Lot 3093
Sale 95 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes, The Robb Family Collection
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U.K. mining. The Mellingloch Lead Mining Company Limited, 1871 (Wales) certificate no.511 named to Miss Henrietta S.Hanbury Tracy; Mendip Hills Mining Company, 1856, certificate no.960 (Somerset, England). Good very fine - extremely fine. (2)
The Mellingloch Lead Mining Company was formed to mine for lead in Montgomeryshire, Wales. Although unsuccessful it was reputed to have involved fraudulent activities designed to deceive the main shareholders, the Hanbury Tracy family, who invested heavily. Several of the miners were eventually arrested and imprisoned.
- Estimate
- $100
- Result Status
- Passed in