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1 Pound Clydesdale Bank
| Issuer | Clydesdale Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1927-1949 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1707-1970) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by an elaborate intaglio vignette in blue and orange, with two allegorical female figures seated at upper centre flanking an oval cartouche bearing the numeral "1"; two further allegorical figures in classical robes occupy the lower left and lower right corners, each set within fine guilloche underprint panels. The bank title "The Clydesdale Bank Limited" is inscribed in bold script across the centre, with the promise-to-pay text in italic script beneath, and the denomination "ONE POUND" set within a solid panel. Date and serial number appear at upper right and upper left respectively, with manuscript signatures of the General Manager and Accountant & Cashier below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in blue and displays a highly ornate symmetric design of interlocking guilloche rosettes and foliate scroll-work filling the entire field. At the centre sits a circular vignette of a large spreading tree in a landscape, surrounded by a ring bearing the bank name; the numeral "1" appears in smaller cartouches to the left and right within the guilloche framework. |
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Clydesdale Bank's long-running £1 series covering the interwar period and the Second World War years means individual notes from this run can be difficult to date precisely without examining the signatures and branch details. The bank had absorbed the North of Scotland Bank in 1908, and by the late 1920s was operating as a fully consolidated Scottish commercial institution, issuing its own notes under the right Scottish banks retained after the Bank Charter Act of 1845 left them untouched.
Wartime issues are the ones worth watching — paper quality deteriorated noticeably across British issuers from roughly 1940 onward due to wartime material restrictions, and Clydesdale notes from that window show it.