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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 614

British Stamp & Ticket Automatic Delivery Co Ltd, £1 shares, fully paid, 19(26), no.A195, attractive vignettes of the company´s machines, ornate border, red, printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., tiny ink mark at right edge, very fine and rare. Estimate £ 60 As early as 1909 companies were inventing machines for the automatic dispensing and sticking of postage stamps but none were successful. In 1911 the printers Harrisons were asked to quote for manufacturing stamps in coils and enquiries flooded into the Post Office from any companies including the British Stamp & Ticket. This company is best known for the supply of special stamp vending machines at the Wembley exhibition of 1924/25. Each machine could hold a roll of 1,200 stamps made in rolls from 10 sheets of stamps dismantled into vertical strips of 10, the strips then being joined to form a continuous roll.

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£50