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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 589

Hooper´s Telegraph Works Ltd., £10 shares, £7 paid, 187(1), no. 2474, scrollwork at left depicting cross-section of multi core electric cable, black, embossed seal depicts the same, very fine. Estimate £ 60 Business commenced by William Hooper. Registered 1870 and in liquidation by 1877. Reformed as Hooper´s Telegrpah and India Rubber Works. The company made submarine and subterranean telegraph cables, telephone cables, Hooper´s core and insulated wire for electric lighting installations and Indiarubber insulating products.

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