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Auction: SW1014 - Bonds & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 30

Propriété du Journal, Le Triboulet. Part de Propriété. Paris, 18 Decembre 1879. #933. This newspaper was founded 1878 by the very colourful James Harden-Hickey (1854-1898), a Franco-American author, newspaper editor, duellist, adventurer and self-proclaimed Prince of Trinidad. The Journal was named for a jester of King Louis XII. Though popular, the strongly anti-republican stand of this paper involved Harden-Hickey in no fewer than a dozen duels, several dozen lawsuits and numerous fines. Sadly for Harden-Hickey and his fellow royalists, their funds were exhausted by 1887. The item is issued to Harden-Hickey and signed by him as Le Directeur-Gérant. See Harden-Hickey’s turbulent life on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harden-Hickey. Tear on top and in fold. VF.

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