Wright Collection - Colonial Currency - NSW Promissor
Lot 1885 SESSION 7 (7.30pm Wednesday) Wright Collection - Colonial Currency - NSW Promissory
Estimate $30,000
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SOLD $50,000
(ú2.2.0) (James McCarr), Hawkesbury, (Nov 2nd) 180(7) (Two Months after date) I promise to pay Mr Martin Mason or Bearer the sum of (two) pounds, (two) shillings, and ( ) pence, for value received. (James McCarr) the above amount to be paid in (wheat) to be delivered at the Green Hills. Written by the same hand on the back "Jas.MCCarr/still rents Land/from Barney by/Wm Masons due/ Jany 1808/ú2.2.10" Printed by G.Howe at the Sydney Gazette. Very fine and exceedingly rare, of immense historical interest and the earliest promissory note in private hands.
Ex Dr G.H. Abbott and Edward Wills Collection, from D. Raymond circa 1947.
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