Cannon Court Bank Yarmouth, for China, Delf, Crockery & Self, 4 Pence,...
Cannon Court Bank Yarmouth, for China, Delf, Crockery & Self, 4 Pence, ND (c.1793), promising to pay ‘Mr Brittle or Bearer on Demand the Sum of Four Pence at No.25 Market Row or at the Norfolk & Suffolk Cut Glass Manufactory’, hand signed by William Absolon, with vignettes bearing the motifs ‘Success to Trade’ and ‘May Yarmouth Flourish’, fine and scarce, a very early skit note
Outing unlisted £80-£120
Special Collection
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.
Footnote
William Absolon was a trader specialising in china and earthenware in the late 18th century. After several years as an apprentice potman, he was made a Freeman of Yarmouth in 1784. He took over a business shortly afterwards and by 1808 he was a wealthy man, insuring his property for £1000. This skit note is undated, but other examples bear his signature and the date 1793.
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Cannon Court Bank Yarmouth, for China, Delf, Crockery & Self, 4 Pence, ND (c.1793), promising to pay ‘Mr Brittle or Bearer on Demand the Sum of Four Pence at No.25 Market Row or at the Norfolk & Suffolk Cut Glass Manufactory’, hand signed by William Absolon, with vignettes bearing the motifs ‘Success to Trade’ and ‘May Yarmouth Flourish’, fine and scarce, a very early skit note
Outing unlisted £80-£120
Special Collection
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.
Footnote
William Absolon was a trader specialising in china and earthenware in the late 18th century. After several years as an apprentice potman, he was made a Freeman of Yarmouth in 1784. He took over a business shortly afterwards and by 1808 he was a wealthy man, insuring his property for £1000. This skit note is undated, but other examples bear his signature and the date 1793.