10 Pounds Stamford, Spalding and Boston

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.