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1 Pound Clydesdale Bank
| Issuer | Clydesdale Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1922-1926 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is printed in blue and composed of an elaborate interlocking guilloche pattern of circular and foliate rosettes filling the note to the borders, with denomination numeral 1 panels at the left and right extremities. At centre, the circular bank seal bears a tree device with the legend THE CLYDESDALE BANK LIMITED surrounding it, enclosed within a finely engine-turned geometric framework. The overall design is purely typographic and ornamental, with no pictorial vignette beyond the seal. |
| Reverse lettering | The Clydesdale Bank Limited |
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Clydesdale Bank was majority-owned by Midland Bank from 1920, which gave it access to English banking capital at a moment when Scottish private banks were under real pressure to consolidate or fold. This note circulates just inside that window — issued while the bank was nominally independent in name but increasingly subordinated in practice.
Scottish one-pound notes retained legal currency status that their English counterparts lost after 1928, making this series the functional small-denomination workhorse it was designed to be. Heavy circulation wear is the norm for survivors.