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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 743

River Paraná Steam Ship Co. Ltd., £20 shares, 187[2], no.60, ornate border, decorative title on scroll with Argentinian coat of arms and flags below, black, embossed seal bottom left, pin holes in top left corner, about very fine and rare.

Provided passenger and freight services from Liverpool to Rosario (port of the Central Argentine Railway) via Bordeaux, Monte Video and Buenos Ayres. The company's first passage was made in 1871, and two years later the company lost a cargo steamer, the 'Clan Alpine' and 13 of its staff in an accident at Lizard Point, Cornwall on its journey back to Liverpool.

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