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Sir David Kirch
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24 February 2022
Bank of Elegant Engraving, a beautiful note denominated £100 advertising the services of H.H.Collins & Co., October 1854, signature of H.H.Collins, with a wonderful reverse depicting the Crystal Palace and and underprint describing the note as a ‘Bank Note of the Crystal Palace’, clearly attempting to cash in on the Great Exhibition of 1851, original good very fine, rare and a very attractive and well produced note Outing unlisted £200-£260
Hammer Price: £300
Bank of Engraving, a passable imitation of a Bank of England £20, promising to ‘pay all bets or forfeit the sum of twenty pounds’, 23 June 1905, serial number 51856, signature of J.J.Morris, minor graffiti, fine and rare Outing unlisted £150-£200
£150–£200
Nottingham, a superbly engraved note advertising the services of the hairdressing establishment of J. Etches, denominated £1, ND (c.1825), serial number F1297, manuscript signature of J. Etches and with the additional text ‘Warser Gate’, the location of his premises, very fine, an unusually high quality engraving for the period, attractive and rare Outing unlisted £200-£260
Hammer Price: £160
Norfolk, Suffolk & Essex, Banks of Elegance, a note denominated £5,000 advertising the hairdressing services of the Faiers family, ND (c.1840’s-50’s), serial number 12, signature of H.H.Faiers, minor foxing but good fine to about very fine, rare Outing unlisted £200-£260
£200–£260
Bank of Elegance, 36 Lowgate, Hull, a note promising to ‘supply on demand to my friends and the public, Boots and Shoes of the best Quality, at such prices that must give satisfaction, or forfeit the sum of Five Pounds’, 7 October 1869, serial number 4, signature of Robert Garton, foxed, with minor edge damage, mounting remnants on reverse, good fine and very scarce Outing unlisted £150-£200
Bank of Fashion, for Self and Compy, a note promising ‘to cut any Lady or Gentleman’s hair superior to any man in Europe or forfeit on Demand the Sum of One Hundred Pounds, 24 October 1823, serial number 49, signature of J. Money, with the addresses 30, Palais Royal a Paris and 13 Fleet Street, clean and original paper, about very fine and very scarce Outing unlisted £180-£240
Hammer Price: £120
Bank of Fashion, for Self and Compy, a note promising ‘to cut any Lady or Gentleman’s hair superior to any man in Europe or forfeit on Demand the Sum of Thirty Thousand Pounds, 24 October 1823, serial number 49, signature of J. Money, with the addresses 49, Threadneedle Street and 13 Fleet Street, clean and original paper, good fine and very scarce Outing unlisted £180-£240
Hammer Price: £140
Royal Surrey Bank, a theatre advertising note for ‘£10 or as many rounds of applause’, on watermarked paper, 1885, signature of George Conquest, crowned vignette mentioning Tom Major, Property Master, at left, good very fine and very scarce Outing 4086a £150-£200
Hammer Price: £340
Royal Gaiety Bank, a theatre advertising note for ‘£10 or as many rounds of applause’, ND (c.1880’s), serial number 1910, signature of ‘Rigdum Funibus’, good fine and scarce Outing unlisted £120-£160
Hammer Price: £80
Bank of Merriment, Royal Grecian, a note denominated in FUN, advertising the seasonal pantomime at the Royal Grecian Theatre, 11 January 1854, serial number 1854, issued by B.O.Conquest, City Road, and with full details and billing on reverse, complete with wonderful vignettes of some of the players, (including a Mr. C. Webb), small repaired tear, overall good fine and an exceptional piece, very scarce Outing unlisted £200-£260
Hammer Price: £150
Gilbert + Watson Ltd, a spoof but rather realistic 10 Shilling note advertising the show Miss Paris-in-London, 4 January 1915, very fine and scarce £100-£150
Hammer Price: £380
Flora Cromer, a spoof £1 advertising ‘her latest success, The Kaiser’s Gramaphone’, ND (c.1914-15), signature of ‘some girl’ and a likeness of Flora Comer at left in the place of King George V, very fine and very scarce £100-£150
Hammer Price: £180
Petticoat to Park Lane, a spoof £1 advertising the latest production of Frederick Baugh and Fred Moule, ND (c.1915), signature of ‘some drama’, with a vignette of the star, Abraham Jacobson, in the place of King George V, very fine and very scarce £100-£150
Hammer Price: £170
United Kingdom of Great Blessings and Joyland, an entirely hand painted Christmas and New Year card in the likeness of a Treasury £1, dated Christmas 1924, serial number 1925, signature of the artist, Alexine Thorpe, with imagery including a turkey, sausages and a Christmas pudding on the obverse and Father Christmas in a wheeled sled powered, seemingly, by Shell Motor Spirit, on reverse, truly beautiful and a very touching item, very fine and unique £150-£200
Hammer Price: £220
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