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Reading Bank, for Chas Stephens, Fredk John Blandy & Francis C.C. Barnett, cut cancelled £10, 20 June 1885, serial number 35053, fine and scarce Outing 1769f £150-£200
Hammer Price: £120
Romsey & Hampshire Bank, for Wm Footner & Son, proof £5, 184-, no signatures or serial numbers, about uncirculated, printed by Bowe, Kentish & Co., London, rare Outing 1826d £200-£260
Hammer Price: £360
Sheffield Bank, for Parker, Shore & Co., £5, 6 December 1833, serial number S9528, Shore signature, very good Outing 1928f £80-£120
£80–£120
Sheffield Bank, for Coats, Smales, Barron, Smith, Green & Co., 1 Guinea, 2 September 1798, serial number 709, manuscript signature, strengthened with paper tabs on reverse, very good, very scarce and an early date Outing 1932a £150-£200
Hammer Price: £140
Tiverton & Devonshire Bank, for Henry Dunsfold, Francis Dunsford and Robert Henry Taylor, £5, 1 March 1858, serial number A2057, signature cut cancelled, a lovely attractive very fine, very scarce Outing 2179b £240-£300
Hammer Price: £480
Tring, Aylesbury & Chesham Bank, for Thos. Butcher & Sons, unissued £10, 18-, serial number 7301, about uncirculated and scarce Outing 2199f £150-£200
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, large format black and white proof for £5, ND (ca 1880), extremely fine and rare Outing 2244c £260-£200
£260–£320
Wakefield Banking Company, proof post bill for £20, 18-, no signatures or serial number, light mounting traces, extremely fine and scarce Outing 2244 for bank £100-£150
Hammer Price: £90
West of England & South Wales District Bank, Western super Mare, proof £5, 186-, no signature or serial numbers, pencil annotations, good extremely fine and very scarce Outing not listed £100-£150
York City and County Banking Company, obverse and reverse proofs for £5, ND (830-83), paper proofs laid down on card, obverse black, reverse green, superb Waterlow and Sons engravings, extremely fine and rare (2 notes) Outing 2456 for bank £240-£300
Hammer Price: £400
York Union Banking Company, proof £5, 18-, ND (c1883), Queen Victoria top centre, Abundance at left, Ceres at right, extremely fine and rare, a lovely design Outing 2457a £260-£300
£260–£300
National Equitable Labour Exchange, Birmingham, unissued 5 Hours, 22 July 1833, no signatures or serial number, good extremely fine Outing 3010j £150-£200
Hammer Price: £160
National Equitable Labour Exchange, Birmingham, unissued 10 Hours, 22 July 1833, no signatures or serial number, good extremely fine Outing 3010k £150-£200
£150–£200
The Non Existent Bank, a spoof payment order printed on green paper, Edinburgh, 18- (c.1820s-30s), with the names of Willm & Alexr K. Johnston listed at centre, laid on paper, overall good very fine and rare, an amusing piece that may be either a joke or an advertising note Outing unlisted £150-£200
Poor Isaacs Bank, Tamworth, 3 Pence, 9 July 1792, serial number 492, signature of I. Hare, with several engravings at left including a Hare called Loo Loo and a crude depiction of Tamworth Castle, top left corner tip missing, otherwise fine and quite scarce, one of the earliest known skit notes in existence Outing 4087a £120-£160
Hammer Price: £100
Isaacs Bank, Tamworth, 3 Pence, 9 July 1792, serial number C405, signature of I. Hare, with several engravings at left including a Hare called Loo Loo and a crude depiction of Tamworth Castle, low left corner tip missing, otherwise very good and very scarce, one of the earliest known skit notes in existence Outing 4087a £100-£150
£100–£150
Fleet Bank in England, 2 Pence, 1811, serial number 41106, promising to pay Abraham Lattitat or bearer, manuscript signature of James Simms at low right, lower left corner missing, otherwise very good to about fine, scarce Outing 4018 for bank £120-£160
£120–£160
Bank of Oporto, a skit note of unknown purpose promising to pay WIlliam Thomas the sum of £100, December 1820, serial number 54321, with wording and design perilously close to a real banknote, very good and very scarce Outing unlisted £120-£160
