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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 477

Pneumatic Despatch Company Ltd., £10 share, 1860, no.466, attractive black printing, red overprint first issue, extremely fine. Estimate £ 50 This was an attempt to move mail for the Post Office underground by means of a tunnel railway. The tube was just large enough for a man to be carried and despite successful trials, the Post Office declined to put the railway into use.

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