If any original certificate of title is lost or destroyed or so obliterated as to become illegible, the Registrar may cause a copy of it to be prepared and to be endorsed with all such entries as were upon the original so far as they can be ascertained from the records of the office and other available information and shall make and sign a memorandum upon the copy stating that it is a substitute to be used in place of the original, and what has become of the original so far as known or supposed, and from the date of the copy being so signed it may be bound up in the Register Book and used in place of the original for the purpose of dealings.