Auction: 320 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and the Forest Park Collection
Lot: 1686
Ottoman Empire: Railway certificates (12) comprising; Syria Ottoman Railway Company Ltd., £20 preference share, 189[3], black on green paper; Tramways & Electricité de Constantinople S.A., dividend share, 1914, electric tramcar at left; Tramways et Électricité de Damas S.A., 500 franc share, 1928; Tramways de Salonique, two certificates for 500 franc shares, 1892,; S.A. Ottomane des Tramways Libanais Nord et Sud de Beyrouth, share for 500 francs, 1896; Société Ottomane du Chemin de Fer de Damas-Hamah et Prolongements, share for 500 francs, 1901; Société des Bateaux de la Corne d'Or, share for T£1, [1914]; Compagnie d'Exploitation des Chemins de Fer Orientaux, 500 franc share, 1906; Compagnie Générale d'Omnibus et d'Autobus de Constantinople, 1 share of T£5, Constantinople 1910, large format piece with small vignettes of horse drawn and motor buses; Société Générale de Tramways, de Transports et d'Electricité à Smyrne S.A., 500 franc share, 1925; and Ottoman Company Ltd., £20 share, 1865, Arab figure with camel under palm tree, printed by Bradbury. Generally VF, some better. (12)
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$170