Banknotes

Birmingham, Birmingham Workhouse, Two Shillings and Sixpence, (3), all 180–, unissued, ‘Payable every Wednesday when Eight are brought together’ by Mr Jereh. Wright on behalf of the Overseers, ‘Overseers of the Poor will pay the Bearer’ and ‘Mr. Jas. Welch pay the Bearer, on Account of the Town Overseers’ (Davis 1224, 1226, 1227; Outing 3009a) [3]. Extremely fine £150-200

Provenance: W.J. Davis Collection, and by descent; The Property of a Lady, DNW Auction T7, 7 October 2009, lots 334, 335, 336; D.B. Griffiths Collection