British and Irish Banknotes

Bank of Elegance, for Myself & Co. (M. Carroll), a note promising to ‘pay the bearer 5 Rounds if I do not sell Articles cheaper than any Body else in the whole universe’, 1 January 1847, serial number 230, with a vignette of Queen Victoria and the text ‘Long Live the Queen’, very good, very scarce
Outing unlisted £60-£80

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

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Mathias Carroll was born in Ireland in 1816, and was living and working in Liverpool at the address on the note (24 Fairhurst Street, Cheapside) by 1841. The slogan Long live the Queen may have been particularly important for an Irishman living in England at the time.