Bank Side, a skit note of unknown purpose promising to pay WIlliam Shakspeare or bearer, £100, 10 October 1603, serial number 2538, for the Governor and Company of the Globe, Bank Side, signature of William Burbage, almost torn in half along horizontal fold, thus very good, but very scarce Outing unlisted £100-£150
Bank of Love, denominated in Love, 14 February 1847, serial number L/Y 67579, signed by Cupid, who also appears with his bow and arrows in the vignette at top left, lovely condition, good very fine and scarce Outing 4061 for similar £150-£200
The Bank of Affection, Proper Cupid, Dart & Co., a very passable imitation of a payment order, denominated simply in Love, 25 December 1889, serial number and signature blank, to be filled in by the giver, promising to pay ‘a sum which can never be computed by any commercial method as it consists of your undivided love’, an attractive very fine piece, very scarce Outing unlisted £150-£200
Bank Restriction Bill a small scale reproduction of an 'Anti-Hanging note', ND (originally 1819), a satirical note designed by George Cruickshank, signed by J. Ketch (the hangman), design very similar to the Bank of England white notes, printed area probably half the size of the original, although the paper is larger, it is unclear when it was produced, but likely in the latter half of the 19th Century, very fine and scarce Outing 4040a for type £150-£200
Hammer Price: £240
Bank of Mudros, a note for £5, 25 December 1918, serial number 9/U 450984, issued in the name of the United Kingdom of Lemnos, Imbros and Tenedos, and stating that the note is Illegal Tender for the payment of any amount, with a purple handstamp ‘Captain of the Base, Mudros’ and the date, very fine, very scarce, and an amusing item apparently produced during or after the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War, with the Islands mentioned all being British or Commonwealth bases Outing...
Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames, a proposed Municipal Note Issue in the style of a Treasury third issue £1, denominated in pounds, 1932, on watermarked paper, along with a 1970s newspaper cutting explaining that the note was proposed by a local councillor, J.W.Barker, as a method of abolishing rates and taxes, among other things, extremely fine and very scarce Outing unlisted £150-£200
Hammer Price: £320
Royal Borough of Birkenhead, a proposed National Municipal Note Issue in the style of a Treasury third issue £1, denominated in goods pounds, 1 June 1934, with an explanation printed on the reverse, claiming that these notes would enable ‘your Corporation to abolish rates, build houses without interest, and turn poverty into plenty’, if only the public would have confidence in them, fine and rare Outing unlisted £150-£200
A note advertising Post Coaches & Diligences, departing from the Saracens Head Inn, Snow Hill, ‘with a guard’, ND (c. early 1800s), signature of B.W. Mountain, in the style of a £100 Bank of England note, with an engraving of a Saracen at top left, with an impressive list of destinations including Edinburgh ‘in four easy days’, York, Scarboro’, Whitby, Hull, Lancaster, and Grantham among others, printed on very thin paper, very good and rare Outing unlisted £150-£200
A note advertising Post Coaches & Diligences, departing from the Cross Keys Inn, Wood Street, Cheapside, ‘with a guard’, ND (c. early 1800s), signature of B.W. Mountain, in the style of a £100 Bank of England note, with an engraving of Crossed Keys at top left, with an impressive list of destinations including Edinburgh ‘in four easy days’, Carlisle, Penrith, Whitehaven, Dumfries, Glasgow and Leeds among others, printed on thin paper, very good to about fine and rare Outing...
Birmingham Bank, No.31, Bull Street, an advertising note for ‘novelty & fashion’, promising to ‘cut any Lady or Gentleman’s Hair and make Ornamental Hair in a most Superior manner, also to keep for sale Foreign and British Perfumery of the best Qualities or forfeit the Sum of One Hundred Pounds’, 26 April 1924, serial number 31, signature of M. Elmore, a remarkable engraving of a the shop front at left, showing the building and window display in perfect and meticulous detail, very...
