Bank of Scotland, £5 Stanley Curister essay, 4 May 1944, serial number 6/R 7135, Elphinstone and Crawford signatures, purple CANCELLED handstamp, several folds, good very fine, a scarce and interesting piece of banking history
PMS BA 102a, Pick 92c for type £140-£180

In 1943, the Bank set up a committee to examine ways of reducing the size of the £5 note and adding a printed reverse. Stanley Curister, Curator of the National Gallery, prepared designs including this one.