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Create new listLanark Mills was founded out of the partnership made in 1783 between the Glasgow industrialist David Dale (1739-1806), and Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-92), the Derbyshire engineer. The original mill opened in 1785 but burnt down three years later; subsequently rebuilt and with a second mill in full operation, the profitable operation of the business was thwarted by the Napoleonic wars and Dale sold out in 1799 to his son-in-law, the social reformer Robert Owen.
Scotland, NEW LANARK (Lanarkshire), Lanark Mills, a MEXICO, Charles III, 8 Reales, 1783ff, Mexico City, obv. countermarked payable at lanark mills ◊ around 5/, 26.75g/12h (Manville 69; Hodge 069S.004a, this coin; KM. CC66). Coin fine, countermark a little better £600-£800
R.T. Barker Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 April 1945, lot 472; F. Willis Collection, Glendining Auction, 7 October 1991, lot 460; Glendining Auction, 9 December 1992, lot 670.
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