Trading Bank Issues - The Bank of Australasia

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Lot 2505    Session 8 (2.30pm Wed 24 Nov)    Trading Bank Issues - The Bank of Australasia

Estimate $2,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,000

FIRST ISSUE, proof one pound, uniface, on card, here -, 18-, imprint of Perkins, Bacon & Co. London, Patent Hardened Steel Plate, horizontal SPECIMEN stamp below in 'Manager' area and vertically (Robb.PTU2b). Several tears and some scuffing, otherwise good fine.

Believed to be an 1862 trial. Ex Perkins Bacon Archive, Spink (Melbourne) Sale, 23 May 1995 (lot 969).

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