The Orient Express - Rare prefered share certificate 1925 - uncancelled

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The Orient Express - Rare prefered share certificate 1925 - uncancelled:
$99.95

Rare prefered stock certificate of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens, better known as the world famous Orient Express, issued in 1925 for one prefered share of 100 francs. I can see no cancellation marks; 34 coupons still attached.

Very fine condition ; picture shows actual item.

S+H will be $6. Paypal accepted.

From wikipedia: The Orient Express was the name of a long-distance passenger train service originally operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. It ran from 1883 to 2009. The route and rolling stock of the Orient Express changed many times. Several routes in the past concurrently used the Orient Express name, or slight variants thereof. Although the original Orient Express was simply a normal international railway service, the name has become synonymous with intrigue and luxury travel. The two city names most prominently associated with the Orient Express are Paris and Istanbul, the original endpoints of the timetabled service.In 1977, the Orient Express stopped serving Istanbul. Its immediate successor, a through overnight service from Paris to Vienna, ran for the last time from Paris on Friday, June 8, 2007.After this, the route, still called the \"Orient Express\", was shortened to start from Strasbourg instead, occasioned by the inauguration of the LGV Est which affords much shorter travel times from Paris to Strasbourg. The new curtailed service left Strasbourg at 22.20 daily, shortly after the arrival of a TGV from Paris, and was attached at Karlsruhe to the overnight sleeper service from Amsterdam to Vienna.On 14 December 2009, the Orient Express ceased to operate and the route disappeared from European railway timetables, reportedly a \"victim of high-speed trains and cut-rate airlines\".