1 Pound Channel Islands Bank

The Channel Islands Bank was a short-lived private institution — it failed in 1886, which immediately raises the question of what became of any notes still in circulation or held in reserve at the time of collapse. Notes issued under this series span four decades, printed by Perkins, Bacon & Petch, whose steel-engraved work was the dominant choice for colonial and private bank issues throughout the Victorian period.

Jersey's private banking sector was notably fragile in the second half of the nineteenth century, and the Channel Islands Bank's failure was part of a broader contraction that ultimately pushed the island toward institutionally safer issuers. Notes from the later portion of this run are considerably scarcer than early examples.