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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 588

Helsby Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd., £1 shares, 10 shillings paid, 19(10), no.3, signed by Baden Baden-Powell as director, blue, about very fine. Estimate £ 50 Baden Baden-Powell (1860-1937), brother of Robert Baden-Powell, famous defender of Mafeking during the Boer War and originator of the Scouting movement. Baden was a pioneer of miltary aviation and President of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Founded the Air Scouts in 1911. This company developed the Cymophone, a portable wireless navigation system for shipping prior to WWI. See Lot 586

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