Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 551
Holmes Oil Company Limited, black, £10 shares, Glasgow 18(97), black, fine to very fine. Estimate £ 50 One of the larger companies involved in the shale oil industry of Broxburn, West Lothian. Wound up in 1900 after a serious strike by its workers over wages.
Sold for
£40
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