Private Bank Issues
Lot 2811 Session 10 (7.30pm Thursday) Private Bank Issues
Estimate $2,000
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GEORGE WATSON, Rankine River, Northern Territory, S.A. via Camooweal five shillings uniface currency note, July 1st 1919 (191 printed) rubber ink stamped Cancelled, imprint Watson, Ferguson & Co Ltd Brisbane signed by Geo. Watson in ink. A full note with some edge tears otherwise good fine and excessively rare.
Only the second example to appear on the market (see sale 79, lot 2901 for the other). A third example is in the National Library of Austalia (ex John A. Ferguson) and is dated May 24th 1904, none of the survivors has serial no. (see CAB vol 8, no.11 Dec 2005 p68).
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