1 Pound British Linen Bank

The British Linen Bank, despite its name, had nothing to do with linen by the time this note was issued — it began as a trading company chartered in 1746 to promote the Scottish linen industry before quietly pivoting to conventional banking. By 1968 it was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank of Scotland, operating under its own name largely for competitive and historical reasons.

Thomas De La Rue printed this series during a narrow window before the British Linen Bank brand was formally absorbed into Bank of Scotland in 1971, making the late-dated examples from 1970 among the last notes ever issued under this name.