Provincials including uniface trials (3) Dartmouth Bank One Pound 1823 No 1221 reverse red on black FIVE PENCE GR IV ONE pleasant Fine ink annotations reverse along with a uniface of the reverse only on thin blue paper presumed a reverse trial and Ross & Archenfield Bank Five Pounds uniface reverse Jones Richards and Morgan see Outing 1829 where no Five Pounds is listed for these partners so presumed a reverse trial of a note never introduced the trials collectable Fine or better
Ten Shillings Bradbury 2nd issue (1915) handstamped FORGED and DO NOT DESTROY. Without watermark and probably a trial and handstamped to avoid being passed into circulation. EX Spink Lot 1148, rare and unusual GVF
Darlington Bank £5 1850 VF cut cancelled, Stamford and SpaldingFive Pounds 1903 (2) both VF and with triangular shaped cut through the signature, South Africa £5 Barry & Nephews Swellendam "or at CAPE TOWN" 1850x unsigned remainder EF, USA $100 cheque Columbus Dec 1 1868 VF and a reproduction Bank of Scotland Five Pounds trial
Bank of England, Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland and Clydesdale Bank (58) £39 face, Late 1940s to 1990s issues, plus One Million Dollar and One Million Euro fantasy notes and ExperimentalTrials (3), along with Commemorative woven bookmarks (3) 2003 Coronation Golden Jubilee (2) and 2005 Nelson/Battle of Trafalgar 200th Anniversary these in the wallets of issue, in mixed grades
Provincial Bank trial proof, an ornate William Congreve design issued c.1820s, loosely mounted onto thin card, about UNC (this example has no watermark but others have been seen with an India "Bank of Hindustan" watermark)
Bank of England £1 trial proof c.181s, Promise to pay Mr Henry Hase, woman sitting with globe vignette at centre, attached to card, small tear at bottom & surface dirt, GVF and scarce
Thomas de la Rue engraving colour trials c.1920s (3) two are in shades of red and the other is multi-coloured, a tiger head vignette at centre (this vignette was later used on Portuguese India banknotes), all uniface, UNC
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 Applegarth & Cowper trial £5 circa 1820's-1830's, Promise to pay Mr Henry Hase at top, blue & black underprint at centre, 1 cm tear at bottom, EF and scarce
One PoundBradburytrial notes a set of eight. Five printed on thick paper and three on thin, six with crowns and two without. All vary in colour, one has numbers, the rest are without. An excessively rare and pleasurable set. All believed unique. All EF to UNC.
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