Dr. Hugo H. van der Molen -
Wederikweg 114 - 9753 AE Haren, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)50 534
8795; Fax: +31 (0)50 534 0852; email: molen@worldonline.nl
ALGERIA / ALGERIE
Compagnie Vignobles de la Méditerranée, Monville, par
Duzenville prês Bône (Algeria), share of 50 fr to bearer,
19... ?? , price 23 Euro.
AUSTRIA / OOSTENRIJK
Austria Flugverkehrs AG (= precursor of the AUA), Wien, 8-8-1923, 25
Aktien ueber 1000 Kronen, green/black, Art Deco border, Small vignette
of double decker plane in front of globe; same illustration very large
in underprint; same on small white relief seal. See picture.
Beautiful piece, uncancelled with complete coupon sheet, VF but
professionally taped 2cm tear in white of right hand border
(hardly visible when framed) and 2 tiny tears (0,25 and 0,5 cm) in
white of left border, not visible when framed, f 650 = 295 euro.
Compagnie des Eaux de Vienne S.A., Bruxelles 1903,
1) --- Script au porteur, representatif du Prorata d'un coupon No 15
d'obligatotion 4,5% no. 24565 du 16 avril au 9 mai 1902 - 1
fr. 50, brown border on blue paper. See
picture
2) --- Recu un coupon No 15 d'obligation 4,5% no. 24565 contre
lequel il y a ete deja remis au porteur un script de 1 fr. 50, brown
border on blue paper.
Piece no. 2 is the receipt for a bond coupon, which coupon was
exchanged for a script (piece no. 1).
Price of both pieces together: f 150 = 68 Euro
Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe, Wien, 1926, share of 40 Sh., (condition not nice), price f 5
Oesterreichische Aktiengesellschaft der Hotels und Kuranstalten
Abbazia in Wien, 4,5% Hypothekaranleihe im Betrage von 8 millionen Kr.,
1000 Kr., 1910/1911, f 165 = 75 Euro.
Beautiful Vignette: large (20 by 6 cm) photo of the sea side resort
Opatja on the Adriatic Sea, and 2 smaller (3 by 5 cm)
photo's of 2 hotels. See picture of top
half.
Rhombus Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft, Wien, 16-3-1921, brown, 5 Aktien je K 200, f 80 = 36 Euro.
Rhombus Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft, Wien, 1922, blue, 25 Aktien je K 200,pink stamp: Bezugsgerecht, 1922 ausgeubt; green stamp: Bezugsrecht 1924 ausgeubt, f 80 = 36 Euro.
Staatsschuldverschreibung, 5 % ?, 100 Gulden, Vienna / Wien, 1868 1 blue and 1 red stamp from the Austrian and Belgian banking and control committees, (very decorative border with women, weapon's and angels), condition F/VF, price 9 Euro.
Trifailer Kohlenwerks-Gesellschaft / Societe des Charbonnages de Trifail, Wien / Vienna, 1923, Aktie 200 Kronen, (on the inside is also a description in a Slavic language), f 85
Verlagsanstalt "Herold", Wien, 24-6-1926, Aktie 10 sh, black-green border, green vigntte in underprint, see picture, EF. one vertical fold, price 95 Euro.
Wolford A.G.
Bregenz, Austria (Österreich / Oostenrijk), 1995; Lady Aktie über 100 Shilling; with multicoloured and gold printed painting by the famous Austrian Jugendstil painter Gustav Klimt; without coupons: 21 x 15 cm.; with coupons no. 7-19: 21 x 35 cm. The bonds are listed on the bourses of Vienna (Wien) and Paris. Condition: UNC = printer fresh; a beauty to frame ! Uncancelled, Price € 250.
Wolford AG was established in 1949 in Bregenz am Bodensee, Austria.
The Company is a marketer and manufacturer of hosiery, lingerie and women's fashion.
It operates a large number of fashion shops world wide: read more !
BAHAMAS
Basic Resources International (Bahamas) Ltd, green left and right
border, Canada, 1980ies, x shares, 8 by 5 cm vignette: beautiful lady,
running, swaying her arms and hair, with river and woods in the
background, 11 Euro.
