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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 480

Barnum & Bailey Ltd., £1 shares, (1902), vignettes of both P.T.Barnum and J.A.Bailey, lion and American eagle in scrollwork at left, printed by Waterlow & Sons, liquidators stamps on face, good very fine. Formed in 1899 at the start of the Barnum and Bailey Circus European Tour. The largest in the world the train consisted of some 60 railway carriages and operated 3 rings instead of the European norm of only one. The origin of the term ´a three ring circus´. Sold to Ringling Brothers in 1906 following the untimely death of Bailey. Barnum had died in 1891. Estimate £ 300-400

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