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Lot 2768    Session 10 (7.30pm Thursday)    Private Bank Issues

Estimate $600
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,000

BILL OF EXCHANGE, for one hundred and fifty pounds, No. 23, Port Stephens, N.S.W., 24th Febuary 1830, to Thomas MacVitie from the Australian Agricultural Company, signed by Sir William Parry, as commissioner for managing the Australian Agricultural Company's affairs in New South Wales. Paper watermarked 'Ruse & Turner /1828', endorsed on back Tho MacVitie, attractive Vignette. Extremely fine and rare.

The Australian Agricultural Company was founded by Royal Charter in 1824. Sir William Parry (1790-1855). In Australia 1829 till March 1834 as Commissioner for managing the Australian Agricultural Company's affairs in N.S.W. Parry was already internationally famous as an Arctic explorer. Thomas MacVitie (1781-1833). A foundation member of the Agricultural Society of N.S.W., and one of the few colonial share holders in the Australian Agricultural Company. Also a founding father of the Bank of N.S.W.

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