5 Pounds North of Scotland Bank

The North of Scotland Bank Limited was absorbed into the Clydesdale Bank in 1950, ending a banking operation that had run since 1836 out of Aberdeen. By 1925 the bank's note-issuing was already a diminishing activity — Scottish banks retained the right to issue their own notes, but the smaller institutions were steadily losing ground to the larger Glasgow and Edinburgh houses.

Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement here is unremarkable in one sense — they printed for dozens of Scottish and colonial issuers — but their intaglio work on Scottish provincial notes of this period is consistently tighter than their contemporaries. The SC713 is scarce in any grade; survivor rates for North of Scotland issues are low relative to the Edinburgh banks.