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Auction: 15019 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 628

(x) United States of America: International Mercantile Marine Co., common stock trust certificate for 10 shares, 19[04], no.B14261, issued to Sir Christopher Furness, M.P. and signed by him on the reverse, signed 'J.P.Morgan & Co.' as the trustees, 4 funnel steamship at top with tugboats, steel blue, endorsement at top, stamped and hole cancelled, very fine.

Sir Christopher Furness, 1852 - 1912, shipowner since 1877, began shipbuilding with Edward Withy & Co. and merged with them in 1891 to form Furness, Withy & Co. which became the main employer in Hartlepool. Finally closed in the 1980's. He was knighted in 1895 and became Baron Furness in 1910.

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