Auction Catalogue

14 March 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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The Important Collection of Irish Paper Money formed by Bob Blake (Part II)

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 477 x

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14 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£231

Co Dublin, Dublin, Finlay & Co, Five Guineas, 18 January 1798, no. 984, for John Finlay, Richard Nevill, Joseph Lynam, John Geale & John Lynam. Signature cut-cancelled, ragged edges with some holes, splits in body and a 70mm vertical tear in left side, fragile but intact, good to very good, rare €400-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bob Blake Collection of Irish Banknotes.

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Finlay & Co were one of the oldest banks in Dublin, trading at the corner of Jervis and Mary streets from 1754 until closure in 1829