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1 Pound Ulster Bank
| Issuer | Ulster Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1929-1934 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1929-date) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries the bank title in ornate lettering within a decorative border, flanked by two guilloche medallions bearing the numeral "1". A central vignette at the top presents a sailing ship in a harbour scene, below which the date and place of issue appear. The promise-to-pay text is set over a blue guilloche underprint band, with the denomination "ONE" in a rectangular panel at the lower left and a manuscript signature for the Ulster Bank Limited at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain unprinted paper, showing fold lines and light surface aging consistent with a note of this period, with no design elements or lettering present. |
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Ulster Bank Limited was a Belfast-based institution with deep roots in the Ulster provincial banking tradition, but its notes of this period were printed in London by Charles Skipper & East — the same firm responsible for numerous colonial and private bank issues across the British world. The arrangement was entirely typical of Irish private banking practice, where even regionally proud institutions contracted their security printing to established London trade printers rather than maintaining domestic facilities.
Charles Skipper & East had merged with Waterlow & Sons by the early 1930s, meaning later printings in this 1929–1934 window may have passed through a transitional production environment even if the imprint remained unchanged.