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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 494

Sir James Laing and Sons Ltd., £10 ordinary shares, 1(899), very attractive piece with early wooden ship in docks at left, green, neatly ink cancelled, extremely fine. Estimate £ 60 Established in Sunderland in 1793 and formed as a Limited Liability company in 1898. Builders of high class passenger liners for companies such as Cunard and P.& O. In difficulty following Sir James´s death in 1908 but rescued by Sir James Marr. Became a subsidiary of Sunderland Shipbuilding Dry Docks and Engineering in 1954, eventually passing to Doxford & Sunderland and Shipbuilding in 1961.

Sold for
£50