Banknotes

Bank of Enterprise, Sealfast Limited, an 1914 advertising note promising to ‘pay the user of Sealfast the sum of five pounds if he can prove same injures rubber’, serial number AI/OK 1914, signature of Leslie M. Lane and a vignette of a tin of the aforementioned Sealfast at top left, extremely fine and rare
Outing unlisted £120-£160

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

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Leslie Mathew Lane (1890-1948) seems to have been something of a travelling salesman who appears in court records a great many times throughout the first half of the 20th century. Most of his offences are related to driving, and include the accidental killing of a woman on the strand, for which he was not sentenced. Sealfast was only sold from May 1913 until September 1914 when Lane signed up to fight in the Royal Fusiliers, Kensington Battalion although he actually served in the Army Service Corp.
It is unclear what Sealfast was, or whether it actually worked.