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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2901

Philadelphia Guano Co (PA), $100 shs, 1856, black on blue paper (3) and ship at rock flanked by farmers, ship at bottom, black (5), blue with fold wear including small edge nicks, VF-VF+. One of the earliest companies to exploit the new law of 1856 permitting US citizens to claim uninhabited islands in the Caribbean and Pacific. This company claimed the Island of Navassa, off the coast of Haiti, working the guano deposits until bankrupt in 1901. [8]

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