Koloniale Bank

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.

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.