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Auction: 17016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 542

Cambridge Cemetery Company, £10 share, 1843, #70, in the name of Ebenezer Foster, Banker, and signed by other members of the Foster family as directors, scrollwork left, black. The Fosters were wealthy Mill owners in Cambridge but also formed their own Bank in the City. The bank was acquired by Capital & Counties Bank in 1905 and then passed to Lloyds. Their name can still be seen above the Lloyds Bank branch in Sidney Street. Together with other certificates including Birmingham Canal navigations, receipt, 1835; Birmingham & North of England Patent Forged Nail & Rivet Co. Ltd., 186[5], rare; Hull Flax & Cotton Mill Co., £100 share, 1853; Mudies Select Library Ltd., £20 share, 186[4]; Warrington British Workman Public-house Co. Ltd., £1 shares, 18[78], and others (3). Generally VF (9)

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Estimate
£120 to £150