Share Scrip

Lot 3962    SESSION 14 (4.30PM THURSDAY 1ST AUGUST)    Share Scrip

Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $120

TASMANIA, Launceston Gas Company, 186[6], five £10 shares, grey on blue; transfers (2), 1862, No.79, for ten shares, grey on blue; 187[9], No.431 for five shares, black print, with Tasmania 5 shillings stamp affixed; New Pinafore Gold, Lefroy, 189[1901], twenty five 6/- shares, purple and gold print, issued to Alfred G Price, Manager in Trust; Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging Coy., 19[13] (Siam register), fifty £1 shares; Electrolytic North (Tasmania) Limited, 192[5], one £50 share of 150 on offer, blue on grey; Tasmanian Tinstone Association, 192[7], two hundred and ten contributing £1 shares; Delta Tin Mines, Boobyalla, 19[34], fifty 4/- shares; Meteor Extended Silver, unissued contributing share. With pin holes, folds, edge tears to some, first and last certificates with one corner missing, otherwise good fine - extremely fine. (9)

Sir Henry Jones of Hobart and his partners established the Tongkah Tin Dredging Company to obtain a supply of tin to use in the manufacture of containers for products made by Jones and company. Tongkah Tin Dredging Company was incorporated into the Tasmanian Mines Department on 23 November 1906. On 1st October 1939 the Hobart based company's assets and undertakings were transferred to Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging Ltd with headquarters registered in the Federated Malay States.