?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
A.E. HALLIWELL (DATES UNKNOWN) TELEGRAPH IMPERIALLY. Circa 1930. 30x20 inches, 76 1/4x50 3/4 cm. Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London, Dunstable & Watford. Condition B+: restoration along vertical and horizontal folds and at edges; creases and abrasions in margins and image; repaired pin holes in upper corners. In building their empire, the British government had laid more than 160 thousand miles of undersea cables for communication. With the encroaching technologies of radio they feared losing dominance in the field, and so, by act of Parliament in 1929, they combined the cable companies with the new wireless companies. The result in 1930 was, in effect, a monopolistic entity, The Imperial and International Communications Company. The company was situated in the Electra House in Moorgate, and was the communications hub for the entire Empire. The company changed its name to Cable and Wireless Ltd. in 1934.