The IOS Investment Program Certificate
with respect to a certificate for the:
ITT = International Investment Trust Capital Accumulation Program
sponsor and distributor: Investors Overseas Services Ltd. (Bahamas)
with blue facsimile signatures of chairman of the board, the infamous,
Bernie Cornfield and of the treasurer, Norman P(?)alnick.; black
decorative border, vignette of an eagle, embossed IOS seal; issued in
Geneva (Switserland) in 1970; in liquidation since 1973; price 95
Euro.
Value Capital Limited
Incorporated in the commonwealth of the Bahama Islands under the
Companies act in 1971; bearer Warrant no. V 1813 for 5 shares
of 1 c (US currency); see 5 by 5
cm vignette, blue border; facsimile signature of vice president
Marvin H. Hoffman; coupon sheet attached, price: 50 Euro
BORNEO
South-East Borneo Rubber Plantations, Ltd.
1912; Certificate no 101 of
Option rights for 50 shares of 1 Pound each, valid until Dec. 31st
1916; size: 23,5 by 21 cm; 3 original signatures; UNC/EF, embossed
seal, price 45 Euro.
BRASIL / BRAZILIE
Compagnie du Port de Rio de Janeiro SA
established in 1910 in Paris, France; Action
Ordinaire de Cinq Cents Francs au porteur, Paris 1912; Imprimerie
Chaix, Paris; ca. 36 by 24 cm + coupons; red and green; very decorative
share and a beauty to frame !, engraved by G. Fraiport ships in
harbour and at sea; 2 lighthouses; wrinkles on the scan are hardly or
not visible when the share is normally looked at; EF: unfolded, but for
the coupon sheet; price 45 Euro..
BULGARIA / BULGARIJE 
RODOPI, beautifull share of wood company, 100 Leva, Sofia, 1917, ,
price 25 Euro.
Yellow and black, with Balcan style border. A
beauty to frame !; EF: no folds and as new.
View picture
The company is named after the Rhodope
Mountains, which run across southern Bulgaria. The saw mills and
factory
were in the town of Belovo, by the railway station on the
Sofia-Plovdiv-Istanbul line.The 5 vignettes show the foothills of the
Rhodope Mountains, as well as scenes of production (saw mills) and
preparation, up to the finished products: chariots, cupboards etc.
Source: Braun (1996a), p. 92.
Rouaume de Bulgarie, Emprunt de l''Etat Bulgare 5% Or, 1902
Recu de coupon fractionnaire, 18,5 by 13 cm.
---------- sur 2 coupons no 62, Florins de Pays Bas 5,04; Sofia
September 1933, red border on green field (rouge bordre sur vert),
price 15 Euro.
---------- sur 1 coupon no. 63, Florins de Pays Bas 2,52; Sofia March
1934, red brder on red (rouge
sur rouge), price 10 Euro.
---------- sur 5 coupons no 63, Florins de Pays Bas 12,60, red on
blue (rouge sur bleue), Sofia, March 1934, price 15 Euro.
Sucrerie et Raffinerie de Roustchouk S.A., Bulgaria, established in
1912 in Brussels, part sociale, price 7 Euro.
Bulgaria, 1948,
beautiful decorative share (30 by
42 cm), with in the border ears of corn, blue corn flowers and red corn
poppies, and 2 birds; brown paper stamp, 1 cm tear both in fold
of upper border and of left border; one tiny hole in the centre
of the 2 folds., price 145 Euro.
Who can give me a translation or tell me the name of the company ?
CHILE / CHILI
Compañia Salitrera de Tarapaga y Antofagasta, Santiago, 10
shares, 1934, pink, (salitrera = salpeter), price f 95 = Euro
43
Large vignette of a farmer dispensing fertilizer on his
land. Included in the price is a copy of a large
article in HP Magazin (in German) , 1998, nr. 3 p. 18-20, von
Alexander Kipfer: "Die Wuste wird zur Schatzkammer: Salpeter- das
"Weiise Gold" aus Chile", in which this stock is depicted as well.
