Harrods (Buenos Aires) Limited Share Certificate and Ephemera Lot
This lot comprises an envelope of documents, most of them relating to Harrods (Buenos Aires) Limited. The principal item is a share certificate for deferred shares, numbered 2692 and issued to Benoit Lejeune, Esquire, of Colonial Avenue, Minories, London, E.C. The group also includes a Harrods (Buenos Aires) Limited prospectus, a printed plan, a subscription list, a typed letter and an earlier handwritten indenture on parchment.
Condition and Collectable Interest
The certificate is printed in red and features ornate scrollwork, a classical column design and the company’s monogram. It is dated 19th November 1913 and records a capital of £1,512,000, divided into 600,000 6½ per cent cumulative preference shares of £1 each, 900,000 10 per cent ordinary shares of £1 each and 240,000 deferred shares of 1s each. The prospectus offers an issue of 300,000 ten per cent ordinary shares of £1 each. The documents show ageing, creasing and staining consistent with their age, and the certificate has a blue handstamp and a manuscript signature. The lot would suit collectors of financial ephemera, Argentine business history and early twentieth-century company documents.
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