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Auction: SW1012 - Bonds & Shares Certificates of the World
Lot: 182

Minas de Guadalcanal Cazalla. Share. 25. April 1795. Nr. 430. Founders Share. Johann Martin Hoppensack was a Saxonian construction engineer. He arrived in the region of Almaden in the south of Spain, where he found many quicksilver mines once operated by the famous Fuggers. They had been abandoned a long time ago due to flooding problems and poor results. Between 1768 and 1774, Hoppensack tried to reactivate these mines. Superb copper engraving on laid paper. On reverse translation into German. Original signature of Martin Hoppensack. UNC.

Estimate
SFr500 to SFr1,000