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Auction: 21144 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 408

Great Britain: Carl Hentschel Ltd., 10/- ordinary shares, 19[12], #516, signed by Carl Hentschel as Director, vignettes in scrollwork of company logo and Fleet Street, black. Carl Hentschel (1864-1930), born in Poland, came to London with his family in 1869. Set up this business in 1887 producing photo engraved illustrations, acquiring works in Fleet Street. By 1894 the company had become the largest of its kind in England and also claimed to be the largest in the world. His friend Jerome K. Jerome used Hentschel as the character Harris in the novels 'Three Men in a Boat' and Three Men on the Brummel'. GVF and scarce.

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