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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 522

Chaplin, Milne, Grenfell & Co. Ltd., £10 preference shares, party paid, 190(0), no.7, signed by Eric Chaplin as director, scrollwork at left, red, very fine. Estimate £ 50 A well known London banking and issuing house that failed in 1914 due to the speculation of one of its former directors, Arthur Grenfell , in various Canadian railways and oils. The company was origally a partnership, Morton, Rose & Co., which changed its name to Morton, Chaplin & Co. on the entry of Eric Chaplin to the business. It was registered as a limited company in 1899.

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