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Auction: 1007 - Bond & Shares of The World
Lot: 142

x Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, certificate for 1 share,1852, no.23056, black on blue paper, embossed seal depicting coat of arms, extremely fine. Estimate £ 50 Began a mail service between England and Australia in June 1852 but it was so unreliable that their contract was withdrawn in the following year. The route was taken up by the General Screw Steam Shippng Company.

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£40