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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 489

Eddystone Lighthouse, sale of one 32nd part or share in the lighthouse currently being built, to Samuel Hamersley, 1758, for the sum of £420 19s 7d, for a term of 99 years, a handwritten document on 4 pages, signed by the transferors, Ann Hoffshleger and John Betagh and two witnesses to their signatures, very fine condition.

This certificate relating to the third lighthouse to be built on the Eddystone Rocks in Devon. The first two being destroyed by storm and fire, the third was to be influential in the design of lighthouses of the future. Designed by John Smeaton it was modelled on an Oak tree, and used a concrete base (using hydraulic lime which would set under water). It first operated in 1859, and remained until 1877 when the rocks beneath had become eroded. This lighthouse was removed and rebuilt in Plymouth as a memorial, and a fourth one stands in its place today.

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£450