Australian Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Lot 2865 Session 10 (7.30pm Wednesday 19th November) Australian Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Estimate $5,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $4,000
EXCELSIOR BANK, Sydney, one pound, not dated (18 printed), No. 8030, 8042/4 consecutive trio, on paper, all unissued, no signatures, imprint of 'Perkins Bacon & Co. London' lower left (Vort-Ronald, Fig.173 and [p.162], comments p.162 on bank, also Tomlinson p.66). Light toning around edges, mostly extremely fine and rare, part of the remainder of a booklet, the first illustrated. (4)
The Excelsior Bank was founded in 1880 as a building society with a banking department. It however failed in 1893. The only notes surviving are unissued notes that come from the original stub book, this lot and the following four lots are the remainder of that book.
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