Catalogue
New South Wales Colonial Police Fund, one pound sterling and ten shillings sterling (1816) uncut vertical pair printed on watermarked paper. Horizontal and vertical folds, nearly torn into quarters, frayed edges otherwise fair to very good, good body to paper and very rare.
Estimate $7,500
SOLD $7,600
Bank of New South Wales, engraved copper printing plate by Sammuel Clayton for ten shillings, Sydney 1819 (MVR type 1b). Two filing holes top and bottom left corners otherwise nearly very fine and very rare, of great historical interest.
Estimate $15,000
SOLD $15,000
Bank of New South Wales, engraved copper printing plate for five pounds Victoria, Mount Alexander Agency 15(5-) (MVR type 6b; figure 75, page 77). Very fine, very rare and historically important.
Estimate $20,000
SOLD $0
Bank of New South Wales, specimen five pounds, Adelaide, 18-, South Australia top bottom borders (MVR type 7c). Wide left margin perforated specimen C Skipper & East in signature, extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $16,000
SOLD $11,000
Bank of New South Wales, five pounds, Sydney, 2 day of April 1883, A/A 238037 (MVR type 7c). Pin hole, edge creases otherwise nearly very fine and rare.
Estimate $19,000
SOLD $16,500
Bank of Australasia, printer's proof for one pound (circa 1838) Launceston 18- No- (MVR type 1b) imprint Ashby & Co. London, two colour printed, green denomination on black main print. Large left margin with one cm tear otherwise extremely fine and excessively rare, the only example seen by this printer.
Estimate $20,000
SOLD $0
The Mercantile Bank of Sydney, specimen one pound, Sydney First day of January 1877, A 60001: A 110000 (MVR type 2). Straight edge, perforated specimen BW & Co, good extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $14,000
SOLD $14,000
The Provincial and Suburban Bank Limited, issued at Melbourne, not dated (18 printed), No 01603, not signed, on unwatermarked paper (Vort-Ronald type 2a). Flattened of folds and creases, pinholes, cracks, also tears in margins, very good.
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $0
The Australian Joint Stock Bank Limited, one pound, Sydney, 1st July 1893 A 096944 A (MVR type 4b). A full note, very good and rare.
Estimate $7,000
SOLD $6,000
Bukkulla Vineyards, McIntyne River, Inverell, one pound, April 9th 1870, No 193, Pay (g) Brasi, by Messrs. Wyndam/Dalwood Vineyards/Branxton N.S.W., imprint De Gruchy & Leigh, SC Sydney, clear watermark "Whatman/1865", bank rubber stamped twice Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Inverell, cross cancelled by hand in black ink (MVR type 1.). Bottom right corner with 3 mm bevel cut, two pairs of minute pin holes near top right corner, otherwise extremely fine and rare in this condition.
Estimate $1,600
SOLD $1,100
Bukulla Vineyards, no value printed four pounds written, June 13 1870 full note on watermarked paper W. King, imprint S.T. Leigh 7 Co Sydney, crossed diagonally to cancel marked paid July 9/70 and CBC Inverell ink rubber stamped on front (MVR type 3). Very fine and rare thus.
Estimate $2,200
SOLD $1,450
Bukulla Vineyards, one pound, hand adjusted to ?6.10.0 Sept 6 1870, No 212 (MVR type 1c) with adhesive duty stamp on front top left, crossed and with CBC ink rubber stamp. Torn in centre, otherwise fine.
Estimate $900
SOLD $0
Van Diemen's Land, bill on the English Treasury, Commissariat Office, Hobart Town, 20 August 1823 (182 printed), No.145, to Capt. James Dixon, for ?150.0.0, hand signed by Lt. Governor William Sorell and A. Moodie, black on white, unwatermarked paper, for presentation to Whitehall, London, engraved by Samuel Clayton (MVR illustrates a similar example Fig.12 [p.11-12]). Extremely fine, and very rare, probably the only example in private hands.
Estimate $12,500
SOLD $0
Bank of Australia, share certificate for one hundred pounds sterg., No 2037, issued to Thomas de la Condamine 1st July 1833, imprint S. Clayton Sct. printed in black ink on vellum by W. M. Moffitt. Good very fine and very rare.
