British Provincial, Somerset, Bath, Bath Bank, Five Pounds, 4 February 1826, G 403, for Clement, Tugwell & Mackenzie (Outing 90; Grant 174B). Signature cut-cancelled, a couple of tiny holes and a 10mm split at lower left, otherwise good fine £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of British and Irish Banknotes formed by the Late Edward Barnby.

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The bank began as an adjunct to the drapery business of William & Robert Clement, trading in Wade’s passage, Bath, by 1750. By the 1780s the banking business had supplanted the drapery trade and the bank continued until amalgamation into Prescott & Co Ltd in 1891, later becoming part of National Provincial Bank and then NatWest