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1 & 2 March 2023
Bank of Hymen, Dublin, a skit note in the style of a Bank of Ireland £1, denominated in Love, 14 February 186-, serial number L/O 83227 V/E, backed on paper, damage to low left, very good and rare, a worryingly good imitation of the real thing! Outing unlisted £150-£200
Hammer Price: £130
Lovers Banking Company, a poorly printed but charming skit note, denominated in Love, 14 February 185-, serial number L/O 28769 V/E, signed by Cupid, very fine Outing unlisted £70-£90
Hammer Price: £80
A note commemorating the Battle of the Nile, titled Alexandria, promising to pay Admiral Nelson on demand Nine Ships of the Line, Frigates & Transports, for the value received in British Valour, 3 August 1798, signed Bonaparte, with a vignette of Admiral Nelson at left, very fine and rare Outing unlisted £150-£200
Hammer Price: £400
House of Correction, ‘Anti-Flogging Note’, 30 January 1819, serial number 222, signed by I. Flogwell, produced by George Cruikshank in a similar style to the more famous ‘Anti-Hanging Note’, one small hole at left, otherwise good fine and rare Outing unlisted £300-£400
Hammer Price: £500
Bank of Elegance, 10 Crescent Cambridge, a note promising to ‘Cut and Dress any Lady’s or Gentleman’s Hair equal to any man in England or forfeit on Demand the Sum of Fifty Pounds’, 29 April 1827, serial number 56, signature of William Donagan, reverse beautifully printed in blue, mounting traces, very fine and scarce, a beautifully printed note Outing unlisted £80-£120
Hammer Price: £70
Bank of Elegance, Loughboro’, a note promising to ‘accept the Challenge of any Man in England to Cut and Dress any Lady’s or Gentleman’s hair in a Superiour style or forfeit on Demand the Sum of Fifty Pounds’ 18 October 834, serial number 20, signature of Pyke & Son, thinned a little at right, overall good fine, and nicely engraved Outing unlisted £80-£120
£80–£120
Bank of Elegance, Thames Street, Kingston, a note promising to ‘Pay on Demand the sum of Fifty Pounds, if I do not Cut any Lady or Gentleman’s Hair in the first style of fashion’ 1 April 1826, serial number 120, signature of W.H.Collins, marked ‘Forged’ in ink, which is unsurprising give the close resemblance to a Bank of England note, good fine and scarce Outing unlisted £80-£120
Hammer Price: £65
Long Room, New Theatre, Abadare, an advertising pamphelt in the style of a cheque for £10, 1909, claiming that there are ‘sales daily and each evening, where you certainly ought to pay A.Henry & Co (auctioneers) a visit. It may benefit you more than a cheque for £10’, and signed ‘R.U.Cumming?’, good fine, unusual Outing unlisted £60-£80
£60–£80
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
£70–£90
Thomas Cave & Son, a high quality advertising note, ND (c.1825), titled ‘To Bankers, Merchants etc’, promising to ‘Engrave & Print on demand Checks, Bills or Notes for the Merchants & Bankers in the Country or in London from the sum of One Pound to One Thousand’, with the address No.7 Spring Gardens, Manchester, and signed Thomas Cave & Son, some damage to right margin, fine, but a high quality engraving, even if the vignette at centre is a little rudimentary in design Outing...
