Promissory Notes

Sale 106    29–31 Jul 2014   Dixson Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 2612    SESSION 9 - 4.30PM Wednesday 30 July    Promissory Notes

Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,000

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, Lempriere & Company. Hobart Town, currency note, one Spanish dollar, 12 June 1823 (year 182 printed), No. L16, hand signed by Thomas James Lempriere, 'Exhibited / Et' written across. Base of note very uneven with tears and loss of bottom portion of note, otherwise nearly fine, and rare.

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 79 (lot 2903).

The firm became insolvent in 1827. Thomas James Lempriere (1796-1852) emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1822 and was married in May 1823. He received a grant of land and became a merchant and a shareholder of the Bank of Van Diemen's Land. He formed a company and merchant business in Hobart Town trading as Lempriere & Co. which failed in 1827, but he had left the company the previous year. He was an artist and diarist whose observations were recorded including a publication on the Penal Settlements of Van Diemen's Land, (see Australian Dictionary of Biography p.106 for more detailed biography).

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