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China/India: Oriental Bank Corporation, £25 share, 18[56], #42578, black, white paper seal. Founded in 1842 and Chartered in 1851 mainly to allow competition with the East India Company but later opened branches in the Chinese treaty ports, Hong Kong, Japan, Mauritius and South Africa. Survived the banking crisis of 1865/6 and prospered until 1885 when it was reconstructed as the New Oriental Bank Corporation. AEF.
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