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Auction: 20128 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 232

Great Britain: Liverpool Overhead Railway Company, a series of 3 different certificates, ordinary shares, 18[95], #1438, 5% preference shares, 189[7], #455, and another 19[25], #1184. All perforated cancelled. Incorporated on 24th July 1888 and took over the intended work of the earlier Mersey Dock and Harbour Overhead Railway, which was never built. The line was the first electrically powered overhead railway in the world. It was eventually closed in 1957 as it fell outside of the nationalisation scheme of British Railways. Generall VF and better than usual condition (3).

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