Private Bank Issues

Sale 54    22–24 Jul 1997   Dallas Brooks Hall   Melbourne

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Lot 3150       Private Bank Issues

Estimate $750
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $770

BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, share certificate for one hundred pounds printed on vellum, issued to Samuel Terry, 31st May 1832, No. 747 printed by William Moffitt (no imprint). Transferred on the back to John Malcolm 12th May 1838. One of the earliest available Australian share certificates. Nearly extremely fine and rare.

Samuel Terry (1776?-1838) was a merchant, landowner known as 'the Botany Bay Rothschild', he started his life in Australia as a convict being transported in 1801. He was granted a liquor license in 1810 and soon prospered. Following his death in 1838 his estate was valued at Å“250,000.

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