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Auction: 22141 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World - e-Auction
Lot: 250

Great Britain: Société Industrielle du Radium Limited, £4 shares, 19[14], #171, blue. Registered in 1912 to acquire a lease of South Terras mine in Cornwall for the production of radium. The metal itself had been isolated by Marie Curie in 1911 and the ore from this mine was shipped to France for processing. Outbreak of WWI suspended operations but they resumed in the early 20's. However the company failed due to an action by the owner of the land and the mine passed to new lessees in 1929. VF and rare.

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