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

Five Pounds, 5 April 1875, uniface proof on paper, 75 branches in five lines, pencilled 'From this' at lower right (Pick –). Mount marks on back, otherwise extremely fine (£250-300)

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

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After 1870 all notes were payable in Dublin. Individual branch titles were replaced by the names of the full branch network incorporated across the centres of the notes