Polder van Schouwen Bond Certificate

Polder van Schouwen Bond Certificate

Polder van Schouwen

28 November 1777

Folded: 20.2 x 32.1cm, Unfolded: 40.5 x 32.1cm

This bond certificate is the oldest known bond certificate, still valid and paying interest as of 1988, over two hundred years after it was issued. This bond for £100 has been printed on watermarked paper in a bifolium format. Several sections have been filled in by hand on one page where printed text is present, and there is also a stamp in red at the bottom left corner. The two inside pages are blank except for a small note in the top right corner of one of them, and the final page has a small docket title written by hand.

Part Transcription: "No. [blank]. Wy ondergeschreeve Burgemeester, Heemraaden en Opperdykgraaf, Regenten van den Lande van Schouwen, bekennen wel en deudelyk schuldig te zayn, ter regter schult aan [blank] ... Deeze [blank] by my als Pennigmeester ontfange, en op huyden by't intrekken van de gegeve Recepiffe jegens deze Obligatie uytgewiffelt. Actum [blank]."

Aquired by Mr. Seymour Schulich in 1988. Donated by Mr. Seymour Schulich in 2017.

J.A. DeJonge, signee. J.J. Bogaard, signee. Other signatures are also present.

Dutch

Netherlands

053, Bond No. 156