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Auction: 16017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 386

1914 and the Closure of the Stock Exchange: an original handwritten notice 'The House will be closed until further notice' etc., which was reputedly affixed to a door of the Stock Exchange in July 1914 due to the outbreak of the First World War, signed by Edward Satterthwaite as secretary of the Committee for General Purposes, has been mounted and now with paper loss at top and bottom left hand corners; together with 3 small receipts from the Bank of England relating to various Government stock transactions, a printed yield table also for Government stock and an unissued £5 note of the Swaledale and Wensleydale Bank, circa 1820, all stuck down and glazed in one large frame.

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