British and Irish Banknotes

Swan Court Bank, Manchester, for Buyer, Bidder, Puffer, Sweetner and Self, a skit note for 3 Pence, 18 April 1792, serial number 946, promising to pay ‘Mr Auctioneer or Bearer on Demand the Sum of Three Pence at Swan Court, market Street Lane or at the Glass , China and Original Medicine Shop at the corner of St James, Church Yard’, signature of Joseph Berry, with an image of a auctioneers hammer labelled ‘how much going’ and another of a swan with two necks, backed with tissue paper, very good and very scarce
Outing 4067a £120-£160

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

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Joseph Berry was an appraiser and auctioneer with premises at Swan Court in Manchester, which is now under the Arndale Centre! On the 1st of June 1790 his auction room was described as new, March 1798 was his last auction under this name and the final year he paid rates at this address.