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Auction: 9027 - Bonds & Shares of the World
Lot: 137

Australian Agricultural Company, certificate no. 556 for 25 shares of £100 each, London 1824, issued to Robert Farquhar, who was also a director, classic early Australian piece with vignette of Sydney Harbour engraved by Perkins and Heath, engine turned designs at each side with central medallions of female busts, Governors and directors listed at left and conditions of shareholding at right, black, green paper seal, has been framed in the past leaving a slight line of discolouration all round, otherwise very fine and rare. The company was formed by Act of Parliament in 1824 with a large capital of £1,000,000 with a grant of 1,000,000 acres of land in New South Wales. In the early 1830´s the company also acquired leases on land at Newcastle, N.S.W. and became one of the largest exporters of coal from the Colony. The company still exists today operating a herd of nearly 500,000 beef cattle and, in it´s own words, is custodian of about 1.2% of Australias´ land mass. Estimate £ 3,000

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£3,200