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50 - Advertisement Leaflet Bradbury Wilkinson & Co LTD
| Issuer | Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ltd. |
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| Value | 50 |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed oval vignette at left centre containing a bust portrait of a young woman facing left, set within an ornate lathe-work border with acanthus corner ornaments and the numeral 50 repeated at upper left and lower centre. To the right, a large multicolour guilloche rosette in pink, blue, green and yellow serves as an underprint for the firm's advertising text in italic script. The upper right carries the firm name and address in letterpress. |
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| Reverse lettering | BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO. LTD.. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson used printed advertising leaflets — often designed to the same dimensions as standard banknotes — as sales collateral when pitching to central banks and finance ministries. These specimens were distributed to prospective clients to demonstrate the firm's engraving quality, security printing capabilities, and available design options. New Malden operated as BW's primary production facility from the late nineteenth century until the company was absorbed into De La Rue in 1990.
Not a circulating instrument of any kind. Collectible primarily for what it reveals about the commercial side of security printing procurement.