Private Bank Issues
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Lot 1543 Private Bank Issues
Estimate $1,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,200
BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, Adelaide, South Australia, twenty pounds, not dated (18- printed), not numbered, specimen note, unsigned, perforated SPECIMEN C. SKIPPER & EAST, on paper with counterfoil, watermarked 'within frame in three lines BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, imprint of 'Charles Skipper & East London', vignette in centre of woman seated, ship to left and sheep to right, ornamental oval tablet with 20 in upper corners and TWENTY POUNDS in rounded end rectangular tablet lower left, all within rectangular ornate spiral border, states below, 'On Demand I promise to pay to the Bearer TWENTY POUNDS Sterling, Adelaide .... For the Bank of New South Wales', back with TWENTY in three circles in the centre and vignette scene of sheep in each corner, green/red on white, (Vort-Ronald, Type seven (c), comments on bank and type p.67-85, similar notes illustrated Fig.81 & 86 [p.80, 83 front and back). Extremely fine and very rare.
Type seven was an issue from the Bank of New South Wales that ran from 1848-1910, with this type for twenty pounds in use for most of this period.
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