Lot 2821

Description

Excelsior Bank, Sydney, one pound, not dated (18 printed), No. 8030, 8042/4, 8046, 8053, 8057/8, 8063/4, 8067/9, 8072, 8074, 8087, 8091/3, 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 and unique as the remainder of a booklet, the first illustrated. (19)

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 is the remainder of that book.