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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 605

John Barker & Co. Ltd., 6% preference shares, 19(34), no.5921, scrollwork at left, black on pink paper, very fine. Estimate £ 50 This large and famous Kensington High Street department store was incorprated in the 1890´s. It acquired competitors Pontings in 1906 and Derry & Toms in 1920 but continued to run them as separate entities. A major Art Deco style building project was started in 1930 created virtual palaces and on the roof of Derry & Toms, Europes largest roof garden of 1.5 acres was created. The Barkers group was purchased by House of Fraser in 1957 and it was systematically dismantled with Pontings being closed in 1971 and Derry & Toms in 1973. Barkers store itself was reduce from 600,000 square feet to only 140,000 feet and continued until 2006 when it closed.

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£40