Mexico & Louisiana. Tehuantepec Co., 1853, I/U Coupon Bond.

New Orleans, Louisiana and Mexico, 1853. £125 Sterling I/U 7% Coupon Bond, Black print with black border and red underprint, Company title at center under allegorical women flanking Arms of Louisiana, Multiple vignettes along left and right sides including a train and George Washington, S/N 1282, Bond is in VF to XF condition. 1853 bond dates to the founding year of Tehuantepec Co., an ambitious early American venture organized to establish an interoceanic transportation route across Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec, representing an important pre-Panama effort to connect Atlantic and Pacific commerce. RWHE.

Estimate:£134.47

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