The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes

Bank of Exhibition, 1851, for John Watson, a note denominated £50, 14 January 1851, serial number 86, promise to ‘supply my Friends & the Public with Stockings & Gloves of the best Quality at such prices that must give the utmost satisfaction or Forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds’, with the address 86 Newgate Street, and with the coat of arms of the Hanoverian monarchs at left (with an additional escutcheon), small repair, good fine and 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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This note is clearly referencing the Great Exhibition of 1851. John Watson was a Taylor at this address for at least 30 years. He appears in court records as the aggrieved party in the theft of six handkerchiefs in 1824. The thief, a 21 year old named Robert Williams, was transported for 7 years.