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Auction: 17017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 235

Ellesmere Canal, a certificate of receipt for [£6 17/6d], 1793, being a proporation of his interest in the Eastern Canal and the Wirral Canal, black printing, impressed duty stamp. It would appear that the two proposed canals (Eastern and Wirral) only managed to obtain monies for Parliamentary approval. In the same year a new company, the Western Canal was also formed but immediately changed its name to the Ellesmere Canal. All schemes were brought together in the new venture and any monies still held were applied to shares in the Ellesmere Canal. GVF and rare.

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