Cannon Court Bank Yarmouth, for China, Delf, Crockery & Self, 4 Pence, ND (c.1793), promising to pay ‘Mr Brittle or Bearer on Demand the Sum of Four Pence at No.25 Market Row or at the Norfolk & Suffolk Cut Glass Manufactory’, hand signed by William Absolon, with vignettes bearing the motifs ‘Success to Trade’ and ‘May Yarmouth Flourish’, fine and scarce, a very early skit note Outing unlisted £80-£120
Bewley and Draper Ltd, Dublin, a leaflet in the form of a bill of exchange, advertising Drapers Dichroic Ink, promising to pay out £1000 in 500 years time, 1 January 1897, serial number 5782, extremely fine, colourful and amusing Outing unlisted £80-£120
Bank of Economy, 9 Church Street, Liverpool, an advertising note for 1 Guinea, 30 March 1833, serial number 9, promising to ‘supply Mr. Wm Purchasewell or bearer with the best London Beaver hat that can be made for one pound one shilling and every article in the Hat, Cap & Bonnet trade, proportianably cheap’, signature of Wm Ward Junr, with a vignette of Liver Birds at top left, very fine and scarce Outing unlisted £80-£120
Bank of Economy, 146 Strand, London, an advertising note for 1 Guinea, 21 October 1833, serial number 146, promising to ‘supply Mr. Wm Purchasewell or bearer with the best London Beaver hat that can be made for one pound one shilling and every article in the Hat, Cap & Bonnet trade, proportianably cheap’ , signature of Thomas Ward, very fine and scarce Outing unlisted £80-£120
The Bank of Erin, an advertising note Griffin Wards, for £1, 1 March 1801, serial number O/O 87315, promising to ‘give the bearer on demand the best value in Boots & Shoes for one pound, obtained throughout Ireland’, with the address 68 South Great Georges Street, Dublin, and produced in imitation of Northern Bank notes of the era, about fine and scarce Outing unlisted £80-£120
Tinkler, 26 Charing Cross, an advertising note for the Grocers run by G. Tinkler, promisng to ‘pay Mr. Abm Nutmeg or Bearer on Demand the Sum if Two Pence, 10 July 1790, serial number 638, signature of G. Tinkler, ink burn, good fine and scarce, and of unusually high quality for such an early date Outing unlisted £100-£150
£100–£150
An Advertising notes for Richards, ‘Perfumer, Hair Desser, and Ornimental Hair Manufacturer, No.1 London Road, near the Elephant & Castle, and at his Manufactory, Garden Row’, cleverly denominated (n) One, dated 1804, serial number 1, signed Fashion, about very fine, scarce Outing unlisted £80-£120
Bank of Henley, for Buyer, Bidder, Puffer, Sweetner and Self, a note advertising the auctioneer belonging to John Telford, 10 March 1792, serial number J69, promising to ‘pay Mr. Auctioneer or Bearer on Demand the Sum of Three Pence, at Henley in Arden, signature of J. Telford, very good to fine, rare Outing unlisted £80-£120
Bank of Charity, a note advertising the shows of Mr Irving Bishops (pictured in place of Britannia), 12 June 1883, serial number 12/J 07710, promising to pay the bearer £1000, ‘if I am detected in any fraud or collusion’, signed by an illegible signature marked as Editor of Truth, fine and rare Outing unlisted £80-£120
Selwyns Theatre, an American advertising note denominated £5, in the style of the Bank of England £5 note, ND (1876-70), signed John.H.Selwyn, featuring an attractive vignette of the coat of arms of Massachusetts, good fine and rare Outing unlisted £80-£120
Boston Theatre, an American advertising note denominated £5, in the style of the Bank of England £5 note, ND (probably 1884-96), signed signed Eugene Tompkins, featuring the coat of arms of Massachusetts, good extremely fine and scarce Outing unlisted £70-£90
Augustus Harris’s Venus Burlesque account, a remarkable pamphlet in the form of an account book bulging with £5 notes and £500 cheques, undated, but the note is a May £5 and is dated 189(?), the book opens to reveal the full advert and cast of ‘Venus’, a burlesque in three acts (these were, 1 Vulcan’s Forge, 2 Mercury Newspaper Office and 3 The Immortals Club; The Trial), foxed, extremely fine and a remarkable item Outing unlisted £100-£150
Hammer Price: £100
