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Auction: 21143 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 515

U.S.A.: Stanley Aerial Navigation Company (CA), $1 shares San Francisco 190[1], #1027, 'Justice' seated in centre, black, green underprint, gold seal. Company formed in 1899 to build an airship to Charles Stanley's design. The aluminium body was to be 228 feet long and 56 feet in diameter and filled with gas, enought to lift its 13,000 pound weight. Nothing had been built by the time the company passed to the newly formed California Aerial Navigation Company in late 1901. However it seems Stanley was more interested in selling stock than building his craft as another company, the Mexican Aerial Navigation Company was formed in Arizona for the same purpose. Not to be confused with the Stanley Airship that successfully flew in England we can find no record of Charles Stanley ever producing his. GVF and scarce.

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Estimate
£60 to £80

Starting price
£50