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1897 Esmond
Cycle Saddle Company Ltd |
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Issued to Sir John
Blundell Maple, MP |
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Stock Code ECS1897 |
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Certificate number 22, for 200 shares of
£1 each (2% of the issued share capital) in this bicycle saddle
manufacturing company, dated 20th November 1897. Black and white
certificate, with white embossed seal and black
ornate border. Issued to
Sir John Blundell
Maple, MP of Tottenham Court Road, London. Original
signatures of J Spottiswoode, Secretary, together with that of
two directors. The company was wound up in June 1900.
Certificate size is 28
cm wide x 25 cm high (11.5" x 10.5").
A perfect personalised
gift for someone who:
- works or worked in the
bicycle manufacturing industry or
- is a keen cyclist
- has the surname Maple
or Spottiswoode
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Framed Certificate Price : £100.00
Certificate Only Price : £55.00 |
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MAPLE, SIR JOHN
BLUNDELL, BART.
(1845-1903), English
business magnate, was born on the 1st of March 1845. His father, John Maple
(d. 1900), had a small furniture shop in Tottenham Court Road, London, and
his business began to develop about the time that his son entered it. The
practical management soon devolved on the younger Maple, under whom it
attained colossal dimensions. The firm became a limited liability company,
with a capital of two millions, in 1890, with Mr Maple as chairman. He
entered parliament as Conservative member for Dulwich in 1887, was knighted
in 1892, and was made a baronet in 1897. He was the owner of a large stud of
race-horses, and from 1885 onwards won many important races, appearing at
first under the name of Mr Childwick. His public benefactions included a
hospital and a recreation ground to the city of St Albans, near which his
residence, Childwickbury, was situated, and the rebuilding, at a cost of
more than £50,000, of University College Hospital, London. He died on the
24th of November 1903. His only surviving daughter married in 1896, Baron von Eckhardstein, of the German Embassy. |
