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Auction: 8026 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 493

Falmouth, Gibraltar & Malta Telegraph Co. Ltd., £10 shares, 18(70), signed by Sir James Anderson, black, red ´fully paid´ on face, slight nicks at left edge, VF. Formed by telegraph pioneer Sir James Pender. The cable was to have terminated at falmouth but later it was decided to use Porthcurno where it can still be seen. Estimate £ 120-150 Sir James Anderson (1824-1893), Engineer. Captain of the S.S.Great Eastern at the time that it laid the first Altantic Cable

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