Private Bank Issues
Lot 2863 Session 10 (7.30pm Wednesday) Private Bank Issues
Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $900
EAGLE TOBACCO COMPANY LTD 237 CLARENCE STREET, Sydney, three shillings, No 243, stamped 'cancelled', paid cash 12/5/96', red print, no imprint. Filing pin hole, otherwise very fine and very rare.
'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 1870's 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'.
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