The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes

Leeds and London Bank of Economy, for John Fossey, a poorly printed notes in the style of a Bank of England £20, 12 August 1844, serial number 156, promising to ‘pay to Mr Henry Hase or Bearer on Demand every attention in supplying them with Foreign Cigars & Genuine Tobacco or forfeit the sum of Twenty Pounds of Genuine Hong Kong Tea which I am agent for’, with the address of 156 Briggate, Leeds, good very fine
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 Fossey was indeed a manufacturer of tobacco and related products at this address, but he died in 1850, leaving an estate of just £200.