Banknotes

A Skit Note by an unknown printer, for Self Grumble & Bearmuch, 2 Pence, 1 August 1795, serial number added by hand 119, promising to pay ‘Sir Marmaduke Monopoly or bearer, on the Conquest of France and Establishment of Royalty’, signed by Stephen Starvation and Daniel Discontent, with a vignette of John Bull carrying a sack full of taxes and saying ‘God Save the King’, very good to about fine and very scarce, this is one of two known printings with identical text but from an entirely different plate £100-£150

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

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This note is both a comment on the French Revolution, and the amount of taxes being paid in the United Kingdom as a result.