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Australia Federal Bank of Australia Limited one pound Sydney specimen printed by Bradbury Wilkinson, annotated 1882, PMG 64 Choice Uncirculated

Australia 1879–1903 - Federal Bank of Australia, Limited £1 Sydney Specimen (Pick Unlisted)

A pencilled annotation reading “9 May 82” appears on the note. Such annotations are rarely preserved on specimen material and provide valuable documentary evidence of how reference notes were handled during the working life of a banknote design. Specimens were commonly retained in printer archives, banking offices, or presentation sets used during the approval and distribution process. Handwritten notes added during this process form part of the historical record of the object itself. In this case, the annotation confirms that the specimen was already in institutional reference use by 1882, within the earliest operational period of the Federal Bank of Australia. Read more →

AustraliaSpecimen18791 PoundPMG 64 Choice Uncirculated (Annotated, Top Population) Specimen Banknote1 PoundPrinter SpecimenAnnotated SpecimenExport Engraved NoteLarge Format BanknoteBradbury WilkinsonBWCBritish Security PrintingVictorian Era EngravingPrivate Banknote ProductionFederal Bank of Australia LimitedAustralian Private BanksPre Federation AustraliaSydney Banking HistoryVictorian Banking Crisis1893 Banking CollapseAustraliaSydney187919031879–1903Pick UnlistedTop PopMuseum GradeR9 Extremely RareUniqueAnnotationsHandwritten Annotations
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Uruguay 1883 Banco de Londres y Rio de la Plata 10 Pesos specimen Pick S242s, Bradbury Wilkinson & Co., separate control number 345501, number 370500 repeated on counterfoil and principal note, retained counterfoil, perforated SPECIMEN BW & Co LONDON, Christopher Columbus portrait, child vignette, ornate brown-red reverse with opposing classical female profiles, PMG 64 EPQ Top Pop

Uruguay 1883 - Banco de Londres y Rio de la Plata 10 Pesos Specimen (Pick S242s)

The specimen carries a distinctive two-number production-control arrangement. The number 370500 appears three times across the complete format: once on the retained counterfoil at left and twice within the principal banknote design. A separate number, 345501, is printed above the bank title in the upper central field. The repeated 370500 links the counterfoil directly with the note body, while 345501 forms an additional printer-control element within the specimen. Together these numbers preserve an important part of the Bradbury Wilkinson production record associated with this specific specimen format.

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New Zealand 1907–1926 Bank of New Zealand £20 Blue audit-range serial-prefix specimen with dual control numbers, Bradbury Wilkinson & Co., PMG 55 AU, Pop 1/1, R9 Extremely Rare

New Zealand 1907–1926 - Bank of New Zealand £20 Blue Serial-Prefix Audit Specimen (Pick S194s)

The PMG 55 About Uncirculated grade is exceptionally high for a large-format, soft-paper audit specimen. With Pop 1/1 status and no evidence of any additional audit-range examples in institutional or private holdings, this piece stands as the definitive reference for the BNZ £20 issue and a cornerstone artifact of New Zealand’s pre–Reserve Bank monetary history.

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Ireland - Northern 1929 Ulster Bank Limited 1 Pound uncut sheet of 3 proofs with specimen perforation, Pick Unlisted, showing three proof impressions on Ulster Bank Limited watermarked security paper with Charles Skipper and East Limited London printing attribution

Ireland - Northern 1929 - Ulster Bank Limited 1 Pound Uncut Sheet of 3 Proofs with Specimen Perforation (Pick Unlisted)

The sheet shows the full engraved structure of the Ulster Bank Limited 1 Pound design, including the formal bank title, ornamental borderwork, large denomination panels, Belfast wording, and the central maritime and industrial vignette. The promise-to-pay layout is present in proof-stage form, with the engraved obligation text, denomination structure, and bank identity arranged across each subject. The object preserves the design before final administrative completion, retaining the printed architecture of the note in its larger production format.

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