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Auction: 18016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World Online Auction
Lot: 291

Great Britain: Albert Exhibition Palace Ltd., £5 shares, 188[3], #5721-5820, signed by the Duke of Teck as director, scrollwork left, black, embossed seal depicts the large exhibition hall and head of Prince Albert. Formed to re-erect the exhibition hall from the Dublin Exhibition, next to Battersea Park in London. Soon after the opening the company was reorganised as the Albert Palace Association and througout 1885 held many shows and concerts. Vistor numbers were not as expected and the Palace was closed in 1888. Efforts to save the building were made but eventually it was demolished and replaced by Albert Palace Mansions and Prince of Wales Mansions whilst Battersea Polytechnic and York Mansions were erected in the grounds. VF and rare.

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