Advertising Skit note for Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, the Public’s most Obed’t Serv’t, R. Ackermann, to the value of £100 more or less, 1 January 1803, promising to ‘pay one hundred pounds, more or less, for any fine drawings or execute orders for prints, drawings & ornaments & deliver them with expedition to any part of the world’, with a female allegory of art at left, very good and scarce Outing unlisted £150-£200
Bank of Enterprise, Sealfast Limited, an 1914 advertising note promising to ‘pay the user of Sealfast the sum of five pounds if he can prove same injures rubber’, serial number AI/OK 1914, signature of Leslie M. Lane and a vignette of a tin of the aforementioned Sealfast at top left, extremely fine and rare Outing unlisted £120-£160
Hammer Price: £110
Pure Tobacco, Wolverhampton, an advertising note for £5, 4 July 1895, serial number 16, signature of Lizzie Marrian, promising to supply ‘Guaranteed Genuine Irish Twist of Superior Quality’, at the premises on 145 Horseley Fields, Wolverhampton, fine and rare, unusual to find a female proprietor listed on a note of this kind Outing unlisted £120-£160
Bank of Elegance, a note promising to ‘pay on demand the sum of fifty pounds if I do not cut any lady or gentleman’s hair in the first style of fashion’, 4 May 1829, serial number 120, signature of J.G.Carver, with vignette of a lady with a very ornate and flowery hairdo at left, low right corner tip missing, otherwise about fine and scarce Outing unlisted £100-£150
Dunville & Co. Limited, an advertising note for Old Irish Whisky, as produced by the Royal Irish Distilleries, Belfast, ND (mid 1800’s), small hole at top left, otherwise good very fine, a classic and widely circulated skit note Outing unlisted £100-£150
Hammer Price: £80
Bank of Elegance, an unnamed and un-addressed note for £5, 1 January 1852, serial number 230, made out ‘For Myself & Co.’ and promising to ‘Pay on Demand the sum of five pounds if I do not sell Articles cheaper than any Body else in the whole universe’, which feels like a bold claim, mounting traces, overall fine and scarce Outing unlisted £100-£150
Beauty & Elegance, 29, Old Jewry, Cheapside, a note advertising the services of A. Gardner who ‘will Cut, Dress & Arrange any Lady or Gentleman’s Hair in a Superior style of forfeit the sum of one thousand pounds’, London, 29 May 1822, signature of Arthur Gardner and a lovely vignette of justice at left, remains of mounting on reverse, a few holes at folds, overall fine and very scarce, an attractive note Outing unlisted £150-£200
Bank of Elegant Engraving, a note denominated £100 advertising the services of H.H.Collins & Co., October 1855, signature of H.H.Collins, fine, rare and very nicely engraved note Outing unlisted £150-£200
Banque de Ste Farce, a relatively modern spoof note in the form of a 1000 Francs, 1 April 1983, serial number E.457 799, advertising what appears to be an antiestablishment and anticlerical bookshop or library in Paris, the note is meticulously designed to mimic the original note, down to every one of the original allegorical figures being redesigned and the borders changed into sausages or similar, very fine and scarce, an amusing item £100-£150
Bank of Keiths, an advertising note for Fixture and Electrical Work, denominated £5, London, July 1906, serial number 94635, with a vignette of an anchor and labelled ‘hope’ at top left, extremely fine and scarce Outing unlisted £80-£120
Hammer Price: £60
Bank of Elfland, a note for £100 advertising the performances of Wiljalba Frikell, often known as Professor Frickell, 11 May 1868, serial number W/F 74899, signature of Wiljalba Frikell, bearing more than a passing resemblance to a real Bank of England £100, including the wording and vignette, minor edge damage, overall very fine and scarce Outing unlisted £120-£160
Hammer Price: £130
Berkeley’s Bank, vouchers for 5 and 20 Berkeley Pounds, ND (1997-98), serial numbers BB5 0017626 and BB2 0007246, with a ‘security feature’ showing a holographic image of a young lady, and the terms of service on reverse, very fine and good fine respectively, and certainly not your usual skit note! (2 notes) Outing Unlisted (unsurprisingly!) £50-£70
Hammer Price: £40
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