COSTA RICA
Bosque Puerto Carrillo S.A.
These shares still have a normal economic value and I wish to by them. If you have any for sale, please contact me !
Capital Growth Company S.A., 3 by 6 cm Vignette in gold relief, of
3-master sail ship.
This investment company may be the successor of Capital
Growth Fund, registered in the Bahamas under New
providence Securities Ltd.
I sometimes get questions of persons, finding shares in
this company and wanting to know if they still have any economic value.
Anyone who knows more about this is requested to inform me, so That I
can answer those who wrote to me. See
separate page
------- 1 share, green, July 19th1971, price 23 Euro
------- 5 shares, ocre, July 19th 1971. price 23 Euro
------- 10 shares, brown, July 19th 1971, price 23 Euro
------- 25 shares, blue, July 19th 1971, price 23
Euro
Costa Rican Railway Company, £ 100 bond, 1987 and 1989, first
mortgage debenditure, blue letters of £ 100, Large size stock,
VF, very neat, beauty to frame, price 43 Euro.
(Famous railway constructed by the American entrepeneur
Minor Cooper Keith. As part compensation, Keith was granted land rights
which he used to grow babanas. The resultant company eventually merged
with the Boston Fruit Company to form "United Fruit Company", which
became a powerful force in Central American politics. The railway
exists to this day. he vignette shows the president of Costa Rica,
Bernardo Soto),
Costa Rican Railway Company, £ 100 bond, 1989, second mortgage debenditure, red letters of £ 100, 25-10-1889, Large size stock, price 34 Euro (VF, but less than clean borders and middle fold) 28 Euro.
Pan American Woods Industry S.A.
These shares still have a normal economic value and I wish to by them. If you have any for sale, please contact me !
Pan America Woods Plantations S.A
These shares still have a normal economic value and I wish to by them. If you have any for sale, please contact me !
Sistemas de Circulacion Ecologica, S.A.,
-----
acciones
communes, San José, na 1991, EF: blankette / specimen, price 12 Euro
----- certificados
de inversion, San José, na 1991, EF: blankette, price 12 Euro
English: This share has been drawn in Esher style by the
Frisian biologist Huite Zijlstra, manager at the teakwood plantation
of Flor y Fauna in Costa Rica. The company invests in this plantation.
In 1996 he and his partner were kidnapped for ransom, a fact which got
worldwide media attention. After a long time of suspense they were
exchanged
unharmed. Most of the money was recovered and most kidnappers are in
jail
now.
Nederlands; Dit aandeel is in Esherstijl getekend door de Friese
bioloog Huite Zijlstra, manager op de teakhout-plantage van Flor y
Fauna in Costa Rica. De maatschappij investeert in deze plantage. In
1996 kwamen hij en zijn levensgezellin in het nieuws vanwege hun
ontvoering. Dat liep gelukkig - na een lange en spannende tijd - goed
af.
CUBA
Ferrocariles Consolidados de Cuba
Consolidated Railroads of Cuba
1936, 100 shares of 100 $, 6% cumulative preferred stock, issued in the
USA; original signatures cancelled by small holes, 3 vignettes, one of
a steam lock and 2 of agricultural scenes of harvesting tobacco and
cane sugar, see picture,
condition EF, price 35 Euro.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA / TSJECHOSLOWAKIJE/
CESKOSLOVENSKO
Ceskoslovenske drvarske aktiove spolcnosti na 440 Korun,
yellow / black, nr. 6578, Brne 1 zari 1919, small vignette: 2 horses
in front of cart with tree logs in a wood; small tear in upper border;
some stains in borders, f 85 = Euro 39
DAHOMEY
Comptoirs Réunis de l'Ouest Africain S.A., share to bearer,
1929, (condition as new), price f 15
Dairy products: butter, cheese, milk / Zuivelproducten: boter, kaas en melk
DENMARK / DENEMARKEN
Copenhagen Handelsbank A/S, Inhaber-Optionsschein voor aandelen,
nominaal Dkr 100, rood, Kopenhagen, december 1985, UNC, price 9 Euro
Copenhagen Handelsbank A/S, Inhaber-Optionsschein voor aandelen,
nominaal Dkr 1000, lilabruin, Kopenhagen, december 1985, UNC, price 23
Euro
ETHIOPIA
Compagnie Impériale des Chemins de Fer Éthiopiens
established in 1896; Action de 500 Francs,
Paris, 1899; size: 32 by 42 cm.; 23 by 15 cm engraving by the famous
military painter and illustrator Louis Charles Bombled (1862-1927) of
the Ethiopian emperor Menelik II awaiting an oncoming train
on his horse, accompanied by merchants with camels. Imprimerie Chaise,
Paris; coupons on the back, condition
EF: unfolded, price 135 Euro.
