Lot 3941

Description

Excelsior Bank, Sydney, 18-, set of black and white printer's proofs for one, five, ten, twenty and fifty pounds, individual fronts and backs of the notes, on card except for the twenty pounds, imprint of Perkins, Bacon & Co London on both sides, printer's instructions on lower margins, three punch hole cancellations at Manager's signature reserve on the fronts (MVR 1). Cut corners, remnants of glue marks on back corners from being mounted, extremely fine or better and probably unique as a set. (10)

Ex Perkins Bacon Archive, Spink/Christie's Sale, Melboune, 23 May 1995 (lot 1191, part), Stanley Gibbons, November 1996 Sale (lot 19) and John Pettit Pty Limited.