BANKING EPHEMERA BANKING EPHEMERA
All lots in this section are sold as viewed and NOT subject to return. Viewing is strongly recommended. Many of the specimen cheques in this section are stuck down in bank circulars or booklets.
1678
AUSTRALIA, Australia and New Zealand Bank Ltd, specimen travellers’ cheques, 1951-66, Two Pounds (8), Five Pounds (9), Ten Pounds (10), Twenty Pounds (9), Fifty Pounds (6), many with prefix and 000000 serial numbers; 1975-7, specimen travellers’ cheques (7), for Australia Ten, Twenty, Fifty and One Hundred Dollars, New Zealand Twenty, Fifty and One Hundred Dollars; letters of credit (2), facsimiles and correspondence [Lot]. Good extremely fine to uncirculated
£200-250 1679
AUSTRALIA, Bank of New South Wales, specimen circular notes (2), 18—, for Adelaide and Christchurch; letter of credit, travellers’ cheques (9); British cheque; Royal Bank of Scotland, letters (6), 1876-96, to branches in Australia and New Zealand; bank cheques ‘On Demand’ (3), 1902-25, modern facsimiles [Lot]. Mostlygoodvery fine to about uncirculated
£90-120 1680 1681
AUSTRALIA, Bank of Victoria, correspondence (25), 1866-88, issued in London as confirmation of credits to account, mostly addressed to the manager in Geelong, but also to Melbourne and Ballarat, all single sheet on bank watermarked paper [Lot]. Very fine to good very fine
£80-100
AUSTRALIA, Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd, issued travellers’ cheques (2), both 1962, specimen cheques (5); issued and specimen letter of indication; correspondence and facsimiles and confirmation of credit to account, 1883; booklets as letter of introduction, 1955-8, for The Commercial Banking Co of Sydney Ltd and Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia (2) [Lot]. Good very fine to uncirculated
£60-80 1682 1683 1684
AUSTRALIA, The National Bank of Australasia Ltd, specimen Bills on fully watermarked bank paper for London and Melbourne (4), all 19—, SPECIMEN stamped on front [4]. Good very fine to about extremely fine £60-80
CANADA, The Bank of Nova Scotia, booklets (3) of ‘Specimen Signatures of Officers authorized to sign Letters of Credit and Travellers Cheques’, April 1918, August 1922 and March 1926 [3]. Onewithstainingmostlyonright edge
£60-80
DENMARK, specimen letters of credit (4), Copenhagen Handeslbank, travellers’ cheques (7), Privatbanken, Bankerne i Danmark; NORWAY, specimen travellers’ cheques and currency credit card (13), Bergens Privatbank, Christiana Bank and standardised issues, letter of credit, Den Norske Creditbank; SWEDEN, specimen travellers’ cheques and currency credit card (8), letters of credit (6), from Goteborgs Bank, Jordbrukarbanken, Skandinaviska Banken, together with correspondence; Svenska Handelsbanken, 1935, booklet of signatures for letters of credit [Lot]. Good very fine to uncirculated
£90-120 1685 1686 1687 1688
ENGLAND, Coutts & Co, letters of credit issued 1891-1903, stamps and endorsements on back [8].Goodveryfine £60-80
ENGLAND, Coutts & Co, specimen Travel Card and five booklets of ‘Specimen signatures, Specimen Travellers’ Cheques and Instructions to correspondents’, 1962-81 (includes 19 specimen travellers’ cheques) [Lot]. Extremely fine to uncirculated
£80-100
ENGLAND, National Provincial Bank Ltd, specimen letters of indication and credit (3); issued travellers’ cheques (51), 1948-66; together with similar material (23) [Lot]. Extremely fine to uncirculated
£80-100
ENGLAND, cheques (86), from private and joint-stock banks in the East Midlands, mostly 1843-1938; together with unissued and Specimen cheques (63), a few perforated SPECIMEN C. SKIPPER&EAST [149]. Generallygoodveryfine to about uncirculated
£300-400 Provenance: E.W. Danson Collection 1689
ENGLAND, postal orders (7), George V, One Shilling, One Shilling and Sixpence; George VI, Two Shillings, Five Shillings, Eleven Shillings, Twenty Shillings, all issued, Elizabeth II, Sixty Pence, unissued; SOUTHERN RHODESIA, George VI, Two Shillings and Sixpence, stamped 1942 Bulawayo [8]. Somecancelledwithinklines or small punch-holes, generally very fine to good very fine
£80-100 Provenance: E.W. Danson Collection 1690 1691 1692 1693 1694
GERMANY, Dresdner Bank, specimen letter of credit and travellers’ cheque, c. 1928; correspondence, 1913-33; modern specimen travellers’ cheques (44), post 1957, for Berliner Commerzbank, credit institutions and general bank issues [46]. Good extremely fine to uncirculated
£120-150
INDIA, Punjab National Bank, specimen travellers’ cheques (35), issued (2), in denominations of Twenty-Five, Fifty, One Hundred, Two Hundred and Five Hundred Rupees [37]. About uncirculated to uncirculated £90-120
INDIA, Reserve Bank, Ten Rupees, a sheet of watermarked paper with denomination and profile of George VI, enough for 35 full notes (cf. Pick 19). Damaged edges and tide mark around three sides, otherwise good very fine £100-150
INDIA, Bills of Exchange (10), 1846-88, drawn on Bombay, Calcutta and London from Oriental Bank Corporation, National Bank of India Ltd, Army Agents and private issues [10]. Mostly good very fine
£80-100
INDIA, Hundi (56), some with printed blue duty stamps for Two, Three, Six, Nine or Twelve Annas, others with impressed stamp and all on watermarked paper [56]. Some hole cancelled, others damaged, varied state £50-100
Additional illustrations may be found on our website
www.dnw.co.uk
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118