Last month we claimed that a banknote we had purchased as being issued by Cobbold, Bacon, Rodwell, Dunningham & Co had actually been issued by Cricket, Bacon, Rodwell, Dunningham & Co and that the vendor had wrongly described it.
Here is the explanation: The note was indeed issued by Cricket, Bacon, Rodwell, Dunningham & Co but they got into financial difficulty and Cobbold replaced Cricket and the latter’s name was blacked out but Cobbold’s name could not be inserted.
From our point of view this makes it even more interesting as it reflects the time immediately after Cobbolds joined that bank, but before the next printing. Our apologies to the vendor, who luckily we did not name, and we reproduce here the note on which the blacking out is evident.
Anthony Cobbold
