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Auction: 15019 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 475

Liverpool and Manchester Railway Co. £25 share, 1831, no.13914, black printing, on vellum, red paper seal, good very fine and scarce early issue; together with other related items comprising a rare book entitled An Accurate Description of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-Way, The Tunnel, The Bridges, and other Works Throughout the Line; An Account of the Opening of the Rail-Way, and the Melancholy Accident which Occurred; A Short Memoir of the Late Hon. Wm. Huskisson, and Particulars of the Funeral Procession, &c., by James Scott Walker, 2nd edition, 1830, 52 pages plus pull out plan of Sankey Viaduct and the route of the railway, ex John Phillimore Collection, rebound in marble boards; a white metal medallion, 38mm, to commemorate the opening of the line, issued by T. Woodfield, Liverpool, 1830, Sankey Viaduct on obverse, entrance to Liverpool Station on the reverse, extremely fine; Act of Parliament, May 1826, 'for Making and Maintaining a Railway or Tramroad from the Town of Liverpool to the Town of Manchester, etc.' 106 pages, with full schedule of land and property owners affected by the line; together with St.Helen's and Runcorn Gap Railway, share certificate number 845, 1830, plain black printing together with the corresponding Act of Parliament to incorporate the Company dated May 1830, 86 pages, the certificate extremely fine, the Act generally very fine but the covers a little grubby, overall an excellent and interesting lot. (6)

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Estimate
£2,500 to £3,000