Archives International Auctions Sale 50 The Milestone Auction U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, Autographs and Security Printing Ephemera

Archives International Auctions - Sale 50 126 December 3-4,2018 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com 866 866 Government of the French Republic, 1920 Specimen Bond. France. Specimen bond. Sept. 15th, 1920. $100, 25 Year External Gold Loan 8% Sinking Fund Bond. Orange border and undertint. Allegorical reclining topless woman holding yarn with generator and fruit. Behind her and Arms of France on bottom. Red SPECIMEN overprint and POC. Coupons attached. VF Condition. ABNC. Rare bond. (John E. Herzog Collection)�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $140-250 867 867 Mediterranean Electric Telegraph, 1853 Issued Stock Certificate France. 1 Share=250 Francs, Issued Stock Certificate, Black print without any border printed in English, French, and Spanish. Seal of all three countries at top (England, Spain, and France) Fine-VF condition with staining at edges. (John E. Herzog Collection) Est. $30-60 868 868 Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Railroad Co., ca.1900-1910 Specimen Bond France. $500 Specimen 7% External Sinking Fund Gold Coupon Bond, Black print on brown border and under tint, Allegorical women with scythe standing together with small locomotive behind them, Specimen overprints and POC’s, Fine condition with splitting and cracking along fold lines, ABNC.����������������������������������������������� Est. $300-500 869 869 Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Railroad Co., ca.1900-1910 Specimen Bond France. $1000 Specimen 7% External Sinking Fund Gold Coupon Bond, Black print on green border and under tint, Allegorical women with scythe standing together with small locomotive behind them, Specimen overprints and POC’s, Fine condition with splitting and cracking along fold lines, ABNC.����������������������������������������������� Est. $300-500 870 870 Special Bond for the Service of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Malta) 1823 Remainder Bond. France. Odd Pounds Unissued Bond, Black print on large sized certificate printed on blue paper, Image of Knights of Jerusalem at top, VF-XF condition. The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem was a medieval and early modern Catholic military order. It was headquartered in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, on the island of Rhodes, in Malta and St Petersburg. After the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 during the First Crusade, the organization became a religious and military order under its own Papal charter, charged with the care and defense of the Holy Land. Following the conquest of the Holy Land by Islamic forces, the knights operated from Rhodes, over which they were sovereign, and later from Malta, where they administered a vassal state under the Spanish viceroy of Sicily. The Hospitallers were the smallest group to colonise parts of the Americas; at one point in the mid-17th century, they acquired four Caribbean islands, which they turned over to the French in the 1660s. (John E. Herzog Collection)�������������������������������� Est. $250-500 Germany 871 871 Deutsche Telekom, Specimen Stock, ca. 1970-90. Germany, ND, Odd Shares, Black on blue border and underprint, Company logo with some graphics top center, VF-XF condition.����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $130-200