal. This highly important company was formed by Act of Parliament in 1824 with a large capital of £1,000,000 with a grant of 1,000,000 acres of land in New South Wales. In the early 1830's the company also acquired leases on land at Newcastle, N.S.W. and became one of the largest exporters of coal from the Colony. The company still exists today operating a herd of nearly 500,000 beef cattle and, in its own words, is custodian of about 1.2% of Australias' land mass. VF and rare. ex Sothebys auction March 1980.

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