1 Pound Bank of Scotland

George Waterston & Sons printed Bank of Scotland notes for decades from their Edinburgh premises, making this one of the few major British note series to have been produced entirely domestically — by a firm better known for stationery and security printing than for banknote work on the scale of Bradbury Wilkinson or De La Rue. The three signature combinations across this series track the tenure of successive cashiers with unusual precision: Beveridge, then Macfarlane, then Crawford, each paired with the same Governor, Elphinstone.

The 1942 and 1943 dates fall squarely within wartime austerity, when paper quality and ink supply were both under pressure.