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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Lot

№ 516 x

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14 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£53

Co Tipperary, Clonmel, Clonmell Bank, Nine Shillings, 1804, payable in Bank of Ireland notes, for Solomon Watson & William Watson. Poor €80-100

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

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The Watsons, a Quaker family, registered their bank in November 1800. It had failed by 1809 but creditors were paid in full. In the same year Solomon Watson became Dublin agent for Gordon & Co of Belfast (see lot 451)