Lot 2993

Description

Great Britain, Norfolk Estuary Company, share certificate no.3695 for one certificate of a £50 share, dated 27 February 1847, named to Edward Mortimer Green of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Solicitor, with vignette at side, printed by Smith and Ebbs, Tower-hill, London, with fine impressed seal of Norfolk Estuary Company and on watermarked paper of Smith & Ebbs, signed by Thomas Wing. Two pin holes at left corner, otherwise very fine.

The Norfolk Estuary Company was founded in 1847 under an Act that allowed them to work on the outfall of the River Ouse and reclaim land from the Wash. In 1964 the company was sold to the Commissioners of Crown Estates and wound up in 1967.