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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 604

Freeman, Hardy and Willis Ltd., 6% cumulative preference shares of £1, fully paid, 19(26), no.1453, underprint vignette of the company´s London offices and store, scrollwork left, green, and yellow, very fine Estimate £ 50 Company formed in 1875 for the retail of shoes. Became one of the best known chain stores with shops in most towns of the United Kingdom. Acquired by Sears in 1929 but the name was retained as Freeman Hardy Willis and the FHW monogram. The name finally disappeared from the high street in 1996.

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