Canal Interoceanique de Panama - Bond (Uncanceled) - Several Types Available - F For Sale

France/Panama Canal, Uncanceled 1884 Green 500 Francs 3% Bond, 1880 Blue Stock, or 1887 Brown 1,000 Francs Bond. Printer-Stern, Paris. Great Graphics including a ship passing through the canal that the French could not complete. All have some coupons. Please specify color. The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panam) is an artificial 82km (51mi) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduces the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous Cape Horn route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage or Strait of Magellan and the even less popular route through the Arctic Archipelago and the Bering Strait. The earliest record regarding a canal across the Isthmus of Panama was in 1534, when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, ordered a survey for a route through the Americas in order to ease the voyage for ships traveling between Spain and Peru. The Spanish were seeking to gain a military advantage over the Portuguese. In 1668, the English physician and philosopher Sir Thomas Browne speculated in his encyclopedic work, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, that \"some Isthmus have been eaten through by the Sea, and others cut by the spade: And if the policy would permit, that of Panama in America were most worthy the attempt: it being but few miles over, and would open a shorter cut unto the East Indies and China\". In 1788, American Thomas Jefferson, then Minister to France, suggested that the Spanish sho Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.