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Lot 3008    Session 10 (7.30pm)    Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues

Estimate $11,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au

THE ROYAL BANK OF QUEENSLAND LIMITED, Brisbane, one pound, dated 1st January 1887 (date printed), not numbered, on paper with three official perforation holes, proof, no signatures, no watermarks, imprint of 'Perkins Bacon & Co. London', vignette of Royal Arms with supporters in centre, 'ONE' in three circle geometric frames in three corners, states 'On demand I Promise to pay to the Bearer ONE POUND Sterling. Brisbane ... For The Royal Bank of Queensland Limited', on back geometric name and value tablet and numeral 1 on each side of the back, black on white/green on white, (Vort-Ronald, Fig.220 and cfFig.221, [p213-214 an issued note], comments p213-4 on bank, also Tomlinson p91 a cancelled note illustrated). Good extremely fine and very scarce.

Ex Dr Alan Nicholson Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 49B (lot 1603). This bank was founded in 1885 and amalgamated with the Bank of North Queensland in 1917. The merged banks became the 'Bank of Queensland' and it survived until 1922 when it was taken over by the National Bank. Notes from the Royal Bank of Queensland constituted about 5% of notes in circulation in Queensland, but few seemed to survive. The proof and specimen notes are also rare. A similar proof note was in the Perkins Bacon Archive sale in May 1995 (lot 784 but was not illustrated). Proof notes are usually found trimmed back to the edge of the design, probably a strategem to prevent proofs being passed into circulation.

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