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Auction: 20021 - The Mark T. Ray Collection of English Banknotes
Lot: 184

Bank of England, Abraham Newland (1778-1807), £2, London, manuscript date 27 December 1800, manuscript serial number 904, black and white, ornate crowned vignette of Britannia top left, value in black tablet low left, manuscript Mr Abraham Newland in text at centre and manuscript signature of the Cashier, South and entered by Donald
(EPM B200f, Pick 176), small format with rectangular border and early style of Britannia vignette. Also in this lot an original Bank of England envelope dated 1870 confirming this note unpaid in the Bank ledger. Very rare, fine and a great note. Only two other examples of this note believed extant at time of cataloguing

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