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Auction: 1007 - Bond & Shares of The World
Lot: 313

Forges de la Capelette, Soc. en Commandite et par Actions Amédée Armand & Cie., 5000 franc share, Marseille (1847), no.45, (of only 200 issued), issued to Philip Taylor and signed by him as Commissaire, ornate border, black, yellow underprint, good very fine. Estimate £ 60 The company produced iron plates and tubes for use in shipbuilding and was amalgamated with other companies to form Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée. Philip Taylow was an adventurer and one of many English engineers working in the region since the 1820´s.

Sold for
£40