Brown letter opener advertising the Eastern Telegraph Company Limited and The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company Limited, 50 and 11 Old Broad Street, London, E.C.with the world map on both sides showing the cable connections in red lines.. The Eastern Telegraph Company was established in 1872 as an amalgamationn of the a number of smaller telegraph companies. Its general manager was Sir James Anderson who had organised the Great Eastern on its successful laying of the 1866 Atlantic cable
