[The Artisans Labourers and General Dwellings Company Limited, London.] Two vellum indentures regarding their Shaftesbury Park Estate in Battersea, one with the Mutual Life Assurance Society; the other a mortgage with Lords Wolverton and Kinnaird.

Both items in good condition, lightly aged, and both laid out in the customary fashion, with tax stamps and embossments. ONE: On three vellum skins. Endorsed, with signatures of various Company officials, on reverse of third skin: 'The Artizans Labourers and General Dwellings Company Limited to The Mutual Life Assurance Society | Mortgage for securing £35000 and Interest'. Large coloured map of the estate (Brassey Square, Latchmere Road, Tyneham Road, Eversleigh Road, Sabine Road, Kingsley Street Morrison Street, Ashbury Road, Holden Street, Grayshott Road) on reverse of third skin. With the Company's embossed paper common seal on the usual folded-up flap at foot of first skin. Pinned to the third skin is a duplicated copy of a typed letter (1p., 8vo) from London solicitors Ashurst, Morris, Crisp & Co. to H. W. Manley of the Mutual Life Assurance Society, giving noticing of the Company's intention to pay off the balance of the loan. TWO: On five vellum skins. Signed on usual flap at foot by 'Kinnaird' and 'Wolverton' with their seals in red wax, and with the common seal of the Company. Endorsed on reverse of fifth skin: 'The Artisans [sic] Labourers and General Dwellings Company Limited to The Right Honorable Lord Wolverton and The Right Honorable Lord Kinnaird | Mortgage of part of The Shaftesbury Park Estate to secure £25,000 and interest'. The reverse of the fifth skin also carries various memoranda, one memorandum again signed by the two peers. The first skin carries a map of the property referred to, and a final schedule lists the streets in Latchmere Road, Elsley Road West, Sabine Road West, Eversleigh Road, Kingsley Street, Eland Road and Grayshott Road. The Artizans Company was established by William Austin in 1867, and had developed into a multinational property developer by the time it was absorbed into Sun Life in 1976.