The Swiss engineer Alfred Ilg, minister under emperor Menelik II,
convinced him to build this railway from the coast inland bound, ca. 78
km. over mountans 2.424 m. high. It was a small size track from
Djibouti, along Harare, Antotto and Kaffa to the White Nile and Addis
Abeba. The money was raised in France that had a strategic interest in
the area after the Abessinian war with Italy. The track was completed
in 1917, one year aftter the death of Alfred
Ilg. (source: Benecke & Rehse, 2004).
FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA / AFRIQUE
EQUATORIAL FRANCAISE
CAFRA, compagnie de l'Afrique Francaise, action de 250 Fr.,
Siège Social: Pointe-Noire, Afrique Equatoriale Francaise,
bureau administrative, Paris, 1937 (opgericht 20-3-1924), price f 15
FRENCH GUYANA
Guyana Goud-Exploitatie Maatschappij
's Gravenhage 1890, bewijs van 1 aandeel, groen / zwart, met volledig couponblad, VVOF catalogue no. NL H 0166a, Original signature of director T.H.A.Tromp and commissaris F.J.T.N. Beukman van der Wijck, printer: Mouton & Co., Den Haag; size, inclusive coupon sheet: 21 by 30 cm., white embossed tax stamp, condition VF, almost EF: uncancelled, no folds except at the coupon sheet, very faint tropical stains, 50 Euro.
Translation into English: Guyana Gold Exploitation Company, The Hague, 1890, one share, green/black, uncancelled.
Purpose of the company: exploring and exploitation of gold fields in French Guyana, especially those that are known until now as Placer National, located in French Guyana, Quartier Kourou, along the rivers Kourou and Sinnamary, measuring 32.000 hectares. See for more details on this firm.
Indo China: see Viet-Nam
Ireland / Eire
Porsche International Financing plc
Dublin, Ireland; 4 7/8%
Inhaber-Schuldverschreibung über DM 10.000, der Anleihe
1997-2002, verteilt in 60.000
Schuldverschreibungen von je DM 1.000,- und 14.000
Schuldverschreibungen
zu je DM 10.000,-; Dublin, 1997; garantiert vom Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche
Aktiengesellschaft; facsimile Unterschrift von Dr. Wendelin Wiedeking
und Holger P. Härter; Druck: Gieseke & Devrient; 21 bbei 30
cm.; grün, mit 17 bei 7 cm. Abbildung einer silberen Porsche
Vorseite,
2 Archieflöcher und Loch-entwertung, EF+: unfolded, price 150 Euro.
English: bond of DM 10.000 in
1997-2002 loan, guaranteed by Porsche AG, Germany. large picture
of silver Porsche front, hole cancelled and 2 archive holes.
Israel
America-Israel Phosphate Company, Inc.
Incorp. under laws of Delaware in 1960; certificate
of 100 shares, green border, 1966; vignette: eagle, wings spread,
EF: unfolded, price 23 Euro.
Italy
Bank van Tavolière te Napels
Renversaal, Amsterdam, 1839; 17,5 by
25 cm.; black decorative border, on the front 3 payment stamps; on the
back 3 Dutch tax wet stamps; condition EF: unfolded; price 135 €.
