British and World Paper Money including the John Clark Brodie Archive of Proof and Specimen Banknotes and The Union Bank of Scotland Collection (Part II)

The Newcastle Bank, Five Pounds, 18—, for Sir M.W. Ridley Bt, C.W. Bigge & Co, stamped specimen (Grant 2043L). Slight thinning on two corners, otherwise good extremely fine (£250-350)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Clark Brodie Archive of Proof and Specimen Notes.

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The bank was taken over by the Northumberland & Durham District Banking Co, which itself failed in 1857