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Banking Check The English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank - Sydney, NSW
| Issuer | The English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank |
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| Year | 1852-1893 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Unissued bearer cheque printed in black on cream paper, with a tall ornate cartouche vignette at centre-left incorporating foliate scrollwork and a heraldic shield. The bank name is rendered in copperplate cursive script across the upper body, with ruled lines for payee, amount, and date fields. A guilloche underprint panel appears at lower centre, with the printer's imprint below. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse in cream-toned paper, with the impressed oval New South Wales stamp duty mark visible at upper left, showing a crown above the oval surround. Light show-through of the obverse printing is discernible against the plain field. |
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The English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank operated in Australia from 1852 under Royal Charter, eventually absorbed into the ANZ Banking Group through a series of mergers completed in 1970. S.T. Leigh & Co. was one of Sydney's principal commercial printers of the period — a local firm responsible for a significant volume of colonial financial stationery rather than a specialist security printer, which makes the watermark here essentially the primary anti-forgery measure. Cheques printed by Leigh for colonial banks are moderately scarce as archival survivors; most were cancelled and pulped after reconciliation.