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Auction: 8026 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 512

Boots Cash Chemists (Southern) Ltd., £1 preference shares (stamped ´A´ preference), (1907), signed by Jesse Boot as director, black, red seal, VF and scarce. Jesse Boot formed this company on the acquisition of William Day´s Southern Drug Company, a chain of 60 stores in London and the South. Estimate £ 40-60 Jesse Boot (1851-1931). Retail chemist. Took over his father´´s business at an early age, based in Nottingham, and tranformed it into a national chain. Boot was knighted in 1909, created a baronet in 1916, and created Baron Trent, of Nottingham in 1929.

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