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Auction: 12010 - Bonds & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 687

Stanley Aerial Navigation Company (CA), $1 shares San Francisco 190[1],no.1025, Justice seated in centre, black, green underprint, gold seal, very light ink smudging, very fine. Estimate £ 80-100 Company formed in 1899 to build an airship to Charles Stanley´s design, then the largest ever to be built, 450 feet long and 36 feet in diameter. On its maiden flight in 1908 the airship crashed injuring most people on board.

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