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Auction: 1007 - Bond & Shares of The World
Lot: 306

Aux Classes Laborieuses Ltd., £5 preference shares, 19(08), no.3836, signed by Davison Dalziel as director, ornate border, blue, small ink stain at bottom edge, very fine. Estimate £ 50 A Paris department store, purpose built in 1899. Now a modern office block. Dalziel was an active co-promoter of Anglo-French combinations and later became President of Wagon Lits. His daughter Helen, married Rene Nagelmaekers, the founders son. He later bought the British Pullman Palace Car Company and extended their use in the U.K. Dalziel also controlled many taxi-cab companies in European cities. He left nearly £2.3 million on his death in 1927.

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