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The E-Sylum: Volume 29, Number 45, 2026, Article 26

ARCHIVES INTERNATIONAL SALE 118 SELECTIONS

Here are some selected lots from the November 17-18 sale by Archives International Auctions. -Garrett

Archives International Sale 118 Selections Item 1 Obverse Bermuda British Administration 1952 1 Banknote PMG Choice About Unc 58.jpg
Archives International Sale 118 Selections Item 1 Reverse Bermuda British Administration 1952 1 Banknote PMG Choice About Unc 58.jpg

Bermuda, 20th October 1952. British Administration, £1, Pick# 20a, Issued Banknote, blue and multicolor, Hamilton harbor view at left, portrait of Queen Elizabeth II at right, back with arms, Wmk: Bank Title, S/N P/1 370667. PMG graded Choice About Unc 58 with comment "Minor Rust." Printer: BWC.

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Bermuda British Administration 1952 1 Banknote PMG Choice About Unc 58 (https://auction.archivesinternational.com/Bermuda-British-Administration-1952-1-Banknote-PMG-Choice-About-Unc-58_i61504116)

Archives International Sale 118 Selections Item 2 Obverse Canada Banque Nationale 1922 Specimen Banknote.jpg
Archives International Sale 118 Selections Item 2 Reverse Canada Banque Nationale 1922 Specimen Banknote.jpg

Quebec, Canada, 1922. $50, P-S874s, 5102208S, Specimen Banknote, Black and brown with portrait of G. E. Amyot at center, Back is green with Quebec City arms at center, Pin punched Specimen, S/N None pp B, Bottom right corner is cut short, PMG graded Uncirculated 61 EPQ with comment "Miscut," BABNC.

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Canada Banque Nationale 1922 Specimen Banknote (https://auction.archivesinternational.com/Canada-Banque-Nationale-1922-Specimen-Banknote_i61504129)

Archives International Sale 118 Selections Item 3 Obverse Great Britian London Satirical Lottery Notes 1810 and 1819 I U Mounted Pair.jpg

Great Britian...., 1810 and 1819. Lot of 2 satirical promissory notes, each mounted on paper, Includes: Ten Centimes, August 16, 1810, Made out to Sir Rich'd Pillup and Sir Jonathan Crazy, Knights, mocking knighthoods given to lottery insurers and city tradesmen, signed Horatio Hardbattle; Two Pence note, Puff Ward, London, April 12, 1819, made out to Ald'n Puff and Deputy Puff, mocking lottery puffs and swindlers, signed Old Tom Puff. Both are designed as parodies of Bank of England notes, with an engraved Royal Exchange vignette. Issuer and printer not identified. VF to XF condition mounted on gray paper. (2). Sold "AS IS" no returns accepted.

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Great Britian London Satirical Lottery Notes 1810 and 1819 I U Mounted Pair (https://auction.archivesinternational.com/Great-Britian-London-Satirical-Lottery-Notes-1810-and-1819-I-U-Mounted-Pair_i61504240)

Archives International Sale 118 Selections Item 4 Obverse Russia State Credit Note 1898 100 Rubles Banknote PMG Choice Fine 15.jpg
Archives International Sale 118 Selections Item 4 Reverse Russia State Credit Note 1898 100 Rubles Banknote PMG Choice Fine 15.jpg

Russia, 1898 (ND 1909-12). State Credit Note, 100 Rubles, Pick# 5c, Issued Banknote, multicolor, portrait of Catherine II at left, Catherine II watermark, back with large denomination and arms, S/N KA130360, signature A. Konshin. PMG graded Choice Fine 15 (Tears).

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Russia State Credit Note 1898 100 Rubles Banknote PMG Choice Fine 15 (https://auction.archivesinternational.com/Russia-State-Credit-Note-1898-100-Rubles-Banknote-PMG-Choice-Fine-15_i61504292)

Archives International Sale 118 Selections Item 5 Obverse Italy Umberto I 1895 R 20 Centesimi KM 28 2 PCGS MS64.jpg

Italy. Kingdom of Italy, Umberto I, 1895 R, 20 Centesimi, KM-28.2. Bright, lustrous surfaces with a sharply struck crown and wreath. Reportedly the only example so graded by PCGS. Composition: copper-nickel, 4 grams. PCGS graded MS 64. PCGS certification #48927122.

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Italy Umberto I 1895 R 20 Centesimi KM 28 2 PCGS MS64 (https://auction.archivesinternational.com/Italy-Umberto-I-1895-R-20-Centesimi-KM-28-2-PCGS-MS64_i61504407)

Archives International Sale 118 Selections Item 6 Obverse Canada 1916 International Steel Copper Plate Printers Union 24th Annual Convention Souvenir Album.jpg

Ottawa, Canada....., July 17th–22nd, 1916. This oblong, cord-tied souvenir album has 23 pages, including the front cover. The cover bears an intaglio lion's head within an ornate frame with the Royal Arms, and the script-engraved title page features a beaver vignette with the American Bank Note Co., Ottawa imprint. The highlight is a superb full-page intaglio advertising poster for the British American Bank Note Company, Ottawa, "Incorporated 1866." It is printed in sepia with elaborate lettering, a winged allegorical female holding a torch aloft, and a list of the firm's products, including bank notes, bonds, stock certificates, cheques, drafts, bills of exchange, and postage and revenue stamps, along with its Montreal office at 2 Place d'Armes Square. Other BABNCo intaglio plates include a mountain railway river gorge and "View Westward in Prince of Wales Sound, Hudson's Strait," after a Dr. R. Bell photo of 1884. Also included are Elbert Hubbard's "Loyalty" in engraved script, and photogravures of the Parliament Buildings (the Centre Block burned in February 1916), Quebec City and a habitant weaver at her loom. Cover worn with small tears, foxing and toning; interior AU.

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Canada 1916 International Steel Copper Plate Printers Union 24th Annual Convention Souvenir Album (https://auction.archivesinternational.com/Canada-1916-International-Steel-Copper-Plate-Printers-Union-24th-Annual-Convention-Souvenir-Album_i61504508)

Archives International Sale 118 Selections Item 7 Obverse ID Golden Chariot Mining Company 1875 I U Stock Certificate.jpg

Mines in Owyhee Co., Idaho (Offices in San Francisco), 1875. 10 Shares Issued Stock Certificate, No. 2294, Black text with ornate border on green-tinted paper with an underprint of man in a horse drawn chariot, incorporated November 30, 1868, capital $9,000,000, 90,000 Shares, $100 each, issued to Parker & Co., Trustee. Hand-signed by Secretary and President at bottom. VF with light folds visible.

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ID Golden Chariot Mining Company 1875 I U Stock Certificate (https://auction.archivesinternational.com/ID-Golden-Chariot-Mining-Company-1875-I-U-Stock-Certificate_i61504686)

Archives International Sale 118 cover front
 



Wayne Homren, Editor

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