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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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