10 Pounds

The Natal Bank Limited was one of several colonial banks operating in Natal before Union in 1910, competing directly with the Standard Bank and the Natal branch of the African Banking Corporation. Bradbury, Wilkinson produced a consistently high-quality intaglio product for colonial issuers during this period, and their work for Natal Bank followed that house standard — steel-engraved plates, fine-line security backgrounds, precise lettering.

Ten-pound notes from this issuer in any date are genuinely uncommon survivors. The denomination saw limited public circulation by volume, and the bank itself was absorbed into the National Bank of South Africa in 1914, ending the series entirely. Notes held in branch vaults at that point were almost certainly cancelled and pulped.