The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes

Bank of Elegance for W.H. Slater & Co., promising to ‘Pay on Demand the Sum of Five Pounds if I do not sell the best and most Fashionable Over-Coat in London for the sum of one Pound’, 1 October 1868, serial number 018, and with the address 18, Shoreditch, City Side G.E.R, with a vignette of the three feathers, presumably referencing the emblem of Prince of Wales, very good to fine, unusual
Outing unlisted £70-£90

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

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William Henry Slater was born in Poplar in 1815, He and his wife Martha, born in Shropshire in 1818, ran a combined wool merchants and tailoring business in various parts of London. This note refers to a shop in the Great Eastern Railway terminus (this later became Liverpool Street Station). They had several children, and Henry lived until 1891, with Martha dying in 1894.