Cheques (84) includes 19th Century types (61) Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company (2), Parr's Banking Company Limited and related (18), Messrs. Parsons, Thomson, Parsons, Old Bank Oxford (1), Messrs. Pease & Sons, Bankers, Beverley (1), Preston Old Bank (2), Messrs. Praed, Fane, Praed & Johnson and related (3), Prescott, Dinsdale, Cave, Tugwell & Co. (3), Prescott, Grote, Cave & Cave (1), The Preston Banking Company (2), The Provincial Bank of Ireland Limited (1), Messrs. Paget, Bainbridges & Co. (1), Messrs. Pybus, Call, Marten & Hale (1), Messrs, Ransom, Bouverie & Co (1), Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock & Company (3), The Royal Bank of Canada (1), The Royal Bank of Liverpool (2), The Royal bank of Scotland (5), Messrs. Rufford, Biggs & Rufford (1), Messrs. Ruffords & Wragge (1), Messrs. Sanders & Co. Exeter Bank (2), Sir Samuel Scott, Bart & Company (1), Sharples, Tuke, Lucas & Seebohm, Hitchin (2), The Sheffield Hallamshire Bank Limited (1), The Sheffield Union Banking Company Limited (1), Sheffield Banking Company and related (3), Sheffield and Rotherham Bank (1), Messrs. Simpson & White, Peterborough (1), Messrs. Simpson, Chapman & Co. (2), Messrs. Samuels Smith Bros & Co.(1), Messrs. Samuel Smith & Co. (2), Messrs. Smith, Payne & Smiths (2), Stamford and Spalding Banking Company and related (3), Messrs. Stephensons, Batsom, Remington & Smith (1), Messrs. Stephensons, Remington, Smith & Co. (1), The Standard Bank (1), Messrs. Stilwell & Sons. (1), Stockport & District Trustees Savings Bank (1), Town & Country Building Society (1), Stuckey's Banking Company and related (7), also includes photocopies of the winding up order of Prescott's Bank 1903 and takeover of the Sheffield Union Banking company by the Midland Bank 1901 (now HSBC), many different branches represented, the vast majority in high grade and unused with counterfoils
Cheques (56) includes 19th Century types (41) The Huddersfield Banking Company (4), Fox, Fowler & Co (1), Sheffield & Rotherham Bank (1), Barclays Bank and related (4), Gurneys, Birkbecks, Barclay & Buxton (2), The Barnsley Banking Company Limited (2), The Birmingham, Dudley & District Banking Company (1), Messrs. Crickett, Bacon & Wood (1), The Cumberland Union Banking Company Ltd (1), Crompton & Evans Union Bank Limited (2), London County of Westminster Bank Limited (1), Messrs Cox & Co. London (1), Wilts & Dorset Banking Company Limited (1) The County of Gloucester Bank (1), Messrs. Willm and Saml Evans & Co. Bankers, Derby (1), Yorkshire District Bank (1), Messrs. Curteis, Pomfret & Co. Bankers, Rye (2), Farrow's Bank Limited, Hove (2), Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co. (1), The Lancaster Banking Company (1), Lloyd, Barnetts & Bosanquets Bank Limited (2), London & County Banking Company Limited (1), The London & Midland Bank Limited (1), London County Westminster & Parr's Bank Limited (1), The London Joint Stock Bank Limited (1), Manchester & Liverpool District Banking Co. Ltd (1), The National Bank Limited (1), The National ProvincialBank of England (1), Messrs. Nunn and Company Bankers, Manningtree (1), Preston Old Bank - Messrs. Pedder & Company (1), Messrs. Samuel Smith & Co. (1), The Union Bank of Manchester Limited (1), Westminster Bank Limited (1), District Bank Limited (2), York City and County Banking Company Limited (2), The Yorkshire Banking Company (2), Messrs. Woodhead & Co. London (1), Wilts & Dorset Banking Company Limited (1), Midland Bank Limited and related (2), almost all with counterfoils, all but one are unwritten, many in higher grades, along with a chequebook (12 pages) The National Provincial Bank Limited, (formerly The National Provincial Bank of England) - Portishead Branch, printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd. all unwritten
PennyRichard IIIYork Mint, Archbishop Rotherham, T and upright Key at neck, S.2166/2167, mintmark not visible, 0.62 grammes, Portrait Fine, clipped with much of the legend off-flan, nevertheless a very rare issue and seldom offered, comes with old ticket
Halfgroats and PenniesHenry VII (6) Canterbury MintS.2211 mintmark Tun (2). Profile issue, York Mint, Archbishop Bainbridge Keys below shield S.2262 mintmark Rose/Martlet. Profile issue, Canterbury Mint S.2261 mintmark Rose, Pennies Henry VII Sovereign types (2) York Mint, Archbishop Rotherham, single pillar to throne S.2326. York Mint, Archbishop Rotherham, two pillars to throne S.2328 VG to Fine
Tokens, Medals, medalets and Paranumismatic items, 18th to 20th Century (164) includes Army Temperance Medals in silver (3) c.1897-1901, in mixed grades, Kent Messenger Calendar Medal 1959, George V Silver Jubilee 1935 32mm diameter in silver, the Official Royal Mint issue EF a varied group, along with Engraved small silver (14), counter stamped coppers (2) and Engraved Halfpenny 1774 'John Rotherham/ Sign Painter in Derby 1774/ John Blease/ To F M U / Tobacconist, Liverpool, also Halfpennies Contemporary counterfeits and evasions (23) George II and George III types, in mixed circulated grades
PennyRichard III Archbishop RotherhamYork Mint T and upright key by neck, Reverse quatrefoil in centre S.2166 m.m. boars head North 1686, weight 0.7 grammes, Fine, struck on an ovoid flan with much of the legend indistinct or off the flan (bought Spinks 1983 £235)
17th Century a mixed group (9) Herts Barnes 1655 John Rotherham, NorfolkLynn Regis Town 1669, Suffolk Saxmundham Thomas Knight , Wiltshire (2) Aldbourne 1656 John Adee, Devizes 1652 Grace Naish, Somerset (4) Taunton 1666 Abraham Crocker, Wells 1669 Town, Yeovil 1668 Town (2), in mixed grades VG-Good Fine
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