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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 540

Howe Machine Company S.A., 100 franc share, Brussels 1889, no.18067, the company's Glasgow factory at bottom, sewing machine and cyclist at left and right, Elias Howe, the inventor, medallion at top, brown and green, with all coupons, about extremely fine.

Elias Howe patented the lock stitch sewing machine in 1846 and founded the company in 1865 with partners the Stockwell brothers. Expanded to offices in London, and later Scotland. Like many such businesses started to manufacture bicycles during the boom period. The medallion seen on the certificate was the company trade mark and was embedded into every machine they produced.

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Estimate
£60 to £80