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Lot 3419    SESSION 12 (11.30AM THURSDAY 4TH APRIL)    Documents

Estimate $800
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $900

BANKING, Australia, 1831 to 1944, a group of First, Second and Third Exchanges, cheques, term deposit slips, sight notes, receipts, including Bank of Australasia, Bank of New South Wales, Bank of Van Diemen's Land Limited, Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, Derwent Bank, English, Scottish & Australian Chartered Bank, The Australian Joint Stock Bank Queensland, [Brisbane 2nd Jany] 18[77], Second of Exchange, with Queensland one shilling and a sixpence duty stamps affixed; The Scottish Australia Investment and Insurance Company, instalment receipt for shares, Aberdeen, [27 th December] 184[2]; Union Bank of Australia; Lysaght Brothers & Co Limited, 19[35]; sight notes include, Kemp & Co., dated Hobart Town, [July 18th] 183[4]; George Hubbard, dated Launceston [4 June] 186[71]; handwritten, dated Hobart Town, 3 June 1831, 8th July 1834, May 4th 1837 all payable at the Derwent Bank; together with English receipts dated from 1799. All housed in a ring binder, some with pin holes, folds, edge tears, good - nearly uncirculated. (55)

Anthony Fen Kemp (1773-1868) soldier and merchant. In July 1793 he was commissioned ensign in the New South Wales Corps and arrived in Sydney with a detachment of the Regiment two years later. He received permission to settle in Van Diemen's Land in 1815 and moved there in January 1816. Kemp established the firm of Kemp & Gatehouse which was later changed to Kemp & Co when Richard Barker was taken into partnership. When the partnership dissolved in 1829 Kemp continued the shipping, mercantile and importing business from a store in Macquarie Street selling this property in 1839. He was foundation director and later president of the Van Diemen's Land Bank. Though Kemp may be remembers for his early exploits in New South Wales he also played a notable pioneering role in Van Diemen's Land as grazier and merchant.

Ex J.P.Melick Collection.