• Brewing Industry Share Certificate, rare

 

Great Britain, Newcastle, W A Falconar & Company Ltd, Debenture Stock Share Certificate for £1000, 28 June 1893, register no.3, certificate no.17, to Dorothy Alder Falconar of Shortley Lodge (founder of the company), geometric design and cypher to right, embossed company seal with beer-barrel design lower left, printed by Waterlow Bros & Layton Ltd. Pinhole top left, two light folds, otherwise extremely fine and very rare. Incorporated in 1893, the company was well established as brewers, blenders, wine and spirit merchants. It had also acted as an agent for Edinburgh brewrs Blair & Co