- Object name(s):
- bank note; bank note
- Brief description:
- unexecuted £5 bank note of the Polperro Bank payable at Messrs. Chris.Smith, Son and company, merchants, London.
- Collection:
- Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery
- Acquisition date:
- 11.6.1973
- Acquisition method:
- gift
- Associated concept:
- NUMISMATICS
- Associated concept:
- see 'The Smugglers' Banker. The Story of Zephaniah Job of Polperro' by Jeremy Rowett Johns (in Courtney Library). Job began issuing his own bank notes in 1806, payable by Christopher Smith Son and Co., one of the London merchant bankers with whom he dealt.
- Completeness:
- complete
- Material:
- paper
- Object name:
- bank note; bank note
- Object number:
- TRURI : 1973.32.2
- Object production organisation:
- Polperro Bank
- Object production place:
- Cornwall
- Place status:
- County
- Object production place:
- England
- Place status:
- Country
- Object production place:
- Polperro
- Other number:
- TRURI : 600.95
- Other number type:
- temporary number
- Technique:
- printed
- User's reference:
- Reference author / editor:
- Johns, Jeremy Rowett
- Reference note:
- copy in Courtney Library
- Reference title:
- The Smugglers Banker. The Story of Zephaniah Job of Polperro
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/d8ad1284-4d03-315b-97cb-5c1c9e87ed4b
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/d8ad1284-4d03-315b-97cb-5c1c9e87ed4b, Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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