British, Irish and World Banknotes

Bank of Elegant Engraving, a beautiful note denominated £100 advertising the services of H.H.Collins & Co., October 1854, signature of H.H.Collins, with a wonderful reverse depicting the Crystal Palace and and underprint describing the note as a ‘Bank Note of the Crystal Palace’, clearly attempting to cash in on the Great Exhibition of 1851, original good very fine, rare and a very attractive and well produced note
Outing unlisted £200-£260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.

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Henry Haley Collins was an engraver who appears to have had an interesting and well travelled life. Born in 1818 in London, he lived all over southern and western England. When this note was produced he was running a successful business with two apprentices from Great Winchester Street in London. He died in the Hospital for Incurables in Putney in 1890, with an estate worth the fairly paltry sum of £101.