The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes

Bank of Engraving, 9 Charlotte Terrace, New Cut, Lambeth, a note dated 29 April 1831, serial number 150, promising to ‘Engrave and Print in Letter Press and Copper plate, Cards, Bills, Circulars etc in the First Style of Elegance, with the greatest accuracy and dispatch or forfeit the sum of Five Pounds, with the signature of J.W.Peel, with an attractive engraving of a printer at work, fine and scarce
Outing unlisted £70-£90

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

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John Websdale Peel was born in Norwich in 1794, and became a moderately successful engraver in London by the 1830s, working from New Cut in Lambeth until at least 1851. He died in 1859. He was fined at least twice for producing notes of this nature that were too similar to Bank of England notes.