📜 THE MONTE VIDEO TELEPHONE COMPANY LIMITED

📅 Incorporated JULY 31, 1888

💰 Capitalization: £160,000

📊 Issued for 100 SHARES

✍️ Transfer recorded NOVEMBER 4, 1907

🏛 London & Provincial Bank reference

📍 Address noted: 55 England’s Lane, Hampstead

This is an ORIGINAL late-Victorian engraved stock certificate from one of the early TELEPHONE infrastructure companies operating in the British Empire era.

The certificate prominently states:

CAPITAL £160,000

Divided into preference and ordinary shares.

The ornate engraved border and typography reflect the height of 1880s financial document craftsmanship — heavy scrollwork, bold company masthead, and detailed printing consistent with London security engravers of the period.

The embossed company seal reads:

INCORPORATED JULY 31ST 1888

Transfer ledger details handwritten in ink show the movement of shares in 1907, giving the document layered financial history beyond its original issue.

This piece sits right at the dawn of global telecommunications expansion — the era when telephone companies were rapidly forming across Europe and colonial territories.