Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Lot 2389 Session 10 (7.30pm Wednesday) Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Estimate $25,000
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EXCELSIOR BANK, one, five, ten, twenty and fifty pounds, printer's proofs of the backs of the notes, on card except for the twenty pounds (MVR 1), imprint of Perkins Bacon & Co London, all pencilled on lower margin 'Excelsior Bank, August 1883'. Cut corners, as mounted, extremely fine or better and probably unique, not known as full printings. (5)
Ex Perkins Bacon Archive Sale, May 1995 (lot 1191, part), Stanley Gibbons, November 1996 Sale (lot 19) and John Pettit Pty Limited.
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