Superb fully paid-up (one quarter) registered share of the Banque de Cochinchine, a public limited company with a capital of 5 million francs (20,000 shares of 250 francs), articles of association filed with Me Lanquest, notary in Paris, head office in Paris. Issued to Mr. Antoine Lacour. Magnificent two-tone red and black engraving signed Ch. Crabbe: the governor's palace in Saigon, a pagoda, dragons, a rice-paddy scene with peasants, a golden sunset over the delta, all framed by bilingual (French/Chinese) Chinese calligraphy along the certificate's edges.

The Banque de Cochinchine, founded to finance the economic and commercial development of French Indochina, is one of the great thematic classics of French colonial scripophily, renowned for the exceptional quality of its engraving.