5 Pounds Belfast Banking Company

The Belfast Banking Company Limited was one of the older joint-stock banks in Ulster, established in 1827 and operating independently until its absorption by the Midland Bank in 1917. Notes of this period — the years immediately before that acquisition — represent the final phase of the bank's autonomous issue, and the 1905 date places this well within that window.

Charles Skipper & East were the dominant London printers for Irish provincial bank notes throughout the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, supplying numerous Ulster institutions with engraved notes of consistent quality. The London production origin is sometimes overlooked by collectors who assume Irish provincial notes were printed domestically.