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Lot 3636    Session 14 (4:30pm Thursday 2nd August)    Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues

Estimate $4,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $4,200

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, Lempriere & Company (Weavell crossed out), Hobart Town, currency note, four Spanish dollars, 3rd June 1823 (year 182 printed), No. K:9, no imprint, entered by C.Boucher and hand signed by Lempriere & Co (MVR p83). Uneven edge at left, several pin holes, otherwise fine and very rare.

Thomas James Lempriere (1796-1852) emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1822 and was married in May 1823. He received a grant of land and became a merchant and a shareholder of the Bank of Van Diemen's Land. He formed a company and merchant business in Hobart Town trading as Lempriere & Co. which failed in 1827, but he had left the company the previous year. He was an artist and diarist whose observations were recorded including a publication on the Penal Settlements of Van Diemen's Land, (see Australian Dictionary of Biography p106 for more detailed biography).

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