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Auction: 23145 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World - e-Auction
Lot: 244

(x) U.S.A.: St. Charles Hotel Company, First Mortgage Gold Bond, $1000, 1895, a specimen certificate with allegorical figures at top, pelican at bottom, red and black, with coupons, numbered 00000 and overprinted SPECIMEN in red. Incorporated in Louisiana in 1895 to rebuild the hotel that burned down in 1894. It was the third hotel on the site. Acquired by Sheraton Hotels in 1959 and renamed Sheraton-Charles Hotel. Closed and demolished in 1974. GVF and rare.

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