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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 481

Boyton´s Water Chutes Ltd., £1 shares, no.33, 18(94), black, very fine. Paul Boyton, an Irish American, opened an aquatic circus in 1888 in Illinois where he came across the recently invented water shoot. Intrigued by this and after the success of the Chicago World´s Fair rides in 1893, Boyton took his aquatic Circus to Earls Court and introduced the first large scale water based amusement ride where boats were propelled down a inclined plane into a body of water, a forerunner of todays water slides and log flumes. In 1895 Boyton opened the first modern enclosed amusement Park at Coney Island. Estimate £ 80-100 see lot 491

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