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Auction: 19018 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 152

France: Paris Gigantic Wheel and Varieties Co. Ltd., a pair of bearer warrants for 5 shares of £1, London 189[8], #B2277, and 10 shares of £1, London 189[8], #C1374, both signed by Alfredo Pinto Leite and George Carr Glyn, Ferris wheel and buildings in centre, naked Fortuna on winged wheel with flags of France and England at left, mauve and orange-brown respectively, printed by Waterlow & Sons, with coupons. Built for the Paris Exposition of 1900 and was slightly larger than the London Great wheel at 300 feet diameter built in 1895 at Earl's Court. It also held 1600 passengers. The wheel was dismantled in 1920 and the carriages used for the homeless. Both slightly grubby but VF (2).

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Estimate
£80 to £100