Life pension 5,500F/year N°464, SACD Pension Fund, M. Isidore de Lara (born London 9 August 1858), opera composer, Paris 49 Rue Copernic, deliberation 4 July 1930. Celebrity document.

Special Issue Étoile Palace music-hall, Bearer Bond Series 1907 N°526-93, Paris 30 April 1907, 2 shows/month 50% discount, Avenue Wagram

Share 500F N°393, Cercle Social de Mulhouse, Edouard Goldschmidt Industrialist Belfort, Mulhouse 10 Oct. 1933. Civil company founded 1838 (Maître Fustier). Fine Alsatian social club document.

Certificate 2 registered shares 5,000F N°609-610 (certificate N°397), SA Saint-Cloud Country-Club, M. Mancourrier Edouard, Parc de Buzenval Garches (Seine-et-Oise), 1 Jan. 1921. Rare.

Bond 500F/20 Pounds Sterling N°0,236,848, Ottoman 1873 6% Loan, Société de Crédit Mobilier / Crédit Général Ottoman / Banque de Constantinople. 1,388,889 bonds, capital 694M fr.

Founder's Share Bearer, Ottoman Real Estate Co. of Constantinople, bilingual French/Ottoman, 30 June 1914. Bosphorus panorama vignette. Imprimerie Chaix. Issued one month before World War I.

Bond $1,000 N°991 Letter L, Republic of Cuba, 7%, New York 1 June 1869. Ten Years' War. Signed by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and José Morales Lemus. Exceptional revolutionary founding document.

Share 100F No. 1.020, Société Internationale de la Photographie des Couleurs, Paris Jan. 1899. Art Nouveau vignette by Lucien Métivet: angel photographer with Niépce and Daguerre

Certificate No. 8.014, 24 bonds, 1864-1865 Loans of the Imperial Government of Mexico (Maximilian), Comité des Obligataires Mexicains, Paris, 31 August 1869. Document linked to Maximilian's Empire.

Bono $100 Letra C No. 3108, H. Ciudad de Veracruz (Mexico), Xalapa, 1 January 1907. Trilingual Spanish/English/French. Bankers Trust New York. Rare bond of the great Mexican Gulf port.

Bono $1,000 Letra A No. 1060, Ciudad de Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico), 1 January 1910. Trilingual Spanish/English/French. State of Oaxaca, Porfiriato. Last issue before the Mexican Revolution.

Bono $1,000 Letra C No. 9162, Ciudad de Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico), 1 July 1907. Trilingual Spanish/English/French. Engraved by American Bank Note Co. Prestigious Porfirian municipal bond.

Certificate for 500 shares $1 No. 263, Compañía Cubana Primadera S.A., Czarnikow-Rionda Company, 12 June 1958. El Morro vignette. Cuban sugar industry just before the Castro revolution.

Acción $5 No. 000043 (acción No. 1015), Petrolera Nacional de Motembo S.A., Havana, 9 January 1939. Linked to the historic Motembo oil site, Cuba's only continuous oil producer.

Acción $100 No. 6355, Empresa del Ferro-Carril de Guantánamo, Dr. Manuel Tenorio y Piñeyro, Santiago de Cuba, 1 Jan. 1882. Capital $1M, CANCELADO. Rare colonial Cuban railway.

Acción $25 Series D, Compañía Anunciadora Cuba S.A., Marianao, 25 July 1928. Specialized in "Anuncios Giratorios Patente Sigler". Rare Cuban advertising company of the Roaring Twenties.

Common share $100 No. B4611, Port of Havana Docks Company, Portland (Maine) 1910. Bilingual English/Spanish, engraved by Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Rare prestigious Havana port certificate.

Bono 5 Pesos Oro Series D No. 00613, Ayuntamiento de Santa Clara (Cuba), 14 November 1887. Small denomination from the same colonial municipal issue. Rare Spanish-Cuban scripophily.

Bono 100 Pesos Oro Series A No. 00285, Ayuntamiento de Santa Clara (Cuba), 14 November 1887. Colonial Spanish Cuban municipal bond. Rare, shortly before the war of independence.

Founder's Share 5,000F, 2nd Series No. 179, Compagnie d'Exploitation des Landes de Bordeaux, Jules Mareschal, Paris, 16 June 1834. Document of the development of the Landes under the July Monarchy.

Share 150F No. 000.511, Société Financière Monégasque de Publicité, Monaco, 9 March 1937. Capital 187,500F, 12 coupons. Rare interwar Monégasque certificate.

Bond No. 69508 "Gagnant Forcément" Series 696, Loan of H.M. the King of Sardinia, F. Pagella & Cie Turin, distribution 1 May 1853. Rare pre-Risorgimento Sardinian royal loan.

Acción No. 02138 Series A of $100, Compañía Bancaria Católica de México, 14 Dec. 1904. Numerous coupons. Rare Mexican Catholic banking institution under the Porfiriato.

Título No. 193, 5,000 Soles, Banco de Trujillo (Peru), Francisco Calderón, 2 September 1872. Bank founded 1871. Exceptional rarity of 19th-century Peruvian scripophily.

Share 500F, Banque Union Marseillaise, Vincent Frères & Cie, Marseille August 1880. 3rd issue in the name of Mr. Héliodore Garcin. Rare 19th-century southern French banking certificate.

Share of 500 francs, Houillères de Long-Pendu, Société en Commandite, Saône-et-Loire, Paris, 15 June 1840. Oldest document in the collection, Burgundian coal-mining operation under the July Monarchy.

Confederate States of America Loan

Bond of 1000 dollars, Richmond, 16 September 1862, no. 1620

Beneficiary share No. 3.906, SA des Mines de Sentein (Ariège) et de Bagergue (Spain), Paris, 1914. Unique Franco-Spanish cross-border certificate, Pyrenean mines straddling the France-Spain border.

Certificate for 3 shares of 500 dinars No. 631–633, Généralna Banka u Nišu (General Bank of Niš), December 1922.

Certificate for 20 shares of 500 dinars No. 008701–008720, Généralna Banka u Nišu (General Bank of Niš), December 1922, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Rare Serbian banking document.

Delegation bond of 100 francs No. 2.156, Sanatorium Frigorifique de Saigon, Paris, 1 July 1898. Rare document of French colonial Indochina, cold-storage company in Saigon, end of the 19th century.

Certificate for 10 shares of 1500 piastres No. 2494, CARIC (Công-Ty Kỹ-Nghệ Thủ-Thiêm), Saigon, 1976. Post-reunification Vietnam document, extremely rare bilingual French/Vietnamese industrial certificate.