British and Irish Banknotes

Bank of Wigs, 80 Hutcheson Street Glasgow, Henry Urquhart, a skit note for 5 Pence, 1 January 1816, serial number 1614, promising to ‘be at Home on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays to cut & dress hair fit on Wigs &c every lawfulday me or my people or pay five-shillings if absent from work’, signed by Henry Urquhart, mounting traces, about very fine and rare
Outing unlisted £70-£90

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

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Henry Urquhart was baptised in 1797 in Inverness (his date of birth is not known). His father was a hairdresser and Henry followed in his footsteps. He was only around 20 when this note was produced, and he went bankrupt only a few years later in 1821. He died from consumption in 1843.