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Auction 161  2-3 Jun 2018
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Lot 142

Starting price: 50 GBP
Price realized: 220 GBP
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Bank of England collection of litho-prints and other printed material mostly depicting original designs of scenes and faces found on Bank of England notes, including a set of 4 limited edition prints of Sir John Houblon, Michael Faraday, Charles Dickens & George Stephenson taken from the original drawings by Roger Withington set number 262 of only 500 sets, a set of 8 very large prints taken from paintings and illustrations by Harry Eccleston OBE, showing master portrait of Sir Christopher Wren, preliminary illustration of Sir Isaac Newton, pencil & wash drawing of the Duke of Wellington, William Shakespeare, master drawing of Florence Nightingale, Romeo & Juliet balcony scene from the reverse of the £20, master illustration for the reverse of the £5 issued from 1971 & master drawing in pencil & wash showing Florence Nightingale ministering to the sick, a further set of 7 smaller prints (A4) of drawings and designs also by Harry Eccleston OBE also showing images and vignette's from Bank of England banknotes, a set of 9 banking related prints many showing images of the Bank of England, a largescale sheet showing 4 different illustrations of Britannia found on Bank of England notes, number 179 of 500 issued, also copies of the Daily Mail from 1912 and 2 newspaper copies from the second world war, Daily Express dated 1941 and News Chronicle dated 1941, a very attractive and interesting lot

Estimate: 50-250 GBP
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