Private Bank Issues
Lot 2639 SESSION 9 - 4.30PM Wednesday 30 July Private Bank Issues
Estimate $6,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $4,500
THE BANK OF ADELAIDE, five pounds, Adelaide, 1st June 1893 (date fully printed), printed on paper, numbered No.70001 - 90000, officially perforated CANCELLED, watermarked '5 5 POUNDS BANK OF ADELAIDE' in three lines. Imprint of Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Engravers & C, London, in ink upper left 17th May 1904. (Vort-Ronald p.55 fig 52 similar). Extremely fine, very rare.
Ex Spink London April 2010 (lot 25).
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