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Chairman of Filofax PLC, Mr David Collischon, presents the director Rear Admiral W. J. Graham with a cheque for £3,250.

Chairman of Filofax PLC, Mr David Collischon, presents the director Rear Admiral W. J.

Graham with a cheque for £3,250. The cheque was a percentage of profits made from the sale of Filofax personal organisers made from the hides of reindeer recovered from a wreck that had lain at the bottom of the sea for 200 years. Divers discovered the wreck o/Catharina von Flensburg, a 53 ton Danish cargo vessel, which sank in a gale in Plymouth Sound in 1786, and recovered hundreds of bundles of reindeer hides that had been preserved by the deep mud. Last December, to mark the bicentenary of the wreck, Filofax commissioned a limited number of personal organisers to be made from the reindeer hides..

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