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                                Form U-13-60/A

                    Mutual and Subsidiary Service Companies
                            Revised February 7, 1980


                                 ANNUAL REPORT


                                 For the Period


           Beginning  January 1, 1994  and Ending  December 31, 1994
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                                     To The

                    U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                                       OF

                        TRISTAR VENTURES CORPORATION                          
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                       (Exact Name of Reporting Company)


                    A      Subsidiary       Service Company
                      ---------------------
                           ("Mutual" or "Subsidiary")


                    Date of Incorporation September 26, 1986
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  State or Sovereign Power under which Incorporated or Organized   Delaware  
                                                                 ------------

         Location of Principal Executive Offices of Reporting Company:

                 20 Montchanin Road, Wilmington, Delaware 19807


                           DENNIS P. DETAR, TREASURER
                               20 Montchanin Road
                            Wilmington, DE  19807                             
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     (Name, title and address of officer to whom correspondence concerning
                        this report should be addressed)


                          TRISTAR VENTURES CORPORATION                        
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      (Name of Principal Holding Company whose Subsidiaries are served by
                               Reporting Company)

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