Lot 2944

Description

Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, ten pounds, dated 1 Oct. 1881, (18- printed), numbered A/A 30571, signed by W.B. Hawthorne and entered by J.H.Potts, imprint of 'Charles Skipper & East London' (New England Hoard No.120 [Report of ANS 1974 yearbook, pp. 49-68], Vort-Ronald, Type seven, comments on bank and type p.67-85, similar notes but twenty pounds illustrated Fig.81 [p.80]). Rust marks and some edge loss at top of note, otherwise very fine and very rare.

The Bank of New South Wales ten pound notes of this type all come from the New England Hoard of 1971, (Pitchfork & Freehill, 'A Significant Hoard of Nineteenth Century Australian Commercial Banknotes' [ANS 1974 Yearbook]), where some 8 ten pound notes were found out of a total hoard of 123 banknotes which were mostly of the five pounds denomination. Type seven was an issue from the Bank of New South Wales that ran from 1848-1910, with this type for ten pounds in use for most of this period.