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1 Pound
| Issuer | Union Bank of Scotland Ltd. |
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| Year | 1905-1920 |
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| Printer | Waterlow Sons & Layton, London |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in blue and is dominated by an elaborate lathe-work guilloche design covering the full field, with a large circular central medallion bearing the inscription "THE UNION BANK OF SCOTLAND LIMITED" around its perimeter and the numeral "1" at its centre, surrounded by radiating engine-turned patterns. The surrounding field is composed of eight symmetrically arranged petal-shaped guilloche lobes interlocked by intricate geometric lacework, creating a dense, ornate background with no pictorial vignette. A small printer's imprint appears at the lower centre base. |
| Reverse lettering | THE UNION BANK OF SCOTLAND LIMITED 1 |
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The Union Bank of Scotland had been printing its pound notes through Waterlow Sons & Layton since the late nineteenth century, and this series continued that relationship into the early twentieth. Waterlow held contracts with a remarkable number of Scottish commercial banks simultaneously during this period, which occasionally produced scheduling pressures and, in at least one documented case with other Scottish issues, minor plate wear carried across print runs.
The fifteen-year date span reflects standard Scottish banking practice — notes were signed and dated individually at issue rather than printed with fixed dates, meaning a note from 1905 and one from 1919 are physically identical except for the manuscript entries.