Aust. Banknotes - Other Properties - Private Bank Iss
Lot 4143 SESSION 15 (7.30PM THURSDAY 1ST AUGUST) Aust. Banknotes - Other Properties - Private Bank Issue
Estimate $2,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,700
BURNS PHILP AND CO. Limited, one pound, Thursday Island, Torres Straits, (ruled ink lines to cancel), No 180 not dated but circa 1884, signed J. Burns and entered by F.Waley Secy., imprint W.E.SMITH, SYDNEY., embossed with Queensland Stamp Duty one penny (see Mira, Cowrie to Kina, pp 41-2, Vort Ronald 'Australian Shinplasters & Calabash Notes, 2nd edn p.28). Stained, a few minor perforations and edge tears otherwise fine and excessively rare.
Ex Burns Philp Archive (Lawson's Sale Sydney, 1998) and Noble Numismatics Sale 62 (lot 3535).
This type note was also overprinted Port Moresby P.N.G. (Mira p.42) and was a remainder that would have been so overprinted.
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