Watch List notes:

BANKNOTES, Great Britain, Provincial Notes and Cheques, Durham, Darlington, Backhouse & Company Cheques (2), for £15 payable to Edward Pease, 8 May 1845, no cheque number, signed by Edmund Backhouse on behalf of Mrs H C Backhouse, vignette of Durham Cathedral at left; and for £50 payable to "Bank Top Schools p.Joseph Pease", 9 November 1866, no cheque number, signed by John Henry Backhouse, "LONDON AGENTS, BARCLAY, BEVAN &CO" in cartouche at left. First will small hole centre left, otherwise both extremely fine and rare as a family-related pair of 19th Century Cheques. (2)
Edward Pease was a famous Quaker and promoter of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, he was known as the "Father of Railways". Joseph Pease, the second son of Edward Pease, was the first Quaker to enter the House of Commons in 1833 and retired from national politics in 1841.

Estimate: £150-200