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10 Pounds Ulster Bank
| Issuer | Ulster Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries the bank title "Ulster Bank Limited" in ornate lettering above a central vignette of a sailing ship, flanked by two oval guilloche panels each bearing the word "TEN". Elaborate floral and scroll underprint borders frame the note on all sides, with the large red letterpress denomination "TEN" printed diagonally across the centre as an anti-counterfeiting device. The issue place and date "Belfast 1st May, 1936" appear in the middle field, with the promise text and a manuscript signature for the Ulster Bank Limited below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red-brown on plain paper and carries a single central vignette of the Ulster Bank head office in Belfast, rendered in fine intaglio line engraving showing the bank's neo-classical facade with colonnaded portico, ornamental balustrades, and figures on the entrance steps. No border ornamentation surrounds the building vignette, leaving the remainder of the note surface unprinted. |
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Ulster Bank's pre-war £10 notes occupy an awkward position in Irish provincial banking history — high-denomination commercial paper from a period when Ulster Bank was still operating as a fully independent joint-stock bank, decades before its absorption into the National Westminster group. The £10 was a working instrument for commercial transactions, not retail currency; most holders would have been businesses or agents, which partly explains why surviving examples in any condition are uncommon.
Charles Skipper & East printed extensively for Irish provincial banks through this period, though attributing the presswork specifically to a Northern Ireland facility rather than their London operations requires caution — catalog attributions for this house are sometimes imprecise on that point.