1920s WALLSEND SLIPWAY & ENGINEERING CO. Stock Certificate - RMS MAURETANIA

Description

Rare, vintage collectible stock certificate from the early England shipbuilding industry.
These certificates are in excellent condition and you would receive one of the certs issued between 1921 and 1924.
This is absolutely authentic, NOT a reproduction.  As many of you already know, paper stock and bond certificates have nearly completely gone away in favor of electronic 'book-entry' share ownership.  Physical certificates have become very collectible, and an important part of Wall Street history.  Unlike collectibles such as sports cards, stamps, coins, etc. where millions are still being produced each year, the available supply of stock certificates is now nearly finite.
History:
The Company commenced business in 1871 as the Wallsend Slipway Company, with two slipways and doing repair work only. These slipways remained in use until 1909 when they were dismantled and the land used to expand the business. A new graving dock was added in 1895.
From repairing ships, they went on to lengthen them too. From 1874, instead of just repairing engines and boilers, they began to build them as well. A new boiler shop was built in 1881, extended in 1904 to accommodate the giant boilers of the
RMS Mauretania
.
Mauretania
was on a westbound voyage from Liverpool to New York, beginning 10 April 1912, and was docked at Queenstown, Ireland, at the time of the
RMS Titanic
disaster
.
Mauretania
was transporting
Titanic's
cargo manifest carried by registered mail.
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