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Auction: 21145 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World - e-Auction
Lot: 564

(x) Capitol Freehold Land & Investment Co. Ltd., 4 different certificates for ordinary shares and deferred ordinary shares, dated 19[15] and [16] and another pair both dated 19[18], each stamped at top with repayment details and new nominal value, the latter signed by liquidator, decorative title with Capitol building, company seal to left, the first black with pink underprint, the second brown. Financed the building of the Texas State Capitol in 1885 in exchange for 3 million acres of land and began building the famous XIT ranche, the biggest in the State. Both AVF. (4)

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£50

Starting price
£40