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Auction: 12010 - Bonds & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 688

United Dry Docks, Inc., a group of 15 certificates of ´less than 100 shares´, [1929], with facsimile signature of E.R.Morse as President, large liner in dry dock at top, green and black, very fine and better. (15) Estimate £ 100-120 An amlgamation of 6 major shipyards in New York including Morse Dry Dock and Repair Co. in 1929, to become the largest company of its kind in the world. Name changed to United Shipyards and purchased by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in 1938. Finally closed in 1963.

Sold for
£130