Australian Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Lot 2840 Session 10 (7.30pm Wednesday 19th November) Australian Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Estimate $900
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SOLD $660
THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, proof fifty pounds, uniface, black and white, Ipswich, undated, imprint of Perkins, Bacon & Co. London, Patent Hardened Steel Plate., 'July 22nd 1865' added in pencil in lower margin, SPECIMEN stamped in 'Manager' area (MVR.2a). Rough trimming to top margin, paper adhesion and ink marks, blunted corners, otherwise very fine and rare.
Ex Perkins Bacon Archive, Spink (Melbourne) Sale 23 May 1995 (lot 264).
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