Auction: 20015 - British Banknotes - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 2443
Bank of Scotland, £1, 2 November 1833, manuscript serial number M 39/319, black and white, bank arms top centre flanked by allegorical maidens, Abundance and Justice, value in oval seal top left and right, crowned vignette of Scotia at left in oval frame within a vertical panel of thistles, 'pay to George Sandy' in text at centre. Two manuscript signatures low right
(PMS BA72b), this design in use between 1827 and 1859. This example a very early one for type and in an original and attractive state of preservation. A Perkins Bacon engraving, extremely rare and a lovely example
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Sold for
£3,800
Starting price
£1400