Lot 3532

Description

Bank of New South Wales, fifty pounds, not dated (19- printed), c.1914-1923, no branch stated, not numbered, specimen note, unsigned, perforated SPECIMEN, imprint of 'Charles Skipper & East London', vignette in centre of woman seated, ship to left and sheep to right, ornamental oval tablet with 50 in upper areas and FIFTY in rounded end rectangular tablet lower left, all within rectangular ornate spiral border, red on white, (Vort-Ronald, Type seven (f), comments on bank and type p.67-85, similar notes illustrated Fig. 83 and 87 [p.81 and 84], P.S158). 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 twenty pounds in use for most of this period.