Banknotes

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

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

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Griffin Wards was a Dublin shoemaker who opened in 1898.