Germany: West Prussian Mining Co. Ltd., pair of certificates...

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Germany: West Prussian Mining Co. Ltd., pair of certificates for preference shares, 1[897], #34 and pre-preference shares, 1[897], #29. Registered in 1875 to acquire the mines of the Westphalian and Heidelberg Silver-Lead Mining Companies in Westphalia and Anhalt, some 23,500 acres. Two directors, Brinsley de Courcy Nixon (1825-1903), banker, founder of the London & Provincial Bank and financier of John Hughes in Russia and Wyndham Wynne (1840-1910), mining engineer, and with considerable mining interests in Germany both sign the certificates. F-VF and rare (2).