Private Bank Issues
Lot 2895 Session 10 (7.30pm Wednesday) Private Bank Issues
Estimate $3,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $4,200
HENRY & JOHN COOKE MELBOURNE, issued at Bendigo Diggings, promissory note or order, proof on paper, not dated (185- printed), with provision for number, watermarked HODGKINSON & CO, vignette of miners and arms, another of building, imprint of HAM Sc, stating on front 'At Sight Pay ...... To Messrs. Henry & John Cooke, Melbourne', in centre H & J COOKE in block, black on white. Light toning on two edges, otherwise good extremely fine and extremely rare.
Ex S.V. Hagley and Walsgott (lot 545 part) Collections, Spink Australia Sale 1 (lot 263) and Dr. Alan Nicholson Collection, Sale 49 (lot 1626). This note, an issue of Thomas Ham, is another interesting example from the gold rush era in Victoria.
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