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Auction: 8026 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 501

Western Telegraph Co. Ltd., £10 shares, 1904, signed by Sir John Denison-Pender as director, black, GVF and rare. Registered 1873 as Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Co. Ltd., name changed in 1899. Absorbed into Cable & Wireless Ltd. Estimate £ 70-90 Sir John Denison-Pender (1855-1929), son of Sir John Pender, pioneer of the Submarine Telegraph. Director (1881-1917) and Chairman (1917-1929) of the Eastern Telegraph Co., later Cable & Wirless.

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