CROATIA. OREBICH. Azione di Fiorini 250 Austr. green, black. No 5074. Heavy central folds with tiny holes. Also a little edge-damage outside the printed part of the share. Large format. A shipping company from Orebic, today a port town in Croatia, on the Dalmatian coast on the Peljesac (= Sabioncello in Italian) peninsula. In 1871, the company had the "Rebecca" built at the Poli wharf. It was a ship of 754 ton and 48m long. It had an accident in 1887 near St. Thomas Island in the Caribbean Sea and was no longer seaworthy afterwards However, all in all, the company had by 1873 already 90 sailing vessels with total tonnage of 45.000 tons with 2000 sailors.