A collection in an album 10/- to £20 many in high grades and including Lion and Key Fives in high grades along with The Royal Mint Five Pounds Set and Ulster bank Presentation George Best £5
A collection in an album generally higher denominations £5 - £20 with some better prefixes such as Hollom £5 A01, and Gill £5 A01 includes some consecutive number runs, mixed grades many in high grades
Bank of England Applegarth & Cowper trial £5 circa 1821, "I Promise to pay Mr Henry Hase or bearer" at top, black with orange FIVE POUNDS at centre, Britannia at left & right, "Rippon" bottom centre, edge nicks & mount mark traces reverse GVF and scarce
Bank of England in an album and loose including consecutive runs and high denominations, along with Scottish issues these too containing higher denominatons, mixed graded but many in high grade
Twenty Pounds Lowther DA01 (2) Ten Pounds Lowther (2) AC13 676919 The Governor and The Company, AJ20 836336 The Governor and Company EF, plus Twenty Pounds to Ten Shillings £494 face, and a small group of World notes, in mixed grades
Twenty pounds PeppiattwhiteB243 dated 20th July 1936 series 52/M 30586, small stain & edge nick at top, (provenance ex-Colin Narbeth sale label attached), about VF and a scarcer high value
One Pound blue PeppiattB249A, Guernsey overprint 2Withdrawn from circulation September 18th 1941." series C63D 428817 (a recorded number), cleaned & pressed, good Fine to VF, scarce
Five Pounds O'Brien B280 (2) Helmeted Britannia at right, Lion & Key reverse issued 1961, first series consecutive numbers H72 927817 & H72 927818, GEF
Five Pounds O'Brien B280 (4) Helmeted Britannia at right, Lion & Key reverse issued 1961, consecutive numbered last series K44 446625 to K44 446628 (last prefix for this series only runs to K45), GVF to EF
Five Pounds O'Brien B280 (4) Helmeted Britannia at right, Lion & Key reverse issued 1961, consecutive numbered series J98 219287 to J88 219290, GEF to about UNC
Five pounds FfordeB314 (2) issued 1967, a consecutively numbered pair, very 1st run series 01A 473205 & 01A 473206, about Unc to UNC, very scarce and especially as a pair
Fifty pounds SomersetB352 (2) issued 1981, a consecutively numbered pair, first run A01 697129 & A01 697130 (this second note has a tiny inked number on the face), Christopher Wren on reverse, about UNC
Allied Anti-German World War 2 airdrop note, Operation Trondheim, one side is a forged 50 Reichspfennig and the other side has derogatory anti-German propaganda ( "50 Pfennig heiss' ich---Dass Hitler ihm was schenkt"), mainly dropped over the Channel Islands & Norway, edge wear, VF and scarce
Allied Anti-German World War 2 airdrop note, Operation Trondheim, one side is a forged 50 Reichspfennig and the other side has derogatory anti-German propaganda ( "Ich bin Hitlers Arschwisch---Fur mich kaufen kann"), mainly dropped over the Channel Islands & Norway, good Fine and scarce
Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ltd promotional note c.1930s-40s, King Charles I vignette at centre, orange & brown, centre vignette of woman with cherubs on reverse, in original full sheet state on watermarked paper from Office Francais des Papiers Fiduciaires, almost UNC
Huddersfield Commercial Bank £1 dated 1816 series No.2923 for Benjamin & Joshua Ingham & Co., (Outing 1004b) small bankruptcy stamp on reverse (exhibited at the Rose & Crown Inn, Huddersfield dated 1819), edge nicks, Fine
Ilfracombe Bank £5 dated 1835, 2 unmatched halves taped together, left half series No.958 and right half series No.786 (Outing 1039a) overall Fine condition and a scarce type
Leeds Bank £5 proof, soft card overprinted SPECIMEN for Wm. Williams Brown, Charles Barr & Co. (Outing1130 for type), printers ink stains, about UNC to UNC
Isle of Wight Bank, Newport £10 Post Bill dated 1801 series No.6279 for James, John & Joseph Kirkpatrick (Outing 1533 for type), internal holes from ink corrosion, Fine
Isle of Wight Bank, Newport 5 guineas dated 1790 series No.5209 for Henry & John Roberts, Mark Gregory & Geo. Barton (Outing 1534 for type), signature area cut cancelled & edge damage, about Fine
Newport bank, Isle of Wight £10 sight note dated 1788 series No.1008, signature ink cancelled, split in 2 and pasted onto card (Outing 1534d for type), Good-VG, presentable and scarce
Ramsgate Old Bank One Pound, Nathaniel Austen & Son unissued (Outing 1766a) EF with some light foxing, Stockton on Tees Bank Five Pounds 1883 Jonathan Backhouse issue Fine, Darlington Bank £5 1889 , Jonathan Backhouse issue, cut cancelled, Fine
Rochester Watt's Charity warrant dated 1853, instructions to give four pence to travellers to pay for a Night's Lodging, series No.6, (Outing 3044), small centre hole, GEF
Bank of England and world group (18) plus assorted 19th Century USA cheques (13) includes face value GB £23 mostly high grade earlier Page £1s and Gill £5 (2), also includes a US probate document dated 1867
Bank of England banknote books printed by Debdens (5), gives information for the Stephenson £5, Dickens £10, Faraday £20, Wren £50 and the Houblon £50, as issued
Bank of Englandwhite £5 (4) PeppiattB255 series J99 dated 1945, Fine with clipped right edge, Peppiatt B264 (2) dated 1947 series L35 small tear & stains GVF & series M31 VF, BealeB270 dated 1952 series X94 faint inked number reverse VF
One poundPeppiattB239A Guernsey overprint series E03A 006585, "Withdrawn from circulation November 10th, 1941.", (a full stop after 1941--only 79 recorded for this variety to date, this will be the 80th known) small stain top right, VF
Ten Pounds Kentfield a 2-note set C104 comprising Last Series D KR30 998779 and First series E A01 998779 UNC in the brown leatherette binder as issued with certificate
Bank of England Presentation Set comprising £50, £20, £10 and £5 Kentfield Firsts B361, B371, B360 and B362 Duggleby C106 with matching serial number 500653 UNC in the folder of issue
Bank of England presentation set C119 HM the Queens 70th birthday, Kentfield £5 note series HM70 001744 & cupro-nickel crown, UNC in folder with certificates
Bank of England limited edition presentation packs issued 1998 (3) £5 C126, £10 C127 and £20 C128, year prefix series all with matching numbers YR19 980513, a slight wear to folders but notes will be UNC
Bank of England limited edition C149, 2000 year prefix Lowther £5 serial YR20 000465, UNC & an uncut sheet of four £5 notes series BH25, BH26, BH33 & BH34 with matching numbers 000298, UNC
Bank of England £5 Lowther series QM20 000259, a presentation pack (Duggleby W100) with silver proof £5 coin & Queen Mother's Birthday 1st Day Cover stamps, UNC
ERROR £1 HollomB288 issued 1960 series E31X 631568, missing all of the obverse print in the lower left area which was folded back during the printing process, about EF
ERROR £5 PageB336 issued 1973 first series AN49 325105, design heavily misplaced vertically leaving a large white area at top & extra printers ink reverse top, yellow marker stripe at left, about UNC to UNC
ERROR £5 PageB336 issued 1973 with missing serial numbers but AU56 978624 hand written top left (orange stripe left side) aUNC, it comes with a normally printed consecutively numbered note AU56 978625, about UNC to UNC
ERROR £10 SomersetB348 issued 1984 series AS61 671950, missing the yellow underprint around the lamp at centre on reverse, small ink mark top edge, about EF
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