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Auction: 21144 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 185

Portugal: Lisbon Eelectric Tramways Ltd., 25 ordinary shares of £1, London 190[5], #D2306, signed by Lionel Phillips as director, large format piece with allegorical figures in centre, ornate border, blue and black, printed by Waterlow & Sons, single hole cancel, with coupons. The first of the electric tramways in the city, built by this English company formed in 1899. The Company imported and operated tramcars from the USA. Sir Lionel Phillips, 1855-1936, South African financier and mining magnate, Chairman of the Chamber of Mines in 1892, sentenced to death following the Jameson Raid but he was given a reprieve after 6 months and then banished from the Transvaal. VF.

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