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Auction: 11022 - Bonds & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 716

Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Company Ltd., £10 ordinary shares, 18[92], no.518, vignette of brewery along left side, black, fine, some staining at top right. Peter Schoenhofen, a Prussian immigrant, started a partnership with Matheus Gottfried to operate a brewery in Chicago where, during the early 1860s, they made about 600 barrels of lager beer a year. In 1867, Schoenhofen bought out his partner, and the company became the Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Co. During the 1890s, when the business was acquired by O´Hagan´s, City of London Contract Co, annual output reached 180,000 barrels. Around 1900, the Schoenhofen family regained control from the English company. Operations shut down during Prohibition, but by 1933, after the national ban on alcohol production was lifted, the company was back in business as the Schoenhofen-Edelweiss Co. After being purchased by the Atlas Brewing Co. in the late 1940s, Schoenhofen became part of Dewery´s Ltd. of South Bend, Indiana, in 1951. Estimate £ 80-100

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