Lot 1541

Description

Bank of New South Wales, Adelaide, South Australia, ten pounds, not dated but 30/11/85 on counterfoil, (18- printed), not numbered, specimen note, unsigned, perforated SPECIMEN C. SKIPPER & EAST, on paper with counterfoil, watermarked 'within multi-lined saw tooth frame and in three lines BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, imprint of 'Charles Skipper & East London', vignette in centre of woman seated, ship to left and sheep to right, ornamental round tablet with 10 in upper corners and TEN in tablet of circles lower left, all within rectangular ornate spiral border, states below, 'On Demand I promise to pay to the Bearer TEN POUNDS Sterling, Adelaide .... For the Bank of New South Wales', back with TEN in bevelled rectangular block in the centre and geometric ovals in corners, brown/red on white, (Vort-Ronald, Type seven, comments on bank and type p.67-85, similar notes but twenty pounds illustrated Fig.81 [p.80]). Nearly extremely fine and very rare.

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.