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Auction: 21141 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 277

Great Britain: Channel Islands Telegraph Company Limited, one share, 1858, #1487, blue, printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co. London. Formed in 1857 as a subsidairy of the Electric Telegraph Company to connect Guernsey, Jersey and Alderney to the mainland. Maintenance was a continual problem so parts were abandoned in 1860. The whole inland telegraph industry was nationalised by the British Government in 1868. VF-EF and rare.

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