Archives International Auctions Live and Online Fall Sale 5 - September 27,2018

Archives International Auctions - Online Fall Sale #5 69 September 27,2018 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com Honduras & Nicaragua 488 488 Poyaisian LandGrant, 1834Certificate for 30Acres (Of Jungle). The Mosquito Coast.... (Now the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua). Issued certificate for 30 acres of land. VF condition, Signed by MacGreggor at bottom, VF condition. Mac Gregor was a Scottish mercenary with Simon Bolivar in the Venezuelan fight for independence from Spain, around 1820; he was appointed a general. After expelling the Spanish from the ‘Mosquito Coast’ area, he arranged a land grant from the leader of the local people (the Mosquito, today Miskito, Indians). In 1823 he was the self-proclaimed Cazique of Poyais, and visited Britain to encourage Scottish emigration to what he described as a thriving population who had found their fortune on the streets of St Joseph and in the gold mines of the balmy country that surrounded it. One Scot swapped his sterling for Poyaisian dollars, bought some bonds in the country and boarded ship in Leith with a promise that he was to become the director of the St Joseph Opera House. However, when the emigrants arrived they found that there was no St Joseph at all; no opera house, no gold mines, no thriving population (apart from some deeply suspicious Miskito Indians - after whom, rather than the insects, the Mosquito Coast is named) and no habitable European settlement. They had in fact invested their savings in tracts of jungle impossibly far from the nearest source of provisions and impregnated with the tropical diseases so fatal to European constitutions. Gregor MacGregor sold similar worthless certificates and other Poyaisian material in both Britain and France during the 1820s and 1830s. Despite the clearly fraudulent nature of his promises, Mac Gregor was never convicted of any crime - although he served a short jail term in France awaiting a trial that never came about - and eventually retired to Venezuela where he wrote his autobiography. (John Herzog Collection, AIA 2018)��������������������������������������������� Est. $200-400 Israel 489 489 State of Israel, 1950-1960 Specimen Registered Bond Israel. $10000 Specimen Odd% Savings Bond Independence Issue Coupon Bond, Black print on red border and under tint, Allegorical figures flanking Menorah at top, Specimen overprints and POC’s, VF-XF condition, ABNC. ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $300-500 490 490 State of Israel, 1967 Specimen Bond Israel. $25,000 Specimen 4% Series D 3rd Development Dollar Coupon Bond, Black print on orange border and under tint, Group of people together at top in front of the Menorah, Specimen overprints and POC’s, VF-XF condition, ABNC.���������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $100-200 Italy 491 491 Kingdom of Italy, 1925. Italy. $100 Gold Coupon Bond Specimen. ABNC. Light paper separation at fold, paper tone. Fine+ ����������������������������������������������������������� Est. $180-360 Mexico 492 492 Ciudad De Puebla de Zaragoza, 1910 Specimen Bond Mexico. 1,000 Pesos Specimen 5% Series A Coupon Bond. Green border and undertint. Vignette of arms of Puebla. Red specimen overprint. Coupons attached. XF condition. ABNC. Rare bond. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $230-350