The Believers Bank Note, a religious note denominated ‘Whatsoever’, ND (likely early 20th century), promising that ‘my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory’, signed by Jesus Christ, printed by W.G.Wheeler & Co, Paternoster Row, London, toned, very fine and unusual Outing unlisted £70-£90
Hammer Price: £60
24 & 25 August 2022
S.W.Fores No. 1, for Self, St. Vincent, Duncan, Nelson & Co., 2 Pence, 17 November 1818, promising to pay ‘Monsieur Bonaparte or Bearer when the Gallic Flag shall triumph over the British and the French become the Masters of the Sea’, signed by John Bull and Ben Broadside, with a vignette of a ship of the line, labelled ‘Britain's Glory and its Pride’, light mounting traces, extremely fine £100-£150
S.W.Fores No. 2, for Self, Grub, Snout and Starveling, 2 Pence, 25 December 1818, promising to pay ‘Messrs Flesh, Flour, Malt & Co. or Bearer when Roasting-beef shall be sold at four pence per pound, Porter at three pence per pot, and the Quartern Loaf at Sixpence’, signed by Gristle Barebones and Spoonmeat Littleflesh, with a vignette of a loaf, labelled ‘The Staff of Life’, extremely fine £100-£150
S.W.Fores No. 3, for Self, Leinster, Ulster, Munster & Connaught, 2 Pence, 1 January 1819, promising to pay ‘Rory O’Bogg Esqr or Bearer, when the Union of the Kingdoms shall have produced a union of Civil & Religious principles’, signed by Pat Potatoe and Dermot O’Wisky, with a vignette displaying a map of Ireland, about extremely fine £100-£150
S.W.Fores No. 4, for Self, Taffy Bull, Andrew Bull & Pat Bull, 2 Pence, 4 June 1818, promising to pay ‘McCree, Trottoff & Co. or Bearer, when Melvillism shall have received its just reward and when its effects also shall have ceased in every department of the British Government’, signed by John Bull and Saml Brownstout, with a vignette showing a bugler, axe and rope, labelled ‘10th Report!! Beware of us!!’, toned, staple holes at left, otherwise extremely fine £100-£150
S.W.Fores No. 5, for Self, Lapstone, Staytape, Tossup & Winem, 2 Pence, 6 February 1819, promising to pay ‘Coll Pattypan & Sam Roarer Esq or Bearer, on the erection of a Statue of the late Heaven-born Minister composed of Pure Puff Paste, or Papier-machee, or Calf’s-head jelly, in Guildhall’, signed by Tim Tartlet and Sam Noisymouth, with a vignette showing what appears to be a gibbet, labelled ‘We restore liberty, and rank among the best correctives for baseness’, extremely fine ...
S.W.Fores No. 6, for Independence, Integrity, Honor & Self, 2 Pence, 23 May 1818, promising to pay ‘Messrs Sinecure, Pensioner, Peculator & Co. or Bearer, when Corruption, Bribery, & Want of principle shall have ceased throughout the Nation & when the noble example set by the Electors of Westminster shall have been followed by all the Electors of the United Kingdom’, signed by Public Virtue and Francis Trustworthy, with a vignette showing a liberty cap, labelled ‘Do Thou Great Liberty...
S.W.Fores No. 7, for Groaner, Hardpinch & Self, 2 Pence, 27 July 1818, promising to pay ‘Talents, Ins & Outs, or Bearer, when the Pensioned Drone & the Destructive Monopolizing Locust, shall have been remove’d from the Hive of British Industry, by the Axe or the Halter’, signed by Shirtless Raggedbottom and Tristram Moneyless, with a vignette showing a beehive, labelled ‘Copy the Bee’ and ‘Industry blesseth a man; idleness curseth him’, about extremely fine £100-£150
S.W.Fores No. 8, for Self, Silvertouch & Lovegold, 2 Pence, 1 August 1818, promising to pay ‘the Right Honorable William Pittachio or Bearer, on the dissolution of his Great Paper Manufactory and the Circulation of Specie only’, signed by Brass Hatepaper and George Pennypiece, with a vignette showing a George III penny, and labelled ‘A Scarce British Coin’, good very fine £100-£150
S.W.Fores No. 9, for Justice, Revenge, Millions & Self, 5 Danish Skillings, Copenhagen, 7 September 1818, promising to pay ‘Messrs Public Justice & Virtue or Bearer, Five Danish Skillings, when the Diabolical Massacre & Robbery of the Danes, shall gave been properly atoned for, and when the injured Honor & Moral Justice of Britain, shall have been completely restored’, signed by Hamlet and Heartfelt Horror, with a vignette showing the bombardment of a city and a mockery of a coat of...