Estimate $5,000
SOLD $0
Tamar Bank, Launceston, Bank Share for fifty pounds, dated First September 1835 (183 printed) No.172, printed on vellum, issued to William Field, signed by Bank Directors Philip Oakden and Lewis Gilles. An extremely rare example of this early bank, no banknotes are known to have survived. Some folds and pinholes, otherwise nearly extremely fine and extremely rare.
Estimate $1,650
SOLD $2,200
Australia related, Ebor Bank, fifty Louis, Sept. 28th 1842, no.1133 (hand signed, dated and numbered) " payable at the Royal Victoria Bank", Vignette at left showing two men shearing sheep and port in background, possibly a skit note. Very good/nearly fine and rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $360
The City Bank of Sydney, 187_., bank logo/vignette at left, unissued cheque. Good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
The City Bank of Sydney 187. Bank logo/vignette at left, unissued cheque; The National Bank of Australasia Limited, Hamilton, VIC branch cheque for ?42.15.0 dated 3.12.1896; Bank of New South Wales Sydney, unissued cheque 19. Good very fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $130
SOLD $90
Bank of New South Wales, on demand cheque from London office to Orange NSW branch for ?350 dated 25.1.1915; Australian Bank of Commerce Ltd (Amalgamated with the Bank of N.S.W) cheque ?1.13.3, Grenfell NSW branch, dated 5.12.1931 (top corner missing); The colonial bank of Australasia, Birregurra Branch for ?11.5.6 dated 5.6.1889. Good fine - good very fine. (3)
Estimate $130
SOLD $100
The Bank of Van Diemen's Land Limited Hobart, (1880-1891) unissued cheque (for Hobart Savings Bank) complete with stub, imprint J. Welch & Sons, Hobart. Nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
The Equitable Building Society, Brisbane, Queensland, advertising proposal form in the design of an Australian pre Federaton one pound note, "Monster Freehold Property Distribution - A Good Pound's Worth of Queensland Properties". List closes 30th November 1893, vignette of the Queensland Deposit Bank building in centre, printed by Watson Ferguson & Co Ltd Brisbane. Nearly very fine and rare.
Estimate $600
SOLD $500
Bank of Australasia second of exchange from Melbourne to London office for ?1000 dated 20.4.1898; three months after date cheque pay John Hatch wine & spirit merchant Melbourne for ?95.14.2 dated 15.10.1890; cheque from Leonard Turner to Charles F. Adams, Adelaide for ?10 dated 1926; The National Bank of Tasmania for ?2 dated 10.10.1893 from the Circulatr Head Butter and Cheese Factory Co. Ltd; Commonwealth Bank of Australia on demand cheque from Sydney to London office for 6 shillings dated 5.7.1917. Fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $130
SOLD $110
Ten shillings, Collins/Allen (1915) M 277850 A (R.2d). Repair to top edge, a full note and very fine or better, rare.
Estimate $4,000
SOLD $0
Ten shillings, Cerutty/Collins (1918) M 873025 H (R.3b). 3mm tear to left hand side suffix H, lightly written in pencil 'Mother not to be spent' on back of note, very good.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $950
Ten shillings, Miller/Collins (1923) A/10 418055 (R.4). Flat and full note, extremely fine or better and rare in this condition.
Estimate $9,000
SOLD $7,500
Ten shillings, Miller/Collins (1923) A/14 458653 (R. 4). Very good.
Estimate $360
SOLD $550
Ten shillings, Kell/Collins (1926) A/26 240763 (R.5). Nearly fine.
Estimate $670
SOLD $750
Ten shillings, Kell/Heathershaw (1927) A/47 586102 (R. 6). Tear of 2cm top left otherwise nearly fine and rare.
Estimate $460
SOLD $750
Ten shillings, Riddle/Heathershaw (1928) A/67 421054 (R.7). Flattened, some crispness, extremely fine or better.
Estimate $4,000
SOLD $3,800
Ten shillings, Riddle/Sheehan (1933) C/19 241696 (R.9). Soiled and with creases, otherwise very good.
Estimate $780
SOLD $600