REF. NO. | DENOMINATION | DESCRIPTION | NO. ISSUED | CONDITION | VALUE |
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101 | 10/- ordinary shares | 19[12], black | #516 | VF | £60-80 |
Carl Hentschel, Ltd
Registered 1906 and re-registered in 1920. Company number 165204 (1920 company). Carl Hentschel (1864-1930), born in Poland, came to London with his family in 1869. Set up this business in 1887 producing photo engraved illustrations, acquiring works in Fleet Street. By 1894 the company had become the largest of its kind in England and also claimed to be the largest in the world. His friend Jerome K. Jerome used Hentschel as the character Harris in the novels ‘Three Men in a Boat’ and Three Men on the Brummel’.
Capital £95,000 in 60,000 preference shares of £1 and 70,000 ordinary shares of 10/-
1906