Australian Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Lot 3448 SESSION 16 (7.30PM THURSDAY 11TH APRIL) Australian Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Estimate $3,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,400
EXCELSIOR BANK, Sydney, one pound, not dated (18 printed), No. 8042/3 consecutive pair, on paper, all unissued, no signatures, imprint of 'Perkins Bacon & Co. London' lower left (Vort-Ronald, Fig.173 and [p.162], comments p.162 on bank, also Tomlinson p.66). Light toning around edges, mostly extremely fine and rare, part of the remainder of a booklet. (2)
The Excelsior Bank was founded in 1880 as a building society with a banking department. It however failed in 1893. The only notes surviving are unissued notes that come from the original stub book, this lot and the following four lots are the remainder of that book.
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