Auction: 9027 - Bonds & Shares of the World
Lot: 108
Oriental Bank Estates Co. Ltd., Preferred share warrant for 1 share of £5, London 1887, a specimen certificate from the Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. archives, allegorical females flanking company monogram, orange-brown and black, with coupons, hole cancelled, tiny nick at top edge otherwise near extremely fine. Formed to acquire assetts of the bankrupt Oriental Bank Corporation which included thousands of acres of plantation land in Ceylon and Mauritius. Estimate £ 60
Sold for
£170