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1 Pound Burton upon Trent Bank
| Issuer | Burton upon Trent Bank (Harding, Oakes and Willington) |
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| Year | 1817 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse lettering | Burton upon Trent Bank No 917 I Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand ONE POUND No 917 Value Dated the 7 day of Jan 1817 For Harding, Oakes and Willington James Harding |
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| Reverse lettering | May 19 1819 Exhibited before us. R C S S Pound |
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Burton upon Trent Bank was a small provincial partnership bank operating in Staffordshire during the final years before the 1826 Country Bankers Act forced most such houses either to fold or reorganize as joint-stock concerns. Notes issued under the Harding, Oakes and Willington partnership are among the more obscure survivals from that era of English country banking — the firm left little documentary trace, and Outing's listing covers only a handful of known variants.
The single signature of James Harding, presumably a managing partner, follows the practice common to small country banks where one principal guaranteed the note personally.