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Union Bank of Australia, type two printer's proof on card, cut corners, one pound Goulburn, 18-, stamped specimen across signature reserves, pencilled 'June 23 1854' lower left (MVR 2a). Good very fine.
Estimate $800
SOLD $900
Union Bank of Australia, printer's proof on card, cut corners, three hole cancellation, one pound, Geelong, 1 January 1879, pencilled lower right margin 'March 1879' (MVR 2a). Extremely fine.
Estimate $800
SOLD $900
Union Bank of Australia, uniface black and white printer's proof, one pound, Portland 18- (c1854), imprint Perkins Bacon & Co London Patent Hardened Steel Plate, 'March 25th 1854' pencilled at bottom, stamped Specimen in signature reserve (MVR 2a). Corners cut, stuck to card, good extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $900
SOLD $800
Union Bank of Australia, printer's proof one pound, Ballarat, 1st Jany 1878, imprint of Perkins Bacon & Co London, Patent Hardened Steel Plate, signature reverse cut out to cancel, pencilled 'from this' at bottom (MVR 2b). Glue tip marks on all back corners, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $800
Passed in
Union Bank of Australia, printer's proof one pound, Launceston, 1st Jany 1878, imprint of Perkins Bacon & Co London, Patent Hardened Steel Plate, signature reverse cut out to cancel, pencilled 'from this' at bottom (MVR.2b). Glue tip marks on all back corners, otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $800
Passed in
Union Bank of Australia Limited, printer's proof, ten pounds, Geelong, on card, dated 1st March 1881, not numbered, imprint of Perkins Bacon & Co, London, Patent Hardened Steel Plate, three punch holes for cancellation in Manager reserve, notation in pencil below '26 May/82' (MVR 2c). Has been stuck on paper at corners, otherwise extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $900
SOLD $950
Union Bank of Australia Limited, printer's proof, ten pounds, Hobart, on card, dated 1st March 1881, not numbered, imprint of Perkins Bacon & Co, London, Patent Hardened Steel Plate, three punch holes for cancellation in Manager reserve, notation in pencil below 'June 1881' (MVR 2c). Has been stuck on paper at corners, otherwise extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $900
SOLD $1,000
The Union Bank of Australia Limited, one pound, 1st March 1905 (date printed), 'Specimen' overprinted twice in red on front of note and overprinted 'Specimen/Waterlow & Sons Ltd' once on back of note, '2277' printed in top margin in black, imprint of Waterlow & Sons Ld London, with their seal in blue, eight punch hole cancellations (MVR 3). Uncirculated and extremely rare.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $2,600
The Union Bank of Australia Limited, fifty pounds, 1st March 1905 (date printed), 'Specimen' overprinted in red twice on front of note, and 'Specimen/Waterlow & Sons Ltd' overprinted in red on back, imprint of Waterlow & Sons Ld London, with their seal in blue, eight punch hole cancellations, '2294' printed in top margin (MVR 3). Light foxing at edges, uncirculated and extremely rare.
Estimate $5,500
Passed in
Union Bank of Australia, black and white printer's proof from the original die of the Chalon portrait of Queen Victoria, as used on the banknotes of the 1905 series. Good extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $250
SOLD $290
Bukkulla Vineyards, McIntyre River, Inverell, one pound currency note, dated January 20th 1870 (date written), No.134, no watermark, value tablets in upper corners and arms in centre, on front Pay K--- (handwritten) or Bearer the sum of ONE POUND Stg and to lower left 'Messrs Wyndham, Dalwood Vineyards, Branxton N.S.W.', signed by F.W.Wilkinson. Note is cross cancelled, handwritten 'Paid / Feby 11/90' and stamped Commercial Banking Company of Sydney / INVERELL, all within rectangular ornamental border, blue on white (Vort Ronald type 1 [p.23 & 25] Fig 32, illustrates a similar example and similar type illustrated Vort Ronald..Shinplaster..p.24). Five pin holes, stains, otherwise good fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $270
Bukkulla Vineyards, McIntyre River, Inverell, one pound No.230 to Nash, signed Hugh Wyndham November 25/ 1870 cross cancelled, Paid April 11/71 to John Lee & Co N. Maitland (?) imprint De Gruchy & Leigh Sydney (MVR type 1a). Bottom right corner off, otherwise very fine and rare as such.
Estimate $300
SOLD $270