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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 298

Clément, Gladiator & Humber (France) Ltd., £1 ordinary shares, fully paid, 189(7), no.282, ornate border, black, very fine. Estimate £ 80 Formed by Harry J. Lawson, with Adolphe Clément and the Earl of Shrewsbury & Talbot from the acquisition of the Gladiator Cycle Company of Paris and its merger with Humber (France). In addition to cycles the company made motorcycles and quadricycles marketing them as Clement-Talbot and Clement-Gladiator. This company, like most of Lawson´s empire, had failed by 1902 but the Gladiator and Talbot names continued for many years.

Sold for
£50