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100 Pounds British Linen Bank
| Issuer | British Linen Bank |
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| Year | 1916-1933 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in blue-grey tones on a fine guilloche underprint. At upper centre, the Royal Arms of the bank are displayed flanked by two oval medallions bearing the denomination numeral 100, with two further oval vignettes at lower left enclosing a seated classical figure. The charter inscription appears in an arc above the arms, with the place and date of issue printed in script at centre. The main legend and promise-to-pay text are set in bold letterpress below, with the court order clause and manuscript signatures of the Director and General Manager completing the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears the bank's seal rendered as a central vignette within a plain border, surrounded by fine guilloche patterning typical of the period. |
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The British Linen Bank — technically the British Linen Company, chartered in 1746 to develop Scotland's linen trade — had long abandoned textiles by the time this note was printed, operating purely as a commercial bank out of Edinburgh. The high denomination places this squarely in the hands of businesses and correspondent banks rather than retail customers; £100 notes in interwar Scotland moved between ledgers, not pockets.
Waterlow & Sons printed the series across a seventeen-year window, an unusually long run that suggests the bank saw little reason to redesign. The British Linen Bank was absorbed by Barclays in 1919, though it continued issuing notes under its own name until 1954.