A HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF MID-19th CENTURY 'ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE' EPHEMERA, including sample lengths with associated cross-sections of the cable laid in 1858, 1865 and 1866 and a short length of the first submarine cable between 'Dover & Cape Grinez' dated February 1850, all is velvet lined box; original correspondence and ephemera connected with John Walkins Brett, including photographs, silver commerative silver plaques, a Submarine Telegraph Company Message Form dated 5th August 1858 to the Director General from Brett confirming that the first telegraph message had been received that morning at Valentia Bay, Ireland, from Trinity Bay, Newfoundland; on a card a fob made from a cross section of the Atlantic cable associated with this latter message and three metal buttons (understood to have been made from the Atlantic cable, with red ribbon bows. These are understood to have been produced from the cable as souvenirs), a publication 'On The Origin And Progress Of The Oceanic Telegraph' London 1858; and the Christie, Manson & Wood catalogue at the sale of works of art etc, the property at John Watkins Brett dated April 5 1864; the Science Museum, London publication 'One Hundred Years of Submarine Cables' dated 1950, the whole in velvet lined attached case (a lot)

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A HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF MID-19th CENTURY 'ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE' EPHEMERA, including sample lengths with associated cross-sections of the cable laid in 1858, 1865 and 1866 and a short length of the first submarine cable between 'Dover & Cape Grinez' dated February 1850, all is velvet lined box; original correspondence and ephemera connected with John Walkins Brett, including photographs, silver commerative silver plaques, a Submarine Telegraph Company Message Form dated 5th August 1858 to the Director General from Brett confirming that the first telegraph message had been received that morning at Valentia Bay, Ireland, from Trinity Bay, Newfoundland; on a card a fob made from a cross section of the Atlantic cable associated with this latter message and three metal buttons (understood to have been made from the Atlantic cable, with red ribbon bows. These are understood to have been produced from the cable as souvenirs), a publication 'On The Origin And Progress Of The Oceanic Telegraph' London 1858; and the Christie, Manson & Wood catalogue at the sale of works of art etc, the property at John Watkins Brett dated April 5 1864; the Science Museum, London publication 'One Hundred Years of Submarine Cables' dated 1950, the whole in velvet lined attached case (a lot)

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John Watkins and Jacob Brett
The achievement of laying the first submarine cable of practical significance was due to the enterprise of two brothers, Jacob and John Watkins Brett. Jacob, the younger brother (1808-1898) was an engineer. It was undoubtedly his initial interest which first attracted his elder brother John Watkins and induced him to take an active part in the enterprise. John Watkins Brett (1805-1865) was originally in business as an antique dealer and, being a comparatively wealthy man, he was in a position to supply a proportion of the finance necessary to enable the project to go forward.