Catalogue
Van Diemen's Land, currency note for Three-pence payable in Spanish dollars at 5s each, Stace, Thomas, Hobart Town, (6 May) 1826 no. (B225) (MVR type fig 144). Stuck to backing paper, holes in centre, torn vertically in centre, otherwise a full note, very good.
Estimate $800
SOLD $860
Van Diemen's Land, Read & Bethune, black and white proof of one pound, Hobart Town 182, imprint, 'Engraved by S. Clayton Sydney'. Later print on gloss art paper, nearly uncirculated and excessively rare.
Estimate $300
Passed in
Van Diemen's Land, Read & Bethune, black and white proof of five shillings, Hobart Town 182- imprint 'Engraved by S. Clayton Sydney'. Later print on gloss art paper, some foxing, nearly uncirculated and excessively rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $200
Bank of New South Wales, one pound forgery, issued at Sydney, c1880, No. A/3 766681, hand signed by uncertain manager and another, printed on unwatermarked paper, without imprint, with vignettes of female seated with produce and in top corners oval framed tablet with ONE, all within rectangular ornate spiral border with words NEW SOUTH WALES in frame at top and bottom, back with large ONE within rectangular frame surrounded by a ornate circles in each corner, 'Forged Note' written in red in two places on front (cfMVR 7c). Fair.
Estimate $500
SOLD $450
The Provincial and Suburban Bank Limited, one pound Melbourne (9 April) 187(8), No 08848 (MVR 1), imprint Sands & McDougall Engravers, Melbourne (unlisted in MVR pedigrees). Faintest trace of PAID on front, pin holes, foxed, but full note, nearly fine.
Estimate $750
SOLD $700
Western Australian Bank, one pound, Jan.1844 (MVR Type 1), unissued form in presentation folder. Uncirculated.
Estimate $300
SOLD $700
Promissory note, City Bank of Sydney, Oct 3rd 1870, payable in three months, 6th January 1871 to Daniel O'Connor for £500, signed front and endorsed on the back of note by Daniel O'Connor and Philip McCarrol and Sullivan & Tindall; Van Diemen's Land Bank, Hobart Town, (23rd February) 183(3) for £25.15.0 signed James Kelly; later cheques, Launceston 1880, E.S.A Adelaide 1909, 1912, 1916; a photocopy of George Shenton one pound Nov 1 1865 No.439 and a Victorian Miner's Right 189- Series S, for five shillings, unissued form. Fine - very fine, first note rare. (8)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100