Compagnie des Installations Maritimes de
Bruges, Action privilegie de 500 Fr au porteur (= preferred share
to bearer),
Bruges 1904, multicolored / veelkleurig, # = 9000.
The tiny shield above the bear can be blue or brown.
Brown shields I have seen on series beginning with 1000, 2000, 4000,
5000 and 6000; blue shields on series beginning with 7000 and 8000.
Therefore I presume that the colour of the shield changed from brown to
blue at a number
near 7000, making the shares with blue shields the rarer type of the
two.
According to the text on the shares, another 9000
ordinary shares must also have been issued, but I have never come
across one of
those.
----- Uncancalled, but with approprite signatures, brown shield
above the bear, condition UNC and impeccable, complete coupon sheet
still attached, 295 Euro
----- same as above, blue shield, but some minor and superficial
wrinkles at outer edge, 250 Euro
----- same as above, but brown shield, but some minor and
superficial wrinkles at outer edge, 250 Euro
----- Hole cancelled (only through signatures), blue shield
above the bear, EF, complete coupon sheet still attached, 204 Euro
----- same as above, blue shield, EF, complete coupon sheet, few
wrinkles in left lower corner, upper border less clean, 159 Euro.
Have a look at one of
the most beautiful stocks in the world !, It depicts an
elegant lady (figure-head) holding a light torch, a bird's eye view of
the inland port of Bruges, and 3 sights of the city of Bruges:
left: The old harbour = The Minerva Water (het Minerva
water) with defence tower ""de Poermolen"
right: Basilica of the Holy Blood (Basiliek van het
Heilige Bloed)
middle: The Peerdenbrug (Horse bridge; in front) and
the Meebrug (in the back).
Bruges was a port in the Middle Ages, but the Gulf
of Zwijn, giving it access to the sea, silted up and cut it off
from the
sea.
The company was founded in 1895, with the approval of
the Government of Flanders and the city of Bruges, to construct the
port installations of Heyst-sur-Mer (today - Zeebrugge) and the inland
port
of Bruges. It was also required to build a canal, to link the two
towns.
This Baldwin Canal (Boudewijn kanaal), first planned in 1545, was dug
from
1895 to 1907. It was 10 km long, 70m wide and 8m deep. It ran in a
straight
line across the Flanders plain. The new harbour was inaugurated by King
Leopold on July 23rd 1907. The company's concession also gave the right
to operate the port installations for a period of 75 years. At the
expiry
of this period, the term was extended, and the operating company still
exists today.
Bruges is nowadays one of the most beautiful and excellently preserved historic cities in Europe.
Sources: Braun, H. (1996a)
and several guide to Bruges.
----- Compagnie des Installations Maritimes de Bruges, 4,5 %
obligation de 500 Fr, 1909, # = 6000, only 2 colors; blue and brown
but further the same beautiful design as the multicolored one above,
some stains in
upper border (not or hardly visible when framed), price f 195 = 89
Euro.
This obligation is rarer, in terms of numbers issued,
than the more colourful share.
Compagnie Générale Coloniale pour le
Développement du Commerce & de l'Industrie au Congo, S.A.
Constituée en 1898; Siège Social: Bruxelles;
capital Social 7.500.000 Francs, augmenté en 1899 à
1.500.000.
Size: 32 by 42 cm; 4 vignettes, see
100 kb. picture: 1) freigh train in mountain (9 by 3,5 cm), ship in
port (9 by 3,5 cm), local harbour with steam-sail ship and many local
proahs (14 by 7 cm), 2 elegant women, one western and one
African, with 2 coats of arms, before a western and an African harbour
(23 by 6,5 cm);Lith.: de la Cote Libre; design: Ch. Posch;
----------, 1898, blue border, Part de Fondateur au porteur; condition
F: several folds (somewhat irregular and less clean), border wrinkles,
minor stains and 3 cm tear in lower border, but still suitable for
framing
and displaying, 50 Euro.
----------, brown border, Action de Capital au porteur, condition VF:
several folds and a faint stain, but a beauty to frame !, 125 Euro.
Dette Publique de Belgique
Rente 35, 2e Serie, Obligation au porteur de 1000 francs, 1925
Beautiful blue border with 10
vignettes, 8 times a woman representing Limbourg. Liege, Namur,
Flandre Occidentale, Anvers, Hinault, Luxembourg et Flandre Orientale,
+ lion of Belgium and chariot with four horses; 2 blue seals of
Belgium, one Dutch orange tax
stamp; design: Jean Malvaux Soc. A. / Privat.del; print: E. Glyot,
Bruxelles,
VF, not cancelled, no coupons, according to GET catalogue. never
auctioned,
95 Euro
Trust Colonial, S.A.
Bruxelles 1899, Large illustrations of 2
elegant ladies, Mercurius attributes, world map and Jugendstil border decoration. Nice
to frame.
---------- Action de Capital, red design and text, VF/EF: 35 Euro; VF
25 Euro
---------- Action de Dividende, blue design and text, VF, 35 Euro
Belgian
Congo
L'Ikelemba SA, established 29-10-1898, Action de dividende, issued
1898, siege social: Congo Belge; siege administratif: Bruxelles,
Capital Social 500.000 Fr., didvided in 5000 actions de capital de 100
Fr and 5000 actions de dividende (with similar certificate designs), #
= 5000 + 5000 = 10.000; action de dividende, condition UNC, 26 * 35 cm,
exceptionally decorative and a beauty to frame ! Designed by V. de
Coen; f 375 = 170 Euro.
Illustrations: in the top: armour, flags and text "travail et
progres"; bottom: Mercury helmet and staff and some spears; left:
African womancarrying a basket with fruit on her head and a man,
squatting with another basket,; right: palm tree; lower half: freight
train and steam/sail ship in harbour. See lower part / see top part
The company owned an estate of 1000 hectares in the Ikelemba valley
and planted rubber, cocoa and coffee. A collapse in rubber prices in
1908/9 appears to have killed the company. Facsimile signature of the
Comte de la Barre d'Erquelinnes (Source: Boone, auction catalogue June
1998).
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