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Rare stock ticker top mantique at Miller & Miller

NEW HAMBURG, Ontario, Canada – A rare antique printing telegraph was the top mantique at a recent Miller & Miller auction.

Invented by John Burry and made by The Stock Quotation Telegraph Company of New York, the stock ticker sold for $11,800. Complete with correct base and glass dome, it was patented in the 1890s and used in the early 1900s by Canadian National Telegraphs.

Nearly 600 lots of manly memorabilia came up for bid at the

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