Société des factoreries francaises du Golfe Persique & de l'Afrique Orientale. Action de Cinq Cents Francs au Porteur. No 296.

Paris, Imprimérie centrale des chemins de fer / Imprimérie chaix, 2. II. 1883.

Folio (ca. 305 x 393 mm). 1 page.

 750.00

Share certificate for a bearer stock security of 500 francs with 24 coupons, signed by two administrators of the "Société des factoreries francaises du Golfe Persique". The company operated from the small port town of Obock, on the Gulf of Tadjoura opposite Aden. It was the site of the first French colony in the region, which was established in 1862, initiating the colonisation of Djibouti. The French were especially interested in having a coaling station for steamships, which proved valuable upon the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.

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