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26 June 2024

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British and Irish Banknotes

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Lot

№ 80

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26 June 2024

Hammer Price:
£190

Bank of Wigs, 86 Bold Street Liverpool, Henry Urquhart, a skit note for 5 Pence, 1 January 1826, serial number 1614, promising to ‘be at Home on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays to cut & dress hair fit on Perukes &c me or my people or pay five-shillings if absent’, signed by Henry Urquhart, on watermarked paper, 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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This note was produced for the same Henry Urquhart as the previous lot, despite there being no record of his opening a premises in Liverpool.