1 Pound Bank of New Zealand

The Bank of New Zealand, though a private trading bank, occupied a quasi-official role in colonial and early Dominion-era New Zealand — the government held a significant stake and the bank had survived a near-collapse in 1895 only through Crown intervention. Notes from this series were issued across branches in both New Zealand and, crucially, London, creating parallel circulation that complicates provenance today.

Bradbury Wilkinson's engraved plates for this series were among the more durable in their colonial portfolio, used continuously across a span long enough to cross the proclamation of Dominion status in 1907 — a political change that left the bank's title, and these notes, entirely unaltered.