Ramsays Bonars & Co, One Pound, 182–, Edinburgh, on heavy card, payable to Frederick Johnston, stamped specimen (Douglas –). Paper remnants on backs of corners and crease across lower centre, otherwise about extremely fine (£600-800)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Clark Brodie Archive of Proof and Specimen Notes.

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Designed by Forrester, engraved by Lizars. There is no record of a One Pound note issued by this private bank, but their Ten Pounds and Twenty Pounds are the earliest recorded banknote engravings by Lizars