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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 234

A good pair of Canadian oil certificates, both signed by Albo von Alvensleben as director, Alberta Canadian Oil Company (WA), $1 shares, 19(11) and American Canadian Oil Company Ltd., Alberta, $1 shares, 19(12), both with same Goes printed design of oil field at top, black and gold, about extremely fine (2) Estimate £ 80-100 Gustav Konstantin von Alvensleben (1879-1965), descended from a noble German family, settling in Vancouver in 1904. Entrepreneur and businessman, co-founder of Vancouver Stock Exchange. Assets confiscated at outbreak of WW1. Fled to USA. Arrested in 1917 when USA joined war on suspicion of spying.

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