The Important Collection of Irish Paper Money formed by Bob Blake (Part II)

Co Limerick, Limerick, Bank of Limerick, One Pound, 16 September 1815, no. 431, for George Maunsell, John Kennedy and Robert Hedges Maunsell, signed by R.H. Maunsell. Split and rejoined at centre, pinholes and endorsements on back, otherwise very good €200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bob Blake Collection of Irish Banknotes.

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The Bank of Limerick, popularly known as Maunsell’s Bank, was established by Thomas Maunsell (c.1732-1814) in 1789. His daughter and co-heir, Elizabeth Dorothea, married Robert Hedges Maunsell. The Maunsell-Kennedy partnership was registered in 1815 but failed in May 1820