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Auction: 5024 - The Karouni Collection of English Banknotes Part III
Lot: 16

Bank of England, Matthew Marshall, pink test note for £1000 dated London 13 May 1858, serial number V/W 32000, ornate crowned vignette of Britannia top left, value in black tablet low left, manuscript signature of C.T. Whitmel low right (cf B. 203 H), printed on pink unwatermarked paper and overstamped NOT GENUINE, presented to C.T. Whitmel on the occasion of his retirement, most unusual and extremely rare Estimate £ 6,000-8,000

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