10 Pounds Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) was the successor entity formed in 1925 through the merger of three colonial banking institutions — Colonial Bank, Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and the National Bank of South Africa — and operated as a commercial bank issuing its own notes across multiple territories. The specific territory for this issue isn't specified in P#S148's standard references, which complicates attribution; Bradbury Wilkinson printed Barclays DCO notes for several different jurisdictions during this period under broadly similar formats.

Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility was producing significant volumes of colonial and commercial bank paper through the late 1930s, and wartime disruption after 1939 affected delivery schedules on several overseas contracts. Whether this note reached circulation before the war altered normal banking operations depends heavily on which territory it was destined for.