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Auction: 14016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 438

Midland Railway Company, a collection of 4 certificates comprising; £10 4% preference share, 1878, no.51513, blue; 2.5% debenture stock, 191[6], no.68879, olive green; consolidated 2.5% perpetual guaranteed preferential stock, 19[15], no.31515, green, cancelled; consolidated 2.5% perpetual preference stock, [1912], no.93387, brown, cancelled, together with other documents (5) including application for £50,000 perpetual 5% debenture stock for the Somerset and Dorset Railway Companies extension to the Midland Railway, 1874 and dividend warrants with cheques still attached, very fine and better. (9)

Incorporated in 1844 as the first major railway amalgamation, involving the North Midland, Midland Counties and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railways. Over several years many more railways were purchased and it became a railway of outstanding importance.

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Estimate
£80 to £100