The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes

Thomas Cave & Son, a high quality advertising note, ND (c.1825), titled ‘To Bankers, Merchants etc’, promising to ‘Engrave & Print on demand Checks, Bills or Notes for the Merchants & Bankers in the Country or in London from the sum of One Pound to One Thousand’, with the address No.7 Spring Gardens, Manchester, and signed Thomas Cave & Son, some damage to right margin, fine, but a high quality engraving, even if the vignette at centre is a little rudimentary in design
Outing unlisted £100-£150

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

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Thomas Cave and sons is listed as a business at this address from 1825, calling themselves Letter Press Printers. Thomas Cave was a man of some standing, as he also appears in records as the Deputy Treasurer of Manchester Philanthropic Society.