S.W.Fores No. 10, for Self, Fearnought & Hardblow, 1 Penny, 4 June 1818, promising to pay ‘the Emperor Napoleon or Bearer, one penny, when British Valour shall have been wholly subsided & when the French Army shall have become masters of the British Islands’, signed by George Lather’em and Bob Trimmer, with a vignette showing a map of the United Kingdom, labelled ‘Britannia, The Pride of the Sea, I’faith they are tight little Islands’, good extremely fine £100-£150
S.W.Fores No. 11, for Self, Fool and Dupe, 1 Penny, 14 June 1818, promising to pay ‘Thos Plunder, Puffwell Esqr or Bearer, when Lottery Insurance shall have ceased and when the Morocco-men & those infamous Leeches their Masters, shall have been, by aid of the Gallows, deprived of the means of robbing the humble table of a meal, or, driving Property-stricken Credulity into Despair and Suicide’, signed by Susan Nosmock and Tabby Allrag, with a vignette showing a purse being pickpocketted,...
S.W.Fores No. 12, for Self, Knapsack & Firelock, 2 Pence, 18 March 1819, promising to pay ‘Duke, Clark’s, Farquhar, or Bearer, when Boys, by purchase, shall no longer supersede the Veteran Subaltern, and when hard & meritorious service shall be the only recommendation to Military Promotion throughout the British Army’, signed by Hector Broadsword and Ron-don-don, with a vignette showing a petticoat above a crown, and labelled ‘Triumphalis Ruina’, and ‘Long Live the Petticoat; Its...
S.W.Fores No. 13, for Self, Simple & Pennyless, 2 Pence, 1 April 1819, promising to pay ‘Messrs Catchpole, Latitat & Puzzlecause or bearer, when the glorious uncertainty of the Law shall have ceased and when the whole fraternity of Attornies, including Pettifoggers and Luitammers, throughout the United Kingdom shall have the acquired integrity’, signed by Simon Lostall and Ninny Smartuch, with a vignette showing a pair of tailors scissors, and labelled ‘The Pettifoggers Arms’, and...
S.W.Fores No. 14, for Self, Knightly Puff, Warning Puff, Racer Puff, Horney Puff & Moonshine Puff, 2 Pence, 12 April 1819, promising to pay ‘Aldn Puff & Deputy Puff or Bearer, when Lottery-Puffs shall be swallowed as eagerly as Pastry-Puff by the good people of the United Kingdom and when Lottery Insurers & Swindlers shall deserve the name of Gentleman’, signed by Old Tom Puff and Young Tom Puff, with a vignette showing the Royal Exchange and a losing lottery ticket, and labelled...
S.W.Fores No. 15, for Self, Catcall, Buglehorn, Trumpet, Bell, Rattle, Hiss & Groan, 1 Penny, 1 November 1818, promising to pay ‘Messrs Riches, Wantes & Jem Jackall or Bearer, when the Spirit of a London Audience shall have been subdued by A Hero of the Bushkin, Jew Vagrants & Thieftakers and when private Boxes of a Theatre shall be dedicated to Diana’, signed O.P. and Roarer Row, with a vignette showing a air of imbalanced scales and a grand building, and labelled ‘Justitia Impar’...
Hammer Price: £75
S.W.Fores No. 16, for Self, Sneezer, Cougher & Windcracker, 2 Pence, 5 December 1818, promising to pay ‘Spouter, Snearlie & Promtspeech, Affidavit Makers, or Bearer, when Coughing, Sneezing, or the Bowel-easing Flatus, shall By a Westminster Jury, be deemed a flagrant breach of The Kings’s Peace, or, constitute the fundamentals of a wicked conspiracy’, signed O.P. and Evergreen Laurel, with a vignette showing a judge in a fools cap, with the caption ‘T’is strange such difference...
Hammer Price: £85
S.W.Fores No. 17, for my Father, Mr. John Bull, 5 Farthings, 11 December 1818, promising to pay ‘the Master, Wardens & Court of Assistants, of the Worshipful Company of Thiefcatchers, or Bearer, when their Worships shall have received the appointment of Superintendents of the various Theatres and other Places of Public Amusement throughout the United Kingdom’, signed O.P.Bull and John Huzza, with a vignette showing three heads in profile, with the caption ‘Shadows of Power, “Trifles,...
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