Private Bank Issues

Sale 79    26–28 Jul 2005   Hotel InterContinental   Sydney

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Lot 2894    Session 10 (7.30pm Wednesday)    Private Bank Issues

Estimate $4,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $5,000

DUNSFORD & CO GEELONG, issued for Buninyong, ten shillings currency note, proof on paper, not dated (185- printed), with provision for number, no watermark, vignette of Justice and goods of prosperity including a cornucopia, and with various ships to right in the background, imprint of H.C.Jervis Engraver & C, Pitt St. Sydney, stating on front 'At Sight Pay ...... or Bearer TEN SHILLINGS Value received To Messrs. Dunsford & Co, Geelong, all within rectangular framed border with BUNINYONG printed in top border, dark-brown on light blue (Spink Noble Sale 37, lot 2761 a similar note). Almost uncirculated, extremely rare and possibly only the second known specimen.

Ex Dr. Alan Nicholson Collection, Sale 49 (lot 1625). This is the only known note issue associated with Buninyong (an old gold mining town near Ballarat). Other specimens are reported from this issuer in Geelong. Dusford & Co were transport and coach lines providers.

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