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10 Pounds Belfast Banking Company
| Issuer | Belfast Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1903-1905 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in black on pale paper with a red guilloche underprint panel at centre. The bank's armorial vignette occupies the upper centre within an oval cartouche encircled by the legend 'Belfast Banking Company', flanked on either side by large oval denomination counters inscribed 'TEN'. Vertical columns of payable-at branch names border both the left and right margins, with oval town medallions ('BELFAST' and 'DUBLIN') at left, while the lower border carries the foundation and incorporation dates. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and comprises four large circular guilloche rosettes positioned at each corner of the note. At centre, a rectangular panel with ornamental scrollwork frames the bank name, with the denomination 'TEN' repeated above and below within decorative cartouches. |
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The Belfast Banking Company Limited was one of the older Ulster joint-stock banks, founded in 1827 and eventually absorbed into the Midland Bank group in 1917. By the time this note was issued, the bank was operating in a competitive northern Irish market alongside the Northern, the Provincial, and the Ulster banks — each maintaining their own note issue, a practice that persisted in Ireland long after it had been largely consolidated elsewhere in the British Isles.
Charles Skipper & East were responsible for a substantial portion of Irish private bank printing in this period. The London provenance of the plates occasionally surprises collectors who assume provincial Irish issues were produced locally.