Scripophily: A Waterlow & Sons of London, blue leather bound...

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Scripophily: A Waterlow & Sons of London, blue leather bound presentation album, 11 x 12.75in (29 x 32.5cm) gilt embossed cover entitled 'Specimens Security Documents Produced by Waterlow & Sons Ltd. London Wall, London', numbered 28 in upper right, containing eleven sections: travellers/airways cheques; letters of Credit: Bogota, Bank of Ireland, Ottoman Turkey, Constantinople, Cuba, Havana; Share certificates (direct plate), mainly banks, including Hambros, National Provincial, US International Investments, Aukland Jute, Johannesburg Union; Share certificates (lithographed): Indian steel, Union Bank, Australia, John Mackintosh Ltd., Gt Southern Rauilway of Argentina; Cheques: Ottoman Bank, Seligman Bros., Franco-Serb, National Provincial, Argentine bank,Societe Generale de Paris, others; cheques (litho) Bank of E Asia, Lewis's Liverpool, others; Drafts: National Banks of Egypt, Nicagua, Brazil, India, S Africa, & Bolivia; Drafts (duplicate) London & S America, Mercantile Bank of India, Lopez/Gambia; banks of India, Ecuador, Spanish-America; drafts (triplicate): Banks of Alagoas/Brazil,Bolivia, private companies; also blank pattern-field specimens, early 1920s, all diagonally counter-stamped 'specimen', some with perforations. (1)