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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 408

Earle´s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., pair of certificates for £5 ordinary shares, and £5 preference shares, both 189(8), attractive printing, black and pink respectively, with red paper seals, good very fine. Established in Hull in 1845 by Charles and William Earle, incorporated with a limited liability in 1871. Built the SS Bessemer, Sir Henry Bessemer´s experimental swinging-cabin paddle steamer, which made its maiden (and only) public voyage in 1875. After voluntary liquidation in 1900 due to the death of one partner and illness of the other, a new company bearing the same name was incorporated in 1901 controlled by the Wilson line for whom the company had built many ships. The company finally went into liquidation in 1933. Estimate £ 80-100

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