Lot 1337
Sale 128 · Important Australian, British, World, and Ancient Coins, Banknotes, and Medals
Description
Great Britain, The Louth & East Coast Railway Company, parchment share certificate no.416 for two shares of ten pounds each to Thomas Ashley of Aswell Lane South in the County of Lincoln, Implement Manufacturer, dated 11 August 1876, impressed with the company seal. Folds, some tape on edges and rusted pin hole at bottom left corner, otherwise very fine.
Thomas Ashley owned an iron foundry, Thomas Ashley's Aswell Iron Works, which employed over 100 men in the 1860s. It made ploughs, fertiliser spreaders, horse shoes, mowers, reapers and other similar items. In 1857 Ashley won first prize for an agricultural implement at the North Lincolnshire Agricultural Society Show.
- Estimate
- $100
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $60