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Auction: 20128 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 114

Great Britain: Manchester Ship Canal Company, a specimen ordinary sharecertificate, 19- (annotated 1901), #5701-59000, steamship top centre, black, blue underprint, by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., with counterfoil, perforated SPECIMEN. Founded in 1882 by local industrialist Daniel Adamson, the canal opened in 1894, overseen by the renowned civil engineer Thomas Walker and having cost about £15m. The canal peaked in 1958 carrying nearly 20,000 tons of traffic, but declined gradually, and now faces a regeneration by a private company to continue its use. VF and rare early date.

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