1 Pound Manx Bank

The Manx Bank Limited was established in 1882, operating out of Douglas as one of several private note-issuing banks on the Isle of Man during a period when the island's banking sector was notoriously fragile. The bank collapsed in 1900, making this series among the shortest-lived private issues from the island. Notes were redeemable locally and carried no guarantee from any mainland institution.

Waterlow & Sons produced a substantial share of private British and colonial banknote work in this period, but surviving Manx Bank examples are genuinely rare — the failure and subsequent receivership meant most outstanding notes were either redeemed under distressed conditions or simply lost.