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Auction: 16050 - British Banknotes including the Collection of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland
Lot: 2486

Douglas Heron & Co, £1, red handstamped date 28 Sep.1772, serial number 140/5791, black and white, bank initials in black border at left, for Douglas Heron & Co., Bankers in Air, two manuscript signatures below
(Douglas 1), manuscript 'paid 17 July 1816' on reverse, almost fine and rare. On the failure of the bank in 1773, among the subscribers totally or partially ruined was one John Christian, brother of Fletcher Christian, Master's Mate on the Bounty

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