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Auction: 16018 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 1282

Mrs.Bull Ltd., £1 ordinary shares, fully paid, 19(10), facsimile signature of Horatio Bottomley as director, patriotic vignette of 'Mrs Bull' sitting by fire draped with a Union Jack, orange. A 'sister' magazine to Bottomley's patriotic paper "John Bull" and very scarce. Horatio Bottomley, 1860 - 1933, was a journalist, newspaper proprietor, financier and swindler. Very active during WWI with his newspaper and also his Victory Bond Club for which he was imprisoned in 1918. Died in relative poverty.

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