Catalog
| Issuer | Zimmerman Bank, Elgin for a similar note issued in Clifton, see CANADA PS-2072 |
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| Year | 1850 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue-black on white paper and carries a central vignette of a suspension bridge over a river with industrial buildings in the background, flanked by a numeral '1' medallion at upper left and a seated allegorical female figure at right. A smaller vignette of a large building appears at lower left, while the bold serif bank title 'The Zimmerman Bank' is inscribed across the centre above the denomination 'ONE DOLLAR' rendered in an ornate guilloche underprint panel. The place of payment, Elgin, Province of Canada, is noted below alongside a facsimile signature of Zimmerman and the statutory incorporation notice. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue on white paper and is largely plain, with a central ornate guilloche panel of horizontal lathe-work enclosed within large decorative scroll flourishes at each end, typical of mid-nineteenth-century Canadian chartered bank note printing. |
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| Variants | S2067a - date 185x S2067b - date 1856 |
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