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

Archives International Auctions - Sale 50 127 December 3-4,2018 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com 872 872 Norddeutsche Union Werke, Hamburg, 1922 Issued Bond Certificate. Hamburg, Germany. 1922, 1000 Mark, I/U Bond. Coupons included but detached, Spectacular image of sailing ships in rough seas on top and modern ship being built at bottom. VF condition. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $250-450 Germany and U.S. 873 873 Validation Board for German Dollar Bonds -ValidationCertificate, ca.1950-60’s Specimen Certificate. Germany and U.S., (issued in New York, NY). Issued for Koholyt Corporation for 6 1/2% First (Closed) Mortgage Sinking Fund Gold Bond, Due 1943, Countersigned by National City Bank of New York, Specimen Overprint, POC’s, Uncirculated condition. ABNC.������������������������������������������������ Est. $130-200 Great Britain 874 874 Vickers Limited 1900-1910 Bond Specimen. England, Early 1900s. 10 Ordinary Shares of One Pound. Green with Dividend Coupons on back, Warship and cannons under curved title. The company started as a foundry, and later turned into a major manufacturer of military ships, planes and other military necessities. Rare Share Certificate. BWC. (From the John E. Herzog Collection)�������������������������������������� Est. $200-400 Haiti 875 875 Republique d’ Haiti, ca.1910-1920Specimen Bond Haiti. $100 Specimen Series B 6% Bond, Black print on green border and under tint printed in French and in horizontal format, Allegorical women by sea and field at top, Specimen overprints and POC’s, VF-XF condition, FL-ABNC.����������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $160-250 Honduras & Nicaragua 876 876 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 E. Herzog Collection)���������������������������������������������������������� Est. $160-280