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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 507

Agence Dalziel Ltd., £10 shares, no.4, 189(1), signed by Davison Dalziel as director, black, very fine. Set up to operate a News Agency between Paris and London to compete with Reuters, Dalziel was an active co-promoter of Anglo-French combinations and later became President of Wagon Lits. His daughter Helen, married Rene Nagelmaekers, the founders son. He later bought the British Pullman Palace Car Company and extended their use in the U.K. Dalziel also controlled many taxi-cab companies in European cities. He left nearly £2.3 million on his death in 1927. Estimate £ 80-100

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