(Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs, 9th October 2019) ROBERT STRANGE - JACOBITE BANKNOTES PROOF PRINTED AND SIGNED BY SIR D.Y. CAMERON, R.A. From the copper plate, with eight designs, 563 x 420mm., of C.P. (monogram for Charles Prince, or Carolus Princeps), on a cartouche with coronet and Prince of Wales' feathers above, over a trophy of arms and flags, on the entablature below are the values of the designs, - One, Two, Three and Six-Pence; the other four being left blank, "the interior part to be filled up by clerks" (Sir Robert Strange's Memoirs), the whole engraved surface 223 x 224mm., inscribed "Printed by D.Y. Cameron July 1928" Note: The original copper plate was found near the West end of Loch Laggan, April 1746, probably thrown aside during the flight after Culloden. The plate is the work of Sir Robert Strange who hastily prepared plates due to a sudden need by the Prince for currency caused by the loss of the "Hazard" sloop on its way from France with a large sum of money on March 25th 1746. Strange was commissioned for notes of amounts from £200 downwards, but no notes were printed, and nothing of the proposed issue has survived, with the exception of the original copper plate. The reason for this is that the Plate was only delivered to Prince Charles's Treasurer a day or two before the battle of Culloden, and the other copper plate for larger notes was never completed. The original plate was purchased by The West Highland Museum in 1928 for £430 at the Cluny sale, with the assistance of a £100 grant from the National Art Collections Fund. In 1928 the Museum arranged for the distinguished Sir D.Y. Cameron R.A., Scottish artist and etcher, to print a limited edition of 57 impressions of special signed proofs, although this one is not numbered, which were sold for the benefit of the Museum.
(Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs, 9th October 2019) ROBERT STRANGE - JACOBITE BANKNOTES PROOF PRINTED AND SIGNED BY SIR D.Y. CAMERON, R.A. From the copper plate, with eight designs, 563 x 420mm., of C.P. (monogram for Charles Prince, or Carolus Princeps), on a cartouche with coronet and Prince of Wales' feathers above, over a trophy of arms and flags, on the entablature below are the values of the designs, - One, Two, Three and Six-Pence; the other four being left blank, "the interior part to be filled up by clerks" (Sir Robert Strange's Memoirs), the whole engraved surface 223 x 224mm., inscribed "Printed by D.Y. Cameron July 1928" Note: The original copper plate was found near the West end of Loch Laggan, April 1746, probably thrown aside during the flight after Culloden. The plate is the work of Sir Robert Strange who hastily prepared plates due to a sudden need by the Prince for currency caused by the loss of the "Hazard" sloop on its way from France with a large sum of money on March 25th 1746. Strange was commissioned for notes of amounts from £200 downwards, but no notes were printed, and nothing of the proposed issue has survived, with the exception of the original copper plate. The reason for this is that the Plate was only delivered to Prince Charles's Treasurer a day or two before the battle of Culloden, and the other copper plate for larger notes was never completed. The original plate was purchased by The West Highland Museum in 1928 for £430 at the Cluny sale, with the assistance of a £100 grant from the National Art Collections Fund. In 1928 the Museum arranged for the distinguished Sir D.Y. Cameron R.A., Scottish artist and etcher, to print a limited edition of 57 impressions of special signed proofs, although this one is not numbered, which were sold for the benefit of the Museum.
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