Cuban-American Petroleum Company stock certificate 1918 (Arizona)

Oil exploration in Cuba. Nice center vignette of an early oil field with wells. Interesting side border vignettes of gushing oil wells (left and right). Issued and not cancelled. Dated 1918. Vertical folds from mailing. Measures approximately 11 x 8 inches. 

Issued for "Three Hundred TRES CENTOS" SHARES. 

Incorporated in Phoenix Arizona on March 21, 1917 (state filings and records in Arizona).

This speculative company was created and capitalized for oil exploration and drilling in Cuba during the period of industrial expansion. Very little profitable fields were developed before the company went out of business.

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