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1873 Lands
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Stock Code LAC01 |
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One share of £10 in this
property company, dated 22nd May 1873. Black and white in perfect condition with
white embossed seal and scrollwork on left hand side. Original
signatures of Spencer Balfour, Managing Director and George
Brock, Company Secretary. Issued to John Nixon of Dufton, Kirkby
Shore, Penrith. One of several
Balfour group of companies which unravelled after a massive
fraud investigation.
Certificate size is 22.5
cm wide x 20 cm high (9.5" x 8.5"). It will be mounted in a
mahogany frame, with gold inlay, size 35 cm wide x 45 cm high.
The certificate is shown unframed
as all items are mounted to order.
A perfect personalised
gift for someone who:
- works or worked in the
property industry or
- has the surname
Balfour, Brock or Nixon
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Balfour Fraud
The Balfour Group of companies began to unravel after the
financial press blew the scandal wide open and the authorities moved in. At
which point Jabez did a runner to Argentina where he lived in some style in
the town of Salta. (And where he gulled the townsfolk into believing he
could do for them what he did for Croydon.)
Jabez’s exile came to an end when Detective Chief Inspector
Frank Froest of Scotland Yard was given the job of hauling the rogue
financier back to London.
The Yard thought it might take Froest five years to do the
job. He did it in months, mainly by defying Argentine law, bundling Jabez on
to a non-stop train (which killed a member of the pursuing posse) and
shipping him out of Buenos Aires and back to England.
After a lengthy trial Jabez and three of his cronies were
jailed. The others were treated leniently (a few months behind bars) but
Jabez, the ringleader, was handed a whopping 14 years.
He didn’t do it all, of course. Jabez emerged in 1906, having
served 11 years of his sentence. He then kept body and soul together by
writing up his experiences for Lord Northcliffe’s Weekly Dispatch which he
then published as a book entitled My Prison Years.
But it’s always hard to keep a conman down. Jabez then set
himself up as a mining consultant and ventured out to tin mine in Burma at
the age of 72.
Jabez returned to Britain and was on his way to take a job in
Wales in February 1916 when he died of a heart attack on the London to
Fishguard express. He’s buried in an unmarked grave in Paddington Old
Cemetery.
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