Auction Catalogue

12 March 2008

Starting at 1:00 PM

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British and World Paper Money including the John Clark Brodie Archive of Proof and Specimen Banknotes and The Union Bank of Scotland Collection (Part II)

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1092

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12 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£1,100

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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Collection

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