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10 Pounds Stamford, Spalding and Boston
| Issuer | Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1874-1911 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Uniface intaglio-printed note on white paper within a fine guilloche border with ornamental corner devices. The upper left quadrant carries a circular vignette of the company's heraldic shield flanked by lions, while the upper right bears an oval guilloche panel with the denomination numeral TEN. The issuer's name is set in elaborate copperplate script across the upper centre, with the promise-to-pay text in italic script across the body of the note and a solid black rectangular cartouche bearing the word TEN in white letters at the lower left, flanked by foliate ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stamford, Spalding and Boston BANKING COMPANY LIMITED. №F3893 STAMFORD 9 May 1902. №F3893 Promise to Pay the Bearer on demand at the Company's Office here or at Messrs Barclay & Co. Limited, London TEN POUNDS Value received Entd For the Company FIVE Perkins Bacon & Co Ld London. |
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Perkins Bacon's steel-engraved plates gave provincial English banknotes a security quality that smaller regional printers simply couldn't match, and the Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company was among the many country banks that contracted them for exactly that reason. The firm's geographic reach — anchored in three distinct Lincolnshire market towns — reflected the agricultural and commercial catchment it served across the fens and the limestone belt.
Country bank note issue in England effectively ended when the last private issuers were absorbed or surrendered their circulation rights under pressure from the Bank of England's expanding monopoly. This company was acquired by Barclays in 1911, which almost certainly marks the end of the issue range rather than the beginning.