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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 613

Black and White Milk Bars Ltd., £1 preferred shares, 19(37), no.129, signed by Hugh Donald McIntosh as Director, ornate border, red and black, very fine. Estimate £ 80 Hugh Donald McIntosh (1876-1942), sporting and theatrical entrepreneur and newspaper proprietor. Nicknamed ´Hugh Deal´ McIntosh. Born in Australia, McIntosh´s first coup was staging a boxing match between the Australian and American heavyweight champions which he himself refereed. With the profit he purchased several theatrical productions and also acquired a controlling interest in the Sunday Times. After WWI he spent his time between Australia and England, leasing Lord Kitchener´s Broome Park. In financial difficulties by the mid 1920´s he was forced to sell the Sunday Times. Undertaking a few more unsuccesful deals he was declared bankrupt by 1930. This company was formed in 1935 to open a bar in Fleet Street and subsequently a chain of bars but this was also in difficulties by 1938. He died penniless in 1942.

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