Montecatini Edison S.p.A., seated in Milano (Italy), Fuoro Bonaparte
31; established January 6th 1884. certificate of
10 shares (wordings in French and Dutch) of 1000 Lire each, 1967,
issued in Belgium by Banque Lambert Kredietbank., blue decorative
border, coupons attached.
This is the famous Italian establishment of the Edison Conglomerate. f
25 = 12 Euro.
Societa Veneziana per l'Industria delle Conterie, Venezia february
1st 1933, share of 350 Lira; black on yellow, unfolded, hole cancelled,
EF, f 595 = 270 Euro.
Very decorative: a beauty to frame ! see
picture. (150 Kb !)
This glass bead industry on the isle of Murano was established at
instigation of the discoverer Marco Polo who exchange-traded the beads
with the people he met at foreign shores.
Illustrations:
- View on Venice, probably Murano
- Lion with text PAX TIBI MARCE EVANGELISTA MEOS
- Cock with snake, the armour symbol of the isle of Murano, which
became part of Venice at the late 1930ies.
- 2 gracious ladies with glass bead strings, the produce
of the factory
- orange trees
Ivory Coast / Côte
d'Ivoire
Compagnie Agricole Commerciale & Industrielle de BADIKAHA,
Côte d'Ivoire, blue/brown, action de 100 Fr, 1927, beautiful and
large vignette as underprint (10,5 by 22 cm) with 3 bare breasted
native women, carrying fruit, see
picture, red round company stamp inprinted and nice decorative
border. Size
of stock 15 by 27 cm., 275 = 125 euro.
Kenya
Kenya Consolidated Goldfields, Ltd.
London, 1936; incorporated in the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya in February 1933 to acquire, work and develop mines and mining rights in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. The company was wound-up in March 1952. Signed by Sir Percy Winn Everett.
Certificates of x shares ( = 250), in the name of
Reginald Howard Bickerton of 5 Eaton Gardens, Hove, Sussex; black
decorative border; size: 29 by 27,5 cm., VF, tiny hole in left upper
corner, see picture,
price 25 Euro.
Madagascar
Société des Plantes à Parfums de Madagascar SA
established in 1927 in Madagascar (Africa), Action
de cent Francs au porteur, Madagascar 1927, imprimerie: E.
Defasses-Paris; 31 by 20 cm; nice border and texts in red and green,
voupons attached, price 50 Euro.
PANAMA
Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique
de Panama, S.A.
(with facsimile signature of Ferdinant de Lesseps, famous
builder of the Suez Canal. in Egypt).
---------- Paris 1880, with additional payments in 1885 and 1886 with
accompanying tax stamps, Action de 500
Fr, dans un Capital Social de 300 millions de Francs, bleue, 2e émission (i.e. certificate number is larger than 10.000), size:
18 by 20 cm. + attached coupons, with 2 French and 2 Dutch tax stamps;
beautiful design with two indians reaching out to each
other, coupon restst attached, engraving by Stern in Paris, EF,
75 Euro.
Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique de Panama,
S.A. au Capital de 300 millions de Francs
et
Societé Civile d'Amortissement des obligations du Canal de
Panama Émission de Mars 1888, avec responsabilité
limitée à la mise sociale
(with facsimile signature of Ferdinant de Lesseps, famous
builder of the Suez Canal. in Egypt).
---------- Paris, le 14 Mars 1888; Obligation
Nouvelle au porteur Remboursable à Mille Francs dans une
Emission de 350.000 obligations, authorisée par
l'Assemblée Général du
29 Juillet 1985; size 19 by 14 cm., same engraving as above by Stern in
Paris, brown, red stamp from the liquidator, red stamp or print
indicating that this is a duplicate;, blue stamps "3e série", no
coupons, VF: glue remains in left upper corner, some tiny staple holes;
price 250 Euro.
