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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 739

Compañia del Ferro Carril del Oeste, Buenos Ayres, 2500 peso share, Buenos Ayres 18[57], no.2235, lovely vignette of early steam train with driver on open platform, coal tender and stoker and a single carriage full of passengers, black, repaired tear at top edge, otherwise very fine and rare.

The first railway to be built in Argentina, incorporated in 1857. It was heavily financed by the province of Buenos Aires which was at that time an independent state, the province becoming sole owner of the line in 1863. However due to the State's debts later in the century, it was sold to British company The Buenos Aires Western Railway Ltd. In 1890.

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Sold for
£65