Australian Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Lot 3449 SESSION 16 (7.30PM THURSDAY 11TH APRIL) Australian Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Estimate $1,800
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,400
DUNSFORD & CO GEELONG, issued for Buninyong, ten shillings currency note, proof on paper, not dated (185- printed), with provision for number, no watermark, vignette of Justice and goods of prosperity including a cornucopia, and with various ships to right in the background, imprint of H.C.Jervis Engraver & C, Pitt St. Sydney, stating on front 'At Sight Pay ...... or Bearer TEN SHILLINGS Value received To Messrs. Dunsford & Co, Geelong, all within rectangular framed border with BUNINYONG printed in top border, dark-brown on light blue (Spink Noble Sale 37, lot 2761 a similar note). Almost uncirculated, extremely rare and possibly the second known specimen.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 79 (lot 2894) and from the Dr. Alan Nicholson Collection, Sale 49 (lot 1625).
This is the only known note issue associated with Buninyong (an old gold mining town near Ballarat). Other specimens are reported from this issuer in Geelong. Dusford & Co were transport and coach lines providers.
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