Provincials a small collection (6) as per Outing Darlington Bank Five Pounds 1887 Fine cut cancelled O629, Durham Bank Five Pounds Jonathan Backhouse 1891 Fine cut cancelled and with red cancellation stamps O729, Newcastle upon Tyne Five Pounds 1840 O1515 pleasing Fine, Stamford and SpaldingTen Pounds 1901 Fine triangular cancellation cut bottom right O2036, Tees Bank One Pound Hutchinson & Hutchinson Stockton O2048 Good large parts of the note missing, Wantage One Pound Matterly, Kent, Benj, Kent this seldom seen but only Good O2261
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company £5 dated 1896 and 1897, triangular cut cancelled, (Outing 2036f) numerous Post Office & bank stamps, average About Fine (25)
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company £5 dated 1896 and 1897, triangular cut cancelled, (Outing 2036f) numerous Post Office & bank stamps, average About Fine (25)
Cheques (98) includes 19th Century types (65) Messrs. Beckett & Co. (2), Messrs. Beechings, Hodgkin & Beeching Bankers, Tonbridge (1), The Belfast Banking Company (3), Messrs. Berwick, Lechmere, Isaac, Isaac & Martin (1), Messrs, Berwick, Lechmere, Isaac, Martin & Co. (1), Messrs. Bingel & Schumann (1), Birkbeck Bank (1), The Birmingham Banking Company (4), Birmingham District & Counties Banking Company Limited (2), Birmingham & Midland Bank (1), Birmingham , Dudley & District Banking Company and related (2), Bolitho, Foster, Coode & Co. Limited (1), Bradford Old Bank Limited (1), Bristol and West of England Bank Limited (1), British Linen Company/Bank (6), Messrs. Brocklehursts Company of Bankers and related (2), Messrs. Brown, Janson & Company (1), Messrs. Brown & Reeves Bankers, Shepton Mallett (1), Messrs. Brown, Shipley & Co. (1), The Bucks & Oxon Union Bank (4), Messrs. John, Henry & George Bugg Bankers, Spalding (1), The Burton, Uttoxeter and Ashbourn Union Bank (2), North Devon Bank (1), Caledonian banking Company (1), The Capital & Counties Bank Limited and related (9), Carlisle City and District Banking Company Limited (2), The Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company (7), Sir Charles R. McGregor (2), The Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China (1), The Chesterfield & North Derbyshire Banking Company (1), Messrs. Child & Co. (4), The City Bank (2), The Civil Service Bank Limited (1), The City of Glasgow Bank (3), Messrs. Clarkes and Philips Banker, Leicester, Messrs. Claypon, Garfit & Claypons, Bankers, Boston (1), The Clydesdale Banking Company (6), The Clydesdale & North of Scotland Bank Limited (1), The Commercial bank od Scotland Ltd and related (7), Aberdeen Commercial Banking Company (1), The Consolidated Bank Limited (3), Messrs. Cooper & Purton, Bridgnorth (1), The Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited (2), The Co-operative Bank (1), all unwritten in mixed high grades most with counterfoils
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
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company £10 dated 1904, triangular cut cancelled, (Outing 2036h), VF along with Darlington Bank £5 dated 1886 for Jonathan Backhouse & Comp., signatures cut cancelled, Fine
Darlington Bank £5 1850 VF cut cancelled, Stamford and SpaldingFive Pounds 1903 (2) both VF and with triangular shaped cut through the signature, South Africa £5 Barry & Nephews Swellendam "or at CAPE TOWN" 1850x unsigned remainder EF, USA $100 cheque Columbus Dec 1 1868 VF and a reproduction Bank of Scotland Five Pounds trial
England (4) consisting of a ProvincialStamford, Spalding & Boston Banking Company Limited 5 Pounds dated 18th October 1899 No. L4330, signature cut-cancelled (Outing 2036f; Grant 5636C), VG with a 4mm oblong centre hole, bank stamps on reverse and still presentable. The note comes with a descriptive short historical background printout. Along with a Wales - Cwmni y Ddafad Ddu Cymreig, 'Black Sheep/Bull Bank' SPECIMEN 5 Swllt (Shillings) Menai bridge type with 3 feathers at Fleur de Lis top left and overprint ENGHRAIFFT (translated from Welsh meaning Example) in blue to lower left and serial number 990953, UNC. Also included in the lot are a Bradbury Wilkinson Promotional Test note in main blue and multicolour value of 100 portrait of King Charles I at right and uniface, along with a display cardboard postage stamp sheet - Her Majesty's stamps from The Stamp Show 2000, Earls Court, London.
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company 5 Pounds (49), most dated 1901, triangular cut cancelled, (Outing 2036f) numerous trade & bank stamps, about Fine
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company £5 (6) dates range from 1901 to 1904, triangular cut cancelled, (Outing 2036f) numerous trade & bank stamps, about Fine
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company £5 (2) dated 1901 series L8039 and 1904 series M1770, triangular cut cancelled, (Outing 2036f) numerous Post Office & bank stamps, about Fine
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company £5 (10) all dated 1900, triangular cut cancelled, (Outing 2036f) numerous Post Office & bank stamps, average About Fine
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company £5 (10) all dated 1900, triangular cut cancelled, (Outing 2036f) numerous Post Office & bank stamps, average Fine to good Fine
British Provincial Banknotes (10) a low grade group includes Derby Bank £1 (2) 1811 & 1813, 1901 StamfordSpalding £5 cut cancelled, Newport Bank £1 1812-half note only, Huddersfield Commercial Bank 1 guineas (2), Tamworth Bank £1 trimmed 1814 and Yeovil Old Bank £5 (2) and £10-half notes or re-joined, average Good to VG some better
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company £5 (9) dates range from 1899 to 1903, triangular cut cancelled, Post Office & bank stamps reverse, average Fine to good Fine
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company £5 dated 1900, (hand stamps on reverse for Grimsby/Hull Savings Bank & a sail maker in Grimsby), triangular cut cancelled, Fine
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company £5 dated 1903, (London & South Western Bank stamp for Dr Barnardo's Homes on reverse), triangular cut cancelled, Fine
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company £5 dated 1903, (Post Office stamps on reverse for Grimsby and Alford, Lincs), triangular cut cancelled, Fine
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