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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 607

Central American Association Limited, £5 shares, £1 paid, 18(66), signed by Bedford Pim as Director, black, pink border, green underprint, printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., very fine. The company acquired land in Honduras after Great Britain renounced its protectorate over Poyais and Mosquito in 1850. Estimate £ 60-80 Bedford Pim is best remembered for leading the daring sledge rescue of the crew of HMS Investigator that had become stuck in the Antarctic ice.

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