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Auction: 18021 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World Online Auction
Lot: 257

Great Britain: Manchester Ship Canal Company, 5% redeemable debenture, 1927, #5083, steamship at top, ornate border, blue pink underprint, printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Although traffic on a small scale had been using the Mersey & Irwell Navigation since the 1720's, by the 1870's it was in a sorry state and could only take small boats and was actually closed for many days of the year. The Ship Canal was projected in 1882 for a deep wide cutting that was finaly opened in 1894. Deepened to equal the Suez Canal in 1909. VF and rare.

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