Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Lot 3644 Session 14 (4:30pm Thursday 2nd August) Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Estimate $10,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $14,000
BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, one hundred pounds share certificate, No 17, Sydney 8th day of August 1818 in the name of William Redfern Esquire, signed by J.T.Campbell, President; D'Arcy Wentworth and Thomas Wylde, Directors, entered by the cashier F(rancis) Williams, in folio 17. The earliest known share certificate from Australia's first bank. Very fine and extremely rare, a most important example of early Australiana.
Ex Coleman P.Hyman and H.Lassetter Collections, and the J.P.Melick Collection, ex Spink Australia, Sale 20, 19-20 November 1986, (lot 2231).
On the back 'Endorsed over to Mrs Sarah Redfern 17th October 1821 Wm Redfern. Bank Transfer 19th Octr 1821. Nick Bayley/Recieved Sixty Pounds Sterling (?60Stg) out of the Bank Stock on account of the written share/Wm Redfern', red ink rubber stamp, Coleman P.Hyman. Col H.B.Lassetter 17.9.1902 in pencil.
Estimate / sale price does not include buyer's premium (currently 22% including GST) which is added to hammer price. All bids are executed on the understanding that the Terms & Conditions of sale have been read and accepted. For information on grading and estimates please refer to the Buying at Auction advice.
Quick find
View a lot by number and sale.
Adjacent lots
Lot 3642
BANK OF TASMANIA, uniface black and white unissued ten pounds, Launceston, 185-, No. -, watermark ...
Estimate $3,000
Lot 3643
THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF TASMANIA LIMITED, Hobart, black and white printer's proof on paper, ten ...
Estimate $450
Lot 3644 This lot
BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, one hundred pounds share certificate, No 17, Sydney 8th day ...
Estimate $10,000
Lot 3645
BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, share certificate for one hundred pounds, registered to Samuel Terry, ...
Estimate $750
Lot 3646
THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF TASMANIA LIMITED, Hobart, black and white printer's proof on paper, twenty ...
Estimate $450