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1 Pound Parr's Bank
| Issuer | Parr's Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1906 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper. The upper register carries the bold bank title "PARR'S BANK" flanked by an elaborate scrollwork surround, with a central vignette of the Isle of Man Arms — a crowned triskele roundel supported by a rampant lion and a horse passant, surmounted by a crown and the motto "DIEU ET MON DROIT". A heraldic shield with supporters occupies the upper-left corner cartouche, while a saltire emblem fills the upper-right corner. The lower register contains an oval panel with the promise-to-pay text in copperplate script, the denomination "ONE POUND" in a bold inset cartouche, and provision for the manager's manuscript signature and date, with the denomination numeral "ONE" repeated in a lower panel; the printer's imprint of Waterlow & Sons, Limited, Great Winchester Street, London, E.C. appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the reverse is dominated by a dense, symmetrical guilloche pattern covering the entire field. At centre is a large circular vignette of the Isle of Man triskele (three armoured legs), encircled by the Manx motto "QUOCUNQUE JECERIS STABIT". The bank title "PARR'S BANK LIMITED" arcs above the central medallion, while a lower arc reads "HEAD OFFICE 4 BARTHOLOMEW LANE LONDON"; flanking oval cartouches each bear a cypher "£1" over the legend "ONE POUND", and the printer's imprint of Waterlow & Sons, Limited appears at the foot. |
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Parr's Bank originated from a network of regional English private banks absorbed through merger, with the Warrington-based Parr's Banking Company transforming by the 1890s into one of the larger joint-stock consolidations ahead of the great wave of Edwardian banking amalgamations. By 1918 it had been absorbed into the London County Westminster and Parr's Bank, eventually becoming part of what is now NatWest.
English provincial bank notes from the early 1900s were already an anachronism — the Bank of England's monopoly over note issue in England and Wales was steadily tightening, and commercial bank circulation had been contracting for decades. Waterlow & Sons had long handled private bank printing, and their London output for Parr's was technically competent if unremarkable by their standards.
Pick 21A distinguishes this as a specific branch or signature variant within the 1906 series.