Private Bank Issues
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Lot 2811 Session 9 (4.30pm Thursday) Private Bank Issues
Estimate $150
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SOLD $140
VAN DIEMENS LAND, handwritten cheque or bill of exchange issued Hobart Town 28 Dec 1838 payable to order for £52.10.6 No 1085 signed George Hunt (also endorsed by him on back) and drawn on account of Geo Stokell Hobart Town. Rubber ink stamp Bank of Australasia Hobart Town, Paid 4/7/39. Very fine.
Interesting that cheque is written Pay to my order two pounds ten shillings and six pence. George Stockell arrived Tasmania in 1822 and set up as storekeeper and property owner. Ex W.J.D. Mira Collection.
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