The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes

Feversham Bank, for Sir Wm Moore, Sooty, Smokejack, & Self, an embroidered copy of a skit note for 2 Pence, 20 June 1790, serial number 4679, signatures of Simon Scrape and Benjamin Brush, with vignette of a chimney sweep chasing a donkey with a brush, and the latin Nunquam non Nigri (never not black), embroidered using a mixture of thread and (probably human) hair onto what was likely once paper-backed silk, which has now cracked almost entirely, condition is somewhat poor but mostly stable, but an astonishing item, certainly a complete one-off
Outing 4003a £100-£150

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

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A strange note without a clear purpose, but obviously having something to do with chimney sweeps! Feversham is not a real place, and may be a take-off of Faversham, although at various times there have been Earls of Feversham.