S.W.Fores No. 10, for Self, Fearnought & Hardblow, 1 Penny, 4 June 1818, promising to pay ‘the Emperor Napoleon or Bearer, one penny, when British Valour shall have been wholly subsided & when the French Army shall have become masters of the British Islands’, signed by George Lather’em and Bob Trimmer, with a vignette showing a map of the United Kingdom, labelled ‘Britannia, The Pride of the Sea, I’faith they are tight little Islands’, good extremely fine £100-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.

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Another patriotic note, promising to pay Napoleon if he successfully invades. Originally printed at least a decade earlier, by 1818 it was a doubly safe bet, as Napoleon had been firmly defeated in 1815.