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562 Film and Theatre:, A small collection/accumulation of British, American and French companies including British Mutoscope and Biograph Co. Ltd., 1900; Camberwell Palace of Varieties Ltd., 1900; Liverpool Repertory Theatre Ltd., 1921; Whitehall Films Ltd., 1928; Heuck’s Opera House Co., 1893, signed by Hubert Heuck; Belasco Productions Inc., 1927; National Theatres Inc., 1924; Orpheum Circuit Inc., 1921; Schubert Theatre Corp., 1927, $1000 bond; Roxy Theatres Corporation, 1927, $100 bond; Soc. Générale des Cinématographes Eclipse, 1907, and, Soc. Générale des Films, 1907, a little duplication, an interesting lot mainly in fine to very fine condition. (38) £180-220
560 Consolidated Land Company of France Ltd., £10 shares, 186[7], no.43, signed by Albert Grant as director, red printing with blue embossed seal, about very fine. £60-80 Albert Grant (Gotheimer). Financier and company promoter. Most famous for the numerous Emma Silver Mine promotions. Purchased and donated Leicester Square to London Council in 1874. Despite the large number of companies he floated, this is the only piece on which his original signature can be found.
563 H.H. Warner & Company Ltd., 6% First Mortgage debenture for £100, 1890 and 6% Second Mortgage Debenture for £100, 189-, specimen certificates from the Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. archive, large format pieces of similar design, ornate borders with blue and brown underprints respectively, glue residue on reverse otherwise about extremely fine. £80-100 The ‘Bear’ Squeeze: Warner, an American patent medicine manufacturer and experienced stock operator, brought his business to England and floated his new company on the London Stock Exchange. London stock jobbers decided to teach this loud and flamboyant character a lesson by ‘bearing’ the stock when issued (selling what they did not own) in the hope of depressing the price. Little did they know that Warner knew of the plan and bought everything that came to the market. When settlement day came the jobbers could not get stock at any price and Warner forced them to pay huge prices to acquire the stock and avoid being ‘hammered’.
561 Electric Organ Co. Ltd., 6% cumulative preference shares of £1, 189[5], no.15, ornate border and scrollwork at left, red, rust mark in centre, very fine and scarce. £60-80 Formed in 1895 to acquire the Hope Jones Electric Organ Company in London but had failed by 1899.
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