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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 576

Bath Literary and Scientific Institution, certificate for one share, (1854), no.230, black on thick paper, split down centre fold, fine but rare. Estimate £ 50 The company/Institution was established in 1824 and the Museum opened in the following year. It was to become the most important institution in Bath occupying a large classic building in the centre of the City. The building was in a state of disrepair by the mid 1920´s and was demolished in 1932, the Institution moving to new premises in Queen Square. Much of the collections were dispersed over the years following 1940 and the Institute dissolved in 1959. Reborn in 1968.

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£50