Private Bank Issues
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Lot 1547 Private Bank Issues
Estimate $2,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,900
BANK OF TASMANIA, Launceston, five pounds, not dated (185- printed) or numbered, proof with CANCELLED stamp in red, on paper, watermarked BRIGHTON UNION BANK, HWB, HALL WEST & BORRER, all within a watermarked frame, imprint at base for Rowe Kentish & Co London, vignette of Colonial wharf scene with ships in background, all within rectangular spiral border which includes LAUNCESTON in the base frame, pink and black on white, (Vort-Ronald, Fig.111, [p.107], similar note but for one pound, further comments p.105-6). File hole in left margin, trace of tone on back, otherwise extremely fine and very rare.
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BANK OF TASMANIA, Launceston, one pound, not dated (185- printed) or numbered, proof with CANCELLED ...
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Lot 1547 This lot
BANK OF TASMANIA, Launceston, five pounds, not dated (185- printed) or numbered, proof with CANCELLED ...
Estimate $2,000
Lot 1548
BANK OF TASMANIA, Launceston, ten pounds, not dated (185- printed) or numbered, proof with CANCELLED ...
Estimate $2,250
Lot 1549
BANK OF TASMANIA, Launceston, twenty pounds, dated April 1854 in pencil (185- printed), numbered No.128 ...
Estimate $2,750