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Auction: 21144 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 559

U.S.A.: Wrigley Pharmaceutical Company (DE), pair of certificates, common shares, 19[24], #2360 and Class A, common shares, 19[39], #GC42219, both signed by W. W. Wrigley as President, with tube of toothpaste at top, orange and black. Wrigley formed this company capitalising on the success of the Wrigley Spearmint Chewing Gum to which he had no connection. His advertising and stock selling schemes were dubious and he was sued by the real Wrigley in 1929. This however failed to stop Wrigley Pharmaceutical which went on until 1941, famously taking a large stand at the 1939 New York World's Fair. VF (2).

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