This bearer certificate for 10 preference shares of Oriental Industrial Monopolies Limited is a remarkable financial document from the interwar period. Issued in Paris in 1928, it reflects the intense stock-market and colonial activity of the 1920s, a time when many exploitation companies with an Oriental focus were listed on European financial markets. The number 01.431 indicates a large-scale issue, testifying to the attraction of Parisian capital to Oriental industrial monopolies. Preference shares gave investors dividend priority, making them sought-after securities. This document, through its typography and graphic ornamentation characteristic of the Roaring Twenties, is as much an aesthetic object as a historical testimony to the colonial capitalism of the period.