Lot 3001

Description

Australia, Bill of Lading dated at Melbourne, January 23, 1866 for five trunks of merchandise to be shipped via SS Havilah to Launceston, Tasmania, steamship design in top left corner; also Bill of Exchange of Bank of Australasia, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, dated 6th July 1897, for five hundred pounds to order of Richard Hornsby & Sons Limited, directed to Bank of Australasia, London, vignette at left featuring the bank's seal as the centre piece, on Bank of Australasia watermarked paper. The first with a few pin holes, otherwise fine - very fine. (2)

Richard Hornsby & Sons was an engine and machinery manufacturer in Lincolnshire, England.