Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues

Lot 2617    SESSION 10 (7.30PM WEDNESDAY 1ST APRIL)    Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues

Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $750

THE EAGLE TOBACCO COMPANY LTD., 237 Clarence Street Sydney, good for sixpence no.1295, Sultan Navy Cut Tobacco, written in crayon "Paid Cash 12/3/96", with outer legend on all four margins, (this note illustrated Vort Ronald Miscellaneous .. p.35). Pin and spike holes, otherwise nearly extremely fine and very rare.

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 71 (lot 2911).

The Eagle Tobacco Company Limited, tobacco and cigar merchants, manufacturers and importers, operated out of premises at 237-239 Clarence Street and at 376 Kent Street, Sydney. It came into being in 1892 incorporating the late Saywell's Tobaco Co Ltd. The Saywell family traded as retail tobacconists and importers and wholesalers from the early 1870s in central Sydney in a number of premises. A Frederick Eagle also traded in central Sydney in a number of premises. A Frederick Eagle also traded as tobacconist. Perhaps this company represented a merger of the two interests. The Eagle Tobacco Company went into liquidation in 1898.