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1 Pound
| Issuer | States of Guernsey |
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| Year | 1895 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue note with the denomination ONE appearing in each of the four corners and the inscription THE STATES OF GUERNSEY running along the top and bottom margins, with GUERNSEY printed sideways in the left and right margins. A vignette of St. Sampson harbour occupies the upper centre, below which the printed date of issue appears at centre right. Two manuscript signatures appear at bottom left above the denomination in words and at bottom right. |
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| Reverse lettering | S. BAILIWICK GUERNSEY INSYLA DEGGERIAE |
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Guernsey's first formally catalogued note issue, this 1895 Pound predates the island's better-known twentieth-century series by decades. The States of Guernsey had long resisted dependence on English banking infrastructure, and paper issues of this period reflect that institutional stubbornness — Guernsey maintained its own currency administration well outside the orbit of the Bank of England, a position it has never fully abandoned.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch brought their intaglio security printing expertise to the job, the same firm responsible for some of the earliest British colonial stamp issues. Their involvement here signals that Guernsey treated this as a serious security document, not a provisional measure.