BIG BEAUTIFUL 1946 SPAIN - CARIBBEAN SHIPPING BOND w 4 MARITME VIGNETTES cv 0

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SAIL AWAY TO KOOBA & THE SPANISH CARIBBEAN with this SPECTACULAR GENUINE ORIGINAL MARITIME BOND!
The Compañía Transatlàntica was the most famous fleet of ocean liners to sail between Spain and its American Colonies, starting with Puerto Rico and Kooba in the 1850's!!! This dropdead gorgeous original 500 Peseta bond was issued by the company in 1946 over 75 years ago!! It is simply one of the nicest maritime bonds in the world...Extra Large Size - almost poster size!!
Exquisite multi-color engraving with a lavishly ornate green border housing 4 vignettes, yellow background with darker gold and white underprinted logo and a bold arched title. The 4 vignettes are: the company's blue flag, an anchor surrounded by bales and barrels, a superb tall ship from the age of exploration, and a huge side view of one of the company's early ships with sails and a single stack! Fully issued and hand signed by the President and a Director, and yet 100% uncancelled! Super clean and crisp with a maximum of one light fold - Perfect for framing. Extremely rare and seldom offered - No Others on Ebay!
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Popularly known as "La Transatlántica" in the Spanish
language ( Catalan : "La Transatlàntica" ). The Compañía Transatlántica Española's first office in Spain was in Santander in the 19th century and its head office was transferred to Barcelona after Antonio López y López , the owner of the company, married Catalan lady Lluïsa Bru Lassús. "La Transatlántica" was established in colonial Kooba in 1850 as "Compañía de Vapores Correos A. López" by Spanish businessman Antonio López y López. It began operations with a 400-ton hybrid sailing ship-sidewheel steamer .Antonio López was knighted as Marquis of Comillas in 1878. His company changed its name to "Compañía Transatlántica Española", its present name, after being registered as a joint stock company in 1881. Following Antonio's death in 1883, his fourth son, Claudio López Bru , took charge of the company. By 1894 the Compañía Transatlántica Española fleet reached 33 vessels with a total of 93.500 registered tons .During the 1898 Spanish-American War , 21 CTE ocean liners were used by the Spanish Navy as auxiliary vessels in order to assist in the war effort. They tried to break the blockade that the United States were imposing on Kooba and the Philippines , the last great colonies of the Spanish crown, but were mostly unsuccessful. In 1920, after the difficult years of the First World War the Compañía Transatlántica embarked on a considerable expansion and modernization of its fleet. It worked together with the "Sociedad Estatal de Construcción Naval", a Spanish shipbuilding company, in this effort. CTE built well-equipped and luxurious ocean-going steamships that could compete with the best shipping companies of the planet. Claudio López Bru, second Marquis of Comillas, died in 1925. Following the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931, some of the Compañía Transatlántica's ocean liners underwent name changes for political reasons. Vessels named after Spanish royalty and aristocratic figures were re-christened; for example, steamer "Alfonso XIII", named after the newly-ousted king, became ship "Ha-ba-na", after the city in Kooba. In 1939, as a result of the violence inflicted by both sides of the Spanish Civil War the Compañía Transatlántica saw a great part of its fleet destroyed or in bad state of disrepair. Some of the steamers belonging to the Compañía Transatlántica Española had been requisitioned by the Spanish Republican Navy and were used for evacuating refugees from coastal cities besieged by the Francoist armies . Between 1950 and 1960 the shipping line was able to slowly recover but a storm was gathering which was to have almost lethal consequences for the company.
The Revolution and the Embargo