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Auction: 21143 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 221

Great Britain: Mounts Bay Consols Limited, £1 shares, 188[3], #1975, signed by John Viret Gooch as director, ornate printing in black and buff. Copper Mines at Mounts Bay, near Penzance, Cornwall. John Viret Gooch, 1812-1900, brother of Sir Daniel Gooch, locomotive superintendant for the London and South Western Railway, 1841-1850 then the Eastern Counties Railway. He also owned interests in several steam colliers and was a director of several mining companies. He appears to have abused his position with the railways to make personal profit from coal supply and also repairing his ships at railway facilities. VF and rare.

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