5 Pounds Stamford, Spalding and Boston

The Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company was a provincial English private bank serving the Lincolnshire market towns its name advertised. Perkins Bacon, the London security printer with deep roots in intaglio banknote work, supplied the plates — a common arrangement for small regional issuers who lacked the volume to justify their own printing infrastructure but needed notes that could resist forgery.

Private banknote issue in England effectively ended with the Bank Charter Act of 1844, which prohibited new banks from gaining the right to issue notes. Stamford, Spalding and Boston retained issuing rights only because it predated that legislation. When the bank was absorbed into Barclays in 1911, the note-issuing privilege died with the merger.