Beautiful certificate from the Burndept Wireless Limited issued in 1925. This historic document has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company name. This item has the signatures of the Company's Director's and Secretary and is over 83 years old.
Certificate Vignette Burndept: the well established Burnham & Co had a wireless department, which became a separate entity when Witt Burnham established Burndept Ltd. as a private company. Ethophone was the popular name for a number of models. In 1925 they became a public company: Burndept Wireless Ltd. which later ran into financial problems: in June 1927 it was forced into receivership (Konkursverwaltung). But the company was not liquidated. The receiver (Konkursverwalter) took control and managed to recover.