10 Pounds Belfast Banking Company

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.