Lot 2704
Sale 95 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes, The Robb Family Collection
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Wilkin & Thomson, Wanaka, 1 July 1862, one pound, imprint of Allan & Wigley, Sydney, payable to Messrs Young & McGlashan, Dunedin & Oamaru crossed out and overstamped 'Payable at Christchurch, Messrs Miles & Co. Lyttelton'. Considerable writing on note, pasted on card, poor but excessively rare.
Ex Spink Australia Sale 15 (lot 342). In 'Beads to Banknotes' by R.P. Hargreaves, p.74-5 he states 'Contemporary evidence is also available that makes it almost certain that a third firm of Otago Merchants issued its own promissory notes in 1862 if not in other years as well. The firm was Dunedin based Young & McGlashan ...unfortunately none are known to exist today and there is no written account of what form their design took".
- Estimate
- $4,000
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $3,000