PERU
Peruvian Transport Corporation Limited, Toronto, certificaat voor 10
aandelen B, groot nominaal 1 US $ elk (certificate of 10 shares of 1 US
$ each), emitted by the Algemeen Kantoor van Admnistratie
te Amsterdam, April 4th 1956, print by De Bussy, Amsterdam, light
green border and orange Dutch Tax seal inprinted.Stamp from 1958 "naam
gewijzigd in (name changed into) Peruvian Investment and Finance
Limited",
f 35 = 16 Euro.
POLAND 
Fabryka Porcelanyi Wyrobow Ceramicznychw Cmielowie. Spocka Akcyjna,
Lwow, 18 grusnnia 1920, Poland, Read
more about this famous company
! Lithograpy: AKC.TOW.LWOW, founder share, Akcia na 1000 Tysiac.
Marek.Polskich, (share of 1000 Polsish Marek), beautiful piece,
decorated over the full size (30 * 20 cm) of the stock, which measures
34 * 24 cm. including borders. It depicts 3 differently decorated
plates, a teapot + cup, being painted by a cherub, a statue of a
ceramic soldier and lion: beige, white, brown and green. See picture, some pink
stamps in right upper part and border, f 825 = 375 Euro.
PORTUGAL
3 pCts. Buitenlandsche Schuld van Portugal, 1853 - 1884,
Certificaat nr. 5787 voor £ 3 voor onbetaalde interest op
halfjaarlijkse coupon, vervallen 1 Juli 1893. Uitgegeven door
de Vereeniging voor den Effectenhandel te Amsterdam, originele
handtekeningen van de Voorzitter (P. .......Ogtrop) en de Secretaris
..........., Amsterdam, Juli 1893,
Blouwe belettering, blouw belastingstempel Noord Holland, VF, f 50 = 23
Euro.
(The) Match and Tobacco Timber supply Co., Lisboa 1926, warrant to
bearer for 1 share of £ 1, 23 Euro.
Socidade Industrial de Chocolates SA
Lisboa (Portugal), 1921; Titulo de cinco Accoes (certificate of 5
shares); size: 25 by 38 cm; blue / yellow; vignette (20 by 14 cm) of a
beautiful semi nude woman throwing chocolate bars at a detailed globe
with maps of Europe and Africa; see 119
Kb picture; large red stamp "Privilegada"and some pink
stamps, "liquidada" and other ones; design: J. Valeriano Sevla, 1921;
AT.ART: Julio Amorim-Lisboa; VF: only 1 (hardly visible) fold, very
clean; 1 cm tear in left of Middle fold; a beauty to
frame !; 450 Euro.
Puerto Rico
San Juan Racing Association, Inc
Incorporated under laws of the commonwealth of Perto Rico, established
in 1954; certificate of < 100
shares, 1972; transferable in New York and Jersey City,
USA; 9 by 5 cm engravingof
a seated man and a jockey on a racing horse; orange border; print:
Security-Columbian Banknote Co.; price 50 Euro.
URUGUAY
Primera Coöperativa Mutua Israelita S.A., established in 1929, una
accion de diez pesos, Serie E, no. 405, blue decorative border on red
underprint, Montevideo, Uruguay, July 10th 1930, brown tax stamp, on
the back 1 name transfer stamp and several dividend stamps until 1950,
25,5 by 27,5 cm, unfolded and uncancelled, EF, f 573 = 260
Euro.
Activities: transport, storage and harbour; see picture.
Viet-Nam (also Cochin-China
&
Indo-China)
Compagnie Minière du Haut-Mekong
Siège social à Paris, établi en 1923; Action
ordinaire de cent Francs, 1928; grey border on cream; beautiful stock
with in each corner and in the middle pictures of three elephants ubder
an umbrella, size 32 by 24 cm + coupons; price 50 Euro.
ZAMBIA
Zambian Anglo American ltd., established in Great Britain, December 8th
1928.
------ certificat de 5 actions de 1 kwacha du capital, 1968, inscrite
dans le registre des actionnaires au nom de SOGES, SA, Bruxelles,
issued by Banque lambert, blue decorative border, couponsheet partly
attached, EF, f 25 = 12 Euro
------ idem, certificat de 25 actions, red decorative border, f 25 = 12
Euro.
