Koloniale Bank

Bewijs van Aandeel | June 24, 1907 | One piece at 500 Gulden
TypeBewijs van Aandeel
Represented Quantity1
Nominal500 Gulden
Coupon Rate0%
Place of IssueAmsterdam, The Netherlands
Date of IssueJune 24, 1907
Printing FirmJ.H. de Bussy in Amsterdam
LanguageDutch
Year of Acquisition2023
ConditionEF

Description

The Koloniale Bank was one of the six major financing companies. It was set up in 1881 seated in Amsterdam and had a number of activities which included involvement in the financing but also the management and the ownership of sugar factories and plantations. In the late 1920s it directly owned three factories on Java - at least two of which were actually set up by Koloniale Bank.

Sample from the coupon sheet

Unusual - and by Dutch standards - colourful design for the 1907 bearer share. Excerpts from the statues  of the company on the reverse - inter alia the company was set up for a duration of 50 years and set up to finance plantation companies in the Dutch-Indies, also how the profit was meant to be split between the shareholders and various officers. Stamped “Specimen”, punchhole lines and de Bussy archive number 1487.