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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 518

Bristol Institution for the Advancement of Science , Literature and the Arts, certificate for one share, 1825, no.488, impressive frieze of crowned figure with Neptune, Britannia and others at top, black printing on vellum, endorsements to 1855 on the reverse, very fine.

Founded in 1823, designed by Sir Charles Cockerell, later to complete the Fitzwilliam Museum in cambridge. The Institution was a predecessor of the Natural History Museums in London, Oxford and Cambridge, with the discovery of the first complete plesiosaur credited to one of it's geologists William D. Conybeare. It was taken over by the Bristol City Council in 1894.

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Estimate
£650 to £750