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Auction: 15019 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 291

Haffuferbahn-Actien-Gesellschaft, Elbing, 1000 marks preference share, 1 April 1899, purple, light blue and black, ornate border, generally extremely fine. (74)

Founded in 1896, the company operated a light railway from Elbing (today: Elblag, Poland) to Braunsberg (today: Braniewo). The company's name refers to the track running on the waterfront of the Vistula Lagoon (German: Frisches Haff, Polish: Zalew Wislany), a brackish water lagoon on the Baltic Sea between Elblag and Kaliningrad. The line is more or less still existing,but over the years has been frequently closed and opened again.

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Estimate
£500 to £600