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Auction B37 24 Jun 2020
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Perkins, Bacon & Co. Ltd, an advertising note/card produced for use at the Chicago World Fair of 1893, featuring a spectacular engraved portrait of Queen Victoria, who was born in the same year as Perkins, Fairman & Heath was founded, reverse featuring a treatise on anti-forgery measures, including a not-so-subtle dig at the Bank of England, whose contract Perkins did not win earlier in the century, printed on card, uncirculated, extremely rare and very attractive
£200-£260
Perkins, Bacon & Co. Ltd, an advertising note/card produced for use at the Chicago World Fair of 1893, featuring a spectacular engraved portrait of Queen Victoria, who was born in the same year as Perkins, Fairman & Heath was founded, reverse featuring a treatise on anti-forgery measures, including a not-so-subtle dig at the Bank of England, whose contract Perkins did not win earlier in the century, printed on card, uncirculated, extremely rare and very attractive
£200-£260